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There's a massive difference between a game with a 3.8 rating and a 4.8 rating, but they both sort within the same Star Rating grouping in LaunchBox when you sort by Star Rating. Instead of rounding to whole star values when grouping games sorted by star rating, instead sort them by a decimal point of granularity. This would make a huge difference in the usefulness of this sort by category. Or just don't group them at all and sort purely by the computed Star Rating value (preferably with a minimum number of ratings required from the community - for example for games with at least 5 ratings).

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Hey all - I'm trying to set up Teknoparrot, which uses user profile xml files for launching the games. Is there a way to remove the path information, but not the .xml file extension in the Emulator config? The game should be launched as something like --profile=Batman.xml Others have set this up using custom command line parameters, but then this needs to be done individually for every game, which is a bit laborious and cumbersome.

Hey - I've incorporated eXoDOS into my current existing LaunchBox instance. I'm having a weird issue where before I launch a game for the first time, it says "Play", and after I launch the game, the next time it always says "Install" instead of "Play". I can manually edit the status as installed, but again when I launch the game, it ends up again reverting and saying "Install" when I select the game in LaunchBox again the next time. Any idea why this keeps happening or what I can do about it? Interestingly, the game launches always crash when I have the Game Launch Screen option enabled in LaunchBox, as well. I think it has something to do with the launcher .bat file in eXoDOS causing an issue while the overlay screen is present.

I created an entry here: https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/8032/profiles-support-multiple-launcher

I'll have to go check if this is captured in BitBucket, but 3 years later and online profiles are more entrenched now than ever. It would really be awesome to have some kind of capability like this in BigBox/LaunchBox. My kids all play games like Fortnite, Rocket League, or whatever, and have their own Epic profiles accordingly. It would be nice to launch a game without having to constantly log out/log in to a new Epic profile on a shared computer. It's such a big issue that I try and guide them to use a Switch instead wherever possible because it's much easier to manage which profile they're launching to on that platform. Unfortunately, there's a lot of "why does everything work better on the computer and the Switch is always so glitchy" moans from them. 😂

My Arrange By is Date Added. I can't really identify when the error is showing. It seems to be at random. It's not at start or after any identifiable activity. Typically I'm not even engaging with Launchbox when the error is encountered. As I mentioned before, sometimes it will result in a crash with endless icons on my task bar, and othertimes it will not crash the app and not cause a bunch of crash icons on my launch bar. My language is English. This error started just a few releases ago. I had not encountered it prior.

It's not the same key every time this happens. Many times, when this happens in happens many, many times in a row, causing exception windows to be rendered across my entire task bar until ultimately Launchbox crashes.

I continue to get this error message in Launchbox. It doesn't always seem to crash the app, though sometimes it does. It happens when the app is just running - not necessarily starting, shutting down, during a game launch, switching between platforms, or any other engagement, but I can't seem to get rid of it. Any ideas? The given key '185' was not present in the dictionary. App: LaunchBox Version: 13.6 Theme: Default Type: System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException Site: Void ThrowKeyNotFoundException[T](T) Source: System.Private.CoreLib at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Desktop.VirtualizingTilePanel.ArrangeOverride(Size finalSize) at System.Windows.FrameworkElement.ArrangeCore(Rect finalRect) at System.Windows.UIElement.Arrange(Rect finalRect) at System.Windows.ContextLayoutManager.UpdateLayout() at System.Windows.Interop.HwndSource.Process_WM_SIZE(UIElement rootUIElement, IntPtr hwnd, WindowMessage msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam) at System.Windows.Interop.HwndSource.LayoutFilterMessage(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, Boolean& handled) at MS.Win32.HwndWrapper.WndProc(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, Boolean& handled) at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.DispatcherCallbackOperation(Object o) at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs) at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(Object source, Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs, Delegate catchHandler) Recent Log: 12:18:12 PM Exception

I really seem to be struggling with losing and not being able to regain focus, or otherwise having the app seize without fully crashing on me with the last 2 releases and the only recovery killing the process in the task manager. Occasionally I also see an error about a missing index or key. I'll try and capture it next time it happens.

I have a dual-monitor setup on Windows. When I turn my monitors off at night, sometimes Windows seems to recognize one of them as getting disconnected. When this happens, all my windows from that monitor get moved to my other monitor, where they are all placed when I turn my monitors back on. I reposition these windows back to their rightful positions. For the last 2 versions of LaunchBox, when this happens, I am unable to focus LaunchBox again, causing me to have to go into the task manager and issue an End Task signal against it and relaunch the software. Are there any known workarounds, short of restoring to an older version of LaunchBox? I saw in the changelog that a seemingly related issue was fixed in the latest version, but that has not been my experience - and my hardware isn't a touchscreen scenario. Edit: to clarify that in retrospect it doesn't appear to be related to my dual-monitor setup.

That was it; thank you.

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I'm having a similar issue in BigBox. I can Escape or B-button back the categories in BigBox, but if I try and escape back to the settings page from the root categories page, nothing works - on either my controller or on my keyboard. How do I get back to the settings in BigBox? I have also tried with steam running and not running.

Still trying to understand if there's a clear guide on how Launchbox handles naming conventions so that region is properly prioritized on import? I'd prefer to rename in advance of conducting a bulk import to ensure priorities are correctly established the first time.

Thanks to @fraganator ...

This is still a problem in 2022. I would strongly prefer not to have to re-do all of my compressed file library. Is this something which is anywhere on the radar?

How strict is this? How did you find what matches and what doesn't? I am having Launchbox fail to identify regions properly. I am using parentheses in this case, but the Roms may say (JP) instead of (Japan), and (US) instead of (USA). They also have NTSC and/or PAL identifiers. None of these seem to be triggering Launchbox into selecting the correct version by default. Any ideas?

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Hey guys, title says it all. The longer version of the story: I was adding a platform and games to my collection (which required a decent amount of work) and decided to do a little Platform Category cleanup as well. In doing so, I accidentally deleted (even through the warning - I know...) my MS-DOS platform category, which I spent an awful lot of time curating and game "installing" a couple years ago. I honestly can't even remember all the processes I went through to make this happen. Anyway, I don't want to blanket restore an old DB, because then I would lose all of the new work that I did, as well. Is there a clean and easy way to restore this platform and its games/configurations without having to restore the entire backup?

Thanks for that @sards Too bad I can't get this in images view!

Is there a way to sort by the full star rating value, and not just grouped by 5/4/3/2/1 and then alphabetically from there? There's a big difference between a 4.7 rated game and a 4.0 rated game.