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After deleting a chunk of roms I noticed that for some roms it was asking me if I want to remove the rom too; At this point I have no clue why it is asking it for some games but not for others, but I will look into it further as I go. Any suggestion is more than welcome, about what to look at to troubleshoot

Thanks; for some reasons I was not looking at that section, since it is in the "boxes" section. I totally forgot it was there and was looking for it in the visuals section. BTW is there any plan to add the feature to Launchbox to resize images to a certain size, when importing games? I had to do that with an external tool, so all the games cells do look the same now, and would be great to have it in Launchbox directly. Thanks!

Not sure what changed; I just updated to the latest build and now when I delete either via right click or with the delete key, the game is removed but I don't get the "want to delete also the rom" prompt. Checked the settings and the option to delete the rom file in the general section is checked. Is it a bug or am I missing something? Trying to clean up 2 folders I merged from duplicates, and without the feature to delete roms and related media, it is all manual work that I don't really want to do

I remember that some time ago I could change the theme settings for how the images were displayed on the main view (like size, aspect ratio, space between each screenshot and so on). But I can't find this option in the settings anymore. Was it removed? Or has been moved somewhere else?

Just install it somewhere, and copy the necessary files in the same folder and reference everything in that folder. I am doing that to have multiple versions of Launchbox and it works so far when I use it on different computers. Although there is a chance that different OS from the one you used for the installation may not work... Never tried, I run everything on the latest Windows 11 version.

Looks like I am the only one with interest in such things, considering that there was no reply on this post. I guess I will have to figure out how to handle this outside the app then, which means separate installations for each platform 🤷‍♂️

I am sure you are accustomed to other applications that have the ability to switch on the fly the library used; or to applications that can create "playlists" so you can save your relax playlist on your phone, or your "pump me up" mix in your USB stick for your car and so on. I would like to have something like that for Launchbox and was wondering if there was anyone else that had this desire, or it is just me (I submitted a feature request BTW). The concept is simple: I have 3 retro devices, and each one can play different games, since they have different power levels; plus I have 2 retro-computers (one running dos and W95, another W98 and XP), which I dual boot basically if I need to play a specific game. At the current state of things I would love to have different libraries, so I can save my games that run on my low power handheld in a library I can access from Launchbox main interface. Basically I can do something like right click on a game or on multiple games, and say "send to cheap handheld library". That will result in a new library holding only these games I add on it, so I can switch to it and move that content on my cheap handheld. Same goes for windows games: one computer may have only certain DOS games, while another computer may be using other games running only on XP (I know that Launchbox does not run on these platforms; but I can copy files and folders from my computer to the other computer if needed, for some games to play on old systems, like dosbox games for example or GOG games). I can move games in these libraries easily and copy those at will. Currently you can't really do that: the interface show ALL the games and all follow one single library; unless you install again Launchbox somewhere else and make it "portable" so to speak... So you can have different version of Launchbox with different games. This works fine until you try to figure out which games among the thousands you have, need to be copied over to the other Launchbox install You need to copy each file individually from the window manager, since Launchbox have no clue about what you are trying to do, and this is quite time consuming. So far I made the same mame list 3 times to fit on my phone, on my main PC and on my PS vita, and it took forever as I had to copy only the specific files that would run on that specific platform, and since you cannot see what is on each Launchbox instance until you open it; you can imagine the amount of churning. Having instead multiple libraries would be great; I could have a PS vita library with just mame games that can run there; and a library for just my DOS and old win games running on W98 or Xp for example, while maintaining the main library updated. Am I the only one that have this desire? Or there is anyone interested in having support for multiple libraries and copy games over different libraries easily from the UI of Launchbox? I opened a feature request submission just in case, but I am sure that it would get more eyes on it if there is any interest here probably. So I am curious to hear what this community think. Thanks.

Thanks; although wouldn't that work for 12.12 installer too? The antivirus does not seem to have issues with 12.12 installer, only with 12.13. I will try again tonight by disabling the antivirus and will let you know.

