C-Beats

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)

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"