[Emulator Not Connecting to Library After Configuring It]

22 minutes ago, Starwind Amada said:

in Associated Platforms it says "Sony PlayStation 2" exactly like it does in the platform list on the left

Does the one on the left say "Sony Playstation" (lowercase "s")?  vs. "Sony PlayStation" (uppercase "S")?

[Emulator Not Connecting to Library After Configuring It]

4 minutes ago, Starwind Amada said:

I had changed it from "Super Nintendo Entertainment System" to "Nintendo SNES" to keep it with the other Nintendo platforms alphabetically (I wanted it under N instead of S)

[For future] another option is to edit the platform and set the Sort Title.

I set mine to "ninendo eo" (because "o" comes after "n") so it shows after NES.

[LaunchBox 14.0.1 Beta Thread]

3 hours ago, Heartless1Riku said:

Not sure if it is possible but could lunchbox automatically place text flush against box art on its own again?  

Instead of putting the text against the box art, how about putting the box art against the text?

[Platforms mismatch]

Those platforms missing platform icons are not included in the default Media Pack or are named differently than normal.  e.g. If you renamed "sega32x" to "Sega 32X", a [default] icon would appear.

You can look inside ..\LaunchBox\Images\Media Packs\Platform Clear Logos\Nostalgic Platform Clear Logos\Platforms\ to see what default images [and their naming conventions] are available.

 

If you have LaunchBox Premium, you can create your own images and add them for "the other" platforms.

For information about adding them, go to the LaunchBox Strategy Guide and scroll down to and click on the article Creating Platform Icons Media Packs for LaunchBox and Big Box.

Be sure to check out (or at least glance through) and see what other articles are available in the Strategy Guide [for potential future referencing].  

[Emulator Not Connecting to Library After Configuring It]

4 hours ago, Starwind Amada said:

If I right click on a game, the emulator doesn't appear in the menu.

In the Associated Platforms section for your SNES9X emulator, is the "SNES" platform ('Super Nintendo Entertainment System'?) spelled the exact same as your actual platform's name?  Is the Default Emulator box checked?

If you edit one of your SNES games, in the Emulation section, is Use Emulator checked and is SNES9X selected?

[Can't Connect To Database]

5 minutes ago, Starwind Amada said:

it told me that bunch of dll files could not be found. I could skip them, but it said that wasn't recommended

Can you screenshot that message?  'you could skip them, but not recommended'? Is it giving you another option that to "skip them"? What happens if you select that?

[Can't Connect To Database]

2 minutes ago, Starwind Amada said:

So delete it and reinstall it?

No. Just reinstall over the top of the existing install.

2 minutes ago, Starwind Amada said:

You're positive it wont remove anything?

Yes. If you do what I said.  

[Can't Connect To Database]

40 minutes ago, Starwind Amada said:

Do I need to reinstall Launchbox?

That should fix it.

 

41 minutes ago, Starwind Amada said:

Will reinstalling wipe all my libraries?

No, it will not.  Just make sure when running the installer, you select the drive location above your LaunchBox folder.  e.g. C:\users\tiger\

Before clicking the final install button, verify the path so that it doesn't have dual /LaunchBox/ folders.  So you want to see C:\users\tiger\LaunchBox\. Not C:\users\tiger\LaunchBox\LaunchBox\

[Listing games that are missing specific types of media]

1 hour ago, Gaz70 said:

The "Games missing media" gives you absolutely everything so a) takes time and b) is a bit of a pain to sort through.

If it helps any and you have Advanced Search enabled, you can filter it down by platform.

 

1 hour ago, Gaz70 said:

I am aware of the audit which although it gives me what I want and can sort it is fairly slow and unresponsive because of the amount of data there.

This can be exported to Excel (or your spreadsheet app of choice) which should be a lot faster.

 

Otherwise, I don't believe there is another built-in way to do so.

[Startup Theme Gridblocked issue in 14.0]

3 hours ago, cenutrio351 said:

Its a shame, I love this Startup theme

And if you use the Default startup theme, games launch fine in BB?

[Startup Theme Gridblocked issue in 14.0]

18 hours ago, cenutrio351 said:

I've tried many differents startup themes in 14.0 and they all work fine, except  this one. Is anyone else having this problem? Is there anything I can do? I'd like to continue using this startup theme.

A games Startup Theme is a pretty basic integration and I don't think much of anything has changed with how that actual themes work in a long time.

I just tested GridBlocked Startup Theme v1.0.1 in both LB and BB with no issues.  LB, just to see what it supposed to look like, and BB to try to recreate it not starting the game.

There's really no rhyme nor reason why the games will launch when using that startup theme (any startup theme, really) in LaunchBox but not in Big Box. I could see something being amidst if it messed something up in both UI's.

 

18 hours ago, cenutrio351 said:

I press play, the game music stops, but the game doesn't start.

What then, actually happens at this point?  Black Screen?  Big Box freezes? Literally nothing happens? As in you can then press the Back button, select a different game and [attempt] to press Play again with still nothing happening?

