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So, if I'm reading this right, it sounds like you want to add a list to the Game Discovery Center that's a list of filter sections? So something like this, as the hierarchy: Root Filter Lists All Games Platforms Platform Categories Playlists Genres Developers Publishers Series Statuses Sources Ratings Play Modes Regions Game Discovery Center All Games Platforms Platform Categories Playlists Genres Developers Publishers Series Statuses Sources Ratings Play Modes Regions

I can definitely see the allure of wanting something like this, and it's still on the list of our big pile of items. One thing to note though is how the system currently works and what this request is actually asking for. The system is set up like so: Root Filter Lists All Games Game Discovery Center Platforms Platform Categories Genres Developers ...etc (many more) A user has the option to start in any of those filter sections. So what the request seems to be asking for is this: Root Filter lists All Games Game Discovery Center Platforms Platform Categories Game Discovery Center So the actual request is something like "Show Game Discovery Center in Platform Categories Filter Section", with the potential to allow users to set where in their Platform Categories hierarchy they'd want to see this option appear. Then UX would need to be altered to know where a user is so it can understand what happens when they navigate forward and backwards (eg. going into Platform Categories > Game Discovery Center, then navigating backwards out of the Game Discovery Center would bring you to your Platform Categories list, but navigating from System Menu > Game Discovery Center and backwards would then bring you to the System Menu). We'd also need a minimum of a Game Discovery Center clear logo, and probably need to figure out what the background image binding would do, which currently tries to scan the games inside of a particular category/platform/playlist and brings up a random background image to display. Again, I can definitely see the allure of wanting something like this, and it's definitely still on our big pile of items to get to.

Yes, the issue is actually that the uninstall button is not grayed out (it should be), as all official plugins cannot be uninstalled. This should now be fixed.

Each beta, this changelog gets updated to include everything within that beta at that given time. You can also just wait for me to update this post as well, but the changelog will update first. After a beta goes live, I run a bunch of live tests which take time, before I update the beta post. We've always talked about it internally, but it really comes down to how much work do we want to siphon out of actual features to work on a revamp of the welcome screen. At some point you'll probably see it change, but up until now it just hasn't been high on the priority list. In saying that, if you click on the box that shows a highlight of the features, it brings you to the changelog on the website.

Just our normal changelog page on our website: https://www.launchbox-app.com/about/changelog

Beta 2 is out with the following changes: Optimized archive extraction logic during game launching Fixed an issue with additional apps not appearing Fixed crashing that was caused by image rendering Fixed a crash during RetroArch/Dolphin emulator installation Cleaned up RetroArch cores including a decommissioned version of mupen64plus and set different default emulators for SNK Neo Geo AES, Arcade, and SNK Neo Geo MVS Fixed a rare black screen issue during navigation Fixed a crash related to LongPressListView scrolling Fixed compatibility issues with certain fonts (for theme developers) Fixed many reported MAUI related crashes There's a few more things we are going to look at, but outside of that we are gearing up for the release!

Storefront screenshots as I listed above, or are other kinds of screenshots showing up when you have a background image?

One thing to note is that your license is not associated to any accounts and never has been. If you still have your license email, your license file is attached to it. If you lost your license email, you can simply recover it using the lost license form: https://.www.launchbox-app.com/premium/lost-license If you lost access to your email address, that's when you can email the support mailbox that @JoeViking245 is referring to there.

Good to hear. Good to hear, but just know the Save Management feature and startup times aren't actually linked in any way, but we'll take the win.

There is no current known issue with changing views in Big Box, and there hasn't been for quite a while. However, if you do have a specific issue you'd like troubleshooted, open up a new thread and people would be happy to help.

There's your issue. You need to select your root folder, not platform folders. So, if your path is: g:\Games\[platforms] Choose: g:\Games\ Next page will list all your platforms under the Games folder.

Try to go into your LaunchBox\Updates folder and delete any beta files and try to download it again. It happens on the page directly after you choose your root folder. However, I'd love to hear what you feel is missing from that page. This definitely was specific to Omni, but it should be fixed using beta 4.

Fix what?

Beta 4 is out with the following fixes: Fixed: Secondary platforms under Associated Platforms will now correctly respect M3U checkbox settings Fixed: A rare issue where specific custom themes could incorrectly sort games when using Arrange By options

Sounds like you might be confusing the welcome screen vs. the changelog under Menu > Help > Changelog

Just in case you don't want to wait for me, any new changes will also be reflected in the changelog in the app and on the website 😉

Beta 3 is out with the following changes: New Feature: Added the ability to import ROMs from several platforms at once Improvement: Optimized the startup process for slightly faster load times

Thanks for the report. Did you make sure to update all themes you are using within the Theme Manager? The launching code hasn't changed, so I'm wondering if it's just a theme related issue. EDIT: Another thing you can check: open the Emulator Settings to one of your platforms and uncheck the Extract ROMs option, and see if that makes a difference. If you can take a screenshot of the page that is frozen and paste it here. It may provide some context to what's going on.

We have a larger infrastructure plan that would make this point moot. Instead of adding another 50 image types, which not only complicates and clutters the Games Database, but also LaunchBox, we'll be adding a tagging system. So instead of fracturing "Clear Logo" into many different image types, we simply have a "Clear Logo" image type, then people can tag it with things like "Fanart" and the like.

we'll take the win!

Beta 2 is out with the following: Fixed: Issue causing slow loading times of the Game Details Pane on initial startup Fixed: Crash that occurred when attempting to import into a platform without a supported emulator (introduced in beta 1)

Thanks. We managed to track down the issue and it's fixed now in beta 2!

Thanks for the confirmation

Thanks for the reports. Both of you guys had different pieces of the puzzle that I was able to use to deduce what exactly might be going on here. I've pinpointed a specific control in the Game Details panel which ended up being something you wouldn't think could be causing this. It's those little quick link buttons that open to a game's LBDB, Steam, GOG, Wikipedia, or Video page. I removed them from the Featherweight theme and uploaded a new version of it on the forums. If either of you guys can confirm you don't see that freeze using that theme now, this would confirm my findings here.