Jason Carr

There's more to the Audit screen than just copying and pasting into Excel. But we'll look to see if .NET provides any kind of a solution for this. We'll look into this and see if we can reproduce.

I'm pretty sure I have this fixed (the disappearing wheel issue) for the next beta. Should be out later today. This should be fixed for the new beta as well (should at least work as well as themes on exFAT work elsewhere).

What specific errors are you getting?

If a folder in Windows is telling you that it's corrupted, then you unfortunately have a file system issue. You'll need to run chkdsk and repair the drive.

Older versions of LaunchBox did not do this because they did not cache jpg files as jpg files; they cached all files as PNGs. This is happening because the mislabeled files are now being cached as jpgs because of the mislabeled file extension. If it didn't work, then either a step was missed or something went wrong in the testing process.

Does it fix the issue if you refresh your image cache? Try going to Tools > Refresh All Images in LaunchBox.

@Dodoraemon Logos that show up with black backgrounds in Big Box are clear logos that are improperly labeled with a .jpg extension for some reason. You can fix them by renaming them back to .png. You may have to refresh your image cache to get them to update.

The issue has been fixed as much as possible (and as much as it will be). *Most* themes have been fixed for that scenario, but not all themes. We still do not recommend using the exFAT file system when running LaunchBox from an external drive. It's much better to use NTFS.

Just to clarify, you only need to purchase one license, and you can install it on as many machines as you own. The licenses that get banned for new versions are just the licenses that are distributed freely online.

Beta 2 is out now with the following: New Premium Feature: A new "Start Themes Demo" option is available under the Big Box system menu that will randomly switch between the various themes, views, and platforms that you have installed. It's similar to attract mode, but also switches between themes and views. There are also various options for it available in the Big Box Options Themes Demo section. Improvement: The Big Box platform image cache is now theme-specific, which should help prevent platform images from one theme from showing up incorrectly on another theme Improvement: The Manage Platforms window has been overhauled The new Themes Demo features were built for several reasons; one, I think it'll be a neat feature that people will enjoy, and two, because it taxes the WPF theming engine more than pretty much anything else has in the past, so we'll be using it for internal testing.

Still running strong? Very good to hear.

This is on my own personal bucket list as well, so I do plan to attempt it here at some point. The biggest challenge is that we'll need new media in order for the boxes to actually look correct.

Oic, is it the "CriticalZoneV2 - Default" theme, or is the "Default" theme? I'm guessing that's where the confusion is coming from. Looks like we need to update the project file for that one.

Odd, I see. So the issue is that your Big Box Default theme is waaaaay out of date. Did you used to have a Big Box license? The Default theme is only updated when you actually start up Big Box, so I'm guessing that it just hasn't been updated in a long time. I can get you an updated Default theme if needed. Let me know if you still need it after playing around with the theme creator.

Thank you guys. I still haven't been able to reproduce either error, unfortunately. I'm still running my testing. @MrSco I'm thinking I have to be missing something somehow. I'm sorry that it's been so long and that we haven't been able to get it figured out. I'm wondering if you'd be willing to do (yet another) test for me. From what I can tell, it has to somehow be related to the collection (because you're testing on multiple machines and such), but as I've been testing with your data it doesn't seem to be data-related, and now we know that it doesn't seem to be media-related. Would you be willing to make a brand new instance of LaunchBox/Big Box on one of your machines and import just a few platforms? That way we can confirm whether it's actually collection-related or not. @ItchyRobot Can you try updating to the latest version of .NET Core? There's actually a later version out than the one that comes with the setup. Here's a direct link: https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/add2ffbe-a288-4d47-8b09-a39c8645f505/8516700dd5bd85fe07e8010e55d8f653/windowsdesktop-runtime-3.1.8-win-x64.exe

Okay, thanks guys. I'll do some more testing with EmuMovies media. What particular platforms are you importing that you're seeing issues with? Any chance you can screenshot me the errors/file names?

@Vastarien We would recommend using @y2guru's Community Theme Creator: It'll give you a decent idea of what can be done in theming Big Box without having a license. I did just load up the Default theme project in Visual Studio though (the one that comes with 11.6), and I'm not seeing any errors. What errors are you seeing? Per what Big Box can do theme-wise, there are lots of videos on the YouTube channel. Unfortunately though Visual Studio won't really give you all that much of a way to test your themes, without having a Big Box license.

11.7-beta-1 is out now, details are here: I'm hoping this at least helps this issue. I added a forced timeout after 60 seconds of inactivity. Let me know how it fares for you guys. You can download the beta by going to Tools > Options > General > Updates in LaunchBox and checking the box to update to beta releases. Then you can check for the update by going to Help > Check for Updates.

Doesn't look like it made the poll, no. We've had quite a few requests for it, but we've hesitated to implement it because it's not possible to do accurately. For example, we don't 100% know if "Game A" for one platform is actually the same game for another platform, or if it's just a duplicate title. Our best idea though is to use developer, publisher, and release date information to try and line them up. It wouldn't be perfect this way but it will probably end up as an option on the next poll.

The first 11.7 beta is out now. Details here:

Interesting, I haven't seen this elsewhere. It's certainly odd that a manual install worked, while an automatic install did not. Did you happen to reboot in between attempts?

Hey all, the first 11.7 beta is out now with the following: Improvement: The multi-threaded downloader has been updated to force a timeout after 60 seconds of inactivity to help prevent "stuck" download situations due to Internet connection hiccups Improvement: The Last Played detail line for platforms and filters in Big Box was changed to a localized short date format Improvement: The Manage Emulators window has been overhauled Improvement: The Bulk Edit window has been overhauled, and now allows you to easily add and remove items from multi-select fields Fixed: Rare "Value cannot be null" VLC error Fixed: Error on Big Box exit with the "Allow Sleep" option on Fixed: Rare LEDBlinky error when calling FrontEndQuit Fixed: Welcome screen now saves your ignore setting regardless of how you close it

I'm not exactly sure, but I will be looking into it. Unfortunately Microsoft's web downloading libraries have a history of taking forever to time out in some cases. It's also possible that a bug was introduced in the new versions that use .NET Core. I'll be reviewing.

Thanks, we're fixing this for the next beta.