JoeViking245

Option 1) Look at what other themes are available. Tools < Manage < LaunchBox Themes and Media... < Type < Type: Themes Option 2) Customize the theme yourself. Make a copy of the folder ..\LaunchBox\LBThemes\Default\, edit the view files, then set it as your default theme. Option 3) ???... not sure

You can reduce it to a degree using Tools < Options < Visuals < Boxes < Spacing - Vertical Spacing

With F12 set to Shut Down Virtual Machine, the exit script should only need to send that. $Esc::Send {F12} If it (for some reason) takes longer than 2 seconds to do-its-thing, you're force closing the app. So may try it as shown above. I can't play good enough to even get a score. You might also ask on the emulator line forums if using the "Shut Down Virtual Machine" hotkey should be saving the scores. Or try it directly outside of LB. Play the, get on the scoreboard and press F12.

Can you share some screenshots. Select just one arcade game. e.g. 1942 Edit the game and share a screenshot of: - The Metadata section - The Launching section - The Emulation section While still in the game's Emulation section, click Edit. This will open the Edit Emulator window. Share a screenshot of: - The Details section Click Cancel and Cancel again to close out both Edit windows. With that game still selected, go to Tools < Download and share a screenshot of: - where it says Update Metadata and Media for Selected Games... Select that Update option. Share a screenshot of - The Welcome screen Hopefully one of those 6 screenshots will shed some light on what may (or may not) be going on.

Correct. If I recall correctly, FB-Neo ROMs are essentially MAME ROMs (in that they use the short_name.zip filename format). I never paid attention to know that FB-Neo also consisted of console games. If those also use the short_name, then they'd be more like MAME's SoftwareList ROMs. Also, ColecoVision would need to be scraped as ColecoVision. Sega Megadrive would need to be scraped as Sega Master System. But it still wouldn't work if the filenames are the short_name. If the ROMs aren't in the short_name format (e.g. BurgerTime.zip vs. btime.zip) and the scrape-as is set to ColecoVision (in this example), then they would work.

You may want to start a new thread for this emulator fork that's been out for [only] 2 days. Since PS2 games don't really have high scores to speak of, this Arcade fork is entering into a new realm from its parent. Did I mention it's only been out for 2 days?? Maybe look at the hotkeys, change the one for Open Pause Menu and add one for Shut Down Virtual Machine.

Did it say Update Metadata and Media for Selected Games..? Or Update Metadata and Media for All Games... ?

The error indicates something is up with your license file. Email support@unbrokensoftware.com and they can sort it out for you. Anytime an error code like that appears, it's one of three situations: 1. The license is banned 2. The license has been altered (you tried to change details in the file, or the file has been corrupted). 3. You are using an Android license on PC or vice versa

You can't do it Platform view. But you can get creative and do that in Platform Category view. Create a Category called something like Playlists. Now edit your playlists to all have only the parent Playlists Category checked. To make it look like you're in the Platform view, edit your platforms to all have only Root checked. Then in Big Box, select the view Platform Categories. You'll now see everything attached to Root. Which if done correctly, will be all your Platforms and your new Playlists Category. To help get all the playlists under just the Playlists Category, you can use the plugin below. But to get all the Platforms under just Root, you'll need to do those individually.

No. Be sure to select a game, several games or all games (click one game, then press Ctrl+A) in the Arcade platform. When you go into the Tools menu, be sure it says Tools < Download < Update Metadata and Media for Selected Games... And not Update Metadata and Media for All Games... If it says All, then it probably won't show the bezel screen. Also, make sure the game(s) you selected, their emulator is set to MAME (or RetroArch). And when at the EmuMovies screen, careful not to double-click Next. (that'll of course, skip a screen)

Custom Fields are a Premium feature. Even in Premium, they are not viewable in List View. They can only be seen in the game details panel or when editing a game. Though, there is a feature request to have them added. Feedback - LaunchBox - Support Custom Fields as Columns in Game List View The author of that 3rd party plugin is a very creative programmer. As you discovered, the Custom Fields can be [creatively] added. But they cannot be saved in the free version. They would however be saved with a Premium license.

