neil9000

Its a theme error, you will need to use a more up to date theme.

Right, and "billions" use Windows, big difference so why focus is there, also far more people use Android than Linux, so again there is focus there too. On windows, Linux is not Windows they are VERY different OS's with different backends and ways of doing things, Launchbox uses WPF for example, a Windows backend that's not on Linux, there are supposedly "emulators" of that, but they are not good and would slow Launchbox down considerably, it's not just ticking a box and hey presto you have a Linux version. Cause Launchbox is a multinational Billion dollar company who just has money to throw around right? If you think that something like Steam is a bad launcher you clearly have no idea at all what it takes to develop one. It would be full price, no question, and would a Linux user used to open source and free software be willing to pay $75 for a piece of software that lists games when steam and steam rom manager can do the same for free? At the end of the day Unbroken software is a business, with several employees now too other than Jason. Just throwing money at at a thing is a very bad idea for any company when there are no guarantee's of any success, just saying "Literally HIRE someone to do the programming work. " is a terrible way to run a business and is throwing money away and risking said business. Things like this need to be VERY carefully considered and educated risks taken, as a bad choice can put the business and livelihoods of several employees in jeopardy, not to mention your beloved Launchbox being abandoned completely if the business goes under because all money was put into a Linux build that nobody bought.

l wouldnt recommend just killing PC games like that, especially if you value your save games at all, games like programs often do some saving and clean up on exit, and ALT-F4 is not a clean shutdown, it just kills the program. Always use a PC games actual pause and exit options.

Click a game, CTRL A to highlight them all, tools/file management/copy selected games to another folder. You could at that point delete the files in the folder that you imported, then copy the files you just copied back into it, so all the roms you imported are still in that folder but everything else is gone.

Dont keep things that are not roms in your roms folder. That will always be a issue with any auto import on any system, you need organization.

Id guess its the -resume, just remove it.

Actually it is welcomed by most, as whining and fighting with others over perceived issues while providing absolutely no information on what your issue actually is whilst throwing out comments like "If these issues were addressed in a timely manner, we wouldn't be here" helps no one at all. I suggest if you actually want the issue you are having investigated you provide information when asked to, or better yet logs after the issue occurs, nobody can just guess as to your issue. Also its worth noting that just because your symptoms seem the same as the other user's it doesn't mean that cause also is, which is why details and information are important to be provided if you actually want some sort of resolution to your issue, if indeed it is on the Launchbox side and not specific to your hardware or programs you have installed.

It is a different license, but the instructions given are correct.

Its a duckstation error, looks like your rom is bad or your drive/file has restrictions on it.

Launchbox uses regular mame too so its no different. I havent ever used a trackball but i assume its just seen like any mouse, so you can try removing the part of the commandline Launchbox sends to mame on game launch that references dinput, you will however lose access to pause screens if you go that route.

Looks like a issue with the "steamy" theme to me, so i assume you were trying to use that? If you open your launchbox.xml file inside of the Launchbox/data folder and look for a line that references the theme, and change it to default that should use the default theme and allow Launchbox to open correctly. Ill also tag @C-Beats here as this is his theme. Edit: Actually this may be a actual steam issue now i look at it more, so you'll have to wait for a more knowledgeable reply I'm afraid.

When you say several systems now all show the same shader are those systems all using the same core, ie gameboy, gameboy color, gameboy advance? If so it sounds like when you applied the shader you saved it as a "core override" applying it to all systems that use that core (or you may of even saved a "global override" meaning its now used for everything. You need to load a game that uses the shader, go into quick menu/shaders and click on the button that is a "remove override" it will be named differently depending on what sort of override it was. In future you should be using "content directory overrides" for things like this, Sega is a good example of this, the genesisgxplus core emulates sg-1000, master system, megadrive, mega cd, pico, and game gear, you wouldnt want the same settings for all those systems, especially game gear and the home consoles, so you save a "content directory" override. This saves those settings for any game loaded from the same folder as the current game, so if you had a game gear game loaded in future any game loaded from that same game gear rom folder will get the same settings, but something from the megadrive folder wouldnt.

Why not just set the hotkey in retroarch?

You can just delete the license.xml file in the Launchbox folder, and replace it with a legitimately purchased one. https://www.launchbox-app.com/premium

If its a separate button away from the actual controls are you sure its a "controller" button and not a keyboard key? It may just be a "escape" key.

I havent used demul in years, but if i recall what we used to do was add two demul emulators to launchbox with different names like "demul dreamcast" and "demul arcade" as different settings are required for arcade games.

Set controller combos in Retroarch for save state and load state and use the button combo while in game. Some advice though, DO NOT rely on save states, when a emulator updates they can, and will break, always use actual in game saves via the games save system if you actually value your saves.

The "third" menu is the game details screen and can be turned off in the settings, it can also be mapped to any button/key.

We cannot help you with that, downloading roms you do not own is illegal.

https://www.launchbox-app.com/premium/lost-license

Any reason you are using the worst Saturn emulator there is? My advice would be to use the far superior mednafen/beetle Saturn emulator/retroarch core.

That is expected behaviour for the MAME "Fullset" importer it expects a fullset, not a limited collection of roms which 700 certainly is. Also yes it does not actually look at the files you have in the folder, as any fullset has the same games, it gets that working games list directly from the mame.exe, and adds the rom names to Launchbox, not the roms themselves. If you have a limited curated set of mame roms you need to use the standard rom importer and not the mame fullset importer.

Launchbox has nothing to do with your controls in emulators.

Always makes me laugh, seems to be absolutely essential that the user be on the latest version of Launchbox, but at the same time is using a OS that came out 15 years ago and is completely unsupported at this point, why one standard for one bit of software and a different standard for the other? Nobody should be using these old operating systems at this point, they are a security issue as they are end of life and no longer updated to stop current day threats.