[launchbox doesn´t work on a network (remotely)]

 

[13.22 install issues]

I looked into the issue people are encountering running LB from a network location. It seems we've hit a snag with a known issue with the latest version of the .NET runtime. We're assessing how best to correct and will let you know when we do.

[LaunchBox 13.22 Released!]

@WarkaStrong I dropped a plugin that should help: 

 

[Blacklist Items in Steam Importer]

I wish... I have a similar problem. Currently the only way is to just import those "games" and then hide them in LB. Then they fall off the list and since their hidden can be forgotten and brushed under the carpet lol

[For users that lost completion data moving to 13.22...]

I built a simple old school plugin to help in the matter. If you download the attached file and then extract it to your \\LaunchBox\Plugins folder (not in any subfolder) when LaunchBox is CLOSED and then open LaunchBox. You'll have a new menu option at the bottom of the Tools menu that says Correct Completed => Progress Migration. Click that and you should be good to go. This plugin is SUPER rudimentary and just looks for the old completed flag and if the game has it sets Progress to "Done / Mastered" (without quotes). It WILL overwrite anything that's currently in there and there is no undo. Should get those that lost their data into a better state though and allow them to start enjoying the new Progress field.

CompletedCorrection.zip

[Custom Badges for Custom Fields and Existing Metadata Fields]

This should help do what you want
 

 

[LaunchBox 13.22 Released!]

25 minutes ago, WarkaStrong said:

I'm pretty unhappy with the fact completed games didn't migrate properly to Done / Whatever. This update, without a warning, reset "complete" marking on ~2000 of my games that I tracked with LaunchBox since 2019...

We'll be looking into that issue. We tested this pretty thoroughly and was working in our testing so I'm curious what happened. That being said the actual XML still should have that data intact. I'll have to see if I can drop a plugin or cleanup app that will do what the migration should have and get them set to the appropriate value. Help those that already made the transition to 13.22

[3D Box Dosen't works !!!]

Then it's possible that game doesn't have one. What is one of the games you have that doesn't seem to be have the 3D Box for you think should?

[Performance issues with Launchbox 13.22]

This experience is definitely FAR outside normal and I've not seen any reports of things taking that long. Which app are you having the issue in? LaunchBox or Big Box?

[3D Box Dosen't works !!!]

On 7/6/2025 at 3:41 AM, Kurunglu said:

I still don't understand what to do. Thanks...

Select your games you need it for. Tools > Download > Download Metadata and Media. When you get to the page that asks what images you want. Check the box next to 3D Box and keep going. Last page select the middle option (don't replace existing) and let the wizard run. You'll now have the images for those games (or least the ones that have that image type in our database)

[Mouse drifts to the left...]

Sounds like you may have the controller input enabled and have a stick drifting. If you go in LaunchBox to Options and at the very bottom is Game Controller. Turn it off, does that stop the mouse moving? If so you've found your culprit.

[EA store importer not working]

21 hours ago, DragonFyre55 said:

Does not appear to be working in 13.22 ☹️

Define "not working". What part of the process are you failing at?

[Sort by system then alphabetic folders]

You mean the ROM files or like with in app navigation?

[Automatic Progress Setting for Paused]

Man ya give em what they want and they just come back with MOAR MOAR MOAR!!!....  (joking of course... well a little)

Was going to say it sounded like a pretty solid feature idea but then I saw AstroBob pushing HIS ticket he created for it and now I'm not sure I want to give him the satisfaction... 

[Big Details]

16 hours ago, Colosso said:

Which media assets make up the top banner?

I don't want to download all the assets, just the ones for this theme.

Thanks! Great theme.

Fanart - Background afaik

[Vertical monitor Bigbox display "bug" how to fix?]

Believe the current default already has this fixed and handles vert FAR better than Old Default (which is shown in the pic).

That being said I BELIEVE the file you'd want to adjust is TextGameView and add a font size to the text blocks in there. We also have a few vert themes on the forums. I use "TrueVert" in my vert cab

[Avast flags 13.22 as FileRepMalware - all previous versions are fine]

14 hours ago, PerryCS said:

It happens.  The problem is, there is so many ways to get infected these days, it's hard to tell.. is it really a false positive?

Generally can toss the file into VirusTotal and compare results across 20+ different AV solutions at once and get a good bead on whether it's a false positive or not that way. We do as part of our release process to make sure they don't all light up, but there always seems to be 2-5 that show up regardless of what we do. Most of them are related to dependencies we have. Chromium seems to tick em off the most.

[How can I move only the unnecessary ROM files?]

Select all the games in your platform, then go to Tools > File Management > Move Roms and move the roms to a new location. Anything NOT moved and still in the folder after can be removed. This does NOT work for MAME if using merged or split set and WILL break things so don't do it there. NOT sure how we do it for cue/bin

[Getting Error 429 randomly]

Yeah, I see our web developer has made some code changes and are testing them in our test environment but nothing has been pushed to production yet.

[LaunchBox 13.22 - Beta Thread]

3 hours ago, Mr. RetroLust said:

I'm a bit late concerning the move from VLC to WMP, it all works well for one exception; the videos are not really black but more of a dark greyish color. In my experience this is caused by setting it to limited color range 16-235 instead of full range 0-255. I have tried to go into the settings of both WMP and K-Lite but it doesn't make a visual difference, what should I do?

If you're running an Nvidia Graphics card that setting is in the Nvidia Control panel and will force the vid player to use it.

[Probably dumb UI question]

Big Details, Steamy, and Omni themes all have views like this. Applying a different theme does require a license though.

[13.22 install issues]

Typically if you see the splash screen then it disappears you have an either a bad install because the AV blocked something in the new installer that isn't old enough NOT to trip it OR some other .NET related error. If you look in Windows Event View there should be an application error log that points to LB and gives the reason for the crash. If you can provide that we can try to work through it.

[Database search syntax]

Forwarded the post to the web team, see if they can find out what's going on.

[Database search syntax]

27 minutes ago, dragon57 said:

Is the syntax for searching the Games DB posted anywhere? I use the search multiple times daily in my retro work and I have long struggled with knowing what syntax is acceptable. Most things are obvious and work just fine, but when I forget and paste a full game entry into the search field that has an actual + sign in it, I get a database error. Is there a way to include that plus sign as part of the search and not a search parameter?

May be an encoding issue on our end. Can you provide the actual error you're seeing?

[Launchbox fails to launch]

Would depend on the version but installer should be installing all the pre-reqs. Direct X Runtimes, .NET 9.0 Desktop Runtime, .NET Core 3.1 Desktop runtime.

If you open Windows Event Viewer and go into the application section there should be error logs in there that say ".NET Runtime Error" and point to LB failing. One will just be a "something went wrong" message and the other will have the actual error message. If you can get the one with the error message it'd help us track down what was happening.