[LaunchBox 13.12 - Beta Thread]

Will we be able to pick and choose which platforms auto-import?

[Features and fixes for 2024]

I honestly just wish the performance was better. The interface lags for nearly every action, and it's getting ridiculous.

[Steam Importer not properly importing certain games, and then can't even find them in GamesDB or manually download images from Steam?]

Gotcha, appreciate the heads up; it was pretty confusing. Any rough estimate of when it will be fixed up? 

 

EDIT: Also, I tried downloading Steam metadata/media while manually adding the game, and it still didn't show up.

 

[Steam Importer not properly importing certain games, and then can't even find them in GamesDB or manually download images from Steam?]

I recently had to redo my LaunchBox installation due to a drive failure, so I re-imported all my Steam games however, about 5% or so of them refused to download any metadata at all.

Even when I went to the GamesDB and confirmed that there were in fact entries for those games, it still refused to find them when I attempted to manually match them, and when I tried to download media, it wouldn't show anything downloadable from Steam even though there was artwork available. I tried deleting one of them and importing it again, and got the same result. I've even tried both the most recent stable version, and the most recent beta. Can anyone help??

[Disable star ratings completely in new Default theme?]

Appreciate it!

[Disable star ratings completely in new Default theme?]

I really like the new default theme, but there doesn't seem to be a way to stop it from showing a big annoying star rating icon in the top of game details. I don't use the star rating feature, and it is very distracting. I've tried disabling it in settings, but that just stops from showing the cumulative rating, not the star bar next to the edit/favorite/completed icons.

[Arduboy and WASM-4]

These both should be added. They have Retroarch cores and even Retroachievements. Make it happen!

[Is there a way to use Steam's Retroarch in Launchbox without losing any of Steam's functionality?]

@breakspirit Awesome, that's exactly what I was looking for!

[Launchbox on Steam Deck]

I've had a Steam Deck practically since launch, and I use playlists through RetroArch directly. It looks...fine...but I also wish LaunchBox were available for the Deck. Would simplify things greatly and would certainly look better than RetroArch. I get that Jason is hesitant to go to a new platform after what happened the first time with Android, but it's such a good machine for on the go emulation that it's a shame I can't keep it looking as good as my Desktop. And can you imagine being able to sync between both versions? I'd pay again just for that feature alone!

[11.13 Beta Testing]

I'm having a strange issue - after importing my Steam library, some games don't have any Steam Metadata, or even Steam Banners/Posters. It seems like this only happens to ones that also didn't get matched up to the LaunchBox Games Database during importing. Additionally, when I go to download metadata for any of my Steam games (whether they matched or not) I'm not given an option to download Steam Banners/Posters.

[11.8 Beta Testing]

I'm having a weird issue with the Epic Games Importer - for some reason Star Wars: Squadrons won't show up as available for import. It's in my Epic Games Library, but is launched through Origin (which it also doesn't show up under when I try that importer.) For now I've manually added the .exe, but I don't want someone else to have that issue as well. I thought the Epic Importer fixes would solve it, but it's still an issue with the full 11.8 release.

[Lambda beta]

This is a great looking theme, thanks for making it!

[11.3-beta-1 Released]

On 8/12/2020 at 5:35 AM, neil9000 said:

Not strictly related to these betas, but i'm still getting the issue of video snaps in the sidebar blowing up and cropping to a quarter of the actual video file.

How it should look.

And what happens, it seems to zoom in on the top left of the video, but also enlarges it so that it overlaps the text below.

Latest beta, using VLC as the video engine.

I've had this happen off and on for a while now, i switched to WMP for playback to fix it.

[Import from Gamebase?]

Just discovered GameBase, I'd really like the option to import from that as well. 

[GOG games not showing as installed?]

Got it. I'll connect my games to a file path instead of launching directly through GOG. Good to know, thanks again for the help.

[GOG games not showing as installed?]

Whenever I install a game through GOG galaxy, it doesn't show as installed in Launchbox even though I've imported all the games from my GOG account into Launchbox. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling GOG Galaxy, and deleting any GOG related file on my PC I can find (although maybe I missed one?). I'm at my wits end trying to make this work. Help?

 

(yes this is similar to an issue I had awhile ago with the Epic Games Launcher, however that was fixed whereas this is still an issue)

[10.12-beta-1 Released]

Subnautica & John Wick Hex through the Epic Games Launcher are staying not-installed, and World in Conflict on Steam is insisting it's installed when it's not.

Edit: I'm going to try re-installing them, I wonder if it has to do with them having been installed prior to LaunchBox supporting this, and I had them manually added before.

Edit 2: No, that didn't work.

[10.12-beta-1 Released]

Don't know if this is happening to anyone else, but there are a couple of games where when I mark them as installed, they keep reverting to not installed (and weirdly one where the reverse happens?) Also, Epic Games Launcher doesn't save credentials, so I have to re-login and go through 2 factor authentication every time I import a new game from that platform.

[slow startup after update]

i'm having the same issue. it takes FOREVER to load now, when before it took a few seconds.

[9.2-beta-2 Released]

@Jason Carr I was minimizing and restoring LB because otherwise I was having issues with the emumovies video for the game continuing to play when the game started. If that's been fixed since then I can disable that option

 

[9.2-beta-2 Released]

I have LB set to minimize when launching, and restore when exiting. When I use the startup screen in Retroarch (haven't tested other emulators yet) it doesn't restore the LB window after exiting.

[Aero Islands Out Now for Android and Windows 10]

Picked it up for Android, it's pretty fun! Reminds me a lot of Galcon Fusion. 

[8.7-beta-1 Released]

Regarding the arcade playlists, would it be possible to not have them count against the total for the platform category if they're represented in multiple categories? Like in this screenshot, I've only got 2475 actual arcade roms, but because of the redundancy of totaling the playlists, it shows 9209 at the top.

[Flash (SWF) GAMES]

I'm not clear on the specifics, but you start it by running a .bat file which starts Launchbox along with a proxy software they use to get around certain protection checks for the flash games, and then closes when you close the Launchbox install. The launchbox install itself isn't that customized, but the whole process would be difficult to switch between if you wanted to use the flash games in your standard launchbox install, that's all I meant.

[Flash (SWF) GAMES]

Ironically enough, it uses a custom version of Launchbox, so you can't run it through your existing Launchbox installation, since two can't be running at once.