JoeViking245

The full C and E drives is most like the cause of the issue you've been having this whole time in your Stuck On "Loading Interface" AGAIN. This Is Unacceptable thread. Hopefully when you get your enclosure for your other drives and get things moved around, that will take care of things.

Yeah, that would definitely prompt the message "There is not enough space on the disk."

Auto import is enabled for that platform. You can edit the platform and check the box Disable ROM Auto-Import. If you want to disable it for all non-storefront platforms, you can do so inside Tools - Options.

How much free space do you have on your E drive? If your E drive has plenty of free space, how full is your OS drive (typically the C drive)? If when you close LaunchBox and it's finished doing its saves and cleanup and the empty Temp folders are still there, yes, you can delete them. Though they should get removed when properly shutting down LaunchBox. However, deleting empty folders won't free up any notable space.

Can try...In LaunchBox, edit the eumlator:

Very well thought out and presented! If you decide to proceed with the suggestion in the below link, be sure to post back here with a link to the request after it becomes public (up to 7-14 days) so that other can go an upvote it.

Ah.. Rincewind (LaunchBox for Windows - Custom Themes). Not Rincewind Theme (Big Box - Custom Themes). I suppose the mention if "LB theme" and "scrollbar" should have been a big giveaway.

Though it's possible that it's something that needs to be fixed by the LB team, it may still be something that needs fixed/adjusted by the theme developer. Either way, for 3rd party theme support it's best to ask in the comments section of that themes thread. This way the author of the theme will get notified and can find out what's going on and proceed accordingly. Also, if others are experiencing the same issue with the specific theme, they'll know it's "not just them".

I did the following steps and was unable to reproduce it removing the Alternate Names. Imported D:\Games\Out of this world.zip into Sega Genesis In Alternate Names, selected Another World and clicked Set Selected Name as Title Another World was removed and Out of this world was added Back in the Metadata section The Title was changed to Another World Europe was 'inserted' into the Region field Clicked OK to save and close Tools < Download < Update Metadata and Media for Selected Games... Checked Search for game information in the local metadata database (recommended) (no images) Selected - Yes, download and replace all existing metadata and media The Title got changed to Out of this world Europe was still in the Region field (this could be considered a bug) Alternate Names contained Another World Assuming you did all the same steps (except maybe you imported multiple games), it's this last thing that's different. A 2nd test doing all the same steps except selecting Yes, but do not replace any existing fields or media (recommended), as expected nothing changed. And Alternate Names [still] contained Out of this world. Note in both of these tests, the game had the LaunchBox DB ID #32809 assigned. If the steps I took are different, let me know.

In the examples of using MAME and Atari 2600, both carts and cassettes are .zip. Or something? I'd be curious to hear how that would/could work. A giant look up table that checks the platform and ROM filename then gives the appropriate command line parameters? Atari 2600 might seem easy enough. But get into the nightmare of Apple series command line parameters.... ugh. But suppose it is possible. If you can find some sucker to put the lookup table together. lol And if that works, it's just a matter of getting the developers to incorporate it. Bit here, I'm just thinking about MAME. So there's still the others.

Nice list!

Though you can physically add the same platform ("Atari 2600") more than once in the Associated Platforms section of an emulator, you can't really do anything beyond that. Looking at my screenshot above, if both of the Associated Platforms in the red box were simply Atari 2600 (aka, the exact same platform), and they contain different Command-line Parameters (as shown) They both can't be checked as the Default Emulator There is no way to tell a game listed in Atari 2600 which set of Command-line Parameters to use If there was, you'd still need to tell each game in the platform which 'version' of the Command-line Parameters to use The current way to accomplish what (I think) you want is to have the game(s) use their Custom Command-line Parameters option. This gives you: One emulator (MAME) [only] One Associated Platform (Atari 2600) One platform (Atari 2600 - containing both carts and cassettes) To do this, you: Edit the "cassette" games In the Emulation section Set MAME as the emulator Check the box Use Custom Command-line Parameters In the box below that, type in -rompath %romlocation% a2600 -cart1 scharger -cass Wash, rinse and repeat (changing the parameters used) for the "cartridge" games You would of course (somehow) want to differentiate the carts from cassettes within the one platform to do this. But you'd have to do the same thing with your option #3. But once you can "sort them", you can use the Bulk Custom Command-line Editor plugin to make it go a lot quicker.

