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Definitely not as low as 30, but not far behind, I'd guess I now have between 50-60. I understand why people have these huge collection builds, but for me personally the amount of filler is insane. I used to have around 150, and I found even that was overwhelming for when people came over. Now I have a much more tightly curated list that is a mixture of games from my childhood, games I've discovered, and then 'something for everyone' style classics that people love

Yeah weirdly enough yesterday I actually sat down and just let the wheel spin 100 times and watched it - out of a pool of over 600 games, it span 100 times and pulled up a game it had already shown 41 times. Interestingly, it didn't repeat once for the first 35 times and then it was like once it had a pool of games to repeat, it just constantly landed on one it had already shown - 3 different games actually got shown 3 times. I think there is possibly something to what you said about it moving back and forth within a set number as well, because not only do games repeat, but it feels like the same pool of games always shows up, like there are some games I never ever see, and then some I can probably bet on with certainty will show up within the first 30 or so spins I understand how random works, but it feels like maybe it shouldn't actually be random then, as a less random solution would probably make it appear more random 😅 I appreciate this probably isn't a high priority thing, but it's basically the only thing about my setup that bugs me haha

Yeah I think everyone understands this isn’t true randomness, but I also refuse to believe this is working as truly intended - the way it currently works doesn’t feel random either? I don’t mind repeats at all, but my attract mode constantly repeats the same games on over and over. if I can predict which pool of 20 games it’s going to throw up at me out of a list of about 500, then it’s not random either. At the moment it feels like a metronome wavering back and forth between 2 zones more than something that could land anywhere (even on repeats)

Yeah I dunno why, because it’s a relatively minor thing in the grand scheme of things, but it drives me absolutely crazy - it’s weird as well because it feels like it’s the same games that come up constantly, even across different times the machine is turned on. I don’t think I’d mind nearly as much if it was different repeats every time I powered on, but it feels like it runs through the same 20/500 games like 50% of the time.

First of all, forgive me because I feel like I have seen this before on this forum, but I just could not find the thread again despite searching for it. I have attract mode set up to spin randomly through all games when running, and I have noticed that it will constantly loop back to the same games again and again, so even though it has a huge number of games to choose from, it seems to land on the same 15-20 or so over and over - if I sit and watch it spin through 100 games, I would say over 50% of them will be repeats, which just doesn't seem like is how it would work (where Id assume ideally it'd land on a distinct game 99% of the time). I know repeats are to be expected now and again, but it's like its only cycliing through 5% of my library or something - sometimes it'll repeat a game from 2-3 games ago What's more, it feels like even between powering on and off, it somehow finds it's way back to the same games every time. It's silly because it's not really a big deal, but if I turn around and see the video theme for Gallop Racer 3, Ganryu, Moonwalker, Maximum Force, Shuffleshot, Simpsons Bowling or Aliens 3 one more time, I might cry. Has anybody encountered something similar or found a setup that results in a something that feels genuinely more 'random'? I've looked up and down in the options and can't see anything that jumps out really Cheers!

Apologies for raising an older thread, but it seemed silly to start a new one - has anybody continued to have this issue? I can do a similar comparison list to earlier in this thread if it helps, but my attract mode will constantly land on the same games consistently (even the same games between times powered on), almost like its drawing from a much smaller list than my actual overall library. I have had a look at my Attract Mode settings and can't see anything that jumps out, but it honestly feels like my attract mode pulls from any of about 25 games on my cab rather than the 300 or so that are on there. I understand how 'random' works and stuff, but it still feels as though I get a selection of games that doesn't feel like it's working as intended

Seems to be all sorted for me now mate, appreciate it

Amazing, thanks mate, much appreciated!

Double checked and they actually are where they should be. Video Themes Video Snaps Video Priorities You can see here, it still plays the video theme on selection Unless I have completely misunderstood what you meant?

Will have a look, cheers

For some reason, regardless of theme, Launchbox totally ignores my media priorities, it uses video themes even if I have them unticked, can't figure it out

Yeah I was wondering similar - it seems to use game theme videos even if you turn them off. Was trying to figure out a way to have it be say Logo/Gameplay Screenshot, and then transition to gameplay video

Did you ever find a solution to this?

Hi mate, not a problem @echo off taskkill /f /im "" "C:\Windows\explorer.exe" start /min "" "D:\Launchbox\Launchbox\Bigbox.exe" timeout 30 start /min "" "C:\Windows\explorer.exe" Then I followed the instructions here This was one of those weird things for me that suddenly just started working even though it hadn't done previously, but it's worked exactly how I want it to since - my PC boots, you see the windows logon screen, then it stays black until my boot video loads into LB - explorer loads in the background and I retain the little things like volume functionality, etc I never had much luck with bblean or whatever setting custom shells or whatever at all, it never behaved exactly how I wanted

I figured out that this was Windows Defender just randomly deciding out of nowhere to quarrantine the 'Startup.exe' id created from a .vbs script, so the shell was looking for a file that no-longer existed. Mods can just close/remove this thread if they want!