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Does it give you any specific error when you try to open launchbox? try this also if you want.. Goto your install dir and look for a data folder. Inside that folder you sould see a lot of xml files... that is basically all your games listings etc... Copy that data folder to another drive and then look for a folder named backups in the launchbox dir also. to test and see if you can get launchbox up and running again, first install a new drive (an external ssd or hdd will work.. anything that is around 1TB should be fine) then download and install launchbox to that drive. next pull the data folder over into the new install.. then pull not the last current backup from your old install, but the next one (just incase there is a problem with thebackup itself not loading) and then try starting launchbox from that new test drive. If it loads, you know its just the backup hanging or a bad install and can go from there. Hope this helps.

Well thats good to know.. hopefully thats all it will be, but you know how it goes.. They get the hand on something, then they twist it as usual. heh

Google said Android will be a locked platforom starting this fall... no idea why they would want to do this other than they think it will lead to an OS battle like apple where they have total control, but android is def going locked platform this fall.

Its good that people are using Linux etc these days, as they always have, but windows remains the dominant OS in the market. With android going closed soon, that will curb development and time is valuable. Most people will stay with windows becuase its just what works out of the box, comes with most new hardware, without having to learn new code/shortcuts etc. I can see them working on ports, but i hope the focus will remain on windows since that is the most dominant platform and will be for years to come.

open the application, go to Tools > Options > General > Updates, and check the box for Update to Beta Release then just reload launchbox and it should download and install the update.

Problem importing switch games under new beta. So I reload my switch games because of a bad drive and when i got them imported, i noticed that a LOT of them are missing covers for various reasons... but here are a few bugs i have found so far. 1. Sometimes when the game is imported, it doesnt get any information or artwork. You can edit the game name (Black Widow: Recharged for example) and even though the game title is the exact same, if you remove one word.. recharged for example, it will pull all the info and artwork correctly. 2. When importing some games, like Biz Builder Delux, it shows no nintendo switch infotrmation, only the Windows version. HOWEVER... when you click on the windows version, it downloads the switch artwork and information correctly. Thinking there is some kind of cross action going on between platforms since, especially on the Biz Builder Delux game, it does that. Just thought i would report it here. Hope this helps. I will report more as i find them. Update : BPM: Bullets Per Minute and also Bramble: The Mountain King are titles that has to be edited to import, even though the name is the same. There does appear to be a pattern... titles that use a Colon .

Try installing the Beta version... had this happen to me a few versions ago and it was addressed quickly in beta. Also if that doesnt work, copy your launchbox data folder for your current save to a HD and try a clean install. then place the data folder back so you dont lose any games you have imported... fixed it for me once also when my backup bace corrupt.

Had to reload my switch games because of a bad drive and when i got them imported, i noticed that a LOT of them are missing covers for various reasons... but here are a few bugs i have found so far. 1. Sometimes when the game is imported, it doesnt get any information or artwork. You can edit the game name (Black Widow: Recharged for example) and even though the game title is the exact same, if you remove one word.. recharged for example, it will pull all the info and artwork correctly. 2. When importing some games, like Biz Builder Delux, it shows no nintendo switch infotrmation, only the Windows version. HOWEVER... when you click on the windows version, it downloads the switch artwork and information correctly. Thinking there is some kind of cross action going on between platforms since, especially on the Biz Builder Delux game, it does that. Just thought i would report it here. Hope this helps. I will report more as i find them. Update : BPM: Bullets Per Minute and also Bramble: The Mountain King are titles that has to be edited to import, even though the name is the same. There does appear to be a pattern... titles that use a Colon .

Happened to me today, took forever to get it sorted, i actually thought that it had killed the motherboard. Saw the notification, selected install and restart.. install got to 30% and said restarting... then it just shut off. Would NOT turn on for more than a second. I ended up checking every wire, every drive and every connection and what appeared to be the problem was the USB screen i have using spacedesk as my 3rd screen for pinball tables. Disconnected that and finally got it up and running and reconnected the screen and so far, reboots and runs fine, but scared the living hell outta me. 1. I respect Microsoft... but i HATE they forced everyone to go to windows 11 because of the bugs. It seems every time that windows 11 or nvidia update lately, its a crapshoot as to if its going to kill my machine (I9 11th gen, 32G ram and about 60TB of storage on bvarious drives). 2. It also seems that its a USB driver problem or something with the spacedesk (and i only am posting this because i know plenty of people use an android device for a second or third screen) that seems to be the main culprit... or at least one that keeps hitting me among other things. 3. Thank you all for allowing me to post this here. I hope that if anyone has this problem that this somehow helps.

Awesome... got it working also. Hope they add sound soon.

Just as a heads up to anyone and everyone who uses a RTX 3060 with 3 screens (especially with spacedesk for your third screen) DO NOT UPDATE to the new 595.79 Nvidia drivers as it is completely incompatable at the moment with spacedesk. I updated tonight and immediatly saw that when i had my USB connected for the third screen, i lost all video (all screens) and my second screen would go green and flash. I reinstalled, clean installed and tried again and same result. To get the PC to boot i would have to disconnect the USB or turn off spacedesk completely. To correct the problem until nvidia gets a fix in... i downgraded from 595.79 to 595.71 and it works perfectly again. Im guessing if they dont address the issue in the next update, i will have to swap to a small pc monitor for my dmd and just use one of the other display ports on the 3060. Anyway... Hope this helps someone.

./Facepalm Ya know.... Sometimes i guess i get way too deep in debugging stuff and overlook the obvious.. Ty man that worked lol

Since the last update, adding games (to the PS4 catagory especially) literally takes 10 mins sometimes. That is with emumovies art turned off. Even though i am directly dragging the eboot.bin into launchbox, it comes up with a "searching for roms, this will only take a moment" which as i said, will "search" for about 3-10 mins. Is this a bug? or a glitch? (feature? heh)

ahh Okay... yeah i had it pointed at the right exe but was missing the -d Okay one last thing,.. to exit the emu with esc i have ~$Escape:: { Process, Close, shadPS4QtLauncher.exe } Return Doesnt work... suggestions?

btw the games load and run fine if i launch them from inside the frontend of the emulator... they just dont do anything if you launch them via launchbox.... Ive been out of the scene a few months (had cancer surgery in July of last year... they got it all they say, but they did give me a blood infection, i went septic and had to have a drain sewn in and developed a DVT blood clot in my right leg... which im still battling which is why im just now getting back to working on my arcade lol)