Jason Carr

Hi @CADScott, something like this came up elsewhere and supposedly the solution was to open the Game Controllers Control Panel applet and mark the one controller as the default controller. In Windows 10 it's under Advanced, Preferred Controller. Does that work?

Also, one more thing I wanted to mention...we've changed the list of image types to be much more extensive: Advertisement Flyer - Back Advertisement Flyer - Front Arcade - Cabinet Arcade - Circuit Board Arcade - Control Panel Arcade - Controls Information Arcade - Marquee Banner Box - 3D Box - Back Box - Front Cart - 3D Cart - Back Cart - Front Clear Logo Disc Fanart - Background Fanart - Box - Back Fanart - Box - Front Fanart - Cart - Back Fanart - Cart - Front Fanart - Disc Screenshot - Game Over Screenshot - Game Select Screenshot - Game Title Screenshot - Gameplay Screenshot - High Scores

Alright! I've opened up moderation for everyone in this thread whose forum email here matches their registration the LaunchBox Games Database. If your email doesn't match, hit me up here with your gamer tag and I'll hook you up.

Hi all, I just finally opened up changes, uploads, moderation for game images live on the site. Up next will be the ability to add and delete games. I know moderation isn't perfect at this point (we could do a lot of things to make it easier and more streamlined), but I'll be spending more time on that after we get editing squared away across the board. I'm about to open up moderation to the rest of the folks in this thread, so stay tuned. :)

Hey guys, the crashes I was seeing before I can't get to happen anymore. Funny thing is I haven't updated any code. So I'm actually wondering if Windows Updates might have been the culprit; I was seeing the crashes with consistency for a while, and then they just disappeared. So, first off, what versions of Windows are you running? If you can make sure your updates are all up to date and test some more, it'd be appreciated. If none of us are seeing the crashes anymore with 5.10-beta-3 then I'll call this fixed.

Wow, very strange. Did you restart LaunchBox after disabling controllers completely?

Hi @Drybonz, feel free to add a ticket for this. I don't expect I can make it a priority for the moment because I don't think that's a common scenario, but if we put in a ticket for it then people can vote for it.

Yeah, I'm getting the crash as well, so at least I can replicate, though it is random. Can anyone go back to 5.9 to confirm 100% that it doesn't happen with that release? Thanks guys.

Okay, good. Glad it's not an issue in 5.9. Odd that this just showed up in the betas, but this is now my top priority. Should be easy to figure out since not much has changed since 5.9.

Did it start happening with 5.9? Or the latest betas?

Okay, does the crash occur only in Big Box? Do the controller settings match exactly between LaunchBox and Big Box? Do you have AutoHotkey enabled for them?

External hard drives actually terrify me because of those issues. It's more expensive, but it's much safer to get a Dropbox account (which are now 1 TB large) and just sync to all your machines. That way you always have a backup in the cloud, and you can always restore deleted/missing files. If you get the extra versions feature, you can get back any version of any file, even from 6 months ago. It is expensive but I can't live without it these days. I subscribe to Crashplan on top of that for proper cloud backups (space is unlimited for that so I have like 15 TB backed up). Then there's the RAID 1 I use in my machines just in case a drive dies. I'm a little bit nuts I will admit but haven't had any data loss in 15 years. Still have my development projects from high school. ;)

Sigh, this is definitely caused by those rotten drivers. Try manually changing the game controller settings in the options to use the new XInput option. Turn off Use All Controllers if it's enabled.

Yeah, typically the files that go missing are the files that were in use at the time of the incident. It is possible that LaunchBox had a bunch of files open and hence they went missing during whatever file system error occurred. Are you using FAT32 on the drive, exFAT, or NTFS?

Hi @Scoremonger, thanks for reporting this. However, I am 100% certain that LaunchBox did not cause that data loss. In every single instance in the past where images/videos/whatever were lost, it was caused by something moving around (just looking in a different path and the files are still there), or user error. LaunchBox does not just go out and delete files, and it's impossible for LaunchBox to do that by an error occurring. Metadata getting corrupted in the LaunchBox.xml file is one thing, but completely missing files is very different. The only time when LaunchBox has any code to delete files is during image cleanup, but since obviously you didn't run that operation, it's not possible for LaunchBox to have deleted any files. Obviously though you've had file system errors; that's what's happened here. You don't have to have a bad drive to run into that issue. Sometimes a power loss or hard reset can cause these issues, and sometimes it's extremely hard to track down. I can't emphasize enough how important it is to back up your entire collection just in case a bad drive or file system errors like this occur; even though LaunchBox does not cause these kinds of issues, they can and will happen eventually. External drives are even more likely to run into issues like this due to always being moved around and plugged/unplugged.

Hi @AladdinSane, you're sure this is only happening with Demul? My hunch is it's those pesky failing DirectInput drivers again. Try disabling all game controllers in LaunchBox to see if that happens to fix the issue.

Gotcha. This is the same error that @scree was seeing I think. Seems to only happen on 32-bit machines.

Yeah, I've seen this too. I'll see if there are any updates to the forums software which might fix the bug. It happens with the changed user names too, but I've seen it happen even for original user names now. :/

Ah, thank you @CADScott. Did it work for you in 5.9 or in any previous 5.10 betas?

Gonna hold off on the official release for a day or two. I did make a few minor changes that could use some translations to the AboutForm and the Strings files, so if you guys are available to patch those up that'd be awesome. :)

Yeah, this is why I stick with coding. ;)

Hey all, I agree that that would be the best solution. Probably won't make it into the next version but I'll keep that in mind for long term. A ticket for it would be good if there isn't one already. I just put out another beta...planned on putting out the official today but got into development and decided I'd rather take my time and get 5.10 as stable as possible so that we can hunker down on the 6.0 release. Here's the changelog so far for 5.10: - Improvement: MAME metadata and import functionality has been greatly improved which should help to reduce gaps from the get-go. Also included a link to Antropus's Lightspeed MAME importer for users who need even more options. - Improvement: Spanish and French translations have been updated (including release notes in the Welcome dialog) - Improvement: Startup time has been reduced a bit by separating out the MAME metdata to a separate file - Improvement: VLC videos in LaunchBox and Big Box now loop and resume from pausing properly instead of starting over I fixed a bunch of translation issues today as well as the latter two items, and some obscure bugs that aren't really worth mentioning. Oh, and I added a VLC tab to the About dialog. Still plan to put 5.10 out this week.

Hi @Lenny, thanks for reminding me of that. I have it fixed and the beta is uploading now so it should be out in a bit. :)

kmoney2315 said @Jason The new changes to the mame importer are waaaaay better than they were before! I imported with it last night and it got rid of 95% of the junk that it used to leave before. I can also tell that the quality and quanity of the flyers improved also. There are still some games that either don't have flyers or are displaying "hyperspin" game theme screenshots for the flyer or is showing a screenshot that has nothing to do with the game. I am sure that is because there are no quality flyers out there for certain games or something to that effect. I am sure us as a community can work together to fill in some of the missing flyers or wrong ones and get it corrected. Me for one,I do not like to see an empty space with the launchbox logo. Even if there is not a flyer for the game I would rather see maybe a pic of the actual arcade cabinet or maybe a nice screenshot of the game. Thanks for the update! Thank you much @kmoney2315. Yeah, the images really bug me too. I went through the effort to add in and replace every single available flyer, but was disappointed to see that many just don't exist at this point. I'm gonna look to see what types of images we might be able to use to fill in the blanks.

Brad and I worked it out; looks like it was just due to games from a previous import. I'm gonna go ahead with the official release. :)