C-Beats

In LaunchBox art is downloaded that matches the region on the ROM in your region priority order. What this means is if the game is a (NA/EU) release you should be grabbing EU since it's higher in your priority than NA. However if the game is only (NA) or (USA) than it would attempt to grab NA/US art before looking to grab EU since that art is what is accurate to that ROM.

Theme specific image files typically go in \\LaunchBox\Themes\{ThemeName}\Images. For the one are wanting the path would be \\LaunchBox\Themes\FlikBox\Images\Platforms\Clear Logo\. After doing so you will probably need to clear your image cache to see the change.

We are aware of an issue where the local metadata file isn't updating properly and are working to resolve it.

You'd have to grab each image one by one but SteamGridDB has quite a few 1:1 images and a pretty rapidly growing number of retro games are covered (no longer just PC/Steam games). I know Spyro for example has a few on there

We are currently looking into an issue that is causing the metadata file to not properly update. Once that is resolved you should see your changes.

You can remove items from the Platform Category view. To do so go to the category, playlist, or platform you're wanting to remove inside of LaunchBox Platform Category view and then go to the parent's tab and uncheck all boxes.

Because LaunchBox is a premium, fully featured frontend that allows you to customize your metadata however you want? That filter lists all genre's, not just values we have in our DB. We can't possibly be expected to provide images for every possible permutation of genre's our users think to use though, which is why we instead built ways for you to customize your UI to meet your needs. If you want that genre keep it, you just need to assign a new banner to it should you want to use it that way. I personally have a build I've been working on where I've been categorizing all my games into Genre / Subgenre like that so I understand the desire. Just isn't the typical app workflow and so you'll need to provide custom art for your custom metadata depending on which view you are trying to utilize.

We are looking into it. Thanks for letting us know.

Easiest way would probably do the following: 1) Install another instance of LaunchBox somewhere 2) Copy the Data, Images, Videos, Themes, and LBThemes folders from your old install to the new one 3) Copy what rom files you want from old to new 4) Open LaunchBox and run the "Scan for Removed ROMs" wizard and let it remove all games you didn't bring over 5) Open the Cleanup Media tool and scan all platforms and remove any images it finds you no longer need Alternatively you could just build the new one from scratch. If you don't have a lot of custom images or metadata it shouldn't take long at all. Or you can mix/match methods (like manually importing, then copying over images after the fact, etc).

LaunchBox is built to be entirely portable. Moving from one computer to another would just be copying your LaunchBox folder to the new machine. Rom and Emulator paths may break if you didn't stick them in your LaunchBox folder, but those are fairly strait forward to repoint.

So not sure the reason you asked this then if you're admitting you're the one that manually put that value in there in the first place.

Typically when we see those type of genre values in the user's data it is because the user ran Skraper and let it assign metadata for you.

Typically for this task we recommend a ROM manager which will do a far better job than LaunchBox will. If you're feeling adventurous you can try the below though. You should be able to do the following: Import the games, ensure "Combine games with same title" is NOT checked and "Force Import Duplicates" IS. Do NOT download media with this import. Go to options and ensure the "delete rom when deleting games" option is checked Go to the platform in question and change the view to list view Order by region (you may need to right click the headers and add it) Delete any game that isn't NA and say yes to the prompt asking you to delete the ROM file This should work for most platforms, though multi-disc and arcade will get you some hassles because of how those sets work in comparison.

Those genre values aren't something you got standard from LaunchBox games database and is why we don't have banners for them. You would need to create banner images for those custom genre values and then assign them to that filter.

Can use the desktops "Export to Android" tool and then just not move the rom files with the other files when migrating the data

Think this wildly depends on which rhythm games you're referring to. Rhythm games throughout the years typically have their own peripherals/controls that are pretty unique to that game so could see making one cabinet to rule them all being fairly difficult.

That isn't a LaunchBox issue. It's a RetroArch one. RetroArch after a certain period of time corrupts the Cheevo creds and you need to re-enter them. I'm unsure if this is a bug or the way the feature works to help with security but know I have to reinput my creds often. I'd imagine it's saving a cookie that has expired since I didn't log into it for an extended period of time, but that is pure speculation on my part. Re-enter the creds (even though it shows you already have) and then restart the game and it should work for you.

What do you mean by "don't run"? Both games are already marked as imperfect and MAME tells you what the known issues are for the ROM if you're not running no-nag or an AHK script that closes it automatically.

Currently there's no way to do this. It's something we've considered but the are no systems in place at the moment to start idle animations in a FlowControl like that

If you're using the FlowContext/FlowModel controls no the RotationAmount on FlowControl doesn't work. To rotate the items you use the RotationAxis and RotationAngle on those controls to determine the rotation amount. You can use the other properties like "IsAboveSelected" and "IsBelowSelected" or use existing converters to make that rotation amount different for each item to replicate the older method. That being said the older method still is completely valid way to theme and so the existing property could be used. There's no real advantage to NOT using the old methods if you are just adding a single static image to the wheel per game.

Games are considered duplicates if the same file or LB GamesDB ID is assigned to more than one game. I need to check the code again to remember if it flags items as duplicates if the rom file is found as an additional app in another game or not.

Ah apologies didn't read that you are looking to have it work in CTC. I'm unsure if it's possible to do this in CTC or would it would require if it was possible as I don't use that application.

Need to make sure you have the "coverFlow" namespace defined at the top of the file. Ensure you have the following with the other lines that start with xmlns xmlns:coverFlow="clr-namespace:Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Controls.CoverFlow;assembly=Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows" Other than that what you have looks accurate. Is there something specifically not working?