Jason Carr

@audunv Thanks for pointing that out. I believe I have that fixed as well now for the next beta.

I'll test this out; we had some previous similar issues but I thought I had them fixed. I assume you're on the latest beta, @audunv?

@Coptimus, I just got that duplicates issue fixed for the next beta. Thank you very much for pointing that out. It wasn't a common occurrence, but apparently was happening between multiple imports and such, somehow.

It is encrypted, so people aren't going to be able to easily get the actual password, but still, someone could load it up and *use* the credentials in LaunchBox, because they're in there all configured. So if anyone has any of those lying around, it would probably be good to delete them.

It is encrypted, yes, but encrypted or not, it's still a security concern sharing it around.

Oooh, good thought. Perhaps we should be more careful about that in the future!

Hmm, seems to be a Windows or an RDP bug; that's weird. Sadly, I'm not sure if there's anything we can do to fix that @gogocons.

Sorry I missed that @Coptimus. Can you zip up and share your Data folder so I can test?

Beta 16 is out now guys with only minor bugfixes, but I want to confirm that one bug in particular is indeed fixed (the null reference bug related to retrieving custom field names). @Kriven I dove into your collection in the live stream this morning and it turns out the issue is that you have a custom field named "Playlists". Everything should work properly if you delete that custom field; unfortunately LaunchBox gets confused if you use that name for a custom field. @neil9000 Unfortunately currently there is no way to hide the Arcade platform without hiding the games from the arcade playlists as well; that is a good point. Unfortunately it's too late in the game to add something for that though, so we'll have to get back to it at some point in the future. This may be the last beta to go out before the release tomorrow, or I may have another beta out in the mean time depending on what I find to fix.

Thanks @Opak; I didn't test this extensively, but I think this is fixed for the next beta as well.

Thank you all, not too late! Just updated everything for the next beta. Planning on putting out the official release tomorrow, so we should be good to go.

Sorry for that @neil9000, I sort of got sidetracked. There we are.

Hi guys, just finished responding to everyone. All the emails went out and there haven't been any problems at all; it's just that first name and last initial is relatively common, so in every case so far it's been because someone else won instead of the person who thought they did (not fun to give out that news lol). But we don't want to cause any privacy issues either, so there's really no better way to do it.

@teeedubb The problem is I still have to build something to make that possible. It's not a matter of not allowing it, it's just that I haven't built that yet, so it needs development work.

Hi @Clock, all licenses have gone out. PM me your first and last name and your email and I'll check.

Sorry guys. I'll put this on my shortlist, again lol. Hopefully I can get to this very soon; I agree that it should be a priority. Thanks for all your work here in this thread.

Hey all, beta 15 is out. Text descriptions are now included for the arcade playlists, but will only show up if you delete them and have them recreated, unfortunately. I did go through and fix a bunch of bugs, but I haven't addressed everything in this thread yet (specifically the issues reported by @Kriven and @Coptimus). That's on my list.

Thank you guys! I have all of the above updated for the next beta, which should be out in a couple hours tops.

Sorry for all this @nikeymikey. We'll get you moderator soon once people feel more comfortable with it.

Hi @Coptimus, how are you identifying those games as missing? Are they showing up as missing in the games list when editing the playlist? Games are identified by the MAME zip file name, so perhaps the list is just incomplete.

Thank you guys! I'll go ahead and make you both moderators; however, please understand that as moderators you are held to a much higher standard than the rest of the community, so it is extremely important that you are always respectful and kind, and never condescending or combative. I don't think you guys will have a problem with that though. Let me know if you guys are still up for it and I'll make you both moderators.

Downloads are now back on our own servers, now that we have three different servers hosting the various services. All three servers are currently very overpowered for what they're serving (both processing and bandwidth-wise), so the only possible cause of slow downloads right now would be something between users and us in the Interwebs, which is unfortunately out of our control, sans for distributing the downloads via a bunch of servers in a bunch of different locations. We somehow had complaints even with Amazon S3, so I'm not sure there is anything more we can do. Glad to hear it's at least faster for you though, @Sir BLaDE.