If you select the game (or games) already installed then go to Tools < Download < Update Metadata and Media for Selected Game..., right after the select image types to download screens (which you can check None if you already have those), you should get the Download Bezels from The Bezel Project? screen. If the games' emulator is MAME. (Should also appear for any game whose assigned emulator is RetroArch.) Likewise, when adding (importing) a new game(s) where the emulator is MAME (or RetroArch, but you don't use RA for Arcade), that screen should also appear in the wizard. The Bezel Project downloads is not available when just editing a game.

If the theme's the only thing you changed, you can try editing /LaunchBox/Data/BigBoxSettings.xml. Using any text editor (e.g. Notepad) edit the element <Theme> Change the value to Default and save and close. Try starting Big Box. <Theme>Default</Theme>

"It's never me. It's always them".

When you go to ADB and click new machines (very top of the page) it gives 254 games. Then when you check MAME cab only and Search it shows 0 (zero). It's from this result the plugin gets it data. This (zero) may be because they (the actual new games) haven't been classified, yet? Do you really want to see those 253 "games"? (semi-rhetorical) 0.287 had 124 vs. the 11 MAME cab only the plugin shows. Side Note (from the View File link up top): Though I'm pretty sure the What's New feature in MAME Tools (right now) is the exact same as this one (results wise). As in, no changes had been made. That said, feel free to post here regarding this plugin for the time being. Side Note #2: If you wish to import the 256 'games', from the ADB link above you can create ("Export") an xml file. Then use the MAME Custom xml Importer feature found in MAME Tools. You may want to filter out the Non-Working 'games', "devices" and "screenless" 1st before exporting the xml file. That'll whittle it down to a more manageable 34 'games'.

This was addressed in your other thread where you asked the exact same question. If your Topic Title question is your actual question, address that specifically in your post. Not something completely different. Especially not one that was already asked in a different thread.

MAME, in its own rights, is a unique animal. Namely because its ROM sets come in 3 flavors. Merged, non-merged and split. Though LaunchBox is tailored to accommodate full sets [in all 3 'flavors'] for both importing and updating, it can't really accommodate curated sets (a select portion of a full set). To manually update your MAME emulator, you can go to MAMEDev's site and download it from there. Be sure to select the version corresponding to the version of your ROM set. (e.g. both being for 0.288). When you edit your MAME emulator in LaunchBox, you can click the link (globe icon) to have LaunchBox open your web browser to MAME's download page for the most recent release. Again, make sure it matches your ROM set release version. From here, run the exe file and (what I do is) install it to the same location your existing MAME emulator is located. This will NOT overwrite any settings or configurations you've made in MAME, as the installer ONLY includes the 'base' files. If doing it this way, nothing needs to be changed in LaunchBox as far as your MAME emulator is concerned. If you decide to install MAME to a different folder, all you'll need to do in LaunchBox is redirect the emulators application Path to the new mame.exe location. However, you won't have any MAME custom configurations changes you made unless you copy those files/folders to the new location. As for updating your curated ROM set located on your laptop, that's a bit more tricky, but not impossible. Basically, what you need to do is copy only the files from your updated full set that already exist in your curated set, to your curated set's location. Overwriting the old ones. Since not many, if any 'new' machines (games) are added in MAME updates, you can just manually add those to LB. e.g. From release 0.278 to 0.288, there were no added MAME machines. There were existing ones (ROMs) updated. But nothing 'new'. Manually adding MAME games to LaunchBox: If you added any new games (ROMs) to your curated folder location, you can NOT use LB's Scan for Added ROMs feature. This goes back to MAME being a unique animal. What you can do is, select those added ROM files [in Windows Explorer] and drag them onto LaunchBox. This will start the (regular) import wizard. Just tell it you're import ROMs into Arcade using MAME as the emulator. Tell it to use ROMs in their current location and follow through the prompts. The MAME Tools plugin has a couple of its features that may come in handy regarding this thread. 1) MAME Arcade - What's New: This will tell you what new arcade machines were added for any specific release of MAME. 2) MAME Troubleshooting: Use this to help determine why a specific game using the MAME emulator isn't working.

