C-Beats

I'd verify your games title, the platform name, and the scrape as of the platform (if you aren't using a standard name for it). Typically any issues with EmuMovies not finding the right image types are caused by that. You could also verify your EmuMovies credentials are correct (though I would doubt that is the cause since you are at least seeing SOMETHING in that window).

Only time I've seen this happen is if you manually deleted the game instead of uninstalling it properly. For Steam we read the registry entries Steam writes to your system that tells Steam whether the game is installed or not to determine the install state, and for Epic we read the file they save on your computer with the same information. We use the same information the launchers use to determine if a game is installed or not. You may need to open up Steam and Epic and let them resync their files to determine that you removed them from your computer and update the system files they save the information in.

Your gif shows what is wrong. You are downloading a "Box - Front" image but are using the 3D Box image group. Your game doesn't HAVE a 3D box image and you don't have Box - Front set up as a back up priority in options and so LaunchBox doesn't display anything. You can add anything that you can run via command line. I've seen several users add websites to their LaunchBox build in the past, but know that they aren't officially support and we don't have any metadata or media for non-game entries and so you'd have to manually add those as well. Should be listed as "Close Active Window" in the controller bindings (or keyboard automation)

Inside of LaunchBox go to the hamburger menu (The 3 lines, located upper left of the window) and then go to the Cloud section. Have to enter your GamesDB credentials if you haven't already (top most option) and then once you have the "Sync to my collection" item (middle option) should do what you want.

Anyway you could post a pic what you are seeing?

Should be in Beta 2. Let us know if you don't have it for some reason.

This is why. To download videos from EmuMovies you have to have a premium EmuMovies account.

Not sure I want to include an option to sort things incorrectly, but can toss in a ticket to via the "Help & Support > Request a Feature" at the top of the page and see how much traction the idea gets and go from there.

Sounds like your video is sitting inside of a Transition Presenter. If you don't want that transition animation you can use a Content Control to display the video view, or can potentially use a FlowVideo control if you ONLY want videos displayed and to not fall back to an image.

Put the title as the sort title to sort the games like this.

As Koroth stated, you need to press the Select button and hold it while you press start, then release both for the binding to set as Button 7 + Button 8.

RetroArch isn't the default emulator for Arcade. MAME is. You can use RetroArch for Arcade but it requires a few manual steps to do so. You will need to go to Tools > Manage > Manage Emulators and then edit your RetroArch emulator and add the Arcade platform to the associated platforms tab as well as select which core you want to use for it.

Pretty sure theme doesn't have a fallback in it's background so is black because you don't have a platform video for that platform. If you haven't already you can download them from inside of LaunchBox in the Tools > Download menu.

There IS but it requires theming to do it. There isn't any settings you can set that do it for you automatically.

Can already do what you are asking to do (in regard to nesting franchises) with Categories/Playlists inside of Platform Category sidebar view. You cannot via the realtime filter tool though (unless you do the slash trick I talked about). Also with Theme data I'd make a custom field personally, I do something similar but stick it in a custom field called "Theme". Doesn't hurt anything really to be in genre though.

Or going to change an option in the option menu (like the primary theme) and slamming enter one too many times and having to start all over >.<'

I admit that feature was a bit of a selfish one. I put it in to make testing views and development far easier and quicker for myself. I'm glad some one else is enjoying it so I can feel a bit more justified in making the change lol.

12.5 Beta 1 has code changes to help diminish the delay reported in this thread. Would it be possible for some of you to update to the beta and let us know if it solves (or at least improves) the issue you are having?

Right now the best way to do this is still to simply drag/drop import the setup file. You can also just manually add a game to your library and point it to the correct path as well. There is no import process designed to import setup files though.

We don't personally use sub-genre's but the Realtime filter does SORTA use them. If you genre is named "Genre / Subgenre" (without quotes) then the realtime filter will shove all the subgenre's under the primary genre. You see this by default when using the MAME Fullset Importer then running the realtime filter against the imported platform. I personally have a build I'm creating where I add a single Genre / Subgenre to every game and it works well.

Just as a note, this is only true if you use the "Replace" (middle) option in the Download Metadata and Media Wizard.

Can download the Lambda Beta theme and take a look at how it's done there.

@DeadVoivod @noahdaddy Can you both confirm your version? I'm trying to replicate this so I can correct, but am having problems getting it fire. Is it something that is happening regularly for you or does it come and go? Is there anything you do that reliable gets that message? If so could you give me some reproduction steps so I can attempt to replicate this issue.

Almost every time I've seen something like this reported it's because you have a service called "nahimic" running on your computer. Should be able to open Task Manager to the service tab and see if it is running, and shut it down if it is. Typically it's installed by crappy audio manager software. Realtek is the biggest offender of this.