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Thanks for the update there and apologies for the delayed response. Now what our 13th Birthday celebration is out of the way, I want to try and return to this. Just curious if anything noticable has changed since you last posted this, and now that you've had more time to spend with it. Let me know what the latest is and we'll see if anything we're working on for the next release might help with this.

Hi Folks, thanks for all the wonderful submissions here, amazing to see how everyone is using, tweaking and enjoying LaunchBox! The thread is now locked while we process the entries and additional points. I'll reach out here once we've confirmed that the winners have been contacted

Probably the thing for me is the Export To Android feature on the Windows side. It means you can bundle up all your metadata, games and media that you've curated on Windows and create package that is simply drag & drop over to Android and you're good to go, rather than having to setup an entire Android build from scratch : )

14.0.1 is now now which should have a fix to address this. Thanks for bearing with us there.

Heya, you should be able to grab a new version of this plugin now with this addressed. Give me a shout if that doesn't work for you.

It's displayed on screen midway, however those codes are only valid for around 24 hours so unfortunately it wouldn't work. I believe VODs aren't supported in Korea due to Twitch's presence there, but if you have access to a VPN I believe you can get it around it that way to check either yesterdays or today's stream (when that goes live later). Yesterdays steam will also be up on YouTube later today.

Yep, the Twitch streams will be uploaded to our YouTube channel. Might not be right away but you should be able to re-watch them there soon after

Alright, I’ll get us started! 🎮 For mine, I wanted to showcase something that has gradually become one of my favorite ways to use LaunchBox: as the central hub for my increasingly unnecessary collection of handhelds. Between Windows and Android, LaunchBox has basically become the ecosystem that ties all of these devices together. Rather than trying to cram my entire library onto every handheld, each one has its own subset of platforms and games tailored to what I actually enjoy playing on that particular device. The Export to Android feature gets a lot of use here too. I can manage everything from my main LaunchBox library on Windows, then easily move the platforms and games I want over to my Android handhelds. It makes setting up a new device, or changing what I keep on one, much easier. I also heavily use Game Statistics Sync across them. Even though I might jump between completely different devices, LaunchBox keeps my play history and favorites together, which makes the whole collection feel much more like one connected library rather than a bunch of separate handhelds. Oh, and yes… that might be a testing build of Dual Screen LaunchBox for Android up there 😉 Now let’s see yours! 👇

LaunchBox is turning 13, and we want to celebrate by seeing how our community has made LaunchBox their own! Over the years, we’ve seen people use LaunchBox in all sorts of different ways, from huge projects to small personal touches that make managing and playing their collection just that little bit better. For our birthday, we want to see what your LaunchBox looks like. Your submission could be something like: 🕹️ An entire arcade cabinet or gaming setup you’ve built around LaunchBox or Big Box 🎨 A custom theme you’ve created or customized to get your setup looking exactly how you want it ⚙️ A particular way you’ve configured LaunchBox or Big Box, whether that’s your layout, views, controls, startup experience, or something else 📚 A collection or playlist you’ve put together that you’re particularly proud of 🗂️ A clever way you’ve organized or categorized your games, platforms, genres, series, or anything else in your library 🏎️ A setup built around a particular type of gaming, such as a light gun, racing, couch gaming, handheld, or retro setup 🖼️ Your own combination of artwork, videos, metadata, themes, and other customization that gives your library its own look and feel ❤️ Or simply something about your LaunchBox setup that you love and want to show off These are just examples. Nothing is too big or too small. You don’t need to have built an elaborate arcade cabinet or spent months creating a theme to take part. If you’ve done something with LaunchBox that you’re proud of, we’d like to see it. 📸 To take part, reply to this thread and show us what you’ve created. Screenshots and photos are encouraged, and we’d love to hear a little about what you’ve done, how you use it, and why it’s something you’re proud of. Of course, it wouldn’t be a birthday celebration without some presents. 🎁 This showcase is also one of the only ways you can significantly boost your chances of winning one of the Steam game prizes in our official LaunchBox Celebration Giveaway! 🎮 If you share an eligible showcase here, you will be given a special bonus towards the Steam game prize drawing. This bonus applies specifically to the Steam game prizes and does not affect your chances of winning any of the other prizes. To receive the bonus and be eligible to win, you MUST enter the official LaunchBox Celebration Giveaway and agree to its Official Rules: https://www.launchbox-app.com/celebrate (if you can, please use the same email as your forum account so we can match you up to give you the bonus - if not we will need to reach out via DM to know which email address you used) 🎁 Giveaway Details 📅 Entries are open from August 26, 2026 at 12:00 a.m. EDT until August 31, 2026 at 11:59:59 p.m. EDT. 👤 Anyone with a LaunchBox Community Forums account is welcome to participate. 🛠️ Your submission must showcase something you have created, configured, customized, or put together yourself. 💬 Only your first showcase post will qualify for the Steam giveaway bonus. You’re very welcome to keep participating in the discussion, but additional showcase posts will not provide additional bonus entries. 🎟️ To receive the bonus and be eligible to win, you must also enter the official LaunchBox Celebration Giveaway and agree to its Official Rules. 🎮 Participating in this community showcase significantly boosts your chances specifically for the Steam game prizes and does not provide additional entries towards the other prizes in the Celebration Giveaway. 🎟️ You must enter the official LaunchBox Celebration Giveaway and agree to its Official Rules. (if you can, please use the same email as your forum account so we can match you up to give you the bonus - if not we will need to reach out via DM to know which email address you used) We can’t wait to see all the different ways you’ve made LaunchBox your own. Show us your LaunchBox! 🚀

