JoeViking245

As stated above, I'm hoping to discuss this with the developers this week. But a fix wouldn't be available until the next release at the earliest. A 'work around' would be to not select games with a + in the title when using Tools-Download. For those games, I don't know if editing them individually and downloading images etc. from EmuMovies will work or not. Also noted earlier in this thread is that it appears downloading videos from EmuMovies isn't an issue. So you could use Tools-Download... and select images from LB, and only videos from EmuMovies. Then shouldn't have an issue.

Do any of the 3DS games have a + sign in their game title?

I've never noticed that before either. 😊 Try a different platform. On my minimal laptop setup, Arcade shows MAME, Atari 2600 - RetroArch and for Windows (Steam), it doesn't show up at all. Double check that "the" emulator has "Default Emulator" is checked for its platform.

LaunchBox has never, nor will ever sell games with its frontend. You must be thinking of a place where you purchased a preconfigured hard drive that contained copyrighted material (the games).

When I did some testing yesterday with an Arcade full set of 22,409 games, the Searching EmuMovies for Arcade Full Set media... took 14-minutes. Then it was able to start Downloading xxx of yyyy media items. After 48 minutes of 'good' downloading, it encountered what I presume to be the + sign issue. At this point it would start the Searching... again for 14-15 minutes. Then do some more downloading and continue the cycle. Each time it 'cycles', yyyy would increment (in my test) by about 2500. Pretty sure it's on the LB side and I will talk with our developers early this coming work week about it. (Monday? Tuesday? Wednesday (hopefully, at the latest)

"at the moment"? So it's still going?

Did those games with + in the title find/download any EmuMovies assets? If so, makes me wonder if it's an isolated SNES thing then. If not, ...then it still may be the issue. Where it finds the game on there, but when downloading the assets it freaks out.

I think it might be the + sign in the name. Sugoro Quest++: Dicenics might be another game that'll cause issues. Do you not have those games in their single form? e.g. Super Mario All-Stars and Super Mario World Or are you being a hoarder?

By process of elimination, I think what may be happening is (at least for SNES): My guess... Dragon, you don't have any of those 'double games'. Sirius, you do. Examples: Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World Exertainment Mountain Bike Rally + Speed Racer Super Tetris 2 + Bombliss Genteiban Super Tetris 2 + Bombliss The fix, delete these games you'll never play [using these particular ROMs].

If you have a paid (I believe it requires this) EmuMovies account, you can select Manuals when downloading media.

It doesn't look like they have that feature implemented [directly] yet (unless I missed it in my quick search). But if you're feeling creative, there is a way. But may not be for the faint of heart. You'd need to create a batch file or AHK script (or even PowerShell if that's your flavor of choice) that will edit dolphin.ini and change the path on the line GBPlayerRom = to the ROM you're wanting to play. Save and close then launch the emulator as normal with the -b -e parameters and point to your Game Boy Player.iso file. This (editing the ini file) might be able to be done as an Additional App set to run Before the main application. Then having LaunchBox start Dolphin, loading the GBP iso file. But it may be easier add a new emulator (pointing to the batch file or AHK script), where you pass the full path to the ROM to it and using that to edit the ini file, then starting/running Dolphin with the iso.

Apologies. I said the wrong place to edit the location. When you click Browse to select the location, select your F drive (I don't have an F drive, so E will have to suffice for my example) (Here, just clicking the E drive, the installer put in "E:\LaunchBox") Click OK, After clicking OK, it's here where you can edit the folder name (if you'd like). Then in the final screen (with the Install button) verify the path it tells you it's installing to. This where you're verifying it's not planning to install to F:\LaunchBox\LaunchBox (or F:\LaunchBox-Test\LaunchBox). You can click Back if you want to change it before clicking the final Install button.

This is good. Now we know for sure it's not running elsewhere. Based on your subsequent comment, I presume it's not starting either. Does any kind of loading screen at least start to show? Or just the spiny circle then nothing? If the latter, run the Command Prompt command(s) again to be sure it's not hiding in the background from the previous attempt to start. If it is, reboot the PC. Run the installer (LaunchBox-14.0.1-Setup.exe). When asked where to install it, select the F drive. Don't select F:\LaunchBox. This of course assumes your latest install is in F:\LaunchBox. Before clicking the final Install button, verify the path it tells you it's installing to is F:\LaunchBox. At this point, you could edit the path (to e.g. F:\LaunchBox-Test) to create [another] brand new install, if you wanted, since we know another instance isn't running in the background to mess things up. Read all the prompts. Don't skip any supplemental prompts for items it may ask to install The exception is for installing the optional K-Lite Codec Pack (skipping this one is up to you and won't affect LB running) This process will give you a fresh install (update) in you same location without undoing any of your settings or removing and of your imported platforms. (Unless you edited the path) At the end of this process, LaunchBox 'should' startup when it's done updating (or installing onto the new path).

