SentaiBrad

That's what I'm working on checking.

Not quite yet. Jason will start making announcements for what ever the next version is here soon.

As dumb as this sounds, have you restarted since the update? I would also like you to try install LaunchBox over the install you currently have and then restart. If you go in to ../LaunchBox/Updates/, and sort this folder by date, double click the newest exe here and install that on top of your current install. Nothing will change, but everything related to LB will be refreshed. It might even be a good idea to try and repair or re-install .Net (the latest) too. The installer normally would, but if it already things it's installed (regardless of it's broken or not), then it wont try and install it. You can grab .net from here.

Oh, ok, sweet. I thought they were required for some reason.

The extra RAM is nice in the specific LaunchBox situation, making sure everything has enough, especially if you give LB 4GB in the RAM Cache options menu. Between OS, LB and the emulator, not having enough is possible. On a lean machine or not running LB RAM has probably the least bearing on emulation (except for the situation Monkus cited).

How is it crashing though? Is that all it's doing? @DOS76 has been on the early version of that update for a while on some of his systems, so he might know better than I.

Critical Zone is a default theme but not maintained by Jason, so it's possible there could be a bug in the theme, or there is a bug Jason needs to fix of something the theme is trying to use. So what ever the differences are is a potential starting point. I know CriticalZone has some pre-req's, are the fonts being installed automatically @Jason Carr?

No problem Derek, I just wanted to make sure it was out there.

If things aren't saving right, where did you put the emulator? Try somewhere not on your C drive, and I am now leaning towards trying a completely fresh install of RetroArch more and more.

RetroArch as a whole is picky actually. When it comes to BIOS and disc images, it's so damn picky. Cart images seem to be a bit relaxed, but those can be screwed up too. It's very shocking to learn that most sites you can download single games from have horrible quality control and never gave a crap, so when someone or something (like RA) comes along and wants quality, things aren't living up. I am thinking of a place with Palm trees and sunshine in it's name (metaphorically) that is extremely popular, and their downloads are literally some of the worst. The forums portion isn't too bad, and you can in fact find up-to-date rom packs in there. If it's not from one of the major rom pack guys though, I almost always try and stay clear.

Damn, I was hoping that it would help, but I knew it was a long shot. I'll pass this on to @Jason Carr as it's out of my wheel house now.

We continued the screen cut off conversation in a dedicated thread. Monkus and I remembered that it's related to shaders more than likely. I recall that being a cause of this.

Wow, that's very odd. I'll pass this on to Jason, but as a long shot lets try and update your codecs and drivers, just to make sure. I'm not certain if this will do anything, but it will help us narrow things down. To update your codecs (mostly video related), download this package here and install it. If it says it found any issues, click yes to let it fix them. To update your PC's drivers, download and install this, let it run it's scan and then install the drivers. For the videos specifically, the codec pack will help, but also try changing the video playback engine in the options from one option to the other. The two options are VLC and WMP.

Or it could be a BIOS issue. Replacing my BIOS fixed that issue for me previously.

Ah yes! When you have LaunchBox copy over files, it's only going to copy over files that it's importing. It's hard to have LaunchBox guess what it will copy over, and if we have it guess it could lead to worse issues. You don't need to have LB copy things over, but if you do, and there are other files left over for systems that require multiple files (like MAME), or anything that has a cue sheet and a bin file, potentially audio files too (like PS1 and Saturn), then you also need to manually move everything else over or keep them where they're at. If you want the portability of LaunchBox, then all your stuff just needs to be on the same hard drive. If it's a different hard drive, portability is harder, but if it is at least on the same drive you achieve the same portability as if the files were in the LB folder, you'd just have multiple folders to move when changing drives.

Yea, try the shaders thing too. Once Monkus said that it rang a bell for me too. If that still doesn't work though, grab a new zip of RA from their site and try replacing the RA.cfg (the default config) or try upgrading to the new version all together. The online updater only updates to a certain extent, and since they don't install like LaunchBox does for example, you'll always need to grab a new package or the exe upgrades to full update. In this case though, grab the full package so you get the default cfg.

Yea, this does exist actually. On the left, at the top of it is a drop down menu, click it and go to Platform Categories. This is the default setup. You can stick playlists in their own categories and even edit current platforms categories to categories you want. Go to Tools -> Manage Platforms and double click on a platform. Near the bottom of the list here, below the Video Path, above the Sort line is Category. You can change it up here.

I know what Flash is, but it doesn't make sense to have multiple platforms for the same thing. Not to mention, custom platform names is a thing. When you type in the name, the scrape as option will pop up during import. If we had a platform called Web you would just call it what ever you want and scrape it as Web. You can create an unlimited amount of custom platforms. Playlists also exist as well. So you can import all your Arcade games and then split it up by playlists. Everything stays the same other than that. The main reason you'd want to create a custom platform is for choosing a different emulator or run type.

Go in to your LaunchBox/Updates folder and this folder by date. Double click on the newest exe and install that on top of your current LaunchBox install. That should fix any issues you've got.

Yea...

For video no, but for images, yes. In LaunchBox open the options and go to the Image Categories options on the left. This requires LaunchBox Premium.

Grab a whole new set. All of these games are in the MAME set and work in MAME just fine too. Worst case scenario, if you really still want to, just find out what the parent and child roms are, and move them to a new folder. Make sure, if they're ever labeled, that you grab split or non-merged. Those are generally the two best.

There is also the subscription box on YouTube as well. At least on PC, you log in, and then on the left is usually the Guide (if it's hidden, click the 3 lines next to the YouTube logo in the top right), and click Subscriptions. It orders everything in release order. E-mails is generally the most surefire way.

Also, LaunchBox supports anything and everything, there is no limitation. The only limitation if any is generally down to settings or the emulator / game and not LB.

Or Monkus can chime in. That's right! I do recall it being a shader issue. I blanked on that X_X