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This feature will automatically create and send to your emulator a M3U file under ALL of the following conditions: 1. The application path launched is associated to an additional application of the game you are playing 2. The additional application associated has a disc number associated to it (found in the "Edit Addtional Application" form found in the "Edit Game" form of LaunchBox) 3. The application path launched is not already a M3U 4. The emulator is marked that is supports M3U If all the above is TRUE then the M3U is made with the application you selected to launch as first track, followed by all other additional applications under that game that also have a disc number, in disc order (numerical). To directly answer some of your above questions. NO at this time archived paths will NOT play nice with this feature and the M3U will point the emulator to the archive and not the .CUE contained within. NO at this time the only data point used in this process is "Disc" located in the additional application. Side is not used at all. For this process to play nicely with your set up, the roms would need to be extracted and the raw files added to Launchbox (typically you want to add the .CUE files NOT .BIN, or .GDI for Dreamcast). Each file should be brought in as an additional application of the game (some people think of these as versions) with the disc marked. The emulator in question will need marked as being able to support this feature as well. Once those steps are complete the process should do the rest for you.

Also did you try to import just the games that were giving you issues and see if when imported by themselves they came in correctly? Did you have logging on while you were doing this and if so could you grab them and send them my way?

First round of questions just so I can hopefully narrow down the search: When typing in the custom platform name did you have anything selected as "Scrap As". After importing with the correct name did you check that any of the roms had additional applications (curious if maybe a rom was mismatched under another title).

I appreciate that you are upset but I have already told you the cause of the mouse stutter. It is a known issue with Windows 10 when hard drive usage spikes (something that WILL happen on load, especially give the other software you have running at the time). You can replicate the same thing doing any hard drive intensive operations on your computer without Launchbox even installed. The type of hard drive makes no difference (HDD or SSD) it happens with both. Your OS has several settings that can be altered that will drastically increase your performance and all are pretty easy to google, if you need assistance though just ask I can show you the few steps/links that have worked for me. Can also tell you that I have increased issues on my PCs that DON'T have Launchbox installed that have forced me to do this recently. I would suspect a Windows Update messed with a previous setting or is compounding the issue but haven't taken a ton of time to find out.

I just ran the API url for your profile and the XML did not have that title in it which kind of surprised me because I saw it in your Steam Profile as well as another 3rd party tool using the Steam API. At the moment I am unsure WHY it is not appearing in the API call though.

Also when first loading Launchbox it will use as much CPU/HDD IO as it can to get resources for you as fast as you can. The OS tends to freeze when the hard drive IO is hitting it's limit (I've seen it with CPU as well but not as regularly). The strain caused by LaunchBox is then compounded by the fact you have a torrent client and IDM running BOTH doing the same thing, you WILL see performance degradation on start up. Wait a minute or two after launch and make sure you do not see a green bar at the top of LaunchBox as this means cache's are being built. If it STILL occurs then you can go from there.

Not sure if this applies to you but worth noting: If you have Launchbox in a Dropbox or other similar cloud sync software you should pause that software while using Launchbox. Those softwares tend just spin your CPU waiting for any split second it can to lock the file to sync it to the cloud which renders the file unusable to Launchbox.

Click edit on any game, you will notice an "Additional Application" tab. I am referring to those. Basically another version of the same game all merged to the same game record.

Yeah depending what method you use when mass downloading media that can be very possible. I ran the download media tool against my entire library last night and woke up to 26k duplicates (give or take)

A duplicate is two files that are exactly the same content. Meaning the hash of the two files are the same. If you have two images that are of the same picture but the file hash is different this tool wouldn't know and would leave your image alone. The tool DOES also now tell you the full path of the files in question so that you CAN navigate to that file and compare before selecting it to delete.

What resolution and scaling settings are you running that you see this in?

If you are using Retroarch you have to eject the disc before you can switch disks. Moving left and right before then won't change the disk index at all. mednafen saturn also requires that you toss the .CUE files in the M3U NOT the bin files, so if you are pointing to the bins you will need to repoint.

@Wally This feature will automatically create and send to your emulator a M3U file under ALL of the following conditions: 1. The application path launched is associated to an additional application of the game you are playing 2. The additional application associated has a disc number associated to it (found in the "Edit Addtional Application" form found in the "Edit Game" form of LaunchBox) 3. The application path launched is not already a M3U 4. The emulator is marked that is supports M3U If all the above is TRUE then the M3U is made with the application you selected to launch as first track, followed by all other additional applications under that game that also have a disc number, in disc order (numerical).

They in the download section under "Platform Media" > "Platform Video". You can also do it in Launchbox by going to Tools > Download Platform Media.

Believe I have found what may be causing the above issue. Should be resolved in the next beta push. Thanks again for the feedback @TheNewClassics

Thanks for this. Will look into it and see what may be causing it.

Currently this method will ONLY look for actual numerals like 1,2,3, etc. It will NOT look at roman numerals and convert them to numerals for sorting purposes. In the example given you would need to alter the title or sort title of MKII to Mortal Kombat 2 for it to order correctly.

Still haven't gotten an answer to this. Also could some one having this issue tell me if you still see it in 10.9? I was able to replicate before but can't now, wanted to see if has been corrected for anyone else or not.

That is how any application works. There is a very specific reason you are instructed to almost never use your power button to shut down the computer. You can cause far more issues than a few corrupted Launchbox XML files. Most of the time the XMLs ARE saved during run time but application close also does some clean up processes. If you hard booted your computer during either then yes it WILL screw things up and corrupt your files. There is literally nothing we can do to prevent that.

Not sure, was under the impression it always worked like that. Will check with Jason though.

Well in that circumstance the game you had selected is deselected and then removed from the list because it is hidden. Since you don't have anything selected to return you to it goes to the top of the list. To my knowledge that behavior is intended.

Go to the zip file you are pointing at (would assume from the image it is simpsons.zip) open it up and look in the root. All the files listed in that error message should be in the root of that zip file. The errors are stating that MAME did not find them there. Sounds like a file corruption issue or you aren't pointing to the correct file (or the MAME ini file is set up incorrectly). Don't know of any other reasons you would see that message.

Not a problem. Glad it worked out for ya.

Would say it probably is related to how it is interacting with the new default theme as wallmachine is hinting at. If the old theme didn't bother you you can change back. The thread wallmachine links has a link from Jason to a more performant version of the new theme as well.

Yeah you are right, if doing it that way you would set up the upper level as a category, not a playlist. Only the bottom most level is a playlist.