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I finally got it to work... i dont really know what i did but its finally working. I dont have onefile or any sync running on the arcade btw. i think it may have been that i was naming the arcade gun section arcade... and theres a platform named that .... maybe...? anyway.. i named the arcade light gun section arcade gun, and it worked and saved the playlists without deleting. I will report if it happens again or disappears again.

Also i have restarted the pc and also restarted launchbox thinking that would solve it, but nope.

Hi guys.. wondering if this is a bug or if i am doing something wrong. I am trying to set up a platform for light gun games, so that i dont have to have playlists under each orginal platform. I added a "platform" named Light Gun Games. next i went to Nintendo NES and went through and selected all the gun games and placed them in a playlist called NES (so that i can divide it per system in the light guns game platform since i have to turn on the dolpin bar etc).. all the games in one list you know.. while i have the gun turned on) i did the same for PS1 (naming the playlist PSX) and for Arcade (just naming the playlist Arcade) Now I made a note on a text file and dragged it into the Light Games platform, making sure to use "none of the above" so when clicked it pops up in notepad (thinking maybe it needed at least one anchor icon. Next i went to the playlists.. and changed the parent from root to Light Gun Games platform... about the second or third one that i move to the Light gun games platform..... The Platform deletes its self and disappears... and the playlists go back to the root, Is this a bug or what am i doing wrong? I have made multiple platforms before and this always worked... Example.. i have a Comic Books Platform with about 400 playlists in it, one for each comic book style or whatever... spiderman, spiderman 2099 series etc... worked great.

you may want to look into adding pot player instead, i have been using it for a while now and it seems far more stable than media player or vlc

Yeah i get the same odd error. The other games dont import because they are already imported, BUT in some instances you need to import games with the same name and using "force import duplicates" DOES import them all when you dont want it to. Hope this gets fixed soon

Its an older Motorola 10" tab... cant remember what model. Mounted it on the wall by cutting the cover up and using the plastic back plate.

UPDATE... i gave up trying to figure it out and did a complete reinstall of mame because i found some settings in the cntrl folder that i didnt recognize. Now with Xpadder (because of the encoder board) everything seems to be saving correctly and working properly. ill let you know if anything else screws up.. BTW... Here are some shots of the unit im building. I was going to build a full cabinet, but i wanted something modular (to save space) and since i built this out of junk incase something blows lol (i raid the local electronics dump since i know the guy that works there personally) Everything you see here except the control panel box and the encoder boards for it was free lol.. I have a 4k mounted up top for the main monitor, second monitor is also 4k and on a lift out for pinball (as you can see) when not in use, it folds down flush with the wall. Speakers are a TV sound bar with a nice subwoofer, old 10 in Motorola tablet with spacedesk running for third monitor. Table for the control panel is an old pet grooming table lolz... runnning an i7-7700 wih 32 g ram and 24TB of storage 😃 thank you so much for the help... or the attempts at help.

also tried removing the -keyboardprovider dinput from the command line, still wipes the settings changes as soon as you close and reload. Tried disabling all controllers in launchbox as well (use controller and use all attached controllers and did not work either)

nope... tried with and without xpadder running from launchbox, still will not save settings. Wipes them as soon as you close and reload. Forgot to also mention that i noticed that when i change a setting in mame, the new setting is greyed out. Is that normal or is that because it will not save? Havent messed with mame in a while and not sure but i think when i used to make changes, they were in white lettering... now they are greyed.

I am building a home cab and i have 2 joystick encoders set up for 2 sets of controls. Tonight i was trying to set up MAME and every time i would exit the game, mame would not save the controller settings. Now with that said, i did a little investigation on my own and it seems that Launchbox is messing with the Mame controller settings (or not letting Mame save the settings). I know this because i can launch Mame outside of launchbox and change settings and it saves them perfectly. I cant seem to find a way to tell Launchbox to not Override the Mame controller settings when launching from inside Launchbox.. Anyone have a simple solution?? I do NOT want to have to go through all 6000+ games in mame outside of launchbox and set the control settings jut to get them to work correctly in Launchbox. ... Yeah i know i could do Global outside of mame, but small changes to the files for each game is sometimes necessary when playing.

When importing windows .lnk files or shortcuts, even though i choose the third option, Launchbox imports the links as if they have to use an emulator. Its a simple fix per game, Edit and then go to emulation and uncheck use an emulator.... But thought someone else might need to know.

