SsjCosty

I recently discovered that the VLC player packaged with LaunchBox cannot play YouTube videos, whereas the one properly installed on my local machine can. The problem, as I discovered, is the "lua" folder, which holds VLC add-ons. In a standalone VLC installation this can be found under C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua. However, the "lua" folder does not exist in LaunchBox's distribution of VLC. Does anyone know if this was intentional? For YouTube, VLC specifically needs the youtube.lua addon file. Thanks!

Hi again. I have developed a plugin that solves this issue. I have made the source code available on GitHub, and I've added one release so far: https://github.com/SsjCosty/LaunchboxPlugins I've also added a forum page for it here.

Available on GitHub. If you find this plugin useful, BUY ME A BEER! Installation details To install the one available plugin, download the DLL file from the latest release, and add it to the Plugins subfolder from your main LaunchBox installation folder. Plugin description Currently, LaunchBox allows you to edit genres for games, however if use the default Bulk Edit Wizard to edit genres for multiple selected games then they will all be overwritten with the same exact set of genres. for This plugin allows you to add or remove genres to multiple games, while keeping each game's existing genres. The new menu item is available for one or multiple selected games: The menu item opens the following dialog form, where you can select the genre(s) that you want to either add or remove from each game: You can also type in new or existing genres into the search box, which allows multiple entries separated by semicolon (;) and provides real-time suggestions: Example: Let's say I have 3 games: Game 1, Game 2, and Game 3. To start, they have the following genres: Game 1 has genres: Action; Game 2 has genres: Role-Playing; Game 3 has genres: Action; Adventure; After using this Bulk Genre Editor to add the genre "Beat 'em up", the result is this: Game 1 genres: Action; Beat 'em up; Game 2 genres: Action; Beat 'em up; Role-Playing; Game 3 genres: Action; Adventure; Beat 'em up;

Thank you both Jason and jayjay for helping out. Jason noticed in a PM that I was adding to the game's selectedGame.Genres property, which is read-only and I should have edited the selectedGame.GenresString property instead.

It didn't work. Once I reset Launchbox, my game details reverted back to what they were before. ?

Thanks! I'll see if I can use that method. Don't worry about posting an example - I'll write back if I can't figure it out and you could post it then. Cheers!

I have made my first small plugin for Launchbox, through which you can make some changes to selected game entries. However, if I restart LaunchBox, my games no longer have the values I have previously set through the plugin. How come? There's barely any API documentation on plugin development, so I'm doing a lot of trial and error... I also tried the following method, but it didn't do what I wanted: PluginHelper.DataManager.Save();

Yes, you've misunderstood the issue. I will try to explain it: Let's say I have 3 games: Game 1, Game 2, and Game 3. To start, they have the following genres: Game 1 has genres: Action; Game 2 has genres: Role-Playing; Game 3 has genres: Action; Adventure; I select all three games, and open the Bulk Edit tool, I select Field: Genre, then Value: Action; Beat 'em up; After saving, my three games will all have the following genres: Game 1 genres: Action; Beat 'em up; Game 2 genres: Action; Beat 'em up; Game 3 genres: Action; Beat 'em up; That is not what I want. My desired result is to add the two genre values, like this: Game 1 genres: Action; Beat 'em up; Game 2 genres: Role-Playing; Action; Beat 'em up; Game 3 genres: Action; Adventure; Beat 'em up; Alternatively, I also want to be able to remove genres in a similar fashion.

I've decided to make a plugin for adding/removing genres for multiple games. I will post it on the forum in the next few days.

Yes, you can select multiple genres. However, these genres will overwrite any existing genres for your selected games. So for example: Game 1 has genres: Action; Game 2 has genres: Role-Playing; Game 2 has genres: Action; Adventure; If I bulk edit them to add the "Beat 'em up" genre, they will all lose their individual genres.

Thanks, that makes sense. Editing genres in Launchbox is not clear cut. Let's say that I want to set my own "Shoot 'em up" genre to multiple games, I can do it using bulk editing, but (as mentioned in another thread) and set that genre, but then all those games will lose all their other genres that were previously set up (e.g. "Action", "Adventure", etc.). There's no way to add or remove a genre to/from multiple games, I can only use the bulk edit feature which overwrites existing values.

I have noticed that sometimes, genres are not too well-defined. For example, a game like Final Fight (arcade) has the genres "Action; Fighting; Platform". It's not really a platformer (I'm thinking Super Mario, DuckTales, Mega Man), and the "Fighting" genre is also used by one-on-one fighting games like Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, or Killer Instinct. Another example is the "Shooter" genre, as it encompasses wildly different types of games: a third person shooter like Serious Sam 3 BFE and Call of Duty: Black Ops III a top-down shoot 'em up like "1943: The Battle of Midway", Armed Police Batrider, or Captain Tomaday a side-scrolling shoot 'em up like Contra, Gunstar Heroes, or Thunder Zone a top-down game like Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Ghoul Patrol, True Lies, Shock Troopers, or The Chaos Engine an isometric shoot 'em up such as Viewpoint, Desert Strike, Jungle Strike FPS games... How would I even begin to separate these different types of games?

@Lordmonkus But that overwrites the existing genres for those games, as @MayorQwert pointed out.

I know it's an old thread, but maybe LaunchBox can now be ported to .NET Core which can run on Linux and Mac. But I agree, this would take time away from the upcoming LaunchBox features.

One problem with this is that the metadata for most games just doesn't have these details. For example, the Arcade game "Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara" only has these following details: Genre: Fighting; Role-Playing Play mode: Multiplayer When in fact it should have tags such as Beat'em Up, 1-4 players, Couch Co-Op, etc.

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I've actually had some issues with the portability. I tried running it from a flash drive on another computer and it failed because of a missing xinput1_3.dll. So I downloaded the x360ce driver and used that to generate the missing DLL file. Then after LaunchBox finally started, I tried running one of my SNES games and it failed because Retroarch threw an error as d3dx9_43.dll was missing. This was on Windows 10, and according to this article it seems that the error "occurs because the application or game you are trying to run might be designed for older version of DriectX." As mentioned in the article, the solution was to install the DirectX End-User Runtime from Microsoft's website. I think it may be a good solution to keep that installer on your flash drive too if you want to benefit from LaunchBox's portability, just in case the destination computer doesn't have it installed.

I found the solution. For anyone having this problem, here's what my issue was: It appears that the registry entry was referring to a DLL from Windows Media Player, that LaunchBox uses to play audio files. But I have Windows 10 N edition, which means no media player. So I had solved by installing this Windows update. Short description of Windows 10 N edition: Labeled "N" for Europe and "KN" for Korea, these editions include all the base features of the operating system but without Windows Media Player and related technologies pre-installed. For the Windows 10 editions, this includes Windows Media Player, Music, Video, Voice Recorder and Skype.

Ok, I installed it. It did say I had an error, and I clicked Yes to fix it. But after the installation finished, I tried the music in LaunchBox and I still got the error. I even restarted LaunchBox, but the error is still there...

Hi. Whenever I select a game in my list that has music or if I click its "Play Music" icon I get the following error: How can I fix this?