Try running: Tools < Download < Force Update Games Database Metadata... and see if that resolves it.

I'm seeing the same thing. In LaunchBox, when in List View, double-clicking the game will not launch it. But when in Images View, it will. Seems to be limited to the Default and Old Default themes. Old Default (Legacy), Default Plus, Omni, Frogg and Sleek, double-clicking a game in List View will launch the game.

I didn't catch that it was during the initial welcome/installation process. Maybe one of the developers can chime in with a more definitive answer. But I do know when the Welcome Wizard was first introduced in v13.23, it would down those base images to 'get you on your way' to start playing games. I believe that was subsequently changed. But can't say for certain. As you discovered, imports done outside of the Welcome Wizard functions as you'd expect. Straight forward answer, no. What's considered the best version of an image is too subjective. Of course, regional preferences will take precedence. After that I imagine it's somewhat arbitrary. Again, maybe after the weekend, one of the developers will chime in.

That sounds like what the auto-import feature would automagically download for you. Tools - Options - Media - Automatic Imports Media No. (at least I'm pretty sure not) If the images are named the same as the games' Title or ROM filenames (e.g. they came from an older LB build), you can copy them straight into your current LB Images folder(s) (matching platform/image_type of course). If (using my e.g.) your other build had say 200 game images of a certain image type, and your (new) current one only 100 of those games, go ahead and copy all the images over (for ease) the use the Media Cleanup Wizard to remove images that don't have an associated game.

I just had an epiphany. Games CAN'T be placed where they show in your image. Only platforms, platform categories or playlists can be there. I suspect they're not categories. Using Windows Explorer, look in your /LaunchBox/Data/Playlists/ folder. Do you see a bunch of files that look like the names you see in your screenshot? If yes, exit out of LaunchBox. Wait a few seconds for it to complete it background processes. Now delete all those files and restart LaunchBox. If not, look in your /LaunchBox/Data/Platforms/ folder. Same question as before. If yes and if Arcade is the only platform that you have (purposefully) imported, delete all the files except Arcade.xml. If you did import other platforms, leave those platform_name.xml files as well. Deleting the rest. Restart LaunchBox.

srry, Missed this post. They are in a specific platform. Somewhere. It's the law that they "must belong in a platform before they can be seen or used anywhere else in your LB collection". Find that platform and remove from there.

Namely to clean up the CHDs out of the filter side bar (left panel). Also, looking at those listed there, appears you imported every CHD game. Working, non-working, parents, clones, bad dumps, no dumps. So maybe you import the regular games, and then imported the CHD [folders] also? If you did indeed use the Arcade Full Set Import Wizard AND had that one box un-checked, then the CHD games should already be in your Arcade platform. But that alone doesn't explain why they're appearing in the left panel. Anyway, If: you can get them out the left panel and still have those CHD games listed under the Arcade platform and 1942 does launch properly ...we can move on. 1st step is to tell MAME where all the ROM paths are located. Start MAME (right click a game in LB and select Open MAME (in MAME) double-click General Settings double-click Configure Folders double click ROMs double-click Add Folder double-click C:\ double-click MAME (folder) double-click MAME 0.287 ROMs (merged) (you zipped ROMs folder) Press Tab (to add that folder) double-click Add Folder (again) navigate to your D drive and select the folder your CHDs are in Press Tab (to add that folder) Press Escape twice double-click Save Settings Press Escape twice to exit MAME 2nd step, in LaunchBox: Edit you MAME emulator Tools < Manage < Emulators... and select MAME In the Default Command-line Parameters remove -rompath %romlocation% (if it exists) Click OK to save and close 3rd step Launch 1942 (to make sure that part still works) 4th step Launch a game requiring a CHD Area 51 is a known, working one. If launching Area 51 doesn't work, you know what to do.