DaveC1964

Under manage emulators all I have is "download and install retroarch". Nothing about update. Where is "set up the platform with "Custom emulator with code" at? I don't see this anywhere. Is there a list file somewhere where I can edit and add the emulator to the list?

I imported .NEO games for use with the Geolith Neo Geo core. It works fine in retroarch manually but LB will not let me select it for the emulator core. It is not in the list or in the downloaded core list. Is this a bug or am I missing something? Is there a way to force the core even though it does not recognize it for some reason?

That would be a great addition (would also be possible for PC too) . No one could object to the change as it is completely optional to use. Hopefully it is not to hard to implement and could be added even if it is not hugely popular. Sometimes people don't think they would like it until it is actually there. Another selling point for LB that no other launchers have wouldn't hurt either. Thanks for considering though. I tried to add to feature request but I couldn't log in.

So the usual way LB Android works is that you load LB, then it gives you a systems list, then you select system, then it gives a list of your games. Is there a way or option to put system icons on the Android "desktop" to go directly into LB game selector? This would bypass first loading LB, then selecting system. Basically I could have an icon for PS1, icon for SNES, icon for Genesis, etc on the Android device "desktop". Tapping the PS1 icon would go directly into the usual LB PS1 game list selector. This skips a few steps and basically makes Android desktop the system selector. Is there a way to do that with some kind of link or script or something?

So say I have one device and want to clone the whole setup to put on a new one, what files do I need to copy and from where? I know that newer Android has this annoying BS "feature" of locking me out of certain directories so a simple drag-drop won't work if LB stashes data in these locked out directories. I really don't want to spend two days re-doing everything with scraping images, setting things up, and the whole thing. On the new device I will have the exact same directory structure copied to new device so locations of ROMs, emulators, etc. will all be the same and with same directory names. Where are the necessary files, settings stored for LB?

I did the whole Press Win + R to open the Run dialog box. Type shell:startup and press Enter to open the Startup folder. Drag the BigBox executable shortcut into this folder thing. When I start up PC nothing, does not load. I can go to above mentioned startup folder double click shortcut from there it will start up fine. I go to the apps startup thing and Bigbox is set to auto start. I can start by having to manually click on the Bigbox shortcut on desktop, works fine. Windows will just refuses to do it automatically. Really confusing. Is there some setting I am missing on Bigbox itself? Is there another method I can use to autostart? It is really lame to have a MAME cab where I need to mouse over to the Bigbox icon, double click, then wait to load.

I checked and it is using internal for LB. I don't have on SD card. This seems very buggy. While importing Atari 7800 images it just saved a bunch of 0 byte files so not even text of the game showed up. I went in and deleted all of those files, tried importing images, then it worked. Then sometimes after importing it will finish and then say "restarting launchbox" then just hang. I try clearing and re-load LB but it hangs on the start logo. I then have to restart device to get working again. Sometimes it will dump to desktop when importing ROMs (as I previously noted that it happens on different devices/versions of LB). Device has 12 GB RAM, over 200 GB free storage so that shouldn't be the issue

I have a typical setup with an SD card and an internal storage (plenty of space). It is like when I run LB it tried to update the data files and corrupted them somehow. I have had LB crash out during importing games step too. As soon at it gives me the list to import and I hit proceed import it sometimes just dumps out to desktop. I retry the same exact thing again and mostly it will work, seems random. This has happened across multiple devices from Android 12-14 and two versions of LB, one the newest, one a few years old. So it doesn't seem device/version specific. What files/folders should I backup in case this happens so that I can just restore them back? I don't want to have to setup again . Thanks.

So I turned on device today and everything I set up was gone. It reset to default, hours of setup gone and have to start from scratch. Any idea why is this happening and how to avoid it again? There are files in backup but they all reflect the fresh vanilla setup. All of the box art was also deleted, or at least lost the location of them. Talk about aggravating. Is there a way to back everything up when finished so that if this happens again I can just move over the backup and not have to redo everything?

I have a small bartop with vertical monitor that I use to play mostly vertical games. Bigbox does not look so good as most of the game names are cut off. Is there a way to change the font size preferable to the descriptions on the right so that there is more room for the game name? I can not program so "go make your own theme " is not possible here. The default theme is fine, just need to change font size. Is there any way for a noob to fix it? I can edit config files etc. if that is needed if someone lets me know what/where to edit. Thanks.

The standard Bigbox theme with the game list on the left and some other details on the right does not display well in portrait mode arcade setups (too big. only shows the first few letters). How do you edit the font size? I am no programmer but if there is a way I would like to know how to do it.

I tried the "scan for added games" and it says "0 found". I know it is a real ROM (MAME: spacfuryb.zip). It works fine when I load in MAME directly. I know I can import again but it looks like it will try to import all games again and take a really long time. Is there a way to just "add game" then just pick the ROM I want to add?

I am just looking for the standard one. Those other ones add a lot of fancy videos, animations, art, music, etc and tend to be slow to use. Is there really no way to set the standard one so I get more than the first 3 letters of a title? That seems very limiting. I am surprised this can't be set anywhere.

No one knows? It can't be fixed? Do I just need to switch to a different front end? Anyone?

So I have an arcade setup that basically just does MAME. It is portrait mode for all of those classics that are that way. It is Windows 11, 1920x1080 monitor, standalone MAME (not retroarch), windows display set at 100%. When Big box loads it only displays a few letters on the side in a humongous font making selecting the game almost impossible and pretty ugly. I scoured the settings but can't seem to find the font size setting. Where is that stored? Is there some kind of config file somewhere to fix this?