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I don't believe it's a problem with Third Screen, I think it's a problem with which monitor Big Box is seeing first and assigning as the primary.

After booting down my arcade cabinet for a couple of days, then booting it back up the main monitor will switch to one of the "third screen" monitors, instead of using my main monitor. The main monitor selection is stable about 50% of the time, otherwise the third screen becomes the main monitor. Is my main monitor going to sleep too fast? Would that cause a divergent enumeration of the monitors in windows? What else can I look at to avoid this hiccup?

I believe I do, in fact. I didn't realize that could make a difference.

Cool, that worked thanks Idk if my installation is borked, but when I open the game details from the screensaver I can't go back using the BACK button. I'm just stuck there. Same thing happens if I open the Discovery Center actually. My only workaround was to map a button to "return to the platform view", which gets me out of there. I can use that same "return to platform" button while in the stuck screensaver game details screen to get out, but again the BACK button itself seems to do nothing. Just me?

Duh - I was on 13.22. Updated to Beta and there it is. Super cool! Is there a way to change the Press "A" to a different icon that matches my arcade control input? Like a png somewhere?

Just downloaded to give that screensaver feature a try but didn't see it in the menu anywhere. Does it only work on the default skin or something like that?

I answered my own question here by trying it out. So if you mimic the proper folder structure, then point LB to the proper folder it automatically updates the marquees for the games. Rad!

So, if I correct my folder structure is there a good way to rescrape for just the arcade marquees?

Hmm ok. Well what can I do now? I have many Terminator console game marquees in different folders (like 10 or 15 of them) all assigned to Terminator Salvation. Is there a good way out of this situation that doesn't involve the deletion of all those files? If it were just the one game it's not such a big deal but this has occurred on many arcade games that have home ports so it would be good if there was a way to manage this. I think my folder structure mirrors the nomenclature convention that LB uses, not sure why this happened.

My marquee images aren't in the LB folders, I have them elsewhere. But in that folder each system has it's own dedicated folder. For example "marquee images\Sega CD\Terminator, The (usa).jpg" and "marquee images\Super Nintendo Entertainment System\Terminator 2 - Judgment Day (USA).jpg" and several others. They're in different folders with different names, but the similarity pulled them into Terminator Salvation (arcade). Same thing happened with my Killer Instinct, the marquee pulled in the SNES and Gameboy ports from their different folders. If I hit "remove" in LB doesn't LB also attempt to delete the file or does it leave it in place?

So when I added Terminator Salvation LB decided that all the terminator games on home consoles shared a marquee with this arcade game. So it's like Sega CD, SNES, Genesis etc all those home console marquees are now assigned to Terminator Salvation. If I click "remove" in LB it attempts to delete the files, so how can I keep the files yet remove them from being assigned to that game?

Switched to WMP from VLC and that helped my newly developed freeze issue with this version. I run RL in the background for most games but I'll test a couple that I launch directly with LB. Using VLC froze the ever living bejeezus out of BB for me, so it's nice that WMP seems stable for now.

Just emailed back and forth a bit with Brian again, my crash has returned - kind of? I updated to the newest version, then experienced the Attract crash, then reverted to my last stable install but the crash remains. The weird thing is I have an older PC upstairs and when I put my BB drive in there it will still run for days. So there's some hardware conflict of some kind happening somewhere. For now I'm just leaving attract off when I want to run it for long periods. Sucks that you don't get the attract mode but it's much better than having no front end active when you want to walk up and play.

Check out my comment a few posts up - I recommend getting in touch with the devs directly via email. You can exchange your Windows Logs to help them diagnose exactly what's going on. They're certainly improving the issue but without knowing any specifics from your logs there's only so much that can be done.

I figured c-beats was on the team, always coming in with informed assistance!

Prior to the fix I was unable to reopen Big Big without a computer restart after a Big Box crash - something to do with the .NET framework getting screwed up. I had a very long back and forth with LB dev Brian via email where I provided tons of logs and tests to him and he was able to make the latest patch with that. He mentioned the following; "...it's more likely a page filing crash of some kind that's all controlled by .NET. The way .NET is supposed to work is that it's supposed to take care of this stuff automatically. It's one of the benefits of using a framework like this. This indicates there's something inherently wrong with what it's doing here, and we'll have to see what we can do to patch this up." I recommend reaching out to the dev team directly so they can investigate your logs and (hopefully) get to the bottom of the issue. I think I may get a slightly sluggish issue people are talking about, but it's only after running for a VERY long time and there seems to be no crash for me anymore.

Heyo! Please check out the latest beta which has a patch to direct the .net memory issue. Big thanks to the devs for tackling this directly! In my testing it is much more stable so far.

Exactly that, yeah. If I add the badge asset in a custom theme the option to show my custom controller isn't in the dropdown menu.

I had some success implementing custom badges inside LB, but I can't get a grasp on the BigBox integration. The custom gamepad options aren't showing up in the theme creator, not sure where to go from here or what kind of workaround to try. Thanks in advance!

Hey gang, thought I'd chime in with some positive notes here on this somewhat bleak thread; Brain over on the LB dev team has been emailing with me back and forth trying to sort this out. He's narrowed it down a good bit and digging deep, so kudos to him and his efforts. I'll update here when I know more.

Starting to experience this one myself a little. Crickets in the thread

Quick interjection, at least 4 times in the last two weeks I've had a NEW crash source in libvlc.dll. The error dll is the one included with Launchbox. Anyone else having this issue? I was chatting with Brian a bit on email about the attract crash. He seemed to think it might be related to some plugins or CTC themes or custom themes or whatever, but it was still crashing with a fresh installation. So to recap the only long-term stable installation had the following characteristics; A completely fresh installation VERY small game list (29 games) No art assets added of any kind (no images or videos at all) All transitions set to NONE Adding some art caused a crash, adding more games caused a crash, having transitions on caused a crash. Not sure if this is helpful or leading to any progress but I figure it's useful to have more test scenarios and data. I'll keep trying stuff, different combos of setups. In the meantime I hope Brian comes through with a discovery!

Man is there like a Discord for Flycast or something? I can launch the game from a batch file sometimes but when I try to launch it from Launchbox (pointed to said batch file) I swear it just never boots. The green Naomi boot screen comes up but hangs. When it works its really cool. I was able to get F355 booting in Deluxe mode and got my 6 gear shifter working with it via emulated controller. Here's the video that game me the clues on how to set it up. This video is for Demul but the principal is the same:

Odd, the other thread where I was commenting about search was locked - and this just ahead of a search update. Would have been nice to close the discussion there, apropos of the search update. Excited to test it out!

Actually yeah, no dice. I set all my transitions to NONE and it still crashed. I should have known this would have no effect actually since running the ahk automated browsing with default transitions (various fade and slides or whatever) was stable. EDIT: Wait a dang minute - actually on my other PC with a perfectly fresh installation zero transition mode might be working. Previously this freshie installation was also crashing. 2nd EDIT: This merits further testing. The fresh install is done on my desktop with 48gb ram, so memory wasn't really a bottleneck and there was still crashing before with lots of testing variables - last of which included a fresh installation with only 29 games on the list and ZERO media added of any kind, so no logos, no videos etc. It was still crashing despite these restrictions! Turning off all transitions was stable for 12 hours with Default theme, and just now another 12 hours with Slipstream. I'm going to keep testing, running it for longer and with other themes, then test on my full installation to see what happens. Very interesting find @JimV! I'm curious if we can get some other users to test this out! 3rd EDIT: So far Default is the only stable theme. Tested with a couple others, both crashed. Also Default crashed when I added in more games and some art, so something isn't happy. Still testing...