Jason Carr

Hey all, the first 9.3 beta is out with the following: - Improvement: Daphne emulators should now have "Hide Console Window" checked by default for better compatibility with the startup screens - Fixed: Rare and random null reference error when returning to LaunchBox from games - Fixed: Error when using the list view in LaunchBox and attempting to hide the sidebar - Fixed: Rare but potential null reference error auto-generating child playlists My intention with 9.3 is to fix some various bugs and then put out an official release relatively quickly. We won't see any new features for 9.3. I haven't seen any major emergency issues though with 9.2, so with the holidays it may be a bit before release.

Unfortunately not currently.

Merry Christmas. If 320x200 is indeed the correct screen resolution for the game, then a 320x200 screenshot would be favorable over a 320x240 screenshot. Ideally we would avoid screenshots with blurring or post processing due to upgraded resolutions. I can imagine it's not always easy to figure out though, especially when you're looking at 320x240 vs. 320x200. Honestly, it's probably not that big of a deal either way in that particular case.

LaunchBox does have a pin lock system, which might work well enough if you use arcade controls and don't allow access to a keyboard. Otherwise though, locking down all of Windows can be very difficult. Typically with an arcade board though you can just prevent certain keys from being pressed, like Alt+Tab, Start, etc.

Good to know; I hadn't discovered this. Yes, though if Steam isn't signed in the startup screen will just exit to the desktop, basically. You can batch edit all Steam games just by selecting them all and right-click Edit. Then you can disable the startup screens for all the games at once. Currently there isn't a way to define a default setting for Steam, unfortunately. Since every game is different, it wouldn't likely work out all that well anyways. PC games are a major challenge with startup screens just because every single game behaves differently.

Yup, you can just download it from there. That should be everything you need. Thanks again.

Yes, this is already available. Check out the LaunchBox\StartupThemes folder. I've heard this from one other person, but I haven't been able to replicate it as of yet. I think it must be a particular system configuration or something. For now, you might just have to turn off startup screens until we can get it figured out. I can't predict all of people's hacks that are in place, so I can't make every situation just magically work perfectly. Startup screens are a complicated mess of a feature, pretty much no matter what we do. I've done my best to make them work generically while not requiring a bunch of tinkering (and we've honestly made great strides in this area compared to previously available solutions), but there's no promises that everything will work perfectly in every situation. That said, I do have literally every emulator on my systems working perfectly with the startup screens, so they do work well with most configurations, and that was my goal. Merry Christmas everybody.

That would be great. Thank you @alexposad. You can read the first few posts of this topic for instructions on how to get started.

The easiest way to do this (which is really pretty easy) is just to select all your games and batch edit them to force the startup screen off. Then you can enable it for the games that you want. I might have considered adding this option earlier in the development process, but at this point I probably won't be restructuring it. It makes more sense to do it on the emulator level since how it works largely depends on the emulator/launching method and not the platform.

It looks like @t17fenics offered to translate into Russian way back in 2016, but it doesn't look like we ever heard back, so we are in need of a Russian translator.

If you turn off the startup screen option, then 9.2 behaves exactly the same when launching games as previous versions did. So if you're having MAME focus issues with the startup screen turned off, then most likely it's unrelated to the new version.

Hi Larry, this is very cool. I am slightly concerned with copyrights though if you plan to upload it here to the forums; we generally don't distribute manuals to avoid any kind of legal issues from that front. As far as the images, I think if you were to make the distribution method a torrent, then I'd just leave the full-size images in there. In the emulation world, 8 gigs really isn't all that big. But that's just my two cents.

Yeah, the error is likely to be completely random. I have it fixed already, but I haven't put out the beta that fixes it yet.

Awesome.

If you have startup screens completely turned off in LaunchBox or Big Box, then they're off, period. If you want to enable them only for PC games, you'll have to enable them in LaunchBox and/or Big Box and then configure them either on an emulator or game basis. You can use the batch edit stuff to turn them on and off for each game. Or, just disable them for all your emulators.

The new LaunchBox startup screens actually don't work in windowed mode; they work with fullscreen modes, including exclusive fullscreen.

@lokham I can reproduce this, so I'll get it fixed here soon. Thanks for the report.

Okay, I'll add it to my list to look into it. I assume you've tried playing with all the game startup emulator settings? You can just disable it for that emulator for now if it's not working yet.

You can batch edit all the games in a platform if you're looking to change it on a platform level.

I see. I know we've had requests both for that and for a keyboard shortcut, but we've had slightly more requests for the latter, so I'll probably go that route.

We'll need more details in order to help. Have you tried all the settings in the emulator's Game Startup tab?

This thread is almost three years old. We don't currently have anything in the works to integrate any other scrapers. Now that the LaunchBox Games Database is so well populated, it doesn't seem to be a priority to users, as I only very rarely hear a request about it.

Good to hear.

So just delete the D:\LaunchBox\LaunchBox folder and run the installer again, and this time install to D:\LaunchBox.

It looks like you fell prey to exactly what I asked you to be careful about above. You installed it into D:\LaunchBox\LaunchBox instead of D:\LaunchBox.