Kuro Houou

Yeah, you need to point Launchbox to your external storage, thats the only place it can fall fit.

So I have the latest versions, mostly the tube version but one standard form factor new one as well.. I got rid of my older versions. That said, you will need additional storage added on no matter what you do.. just not enough space regardless. Add a USB drive and move Apps to that. Your primary storage is just not enough.. why they give so little is beyond me.. I mean 16GB should just be a given even 4-5 years ago.

I just got my Retroid Pocket 2+ and am trying to do the same thing. I copied the Launchbox directory to my SDCard but when I go back to options and try to do the move it says something about not having permissions... Anyone else have this or figure out the problem?

I switched to the boxes grid view, seems to work the best for me performance wise. One thing I was thinking was maybe having to load extra images was slowing it down too much.. I wonder it would be possible to disable certain images already downloaded, like turn off backgrounds?

I have noticed on all my Nvidia Shields, once I load up a platform full of games and box art etc., performance has tanked to the point where I can't even scroll to the bottom before the scrolling grinds to a halt then the app crashes.. The odd thing, my biggest platform "Arcade" doesn't have this issue, but something like SNES does. Just wondering if anyone else has seen similar performance issues or not?

This is why I prefer retroarch if at all possible for all my emulation.. it keeps all saves and states in one place, then I just use autosync (another app) to sync all my saves and states to google drive. This has worked awesome for years. I can go to any tv (shield tv) in my house and pickup where I left off in the other room. Or I take my phone on the road and have the same thing, all saves in sync still. You gotta try it! It really makes a world of difference. I won’t run any other device unless it supports android (or another OS google drive works on) for this reason.

I paid the 10 bucks to support you all and the great work you have done, but also hopefully the great work yet to come as well. It’s early days but functional for the most part now just wish I could set this as the default launcher.

One last suggestion, could we possibly get platform wide settings in the main options area? Like if you want to set all platforms to a specific view, or set extract archives to "false" for all platforms.. Would be nice to just have these settings in the general options area so we can easily set it to all our platforms saving us time from going into each individual one

I just noticed a bug where the extract rom archives (.zip or 7z) option toggle will always show on, even when its technically off. I have verified this in the xml files for the platforms that the setting is false... yet the gui still shows the toggle as on. The xml file seems to be the accurate setting as when I run the game its not extracting the zip file which is good. just a UI bug it seems. I can go in and toggle it off, but as soon as I exit that settings area and re-enter it still shows it as on.

I haven't tried it on my RP2 yet.. but I do have Lineage OS running on it now so I think it should work.. I'll give it a try soon.

Just wanted to say I have the NAS mounted share working fine now on all my Shields Thanks for the quick fix!

From what I understand of the Nvidia shield, using the native mount allows only read access yes.. which would mean we could read rom files, but writing to say a LaunchBox directory with thumbnails would not be possible as far as I know… I am not a dev so not 100% certain, this is only what I have experienced when trying to write to the native mount with other apps and what I have been reading online. That said, as long as I can read my Roms I’ll still be happy, that is the 100% blocker for me right now. I just bought some 256GB micro sd cards to use in my Shields which should be plenty for any thumbnails or other media files LaunchBox may download in the future. Thank You for the work to at least read from the mount though, can’t wait to use LaunchBox on my Shields around the house!

One thing that will also need to be overcome is the ability to write to the mounted share as well. I think step one is at least getting read access to the network share so we can at least play our games, but step two will be making sure we can write back to the mounted share as this is a little bit of an issue on the Shield, usually requires a custom smb client in the app I believe, which id be fine with. This way you can write all the images/thumbnails/data for launchbox back to the NAS so its shared across all devices without having to download on every single device. That said, thanks to the devs for working on at least prioritizing getting access to the mounted share so we can at least play games through launchbox Anxiously awaiting using Launchbox on my Shields!

I appreciate your dedication to the Shield that is for sure. I am guessing Nvidia possibly did things differently to make it work the way they wanted, it’s an amazing device all things considered. I thought it would be a long shot to share one LaunchBox folder so not to surprised there. I haven’t had any issues with the PC versions on my NAS but suspect android might be a little slower.. but are you using lower quality/sized images by chance as well? That might help things actually. I found LaunchBox on my Pixel 4 very fast, honestly it surprised me if you could figure out how to present the NAS/mounted storage for the Shield I will be ever greatful! It’s the last piece to the puzzle

Oh one last thing I will add... Would love to be able to just point LaunchBox for Android to my LaunchBox folder on my NAS that the PC version uses. Would be amazing if I just had to have one backend instance of LaunchBox with all my games and configs... I realize that might be tough seeing as they are different platforms though.... With that said, my next best option is to have the Android LaunchBox folder on my NAS that all my Shields/Android devices can point to when I am on my home network. That way they are always in sync, I don't have to configure each one individually etc... That would be my utopia for Android Launchbox (This is what I have setup for all my PCs now btw, works amazing!)