Mark Norville

Thanks @-McFly- I did try yesterday, but it totally messed up my test build, so I will not be doing that again lol I have noticed that you have a few things missing on your playlists, and I apologise if you already have these, but I could not find them 1) Arcade Ports Arcade Bubble Bobble, NES, Amiga etc etc as an example, Shinobi so loads of arcade ports available 2) Bubble Bubble collection so Rainbow Islands, Parasol Stars, Bust-A-Move etc I could possibly go all day listing things OCD sucks lol Regards Mark

@JoeViking245 Many thanks for that, all back to normal. Thank God for backing up files and helpful mods Regards Mark

Ok forget that, I just tried with someone else's collection. It froze my PC up loading playlists so I deleted the lot and now it is a fresh install pretty much, it does not even have my Steam API any more. I am just glad this is only a test/skinning PC rather than a main build. Oh well, do everything by hand then I suppose, I might do another test or possibly at least, but safer if I stick to know what I know (which is usually nothing) Thanks for your help anyway Regards Mark

Many thanks for the reply @JoeViking245 My problem is that the PC that I work on in the kitchen, none of the games are installed so they are just fantasy games that I have in my Steam library but not on PC. I have horizontal and vertical arcade machines so the horizontal then everything will be installed but vertical I wanted to display the PC games, but have it so only vertical games were favourites and the rest was just eye candy. Unless I am missing something, and the gameid refers to what it is on the games database and not installation file or local database file? I will give it a try tomorrow and see if I can copy a PC play list across. Thanks for your answer Regards Mark

@-McFly- Sorry to trouble you, I have asked a question in the Noobs section which I think is lined to this thread (or hopefully at least) I can download these files and then put them into the data and other folders and your playlists become mine? My apologies to yourself and the mods if I am repeating a question, but I came across this after I had posted and it looks like the information that I needed. Thanks for any help given Regards Mark

I have found C:\LaunchBox\Data\Playlists\Need For Speed.html C:\LaunchBox\Images\Playlists C:\LaunchBox\Videos\Playlists Is it just a case of copying those across, especially the html files but then I found which is worrying, in the HTML files <Playlist> <PlaylistId>4424f57a-e594-4645-82e0-dfc00f82f3e4</PlaylistId> and <GameId>97f0ef24-2f5d-4371-8b38-b76f7a1db933</GameId> I am guessing that the gameid will change if I imported games on another PC?

Thanks for any help given. I have multiple PC's and the one that I am on at the moment, I keep up to date with my PC games, but I use it just for testing and trying new things out. I know that if you store your games in the games folder then you can have it as portable. However, I want to create collections of my PC games in the kitchen where this PC is, but I want to be able to transfer the collections to my arcade PC so that I do not have to do it all over again. Is this possible? If yes, would someone be so kind as to tell me what files I need to move etc Regards Mark

FIXED : For some reason the latest version when I checked it had put https://steamcommunity.com/id/name as double fields so it was https://steamcommunity.com/id/ and then in the field https://steamcommunity.com/id/name so it was doing it twice. I have used the beta 5 version and yesterday no problems importing Steam games. I upgraded to the full version this morning and I am trying to import one game. However, I am getting a message saying that I am offline and that my profile needs to be public. I have not changed my Steam account yesterday so I am not sure what is going on here. I am not sure if any one else can possibly confirm if this is a bug or not. I am on Windows 11 Pro, hard wired connection to the internet so I know that I am online. 13:19 May 14th 2026 Regards Mark

Hi, Many thanks for your reply, I have rescraped MAME so that it put back the settings to how they were. I did not know any other way of doing it, but -artwork_crop -skip_gameinfo -waitvsync -nofilter -keyboardprovider dinput -rompath %romlocation% Is back in settings. My test rom is 10 Yard Fight and the play back and audio is back to being stuttery so time to remove -waitvsync You deserve a gold star, with the -waitvsync removed the game plays as normal. Regards Mark

Hi, As a new user I done the import full set of roms and allowed LB to do all the settings etc etc for MAME 0.261 A massive mistake on my part, the games would be stuttery as hell both in audio and also game play. I stripped out all of the command line that LB uses and now it works perfectly. Someone needs to look at this and change the import process, my PC is not the best but it is not the worse either i7-3770k 16 gigs of ram, gtx 4070 graphics card. MAME should run out of the box, and not be as flawed as it is during a LB import. Regards Mark

When you import a full rom set, you can use the check boxes so that it does not import those files. So Megaplay would not be included. However, do not use the commands from Launchbox as they are totally rubbish to say the least. The games do not play correctly, they are stuttery and unplayable for the most of them. I just stripped the whole code out and it works fine now. Regards Mark

Have a look at the following thread It has a work around for now Regards Mark

Sadly this is a major issue, I just tried to open LB Sunday 03rd of Dec 2023 and it will not load, reported but sad to see this happen. I done the xml file and works, I will post 808's suggestion here so new people can read Oh and just thinking, does this mean now that you have to change the company name to Broken Software? SOLUTION Can you both try the following: With LaunchBox closed: Navigate to the folder you installed LaunchBox in. Go to the Data folder inside of this folder Open the Settings.xml file Look for "EnableAutomatedImports" tag. (It should be around line 54 - may not be exact depending in your build) If it is Set to "true" change it to false Save and close the file Reopen LaunchBox Object reference not set to an instance of an object. App: LaunchBox Version: 13.8 Theme: Default Type: System.NullReferenceException Site: Void MoveNext() Source: Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Integrations.Xbox.XboxAccountClient.RevertLiteralCustomer(Object reference) at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Integrations.Xbox.XboxAccountClient.RefreshTokens() at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Desktop.Processes.Scanning.<>c__DisplayClass9_0.VerifyDistributedFilter() at System.Threading.Thread.StartHelper.Callback(Object state) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state) --- End of stack trace from previous location --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() Recent Log: 18:52:53 Exception

I will do this on a separate thread, so it is easier to find. I have solved the above problem. I removed LB from my mechanical hard drive, put onto my SSD and put the MAME roms on the SSD as well, this time it works great no stuttering etc etc. The only thing that I will say is that the graphics are blocky, I use 10-Yard Fight for my test game, So I am going to have to go into MAME settings to get it less blocky, I know that this is a retro game, but I cannot remember the game in the arcades being this blocky, it is worse than Minecraft. E.G new games trying to look retro. I might do this again, but keep my MAME roms on the mechanical and LB on my SSD to see if I get that same stutter and slow down and then I will edit this to reflect on my findings. Regards Mark