Jason Carr

I'd love to get this fixed but as @Charco stated I've never been able to replicate it and it doesn't seem to be a common issue. I remember in the past, the closest we got to fixing it was discovering issues with Microsoft's 360/Xbox One controller drivers; they really screwed them up for a while. I'm not certain if this is it, but do try and see if you can update your 360/Xbox One controller drivers.

What happens if you install LaunchBox to a new/different folder? Do you get the same issues?

It also could be a driver issue between the .NET Framework 4.7 and your particular drivers, so also it would be a good idea to make sure your video drivers are up to date, and anything else you can think of as well.

@Bizznatch The primary change that could affect this in the latest versions is that we upgraded to the latest version of the .NET Framework (4.7). So I would guess that somehow there's something wrong there; if you do want to try and troubleshoot it, I would try reinstalling the .NET Framework 4.7.

Beta 5 is out now guys: - New Feature: Community star ratings are now available in LaunchBox and will show as a slightly different color. You can download the community's star ratings for your games by using Tools > Download Metadata and Media. - New Feature: Star ratings set in LaunchBox will now automatically upload to the LaunchBox Games Database in order to contribute to the community's ratings. You can disable this under Tools > Options > Search. - Improvement: Syncing your collection to the cloud now reports progress and is much quicker; viewing your collection on the web is much quicker as well. - Improvement: Star ratings can now be set at half values Community star ratings is the last major thing I'm adding to 7.15 before the official release; however, I do still need to add the community star rating features to Big Box as well, so that is next.

He meant Retro Achievements.

Yeah, I know that's still a weird Windows issue every once in a while. Most people have turned on background updates so I haven't done anything about it yet. Thanks, I did get in touch with Scott on Discord; he's the developer of the API. He's working on solving the issues with the few platforms that have problems.

Make sure you're changing the settings under Game Menu and not Game Details. I know it's slightly confusing; the Game Details settings are used for displaying the text details, while the Game Menu settings are used for populating the items in the game details menu. I just tested everything and it seems to work properly, though there is not currently an option to turn off the Add to Playlist item from the menu.

Sounds like this might be a file permissions issue or something like that, especially if the Settings.xml file is never created. There's something strange going on there for sure. What directory do you have LaunchBox installed to?

Not sure if @jayjay is trolling or serious...

@Expello Are you using Windows Media Player or VLC for your video playback engine? There does unfortunately seem to be something integral to Windows or the .NET framework messed up on that machine. Sadly I haven't found any real solutions in my searches. I guess I would try reinstalling/repairing Windows 10, although I know that's a pain. These days though you should be able to do that without losing any apps or settings.

Thanks @HankChill; I will look into that issue. Gotcha about the completed stuff too. Maybe we can just add that to the game details?

@Jlponyo First off, a refund is on its way. Secondly, very rarely if ever do I argue with users about the issues they're running into, but in that case, you're bringing up issues that do not exist elsewhere for thousands of people, issues that I've never even heard of. So in all honesty, I'm not sure if your computer's just broken or if you're just being a troll. Thirdly, nothing good ever comes from words like those. I sincerely hope you didn't expect a positive response lol.

Beta 4 is out now guys, finally with proper star ratings support in Big Box: - New Premium Feature: Star ratings are now available in Big Box! They will show up by default in the game details views, but can be disabled under Options > Game Details. - New Premium Feature: Star ratings can now be set in Big Box from either the game details menu or via a hotkey or controller button under Options > Keyboard Mappings > Set Star Rating or Options > Controller Buttons > Set Star Rating. An option is available to hide the Star Rating from the game details menu as well. Finally, I added the point values to the achievements titles in LaunchBox and Big Box.

Since the Escape button is used to close out every other popup, I figured this made the most sense for consistency. However, maybe the Enter button could close it out as well?

Also agreed.

Glad you shared this; I didn't know it was available there. I updated the link in LaunchBox to go here instead because it's a lot easier than the other page.

Yup, agreed.

Yeah, we'll definitely be expanding on the user interface with more details to show eventually. I want to make sure we can get the API fully working first though.

That's actually a new request, believe it or not. I do like that idea, but of course it would depend on their being an API available for reading the achievements on each of those platforms. We'll have to look.

Thanks Fisty; sorry I haven't followed up on that yet. It's on my short list.

So apparently the API is broken for several platforms, sadly. That's quite unfortunate. Hopefully I can get in touch with the devs here soon as I would be it's an easy fix, and I could probably even fix it myself if I had the code. If anyone knows how to get me in touch with the devs, I'm all for it. I do have a thread over on the retroachievements.org forums here: http://retroachievements.org/viewtopic.php?t=5527&c=27855 Looks like I should hit up their Discord, so I'll do that shortly.

Good to hear.

Yes, and I can't do anything about that until the retroachievements.org API is fixed. As I stated earlier, for some reason their API is broken for Sega Genesis, so there's not much I can do about it.

Welp, beta 3 is out now. Super Mario Bros. finally scrapes.