C-Beats

You use the Download Metadata and Media tool, then only select the manuals when picking what media to download, then on the last step pick the middle option and this will only pull manuals for items that need one still.

Answer to that question depends on what view you are in, Platform, Platform Category, or Playlist view. Also are you fine just deleting the playlist entirely, or do you want the playlist, but just not be visible?

Do you have any files in your \\LaunchBox\Plugins folder? Seeing some calls in here I don't recognize at all.

Make sure you turn on debug logs in LaunchBox and then try to open Big Box and look for a debug log generated. If it is hard crashing their may be an event log in Windows Event Viewer Application Logs as well that could help point to the cause. Without either anyone would be guessing at what is causing the issue for you.

You can turn off that splash screen in the options, which would allow you to work while you wait on the start up. That being said the load time's you are experiencing are pretty significant given how small your collection is. I currently have 40k games in my set up and the start time is no where CLOSE to that long, so I do think something is going on. Do you have a lot of auto-populated playlists? Also if you don't already please turn on debug logging, then close LaunchBox and reopen and then take a look at the log, it may give us a hint about what is causing such incredibly long load times on your machine. Another thing work checking is that you don't have extra back up files in your data folder. I've seen third party apps place files in that directory (usually Skraper) and it causes issues loading data correctly and promptly as well.

It's definitely more of an advanced feature, I'd grab the beta before you try it (if you do) since we add a button to the UI in the next version, will save you time having to manually add it in later.

This is one of the reasons we suggest using RetroArch when possible. Updating the core is simple, and if you have to update RetroArch itself, you just update it once and then you have updated your emulators for the majority of your systems in one go.

This isn't possible. Updates would only ever affect the default themes (which get overwritten on start up anyway). You'd copy default to a new folder, rename it, then make adjustments. Your point does stand though that it would need modified anytime we added new UI elements to the product though (which we do in this next version).

That border is drawn for accessibility reasons. The next beta release should be out soon with a fix to that functionality to make it look more appropriate. If you don't need it and are using a licensed version of LaunchBox you could also edit the theme to remove it entirely.

I personally am not sure an image like this really has a place in our database right now. At best it would go into Fanart - Background, but not sure if fits well enough in Banner or Marquee since it'd doesn't have any clear logo or text saying what game it is for.

I've not been able to replicate that at all, next beta release will hopefully be out soon. Let me know if you see it there as well.

The two things shouldn't be related but I can take a look into it. Not sure what video you are referring to but fairly certain I know the checkbox you are talking about in regard to making the playlist a platform.

Screenshot isn't used as a fallback, backgrounds are. If you want screenshots used you would have to enable them in Background Image Priorities in LaunchBox's option menu

Can download a Vikings 4:3 video set in the Download Platform/Playlist Theme Videos tool inside of LaunchBox

Yeah, can either restore your xml files or use a text editor to remove the extra returns

Sounds like an issue related to beta 1 that has already been resolved.

We have some code changes in place for the next beta release that should help alleviate these. I'll ping ya once beta 4 is out with those changes so you can confirm they are resolved.

Google "The Bezel Project" (without quotes)

We've seen this happen if you have a large number of EmuMovies downloads. The way EmuMovie API works is if there is ever a 5 minute window where we don't download from them after asking for a media URL all the URLS go bad and we have to ask for new ones. Tryin to do so on a queue as large of yours is extremely difficult and time consuming, and if we DO get responses it typically takes longer than that 5m window allows and you get stuck in an infinite loop. For now what I would suggest doing is downloading all the media you need from LaunchBox's Games Database then once that queue is done downloading, use EmuMovies to fill in any gaps. This should help.

This is usually caused by your game's title or platform name not matching the name used by RetroAchievements. At the time the feature was written (and I don't think it's changed since) the Cheevo API did NOT have a way to pass the hash of the file to get achievement information like RetroArch does. Because of that we use Title search which can sometime not find a game correctly.

Just so we are clear, that feature is not a button in any menu that selects a random game in your collection. This is a binding that theme devs can use in platform and filter views to display information and images about a random game in the selected platform/filter.

This correction has been made in 11.18 beta 3

This should be corrected in the latest beta release. Change log is here https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/63018-1118-beta-testing/?do=findComment&comment=391348