Jason Carr

The VLC setting is added upon saving the LaunchBox.xml file. It makes sense if it's crashing that it never gets saved and thus the VLC setting never gets added. I'll have to put a 32-bit virtual machine together so I can test this I guess.

To me what makes sense is that ROM hacks should be part of the official games. That way we could add a "Hacks" section for each game that lists the available hacks. Far from priority, but that makes sense to me ultimately. Homebrew, etc. games we might as well add to the list, I'd say. We could add a field to specify whether it's an official release.

New beta is up. The issue was ultimately that I was mistakenly loading 64-bit VLC native DLLs for both 64-bit and 32-bit environments. Let's hope this fixes things. :)

99% sure I've found and fixed the issue. New beta is uploading.

Ding ding ding! I bet it's the 32-bit thing. I'll do some testing. :)

Are either of you guys running 32-bit versions of Windows?

Thanks guys. Unfortunately I've tried both and they're both working fine for me, sigh. Anything you can give me at this point would be helpful; screenshots, videos, etc. Or even just a very detailed description of exactly what is happening and what you see. Also, if you go into your Windows Event Viewer and go to the Application log, it should give you some info on the crash at the top of the log. That might be useful as well. Beyond that I'm baffled. Oh, what version of Windows are you guys running? @DonkeyKongsVet @scree

Images are coming soon but aren't there yet.

Hehehehehehe. It's actually a Strongbad reference. ;)

Alright, I've opened up moderation for the following people: @donarumo, @SentaiBrad, @CADScott, @FistyDollars, @DOS76, @CliveBarker, @Freestate, @DonkeyKongsVet, @DudeManL57, @Hexxxer @CriticalCid, @XxvondutchxX, @wkLeon, I tried to open it up for you guys but I couldn't find your accounts. Go ahead and register and give me your gamer tags and I'll get you access. To moderate, sign in and then click the "My Account" link at the top of the site. Then you should see a "Moderation" link if you have access.

I've just released the initial changes/moderation system for the site. As-is right now, anyone can submit changes to game metadata. To make changes, just go to a game's details and click the little pencil icon that shows up as you hover over the fields. Changes are currently available for all game metadata, but not for images, developers, publishers, etc. It's also not yet possible to add new games or delete games. It's all coming soon. :) Moderation is currently restricted to only a subset of people. For these beta testing stages, we'll open it up in order of request on this thread. I'll post another update here soon with the initial set of people that I've opened up for moderation. The way moderation works is that every single change requires 3 different moderators to approve it before it gets accepted. I'm confident that this will help to ensure the quality of the database. This also means that we will need lots of quality help moderating. ;) We do still need to write detailed rules/guidelines for the data. Let me know if anyone wants to tackle that. Thanks!

The official default going forward for arcade "front box art" will be arcade posters/fliers like this: https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1920&bih=1075&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=arcade+posters&oq=arcade+posters&gs_l=img.3...0.0.0.18495.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c..64.img..0.0.0.xIkdntsfbu0 Reason being that they resemble box art and typically do a great job of both showing off the game and the cabinet. However, I agree that ultimately we want to provide an option for that in LaunchBox, so you can use whatever you want.

Thanks, won't matter either way.

Complete crashes without any error information popping up are unusual. Unfortunately in that scenario there's no way to log anything really. There will be an application error event in the Windows event log that might have something but usually it's fairly useless. I think the best option would be for me to test with a LaunchBox.xml file that is causing the issues. Can you email me yours to jason@unbrokensoftware.com? Hopefully that will at least allow me to replicate the issue. Thanks!

Any information you guys can give on those problems with beta 9 would be appreciated. I haven't been able to reproduce any of them and don't have any details on them. Thanks!

Hi @CrystalForce, can you forward me that email? Send it to jasondavidcarr@gmail.com. Thanks!

Hi Mute, my guess is that was because the email verification link had expired, but I should get that fixed to tell you instead of that error message. Regardless though I'm going to remove the initial email verification requirement just because it's been a PITA. I did just enable everyone's accounts so you should be all set.

CADScott said My online collection works well in Chrome, but I do notice that I get only the platform list if the the window is not very wide on the screen or fullscreen. This is by design, so that on small-screen devices the boxes show underneath the menu instead of beside the menu so that everything fits.

SentaiBrad said I do notice that currently the Online Library only shows games with front images associated with them, games without the images seem to be excluded. Games without images are not excluded. However, I suspect you're just observing that games without images are missing from the LaunchBox Games Database entirely.

DOS76 said Does this manage multiple collections or only one per email i have LB capabilities on every computer i own which is far too many. That's an interesting point. I don't plan to support multiple separate collections for the same account. The concept I'm envisioning is being able to sync up different installations of LaunchBox to all be the same. However, as-is right now you would be able to sync all your collections individually up to the LaunchBox Games Database and they will show combined up there without duplicates.

DOS76 said In the future will you be able to control the videos in LB with VLC like you could with WMP ie pause and other options when right clicking on the video. Hi @DOS76, controls for VLC are indeed planned. I'm hoping at least rudimentary controls will make it into 5.9.

Hey guys, in order to clear up confusion, please read the blog post I made earlier: https://www.launchbox-app.com/announcements/sync-your-collection-to-the-cloud There are several things mentioned that are important to note, such as differences in metadata/images, etc.

Thanks all for the testing as well. @supermario56, I don't see that as a major priority, but I do agree that screenshots would be a good option to have. Can you add that with "Feature Request" in the header?

Hey everybody, just put out a new beta that allows you to sync your local collection to the LaunchBox Games Database. Please see this post for more details on how it all works: https://www.launchbox-app.com/announcements/sync-your-collection-to-the-cloud Let me know of course if you run into any bugs (I'm sure there are some). :)

Thanks everyone, new beta is out: - VLC support in LaunchBox - New LaunchBox splash screen - New Register License option in LaunchBox to make it easier for simpletons to add or update their license (for users who can't seem to find their LaunchBox folder, I get this all the time) - If the ROM file isn't found, LaunchBox will look for an archive file with the same name I think that's it. :)