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Interesting. Don't know that I've ever seen a CD case that looked like that.

If you go into Options > Security there are several things you can remove from the system menu. As long as you don't hide it while locked you should be able to

Locking Big Box removes this option

@PaulyC Can you confirm the left/right side of the jewel case looks better for you in beta 6? @spycat we have a clear spine variant, have you tried that?

Yeah if the games are all in \\LaunchBox\Games and your emulators are in that folder (and portable) as well it's just copying the folder from one location to the other.

The answer to your question varies greatly depending on your setup. LaunchBox is an entirely portable app and moving it only requires copy the folder the a new location. If your games aren't in the LaunchBox folder after doing so you will want to select the games by platform and in the Tools menu there is a menu item to change the rom path (believe in the File Management submenu). You can use that to point LB to where the roms are now located.

Long press a game and then in the menu appears press "Edit Media"

Hey all. Probably one of the last updates I'll make on the forum about the app. Will only be making updates on the CHAOS Discord server moving forward. Just wanted to let ya all know I stood up a temporary SquareSpace website to distribute the app with. You can now go to www.libraryinchaos.com and get the app from there. Isn't a real sexy website but should serve the purpose I need it to until I get the time to hand craft one.

This is almost always caused by one of the following: 1) You have a service called nahimic running on your computer. Check Task Manager service tab and look for a service starting with that name and shut it off it you find it. Then restart Big Box 2) You are using an integrated Intel GPU (like Iris XE) and need to go into Intel's graphics dashboard and turn Anti-Aliasing either OFF or ON (doesn't really matter which) instead of it's default "guess" value. Then restart Big Box

Not sure where you are seeing "Blank boxes" where a video should be. Anything in default themes of LB/BB either will show a screenshot image where the video should be, or just hide the video control if there are no videos. In either app you can currently theme something to make this possible and without requiring the video be copied for every game. That being said if you are wanting it to appear in the LaunchBox Games Details Carousel control that currently isn't possible. This is the first I've ever really heard of this request, and it doesn't personally make a lot of sense to me. That being said you can create a BitBucket ticket for it though, if it gets enough votes I'm sure it'd be considered. At this time this features isn't on any roadmap though as far as I'm aware.

Pretty sure this was already done and had to be removed because the functionality breaks certain Android setups.

Feature already exists as a side bar filter. On the left hand side where you see "Platforms" or "Platform Categories" there is an options that is called "Games Missing Media" pick that and you have the ability to show only games missing a certain media type.

Fairly certain that view uses what ever image group you're using in LaunchBox for that platform. If you open LaunchBox and go to Atari 7800 and change the image group to 3D boxes it'd look the same. The image in the top isn't our 3D model, it's the 3D Box Image.

No need to apologize, I just didn't realize you added images to the OP instead of replying with them. MAME really shouldn't be used for non-arcade games unless it the only thing that can play them. RetroArch or stand alone emulators are better for pretty much every system they cover. I admit the assumption is on our end that people would only use MAME for MAME games and can see how that can cause some confusion. Staff is aware of the issue and we'll discuss internally if we want to make any changes to the process.

Just saw you added pictures to your initial post. Yeah the fact that you're pointing to MAME as the emulator is the issue. When using MAME as the emulator we ask MAME for info on the game you're passing, and since non arcade titles are SWL entries it doesn't return any info and so LB see's it as an invalid rom. If you change that entry to something else you should be good to go.

I'd also make sure you aren't pointing to a MAME emulator when doing the imports as the import wizard acts differently when doing so and could cause issues as well.

To be honest a lot of what you're saying doesn't make a ton of sense to me. We don't pay ANY attention to the folder path the game is in unless you tell us to via import. LaunchBox is entirely portable as well and we don't save anything to a shared space or registry entry. Could you show me what the contents of your genesis rom folder looks like so I can see? Also a pic of the options you are using in the import would help a lot.

Sounds a lot like you have one of the "Hide Games Missing..." options on and have already imported the games the first time. Go to the View > Show/Hide menu in LaunchBox and make sure none of the "Hide Games Missing..." options are checked. Another good way to check if the import is saying "0 files found" or no games are listed in the last page of the wizard is to go back to the import options page and select "Force Import duplicate games" and then continue. If they then show up, you already have the games imported into your collection.

As Neil stated originally. You need to email support@unbrokensoftware.com and ask them for the installer.

We don't have a Language field so no built in method will be perfect. You could probably create an auto-populated playlist to find them by using the following criteria though, it won't be exact because a lot of country specific versions were still multilingual, but will get you closer. Region - Has None of the Values - United States; North America; Europe

While importing there is an option that says "Combine games with the same title". Leave that checked and all versions of a ROM will be collapsed into a single game entry. Then you have access to them all but only require media for the parent game.

There is an option via Tools > Options to delete ROMs on game deletion. If that is off no ROM files will ever be deleted from your drive. Even if it's on that deletion event has it's own popup explicitly for it. When deleting the platform the first prompt is just saying that it deletes all LB game entries within that platform. If that option is on a second prompt should appear asking if you want to delete the ROM files. Then a final prompt appears asking if you'd like us to remove all artwork/media you have for this platform.

How did you import your ROMs? I'm fairly certain all of our imports recommend MAME for Arcade, and Full Set Importer doesn't even work with Retroarch. This is because you haven't set the core for RetroArch (which again the Wizard would have asked you for in any recent version of LaunchBox). To adjust it in the upper right menu of LaunchBox go to Tools > Manage > Emulators. Select Retroarch and press edit. In the window that appears (Edit Emulator) click "Associated Platforms" find the row with the first column set to "Arcade" you will see in the Core column you have it set to 2048_libretro (or something similar). You need to set that to the core you wish to use. Alternatively you could add MAME as an emulator, then go to the same tab and add Arcade to it and set it as the default emulator for your games and run your collection through MAME instead. Some features of LB/BB require you to be using MAME for Arcade games to function properly (mostly the high score functionality)

If your account can't be accessed at the ID URL provided in the wizard than you have NOT performed the steps list in the wizard as instructed. Please read the wizard and if required the post linked in the wizard. Pretty obvious at this point you haven't. Your profile and your ID aren't the same thing and no custom URL ever uses the profile endpoint. In fact if you did the steps we asked of you the Steam page itself says right on it "Your profile will be available at: https://steamcommunity.com/id/..."

I'd verify that you don't have extra files that don't belong in your Data folder. We've seen this issue caused by files with "backup" in their filename located in the Data folder.