C-Beats

Everyone should see that when moving to 10.13. All those directories and files were moved to the \\Launchbox\ThirdParty\ directory. Shouldn't cause you any issues for you inside of LaunchBox or Big Box (with the exception of some plugins)

You mean the images used on the Gog store web page? I don't see any in Galaxy.

In LaunchBox set the filter to "Games Missing Media" select Box 3D and Box to see only games missing those image types. Go to Tools > Download Metadata and Media, select the image types you want to pull then on the last page select the middle option to not download or replace any images you already have. Right Click and select "Delete"

Go into device manager, find the device you are looking at wanting to wake the computer in the list. Right click and hit Properties. See if there is a Power Management tab with an option "Allow device to wake computer" and if so check it.

First chance exceptions typically shouldn't stop functionality from working. You do have a few red flags in your description though. LB probably shouldn't be put in "My Documents" to start. Windows gets pretty touchy when running applications out of system folders like that and can potentially cause issues. Best to have it in a folder you create on a drive (C:\LaunchBox\ for example). Another is that you claim you are running as admin. You should NEVER run a portable application as administrator. This includes LaunchBox. It WILL screw things up. When launching as admin, the OS tends to lie to the application about where it is being started from which can break relative paths and cause a whole host of other issues.

It wouldn't be caused by an update, but I would be curious how many auto-generated playlists you have. Having quite a few can cause delays when editing your library, which we've seen reported as acting vert similar to what you are describing.

There is an option (that defaults to on) to hide Auto-Gen playlists inside of Big Box, I would make sure that is off and then try again.

What bind are you having issues with? Would of though the "Close Active Window" bind would still function with Steam games (though I really don't recommend doing it that way as it can cause data loss in PC games)

You can arrange games by several items, in LaunchBox at the top there is a "Arrange By" drop down, click that and you will see a host of options. Can also default playlists to sort a certain way (or just use the default). You can also add Custom Fields to roms for some of the stuff in your collection you have a desire to differentiate. Things like the 100% complete vs complete

Probably an issue related to your display settings. Screen Resolution and Scaling are the two biggest things I could see being a factor. Do you know what your's are set to?

Easiest way is to search the root in Windows Explorer for *.exe (or whatever extension you are using) and import that way. You cannot use Import > Windows Games as that detect's game in your Start Menu and since those games on your external are portable they wouldn't have done that.

Congrats on the release, an accomplishment in it's own right. Wish ya the best with it, looks like an interesting title. What engine/language was it built with?

For LaunchBox the Application Path just needs set to "steam://rungameid/253230" (excluding quotes) where that last number is the games app id. If the store page of the game still exists you will find the app id in the url (for example, https://store.steampowered.com/app/237930/Transistor/ the app id you need is the number "237930"). A Steam app ID is ALWAYS numeral, if you see a letter in it you have the wrong thing. Once you add that path to LaunchBox if you play via LaunchBox it will either launch the game in Steam if installed, or bring up the install prompt if it isn't. Once you have the ID, just press the Add button on the bottom bar (there are other ways as well). This will bring up a blank Add/Edit game form. Just put that launch path as the application path and set the title. Unfortunately the only way I've been able to find the Steam ID for something no longer with a store page is to install it and make a desktop shortcut for it and then look at the path Steam generates for it. There are some other really technical ways of finding some of the stuff out but it involves looking at some local SQLite DB files and browsing your registry.

All media for LaunchBox to load needs to correspond to your game title name. If you change the file to the name of the rom and that ISN'T the title used in LaunchBox you will break things and not get displayed properly. Because of that no, there is no way to stop this as it would make your artwork unusable.

We use Steams API to grab your library. Due to copyright, trademark, and other legal stuff some titles in your library may NOT be allowed to be retrieved from the API and because of that LaunchBox can't see them to import them. I can't say for certain that is what is causing it but it is a possibility. You can manually add the game if you get the steam app id, the app path is the same for all steam games except that id number.

There is a setting in Big Box to make the favorites show at the top (and I believe it is on by default). When that setting is enabled they would not appear again lower in the list where they would normally would. I've seen people get confused by that and report games missing when they are simply at the top. Could you verify that isn't what is happening?

I think most of what you are asking for is feasible, and many of the items mentioned ARE on our to do list, but I wouldn't be able to give you a timeline when everything you are referring to would be in the product. Theming is done entirely using XAML files. If you can code one of them you can pretty heavily customize LaunchBox visually to your liking. In regard to the PSN/M$ accounts, are those games playable on Windows or you just looking to have something easier to track what you have then manually adding the games into your library? I haven't had a console in quite a long while so am a bit curious what that would do for you. LaunchBox also does support 3rd party plugin's which could potentially fill some of the holes you are referring to as well.

Only built in way would be to manually add an additional app that uses the steam launch url as if you HAD imported it via Steam import, then import media (you could then delete the app)

Can use the Genre filter in LaunchBox to find a problem Genre and select all (ctrl-a) then right click hit edit, and then change the genre of all games at once. That being said if you have a game with multiple genre's this becomes far more difficult. You could also open up the XML file and just do a find and replace all to change one genre string to another (I would backup your files before doing so). Not saying that there isn't room for improvement in regard to mass editing multi-string fields, but wanted to make you were aware of what options you currently have since I can't say when we would be making any changes to features in the way you are referring.

Hop to the beta build, may be experiencing an issue that was resolved in that build. If it is that issue though it would be every start up that was slower, not just the first.

Jason is far better at testing user content then I am, and has the ultimate say in regards to whether something gets pulled for being non-compliant, but I'll gladly take a look for you as time permits. Is there anything in particular you were hoping to confirm is working or not?

Are you still seeing this issue @CadetStimpy I just added a demo to my GOG account and pulled it in and it grabbed the GOG screens just fine. What it did NOT do was match to the GamesDB because the game title had the word "Demo" in it. Is that what you are reporting, or are you not getting the GOG images?

go to Options -> View -> Hide Auto-Generated Playlists inside of Big Box and make sure it is unchecked.

The beta build has this functionality

Or you could just tell Big Box to launch to playlist view instead of platform and save yourself the effort