C-Beats

Sounds like you have some app pressing Escape or you have a stuck button on the keyboard. We've seen reports like this most often when running Steam and it's virtual controller logic causing issues. I'd see if Steam is open when you see this happening, and if so close it and see if the problem persists.

Thanks for this additional information. I'll sit down and try to replicate again using some of the new details you refer to and see if I can get it to happen.

@darthv8dr are you running a third party virus scanner? That error is saying one of the dependencies the installer puts in the folder is missing. It typically happens when an overzealous AV program quarantines the file. That file is for the chrome browser we use in app and has a tendency to trip those applications needlessly.

Yeah, so it looks like it's crashing before the step that makes the other folders. Can you open "Event Viewer" in Windows. When you do so on the left there are different categories. You want to select application and then in the list of errors/warnings you want to look for 2 error logs that will be next to each other and point to LaunchBox. Typically the top error has the useful information in it that should tell you what the error was that caused the crash.

What I meant was go to your root LaunchBox folder (wherever you installed it). In that folder there is a Data subfolder, and in that subfolder is a file named Settings.xml (will only be there if the app has progressed far enough to save a default one). It MAY not be in there, if it is you can open it and edit the tag.

Yeah, you'd have to theme in for that to be done per system. There is no option that allows you to be granular with that setting.

Can you try going to \\LaunchBox\Data\Settings.xml and look for a tag in that file called "EnableAutoImports" and set it to false and then try starting the app again.

Following requires a premium license but is how you would do it: Edit a single game, in the window that appears there is a "Custom Fields" tab. Click that. In that datagrid in the left column select the empty cell at the top and then type in "Theme" In the right cell put whatever value you want that game to have Press OK to save the change. Now you can continue to do this process with individual games OR you now have the ability to bulk edit that field and change the value on several games at once.

TV technology has more to do with potential color ranges, brightness, and refresh rates. You can use shaders within RetroArch to help emulate the CRT look of TVs of that era, but that can be done on any machine.

Not sure I completely follow. What text aren't you wanting displayed? Realistically if it's in a themed view a theme could be made to do so.

Bit confused. Your title says you're having issues with N64, but your post is referring to a GameCube/Wii emulator. What system are you attempting to play?

@JoeViking245 made a plugin that allows users to apply some one else's LaunchBox data to their own. It could be used to collaboratively add a custom field for "Theme" that could be shared amongst users to do something like this. That being said SOME ONE would have to manually add it to all the games as it isn't a field we have in the database at the moment.

Still not seeing how alt-tab or (if using Win11) swapping virtual desktop wouldn't already give you the ability to do what you want.

I just tried this and am not able to replicate at all. What theme are you using?

I'm not 100%. That installer is something that was automated LONG before I joined so I've never had to take it apart and look at it tbh. I'll see if I can find some time today to look into it and get you an answer.

Fairly certain WPF (which is the UI framework used to create LaunchBox) will use either DirectX 10 or 11 (which ever is installed).

You can still do other things. The app itself just doesn't have a built in minimize process. Pressing Windows + D for example still minimizes it and brings you to the desktop. You can also Alt + Tab to another application, so I'm not entirely sure I'm following your logic.

The images themselves are pretty well done and I enjoyed looking at them. The aspect ratio makes them hard to use them for anything in most drop in builds though. Also would bug me to not have all systems match if I found a theme that could make use of this ratio. Very much is an "all or none" decisions and there just isn't enough artwork to pick the "all" option unfortunately. If it brings you joy to make them I'd keep at it, if not drop them. Do it because you like it, not to please others.

The way auto-populate playlists work at the moment is that each criteria is combined using AND logic, but if you have multiple criteria with the same field they are first joined by an OR. The reason you are having issues is that you're trying to use AND logic to join the same field criteria multiple times (contains fighting AND not contains beat em up).

You can disable the model in Game Details via Tools > Options. There is a page there for Game Details that have several checkboxes to turn elements on or off. Uncheck 3D Model.

Automatic M3U file creation has been a feature in LaunchBox since version 10.10 which was released in Jan 20, 2020. Was there something you thought that feature was missing?

Support has reviewed your email and responded, please work with them directly as no one on the forums can do much to assist in the matter.

LaunchBox doesn't typically read the files you're importing in anyway. Almost all systems we just parse the ROM filename so the corruption thing would only make sense if it was a drive or file corruption. I'm not entirely sure that's the issue though. You could run chkdsk to be sure though if you felt the need.

I don't believe the Scan for Added games wizard actually imports duplicates even if it finds new files for a game already imported. I'd edit of the games on the list and look and see what their application path is. If it's not the same it'd explain what you are seeing. If you want to import them as additional applications you could run the standard ROM import to do so.

For Amazon Games we look in a local file they store on your computer that says what games are installed. File is %LocalAppData%\Amazon Games\Data\Games\installQueue.json. Can you PM me that file and we can go from there?