Thanks for the update there, and I had you on my list to reach out to, since we did do some work regardless controller profiles and, phantom inputs and rogue disconnects for 14.0. Not for your issue specifically, but I was hopefully in the process of those additional something may have helped here. I was actually holding off as we have an upcoming hotfix (14.0.1) that further addresses some controller bugs that slipped into 14.0, so certainly feel free to try that once it drops. We won't consider it solved just yet, will wait to hear how you get on and if others here also see any improvements on 14.0. Please continue to keep me posted and thanks again for all the testing everyone is doing

Hi Folks, thanks everyone for the continued feedback and reports here. We're glad to hear things are looking good for some but want to try and fix up issues for those who a have been experiencing them. Just to let y'all know we're hard at work on a 14.0.1 (something we've never done in the past), but this will contain exclusively fixes being reported from the release. We'll let y'all know once its ready which should hopefully address some of the issues reported here and we can then narrow down what is still left to tackle. Will keep y'all posted!

Heya, we have this fixed up internally and just pending a release for the plugin, will let you know when it's ready and out.

Hi Folks, Thanks for the reports, just to let you know we've identified and fixed this up internally and are aiming to get a hotfix out for this. I'll let you know soon as that is ready. Thanks for bearing with us there

Hiya, thanks for the feedback here: This should already be possible by right click in the grid and selecting configure layout, you'll see this widnow: Items height allows you to configure the height between games Would you mind elaborating on this, do you mean the section on the left hand side, you want that to be auto-hidden when selecting a single platform?

Thanks for reporting this, it looks like this has been around for quite a while, but regardless thanks for flagging. We'll get this fixed up internally.

Yep, the beta cycle for 13.28 became 14.0, given the amount that went into it and the amount of testing, we thought it warrented a good ol’ version bump You can read more about the decision to do this here: https://feedback.launchbox-app.com/changelog/launchbox-for-windows-140

Hi there, With today’s release of LaunchBox for Windows 14.0, the fix for this is now available to everyone. We’ve completely revamped the startup video process so things should be back to normal You can update to the latest version from within the app to receive this. Notes on the release can be found below: https://feedback.launchbox-app.com/changelog/launchbox-for-windows-140 Please let us know if anyone is continuing to experience this issue, and thanks for bearing with us while we go that sorted.

