Jason Carr

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.

Tus brazos son mi baño! Qué?

The default theme is a specific case where you can't modify the files in the default theme (this is so that there is always an unmodified theme available). If you want to modify the default theme like this, you can just make a copy of the LaunchBox\Themes\Default folder and name it something differently, then modify the files.

Wow, I didn't know this was an issue, to be honest, but it makes sense. Originally, before the .Next implementation, the list view was not available to free users. It was an oversight that it was made available to free users after the .Next version came out (which is why it's reverting back to the boxes view on restart). I'll fix it so that it saves that setting for free users. No sense in taking it away now lol.

You can try just using it as-is; most likely it'll just work. But it depends what you mean by support. As stated above, I don't plan on adding any additional features for one-off versions of DOSBox.

Whatever it is, it's most likely a one-off issue, as I haven't heard of anyone else running into similar issues. That CPU should be fine with Big Box. What theme(s) are you using? Are you using the ones from the built-in themes manager? If it does prove to be an issue with VLC, you can always use Windows Media Player. It sounds like you're running into multiple odd issues though, so figuring all of it out may be a real bear. You can try turning on Debug logging in the LaunchBox options and then posting the log; that might help us figure it out.

Yeah, that is one caveat. I don't think we'll likely try and support all of the various random DOSBox modifications available, so the configuration GUI will have to just support OG DOSBox. I expect there's a bunch of issues we could run into depending on the changes made to whatever DOSBox version the user is using. But hopefully this gets us closer to full flexibility.

Hey all, it's time to prep for the 9.10 release. I plan to put it out either on Monday or Tuesday next week. Thanks so much y'all. @Opak @dukeemu @cyanjiang @Bardock @MajKSA @gamehacker @Cauptain @Kondorito @Nyny77 @alexposad @k_kutsugi