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For me the crashes continue. The app will load up fine to the platfrom screen, but when I select a platform, it crashes.

Another issue that I noticed is that I cannot change any of the game art. When I go to a game and select edit media, i can select one of the media options and it will show me alternative media i can select, but the app won't let me select any of those media options. Thanks

@faeran I received an update for Launchbox for Android 1.18 beta this morning and after updating I noticed that launchbox is crashing constantly. I am not sure what is causing it, but when it crashes, I have to go to the apps sections, force close launchbox , clear the cache and then launchbox will work again. I am attaching 2 logs for you to review. My device is a Samsung Galaxy fold 3. On another note, I can verify that video steaming is working. However, I have noticed that some video links don't work but this is expected as videos come and go on youtube. I have noticed that some non-working videos can be fixed if you change the http to https on the video url section under edit metadata. If that doesn't work, just go to youtube and look for game play video and use those urls. Thanks Debug 2025-02-28 02-36-10 PM.log Debug 2025-02-28 02-34-43 PM.log

ahh good catch. I was writing this post last night close to midnight and was half-asleep.

@faeran Launchbox will not automatically update my version of mame its stuck on version .256 while the latest version is .274. Please help

@faeran I've been trying to import a "full" mame rom set but i notice that the importer is a little wonky, for example I have the mat mania rom, but it imports exitinghour (Japanese version) as the main version, additionally mat mania is not even imported as a clone of exitinghour. Also matmaia is the parent, but it never imports. I have tried using north america and world as the regions to prioritize and i get the same results. In another example, when tapper is imported, it imports rootbeer tapper as the main rom, but never imports tapper budweiser 1/27/84 which is the parent. Please advise

Hello everyone Since version 13.19, for whatever reason, my mame plug-in will not update. It is stuck in version 0.257, while the current version of mame is 0.274. I have tried fixing the plug in but it still won't update. Please help Thanks

update: I was able to get platform videos working. Though I noticed that there is an issue that when you go from platform to the options menu and back the platform videos sometimes don't automatically play. You have to move to another platform away from the current, then the videos start playing again. hopefully you can find a fix to the search issue, asap. attached is a screenshot of what unified light looks like on phone. This is with the theme updated to 1.3 Thanks

@faeran I just download version 1.17 beta of Launchbox for Android and for me it's nothing but a hot mess. There are so many issues that for me it's in no way usable. First, I have it installed on a Galaxy fold 3, 512mg phone and after I installed it, i ran into the following issues; 1. Search - search function does not work. Whenever I try to search for a game, the artwork and box art change, but the there is no functionality within any game list. It does not change to show games that I am searching for 2. I download platform videos, they don't work or play 3. Unified light vertical wheel view has uneven artwork. screenshot is huge, while boxart is very small (horizontal view) 4. streaming gameplay videos from youtube don't work. I get the "video downloading" prompt but no video As is, there is no way for me to use this app. Please fix

A few days ago I read @faeran's October 25th comment on the beta forum which I think really explains the current state of Launchbox. As users we need to remember that the Launchbox team has other priorities aside from Launchbox. They have family, work, school etc. So, it would be impossible for them to work on Launchbox 24/7. What they have brought us up to know is a very good product, probably one of the best emulator frontends on the market. For that Thank you!!!. With that said, I would like to address some things that many of us here are probably thinking about but have not said out loud. 1. For a paid product, Launchbox needs to be a bit more refined. Although we are here to help you beta test new releases, I think more internal testing needs to be done, prior to release. I think most of us would agree that it is very frustrating that with almost every new bata release, something unrelated to the bata almost always breaks. Then you have to waste time going back to fix what should not have been broken in the first place. 2. Add video downloads as part of the paid version of Launchbox. Asking users to pay upwards of 75.00 for Launchbox and then an additional $20 for access to emumovies is a little excessive. I understand that you are probably trying to help emumovies generate a little income, but you have to also think of the user. I know there are ways to import download videos, etc, but this should be the exemption not the rule. Screenscraper should be added to Launchbox as an option. And yes I understand why you refuse to add screenscraper to Launchbox. 3. Temporarily pause adding any new feature to Launchbox and please concentrate on fixing and/or investigating the many issues that users have reported that have not been resolved. New features are great but not at the expense of lingering issues not being addressed. 4. Fix Launchbox for Android. There are many issues that need to be addressed, which have not been addressed. The UI could use an overhaul (this might be wishful thinking), and functionality could use little work. 5. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Your hard work is apricated Finally, just remember, minor little annoyances, like what I have mentioned here can make a big difference between a user wanting to stay with and financially support Launchbox or them switching to other emulator frontends. I have said my peace, May the Force Be With You!!

Good morning @C-Beats I agree with you, but in my case I did not make any changes to the my files or folder attributes. Also I have the same issue with two different builds of Launchbox. One is on my pc hard drive and the other is on an external hard drive. I got the same error trying to delete files on both drives. No attributes were changed on either drive. thanks

Update to previous post: I did some digging and found that the error message is correct. Launchbox is having an issue with windows file permissions. I experimented by going to my arcade folder, right clicking it and unchecking the read only attribute for the folder (this is a normal default windows attribute for all folders). As soon as I removed this attribute, I was able to properly delete a game in launchbox and the file was removed. However soon after the file was deleted, the read only attribute came back. So this is definitely an issue within Launchbox. @C-Beats @faeran Any ideas on what is going on here? Thanks

Good evening I am having an issue where Launchbox does not delete roms, when I delete a game from the system. I have the option to delete roms checked, and I get the warning message that the rom will be deleted, but the rom does not actually delete. The game is removed from the system, but the roms remains. This is with a mame rom set. The following is the error message i am getting. The file is not in user by any other app and the file is not read only. Please advise.

ahh yes that fixed it. Thought it was the same issue as before. Thanks

Hello and Happy 4th of July I just updated to 13.15 full version, and I am now getting plug-in pop up again. Thanks