JoeViking245

You may want to [officially] Request a Feature. Top of this page, Help & Support - Request A Feature. Once it's been made public, be sure to post a link to it here so others can upvote it.

Under Tools < Manage < Plugins... Select the MAME Integration plugin and click Update. This will download the updated plugin and restart LaunchBox after clicking Close. Doing that will fix the error. @DMas @Madman_DE @AnAngryWabbit

Can you break down "some occasions" a little? Does the Default Startup Theme show on games in a certain platform? Do you have any other .xaml files in with your \Stagebox\ folder (ither than Defaul.xaml and Default Shutdown.xaml)?

Sorry, I do not. Just seems odd they're showing in Big Box (though lagging in updating) and showing "No Achievements" in LaunchBox. At this point, you can wait and see if one of the LB Team is able to respond here sometime this week, and/or submit a bug report (top of this page under Help & Support) and wait to hear something back form there.

The issue has been internally resolved. On your end, you will 1st need to force update your local database. Go to Tools < Download and select Force Update Games Database Metadata... Once done, you can undo any temporary fixes put in place and get back to enjoying your collection. 😎 @torgojones @Spydey @kb72 @Gaming.Zone

The login should be the same credentials as here.

lol Sounds almost like a quote from "Airplane". Nah, minor thing and a quick and easy [temp] fix.

Make the request official by submitting a Feature Request on the Feature Request page. (top of this page under Help & Support) When you do and it's made public, be sure to post a link here for other to go to and upvote it. Not sure what theme you're using on your pincab as there's nary a handful of vertical Big Box themes available.

Please see this post for details and a temporary fix:

Update: LaunchBox staff have narrowed this down to a possible ill-entered entry in the database. A "Date" more specifically in one (or more) of the games. (If you so desire) you can (re)enable the Possible Ports, Recommended Games and Similar Games under Tools < Options < Visuals < Game Details. The [temporary] updated fix is to un-check Include games not in my library under Tools < Options < Related Games for each of the 3 subsets. Similar Games, Recommended Games and Possible Ports. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Try.... under Tools < Options < Visuals < Game Details, un-check: Possible Ports Recommended Games Similar Games

Since it's not crashing, sounds like it's starting in a View your theme doesn't have, giving the appearance of not loading that theme. Can check this section of the LaunchBox Strategy Guide and see if it sheds any light.. Big Box Themes and Where They Apply - LaunchBox

I'm not a LB developer and know only enough to be dangerous. But for the folks that are, using the Default theme will definitely help towards troubleshooting as will the other 2 "next" on your list. (back to me being dangerous) The (forgive the term) 'cherry picked' exceptions may not be as helpful as attaching the log file as some are better seen with their before's and after's. But suppose is a starting point. That said, don't start attaching a ton of different files because they're not really fun-reading. The #2 and #4 exceptions you show above I'm not sure would cause a crash. That is, the font would (should) revert to something default and the image would (should) just show an empty space. (all speculation) The #3 one (FileNotFoundException) is a pseudo false-positive. It's an old Visual Studio compiler thing that always brings up that error unnecessarily. Yeah, the file truly isn't there, but that stuff is a handled innately by other dependencies. (this one I know for fact) All I can say about this is, slow down, take your time and enjoy the ride. Marvel at your collection and play some on them games. 😎

First off, THANK YOU for the troubleshooting you did and the well detailed and formatted explanation!!! It's refreshing to see. Not being a part of the development team, a guess is that Big Box and LaunchBox (desktop mode) uses [similar but] different methods for obtaining the data displayed (or not displayed, as is the case for your LaunchBox [desktop mode]). You mentioned seeing "No Achievements", which indicates it's not (or at least shouldn't be) a theme issue. It's "showing" them but saying you don't have any for that game. (You mentioned trying multiple themes. I just tested with Default and the achievements appeared for games that have them.) Try forcing a scan for achievements for the specific platform. Select the platform, the Tools < Achievements < Scan For Windows... (replace "Windows" with whatever your platform name is.) Hoping that's different than your very first bulleted item. 😊 One other troubleshoot/test would be to run the LB installer from your /Updates/ folder (e.g. D:/LaunchBox/Updates/LaunchBox-13.24-Setup.exe) and create a clean install (with no leftover xml files) into a new location (e.g. D:/LaunchBox Test/). If you do this, before clicking the final Install button, check the path to make sure it didn't 'double up'. e.g. D:/LaunchBox Test/LaunchBox/ (it's a thing "that happens") Then add your Steam games and check for Achievements to show in LaunchBox.

Do you experience the same issues if using the Default theme? That would be best for baseline testing. e.g. The AmbiguousMatchException is a theme related issue missing theme image (Not Rated.png) may be theme related Of the LB themes I do have installed, Ricewind is the only one that actually has that image in its /Images/Ratings/ folder. BB themes "BannerBox" and "Neon Deluxe Arcade" have it their /Media/ subfolder It's not to be found anywhere in [my] /LaunchBox/Images/ folder(s) RE: the transport connection exception, I too get a bit of those in the log(s). But don't experience crashing. For LB, I mostly use the Omni theme and sometimes Default.