kmoney

Interesting, are you using Windows 10 or 11?

The VLC and WMP settings in LaunchBox and Bigbox are 2 different settings and one does not affect the other. In order to change to WMP in BigBox you have to change it in the BigBox settings and vice versa if you wanted to change to a different media player in LaunchBox you have to change it in the LaunchBox settings.

Just curious, did you exit out of BigBox after changing to WMP? Then tested again after a BigBox restart and was having the same locking up issue? I have read elsewhere to shutdown BigBox after changing the media player and restart.

Can confirm the issue that @TheNewClassics and @Rlad is having up above with every theme I have tried with no options showing up in the game details screen.

Are you using VLC for your media player in BigBox? Try changing the media player to Window Media Player and I bet it solves your problem. I have the same problem along with other users and switching to WMP fixed the problem.

I tested out the new beta with the VLC updates with the default theme but unfortunately BigBox is still freezing/locking up while in attract mode with VLC but not WMP. Not sure if the other testers are having the same results or not but just wanted to report in.

I have determined that my freezing/locking up issues while in attract mode is VLC. I know VLC is the recommended one to use but I have been using WMP for over 24 hours without any issues where as while using VLC BigBox would freeze within a couple of hours.

I am getting the same issue as well that @Fursphere mentioned about BigBox freezing/locking up while in attract mode in the 13.9 betas. I have not narrowed it down yet if it is theme specific or something involving the ThirdScreen marquee plugin. I did not have an issue before 13.9. I'm gonna try to do more testing however.

Can confirm that "Clean up Media" that @Fursphere mentioned above is freezing and crashing. It literally freezes up LaunchBox when trying to use.

I can confirm and had the same issue that @dragonkoh had when I had the ultrastick 360's in my cabinet exactly as he was describing. I tried different troubleshooting steps for hours on end and could never figure out what was wrong until it drove me so mad that I ended up replacing them with a different less sophisticated joystick and problem was solved. I did not want to however because having the U360's in the cabinet had great versatility and functionality of changing the maps from 4-way, 8-way and analog and were way better than the joysticks that I am using now. They only acted like that and had those weird issues with BigBox just like he said. I even emailed back and forth with the developer of the joysticks and he even sent me a new circuit board for one of the joysticks to see if it solved the problem and sadly it did not.

Please see the post linked here. I think @C-Beats did some changes to the database so try updating the metadata to see if this fixes your issue.

They are in .chd format.

I am not sure if this is beta related or not since retro achievements have been hooked back up. One thing I have noticed is that some (not all) of my games are showing that they do not have a retro achievement available on the side details bar in LaunchBox even though they do according to the retro achievement website. I have compared the hash of my games to the hash on the retro achievement website and it matches perfectly. One example of a game is Bangai-O for the Sega Dreamcast so I looked in my Dreamcast .xml file and noticed that the retro achievements hash did not match the hash that was on the retro achievements website so that's probably why no achievements showed up for that particular game. I am assuming that the hash that is in the xml file is what is pulled from their website, so not sure why that hash did not match the one from their website? I have also ran a complete rescan of all my games for retro achievements in LB and it is still pulling back some wrong hashes from certain games when I compare them to the hash on the retro achievement website as they do not match up. One other thing to note is when I just run the game through Retroarch and not LB it detects that I have the correct hash and shows the achievements that are available.