Johnny T

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!

Found this topic as I would also like to know the answer to this? Thanks

** Edit ** - found them - for anyone else in the same boat, they're here --> https://www.launchbox-app.com/android-license Hi all, I've just bought an Nvidia Shield and installed LB. I've set anything up yet as I'm still working it all out (read: watching YouTube videos). But I thought I'd buy a license for it (I already have a lifetime license for my cab but would like a separate one for the Shield to support Jason and the team). On the license page it just says "Windows Licensing Options" and doesn't mention Android? Is this just a throwback to the time when there wasn't an Android version or are the Android licenses hiding somewhere else?? Thanks 🙂

Sounds like we're cut from the same cloth mate. I'm the same

Personally, I'm a much more "chill" player. I really love the high scores but in a casual way. Whenever you introduce some sort of scoring/measuring system into anything then there will be people who will either try and fudge the system or will go to extremes in order to be at the top spot. Good luck to them I say. If someone really wants to spend 9 hours playing a single game then they can. I always mentally discount ridiculous scores anyway as I couldn't (and probably wouldn't want to) compete with that. I normally look for the scores around my level and those are my rivals.... I finish a game of Frogger and find that I'm only 300 points off beating "TurktheGreat" then I'm chucking in another virtual coin and going again.... that's where the fun is for me. Scores of 1,343,553 by "NeverhadaFriend" are not going to be of concern to me. If these things *do* bother people then the answer is to introduce an "Ultimate Scores" board that filters out the top 5 or so ? of the global high scores, removes them from the main board and puts them on their own high score board. This would filter cheaters and people with mega-large scores and leave the rest of the board for 'normal' players. It would also please the 'extreme' players to vie for top spot on the Ultimate Board!

Brilliant news! Thanks for letting us know 🙂