Jason Carr

Wow, that's a bit scary. I haven't seen Defender shut it down, but who knows. I'm not running 1903 yet myself (running 1809). I may have to rush out a new release if certain versions of Defender are tagging this one. Thanks for the report.

No problem, they should get rejected by the moderators. Unfortunately we don't have a way at this point to delete submissions. Just go ahead and submit the new ones and they should get approved instead of the old ones.

You would have to use playlists to combine things like that. It can be done, but might not be straightforward.

Hmm, it shouldn't be working that way...but perhaps it is. If so, I'll fix it lol.

Apparently your settings are not updating; not sure why. If we were having that issue elsewhere I'd have a million people yelling, so it must somehow be a one-off issue. Is the file read-only or something? Maybe a permissions issue?

Hmm, what translation are you using? I have an idea as to what might be happening. If you open up your LaunchBox\Data\Settings.xml file, what does the <NoWelcomeVersion> line say?

That is normal, for a minute or two. However, if you kill it when you see it there, then you're not letting LaunchBox save and causing the problem.

The only reason I can think of this happening is if somehow LaunchBox isn't closing properly, and therefore not saving. I tried replicating it and couldn't. Let me know if it keeps happening.

Select all your games and then go to Tools > Download Metadata and Media in LaunchBox.

Unfortunately we're not set up currently to translate the data itself from the LaunchBox Games Database. I would need to completely overhaul the LBGDB to get us to that point. For what it's worth, it would be fairly easy to select all the games in the particular genres in your collection and change them to a translated one instead. You'd have to do it genre by genre, but it'd probably only take 15 minutes or so to get them all done. But then of course anything new you scan or download will still use the English names. In the future we might be able to add translations and such to the LaunchBox Games Database, but as much work as that is it'll probably be quite a while.

Every time a new beta version gets downloaded, the popup shows back up. @Drodrick That appears to be some sort of a permissions issue on your system. It could be file system permissions or some other kind of permissions issue. It is definitely not advised to run LaunchBox as administrator, so if you're having to do that, something is not set up right. What folder is LaunchBox installed to?

Oh, ha. Well this explains a lot lol. Thanks Neil. Regardless, this is not a bug. It's a configuration issue where Big Box is taking input from two different places, most likely because of Steam's desktop configuration stuff shown in the screenshot above.

The first thing to figure out would be why your arcade controller is not working at all without Steam. Steam should never be required for any controller to work. So that's my first suggestion: get it working without Steam, especially since we know Steam to be the cause of this issue. Does your arcade board act as a keyboard or a game controller (or both)?

Those weird ._ files or whatever are caused by certain apps or operating systems. I think they may be Mac-related, iirc. They're typically hidden or system files.

I have never seen the above, but I just read through it. Back when I initially implemented this particular syntax with DOSBox, I had to implement it that way because DOSBox (not DOSBox-X) requires the single quote syntax. It might have been a glitch with OG DOSBox, but escape sequences did not work, as suggested in the above thread. I have not tested it, but my guess is that OG DOSBox still does not support the syntax for DOSBox-X. So this is clearly not a bug. I can change it if we can confirm that it's been fixed in OG DOSBox. If not, then I'd have to add custom options for DOSBox-X, which isn't likely to happen any time soon.

Alright, I was finally able to reproduce this; it just took a crap-ton of images lol. I have a fix in for the next beta. Thanks for tracking this down.

Beta 6 is out now with the following: Updated translations Improvement: The Add to Playlist menu on right-click in LaunchBox is now restricted to only manually-populated playlists Fixed: LaunchBox was not staying on the list view after a restart for free users (the list view became available for free users when .Next was released) Fixed: The LaunchBox list view was no longer sorting by the Sort Title field when clicking the column headers to sort by a particular column (it just used the Title field from that point) The plan is to put out the official release tomorrow, assuming all goes well.

It's been a while since I looked into this, but I'm pretty sure there's not a bug in the DOSBox launching code. It's been the same for several years. There is a restriction where you can't use a single quote in the path for DOSBox games, but that's a restriction of DOSBox as far as I'm aware, and you should get a warning like this if you try it: Is that what you're referring to?

@evansoft I don't see any real differences there between your setup and mine, so I'm baffled. Can you zip up and PM me your LaunchBox\Data folder? That might give me the clue that I need.

Just looked into this; it does use the Sort Title field, but once you click the column headers it just sorts by the text. I'll see if I can change that before the release.

Eventually, yes. For now though it should be easy to just import them using the Windows importer. Worst case scenario, you can just drag the shortcut icons over to LaunchBox to import them that way.

A while back we changed it so that auto-generated playlists would not show up in that list. However, the change required you to re-create the auto-generated playlists because we added a field that marked those playlists as auto-generated. Originally I did not want to restrict adding to all auto-populated playlists because previously we provided the ability to convert auto-populated playlists to manual playlists in that scenario. But it doesn't look like that's working properly, and this has all been cause for confusion, so I'm going to just restrict it to manual playlists going forward.

This is a new one that I haven't heard of. LaunchBox definitely does clear the RAM for previously loaded images when switching to a new game. I've done some testing and I can't seem to get the RAM usage any higher than a couple gigs with heavy usage; not really sure what I'm missing here. Can you post your PC specs, operating system, etc.? Do you use boxes or list view?

There are lots of C# tutorials out there, so I would start there and learn the basics; it should go pretty quick. You shouldn't need to learn XAML for that in particular. You can just use a WPF custom control and output it directly from C#.

I am stellar, thanks Claudio. I have all the translations integrated for the next beta guys. Thanks again. New beta should be out before the end of the day, and then hopefully we can put out the official release tomorrow.