Jason Carr

Hey guys, it's that time again! We're ready to translate everything for 7.15. Also, here are the release notes that need translated: Thank you all so much! @CliveBarker@AFaustini@Wattoo@Opak@dukeemu@cyanjiang@Bardock@MajKSA

Just fixed the decimal places in the list view for the next beta. I caught it everywhere else, but forgot about the list view. How much of a delay are you seeing? A 0.5-second to 1-second delay is expected, considering the amount of images and data that are displayed. Obviously there's more information displayed there now than ever, so it makes sense that it might take slightly longer (though loading the achievements should be threaded so it shouldn't significantly delay loading up the information). Early on in this beta I also fixed some flickering issues when loading up the details as well, so that might be what you're seeing. Previously as the game details sidebar was updated with new info, the presentation would flicker back and forth a bit, which it no longer does. Now it waits until it's actually ready to properly display the info before updating it. It's also more multi-threaded now, which of course is going to favor newer CPUs with more cores.

In all honesty, literally nothing was done to improve stability in this beta from the last one, so that's skeptical since all I did was add new features and prevent plugin errors from popping up in LaunchBox. So I'm lost there.

And beta 9 is out. I added a bunch of safeguards to hopefully prevent the errors in LaunchBox that are due to the submit to games database plugin. I still haven't been able to replicate the issue on my end, but I'm guessing that this will fix the issue. Please let me know if anyone is still getting the FormatException error on selecting things in LaunchBox. Also, the community star ratings and partial star ratings are in Big Box now as well. Finally, custom playlists (auto-populate playlists) now work with the star ratings/community star ratings and their related settings (minimum number of community star ratings to consider, etc.). We're in pretty good shape at this point I think (I hope). I have a few bugs to look into, but other than that we'll be looking to put out 7.15 shortly.

I put this on my shortlist Cid. It would be significant effort to do it right now so I won't get it into 7.15, but hopefully soon.

I am able to replicate this by spamming the key over and over. It takes some effort on my systems, but I am able to get it to happen, so it's on my list.

Yes, we did hear that, although I believe it was causing a different error than the one we keep seeing here.

Can you zip up and send me your LaunchBox\Data folder so I can figure this out @shinra358? As always, make sure to PM it instead of posting it here for privacy reasons. Are you using a 360 controller?

Good to know. I'll put that on my list.

Hey guys, do you mean the logo on top of the game menu? I still can't seem to replicate any issues; please let me know as many details as you can (what theme, what view, etc.).

This is the same error that we keep hearing about, and it's somehow caused by the Submit to Games Database plugin. @CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT @ckp I did change this in the beta I just put out as well; it now shows up to two decimal places. I do see the black screen startup video issue every once in a while as well. It's not gonna be a fun one to figure out and fix, because it's so random. But it is on my list. The process to launch games hasn't been changed in ages, so there's certainly no new issues there, but more could probably be done to prevent multiple game launches. Per random crashes, please let me know as many details as you can, such as what view you're on and what you were doing at the time. I'll run it on a few of my systems over here for a while and see if I have any of the same issues.

Just put out beta 8, folks. This beta should fix the issue with .webm videos. It also adds three new fields to the list view in LaunchBox for star rating, community star rating, and community star rating count. I've been trying to replicate the issues with the submit to games database plugin, but for whatever reason I haven't been able to replicate any issues at all. I wanted to see if I could somehow at least prevent the issue. Either the issue is fixed now (which I doubt), or I just haven't been able to trigger it. Please let me know if you guys are still getting that FormatException error when selecting games in LaunchBox with the plugin installed, and if you have any ideas on how to trigger it. Thanks all.

Good to know guys. It will probably be a while but I'll add it to the list.

@PhillsDoodles Just feasted my eyes on this: Wow!

We've already identified that the AddToGamesDB plugin does have an issue currently, so that would be my guess. We're working with @UnderwoodNC to get it fixed.

Do you guys have any plugins installed? Does removing them fix the issue?

Yes, backing up the entire data folder should be safe.

The reason why I'm confident in this is because the errors that are showing up have nothing to do with the Notes fields, so somehow, the other fields were changed, even in the "original" XML.

Did you make a backup of your entire original Data folder before making any tweaks? At this point all I can figure is that there are some changes in there that we're missing, and that the original XML file isn't really the original XML.

@MartinC This is not an issue with LaunchBox; somehow these fields are being changed incorrectly by whatever you're using to edit the XML files. What software are you using?

@stevaside Sorry for the delay here; just pulled up your data. Unfortunately it looks like you have several completely corrupted data files. Settings.xml, BigBoxSettings.xml, and Platforms.xml are all corrupted, as well as Arcade.xml from the Data\Platforms folder. I don't know how this could have happened outside of a file system or hard drive issue. You *might* be able to use files from your LaunchBox\Backups folder to replace these files to get back up and running, though. I would make sure to run chkdsk and such to see if you have any further issues with the drive first.

@MartinC I ran it through a debug process and the issue is being caused by an empty value in one of the DatabaseID fields. It's reading it in as an empty string, which is an invalid situation. I believe the tag should just be removed instead. However, I'm seeing other errors coming through as well with dates once that problem is solved, so you might have many more issues with the data. I'm guessing that's the same issue though, using an empty string value instead of removing the tag.

Good to know @Napoleon; thanks for that sleuthing. This has been reported by a couple other people, so it's great to get it identified.

Hi @UnderwoodNC, thank you so much. Yes, it's still an issue. I know that it's likely caused by a change in the latest betas, but I'm not sure what change. Please let me know if you need anything or figure anything out.

This is still a known issue with .webm videos, as discussed further on up the thread. It's rather strange but seems to be related to upgrading the VLC library. Still on my plate.