Jason Carr

@Vader Will review. LaunchBox for Android 1.0-beta-8 is out now with the same media download optimizations as just came out in the LaunchBox for Windows beta. Media should download more quickly in general.

What is the platform called that you're using?

What device are you using? Can you send me a crashing log file for review? The logs are located in the Logs subfolder of the LaunchBox folder. Per the videos, did you download or export any videos?

Yes, I would try sideloading the latest version of RetroArch. Other than that, I really have no idea why it wouldn't be working, because I basically have the same scenario on my device.

Thanks @ClassicArch. Yup, this functionality will be coming very soon. We're planning on tackling full-on editing capabilities after the 1.0 release comes out next week (it's already out in beta form). I will put this on the list to add.

There is an option to turn off parsing/adding Android games on startup in the Options screen. I'm guessing maybe that got turned off?

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Launching games from LaunchBox into RetroArch Plus is working just fine for me on my hotfixed Nvidia Shield TV. So it should be possible to get working. It's hard to know what the issue is for you without diving in deeper. Have you tried multiple platforms? Are you sure you're not just missing a BIOS file? What platforms have you tried? Where are the ROMs located?

Thanks much. If it was relatively easy to remote debug over ADB, I'd probably go ahead with that, but I don't think it's going to be very straightforward to do over the net. We'd probably have to set up a VPN or something like that. On top of that, we're also using Visual Studio so it's not quite so easy to debug straight over ADB, unfortunately.

Hey all, LaunchBox for Android 1.0-beta-7 is out now with the following: New "Text List with Two-Column Details" games view Support for both gameplay and game title screenshots have been added; they can be used in both new two-column details games views Videos can now optionally be played in the background of the two-column details games views (with screenshots in the second column) Added support for 4 new RetroArch cores: a5200_libretro_android.so (Atari 5200), bk_libretro_android.so (Elektronika BK), gearcoleco_libretro_android.so (ColecoVision), and swanstation_libretro_android.so (Sony Playstation) The All Games filter has been moved to be last on the main screen only (it's still first on secondary filter screens) Fix for a potential crash when changing the selected language in the options Fix for not always using the selected language This beta makes version 1.0 feature-complete, so the only things left before we put out the official release are just testing and bug fixes. Please let us know if you run into any issues with beta 7. We're hoping to put out the 1.0 official release next week.

Well, if I can get a hold of one at some point, I might be able to fix it. But until then, it's not possible to fix. The problem with Android is that it is incredibly fractured; many manufacturers do a poor job of implementing Android, and thus often need hacks in order to get things like this working. But of course it's not possible for us to get a hold of every single handheld device out there.

I noticed that all of my network attached storage was completely removed when I upgraded, myself. I have not done any real testing on this, but my guess would be that Nvidia has not yet fixed those issues with network storage. The above steps should fix issues with reading from USB drives or SD cards, but it sounds like it won't fix network-attached storage. As of yet, I do not know of a solution to that. So I guess it's back to yelling at Nvidia about that stuff.

@2DPlayer I've added the gearcoleco core in for the next Android beta. It looks like we already have gearsystem though.

Okay, good deal. I'm guessing somehow your download for beta 5 just got corrupted.

Sorry for the late reply. Any missing apps that aren't showing up are missing because the developer of the app didn't classify the app as a game properly. Unfortunately Android just does not do a very good job with this in general. In the future, we might add the ability to manually add an app, but unfortunately we don't have that functionality yet.

Please note that while this will work on some devices that are finicky and improperly configured, it should not be necessary to use that folder for most devices, and using that folder may cause issues with launching games. If you're on Android 11+, please note that many issues with storage have been fixed in the latest LaunchBox for Android betas. You can upgrade to the betas by checking the option to Upgrade to betas in the Options screen, and then restarting the app.

Yes, unfortunately Redream still does not allow us to properly launch games on Android 11+. Are you saying you have it working? I haven't tested it on the Shield TV, but it's definitely not working on my Samsung Galaxy S10+. Thanks for the kind words and support. My hair is gone, but we're getting there.

@testies Thanks, will review. This may be an issue with the emulator, but I'll see if there's any possible fix.

Hi @akilatem and @Truest1, please let me know if you still have these issues in the latest beta of LaunchBox for Android. See here:

For anyone who is still struggling with these issues on the latest official release of the Android version (LaunchBox for Android 0.42), please let me know what platform you're importing and what device you're using. I'd like to look into this issue and fix any remaining issues with it before the LaunchBox for Android 1.0 release.

Depending on the platform, that information may or may not be available. Typically it's available in the Play Mode field for arcade/MAME games, but not for consoles.

Hey all, this issue has been fixed in the latest beta of LaunchBox for Android. Actually it should have been fixed in beta 5, which came out yesterday, but beta 6 is out now as well. Thanks for your help testing the betas. Also, if you are using the beta releases, it would be good to keep up with development and testing in this thread:

Thanks @2DPlayer; I will review this and hopefully get those cores added.

For anyone still struggling with issues on the Nvidia Shield TV, please see here: This post should help you fix the issues.

So on top of Google's failures and poor design decisions with Android 11, unfortunately Nvidia managed to screw things up even further by releasing a completely broken update to Android 11 for all Nvidia Shield TV devices. As of posting this topic on February 8, 2022, the issues have still not been fixed in the latest official release of the Nvidia firmware. The latest official release prevents many apps from properly using storage on Nvidia Shield TV devices. First off, if you have not yet upgraded to the 9.0.0 release of the Nvidia Shield TV software, then don't. Stick with your current firmware. The latest release is very broken and buggy and is guaranteed to give you many issues. The latest official release as of making this post is 9.0.0 (33.1.0.236). You can check your current version by going to Settings > Device Preferences > About > Shield Android TV SW Version on your Shield device. If your current version is less than this version, please don't update, or you'll run into issues. If you're on this version, though, the below steps should help to resolve your inevitable issues. We can all thank Nvidia for releasing such terrible/broken software, and then making it so convoluted to download the fix. Edit (2022-02-21): This "fix" from Nvidia will allow proper access to both internal storage, the SD card, and network drives for LaunchBox to access. However, it will *not* fix the issues with USB drives. As far as we can tell, these are still very broken in the Nvidia firmware, and as far as we know there's literally nothing we can do to fix the issue until Nvidia gets it fixed. Here are the steps to fix the issues: Click this link: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/shield-tv/9/481434/shield-experience-upgrade-90-hotfix-image/ On the above page, click the first green link in the main content, which should take you to a Google Forms page (sigh). Enter your email onto this page (on the bottom). Look up your Nvidia Shield TV serial number under Settings > Device Preferences > About > Status on your Shield device, and carefully type it into the serial number field (obviously don't remove the DONTDELETE- portion - it's like they're REALLY trying to make this complicated, eh?) Click the Submit button. Wait for what they say is 24-48 hours. For us, it took around 3 hours before we were able to download the update on our Shield device. Go back to your Shield device and go to Settings > Device Preferences > About > System upgrade and select "Check for upgrade". If the system tells you that no upgrade is available, you'll have to give it another hour or two and try again. Otherwise, if you're prompted to upgrade, go ahead and go through the upgrade process. After upgrading, you should be on version 9.0.1 (33.1.0.283), and all (see bold text above) issues with the latest beta version of LaunchBox should be fixed. However, as of writing this post, you will need the latest beta version of LaunchBox for Android in order to fix some of the issues with Android 11 on the Shield TV. That should get you up and running. Our apologies for the hassles here, even though we really couldn't do much about these issues. Feel free to post about your experiences with this or ask for help below. Happy gaming.