[Bezel Project won’t show for vertical games in MAME]

I’m having an issue with bezels from the Bezel Project. They show up for horizontal games, but not vertical. For example, the bezel for 1942 is thicker and looks like it’s meant to fit a widescreen TV. But it won’t display when I launch the game. Compared to Double Dragon, where the bezel loads no problem. The bezels will not load for any vertical games like 1942.

Is there a setting that needs to be adjusted in Mame?

[Games with period in the titles suddenly appeared]

I turned off auto-import. So far no hidden files have shown up again. I sorted the games as a list and removed all the games that imported from the hidden files, then used audit to filter by duplicates and caught a few stragglers.

I found that some games are not duplicates but have the hidden file in the application path. The ROM filename shows ._ before the game title. These are easy enough to find with an audit. But is there a way to edit the filename in the application path or will I have to reimport the games?

[Games with period in the titles suddenly appeared]

Thanks. I turned off auto-importing and deleted some files. They don’t show up again after restarting LaunchBox. If I delete and reimport games, will it keep the metadata and artwork, or is that deleted? Also, how can I stop hidden files from being imported? I’ve never had this issue before.

[Games with period in the titles suddenly appeared]

I have a portable LaunchBox setup I created back in 2021. I recently purchased a mini PC running Windows 11 and copied the LaunchBox folder from the internal drive of my old PC (which is on Windows 10)  to an external SSD. When I got set up on the mini PC, I updated LaunchBox to the newest version. Everything seemed fine. But today I noticed that some of the platforms have duplicate games with a period in front of the titles. There is no artwork and they don’t launch (at least the ones I tested). The games I originally imported are still there. I deleted a few of the games but they were back after restarting LaunchBox. They also show up in BigBox.

I also noticed a couple of other weirds things. Games from one platform were showing up in another. N64 has a bunch of NES games. Dreamcast also has files Track files showing. For example, .track01

I went through games yesterday when I first moved and updated LaunchBox and I don’t recall seeing these new files. I think it just happened today. Any help is appreciated. I can provide additional info if necessary.

Thanks.

[3DO Emulators 4DO any word if it's completely dead?]

6 hours ago, DOS76 said:

I just tried to use -help,  /help -?, /? and the program launches and no help menu shows in cmd listing other commands so I ran System Internal Suits Process Explorer and checked to see if any strings where listed that might resemble any commands and there was nothing listed under strings so I don't know if there are any commands or not I certainly can't find them.

I read through the thread and saw that someone explained how to get it working using RocketLauncher. I don’t have any experience using the program, but it seems pretty straightforward to set up. 4DO is great, but Phoenix runs Alone in the Dark, which 4DO has audio issues with. Plus it’s actively being developed compared to 4DO (which hasn’t been updated in almost two years), and it’s now the best Jaguar emulator from what I’ve read.

[3DO Emulators 4DO any word if it's completely dead?]

Has anyone figured out commands to get Phoenix working with Launchbox?

[Metallic Theme]

When I first tried the theme some of the platforms weren't showing up. Maddoc1007 had responded with a solution. Maybe it will work in your case.

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Inside LaunchBox check the Themes Folder then Metallic\Images\Platforms inside the Platforms folder the is a folder called banner make sure the png's there are named the same as your platforms, also there is a folder called Fanart make sure the images inside this folder are named the same as your platforms as well.  For platforms and banners that there are no images for to match all your platforms and banners it will display your own default banners and fanart. 

 

[Metallic Theme]

1 hour ago, Maddoc1007 said:

Inside LaunchBox check the Themes Folder then Metallic\Images\Platforms inside the Platforms folder the is a folder called banner make sure the png's there are named the same as your platforms, also there is a folder called Fanart make sure the images inside this folder are named the same as your platforms as well.  For platforms and banners that there are no images for to match all your platforms and banners it will display your own default banners and fanart. 

That worked. Thanks.

[Metallic Theme]

I'm having an issue where some of the platforms are still showing the default banner and random fan art for the background rather than the images included with the theme. Most of the platforms are perfect, so I'm not sure why just a handful of them aren't correct.

[Multiple Issues with Video in Big Box]

That makes sense. I changed the setting in LaunchBox thinking it would affect Big Box. Everything seems to be working so far. Thanks.

[Multiple Issues with Video in Big Box]

I recently downloaded videos for the first time and now I'm having issues with them in Big Box, The first issue I noticed is some videos don't appear. If I select the next video and then go back, the video usually will appear. This happens randomly across all platforms. Next, videos frequently change size, causing them to appear zoomed in. Like the previous issue, if I select the next video and then go back, the video usually returns to the correct ratio. Finally, sometimes as I scroll through videos, the audio from the previous video doesn't stop playing, so the audio becomes stacked. This doesn't happen as often as the other issues. After all this, Big Box keeps crashing and outputting the following error:

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at (VlcPlayer , IntPtr , IntPtr )
   at Meta.Vlc.Wpf.VlcPlayer.VideoDisplayCallback(IntPtr opaque, IntPtr picture)

I'm running LaunchBox 6.9-beta-9 on Windows 10, although the issues started on the stable version--I upgraded to see if it would fix things. The issues happen using both VLC and WMP.

Has anyone had this issue?

[Saturn SSF?]

This thread has been really helpful, but I still have one more issue. How do you handle multiple regions? Right now I manually change it, but I don't want to do that once I have SSF integrated with LaunchBox. I figure I could have three versions of SSF with each set to either America, Europe, or Japan, and then point LaunchBox to the correct one depending on the region of the game. Is there an easier way? Maybe some kind of multi-region bios or hack?

[A Few Random Questions]

Thanks for the help.

[A Few Random Questions]

I'm tweaking my LaunchBox setup and have a few questions: 1. Is there a way to manually arrange the platform list? As far as I can tell it can only be listed alphabetically. I'd like to customize how the consoles are arranged. 2. In BigBox, can I force the preview image beneath the box art to only be a screenshot, and is there a way to set one specific screenshot to always display? 3 How do I set a specific Retroarch core per game? For example, a few Sega CD games require the 32X to run, so I need those games to use PicoDrive. Everything else can use Genesis Plus GX. Thanks.