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Still a ways out, but glad you're excited!

Thanks for the feedback. This would be great. I could see some people not wanting us to have a persistent background service running (we had some pushback on that in the past), but sounds like a solid option. Yeah, we do this in our Windows app, and it's great to know that if we brought something similar into the Android app, you'd be down for it.

You can jump right in by heading to your LaunchBox\StartupThemes folder. Make a copy of the Default theme folder and give it the name you want your theme to be called. In your new folder you'll see all the files you'll need for your startup theme, including: Default.xml - the view that appears when you start your game Default Shutdown.xml - the view that appears when you end your game [platform name].xml - the view that appears when you start a game, but only for the platform you named it after You'll see examples of all 3 types there. You'll also be able to go to your LaunchBox\Themes folder and find the Documentation.pdf file. All text and image bindings should work in all of these views. You'll just need to make sure you are using "SelectedGame" and not "ActiveGame" for any of them. If you have any questions, let me know!

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Did some testing, but not seeing this unfortunately. It could possibly be related to an additional app launching or a specific hardware configuration. Might be worth opening its own troubleshooting thread on it. Thanks. This is a known issue with the beta and will be fixed before release. Star rating is a known issue with the beta and will be fixed before release. It definitely could be an issue with your theme, although the entire crash report is being cut off. Do you have a special version of the theme that's not up on the forums?

Just guessing at this point, but it seems to point to some corruption in your settings.xml file. Our current guess is that it's possible .NET 9 changed something to do with error tolerance levels that makes it so it's less tolerant to your corrupted file as .NET 6 was. You can test this by renaming your settings.xml file while LaunchBox is closed and see if that fixes your issue. If you can, zip up your entire Data folder and send me a PM with it and we can use it to help us test.

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That sucks. Definitely a weird and rare issue. Why it's only happening so consistently on your device, not sure. We've attempted to recreate it across 10 different device types, including a few Samsung devices but still haven't been able to. Do you know if you have any forced override settings turned on in your Galaxy's settings. Maybe a developer option, or something that tries to override the normal operation of an app to force a particular state to happen that isn't native to the application itself?

I'm guessing this is related to the update to .NET 9. If fraganator is still around, it would most likely not be too bad to update that plugin to support .NET 9 moving forward, and we are available to help with any plugin dev that may have any questions about this. Thanks, we'll get it fixed. We also found another issue as well that will be fixed in the next round.

Beta 2 is out with the following changes: Downloading bin/cue games over a network share now includes both downloading and deleting all associated files Introduced a new "Download Game" option for games imported from a network share, enabling users to download games independently of playing them Added the ability to delete the local version of a game while maintaining its availability over the network Increased network buffer size to potentially improve download speeds for game files from network shares The download pop-up for network share files is now more informative Default Nintendo 64 core for RetroArch has been updated due to the previous one being retired Resolved an issue where downloading EmuMovies videos could cause the application to crash Resolved an issue where importing files over a network share did not consistently handle bin/cue files as intended Addressed a problem where the selected platform or game information did not always update accurately when using touch controls Resolved a crash that could occur while navigating within a Boxes Grid view Addressed a crash that might happen during the import of MAME files Fixed a crash that could occur when changing screen orientation while on a Filters View Resolved a rare crash that could occur when long-pressing on specific elements Corrected an issue where the background video element behaved incorrectly when a custom view file lacked a foreground video element Fixed an issue that prevented Platform and Game videos from looping correctly

There's been a lot of discussion in the past about doing this. It would require a major overhaul of the entire system and could in the worst case cause issues with playlists that are already out there. In saying that, I'd love to hear any real world rulesets that you are burning to use if we were to implement a system like this.

If you can, zip up your data folder and send it to me in a PM. That might uncover what is actually going on here.

Beta 3 is out with the following fixes: Fixed: Opening a second Game Details view using the Related Games feature is not always loading properly Fixed: Related Game tabs not always resetting back to the first tab in the list under certain conditions Fixed: Expanded achievements is sometimes left on after changing to a new game Fixed: Platform Icon within Game Details not always appearing Fixed: Clean Up Media utility no longer freezes when initiating scan Fixed: Margin issue with the default theme's Documents and Links sections Fixed: Visibility issue with the default theme's Media Preview box

Thanks guys. Most likely related to the .NET 9 update. We'll look into it. I'm guessing it's not related to relative pathnames. You needing to uninstall a redistributable might be a clue. The new beta builds .NET9 into it, so no need to install any extra redistributable to make it work. As quickly as possible!