JoeViking245

Uhhh.... where? If my directions aren't clear or don't make sense based on what you're seeing on your setup, DO NOT follow my directions! This really all depends where exactly you "found a second .exe file for LaunchBox". If it's not like (or similar to how) I described, please elaborate on what exactly you're seeing.

Thanks! And yes. That could be a problem. (obviously I didn't even look close enough to notice) I will pass this along to the proper authorities for resolution.

Look in your LaunchBox folder for another folder called LaunchBox. What most likely happened was when you reinstalled LaunchBox, you selected your [existing] LaunchBox folder, then didn't verify the path before clicking Install. Wherever you select, the installer adds /LaunchBox to the path. It's a pretty common mishap. Easiest fix is to delete the 2nd LaunchBox folder. D:\LaunchBox\LaunchBox\ Do not delete the green one! Then reinstall [again]. This time selecting the folder (or Drive in my example) above your existing install. Then verify the path before clicking install.

Mine's Win11 Home 25H2 Build 26200.89037 Don't know if the version/builds are different because mine's the "Home" edition.

Well, you said you were able to change it. So I assumed. 😊 What I did to test was: Pressed Ctrl+N (to add a new game) In the Launching section, put steam://rungameid/2050650 Back in the Metadata section, typed in resident evil 4 Pressed Enter (to have LB search for the game) and got Resident Evil 4 (2005) Clicked OK to save and close Pressed Ctrl+N again ...put steam://rungameid/254700 (using the other ID #) ...typed in resident evil 4 (same as before) Pressed Enter... Resident Evil 4 (Deluxe Edition) (the 2023 version) OK So it seems there may an issue with the Steam Auto-Import feature (to include when updating games) when 2 games have the same Title (minus datum inside of parenthesis). It's possible that because the local database file only has the Steam ID for the one of the 2 games, it auto grabs the one (as the titles are "the same"). Or... it does it by title-match and grabs the 1st exact match. However, adding them manually as I did, it works. Dunno. To clarify, when you buy new Steam games and LB does it's auto-import thing, it adds the new games and modifies your 2 RE4 games? Or... when you start LB, it scans Steam for "new" games and regardless of a new game or not, it modifies the 2? Essentially revering them both to the one game?

You never did mention the Steam ID #'s. Troubleshooting-data aside, glad it's fixed.

If you have both, you'll have 2 "<DatabaseID>7801</DatabaseID>". Only change one of them. The correct one. Based on the Steam ID#. (I don't have either, so the screenshot is just an example)

What version of Windows are you on? My Windows 11 doesn't have BigBox.exe in this path. I'd have to check my cab (which is on W10) to see if it's there.

Oh, it's a Steam game? What its Steam ID #? (In the games Launching section, the Application Path should by something like "steam://rungameid/21130".) Continuing with these Q&A's will help determine what's-going-on, why-it's-happening (hopefully) and give the developers and idea how-to-fix-it for this situation so other don't come across this in the future. If you just want to do a brute force fix-the-dang-thing... Save it with the game that's found Resident Evil 4 (2005) and the LBDB ID # showing as 7801 Exit LaunchBox In Windows Explorer Navigate to /LaunchBox/Data/Platforms/ Open Windows.xml using any text editor Search for <DatabaseID>7801</DatabaseID> Replace 7801 with 261464 <DatabaseID>261464</DatabaseID> Save and close the file Open LaunchBox Select [only] your Resident Evil 4 (2005) game Tools - Download - Update Metadata and Media for Selected Games When asked "Would you like to update games with existing metadata and/or media?" Select "Yes, download and replace all existing metadata and media" (the 1st option) Click finish to "grab the correct games data" Now you can Edit the game Go to the Alternate Names section Select "Resident Evil 4: Remake" Click "Set Selected Name as Title" Click OK to save and close

Try... Go to Tools - Download - Force Update Games Database Metadata. When that's completed, try again

The Game Details panel, Overview section will only show select images. Not sure specifically which images are available there. But I do know e.g. Disc and Clear Logo won't be visible there. To preview all 9, you can click on one of 'small' the images, so it becomes the main image, then click the main image. This will show it fullscreen. Press Left/Right arrows to navigate through the images. Press Escape to exit fullscreen preview.

Does it show any indication of a video on the right Game Details panel? Can you share a screenshot of that?

At the top of this page, click Premium and then select Lost Your License?. Follow the instructions and you will get an automated email response with your license file attached. Place the license file into you LaunchBox folder. Be sure to check you spam folder in the response doesn't go to your inbox.

LaunchBox saves video (and image) files to a name that's the same as the games Title or ROM filename. This is how it later appropriates the corresponding media for a particular game without needing to maintain a physical "database" of sorts of the associated media. It also suffix's a -01, and increments if there're more than one of that type. Your only option is to name your video the same as the games Title or ROM filename. Then, aside from suffixing it with -01, LaunchBox will not rename them. Keeping with no database of sorts to speak of for maintaining your media's associations, LaunchBox looks in specific folders for the media/type requested. So they need to be placed in the respective folders to be [properly] found.

LaunchBox does not dictate the controls used inside the emulator. That's between you and your emulator. But it does pass command-line parameters. Which is why I thought 'maybe' that could be causing the issue. Test: In LaunchBox, right-click a game and select Open MAME. From within [standalone] MAME that opens up, load "the game" and check if P1B2 is working as it should. If it's not working, [in LaunchBox] edit your MAME emulator and make absolutely sure that the mame.exe you're pointing to is the exact same one you were testing on, outside of LaunchBox. This is actually an [unfortunate] common occurrence. But an easy fix. If in that Test it is working, I'm not sure what to tell you.

That's an odd mapping for that button (vs. the default binding Left-Alt). In LaunchBox, edit you MAME emulator. Look at the Default Command-line Parameters. If it has -keyboardprovider dinput in it, try remove that. If it doesn't, try adding it.

I don't think anyone's submitted a Bug Report about it. I happened to have come across this issue this morning and submitted a report.

Check in Controller Mappings. System Menu < Options < Controller Mappings (or Keyboard Mappings if your encoder is set to keyboard mode). Check what's mapped to "Exit". "Exit" closes Big Box. Clear it (best option) or change it to something else. Hopefully that helps,

Do you have Premium version of LaunchBox? Video playback is not available in the Free version.

May be a shot in the dark but look in the Controller Mappings. System Menu < Options < Controller Mappings (or Keyboard Mappings if using keyboard input in-game). Make sure you've mapped "Close the Active Window" to exit the emulator. And not "Exit" as that exits (closes) Big Box.

Myself, I keep all LaunchBox images (that I want to store) checked. Then in the EmuMovies tab, select only the media that is not available from the LaunchBox Games Database. Which leaves you with Manuals and Videos.

You could Audit the platform (Tools - Audit - Arcade). Then in the audit window select all and then copy/paste it into a spreadsheet. Remove all the columns except Application Path. Then do a find/replace to remove the path and .zip, leaving just the ROM name.