JoeViking245

Though possibly not the same thing, another user had a similar issue. Start LaunchBox. No issues Exit/restart LaunchBox it gets stuck on Loading Interface Restart the PC Start LaunchBox. No issues Exit/restart LaunchBox it gets stuck on Loading Interface wash/rinse/repeat Turns out (in this situation) their C-drive was near maxed out. Full. In-the-red. Note, their LaunchBox install was on their E-drive. Freeing up space on the C-drive completely resolved the issue.

I'm seeing the same thing with the Default Pause Theme. My findings: The LaunchBox Reader is opening, but the pause screen forces focus back onto itself (with the Reader sitting at the bottom Z). You can Alt+Tab to the Reader to have it be the 'active' window, but the Pause Menu is still forced on top (top Z order). With the Reader as the active window, you can Win+Shift+Left (or Right) and move the Reader to a second monitor and use it as normal. With the Reader being left open (whether sitting on the bottom Z, or just not 'Escaped' to close it), when exiting the game, it stays open when exiting the game. Maybe that's a "feature".

Tried looking in the Feature Requests for something similar. To no avail. If someone's so inclined, they can submit a feature request for this. Be sure to, once it's made public, report back here with a link to it so others can upvote it.

Yes, that was an "improvement" in the v13.21 release. An option you can do is, use the filter icon and select a rating (or 2 or more) and those will show alphabetically. Beyond that, I think submitting a Feature Request then wait for if/when that gets implemented is what your left with. (Unless I missed something.)

Sounds like you have an affinity for the different arcade systems. As you may know, you can add any "platform" you want and can name it anything you want. So how you break things down really comes to personal preference and how you are organized. "Arcade" as a whole is a unique animal compared to consoles. So to, e.g. throw everything into one Arcade platform then create playlists from that can be pretty cluttered. Especially when trying to manage different emulators in the one platform. Though, that could be handled on the playlist level with a little finessing. It might be just as well to, instead of dealing with playlists, put the different systems into their own platforms. Or create the platforms based on the system emulators (which for the most part, coincide). Thrown together as a crude mock-up (don't judge me ), it could be along the lines of: Side note, I recently got into lightgun games, so this example has "Arcade Lightgun" which is all MAME emulated lightgun games. "Arcade Lightgun Other" has ones using Demul, Flycast, LinuxLoader, PCSX2x6 and the sort. "Arcade" is games using MAME. "Sega Model 3", games using Supermodel. and so on. Though MAME can now emulate Model 2, in the spirit of system segregation, it'd stay out there. Also, my old cab PC still prefers the ol' emulator.exe. Any missing platform image icons can be created and added for any platform. Even with the segregated platforms, you could still create playlists for further breakdown (or 'collections') if you wanted to. Some but not all arcade systems have their own entry in the LaunchBox Games Database. So getting metadata and media is pretty straight forward. For systems that aren't in the database, just set their Scrape-As value to Arcade and you should be good.

Assuming you're using the Running Script posted above, is the emulators executable still Vita3k.exe?

Are you able to provide a sample document the developers can use to test with and accurately see what's going on?

Try: press S to open settings and play with the different settings available. The settings will be saved for that document. You can also change the default settings under Tools-Options.

After 3ish day of messing around, turns out the C drive was the issue. Though the build was on the E drive, caching is still done on C for [apparently] any app. Moral of the story, keep your C Drive well OUT OF THE RED.

You might try using the MAME emulator instead. You might have a better chance of finding help for that (instead of the NEOGEO CDZ emulator). There's a link in the other topic you posted in on how to set it up. When he says "Mess", change that to "MAME". When he says "mess64.exe", change that to "mame.exe" Another alternative is to use RetroArch and their neogeocd core. I don't emulate NeoGeo CD myself, but am confident both of those are viable working options in which you'd be more apt to find support for. And with minimal research, should "just work".

No. Don't copy from one to the other. It may miss some new ones or retain some obsolete ones. Start MAME (not a game), [can right click a game in LaunchBox and select Open MAME] go into General Settings. Plugins, and set HiScore Support to On. Press Escape once, select Save Settings. Press Escape twice to close MAME.

Last week I filed a Bug Report. Hopefully it will get addressed in subsequent 13.28 beta releases.

Enable the hiscore plugin. In your MAME root folder should be a plugin.ini file. Edit it with a text editor and set hiscore to 1.

Looks like maybe you "just" purchased it? Maybe try again in a few minutes? Otherwise, the error indicates something is up with your license file. Email support@unbrokensoftware.com and they can sort it out for you.

Rumor has it, "it all seems to be working again".

Admin is aware and will be looking into it.

Admin is aware and will be looking into it.

@Drybonz and @Drodrik Please stay on topic.

Yes. 👍

I've gone ahead and filed a Bug Report. I imagine it will get addressed in subsequent 13.28 beta releases.

Because they didn't share their Logs file. Tested on v13.28-beta-1. The error is occurring after downloading the 2.4 Gig zip file and attempting to access it: "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." @arcadianwilde I've gone ahead and filed a Bug Report.

There was this post recently that had a similar issue. I thought there were others, but could find any off hand. So maybe it was just these 2. https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/93837-mame-bezels-not-getting-installed-to-artwork-folder-post-1327-update

It could be a bug in LaunchBox.

Did you try checking and/or resetting your RetroAchievements in the LaunchBox settings? Similar to the post above yours. Tools < Options < Integrations < RetroAchievements