Jason Carr

The only good solution to this would be to include default sort titles on the games database. That would allow them to be at least placed together by default. But as far as renaming game titles to match the franchise, I don't think that would be a good approach.

That shouldn't matter. If you have debug logging turned on, you can check the log file to see what happened. Otherwise, turn it on then try getting an easy high score and check the log file.

Make sure you're logged into the games database under the Cloud menu.

Shouldn't be an issue anymore though, we updated VLC a while back. Windows Media Player is way more outdated than VLC these days.

Okay, good to know.

Thanks all, I've noted these requests/ideas for the next poll.

Any PDF additional apps you add will automatically show up on the pause screen.

You can filter by MAME High Scores Supported as well. However, I don't think we've added it as an option for playlists yet. I'll put that on the list. Yes, the high scores system is exclusive to MAME. It won't work for other emulators. We're using the MAME high scores plugin, as well as hi2txt, which only work with MAME. We can add support later on if high scores solutions are built for other emulators, but that's not something that we can do on our own. It's also worth noting that I wanted to implement it for the MAME Retroarch core, but after looking into it, it's not possible to do securely with the anti-cheat measures in place. So uploading high scores will require actual MAME for this release.

Use the filters, Luke.

I found a way to cache things that should hopefully speed this up. Will go into beta 14.

I see. I'm guessing you're using a Windows DPI setting that is greater than 200%?

I looked into this; it's taking longer than it used to because we added the "combine with existing games" option, which is on by default. It has to process all existing games for the platform, which does take some time. On my system it's around 5 seconds to process a platform with 1,000 games, but I guess on lower-end systems it could take a lot longer. I don't immediately see any way to speed that part up, but I'll take a deeper look here at some point.

There's a lot that is done at the end of the process. It's all necessary and I currently don't know of an easy way to speed it up. I can add it to the list though to see what I can do.

Beta 13 is out now with the following: You can now click on or select different players (including yourself), to see a new popup that lists all of that player's high scores for all games, including their placements on the community game boards (in both LaunchBox and Big Box) LaunchBox high scores popups no longer nest on top of each other Added MAME high scores support to the old default LaunchBox theme

Ah, yes, almost forgot. I'll get that in soon.

Can you screenshot me any issues like that that you can see across LaunchBox and Big Box? Screenshots will make stuff like that a lot easier to figure out and address.

Yeah, I thought about just opening it up in the same window, but then there'd be no "Back" kind of functionality. It'd be easy to close out of windows before opening the new ones, but I kind of liked keeping previous ones open.

Beta 12 is out now with the following: Three new tabs in the high scores popups (in both LaunchBox and Big Box) for Most Popular Games, Trending Games, and Top Players (Global Leaderboard) You can now click on or select a game from Most Popular or Trending Games to view the scores for that game as well Filter values for MAME High Scores Supported Various fixes/improvements for the high scores popups Hopeful fix for @Rincewind's reported error (above) Hopeful fix for @TheNewClassics reported text getting cut off (above) The new tabs really increase the competition and help a lot for games discovery, so I'm glad we got them in.

I happen to have a Shield TV myself and test most releases with it, so that baffles me even further. Just to make sure, I went ahead and re-tested everything on my Shield, and everything is working properly. Maybe there's an issue with the SD card? Can you try running them from internal storage?

Also, what version of LaunchBox are you running?

What version of Android are you running on the Shield TV?

Alright, I'm puzzled on this. It's working properly for loads of people, so there must be something unique about your setup or device. What device are you using?

What platform are you trying to launch?

Yeah, I'm aware of that, of course. I was just wondering if you're running a custom version of it, since I've never seen that error before.

Beta 11 is out now with the following: Reduced Big Box's startup memory footprint Fixed a minor Big Box memory issue pertaining to going back and forth in and out of the Options screen, then into the platforms screen