duhmez

Not a deal breaking issue, but annoying, I can't be the only one, I will describe. Using theme Airy 1.4. not sure if issue hapens with other themes yet, but I think it did. Once a game is lcicked, and I close the game to load a new one, retroarch, if I double click a different game right away it will load the game I just quit. Happens every time. but If I click the new game ONCE, then wait a bit for the media on the right to load and display, then I can double click after that and the new game will load. It looks to me like launchbox is not switching to the new game quickly enough, it is pausing to fetch and display media, then it switches the selected game, in a wrong order. If this is the case, launchbox should switch the selected game, then load media. Just my educated idea of what ig going on. I did not test on SSD, it is a raid1 mirror 2 enterprise drives 14 TB each, thinking mayhbe it happens only on slower hard drives but not noticed by the team using it on ssds all the time. If the team looks into this I would love to hear if they can reproduce this and also what is the cause, and hopefully then some fix if it is on your end.

OK There we go! It did move but not enough to notice as Imoved it up and dopwn a little. Now I did alot and it works perfect. lol I had this issue for years, very hapy to know. I kn ew nothng was broken it must be something I do wrong.

Logitech mouse, logitech software is installed for it

Default fresh install, downlaoded instaled last week. Registered, not using big box

Thanks for advice, but nothing. I hover over, wheel, nothing. Click it then wheel, noting.

That is super interesting and now I fully understand why. I had not thought of this issue. I fuly understand what the sets mean, and mine is merged. I wil move the entire set into Launchbox folder first and import it there and not worry about wasted space. 60 Gb set not a big deal. Thanks guys.

Maybe I must be stupid, but this issue for years drive m e crazy and I finally have to ask how to do it.. At the bottom of Launchbox there is a circle labeled VOLUME. When I click a game the preview movie is always playing drives me nuts. I click the volume circle and nothing hapens, I try to trag around the circle, drag up or down, click all over it, nothing happens. how do I work the volumecircle thing for vide previews? There is no simple volume slider, it is a weird circle thing. Am I stupid, i search the forum and internet and no one esle asking about this but I have had this issue forever, many years never could get it to work.

I did the full mame set import but here was not the option to copy the roms or leave them there. I want to copy them because I want launchbox portable. Also I do not want to swap the folder in settings and copy all the roms as that is wasted space, I want the importer to import only the roms i chose, I know I could wipe it and copy the roms into launchbox first before import, but then all the unimported roms will be i nthere wasting space. IS something wrong here, it seems like a bug not asking where to put the roms, or a huge oversight somehow, as regular rom import always asks about leave roms there or copy to. Any help or ideas appreciated!

Thanks alot for everything guys! The new platform did show up, since I did not see the games move I did not notice the Super Famicom platform did show up, and the games are there! Awesome.

Thansk for tips. I tried bulk adding, and I changed the platform to SUper Famicom but it did not show up as a new platform, they are all still in the Snes list, so I still don't have them in one group. How could I add my own platform to the program before I add them, so they will show up on their own separate list like Dos76 was saying? Sry I am pretty new to the program still.

I'd like to load my Japanese roms into a separate list from the main SNES list, so ideally one called "Super Famicom" but this is not an option when I import roms. Is this possible I can manually do it somehow? I have only a handful of Japanese roms, lots of translated ones, and it will be easier to find if not in the main huge list. I saw there was Nintendo NES and Nintendo Famicom as 2 options to have, but none for Super Famicom!

There ya go! That's what I was saying. I am very very good at following instructions and I always look for the right place to post things, but when the instructions are wrong I get frazzled!

SentaiBrad said duhmez said Perfect there it is! I wil then humbly request that the part whrre it says click the "send feedback" link be fixed to say "feature request" ! For the rest of the people! Where does it show this? It could say that anywhere. It used to be called Send Feedback and everyone missed it. Right there in the forum where it says "Features" Right below the word features it says this quoe I said about the send feedback button. And if u click features forum it is right there in bold at the top of the forum, but nowhere is an actual link to "send feedback" anywhere

Perfect there it is! I wil then humbly request that the part whrre it says click the "send feedback" link be fixed to say "feature request" ! For the rest of the people!

It says to click the send feedback button but I searched the entrie page for the words send feedback and there was no link to send feedback. I want to post in the right place.

I never used retroarch or launchbox, I am jumping into both at same time so a couple questions. Ioaded some cores into retroarch and that was all. After importing roms to test I played a a game and the controller worked. Xbox 360 pad. But I did not configure my controls in retroarch ever. I tested both TG 16 and Super NIntendo and the controller magically worked with the right buttons. So the Question is did launchbox somehow magically configure my controller for me into retroarch, or does retroarch automatically have xbox 360 controller presets and does not require gamepad configuration for at least some of the cores? I watched a tutorial of retroarch online and it showed that I was supposed to configure the gamepad in retroarch, which I did not do.

