Jason Carr

Did you do any edits to those platforms recently? The only possible way I can think of that those paths would have changed is if the platform was modified with the Edit Platform dialog.

Seems that way. I'm not sure how we could fix the problem, so it seems to be an issue with the Amazon app.

What were the folder paths supposed to be, and what were they changed to?

@ghassan You can just copy the files into the right folders and LaunchBox should pick them up, assuming they're named to match either the ROM file name or the title of the game.

Offline installs should work fine if *and only if* you have all the necessary operating system components installed already. Otherwise, it does need to download them. If you're missing the C++ runtime, here is the one that you need to install: http://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe

This is possible. I've never heard of the download process getting that far and then just giving up every time. So I guess this is my best guess as well.

Sorry for that; my server provider was fixing an issue last night. Looks like it was down for about a half hour.

It's hard to say. It looks like they added it to the Retroarch menu at least, but it's not useful for the importer unless it's accessible from the command-line. Yeah, this should be rare, but Windows doesn't handle those situations very well all the time. The update check only happens on startup, so it should only be a thing if you rush into something right away while it's still scanning for updates. I don't really have a solution for it other than to just not use a popup for it at all and replace the whole UI. If it's only affecting the one platform, then my guess is maybe that the media folder path changed somehow for that platform? If you edit the platform, are the folder paths correct?

@kryptonian_joker For some reason it appears that it can't write to that particular file. Can you try deleting that particular file? I'm not sure why files in your LaunchBox folder would have been marked as read-only, as that shouldn't happen on its own.

Hi @lextar, if an emulator crashes, it's important to still close down LaunchBox properly. If you just power off the cabinet, you're definitely going to run into corruption issues like this. So it's very important not to just kill or force reboot the PC every time you have an issue.

I see. Yeah, there's currently no way to replace that image, so really all you can do is a video currently.

Which one? LaunchBox or Big Box?

The Retroarch team has been very clear that they do not want Retroarch used in this way. So basically, any company that does (including Plex) is doing so legally (at least *arguably* legally), but they're doing it against the wishes of the Retroarch team. It's worth noting that we *did* reach out to the Retroarch team a while ago to discuss this as a possibility. They actively discouraged it.

Thanks @Cauptain; I have this in for the official release.

Beta 6 is out now with the following: Fix for a bug that would allow you to set the parent of a category or a platform to a playlist in certain situations (which doesn't work) Fix for a dictionary error with the Origin imports The Amazon importer will now download posters from Amazon Translation updates MAME full-set importer verbiage change (above)

I haven't found a way to make Retroarch spit out the MAME XML like an actual copy of MAME will, so I'm just changing the importer to note that it requires an actual copy of MAME, and won't work with the Retroarch MAME core. I don't really know what else to do about that (unless someone can find a command-line that works with Retroarch MAME to spit out the -listxml stuff). You can always change the emulator to Retroarch after the import, but it isn't ideal. For now, though:

Yes, the full-set MAME importer will not work if you don't choose an actual version of MAME for the emulator. I just realized that it also won't work with the MAME core in Retroarch, so it looks like we need to do something about that.

Thank you both. I have the translations updated for the next beta, which should be out shortly. We're planning/hoping to release the official version tomorrow morning.

We still have no way of getting the games that you own on your Xbox. Microsoft doesn't provide it. Both good suggestions. If we don't have BitBucket tickets for them, then we should definitely add them.

Oic. I'll add that to my list. Honestly though I don't feel like it's a major issue, so it'll probably be a while.

The latest beta does now update the associated platform names on emulators when changing a platform's name, FYI.

I believe this was fixed in the 11.9 betas.

This was an issue specifically with 11.8. The latest betas (and the new official 11.9 version which is coming out soon) won't have this problem.

Hey all, rejection reasons are indeed visible by hovering over the little "i" icon on the Changes Status page. Were you just not aware of this, or am I missing something?

I see. I'll put that on the list. Edit: Actually, it would be best if you could create a new ticket for it under Help & Support -> Request a Feature in the header.