C-Beats

Yeah, thats your problem. Do you have that folder set to readonly for some reason? That folder should be deleted and replaced on startup and it looks like that process is failing. If you delete that file you should be in better shape.

One thing I'd be curious on is if in \\LaunchBox\LBThemes\Default\Views\ you have an OptionsView.xaml file

Can you confirm whether we are talking about Big Box or LaunchBox? That error is talking about a path/view that is used in Big Box, but I was reading your post as if you were talking about LaunchBox. At this point I'd do a fresh install to a new directory and see if you still have the issue. If not, copy your data folder back in, then see if you have the issue.

RetroAchievements requires your rom file to have the same file hash (meaning it's the exact same file) as the one required by the achievement. If you're file is different in any way it won't work. They do this to stop hacks from being used to game the system.

@Starfox confirmed this in code. Should be corrected in next version.

TYPICALLY it's the opposite that's taught lol. Users tend to be destructive in nature and so you want to limit the number of ways they can blow themselves and your application up. I've really not used any RAID backup to really offer you a better solution at this point. Hopefully one of the other users on the forum have messed with it and can give you a better work around while you wait for any new developments.

In Steamy, the manuals are only displayed like Faeran is talking about in List View. In List View Game Details is the entire right hand side of your screen (not just the top) like you are talking about. That being said you don't get to see your box front images doing that so there is a definite trade off. We currently don't have a theme doc written for LaunchBox, but should "soon" as the need and interest for one has been growing quite a bit.

You can turn off auto-backup. Then when you want a backup created use the Tools menu inside of LaunchBox to do so. THAT backup file has a static name and is not ever changed by the application which should work for your use case. You'll just need to remember to hit that backup button (though I really don't see the point since your backing up the entire directory in your RAID solution anyway.

I'd just ask in their GitHub Issues: https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/issues Could also see if the eXoDos discord server has anyone that would be able to help you out, I know that community does a lot with DOS games and DOSBOX, they may be able to get ya on the right track.

In Keyboard Binding or Controller Binding (in Options) you want the "Close Active Window" binding

Np, Zaccarria also has their own discord server that is super friendly and helpful so if we can't get you where you need to be they may able to assist as well.

Nah where it's at shouldn't matter since Steam handles that. If you some how have two steam installs on your computer you'd need to point it to the right one, but I don't know that you can do that since Steam uses the registry to handle a lot of it's information.

Itch.io has turned me off pretty hardcore as a user because of how awfully the platform is ran, and because of frankly the false advertisement they use in their more popular bundles. A lot of the bigger bundles (like the BLM bundle) have a TON of content but there is no way to add them all to your library automatically so you have to manually add each one, because of this a lot of items you have access to don't show up as owned on their website or app. They told people during the bundle they were adding the ability but it wouldn't be added until AFTER the bundle completed (they had to dev it in, so understandable) but then came back after the bundle was over stating they weren't going to pursue it. Their platform has a lot of other similar issues in it and if we would add any integration to it we would get peppered with questions asking why certain things don't show up etc. That being said, LaunchBox can use anything that can be launched via command line so you can still import your itch.io games, just drag the shortcuts to LaunchBox and import them (select none in the window that pops up). After that use the process as usual and it should work fine. If not importing to the Windows platform though you will want to make sure you set the "Scrape As" value to Windows on the platform you're importing to or you won't get any metadata/media.

You need to point the "emulator" you use in LaunchBox to steam, NOT the Zaccarria Pinball executable.

I'd take a look in Windows Event Viewer in the Application Logs and see if you can find an application error log for the crash that could help shed some light on what is happening.

Glad you're enjoying yourself with the product. Just remember to actually PLAY the games at some point

As Faeran stated it sounds like you're trying to set a platform logo globally, but your images look like you have a theme specific folder open. Also after adding the image you need to clear your image cache in Big Box to tell the application that it needs to search for a new logo.

I'd just run Dolphin on it's own once and see if it has issues closing via the back button without opening through a launcher. Most controller logic isn't handled on the "main thread" that an application close event MUST be called from in most programming languages so if that wasn't done properly in the app it would cause what you're seeing. If both front ends have the same issue I'd assume the binding just isn't being handled properly inside of Dolphin itself. That being said you shouldn't need to change it in Dolphin if you're running it from LaunchBox since the Close Active Window controller binding will close the program for you, or the "Exit AHK Script" that is is fired when selecting "Exit Game" from the Pause Menu

Big Box intentionally hides the start menu, I don't believe we have anything in LaunchBox intentionally doing that though. I've left a note to myself to check this and see if I can replicate. Thanks for letting us know, this is first I'm hearing of some one having this issue.

To my knowledge we don't have a DB API, nor is there really a need for one since all the DB information is local as well anyway

@Hifihedgehog Yeah I didn't look at any numbers I was just using the 110k that was mentioned. Even a million units compared to the number of potential machines we hit from Windows + Android is pretty small. Like I said, I'd love to be able to get LB on the Steam Deck, but Linux was NOT made to be dev friendly for anything with a GUI. GTK is pretty garbage compared to the SDK's on other operating systems, and WPF doesn't always play real nice with WINE and other compatibility layers. Not saying it will NEVER happen, just that porting to something that can run in SteamOS is NOT a small task and our time is pretty limited seeing how we only have 2 devs on staff.

Unfortunately China has a LOT of government sanctioned middle men in their network stack that can have a pretty huge impact on anything net related. We don't have a CDN and so don't have a server we can place in China to get around that. Unfortunately you may want to look into a VPN (if possible, I'm not sure what rules are regarding those where you live).

It isn't an application you'd have installed, It's the name of a service you would see in the service tab of Task Manager and is simple "nahimic" (without quotes)

Every time I've heard some one report something like this they have extra files in their data folder that don't belong. Most typically these are backup files put there by Skraper and breaks your install. I'd look in your \\LaunchBox\Data\Platforms\ folder and make sure you only have one file per platform in there and nothing that says "backup" in the file name.

Have to rebuild your logo image cache. Can do it in the "Image Cache" options inside of Big Box Options menu