Jason Carr

I'm not positive, but it does sound like a group policy permissions issue. Often times, businesses will put custom group policy permissions on their machines. Is it a business computer?

Thank you for this @JoeViking245. I gotta say, I love success stories like this, and I love being part of them (even if only in a very small way).

I don't think any services like that exist. But LaunchBox is really easy to use, so you could start over with a new setup and then use our tutorials here:

Good to hear. Sadly I'm not surprised about the emulators though. Those hard drive sellers are incredibly scammy and most of them don't give you much that's useful.

Beta 2 is out now with the following: Improvement: Added Viking's new Colorful 4K platform videos to the platform video downloader; they are highly recommended, give them a shot and then give Viking some thanks on the forums. Improvement: Added default emulator settings for Cemu, PPSSPP, and Redream Also, I just released Music Box Alpha 0.18 with metadata/tag editing: https://forums.musicboxalpha.com/topic/186-music-box-alpha-018-released/

The license file goes in the same folder that LaunchBox was installed to, but I have no idea where the hard drive seller would have put it. If you search for LaunchBox.exe, it goes in that same folder.

No problem, thank you Aaron!

There is an import Windows games option in the wizard, and it's pretty much as good as importing random Windows games can get. You can always search the file system for EXE files and import those though instead. This is a known issue and happens when Big Box custom themes use the views that contain the favorites and recent boxes from the default view, but don't have them in the theme. As of yet, I haven't figured out a way to disable this for themes that don't have the boxes displayed. Yeah, it's probably not difficult to set up from that perspective. Imports with metadata and media are the main issues.

Hi @Aaron5689, unfortunately Neil is correct. There are a few malicious hard drive sellers out there who are illegally selling our software (as well as loads and loads of ROMs). If you would be willing to share with us who you bought the drive from, I would really appreciate it. You can share it via PM privately if you would rather.

I'm not familiar with those drivers, but sometimes certain hardware can be incompatible with certain drivers and such, especially if you're using homebrew drivers. The next step is probably to test some various emulators to see if those are working.

Certainly; we can add a forum category here shortly.

There are many better ways to do that these days, the easiest of which is to just drag the EXE over and select "None of the Above" on import.

Oic. So we just need to fix it so that regions are pulled from folder names in that scenario. That's right, makes sense. I'll put that on the list at least.

I thought LaunchBox *was* prioritizing ROMs with matching regions to the region priority settings as the main ROM for the game, when combining ROMs. I haven't tested it recently, but my most recent import looks like it did this successfully for Game Boy. The additional apps/versions are sorted alphabetically, but if you edit the game and take a look at the default ROM file, it should be the correct region (if it exists).

The field is called Play Count, but unfortunately you can't modify it currently without going directly into the XML. I'll put that on my list.

Honestly, I really appreciate your bluntness and honesty. There are still a million other great features to tackle, and the more time I spend spinning my wheels on something that isn't really going to work out, the longer it takes to be productive. Per the backs of carts and generic boxes, it seems pretty strange to me to want to look at the blank back of a cart or box. I can add that to my list, but I probably won't be prioritizing it for this release. I'm currently working on prioritizing ideas and new features and such for the next poll. I'm also trying to decide if we should put a new poll out either before or after the next release; I may just add a bunch of quality of life things in for this release and then focus on the poll afterwards. Either way, I plan on announcing and having a live stream discussion as far as what to put on the poll.

Oh man, we've run into issues ourselves with LaunchBox and Corsair keyboards too. What the heck. I don't know what Corsair is doing with their crap keyboard software, but I've never seen anything like that before.

Sorry I forgot to update this; it's updated now. I have both packs updated for the next beta. Thanks guys.

I'm so sorry guys, but I'm giving up on pinball for now. It's just too much of a mess. It's of course already possible to use LaunchBox just fine with pinball, but with so many roadblocks in place towards making it easy, I don't really see the point in optimizing it all. Unless we can make it a straightforward process, it's not really worth the effort, and as best I can tell there really isn't a way to make it a straightforward process at all.

I see. What a mess though. Facepalm. The sad part is that they're only encouraging piracy.

That's...odd. What's the point of that? Obviously that ruins things because most people will not be using this on an actual table.

You mean the one from the Windows Store? Are you able to use that one with command-line parameters?

For PinballFX3, do you guys use the Steam version or the version from the Microsoft Store?

Per pinball, I've decided that we will probably not be adding additional support for media and metadata, at least not any more than already exists. For one thing, it sounds like it's trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, and with the media "rights" issues I'm hearing about, that sounds like a nightmare as well. So unfortunately, I've been scared away from dealing with pinball media, at least for now. It's a nightmare from multiple perspectives, and I don't believe the audience for it would be big enough to justify the effort at this point (at least not once people realize how much effort it takes to set it all up). Good to know that with Pinball FX3 it is at least possible to launch specific tables. The question though is whether it would be possible to automate an import. If every table requires custom parameters, I'm not sure how we would set that up. I will experiment with it though.

There are only image groups for boxes, 3D boxes, carts, 3D carts, screenshots, clear logos, and Steam banners. Back images never show up by default (you can't view the back images for all games together anywhere), so there's really no point in adding default images for them.