C-Beats

Process is done, if you want to do those steps again and let me know how you fare @Rlad

Yeah, I wasn't aware the extent of the changes. I reached out to their team and got a list. I have all the data in the DB we are just waiting now for the process to run that rebuilds all our metadata files. Should be good to go in the next hour or so.

Apologies, I didn't see the post before. This isn't an issue I've heard reported before so I'd have to look into whether I can replicate and what would be potentially causing it. It's not a window that gets changes very often. Been years since we touched it so would be surprised if something suddenly broke it, but I'll have to look and confirm.

Nice catch the on platform name change on their end. I was able to update the database to play nice with their name change. Should only be required to update the local metadata file (Tools > Download > [Last item in the menu, can't remember the exact string]) and then rescan the platform for achievements. Should pick them up again.

Believe forum badges are those sticker looking things most forum platforms put under the username on the left. They are typically used to gamify the forum experience but can often time look gawdy and make each post take up WAY more screen real estate. As such we've never really used them.

How would you expect a feature like this to understand that a database was "corrupt"?

Your license is good for any number of installs on any number of devices you own. LB is a portable app and would work on the USB drive to do what you want. That being said reading from a USB drive is slow and so the UI WILL be slower to respond and do things like load images if being ran from a USB device than it would a regular drive. Best way to backup the LB data is to save out the files found in your backup folder. Those archive files contain all the files in your data folder that will allow you to restore all your data. These do NOT contain your media though and so if you want to back up EVERYTHING just copy the entire LB folder to the backup location. If you're hoping to make restoring that backup easier and always work then you'd want to store your ROMs and emulators IN the LaunchBox folder (Game and Emulator folders respectively). This would mean that all the relative paths would stay in tact when moving from machine to machine and "just work" when you restore the backup somewhere else. Any other way and you'll need to use the tools in File Management menu to repath the games to be able to play anything in the restored backup.

I'll have to review the code, was thinking we hard coded the platform indexes to avoid that but I'll have to look. I do know the RA site/API was down over the weekend though which would have impacted the hash process potentially.

Yeah, just file transfer the ROMs some where and then run the ROM Import in LaunchBox and point it to where you moved the ROMs to.

Can't sort by star rating, but you can just use the GamesDB to look at the games in our DB and their star rating and then pick out the games based on that.

Retro808 is correct in that we have a minimum file check of 4000. This is because that importer imports all games in that MAME Arcade set, regardless of what files you have in your folder. If you're removing ROMs before importing you'd want to use the standard ROM importer and it'd let you.

Looks like your emulator doesn't accept 7z files and is telling you it's not sure what you gave it. Xemu for example reads ISO files, not 7z.

We have the feature in LaunchBox, unsure why it wasn't done in Big Box at the same time. That feature is quite a bit before my time here. The feature wouldn't be super simple in that we have to make it work in every view configuration Big Box has (which is quite a few). Overall though I don't think it's made the cut just because the feature in LaunchBox was viewed by a large number of users as one of those "not very useful" features and so didn't get pushed forward into Big Box landscape. Not saying this thread isn't the first time I've heard this request, but it doesn't come up very often and as I shown above you have other ways to randomly land on a game making the additional dev time seem pretty wasteful compared to what else we could get done.

I don't believe we have a way to make the content grid's size be customizable on a per platform level at the moment. At the top of this web page there is a "Help & Support" link. I'd click that and then click "Request a Feature" and submit a feature request and we could look into the possibility of adding it at some point.

As long as the other machine has the runtimes (Direct X and I believe our web implementation takes .NET Core 3.1 still) LaunchBox can just be copied over. If nothing else when putting the files on your removable storage, put an LB installer in it as well. Then run the installer, close LB, and then copy the files you're moving over on top of the install you just did.

In the GOG Import tool when you get to the games list you can change the value in Platform to whatever you want. If you right click the row you have several options to make it quicker to set multiple rows to whatever platform you want them to import to.

Drag the songs to LB, in the import wizard that appears press "None of the Above" and then run through the import. I'd probably make the Artist the Platform. Then after that it's just about how you want to navigate it, as well as manually finding metadata/media for the items you've imported.

I can play PS1 and under on my Anbernic handheld that cost me less than 100USD. It doesn't take much to emulate those systems. I'd just look into a BeeLink mini-PC or something similar. If you're more comfortable building the PC I'd assume those specs would work, though I admit hardware isn't my strong suit so I'd wait for some one else to chime in potentially before making any decisions.

Select "View Platforms" from the system menu. Sounds like Discovery Center is your default view. You could make platform view your default and then you'd need to manually enter the Discovery view via the system menu or a hotkey

Our apologies for the outage, we're looking into what is going on. It should be up again while we continue to investigate.

The icon by back is a controller binding related image (in my build shows "B" button for example) which WOULD be in that folder. If you referring to the bit in the lower left that reads "< System View" that's a bit different and is a SVG path (found on line 2326) that would need swapped out for another path or an image.

Do you have the option on that makes it required to HOLD the back button to get to System View? Try to press and hold the back key and after something like 3-5s it should go to the System Menu (if that's the cause for what you're seeing)

Drag the EXE to LB, in the wizard that appears select "None of the Above" and go through the import wizard like you would doing anything else.

If you want to use default just copy the default folder to a new folder and name it what you want and then swap out the images in \\LaunchBox\Themes\{New Theme Folder}\Images\Controller to what you want.

Not enough information to really give the best response. What systems you are trying to emulate will inform what system you need to consider purchasing/building. Without this information some one at best can point you in the direction of a small form factor PC like a Beelink or NUC.