C-Beats

FAIRLY certain this is a known issue already fixed in the current beta release.

Pretty sure it's CriticalZone using a platform theme video. Is one of the oldest BB themes there are and comes packaged with BB already. Just need to change to it.

Go to Tools > Manage > Emulators. Select that platform and press edit. In the bottom of the Edit Platform window make sure "Disable Auto-Import" is checked. Should have been by default for that platform already.

This is an issue with some bad GamesDB file that were generated in the migration. Go to Tools > Download > Force Download GamesDb Update (may not be exact label, it's the bottom most option). Let that process run and you won't see it anymore.

Go to Tools > Download > Force Update Games DB (last option). After doing so it'll go away.

Believe it was intentionally removed from Big Box because many of the processes used in LB to do that require leaving the app and potentially using a mouse. The experience in BB could leave many users in a state they couldn't get out of and back into BB with just their arcade controls and so it wasn't put in.

This is corrected in the current beta.

Thanks again @JamesAndersonJr both corrections made. Won't show up in app until tomorrow though since the DB build process has already happened for today.

Yeah, would make a huge difference, you'd essentially have to do it then for every file. May be faster (though more risky) to just do a string replace in your data files. Open em up in a text editor and use search and replace to replace the old path with the new one.

Code change in the works for the first beta release by looks of things on my end. I don't work that side at all to really have any better timeline for ya, but yes it's been looked into and code will be changing in an effort to correct the issue.

Looking for logs that look like the third one. Looks like you have some missing DLLs. You may have a AV quarantining things willy nilly. Try and run the installer on your folder again and see if it can put em back. Make sure when you do so the installed isn't pointing to \\LaunchBox\LaunchBox like it likes to do when you do that.

I informed the web team of the issue, they'll take a look.

If using controller in BB just use the index and you can hop to a letter as well

Tools > Manage > Emulators. Go to the one(s) you want to play in softcore and press edit. There should be a new "RetroAchievements" tab with a checkbox that allows you to pick hardcore or softcore. Believe checked is hardcore and unchecked is softcore.

Depends on what window you're in. If you're in the Download Metadata and Media wizard then selecting multiple qualities will only grab the highest quality available. This is because until we start scanning each item we don't really know what is there and so just grab you the best of the ones you selected. If you're downloading from the Add/Edit Game window that is scanned already FOR that game and we're saying they DEFINATELY have all of these and so we will grab each one you pick.
Whatever you had checked last import should be checked in the next one. There is no way to apply any other logic to those being checked by default.

It's likely you're changing the global setting and not theme specific setting so it isn't actually changing anything. It's easier to bind a key/button to "Change View" and then you just go to that view and press it and select another one. If you have default settings set it'll remember that view for that platform moving forward so you should only need to do it the one time.

When importing make sure the "Combine similar ROMs" (or something similar, the only one that says combine lol) is checked and this will be done automatically. If you don't have this and later want to combine games just select each game you want to stack together, then right click and select "Combine Games". It'll ask you in a pop up which should be the primary, just pick the one you want then press ok.

The way the Platform Category View works is if the item selected has any children you go down a level and traverse them. If you're adding playlists under the console like that you need to create an "All" playlist as well and then you can enter it via that.

See my Windows tree for example


I have those ALL playlists there because you cant select the items above them directly in Big Box. If I click All in LB OR the item above it the same game list will show, so in LB they aren't super useful, but are required in BB navigation. In BB we'd really have no way when you pressed "Select" to know if you wanted to enter at the level you're on, or go down another level, so it was decided you always go down a level when possible.

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

I'm not real familiar with that system to know the best way of doing that all unfortunately. I know there is a project called C64 Dreams that is a built up and ready to go LaunchBox build for all things C64. It may be a good starting point to see how best to tackle that. Otherwise hopefully some one else can chime in with better information than I have to give.

Not used it but I believe this would do so: 
 

I made sure the team was aware. Thanks for the report

We had a data error in the DB file caused by one of the new platforms added to the DB. It's since been corrected. Go to Tools > Download > Force Download Games Database to correct

I've corrected all 4 on the website. You won't see the corrections in the DB file until tomorrow though because that process has already ran today. Thanks for the heads up!

Select the games then Tools > File Management > (Bottom most option)