New PC, New HD, Clean install of windows 10 (running on I9, 32g ram and geforce rtx 3060) and same error..

ive been doing some testing but still cant figure it out... however, i did notice that if you load launchbox and let it sit for about 5 mins, you dont get the error on imports. it may be that the update broke the way it reads the XML files, or slowed them down? Anyway, if i load and the try to import i get the same error, but if i just let it chill for about 5 mins while i get a cup of coffee... it works.. lol.. just thought i would share.

nope... didnt fix the problem. =( An error occurred while trying to import games: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. still getting that popup.. no hard crash. just the warning window and then the import closes. btw.. got this error when i tried an import after a reboot. Imported 3 times, and on the third try it worked. importing mainly by drag and drop.

Tried this and seems to be working. Never had this happen until the current update though. Will test more and let you know if i run into any more problems.

i get this also... when i start up launchbox, the first few minutes, any rom i try to import for any system gives me this. Eventually, it will import (say after 4 or 5 mins) and then everything works perfectly until i shut it down and reload it.

im getting the same error on import when i first start up launchbox. Something in the latest update broke something. Was thinking of re-installing but i have a ton of custom menus etc... would i lose everything and have to reimport it all? if i just install it again without reinstalling to correct any missing files.

checked this... tried a fresh install on another pc and got the same result. Might be because im using the mame merged set so dunno. Anyway.. got manual import to work fine then i just right click and set emulator as mame.. works great.

nah the names are right... timber.zip and i did a full import of all roms using the mame import feature. Found another one also... Super Pinball Action rom name is spbactn.zip This one it just left out ... did import when i did manually add it though

Recently ran into a small bug in the mame import interface. Example. When importing Timber.zip into mame (my full set was missing this rom for some reason) it would not let me import the rom in any way with Mame selected as the emulator. Force import etc...nothing worked.. BUT i did find a work around. I imported the game with retroarch set as the emulator, went back and then hit edit and changed the emulation line to Mame and it works. I have ran into this with some other roms as well, all mame ones, but i cant remember which ones...so many ya know. Peace True

LoL nah, but I'm glad it was a simple fix. 😄

Woah..... Maybe that was it... Just double checked the auto hide settings and "Hide games without video was turned on" (I NEVER DID THIS) and when i checked it off, they started showing up. Maybe a new glitch? But TY btw 😃

Never enabled autohide.... and there are no extra files in my platform folder.

Hi guys, I am an avid user of Launchbox and i simply love how it looks and works (my second year as a license holder) but now i have run into a problem that is perplexing me and making me worry a little. I have all my game roms and things imported so i decided to set up a cartoon and comic book section. Last night when i was importing some of my favorite old TV shows, the first season of Ultraman, i noticed that when i import the shows, some of the ones i already have installed disappear in launchbox when i add a box front image (i used thumbnail.me for png thumbnails). Example... I import all 13 episodes. I place 13 thumbnails all names the same as the video in the images dir under launchbox. I hit refresh in launchbox, and they show up... but a random episode is now deleted or missing.... lets say episode 1 8 and 13. I go back, try to reimport the 1, 8, 13.... it says they are already there, but they dont show up... so i force import them... 1,,8,13 now sup up with the correct thumnails BUT a few more disappear.... Episode 2, 7, 10 for example. Any idea what is causing this or how to fix it? This bug has me worried as crap... i have around 60,000 roms, some platforms with hundreds and i have noticed that some games in my arcade mame section are missing... Pac-man for example.. i dont want to have to re-import items if its going to make others dissappear... -----update---- Tried this.... imported all 13 and forced them in. They all show up. The second i try and add them to a playlist (to keep things organized) a few of them disappear again. There is nothing wrong with my drive... and the files are still physically there, launchbox just doesnt show them even though they are imported (as i had to force import them to get them to show) ----------Second Update------ This is happening in other platforms as well... I just checked and watched some of my roms disappear from the list when i imported a new one. It is also happening in other playlists especially.... different platform, but same result. Import something... random items disappear, although launchbox says they are there and to get them back i have to force import duplicate, then something else disappears. i am running the latest update by the way. 13.15

Thanks guys. That worked, after a little tinkering with the import settings and details. Have to say, ive used Launchbox/BigBox for about a year now and never had this happen, which honestly is amazing. Great Job on the frontend and thanks for the help 😃