Johnny T

I know this is an old topic but it would be remiss of me not to say a big thank you for posting this. I can now finally save my high scores in Sega Rally. And, hopefully, one day, knock "Poo" off the top spot!!

Great stuff. I will do. Thanks for the advice

Thanks for that Neil. Although that didn't work with the last bluetooth keyboard I had from Amazon so I wondered if anyone can confirm this does work and also works with LB Android on a Shield - and, if so, what keyboard it works with. Thanks for your help

Hi all, I'd love to re-live some of my glory days on the Speccy and the Atari ST. I've got Android LB on my Nvidia Shield and it's working fine. I've managed to set up some non-keyboard Speccy games (i.e. using Retroarch and using the on-screen keyboard for selecting the joystick etc). I did buy a wireless (bluetooth) keyboard for the Nvidia Shield but, although it seemed to work on the device for navigating the Shield menus etc, it wouldn't control anything in the games? Does anyone know how to get this to work (either a specific type of keyboard or a setting on LB etc)? I would love to get some keyboard only games working on the Shield. Thanks for your help.

Hi there, unfortunately the software is nowhere near polished enough for any kind of release. And I wouldn't have a clue what to do with GitHub. It's extremely amateurish and I did used to have ambitions to polish it up and release it but I don't think it will ever get to that stage I'm afraid. Perhaps one of the plugin writers would be able to knock something up for you though to achieve your needs. I'm sure you're not the only one who would just want the 'cream of the crop' from the various systems. Good luck in your search

Yep - that was where I started... I was on AAE and, sure enough, when I navigated to Box Front then some of the images were corrupt. I have the software backed up to a server that has the same issue. I've also checked my actual cab machine and that's the same too! (so this issue mustn't affect BB but only LB?). Luckily I've got an even older backup that I was planning on getting rid of and the images on that are fine so I'm now transferring them across but it's going to take a very long time as there's 158Gb of them!! Thanks 🙂

No it's not a specific game. As soon as LB loads I get the error. Okay, I'll don my deerstalker and do a bit of investigation! I'll report back when I have something. Thank you 🙂

Yes!! That was it. My apologies, when you said a corrupted image file in an earlier message I thought you meant a corrupted 'download' of the update (I was thinking like a snapshot image of a drive and not literally 'an image file'). So, next question is... do you have any ideas how I would find out which image is corrupted? I have a marquee screen and have lots of images that I've created for it that aren't just on the LB image library so I can't just redownload everything from there? Thanks for your help 🙂

I've just scanned my drive for errors just out of interest and there aren't any.

No problem. Hopefully someone will chime in with a possible fix. Thanks

I've tried reinstalling the update but to no avail. Could you let me know how you get on with your other hard drive if you don't mind?

I'm having the exact same issue as you - running fully up-to-date Win 11 Here's some more of the text of the error. (Outer Exception) No imaging component suitable to complete this operation was found. App: LaunchBox Version: 13.9 Theme: Default Type: System.NotSupportedException Site: System.Windows.Media.SafeMILHandle SetupDecoderFromUriOrStream(System.Uri, System.IO.Stream, System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapCacheOption, System.Guid ByRef, Boolean ByRef, System.IO.Stream ByRef, System.IO.UnmanagedMemoryStream ByRef, Microsoft.Win32.SafeHandles.SafeFileHandle ByRef) Source: PresentationCore at System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapDecoder.SetupDecoderFromUriOrStream(Uri uri, Stream stream, BitmapCacheOption cacheOption, Guid& clsId, Boolean& isOriginalWritable, Stream& uriStream, UnmanagedMemoryStream& unmanagedMemoryStream, SafeFileHandle& safeFilehandle) at System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapDecoder.CreateFromUriOrStream(Uri baseUri, Uri uri, Stream stream, BitmapCreateOptions createOptions, BitmapCacheOption cacheOption, RequestCachePolicy uriCachePolicy, Boolean insertInDecoderCache) at System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage.FinalizeCreation() at System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage.EndInit() at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Controls.CoverFlow.FlowImage.<>c__DisplayClass64_1.CancelAbstractConfig(Object ) at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Controls.CoverFlow.FlowImage.<>c__DisplayClass64_1.RevertReflectiveWatcher() at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Threading.<>c__DisplayClass0_0.ViewAbstractEvent(Object ) at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Threading.<>c__DisplayClass0_0.MoveReflectiveConnection() at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state) --- End of stack trace from previous location --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() Recent Log: 15:54:38 Exception

Is that definitely Google doing that and not Launchbox? I've just looked in the .7z file that Haggie shared. I'd downloaded it and put it on my NAS and it shows correctly in there...

Great work as always Haggie. Nice one

Thanks again Rlad - hopefully @Jason Carr will put it on is massive "todo" list fingers and toes firmly crossed....

Thanks

I wondered who is the main custodian of the database? I would like to request that all trailing 'spaces' (they may even be 'newline' characters) are removed from game titles please? I've been through and edited about 100 of them today but it would be so much easier to just run a script that removes ALL of them in one go and would make the database much better for searching / displaying titles etc.... Who can I contact to make this request? Thanks

I was just making some contributions and noticed that the next in line for moderation is this.... It is asking me to replace the current ReleaseYEAR with a Release'Date'.... my initial thought was to reject it (because the field is called 'Year' and not 'Date') but I thought I'd just check the actual game itself.... On the game entry it shows as Release Date... Which would mean the modification is valid.... Before I accept/reject I just thought I'd ask the experienced mods what to do in this circumstance? The HTML text is showing "Date" but the database field name must be "Year" ?? What is actually wanted in this field? Thanks 🙂

Yep, it has to be that. Never heard of a Galaga 99? Sounds more like an ice-cream than a game.... 🙂

Nothing to see here.... move along please........ A MASSIVE thank you!!! That has sorted it!! I also had copies of the Quiz Machines xml in the Platform folder (Quiz Machines - copy.xml etc). Really appreciate you pointing me in the right direction for that one. I would have never got to the bottom of it without you. Cheers

Hi all, This is a strange one. I'm trying to sync my arcade cab software with my backup that I keep on my home PC. I've copied everything over apart from the image cache folder (LB and BB) and Core / Backups folder. On my arcade the games have the correct additional apps.... But on my main PC the additional apps are showing like this?? The Platform is called "Quiz Machines" so I've tried copying the Quiz Machines.xml from the arcade to the main machine but to no avail. I've even copied the entire Data folder from the arcade cab to the main PC but it didn't help either? So, does anyone know where it's storing the info to tell LB that it needs to overwrite my Quiz Machines.xml with this old version of the additional apps? Thanks for your help - it's driving me nuts!