SentaiBrad said For example, compressing, uncompromising, re-compressing over and over will eventually destroy the data. So data can be damaged during compression or uncompression, even if it happens once. This does not happen with NTFS compression. When you open an NTFS compressed file, the compressed data structure is not touched or modified in any way. What windows will do is basically under the hood it decompresses and makes a new raw copy tat is seamless and invisible to the user and it is that data tat is accessed. So if windows would somehow scramble upon accessing the compressed file, it would be fine the next time as the compressed data remains on the hard drive totally unmodified. The actual downsides are obviously slightly lower access times, and it makes the hard drive work harder as it makes the new invisible raw copy.

SentaiBrad said My Wii is using wbfs compressed games personally, im not going to double compress them. I'm not a giant fan of compressing the data unless it is a CSO or a special made container like WBFS. I can't imagine that anything else is optimized to stream the data from the rom to the emulator. Small and easy systems are honestly probably no problem, but the space saved is going to be super minimal. Anything of note where size can be saved, if any, is going to potentially have problems playing. I know, for example, that there is a handful of games that can't be put in to a CSO for this exact reason. Though if it is working im glad. Just know that you might run in to some issues with games, and if you do remember that you compressed it and that this could be causing the issues. Uncompressing it may not fix it either. I would agree with you and not comresss them either. I am actually using a WBFS file format on my hard drive, and my backup of isos are all raw (4.5 GB each) so I compressed them using ntfs just for storage and backup, not for live use. I don't emulate my Wii< I play on a real Wii BTW) I bet you compressing PS1 and Saturn and Sega CD would save alot of space this way though, unlike roms which are msall anyway.

Thank you so much! Finally that did it! O never unchecked it, it was unchecked by a default install. Awesome!

Auto lay video was not checked, I ticked it on and rebooted the program. I am testing with the legendary axe TG16 because I checked the path and made sure the video is there, also when I goto big box mode the video plays right away. ?!? Maybe I will post a quick youtube video to show what I am seeing. I don't even know where a videooculd be, on my details there is all th text, then below that it says "Screenshots" and screnshots are al down there to bottom.

Riffman81 said duhmez said Riffman81 said And finally, .zip/.7z support for ROM files would be awesome! I have a hot tip for this. You don't need zip suport at all. Windows has built in file compression. Right click your roms folder>advanced>compress. This will compress them in a way that apps will not know they are compressed, all seamless. ANy new files put into a compressed folder will also be compressed. You cantell it worked by checking file properties, it will say file size 3MB, size on disk, 2.1MB. Thanks! Not a bad idea and I don't know why I didn't think of this before. I guess I'm so used to using RocketLauncher and having everything in .zip format. It works like a charm! Also what I have done to save tons of space and time, I have a huge collection of Wii backup isos, and I store them using windows compression so they are convenient to be in native format but I saved hundreds of gigabytes of file size all the same. In other words, it can save a tone of space for ISOS where the emulator needs a proper iso, tg16, sega cd etc, if the emu needs raw iso you can save TONS of space.

Riffman81 said And finally, .zip/.7z support for ROM files would be awesome! I have a hot tip for this. You don't need zip suport at all. Windows has built in file compression. Right click your roms folder>advanced>compress. This will compress them in a way that apps will not know they are compressed, all seamless. ANy new files put into a compressed folder will also be compressed. You cantell it worked by checking file properties, it will say file size 3MB, size on disk, 2.1MB.

IN my game details on the side it shows the crt and a screenshot, but no movie. The movie only play in Big Box Mode. IS there a setting I am missing to get it to play on the right in details?

I love the big bode mode with the movie preview in there, is there a way to also have the video play in normal mode or a way to get a video to play? I checked right click a game and I can pull up the manual and other stuff which is great but cannot find the movie anywhere in normal mode. (My fully regstered Launchbox btw)

SentaiBrad said Did you name the platform "Super Nintendo (SNES)" ? This is certainly not normal behavior and since it is a fresh install, there is nothing that should muck it up other than the name of the Platform or the importer rules are off. Here or the BitBucket works. It is a Beta release and this is the Beta Thread so no worries. It was not a fresh install, as I was running my previous version then following your instructions to enable "download beta version" at startup. I had preivously important and then removed the platform, then gamesdb went down, then I updated to beta and imported using default setting chosing "Super Nintendo SNES" What I did was installed fresh new launchbox, updated it to beta, imported snes roms, except this time I clicked the Wikipedia button, don't know if I had to or not but I did and the Snes import looks very good. Also I see thegames.db is back up again, cuold we have an "advanced" option to reenable it if we wish, disabled by default, with an appropriate warning that enabling it might make it not work? I think the option would be great, shipping disabled with a big fat warning.