I meant the main section (not main 'details'). Which I interpret as the middle section (which I'm sure there's a better technical term 😊). If you right-click an empty area (between the images), Configure Layout should appear at the top of the menu. If you right-click on a game, it'll appear around the middle of the menu (shown in my previous post). Either way, it should be in there. I don't believe there's an option to disable that menu item. If you're not seeing it, can you share a screenshot of the menu when you right-click a game?

Though I can't imagine this is "the issue", but I'm curious why your /ThirdParty/7-zip/7z.exe is different than mine. Yours (from the Logs) 7-Zip 21.07 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2021 Igor Pavlov : 2021-12-26 Mine 7-Zip 25.01 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2025 Igor Pavlov : 2025-08-03 Aside from than that, just did a Force Download here without issue.

I mean, that is an option. Though would be nice to figure what's going on with your current system. (Forgive me, but have to say...) I presume you've restarted the computer at some point during all this. Open Windows explorer and navigate to F:\LaunchBox and double-click LaunchBox.exe. This will eliminate any errant shortcuts. When you get the "Another instance of LaunchBox is already running" message box, click OK to close that window. Back in Windows Explorer, click once on the address bar, type in "cmd" (without quotes) and press Enter. This will bring up the Windows Command prompt window. Type in the following and press Enter. This will tell you the full path to the LaunchBox.exe that "is already running". powershell "Get-Process launchbox | Select-Object Name, Path" Run the command again, changing "launchbox" to "bigbox" (this will verify if it had attempted to be shelled) powershell "Get-Process bigbox | Select-Object Name, Path" Hopefully this will shed some light on what's going on.

Please don't post the same question in multiple threads. (I removed the post in the other thread) You have (at least) 2 options: Click the slider control and adjust the one for images. Right-click in the main details section and select Configure Layout.

The drawing for the 12-year celebration was done about a year ago.

For licensing issues, you need to contact support. 2 options are: - email support directly at support@unbrokensoftware.com - https://forums.launchbox-app.com/contact/

Edit your MAME emulator (in LaunchBox) and on the command-line parameters, remove -rompath %romlocation% If that doesn't work, share a screenshot of the main details section of your MAME emulator (that you edited above).

One thing odd with that is, as of v14.0, LaunchBox will allow separate instances of LB to open. So if one instance, say from C:\users\tiger\LaunchBox\, is already running, and then you go to open one from F:\LaunchBox, it will open a 2nd LaunchBox. When you try to open one for a version prior to 14.0 and another instance (from an install in a different folder) is already running, you'll get the error message you previously showed. Even if the instance already running is v14.0 or later, if the 2nd instance is prior to v14.0, you'll get that error. Which makes me think, when you try to open the 'fresh install' on the F drive, it's not v14.0 (or later). You can for sure see what version it is by checking the file Properties of F:\LaunchBox\Core\LaunchBox.exe.

If you edited the Default Pause Theme directly, an update would have overwritten it back-to-Default. If you made a copy of the Default theme folder (e.g. Default - Copy) to make your own theme and edited that, it should still be there. Double-check that it's still set as the Startup Theme in Tools < Options < Gameplay < Game Startup.

I believe the syncing of statics (Favorites, Completed, Last Played, Play Time, Play Count etc.) is only used for syncing between your different LaunchBox installations. e.g. the LB installation you have on your office PC and the LB installation you have in your Arcade Cabinet. This way when you play Asteroids for an hour at work, when you look at the game on your cab, that extra hour is shown. The gamesdb site is just viewing and sharing what's in your collection on the web.

That seems odd. Because the Applying Metadata happens after Updating ('refreshing') the local metadata [file]. e.g. When using Tools < Download < Update Metadata and Media for All Games... (or "for selected games"), I see it doing Downloading Extracting Verifying Applying Where the 1st 3 only occur the 1st time on a given day when running this (or when doing a Force Update). aka, updates at 24 hour(-ish) intervals. Also, you indicate it [only?] gets stuck applying metadata when importing certain ROM files. Grasping at straws, my guess is those ROMs being imported have a naming convention that is not typical for the platform and attempts to find an exact match for the game(s) is causing a 'hiccup'. However, this speculation doesn't explain why, when doing a Force Update 1st then applying the metadata, doesn't have this problem with those ROMs. Hopefully Admin will see this and chime in at some point.

Which emulators are you seeing this happen with? I know MAME requires a parameter in the command-line to work. I just spot checked RetroArch, PCSX2 and Vita3k, and they're working here. I didn't test a Steam/Windows game.