DaveC1964

Still doesn't work. When I tried before I closed Retroarch before trying the new code, that wasn't it. After exiting I swiped up and did a "close all". Tried this new code and still black screen and freeze. I made sure retroarch matched. I am not sure what this is but I am not using Latin language: com.android.inputmethod.latin/.LatinIME I am at a loss.

Ok but moving to external card degrades that and risks corruption of the card requiring me to set it all up again. Not a great solution either.

Couldn't a setting be added for "disable statistic writes"? I have zero care for that useless info and degrading my system or card and the possibility of corruption every time I play a game shouldn't be mandatory.

Is there a way to set LB to not constantly write stats like play time, game played, all other tracking stats that LB automatically writes to the system storage? It can corrupt the internal storage flash memory if there is an error(very bad) and it does degrade flash memory since they have limited write cycles. Internal storage is not replaceable. Internal flash errors can brick a device if bad enough. I know I will be told "well it will take a long time for these things to use up writes on flash memory". Yes I know but these stats are useless to me, I couldn't care less how many times I launch a game or how long I play. I would rather not have this doing it at all even if the chance of corruption is 1x10^-10.

I still can't get it to work. I am sure I am doing something wrong but not sure what. When I select a game it just goes to black screen and RA locks up with me needing to force close. I can run it in RA manually (select core, select content) so I know it is set up correctly with BIOS etc. For the -e ROM file.path am I supposed to put the path there? I didn't put it there because you didn't say to, I don't know XML programming. I am using Retroarch that I side loaded (RetroArch_1.16.0), not play store, I avoid it when possible. I know this version is not the latest. I am not sure if I should upgrade but I don't want to lose settings and have to redo everything, RA is a real pain to set up.

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?

So when I exit a game (PC) it says "game over" and goes back to the menu but the audio for the game is still playing. If I go to Windows I see MAME is minimized and still running, it is not exiting. How to fix?

I want to move my launchbox setup to a different PC. The folder structure is mostly the same. A drive letter may change for where the LB setup is and where the ROMs are stored. Is there a file(s) that I can edit to make new paths work on the new PC without going through the time consuming hassle of re-importing all of the games for every system through the menu?

I didn't uncheck they were not checked in the first place. LB can be a bit confusing at times. It works now though so that is what matters.

I use the standalone Dolphin. I am not sure why Retroarch is checked, I didn't check that box and if GC is already associated with the standalone I am not sure why LB would check it on it's own instead of Dolphin that I associated with it. It does work if I uncheck it.

So I tried to edit Genesis 32X to use Picodrive. I edit associated platforms, change Genesis 32X to Picodrive but when I try to continue it tells me it wants to update Gamecube. Gamecube?! I don't get it, so confusing. What am I doing wrong.