Just got this on Windows 10; started Launchbox and the 12.12 version was just fine. Got a notification to update and after the installation, 12.13 did start but crashed. After that I can't run it anymore. When I double click on the app it does not even load; nothing happens. I went ahead and reverted to 12.12 and it works fine; so I guess something is wrong with the latest update? Let me know if you need me to try anything on my machine; I am on a AMD CPU and GPU system, so it is not your average system out there running with intel CPU and Nvidia GPU.

My bad, I thought I saw other posts here mentioning other feature. Do I get a special "broken record" badge for being a paid member ?

I am really happy about LB; my .2 cents wishlist: - Have Launchbox to remember which game was I on when I delete something, instead of scrolling all the way to the top - Sync up play time and settings across platforms (I have both the full sub to the desktop and android platforms); so I can set up all platforms once, instead of constantly have to change settings when switching platforms (or worst if I have to re-install the OS and I didn't make a backup of the settings folder) - Steam Deck support - Streaming capabilities so I can run games on my pc and play them on my TV connected to the same network (the TV is too weak to run most emulators and I don't want to have a dongle computer in the living room) - Find duplicates of games and not only of media - Better parsing of the roms (more often than not I end up with the scraper retrieving the ENG data but the JP name and images for my roms)

Since I have some games in CDI format and most of the rest are in CHD; I was wondering if it was worth to convert those CDI files in CHD, or even possible. All I was able to find is GDI to CHD converters, but not CDI to CHD. Is that not worth for some reason?

I thought so, although I shut it down as I always do. I found that not only the config file was corrupted but all the xml files in the data folder. The good thing is that the backup before the last one was still recent enough and not corrupted (the backup was corrupted too), so I managed to restore its state. First time I get this behavior, and I've been using LB for quite a while now; so I connected the last update to this issue, although since it happened only once it is not statistically relevant, unless other people got that too. Updating to 12.8 today; will keep an eye to see if this happens again.

This is a weird one; I didn't use LB much recently, so few weeks ago I ran it to get the latest update, and it did update to 12.6. The app started as usual, everything was fine, I quit the app and move on. Today I launched it and I get an error message about my settings.xml having issue, and the message invite me to restore a backup. I opened the file and there is nothing except a string of NUL in it. Goes without saying that I didn't make any backup since I never had such issues. Is this something that was reported by anyone? I have no repro steps except the ones I just described. The backup for the shutdown was also corrupted, although the startup one before was not. Which makes me think that something went south after the 12.6 update. Please let me know if there is anything saved/logged that I can look at.Thanks

I am using a 28' LCD screen, and using the standard bezels the game window is quite large, which result in being quite pixellated sadly. For 2d content I am using some filters, but for 3d content often that won't do much; so I was thinking to just reduce the window size of each core, although that will leave black space around the game window; since the bezel cover only part of the screen. I checked in retroarch and most of the bezels from projectbezel are mostly the same size; so they try to mask the screen to remove the black side bands that are a trait of 4:3 content running on 16:10 screen. Also if you try to resize the bezel in retroarch, that won't work either because it will just zoom in the bezel; which won't reduce the actual size of the game window in the center. Is there an alternative/custom version of bezels that can be used to have a smaller game window, and not have black borders around the game window? So far I just found one for Atari Lynx; which mimic the actual console look, leaving in the center an area small enough to fit the game window; which is small enough to mask the pixellated look. But I could not find such bezels for other platforms (I could make some, but I don't have any drawing skills to be honest... The best I can do is to use paint).

Wow, works great! Thanks! It is incredibly time consuming to do that in Dolphin, especially because I cannot select multiple games that share the same settings (for example gamecube gamepad or tilt controller); but it is better than nothing. As I play games I save their settings in the config file and eventually all of them will be correctly set. Thanks!

I am getting quite confused about how to get this done. I have different dolphin games for the wii; some use the gamepad, some the wiimote, some the wiimote sideways. Every time I play a game I need to go in the settings of Dolphin and change up the controls. This may work on a computer but I have my computer in a cabinet, so I have to grab the keyboard and mouse every time I run a different game that require me to change the controls. Is there a way to solve this? I understand that this is related to how the emulator handle controllers, but is there a way to pass controller settings parameters directly from Launchbox, so when you run a game the emulator get the parameters to correctly switch to the appropriate controller for that game?

