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Yeah it kind of does, but elsewhere, it's the items within the box which were premium only, whereas the video option and another were outside that box, which made it seem that they were disabled. I used to have a premium license too, but I found I barely used it in that time. It's only since I've added my Steam and Epic library I've been using it more

So I think I've found the issue; Under Tools > Options > Visuals > Game Details, ‘Show Videos’ isn't checked, but it's also impossible to modify the check box. Anyone know why?

*edit* ok, it's a paid-only feature - I don't know why that was so hard to find, I finally found a post that mentioned it. I have view set to play videos automatically I have the Steam trailer imported, and then used the Steam Scraper plugin to import another one, and both show within the games metadata menu But for some reason, the videos don't play in the side bar within launchbox. Is this a premium feature? I can't find any other settings that pertain to video playback on game selection

bit of a weird one, but I want to try using two sources for ROMS, which would both have overlap. I have a Surface Go with Bigbox installed, and a network drive mapped to my NAS with all my ROMs. I can VPN into the network too, but for situations I can't, I want to remap to a microSD with some of the smaller ROMsets. Is this possible, and if so, what's the best way of doing it? I'm assuming that keeping the same structure and remapping the micro SD to the same drive letter as the Network drive would work, but it's a tad clunky.

Yeah Shield can do it. No good for me though since I want to be able to access it on the go

I'm getting this error now since the last two updates: Edit- ignore, I reimported and it's working again now.

I want to prioritise different regions for each platform, i.e. Japan for PC Engine, PAL for Super Nintendo etc. This is particularly true for box art - some regions have much better box art than others. Any ideas?

Just installed the new beta; arcade still has the issue that adding new titles also duplicates existing titles in the same folder

Honestly, I have nothing against the device itself, they blow everything else out of the water in terms of cost. But there's a lot of cat and mouse from Amazon and the hackers, and... I dislike being told what I can and can't do with my own hardware. reminds me of the old PSP days lol they will get rooted at some point, and at that point I may become interested again...

I have done a very deep dive on this, and essentially the issue is that the kernel of the ROM my phone runs (and by extension, many other ROMs) doesn't contain the cifs.ko module. This is the module that you need to mount a share to the filesystem natively. From here I see basically 2/3 options: I can install a custom ROM like lineage that has the cifs.ko module I can make my own module (not going to happen) I can wait for someone else to do it. I've gone for the 4th secret option, use Windows. Honestly, it's been an interesting and thought provoking couple of weeks, and I've learned a lot, but I don't want to install a custom ROM on my phone. I'll consider it on my Fire if and when it gets rooted, but essentially, all I'm missing now is that sweet spot where ROMs are large enough to take up a lot of space en mass, yet old enough to be loadable over an Internet share, so PS1 ish. In the meantime, I essentially traded a Fire HD 10 2021 for a Surface Go 2, and it's so much easier to set up the Windows device, I can't see myself going back. I still have the Fire HD 8, but idk, it's just the worst of all worlds now between my phone and the Go. Let me know if you have any questions I can answer

So I have a fair mix of Japanese and EU/USA games, and a lot of times the Japanese boxes tend to have a different orientation to the Western releases. It ends up creating big gaps in the list of games. Has anyone else found a way to resolve this aesthetically? Perhaps by grouping the boxes by region, or maybe with custom art?

Essentially, according to Jason, Android have to approve apps to be able to access outside of their own directory. File managers have that ability because Google allow it, Retroarch and Launchbox don't. If you root your device and install magisk, you can choose to grant su permissions to apps yourself.

That's not a Launchbox issue, it's an Android issue, but you're right that it's permissions based.

FYI the gamecube imported fine, so it looks like this is just the arcade platform. The only way around it seems to be delete and reimport, so I did that but lost some game specific settings. I enabled the latest beta so that's the version I'm on

This is using the "import games" option, which I think is the only way to import on android. In this example, I added one new ROM to the Arcade folder, than ran another import for that collection. Afterwards, all the existing ROMs were reimported and show up twice in the menu. See the screenshots below (add duplicates was unticked)

I can't seem to find an option for this, but after the initial creation and import of a platform, when I try and import games from the same folder, it duplicates everything that was there already. Is there a known process to add games to an existing platform?

Ok I realised the problem; Retroarch was already open in the background. If you try and launch anything while Retroarch is already open, it will just return you to the same Retroarch view you had open. For me this was the same screen it opens to when you select a core so it looked like it wasn't finding the core. All working now. Thanks for the quick reply

So I think this is different to the other PC Engine issue, OP didn't say how he fixed it in the end. My issie is that the only emulator cores that show up in Launchbox are Mednafen ones, and the only cores I have available in Retroarch are Beetle. I don't believe they're the same thing with different names because nothing I've tried will let me launch games. How can I select the Beetle cores within Launchbox?

I'd quite like an option to be able to filter by the number of players in multiplayer. Is this recorded?

Got it, thanks for the info. And for the record, I just want you to know, I appreciate the hard work

oh, that's interesting - I just assumed the issues were with scoped storage, like everything else. I don't suppose you have any documentation around where you got to? If I had a thread to pull, I could poke around on the XDA forums and maybe get a few leads?

I'm using the Fire HD 8 on Android 9. I was thinking that the Fire toolkit provided root, but it in fact does not.

3 Hours seems like a long time. What settings did you use?

that's unfortunate. That will end up hurting him in the long term, almost everyone uses emulators from beind a front end these days. I'd rather convenience than performance in most cases

I've had a look too and posted in another thread. If you have root access you should be able to put a symlink in below the /emulated/storage/0/ directory (I believe) and access it that way. I don't have root to my device, so I'm hoping for a workaround.