C-Beats

Can look in your \\LaunchBox\Updates folder. 13.24 is the current version so can just download it from our website as well. Otherwise can email support@unbrokensoftware.com and request an older release.

Some of these legacy things are because of how we inherited and stood up the original DB that Jason had to rush in when the OG third party one was being removed. It was stood up 1:1 and there was a lot of code both in the DB and in the app that made moving away from it difficult and so the community kinda made what we had work and threw them all together. There has been talks internally about getting the electronic handheld stuff cleaned up but I don't believe a consensus was come to regarding which platforms deserved their own DB record vs a more generic "Electronic Handheld Game" sorta thing. This is so that people wanting to drag/drop files in places can see the folders and don't have to remember what the exact string is they need to make the folder to work. We have some folders that DON'T auto-pop like this and most people don't even realize that making those does anything, and there always questions about what they have to call it. We find making the folder ahead of time helps eliminate a LOT of confusion to this. The second line of thinking is that this is a front end app, made to help people that don't want to stare at the file system. Let the front end app do it's job of keeping you out of those folders and leave em alone lol. They can and are, but if we save the file ourselves we append the numerals. This is so that you can have several videos of the same type applied to the same game. Type "Avengers" in the search bar. Select the games you want (Marvel Avenger titles) and then press Ctrl+E. Assign "Avengers" to their series field. Then you can just create a playlist against that value and get what you want. Alternatively you can just right click them after selecting and create a manual playlist and then manually add/remove games from said playlist as desired. Playnite is another alternative you could potentially try. Getting emulation set up can be pretty cumbersome in it as it is largely created to be a front end for store front games, it's entirely possible to do though. Their 10ft interface mode is also free so can check it out without having to open the purse strings. We definitely recognize there is room for improvements in performance in Big Box but in many ways are fighting a LOT of legacy issues both in the ancient codebase (by tech standards) and WPF in general. There a lot going on internally to work on a newer version of LB that will hopefully address a lot of these issues, but our dev team size is pretty miniscule and so it does take quite a bit of time and balance to get it all working without dropping the ball in other areas (like maintaining the current apps). Not saying we are doing it perfectly by ANY means, but we're doing the best we can at the moment. That being said currently to get the best performance out of BB themes you need to manually create them. The CTC is great WYSIWYG editor but it's pretty far behind in what's possible in LB and the plugins it utilizes to get things done (and general WPF controls/syntax) doesn't always produce the most performant themes. You're trading off ease of creating theme for the performance OF the theme once built. Not saying that you may not experience some performance issues regardless (like the newer Unifieds I don't believe use CTC at all) but it rarely helps.

Top of the page is a Help and Support button/link. Click that and then either "Report a Bug" or "Request a Feature" and then file it there.

lol dang mods necro'ing old posts... Not to be overly nitpicky but when you make your own make sure you do the joysticks "correctly" and not like what is shown in this picture. The rotation of all 4 sticks should be the same (align with the TV). Right/Left on the outer two players shouldn't be rotated to match the angle the buttons are, but should remain parallel with the play field (tv screen). Maintains the angle so that when your playing your head doesn't have to try and do vector math to remind yourself moving in one direction physically outputs a diff direction on the screen. Less important on some games, but any game played on a field or 3d space you'll notice it more.

May get more nibbles if you provide the background artwork. Rest of the theme is fairly trivial and wouldn't take long at all to build.

Fine... I'll bite. What's up? (braces for trauma dump)

Got ya, so you have a need specifically for ISO

This post is pretty old, unless you have some very specific reason you don't want to or can't your PS2 games should be converted into CHD files at this point, not ISO.

Can open up \\LaunchBox\Data\Platforms.xml in a text editor with LaunchBox closed. Then go to the AtariST record and changed the value in <Folder> to Games\Atari St so that the line looks like: <Folder>Games\Atari St</Folder> Then save the file and open LB again.

I assume you're seeing the old clear logo for it. Clear the Image Cache (in BB Settings) for playlists/logos and it should delete it and generate a new one.

There no way to import and combine them and tell LB to automatically pick the .z80 as primary. That being said if they already imported as their own game record you can select all the games you want to combine and then it'll ask you which one you want to make primary and then select the version that points to the .z80. You could also just do the import then manually make .z80 primary on all the items.

Select the rows in the grid you want. Ctrl+C to copy, and then paste into a Google Sheet

Can discuss on the forums to get the general vibe/mood of the community or to flesh out a concept with fellow users before making any official requests. If ready to make an official request to be considered by the team please use the feedback site (update you forum post with the ticket created if you started there so others can vote on the issue). The feedback site is what is used as the triage tool by the decision makers to get a grasp on what the community is actively desiring or beating up against.

Go to the Game Details view for that game and select Play Version in the menu. If you have Skip Game Details Screen option enabled you'll need to bind a key/button to Show Game Details to get to it.

Sounds like you have some missing codecs you need to install to WMP. The LB installer should ask if you want to install K-Lite. Saying yes to that should grab em for you

Region priority is almost exclusively used for selecting top priority rom path when importing multiple versions of a game at the same time (for the first time) in LaunchBox. During the combine process we use that list to decide which ROM should be the primary path. From there all downstream logic where possible we selected regionally accurate information for the primary version of the game, falling back to those priorities where it makes sense. The logic being at the time this was all written (well before I started) was that if you wanted French information just use the French version of the game. That being said only media/title can even use regional specifics since our DB is English only at the moment. Not trying to assign good/bad to the logic in question. Just informing you what the application is set to do currently as well as the headspace at the time it was implemented (as far as I understand it). If you'd like us to consider something else I'd submit a feature request for it. This one has come up in the past so there likely is one already you could simply upvote.

Could be because it didn't have the Steam App ID associated with it. Tomorrow run the "Force Update Games Database" from the Tools > Download menu inside of LaunchBox and then try again and let me know if you still run into the issue.

Game and Watch games are all included in MAME full set. Most of them start with "gnw_"

Typically first step would be to check Windows Event Viewer and look for application error logs tied to LB. Usually there will be two, one will just say it crashed and the other will give an actual reason for it. First step outside of that is to run the installer over the directory again, ensure that the files that need to be there are.

Deleted non-beta related posts. Keep on topic please. Feature requests belong on http://feedback.launchbox.gg not in the beta thread.

I'd delete that record (the one in additional app window) and then run the EA import again. If it doesn't combine for some reason (it should if that option is selected) then try to combine it again.

Can you show the Additional Applications page of the game in question? Something like this:

Select them all (Hold CTRL while click on each one) and then right click one and press combine. A window shows up asking you which path you want to be primary. Select it and they'll be combined with the selected path as the primary one.

Yeah you can import from the appropriate storefront import instead of manually adding stuff to app paths EA paths don't look like that at all and GOG we have a hidden field we populate with the GOG App ID since you typically point them to the actual application (which is why we can let you choose to launch it with or without Galaxy). Badges take all of this into account to accurately display on the item. If you tried to launch the path you provided nothing would happen (well the OS may yell at you)