C-Beats

Games are added to playlists not apps/versions. There is no way to add just a single app/version of a game to a playlist instead of the entire game.

I've not seen that before. My suggestion would be run the import but don't check any media and see if it works then. If it does, run the Download Metadata and Media wizard on the games after the fact. Right now looks like there is some communication issue between the two processes.

The security risk would be with the runtime not the program, and it's ability to interact negatively with an open security hole in the OS which IS still supported and would patched to correct. Security definitions would also be added to Windows Defender to combat the issue. The real world risk by not upgrading is almost non-existent. Should a real threat reveal itself we would of course increase the time table, but at this time that simply isn't true. There are several real world issues with us not upgrading that we can replicate now that are far more detrimental and a realistic outcome than a introduced security vulnerability. We have every intention of upgrading the version some point in the near future, but want to ensure it is done correctly, not only to maintain feature parity, but to ensure that we are doing things correctly in the new .NET version to help mitigate future issues (like your security concerns) we would be dealing with on that version.

It's already supported. You had to scroll past it to buy a personal license for yourself... As stated by Retro though, you can contact support and they can help ya get it sorted out.

End of support is not end of life. The runtime will still be distributed and work on machines just like it does now. It just means that if we had to reach out to Microsoft with a problem they'd tell us "Sucks to be you". We are looking into updating .NET versions but the move isn't a simple version change because of some dependencies we use and so it'll probably happen sometime next year but isn't something we really feel the need to rush to and have some things we need to work out before the move is even possible.

The issue should be taken care of and you should be able to manually grab a newer file now.

The issue should be taken care of and you should be able to manually grab a newer file now.

The issue should be taken care of and you should be able to manually grab a newer file now.

Big Box by default opens to Platforms view, not Platform Category. You'd need to change your settings to move to that view. You CAN remove platforms from Platform Category in the latest version of Big Box. I'd have to look and see what version number that change made it in on.

In LaunchBox art is downloaded that matches the region on the ROM in your region priority order. What this means is if the game is a (NA/EU) release you should be grabbing EU since it's higher in your priority than NA. However if the game is only (NA) or (USA) than it would attempt to grab NA/US art before looking to grab EU since that art is what is accurate to that ROM.

Theme specific image files typically go in \\LaunchBox\Themes\{ThemeName}\Images. For the one are wanting the path would be \\LaunchBox\Themes\FlikBox\Images\Platforms\Clear Logo\. After doing so you will probably need to clear your image cache to see the change.

We are aware of an issue where the local metadata file isn't updating properly and are working to resolve it.

You'd have to grab each image one by one but SteamGridDB has quite a few 1:1 images and a pretty rapidly growing number of retro games are covered (no longer just PC/Steam games). I know Spyro for example has a few on there

We are currently looking into an issue that is causing the metadata file to not properly update. Once that is resolved you should see your changes.

You can remove items from the Platform Category view. To do so go to the category, playlist, or platform you're wanting to remove inside of LaunchBox Platform Category view and then go to the parent's tab and uncheck all boxes.

Because LaunchBox is a premium, fully featured frontend that allows you to customize your metadata however you want? That filter lists all genre's, not just values we have in our DB. We can't possibly be expected to provide images for every possible permutation of genre's our users think to use though, which is why we instead built ways for you to customize your UI to meet your needs. If you want that genre keep it, you just need to assign a new banner to it should you want to use it that way. I personally have a build I've been working on where I've been categorizing all my games into Genre / Subgenre like that so I understand the desire. Just isn't the typical app workflow and so you'll need to provide custom art for your custom metadata depending on which view you are trying to utilize.

We are looking into it. Thanks for letting us know.

Easiest way would probably do the following: 1) Install another instance of LaunchBox somewhere 2) Copy the Data, Images, Videos, Themes, and LBThemes folders from your old install to the new one 3) Copy what rom files you want from old to new 4) Open LaunchBox and run the "Scan for Removed ROMs" wizard and let it remove all games you didn't bring over 5) Open the Cleanup Media tool and scan all platforms and remove any images it finds you no longer need Alternatively you could just build the new one from scratch. If you don't have a lot of custom images or metadata it shouldn't take long at all. Or you can mix/match methods (like manually importing, then copying over images after the fact, etc).

LaunchBox is built to be entirely portable. Moving from one computer to another would just be copying your LaunchBox folder to the new machine. Rom and Emulator paths may break if you didn't stick them in your LaunchBox folder, but those are fairly strait forward to repoint.

So not sure the reason you asked this then if you're admitting you're the one that manually put that value in there in the first place.

Typically when we see those type of genre values in the user's data it is because the user ran Skraper and let it assign metadata for you.

Typically for this task we recommend a ROM manager which will do a far better job than LaunchBox will. If you're feeling adventurous you can try the below though. You should be able to do the following: Import the games, ensure "Combine games with same title" is NOT checked and "Force Import Duplicates" IS. Do NOT download media with this import. Go to options and ensure the "delete rom when deleting games" option is checked Go to the platform in question and change the view to list view Order by region (you may need to right click the headers and add it) Delete any game that isn't NA and say yes to the prompt asking you to delete the ROM file This should work for most platforms, though multi-disc and arcade will get you some hassles because of how those sets work in comparison.