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I have MAME set to automatically save/restore a game and it works when I launch the game using MAME. However, when I launch the same game using LaunchBox I get an error from MAME "Error: No savestate file to load." then the game loads without the save state. Is there something I need to do to Launchbox to get it to properly load the auto save file?

How does Wheelspin to choose a random game work? I am looking for a way to select a random game in Big Box. It seems many other people are looking for the same feature. I was thinking of having it as an option at the end of select games be letter. Anyway, some people mention using Wheelspin. Is this literally holding down the controller for a random period of time or is there a way to make the wheel spin automatically? If you can make the wheel spin automatically like a roulette wheel, how do you do it? Thanks

I replaced the corrupt file with a file from a few months ago.

I do not manually edit the files. However, the error peaked my curiosity, so tried to find the bad character and repair the file. I cannot open the file with the xml editor I downloaded because it is corrupt. However, I can open it with Notepad. The location of the bad character is after the last line of text and there is no visible character there. I deleted the seemingly blank line and received an error message stating the xml file was the wrong length (or something like that). Once again, I did not manually edit the files before the errors. The errors are being generated by LaunchBox somehow.

I receive the following message when loading LaunchBox: It appears that your LaunchBox\Data\Arcade.xml file is corrupt; LaunchBox cannot continue. Please try restoring a backup of the file from the Backups folder inside of your LaunchBox root folder. (unknown symbol looks like 3 dots '.'), hexadecimal value 0x00, is an invalid character. Line 703335, position 3. Also, a few weeks ago one of my custom game lists become corrupt and LaunchBox would not open. I was able to work around both issues, but in both instances I lost some work. My present solution is to remember to manually backup my xml files every day. I ran chkdsk and my drive has no problems. My LaunchBox is up to date. I purchased a 1 year licence about 1 month ago. Why am I getting corrupt xml files?