Jason Carr

Under Tools > Manage Emulators > MAME.

@ALIE Believe it or not, it's not installed for everybody. Some corporate and foreign installs don't include WMP. New beta is out guys with a bunch of stuff. Added more responses for voice recognition in the live stream. Made the voice recognition responses be sequential so it feels more real. Optimized saving in Big Box so that it doesn't slow down the interface, and does a better job of not overwriting changes when syncing via Dropbox. Fixed the updater to stop telling you to close LaunchBox. More VLC audio playing in the background fixes. Also I'm hoping that the platform folders being overwritten with the defaults thing is fixed. Let me know if anyone sees any more of that going on. Thanks guys!

Hi Will, hit up @circo and see if he can help. It sounds like it's an issue with your account at EmuMovies.

Hi @Charco, what are your MAME emulator settings? We found a bug recently where the MAME default settings had been changed incorrectly. You should have "Don't use quotes" and "rom file name only" checked.

Hi Carl, yup, that's a safe way to do it. Just delete the media folders and then you can use the Download Metadata and Images wizard to re-download everything.

Hi @alesego, thanks for the report. This is a known issue and I have it on my shortlist to resolve.

Thank you @quazl; I think that should work. I added it to my short list to get it integrated.

Hi @quazl, unfortunately we don't currently have anything in place for purchasing licenses for other people, but I can send you a custom license once you know who your buyer is. Just send me an email to jason@unbrokensoftware.com.

Sounds like you may have discovered a bug with the new multi-disc features, @Fuscan. Added that to my short list.

Hi @mingmong24, that is planned but not available as of yet. Rocket Launcher does support that though if you want to give that a try.

Hi @Eirulan, yes, that is not supported as of yet. It is planned though.

Hi @Xiverio, I believe this is already planned on Bitbucket. Should be a ticket there and you can vote on it. Feel free to add a new one if you can't find it: https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues

Hi @citistyle, do me a favor and change your icon. We need to keep this place at least at a PG level.

@Eirulan I believe I have fixed that first bug in the latest beta. Per the audio issues, we're using DirectX's XAudio2 to render the sounds, so maybe try reinstalling DirectX? Other than that, it could be related to the Windows Media Player or VLC video playback engines. Maybe try switching video playback engines? This is the first time I'm hearing of it though so I'm guessing there's something awry with sound something on your system (though I know that's not very helpful).

Hi andyco, it's not normal for that to happen, but I know some people have struggled with it. If I recall correctly, those people were using Rocket Launcher; are you by chance? I think it might be a Rocket Launcher configuration issue.

Hi @Retro956, there is a way to do this but it's unfortunately not very easy currently; it's pretty convoluted and would take a book to explain. I have plans to both come up with an easier solution and add it to the documentation so that it's easier to add transitions for things like this; hopefully I can tackle that shortly after the 6.9 release.

No problem @latin625, good to get these kind of posts on the forums because other people can stumble on them and solve their problem too.

Wow, that's interesting @BoxBox. I'm curious what that ltc_game64... DLL file is; is that part of Plays TV?

Hi @renarshemi, good ideas there. Can you create a new ticket using Issues/Requests in the header, one for each idea? Thanks!

Yes, the controller automation simply triggers the Escape key, so it's reliant on the Escape key closing the emulator out. Previously we had been doing things like force-closing apps and windows, but that causes problems for emulator features like save on exit and such.

Thank you Arzoo! Count me in for the beta testing as well, of course.

Just a threading issue where the video is loaded after the rest of the interface has moved on.

And the new beta with the hopeful VLC fixes is out. I've been refusing to use Windows Media Player for the last week just so I can get annoyed enough to fix all the issues lol.

Hi @HobbitCy, I have that feature planned but sadly there's no good way to do that right now. That is currently bugging me as well; I've been wanting a media audit feature too so I'm sure it won't be too long before it's implemented.

Yes, that should probably be optimized. Honestly it's a relic from back when we only supported one image per category. I'm not sure there is a point to it currently, so we do need to address that. I think ideally we'll need options for prioritizing EmuMovies, prioritizing the LaunchBox Games Database, or including both. Feel free to put in a ticket for that if you can, @chito.