C-Beats

What all do you have in \\LaunchBox\Plugins? Honestly never heard of things disappearing and it not being one of the two things you've already mentioned (that I believe I told you). Can you do the following for me: 1) Import the games in question 2) Go to Tools > File Management > Create a Backup 3) Send me that data file in a PM as well as a list of some of the games you see missing when you log back into LB

Yeah when we moved to .NET 9 it cleaned up stability in WMP but tanked it for VLC. There IS a prompt now last I knew in BB when you try to set playback to VLC (WMP is default) that tells you crap could break.

That we don't support older versions of the plugins because they have obvious flaws (hence the need for a new version) and we don't want to have to deal with reports of issues we know are fixed in a newer version. Was either this or we'd just auto-download new versions and then have to immediately restart the application you just opened. Notification at least lets you handle the update at your own leisure. So I guess what I'm trying to say is...

what format are your games in?

Yeah, it comes up again pretty regularly, as stated there have been some ups and downs with Attract Mode stability, but there have been quite a few releases where as long as you were using a theme built correctly that attract mode worked just fine. The migration to .NET 9 admittedly stirred up a lot of old ghosts we had previously rid ourselves of and so there was a recent version or two where it was pretty bad, but the large majority of that should have been corrected by now when using the correct settings. Why I wanted to make clear, if you're still seeing it let us know because it's news to me that people are stilling having issues on current version.

Import the 50 games and then in Big Box make your default view "All Games" instead of Platforms or Platform Categories. Then you'll load right into a game wheel with those games in it.

There have definitely been times where the app hasn't be as stable, but as of the current release our internal testing last I knew is showing it is. I'd try to update to latest and try again. If you're not seeing it as such let us know via the bug report system.

AttractMode using WMP and the default theme should be stable. Changing theme or video playback can make your mileage vary pretty considerably since theme's can be made in a way that is known to have issues with memory stability. VLC in current build also is known to bring down the app faster because of a leak in the process.

lol fair enough. The number of times I've done that is already staggering and I likely have quite a bit more before I learn my lesson lol

Glad you were able to solve it. Yeah anytime you see a binding that points to something ending in "View" then what is being displayed isn't in that file and potentially can be found in a different file in that folder.

I'll have to check the code tomorrow when I'm back on my dev machine. I can't remember if theme overrides are higher priority than your personal one. If so this could be related to the theme you are using. Some themes have their own (I believe Big Default for example does this)

@XvXPhoenix 13.22 Beta 2 may have some code in it that resolves the issue. Once you see it's released on the forums would be it be possible for you to do the following: Open LaunchBox Go to Tools menu and create a backup In LaunchBox open options and go to the updates section and enable beta downloads Check for updates (I believe in tools, may be in help not at a computer with LB installed) Let it update to beta 2 (again, once out) and see if you have the issue still there Omni settings depends on the view in use in Steamy. Do you use Image View or List View? Image view you'd select Image View in LB (or there is a selector on the right side of the theme, you want the left most button), then in the second grouping click the one that has two horizontal bars in it. That view should be essentially the same as steamy image view List View you'd want to press the 3rd button on the left grouping and the two vert lines in the second. Then drag the separator that is between the list and the details view (it's invisible but there) to the left until the list turns into a Steamy-esque list and you should have Steamy List view. It works better if you hide the Side Panel (no worries a new drop down appears so you can still use it)

Been a bulk edit wizard in app for at least as long as I've been on the project. Select multiple games (can hold control while clicking on them) and then press CTRL+E to open the edit window and change all the selected games at once.

The unresponsive part usually means something is being done on the same CPU thread as the UI and so the UI's "refresh" can't be called and so OS see's this as a hung process. Generally speaking the app will return to normal function once the process completes, it just doesn't play nice until then. Things to look for to improve the time it takes to do this: Make sure neither location are over network which can greatly increase time to move files, make sure both locations are on stable/working drives (bad sectors no good for anyone), make sure you don't have file sync software running on either location, make sure you don't have AV running against LB (Windows firewall should be fine, third party stuff can get pretty iffy pretty quickly)

Logos and Icons I believe were the only platform related that has moved at this time.

Easiest way to use a single location for everything is to drop logos in \\LaunchBox\Images\Media Packs\Overrides\Platform Clear Logos. It only supports a single file per entity but if you dump the art there (or point the symlinks) to it correctly it'll work like it always had and then you can manage the logos per platform, category, and playlist via the Add/Edit window (they show as Clear Logo (Override))

Files in question are in \\LaunchBox\Themes\{Theme Name}\Views. The file in question is one of the Wheel Game views. You'd look for a line with a FlowImage that is passed the platform logo and then change it's opacity to 1. To change the style of all elements in the view you can add a default control style to the resources at the top of the file. Googling "WPF override default style" should get ya pretty close to what you want/need. Feel free to ask more specific questions on the forums once you get that far.

Use the "Games Missing Media" sidebar, let it scan artwork, select games missing box front, select all the games and then go to Tools > File Management, select bottom option. Export/Move the files to a new folder

Anything worth saving is found in your Data folder. If you have backups enabled in LaunchBox it'll automatically back up that folder into a single archive and stick it in the Backups folder. It'll keep the last 10 backups at startup and shutdown for easy roll back. You can also manually create a backup file via the LaunchBox interface and store that somewhere you want as well.

You'd have to add a FlowImage control where that text is, set the ImageType to "Clear Logos". You should be able to find the syntax for it by looking in the default theme (or really any theme with a logo displayed there). I didn't in this theme to simply save vertical space in the details view so I could use that space to view metadata which I tend to care more about.

I know what you're reporting IS a thing we saw in some themes when we made the change but thought we had resolved in all of them by the time the release went out, so it's entirely possible. I just have to track down the exact settings required to make it trip up. Could you post up a screen shot of your Game Details option page? The one that shows which elements are turned off/on? I'll mimic it and see if that produces what you're seeing.

If the files aren't listed in import it's almost always because you already have them imported and just aren't seeing them because they are hidden, or imported to a platform they shouldn't be. First step is to look in View > Show/Hide and make sure nothing is being auto-hidden via that menu. If those are all off and you still can't find it you can run the Audit tool to attempt to find what game imported is pointed to the file in question (list view can likely be used as well)

Hmm... I just tried this on my setup and unfortunately not seeing what you are. What LB version are you using?

Yeah, I fully realize you're more knowledgeable in any attempt to utilize RL and it's differences. I've not ever used the software. Just stating that cold starting again from LB has become pretty straight forward and much faster than it was in the past when you are I first started our builds. You start getting into the weeds and needing custom command lines/emulators for every game/app sorta thing and I can definitely admit now you're looking at QUITE a bit more work lol

The DB file you download from in-app is generated once per day and like 2A EST (or somewhere close to that). Anything approved since then won't be in the file. You also need to make sure LB has the latest local file and you can force that download in the Tools > Download menu. The logic in Add/Edit Game is a bit looser and can show you several results where the bulk tool does not. I'd attempt to go to a single game you know should be in that file and use the search tool in the Edit Game window and see if you can find it that way for starts. It may help shake out why you're not seeing anything. If it still doesn't work provide a few links to the games that aren't working for you and we can do a deeper dive into it.