Version 14.0 - Released August 14th 2026 Release Summary Release Summary: https://feedback.launchbox-app.com/changelog/launchbox-for-windows-140 Full Changelog: https://www.launchbox-app.com/about/changelog New Features: Added a new 3D Cassette Case model for tape based platforms, with straight back, angled back, and clear case styles, portrait or landscape positioning, custom plastic and cover colors, and J card spine artwork that falls back to a clear logo or a plain text title Added a new 3D Double Jewel Case model, including automatic spine handling and dual spine options Added configurable Shutdown Applications, so apps can be closed automatically when LaunchBox or Big Box exits or when switching between them Added a new shutdown progress window that shows what LaunchBox or Big Box is doing while closing, with a force close option if shutdown hangs Added play session history tracking, with an option under Data settings to enable or disable it Added searchable Options pages, making it easier to find settings by name or related terms Added a Default Image Group setting under Viewing options, so users can choose the default image type used across the interface Added an optional Arrange By scrollbar for LaunchBox game lists and the default Image Grid, with group markers, hover labels, and click/drag jumping through the current arranged view Introducing LaunchBox Reader, a built in way to read game manuals, guides, magazines, and other documents directly inside LaunchBox and Big Box, with realistic page turns, customizable reading layouts, appearance settings, and keyboard/controller input mappings Added a new Big Box Filter / Sort experience, making it easier to filter and reorder games from within Big Box using a controller, including sort options such as star rating Added smarter game startup and shutdown screen handling, allowing LaunchBox and Big Box to monitor the launched game or emulator window directly so startup screens stay visible only as long as needed, storefront launchers are handled more reliably, shutdown screens appear when gameplay actually ends, play time tracking is more accurate, and game stats refresh more smoothly when returning from a game Recommended emulator installation during ROM imports now supports multiple emulator options when more than one is applicable, allowing users to choose which supported emulator LaunchBox installs and configures for the selected platform Additional applications are now organized into Applications, Versions, and Documents, making game extras, alternate versions, and manuals easier to manage in LaunchBox and easier to choose from in the Big Box Game Menu Added Ctrl+, as a keyboard shortcut for opening LaunchBox Options Improvements: Reworked the LaunchBox list view for much better performance in the default theme, especially with large libraries, badges, custom columns, and fast scrolling. The new list view is fully themeable, and custom theme developers can update their themes to support it LaunchBox Themes & Media Manager now opens immediately and loads themes and media packs in the background with a clear loading state LocalDb startup work has been optimized to reduce startup overhead during local metadata database initialization and lookups Revamped the startup window with a newer WPF based design and clearer startup status messages Improved metadata search when editing a game by showing best matches first, then other possible matches as they load Improved image group handling for platforms, playlists, and platform categories, including a new “Use Default” option to quickly clear a custom image group and return to the global default Improved LaunchBox and Big Box instance detection so separate installs or root folders can run independently without blocking each other LaunchBox and Big Box now save additional diagnostic information locally after certain severe crashes, helping the support team investigate problems that previously left no useful report Improved Options page performance and search responsiveness Improved ROM import parsing and welcome wizard import handoff behavior Improved startup/shutdown app handling and switching between LaunchBox and Big Box Updated the Windows build to use newer native launchers and the .NET 10 runtime/tooling stack Video playback now uses the LaunchBox Media Engine for VLC or Windows Media Player, with the legacy FFME playback engine and its bundled components removed Big Box startup video playback is now handled inside Big Box itself, making startup videos more reliable on some hardware configurations, including certain Windows handheld devices The default Big Box theme has been updated with new visual elements for Filter / Sort, including sort context labels and a redesigned popup, and the new controls are fully themeable for custom Big Box themes The default LaunchBox theme now uses a new Image Grid implementation with better performance, clearer selection highlighting, more reliable image refresh behavior, and a new Configure Layout option; custom themes can choose to adopt the new Image Grid, while existing custom themes continue using the previous implementation 3D model browsing now feels smoother and more responsive, with better drag handling, steadier carousel navigation, and better behavior across multi monitor setups Automatic ROM Import now runs in the background with clearer progress, completion, and error notifications Embedded browser features now use WebView2, improving compatibility with modern web content and reducing older Chromium dependencies LaunchBox game details now update more smoothly while browsing large libraries, reducing unnecessary reloads when moving quickly through games, platforms, and playlists Related Games now loads recommendations and thumbnails more efficiently Auto play music and LEDBlinky updates are more reliable when changing selections quickly Context menus now open more quickly after startup and view changes Big Box view transitions and 3D FlowModel navigation are smoother and more responsive during rapid browsing Big Box wheels and other artwork heavy views now prioritize selected and visible images for faster, more responsive loading during navigation Big Box background music discovery now runs in the background so scanning larger music folders does not delay startup or navigation Higher resolution fullscreen screenshots now scale smoothly to the available display, while lower resolution screenshots retain crisp pixel art scaling Plugin Manager now opens immediately and loads the online plugin catalog in the background with a clear loading state Windows CRC storage failures now show a clearer message identifying a drive or file system problem instead of appearing as a generic startup, folder, or plugin error Steam games and Steam linked additional applications now launch through Steam while preserving configured command line arguments Error and crash reporting has been modernized, with separate options for sending automatic error reports and optional performance diagnostics Added a themeable BlurredVideoBackground element that safely provides blurred video backdrops for custom Big Box themes across supported video players Fixed: Editing an additional version on a game that has not been saved yet no longer crashes, and game save detection now uses the platform currently selected in the game edit window The popped out game details and platform details windows now open in front of the main LaunchBox window instead of appearing behind it, and can still be moved behind LaunchBox afterwards LaunchBox now preserves existing bundled Default theme files and shows a controlled storage error instead of crashing when those files cannot be refreshed during startup LaunchBox and Big Box no longer crash when game controller metadata is missing, inaccessible, or invalid; missing controller metadata is repaired automatically in the background when possible LaunchBox no longer crashes during startup when a configured Steam game library drive is unavailable LaunchBox and Big Box no longer crash with a threading error when two cloud syncs start at the same moment, such as when a game and its emulator exit together or when closing the app as a game exits The RetroAchievements menu is now available in custom LaunchBox themes, and RetroAchievements profile images load and refresh reliably Emulator and tool folders no longer leak into LaunchBox’s own working directory, which could cause managed emulator updates to install into the wrong folder Long running Big Box Attract Mode sessions no longer leak image worker resources that could cause wheel images to disappear or exhaust Windows UI resources The alphanumeric index in Big Box’s default theme shows its letters again, instead of an empty bar with only the highlighted selection visible Rapid navigation into Big Box Game Details no longer occasionally leaves menus, metadata, images, or videos empty MAME high scores launched from Big Box now parse and upload correctly Bezel Project downloads for MAME and RetroArch no longer fail because the downloaded ZIP remains locked during extraction Steam game discovery no longer reports an error when Steam replaces an application manifest during scanning Automatic PlayStation Vita imports now use game titles from Vita3K metadata instead of displaying title IDs Installed plugin and media pack versions that are newer than the online catalog version no longer incorrectly appear as available updates Several Xbox/UWP scanning, startup junction, Dolphin integration, plugin resource, and media extraction edge cases have been hardened to reduce crashes and noisy error reporting Resolved Big Box theme resource loading issues for themes loaded from their original installed location Steam media downloads now clean up temporary files more reliably Corrected platform alternate name matching in the local metadata database Corrected playlist image group overrides so playlists with duplicate display names use the correct unique playlist entry VLC video preview audio now begins promptly with a short fade instead of cutting off the opening portion of videos Big Box screen transitions now animate when navigating forward into platforms, games, and game details, and when leaving screens that have no video such as the system menu and options. Previously most of these switched instantly with no transition, whichever video playback engine was selected Big Box screen transitions no longer drop intermittently when leaving a view whose theme nests its own video hosting transition area, such as navigating from a platform wheel into a game wheel. This mainly affected custom themes and could make a transition appear to work sometimes and not others