I am curious to understand how the sorting for star rating works. Just downloaded the latest community star rating, and switched to a platform (the behavior is the same in every platform); then I picked "arrange by" and selected star rating. The sorting happened, but not in the way I was expecting. - Star rating: 2+ stars category show games that have "your star rating" None for example, and Community star rating of 2.72. In this case the sorting is done using community star rating - Star rating Not Rated show games that have "your star rating" None and community star rating for example of 4.5 I am not sure how is the sorting done here... because since I didn't set any star rating for these games, they should show as "Star Rating not rated"; which is not the case; and if the sorting was using the Community Star Rating, I should not see these games in the "Not Rated" section. Is this a bug? Or am I missing something in the logic?

Thanks for the reply; looking forward to see some changes on that aspect. It is not a problem if you just launch games, but if you maintain a large items base, it does affect you while you clean up things.

Not sure if this is a bug or by design; but if it is the latter, it is quite bothersome. If I delete a rom in a platform; let's say I am at the letter D; when the rom is deleted the list refresh (which is great), but the view scroll all the way up to the first entry of the list. If you are dealing with a large list of hundreds of entries, this get old quite fast, since you need to scroll back to where you were before you deleted the rom. Are there plans to change this, if it is done on purpose, or a plan to fix it if it is a bug? Thanks

Thanks; so if I delete all the key links in BB, it should still work fine if I just use the up, down, left, right and button to start a game? I see value in having key assigned to functions in BB if you have a keyboard; but for an arcade with just few buttons; I cannot reuse those buttons I guess. I was hoping that the mapping for BB was working only in the BB interface; but then I realized that BB is still running in the backend when you play a game, so that is as you said, cause conflict with the emulator, even if I tried to use the same buttons for the emulator and for BB.

I set up launchbox to use my arcade stick controller, which is an iPAC board connected to arcade stick and buttons. It is set to emulate the keyboard, so it is the basic setup for mame. As emulators I use retroarch and Mame. I configured everything in launchbox; everything works fine, so when I press 1 it is inserting coins; when I press 5 it starts player 1 and 6 is player 2 for mame. Quit is set to ESC For Retroarch I have the button associated with the key 2 to act as hotkey, so that key with left alt close retroarch, while 1, 5 and 6 work as select and start as in mame. All is fine in launchbox, but when I run Bigbox the buttons does not work anymore. The key for add coins to player 1 is triggering big box contextual menu when I play, instead of add credits; and the hotkey in retroarch does not work. I am used to retropie where in emulationstation I set up few keys and they map exactly the same for retroarch and mame; so I am having hard time to figure out how to setup big box so no matter which emulator I use, the hotkey is the hotkey, the p1 insert coin is insert coin and start and select are also mapped accordingly.

Thanks, finally got some time to play with my cabinet and got it solved. The theme was what would hang BigBox; I changed it to another theme (forgot the name, I think it is the normalized or something like that) and now it works fine. Still trying to figure out how to configure BB to be sure the computer goes to sleep when I turn off the cabinet monitor, but at least now I can have the attract mode running while the cabinet is on. Thanks for the hints

I am running big box in my cabinet; so there is no keyboard nor mouse, just the joystick arcade controller. Is there a way to have big box to be in attract mode, and put the computer to sleep after a certain amount of time? I don't keep the cabinet on all the time, and turn off and on Big box every time I want to play is quite annoying. I would like to have the pc go to sleep while attract mode is running, and be able to wake up the computer with the joystick and go back to attract mode in big box; like I do with my raspberry pi running retropie. Is it possible in Bigbox? I have the latest version.

Thanks; here are the info CPU: Intel Celeron J4115 Video card: Integrated Intel 9th gen UHD Graphics 600 Storage: M2 256 GB internal, the app is on this drive; while some roms are on the other internal storage, which is on eMMC. Both drives are half full OS: Windows 10 latest update (as the week of 4/11/2021) Video drivers updated? Yes, I am using the intel driver tool so everything is always updated How many systems/games are in your collection?: 15 systems, 12K games in total Do you have these issues with the default theme? Launchbox works fine, Big box does hang. I am using CoinOP theme (3.0) and Retrotastic theme (3.11). I did not try the default theme. What version of Big Box are you running? 11.10