C-Beats

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)

You'd just add the games you want to see on the grid. That being said there is no logic to combine several platform items into one grid item. You wouldn't be able to right click it and say "Launch the SNES version"

Pick the platform, then click on any of the games in grid. Press CTRL+A to select all then CTRL+E to open bulk edit. Press Next, select Platform in the field drop down, then in the text box under it put "Sega Arcade" (without quotes) and then press next. Say no more changes. Say yes to all prompts that appear. Rinse and repeat with the other platforms.

Yeah, if you'd look on the feedback site that is a known error related to having outdated plugins. Remove those plugins and that will go away.

During MAME import there is a checkbox asking if you want them made. It's on by default. Turn it off and it won't create those.

Anything worth saving is found in your Data folder. If you have backups enabled in LaunchBox it'll automatically back up that folder into a single archive and stick it in the Backups folder. It'll keep the last 10 backups at startup and shutdown for easy roll back. You can also manually create a backup file via the LaunchBox interface and store that somewhere you want as well.

Use the "Games Missing Media" sidebar, let it scan artwork, select games missing box front, select all the games and then go to Tools > File Management, select bottom option. Export/Move the files to a new folder

If the files aren't listed in import it's almost always because you already have them imported and just aren't seeing them because they are hidden, or imported to a platform they shouldn't be. First step is to look in View > Show/Hide and make sure nothing is being auto-hidden via that menu. If those are all off and you still can't find it you can run the Audit tool to attempt to find what game imported is pointed to the file in question (list view can likely be used as well)

If using default image type settings Box - Front is placed there

Scrape As means "Hey what system do we call this thing in our database?". When we look for any metadata/media for that game we look at the platform name if it matches, and that scrape as value if it doesn't. For example it's not "Xbox" in our database it's "Microsoft Xbox" and so you're essentially saying "I know I call it something different, but look for all the good stuff over here"

Should resume from where it it's at if you close and reopen LaunchBox. If it doesn't just rerun the wizard. If you select the "do no replace" option it'll only download the media for the items that still need it

Intel GPU's have a known issue rendering WPF related to their anti-alias logic. In the Intel Graphics control panel there is a setting where you can either enable or disable aliasing for an application. By default the value is "detect" or "handle automatically" or something like that. You need to set that drop down to either Enable OR Disable. The value you pick really doesn't matter and either will work. For some reason that auto-detect feature makes it so entire chunks of elements don't render correctly though like you are seeing.

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Sounds like the font load we do is potentially failing on startup.  You can manually go to \\LaunchBox\LBThemes\Default\Fonts and then right click the Gilroy fonts and select "Install for all users" in the context menu that appears to install the font in your system permanently and it should correct what you're seeing.

I've looked into this and made some adjustments to code internally to correct. Should be in the next beta release. I believe the goal is have that out today.

Yeah, I think this is the cause. I have a full path in mine that isn't in yours and it's causing issue in the code. A work around for now is to open the yml file and in the "pref-path" entry put the full path to the folder the emulator is located in. Save the file and then try to import again in LB. Alternatively you can rename/move that file out of that directory, run the import and put it back. I've noted the problem location in code and it should be corrected in the next beta release.

We've seen this happen in the past with older metadata files. If you can open up LaunchBox and go to Tools > Download > Force Download Games Database (or something similar). Fairly certain it's the bottom most option. Let that run and you should see the issue go away.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll get it cleaned up

That button just calls the appropriate AHK script you have set on that emulator. Sounds like the script needs altered to do what you want. If you need help adjusting it you'd need to provide more information like what emulator you are using, and what hotkey within the emulator you have "Reset Game" set to since you'll need AHK to pretend to push that button.

All data pertaining to your personal library in \\LaunchBox\Data. The files that contain information about specific games would be \\LaunchBox\Data\Platforms\{NameOfPlatform}.xml

I personally would like to address it in the near future. That being said I don't really get a say on when things are done. In the future I'd like to be able to add the name of the executable/process to look for in Edit Game so that a user can basically tell LB "hey don't pay attention to that first window, look for THIS one instead". No eta on when a change like that will make it in though.

That's been a thing for as long as I've been around. I think it's largely because most of the events that create playlists create a PRETTY large number of them with names that aren't always pretty. There were concerns it'd bloat that view with playlist names that made knowing what you were looking at pretty difficult. I'm referring to things like auto-generated genre child playlists. Due to this I think the logic was to hide them so only the ones you manually created yourself were shown and not lost in the sea of the other stuff.

Go to Tools > Manage Emulators and select Redream and press edit. Then go to the Associated Platforms tab. Uncheck the "Use M3U Playlists for Multiple Discs" and press OK then launch the game. Redream doesn't list .m3u file support on their page and so I'm assuming in an event it's asked to open a file it doesn't support it just loads to the menu.