Sorry for the delay, 14.0 is now officially out, should be able to grab it through the normal means. Full details on all the changes here: - https://feedback.launchbox-app.com/changelog/launchbox-for-windows-140

Hiya, we have a dedicated troubleshooting guide for this specific error. There isn't a perfect fix for it just but it walks through how to debug it and disable a setting that should temporarily address it for you: - "Out of Memory" error after resuming from hibernation in LaunchBox or Big Box?

No need to re-install, a fresh restart should ensure all instances of the app are closed, though if you continue to see that we have more details on it here: - https://feedback.launchbox-app.com/help/articles/0507346-troubleshooting-another-instance-is-already-running-error

Thanks, this is already fixed and will be in beta-6 Could you elaborate on this, does it happen all the time, or only within certain sections? If you have a screenshot handy showing it that would be very useful. Cheers,

Hi Folks, This may not quite be what you're asking for since it's not for selecting launch screens per-say, but just to call out in the upcoming 13.28 release we're introducing the following feature: Improvement: Improved LaunchBox and Big Box instance detection so separate installs or root folders can run independently without blocking each other You can check it out in the latest beta which is available right now: Would this help in this scenario?

100%, and apologies if it's come across that way, we do our best to keep an eye on the forum but this has got to a point where there's clearly a recurring issue that we want to resolve properly. I can't promise exactly how long this will take but rest assured well do our best to help try and get to the bottom of this. You've already provided a ton of useful info but I'll certainly reach out if we need anything else or have a breakthrough on it. Feel free to DM me if you have any other concerns but we'll keep y'all posted.

Thanks for the reminder. We’ve had a few folks out recently, and we’ve also been heads down working on the upcoming 13.28 beta cycle, which includes a couple of structural changes under the hood. That said, regarding the database work we discussed, we’ve now fleshed out most of the common requests based on everyone’s feedback over on our feature board, which you can access here: https://feedback.launchbox-app.com/?b=679a6bbe1b2011c4928c567b Many of you have already supplied a ton of valuable input, so there’s no need to do anything else. However, if you’d like to, you’re more than welcome to head over there to elaborate on or vote for any existing requests, or submit anything you feel we’ve missed. Of course, simply having the requests listed isn’t enough. However, given the somewhat messy nature of the forum and how easily good information can get lost, we wanted to make sure everything was properly documented there so we can keep future additions well scoped. Outside of that, work is already underway on a fully restructured moderation and guidelines resource over on our new Help Center site, which you can see here: https://feedback.launchbox.gg/help A lot of this is still internal and being drafted right now, since we're looking to release it together rather than as things are ready. But we’re hoping it will provide a much clearer and more structured set of rules, guidelines, and resources for both moderators and submitters. As you rightly mentioned, we do intend to open those up for discussion once we have completed docs ready to share. For full transparency, I don’t have an accurate ETA on when all of this work will be completed or which additions we’ll be making to the Games Database first. As I mentioned, we’re currently very focused on the structural changes coming in the 13.28 release. That said, I’ll do my best to keep you all updated as we’re able to implement these changes and involve the community as much as we can.