If I'm following your question correctly, Yes. You can have e.g. MAME (the name you gave it in LaunchBox) as an emulator and MAME-2 (the name you gave the 'other' one) also as an emulator, with both of them pointing to the exact same mame.exe file. Those 2 "emulators" can also both have the same Associated Platform (e.g. Arcade). But only one of those can be set as the default emulator for that platform. So.... you want to have 2 (or more?) emulators in LB (e.g. MAME and MAME-2) because your Associated Platforms list is too long? Or is the issue, you imported e.g. your carts and cassettes into the same Platform? Personally, I separated mine out. When you say "emulator list starts looking crowded" are you saying here, you have a different emulator (e.g. MAME and MAME-2) for each platform? I mean, I have a lengthy emulator list too because I don't use RetroArch for everything under-the-sun. At the same time, my MAME emulator has a 'crowded' Associated Platforms section because of all it can emulate. But TBH, I don't really play any of those. I set 'em to see that they can work, then just leave 'em there. If I totally misunderstood what you're trying to convey, maybe add some specific examples. Also maybe some screen captures along with the narrative. Pictures usually show the correct thing that words themselves get lost in Joe-translation.

While holding Alt, if you tap Tab until 'the emulator' is highlighted/selected and let go of Alt, does it bring the game to the front? Is the emulator window Fullscreen? Set Fullscreen to on. Xenia Settings Select your emulator Turn Fullscreen to On

Big Box is intentionally designed to show/run in exclusive fullscreen and has no available option to be windowed. I've heard that you can run Big Box on a Virtual Machine to have it be windowed. I've never tried that myself. But was told it worked.

It was suggested by a moderator that once your request becomes public, you then post it here to entice others to up-vote it.

This is a known issue and seems to be related to games that have a + symbol in their title. You can read more about it here:

Yeah, when submitting/uploading something, you only [automatically] get notified of posts from the main download page. For the Support page (this one), even though you're the submitter, you need to subscribe to this page to get notifications.

I moved this to Troubleshooting because it really had absolutely nothing to do with Big Box Sound Packs. When checking in Task Manager to see if another instance is running, look in the Details section (vs. Processes). Worse case, reboot the PC, start LaunchBox, select the game and click on Play once (vs. accidentally double-clicking it).

K. Well the current 1.1.5 version has 6 variants to choose from. Sometimes when creating/transposing code, something like a T and g might get accidentally left off. Regardless, the one you downloaded and use on your system sounds to have the text correct. Which means the text is getting cut off. On (or just below) that same <TextBlock line, try changing the FontSize to a [little bit] smaller value. e.g. if its "38", try using "34" or "32".

Correct. The full-size images are stored there. You'll notice the cache files are much smaller than the original image files. When populating the main section in LaunchBox with images, it's much faster to load a several kb (cached) image than it is to load a [up to] couple MB (original) image. And that's just one image of the number of games you may have in the particular platform. Also navigating large sized image files [unnecessarily] can be clunky. Keep in mind, the images (whether in the cache folder or their original location) get loaded into your computer's memory for displaying. e.g. My Sega Genesis Box-3D folder itself is 1.09GB (1026 images). Where-as my Cache-LB folder is [only] 320MB (13,522 images) Bringing it to a load-time/HD space/RAM cost benefit.

@Hazuki Sorry. Didn't mean to 'but in'. I suspect you didn't get notified of a new post here. (Posts in the Support Thread for uploads don't automatically notify the uploader/author)