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The problem with that is that it exits LB if you have assigned a button to the escape key for exiting LB!! Hahaha. I already tried that and it closed BB. When this field is in the mode to take button assignments, it should disable whatever button exits LB.

change log only listed one thing which was related to resizing boxes in LB. that's it.

Thought I would post this in case anyone wants to know what's in this release before they upgrade. Version 6.11 - Released October 2, 2016 - Fixed: After resizing boxes in LaunchBox, boxes would sometimes not show up until manually refreshing images.

ok, then it sounds safe so i'll go ahead and take it.

it says new official?? really? anyone know what's in there? i already have 6.10 installed.

I have 6.10 already and just launched LB. I got prompted about an official update. Can someone post if that is a Beta or not and what changes are there? I'd like to know before taking the plunge. Thanks!

well, it just seems like its a bug because the ui tells you to use the backspace to clear it, but doing that does nothing.

I was able to "unassign" controller buttons in BB by changing the xml for those buttons to value 0. I think BB has to be closed when changing.

Bummer. I added an enhancement defect.

No theme. Just the basic stuff. No platform. The games do have a platform field filled in. For the button assignments not being able to unassigns, now I have duplicates. No idea which take precedence but I see at least one not working maybe because of this.

I just tried it, but no view shows me the platform.

Thanks @Zombeaver, I'll check, but it's a bummer that you have to stop attract mode to see the platform, and I'd rather see the platform in the game details whether in attract mode or not. I feel kind of silly asking this, but for the life of me I just can't figure out how to unassign a controller button back to NONE??

When in attract mode in BB, I would like the platform info to show when a game is landed on. I see some game detail text, but not Platform. I checked options and Platform is indeed checked for game details as well as many other items checked that do not show up when a game is landed on (manually or by attract mode). I'd like Platform to show along with the other details that show for a game, especially when in attract mode, so I know which platform the game is in case I want to find it manually.

I guess I figured this out. It looks like the image file name can be anything at all. I removed all the older image files that I had renamed from each of these platforms, refresh the wheel cache and now it's all good. Seems that the wheel looks at any file in the platform clear logos folder and the result is random. I thought it only looked at files named after the platform, but that proves to be FALSE.

maybe you can help me with this one. i replaced 4 clear logos for 4 platforms to show in the BB platform wheel. every time i refresh the platform wheel and go back to platforms there are a couple of these updated and a couple not update. then i refresh cache again and it's a different couple updated and previous ones back to old ones again, and stuck in this loop where it won't update all 4 of them. there is only one single platform named clear logo file in each platform folder. i don't get it??? it's driving me nuts! haha

Thanks @Maddoc1007 ! That was it. Oddly I could have sworn I did not have to do that with the others and they were picked up automatically if they existed in that video platform folder. Anyway, good to go!

I have a video mp4 file by platform name here for each of my platforms: Launchbox\Videos\Platforms This worked fine before dropping video files here. But for some reason it doesn't seem to be working for my new mp4 files that I add. I was missing 3 specific platform videos in this folder, so it would use one from the folder where I store games videos for each of those platforms. I just dropped in those 3 missing mp4 video platform files, opened BB, but it is not playing these 3 new platform videos? I had no trouble doing this before for my initial set of platform videos, maybe when I was on 6.9 still. I'm on 6.10 now. Any idea?

Yes, I would never want my game players to have the option to delete games (and roms!). However, everyone has their own way of doing things. As long as things like this are optional, it might be ok. However, I'm surprised to hear it's easier and quicker for someone to do their cleanup in BB over LB. Personally, I would never want to use BB for that.

it's no problem. i don't care about the games that this has happened with so far. not many.

it sounds very similar. i would sat that's the same issue. i can press enter or click ok a specific number of times and it will eventually stop. didn't need to kill MAME. problem is that i don't know which of my 1000s of MAME games are going to do this when i try launching from LB. =/

I only started with the version just before 1.6. 1.6 doesn't seem that different to me. I think only a couple games are what I would consider playable. My stock i5 2500k also doesn't seem to handle it all that well either.

yeah, it's LB. it's not coming from the emulator. the popups are coming from LB. it's not a huge deal because i think this only happens for bad MAME games, so I just delete those when I encounter them. edit: actually i guess they could be coming from the MAME emulator but the emulator never actually comes up. i "think" if i were to run those just with MAME, i wouldn't get those popups but i'm not 100% sure. i'll pay more attention next time.

no, i don't think it's any of those things. next time it happens i'll take some screenshots for you. it is the same exact text pops having nothing to do with the game i tried to launch.

Weird thing that always happens to me if I try to launch a MAME game from LB when the game rom doesn't happen to work for whatever reason. I get bombarded by tons of odd textual popups that force me to click OK on each new one many many time until the popups are over and then I can finally delete the game. The popups have the same text in them every time regardless of the bad game I try to launch. Any clue what that's all about? It's extremely annoying

I googled around a bit. I "think" having the plugin lets the RL ui populate systems that have been add to LB. Since I already have all the systems and emulators in my RL, I guess this wasn't important, so never needed to set the plugin. Anyway, I'd rather keep one less component out of the equation and simply not use RL at all anymore. So far so good just using LB as the front end and launcher.