AstroBob

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us last week to celebrate 12 years of LaunchBox. 🙌 Whether you tuned in to the streams, joined the community playlist fun on the forums, or grabbed a code during the giveaways — you made it a week to remember. 💜 🏆 The winners of our Grand Giveaway and the Community Playlist competition have been contacted — congrats to all! 📺 Stream Recap: Day 1 – Backlog tips & GameCube emulation secrets (with AstroBob) Day 2 – Building the ultimate backlog with Faeran, looking back on 12 years of LaunchBox, and exploring what’s new in 2025 Day 3 – AMA, playlists, and couch co-op netplay fun with AstroBob & Faeran 📝 On the forums, our Community Playlist Competition was a hit! We loved seeing your “Deserted Island Picks” and the discussions they sparked. Thanks to everyone who contributed their lists (and congrats again to the winners snagging those Steam keys!). Keep an eye on the Big Box Game Discovery Center to see these picks show up there Once again, thanks for being part of the LaunchBox community and for helping us celebrate 12 years. Here’s to many more! 🚀

Hi Folks, Thanks for all your wonderful submissions here. The great variety on display makes me want to actually book a trip to a remote island and take a bunch of these games with me. With our celebration week now at a close, I’ve locked this topic for the time being. Remember, we’ll be putting all of these submissions into a Game Discovery Center playlist for Big Box — I’ll be following up later in the week once that is live. The winner of the competition will also be contacted via direct message on the forum later this week, and I’ll update this topic once the winner has been notified. Thanks again for your participation and for making our 12th Birthday celebration event one to remember!

Hi there, sorry for the issues here. For problems relating to Big Box and freezes or crashes in 13.23, we have put together an FAQ that elaborates on what might be contributing to this, and steps you can take to try and resolve them. I'm attaching it below: It outlines the differences between FFMPEG and WMP, and it's still a work in progress, so it may be best to stick to WMP for now. It also outlines how you can force change the media playback engine outside of LaunchBox if you're unable to do so in the app. Glad things are working again for now, though, and apologies for the issues caused there. We're continuing to try and improve the stability of FFMEG so appreciate you bearing with us on this

Hi there, sorry for the issues here. For problems relating to Big Box and freezes or crashes in 13.23, we have put together an FAQ that elaborates on what might be contributing to this, and steps you can take to try and resolve them. I'm attaching it below: It would be great if you could run through the steps outlined there, so that it resolves your issue. If not, feel free to drop some details on that post so we can evaluate it with the other similar reports to try and get to the bottom of it for you.

Hiya, just to confirm game detail pages should be working again now. Apologies for the issues there, but let us know if you notice anything else.

Hi there, thanks for the report here. For issues relating to 13.23 and Big Box, we've created some troubleshooting steps over on this post. Would you mind giving those steps a whirl and let us know if you're still experiencing issues?

@launchretrogirl2562 Regarding the image uploads, we are investigating the possibility to see if we can push through some of the submissions that happened during this problematic period, but so far it looks like we may not have enough data to go by. Regarding the issue with game detail pages leading to errors, thanks for reporting this but this appears to be a completely different issue. We're investigating a potential issue with Cloudflare. We'll keep you posted here once that is all cleared up, and apologies for the issues here

This is a great idea, it's definately quite the undertaking but something that I agree would make playing across multiple devices much more seamless. I've gone ahead and scope out a request on our feedback site for this. Feel free to vote it up and follow along for any updates: - https://feedback.launchbox.gg/p/cloud-sync-for-metadata-playlists-and-game-settings Let me know if there was anytihng I missed when scoping it out

Hi Folks, Sorry for the problems here, but the issue should be fixed now. Let us know if anyone is still experiencing this. Cheers,

Hi Folks, Sorry for the problems here, but the problem should be fixed now. Let us know if anyone is still experiencing this. Cheers,

Amazing job! Thanks for sharing, definately let us know what it looks like with the rest of the game room

Hi Folks, Sorry for the problems here, but the problem should be fixed now. Let us know if anyone is still experiencing this. Cheers,

Hi Folks, Thanks for the reports here, unfortunately we haven't been able to reproduce this yet so it would be great if y'all can confirm the following: - I'm assuming these reports are all for the latest LaunchBox version (13.23), but anyone not running this version please let me know - Have you installed any 3rd party themes outside of LaunchBox / Big Box (I.e you manaully downloaded it from the forums and moved it into the folder directly, rather than using the apps built in theme viewer). We've seen instances in the past where a user has put the theme in an incorrect location (i.e a LaunchBox theme in the Big Box theme location, or vice versa) - Does Big Box hard crash, or does it present any error? - If anyone is able to supply a screen recording that demonstrates the issue, that would be great Let us know and we'll try to dig in further Cheers,

I'll get us started. My pick would be Sonic Mega Collection Plus on the PS2. Why? It’s basically a time machine on a disc. You get seven classic Sonic games, a host of (questionable) Game Gear games, bunch of extras, and even some weirdly charming Genesis deep cuts like Flicky and Comix Zone. I get the highs of Sonic 2, the weird maze of Blue Sphere, and the sheer “what even is this” chaos of Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine. There’s enough variety to match every mood — speedruns, puzzles, nostalgia binges — all wrapped in a glorious retro wrapper. And who could forget the museum? That music alone is enough to justify bringing it along. Plus, let’s be honest — hearing the SEGA jingle echo across a tropical beach? Pure bliss.