[BezelLauncher]

12 minutes ago, Strangeguy said:

I suppose a hacky way to do it would be to set an 100% transparent bezel as a game-specific bezel for those games, but it'd be nice to avoid the added overhead/potential for unwanted interactions of running BezelLauncher at all if I don't have to. Let me know if there's a way to do this.

You're on the right track.  That is, there isn't a way to 'blacklist' by game.

Option 1:
Create a transparent bezel for each of your 16:9 games.

Option 2:
Create a bezel for each of your 4:3 games and a transparent one used as a 'fallback' (platform_name.png and platform_name.ini)) in which the 16:9 will use (because they won't have a game specific bezel).

Option 3:
Create a 2nd emulator and assign your 16:9 games to use it and don't enable it in the BezelLauncher settings.  This "2nd emulator" will be the exact same as the '1st one' but just have a different name.  e.g. "PCSX2" for your 4:3 games and "PCSX2-16-9" for the 16:9 games. 

Option 4:
????

[Grid spacing and configuration by platform]

1 hour ago, Luca1010 said:

I reply to both questions with this screenshot: as you see there is a lot of space between the lines in the grid. (I already switched to image view and set vertical space to 0, but this changes the image view only), right click on the list does not have a configure layout command.
As you see I am in the "arcade" platform, in this case I would like to hide automatically the platform column (the first one in this case) in the grid.

Thanks a lot to all of you for the kind support.

Apologies, I didn't pay attention that it was someone else who jumped in on this. 😊  Also missed that you were referring to the List View (vs. Images View).

There isn't a built-in way that I'm aware of to adjust the vertical spacing for List View.  At this point I see 2 options:

1. Make a copy of and edit the Default theme.
   • I'm not sure which file to edit and where in the file to edit it. 
   • You find details about LaunchBox Theming this article: LaunchBox Theming - LaunchBox
2. Submit a feature request to add an option to be able to adjust that.
   • LaunchBox Feedback

[Grid spacing and configuration by platform]

32 minutes ago, Mandarynek said:

look

Thanks.  Thank helps.

Try setting the Image Height to 0.50 (slider all the way to the left).

You will still see some space between the lines that is there for game title/developer and badges (which you have both disabled).

[Grid spacing and configuration by platform]

58 minutes ago, Mandarynek said:

Yes but even when you set horizontal to 0 spaces are huge, n64 for example.

Can you share a screenshot to better get an idea exactly where you're referring to?

[How to set the new Reader to view magazine platforms?]

8 minutes ago, tpaclassic said:

I have multiple sets of magazine platforms that I've set up to use with CDisplay EX as the "emulator".  I like the new LaunchBox Reader and would like to switch them all to that.  However, I'm not seeing a simple way to do this.  Is the new Reader not capable of being set up to be used with a magazine platform?

Thanks!

Give this a once over and see if it helps.

 

[Won't Update]

8 hours ago, Starwind Amada said:

Yeah, I clicked Configure EmuMovies and it did its thing.

Looks like you also don't have access to videos either.

Is your EmuMovies account a paid account? Or a free one?

[Won't Update]

18 minutes ago, Starwind Amada said:

I did make an account with EM

Did you add it to LaunchBox?

Tools < Options < Integrations < EmuMovies

[Won't Update]

9 minutes ago, Starwind Amada said:

Yes. I now just tried 265 Dreamcast games. Same thing. And again, I did make an account with EM

Can you share a screenshot of that emumovies window that doesn't have the Manual checkbox?

[Won't Update]

10 minutes ago, Starwind Amada said:

No. It had all kinds of other stuff but no manuals. I've looked multiple times. I saw fanart, marquees, magazine ads, boxart, screenshots.... no manuals

You get the EmuMovies window. Correct?
Did you scroll down?

[Won't Update]

11 minutes ago, Starwind Amada said:

I just selected 298 N64 games at once. No manuals. That can't be right.

Assuming you went through Tools < Download < Update Metadata and Media for Selected Games..., there was the checkbox option for Manuals in the EmuMovies section. Correct?

[Can I use the LaunchBox Reader Plugin to run PDFs from the Main Application?]

1 hour ago, malarrya said:

but is there a way to make it so the main application launches the LaunchBox Reader instead of something like Acrobat?

You can create a new "emulator" that points to the LaunchBox Reader app.  Then have your pdf "games" use this 'emulator'.

 

[Won't Update]

21 minutes ago, Starwind Amada said:

I just made an EmuMovies account but there's no option for manuals. Lots of other options but not manuals.

Depends on where you're looking.  If you're bulk downloading media, it will [generically] be an option in the EmuMovies section.  If you're editing a single game, the EmuMovies tab will only list the assets it has for that game. aka, not all games have manuals.

[Won't Update]

1 hour ago, Starwind Amada said:

I'm using 14.0 but not getting a notification about the new update with the smart reader and new shutdown features or whatever. How can I update? When I check for an update it says I'm up to date.

You can read about these updated features in v14.0 by going into Menu - Help - Welcome

[LaunchBox for Windows 14.0 Released!]

27 minutes ago, Joe35car said:

Still waiting for next update to fix bugs 

Ya!  It's already been about 2 full business days since release!  Besides, developers don't get weekends off! So that's like almost 4 whole days. Maybe 5 depending on your time zone.