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@faeran That is one difference between my two cabinets. Cab #1 forces "Launch With..." (two options for MAME, one regular, one lightgun focused), while Cab #2 Is just "Launch" (no pop up). I honestly can't remember why I have a Lightgun specific version of MAME - probably something left over from when I was using SInden guns w/ custom bezel requirements.

Upgraded cabinet #2 to Beta 4 - Games launch just fine on that one in BigBox. So I re-updated cabinet #1 to Beta 4 - Same problem. Nothing launches in BigBox. Which is ultra weird since the two cabinets / two launchbox installs are more-or-less clones. I ended up rolling them both back to 13.21 release (and my twin driving rig builds). Going to take a break from betas for awhile I think.

Yes. Default theme. When playing with beta builds, you really don't want to run anything but the default theme. One less thing to troubleshoot.

Updated to 13.22 Beta 4 - No emulators will launch in BigBox. Nothing. Nadda. Switching back to Launchbox 13.22 Beta 4 and everything works as it should. But nothing in BigBox. Edit - Just rolled back to 13.21 Release, and everything works again. 13.22 Beta 4 is busted.

Android has succeeded because it has a corporate agenda behind it, and a full hardware integration team. You don't see DIY hardware platform running Android out in masses. They exist, but they're niche. My first experience with Linux way back in the day was Slackware. Tried getting it going, got stuck, asked for help online - and got "f*ck you n00b, go away and figure it out yourself" as a response. (almost verbatim) 25-30 years later and people are like "why is Windows still so popular. #facepalm I realize today's distros are far more welcoming and 'easy' to setup (I still dabble from time to time), but they're still not Windows. I am wondering what's going to happen with the WIndows 11 hardware mess. The minimum processor spec (age) and TPM chip arbitrarily retiring old PC hardware sure is an interesting move. Of the 7 modern desktop PCs I have in my home (5 of them in arcade cabinets), all of them in theory are capable of running WIndows 11, but I've only gotten 4 to upgrade in place. I haven't spent enough time with the others to figured out what the holdup is (i.e. too lazy to do a bare metal reinstall on a working system). I would love to jump to linux on the various Arcade machines, but they've all got specialized 'windows only' hardware / software - so that just ain't going to happen.

According to this site: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/ Windows (all flavors combined I guess?) still has s a stranglehold on the market @ 70%. The US itself has a higher share of Mac OS users, but Windows is still dominate @ 63%: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america Then go over to Steam Charts - and Windows is the majority leader by a WIDE margin @ 96% (Win11, Win10, and Win7 combined): https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam Valve's own hesitation to release SteamOS to the general desktop PC market in my opinion speaks to just how problematic the platform (Linux in general) is. If you have 100% control of the hardware, you can do great things like the Steam Deck (And not unlike Mac platforms...). But once you add in the near unlimited amount of hardware combinations the PC market has (especially the gamer PC market), support probably becomes a horror show and they (Valve) don't want to test those waters. (and driver support is spotty at best) The enterprise organization I work for has a large in house development crew, probably 50% of our software stack is home grown. Lots of open source and linux flavors there. And we spend A LOT of time chasing the 'new thing' in the open source world. And we're just working with basically 'generic' VMWare VMs or cloud VMs. (Or docker-esq containers) No fancy hardware to speak. Linux is an extremely strong server platform, and I'm pretty sure most of the WWW is built on it globally today. But a gaming powerhouse for the masses it is not. Not for a long while still at least. Unless someone figures out how to get AI to fix all of its problems, because people sure as hell can't. That's why Linux has like a thousand distros. "I don't like the way you did 'x', I'm forking the distro" sigh.

Man... if I had a nickle for every time someone on the internet said "Windows is dying, the time of Linux is coming!".....

I suggest you manually sort your ROMs into separate folders, then import them individually as separate platforms. This is the work around that I've come to use.

C-Beats is talking about the LB DB information. Not the file name.

I'm not sure if this is related to the current beta, or just something that I've never noticed before... But if you look in the screenshot. At the 'platform categories' view, for the 'all arcade' selection - it pulls a random video from that list (cool) and a random background image (fan art background I think), but you can see they're two completely different games. Is it possible to get these to stay in sink? So it would pull 'random video + random background' from the same game?

Playing with this a little more. So, if I have controllers disabled should it still show buttons? Or should it be blank at that point, because there is not mapping? Are you going to implement something like this for keyboard mapping, that can be used for arcade cabinet controls? I was looking at your controller theme, and saw the joystick png images - but no idea where you'd actually have them show up in the interface? (reminded me of the old hyperspin look)

I guess I was envisioning something different with the "dynamic" description. Still cool. I'll play around with it.

Interesting. So its this... the A / B buttons. Which is odd because I don't use game pads on that cabinet. I don't even have any registered to it.

Can you give me an idea of what I should be seeing here? Did the update, running default theme on both of my cabinets, and I'm not seeing any difference.

Really curious about this one. Firing up my cabinets to update them... For for the network file paths? Is that based on \\UNC\ pathing basically?

SSD (even a cheap Sandisk SSD) will make a world of difference in BB performance and responsiveness.

How old is the PC? Do you have LB/BB on an SSD?

You bought a drive with LB for other $1000?

You are contributing nothing except stirring the pot and causing friction between users and the development staff.

Did you install the 3rd party Codex pack? WMP needs it. The 'K-Lite' Codec pack pretty much fixes all issues for WMP... https://codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

I could see this being a handy I could see this being an interesting feature if there were massive organized sets to cover ALL clear logos (like the silver ring clear logo thread...). Maybe that's the long term goal? But with just platform clear logos, it just feels off. I'm not clear on if I can I still manage my platform clear logos the old fashioned way? (copying files directly into their appropriate folders?). Or am I forced to use this use new feature?

So let me see if I have this right... To manage Launchbox Themes - you go to "Launchbox Themes and Media Manager" To manage BigBox Themes - you go to BigBox Themes manager (in BigBox). But to manage BigBox clear platform images packs, you go to "Launchbox Themes and Media Manager" (With no preview of what you're actually installing to boot) A bit confusing, no?

Interesting. Would that 'block' images from populating from the old location? Even if the new location doesn't have images for various platforms / platform categories / playlists? After rolling back to 13.20, getting the images to populate, then upgrading back to 13.21 - my custom(?) images stayed in place.

Platform Clear Logos will not populate in 13.21 Beta 1 from files. Rolled back to 13.20 and ran the platform wheel cache reset, and all images populated correctly. What's even weirder, in 13.21, I deleted the BB-Cache folder contents, verified the correct images are in the correct folders for 'clear logos', and BigBox was showing the BigBox default images - even though those images are not present on my system. where the heck were they being pulled from? Anyway, like I said, rolled back, purged cached, and images populated as expected.

That was it. I thought I had already deleted that plugin.