C-Beats

You can turn off showing game suggestions in Game Details and SHOULD stop this call from being hit and causing issues. This does look like a bug with that version (or least I remember this stack being something we've implemented fixes for in more recent versions).

This error indicates you have a OS feature stopping you from traversing the symlinks the app creates/uses. First thing to try is to whitelist LaunchBox in Windows security settings and see if that corrects.

Big Box has a lock mode where several menu options can be disabled/hidden. That combined with the fact you can't alter metadata in Big Box and it should deliver on what you're wanting.

Not entirely sure I'm following what part of the UI you're referring to. Could you send me a pic of what you mean? Bonus points if you show me yours so I can confirm?

@Zombeaver is the local C64 expert. I know absolutely nothing about this system and emulating it so can't help ya much more than pointing ya to some one who may be able to help for real.

Like you just need to change the extension on the files already imported? Or you just need to update actual metadata like genre? If the latter just select the games you want to update and run the Download Metadata and Media wizard from the Tools menu.

First questions would be: 1) Do you have a license for LaunchBox? (video playback requires it) 2) Do you have video files already? 3) Do you have video enabled in details?

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Says the issue in the error message. It couldn't find a file that the theme is referencing. Take a look at the path mentioned in the error and see if it's there. If not repair the theme (can redownload it and put the file back).

We've seen this off and on in the past. If you switch to grid/image view and then back to list view do the headers return?

Can try an OS repair. Open up command prompt AS ADMINISTRATOR and then run "DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth" (without the quotes) and let that run. After it's done then run "sfc /scannow" (again without quotes) and then when both are done restart your computer and see if that corrects it.

LaunchBox can download and configure the emulators for you, but no they aren't built into the app. I'd be curious where you read this description that stated they were.

Looks like your system doesn't have the Visual C++ runtime installed that it needs. You can download it from the following link and then run the setup to install it. https://aka.ms/vc14/vc_redist.x64.exe

Yeah, that's just one of the unified themes. The thing in the background is the theme video I was talking about. Can grab em with EmuMovies in LB if you have premium LB and EmuMovies accounts. Believe Skraper has them if you use that as well.

Not a name I've seen used in a long time. Man that theme was awesome when it first dropped. What error you getting? Sounds like you're just not cleanly removing the element.

My guess would be those newer to the scene or that aren't real experienced with arcade emulation lump them. Those that have been around a while and understand the hardware differences (or set differences) probably then start going down the road of splitting some of them (especially ones that need an emulator that isn't MAME). That being said a LOT of users also still have no idea what each type of MAME set is and how they differ from another so many things like this we really have to straddle the line and play nice and work well for both camps in this scenario. Not saying there isn't room for improvement in the situation, but this is the type of thing we run up against with some of these features.

Without knowing the exact theme in use I can't be 100% certain but yeah if you look at the root grid element (the first one you see) in the GameDetailsView.xaml file it PROBABLY has a background property. Remove that and you'd remove that translucent background on the element.

Be better if you could show screenshots. Really what it sounds like you're talking about is any of the OG themes like Old Default or Critical Zone. They are using something called "Theme Videos" in the background though. The elements you see aren't actual theme elements and are just baked into the video that plays in the background. Each game has a diff video and so the theme elements in the video can be grossly different between each one.

You could potentially just do: Interactive Fiction - Category - IF Games - Platform - Current Game playlists... - IF Audio - Category - Other IF Platforms

To remove the text under the logo look for a text block with the PlatformReleaseDate binding in it and remove it. The video thing best you can do is set the background since I don't believe you can tell LB to stretch the video and it'll play aspect correct when possible. To add other details just take a look at how the current lines are being rendered and then do that with the bindings you want to add. Not really sure what theme this is to be able to help more. Looked like Beats but wasn't sure.

THAT I'm not sure. I know we don't have any system in place in the Games Database to accept submissions like that. I'd ASSUME we can't have the various documents on the forums because of potential copyright infringement but that call ultimately will have to come from some one else. To be on the safe side I'd say not to until it gets the greenlight from management.

@Retrofrogg may know. I know he was pretty vocal about this request and made it sound like he had some of those resources already gathered for his collection.

That's just the default carousel control. You'd have to disable the 3D model entirely via Options to get it to do that. Themes don't have control over media priority in that.

Please reach out to support@unbrokensoftware.com with your license file. Your error indicates something is wrong with it.

Drop in frames in what exactly? Like some game you are running or in LaunchBox itself?