InvaderJim

I'm using LaunchBox/BigBox version 13.5 with MAME 0.239 on Windows 10 Pro 64 bit. My high score uploads used to work fine, then they quit working a couple years ago, didn't get around to troubleshooting it until today. I discovered that my high score uploads worked in LaunchBox, but not BigBox. However, since I use an arcade cabinet I wanted to get them working in BigBox again. After disabling my Windows Defender Firewall my high score uploads started working. Then I re-enabled my firewall and expected it to fail (which would require me to add a rule explicitly allowing the BigBox program access to the Internet), but much to my surprise my uploads continued working. I.e. all I did to fix my issue was to toggle my Windows Defender off then on again without making any other changes. Instead of running BigBox as an admin you could try toggling your firewall off to see if that also works for you.

I used this to create my own AKNF playlist:

My Christmas wish is for a non-repeating list in random order.

I'm using BigBox 12.15 with the "Old Default" theme on Windows 10 Pro 64 bit. I have my BigBox "Default Startup View" set to "Playlists". At the top level I see my lists of playlists. If I go into a playlist, launch a game then get a high score it's uploaded to the cloud database successfully. Back at my at my top level playlist view it lists my "Favorites" and "Recent" games for each playlist. I.e. I can play any of my Favorite or Recent games without even going into a playlist, this works fine. The High Score uploading feature, however, does not work from this top level. I.e. if I launch a recent or favorite game from the top level (haven't entered a playlist) view and get a high score it's recorded locally in the game's high score file, but the high score isn't uploaded to the cloud. It appears that no MAME High Score features work at this top level view. Previously I submitted ticket 7173 for the "View High Scores" button not working at the top level (before I realized no MAME High Score features worked at the top level). I've now submitted an issue 7341 for this issue.

Cool. Curious how many different games you got high scores on? I've just been focusing on the two most popular classic arcade games myself (Pooyan and Donkey Kong :). Even on those I can't come close to #1, but it's fun trying.

Makes sense. However, wouldn't it be better for the Old Default theme to self-heal to the default keyboard (instead of self-healing into the broken keyboard)? That would keep others from running into this issue. The "Options > Views" setting doesn't seem to take affect for me (this has always been set to "Text List with Details"). Instead I have to go into "Theme-Specific Options > Old Default > Views" and set this "Games List View" back to "Text List with Details".

Instead of creating a new theme I just kept using the same "Old Default" theme folder and had deleted KeyboardView.xaml from there. This worked fine, but when I upgraded from 12.14 to 12.15 KeyboardView.xaml came back so I had to delete it again. Is this to be expected every time I upgrade? If so, would copying "Old Default" to a new folder prevent this from happening? I also noticed my "Old Default" theme's "Games List View" got changed from "Text List with Details" to "Vertical Wheel 1". Would creating a new theme folder also help prevent this from being changed

Deleting KeyboardView.xaml worked, thanks! The Old Default theme running on my arcade cab's 800x600 CRT looks and works great!

In case anyone else is impacted by this I just created a bug report for this issue: https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/7173/view-high-scores-button-doesnt-work-at-top

That would be overwhelming, but not what I proposed. I'm more concerned about lack of participation in the high score leaderboards (due to problems passing the verification checks) than cheating. A simple binary toggle to view/include verified vs unverified would give people the choice of including unverified scores when they view the leaderboards. Just noticed this feature request for a "high score companion app" that's similar to some of the things that have brought up in this forum: https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/6226/mame-high-scores-companion-app It's got my vote.

In case anyone else is impacted by this I just created a bug report for this issue: https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/7172/bigbox-1214-with-old-default-theme-running

This (Allow Add to Playlist While Locked) is the one option I miss when BigBox is locked. I could also see an argument for having every Game Details menu option in here.

I'm using BigBox 12.14 with the "Old Default" theme on Windows 10 Pro 64 bit. My monitor resolution is 800x600. When I enter search text only the top half of the letters are displayed. With the on-screen keyboard the bottom part of some of the letters are cut off (like "y" and "p"), but this isn't as impactful. In the attached screenshot it's difficult to make out my search term of "kong":

I'm using BigBox 12.14 with the "Old Default" theme on Windows 10 Pro 64 bit. I have my BigBox "Default Startup View" set to "Playlists" and a button mapped to "View High Scores". At the top level I see my lists of playlists. If I go into a playlist and press my "View High Scores" button it brings up the High Scores window as expected. Back at my at my top level playlist view it lists my "Favorites" and "Recent" games. I.e. I can play any of my Favorite or Recent games without even going into a playlist, this works fine. However, when I try to use my "View High cores" button on a Favorite or Recent game nothing happens. Is there anything I can do to get my "View High Scores" button to work at the top/root playlist screen?

After reading this I decided to try adding a Windows Defender exclusion for my mame.exe (even though it's on my internal/primary C drive) using the instructions here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/add-an-exclusion-to-windows-security-811816c0-4dfd-af4a-47e4-c301afe13b26 Now when I launch dkong (Donkey Kong) from within BigBox it's: 7.5 seconds faster on the first game launch (6.5 vs. 14 seconds) 5.5 seconds faster on all subsequent game launches (2.7 vs 8.2 seconds) This is running MAME 0.239 with BigBox 12.14 on an ancient/slow computer built in 2009 with Windows 10 Pro 21H2 (OS Build 19044.1865), 12 GB RAM and a Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARS 2TB spinning drive. I suspect those with non-ancient computers probably won't see as big of a speed increase. The first launch is the first time you launch a game after booting Windows. With or without a Defender exclusion the very first time you launch a game (after starting your computer) there's more of a delay.