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Can you go into your Arcade platform's Emulator Settings and post a screenshot of them here.

Used to see this with certain intel integrated graphics drivers that needed an update or a settings change. What kind of hardware are you working with?

Like CBeats mentioned, one of the main reasons you'd be seeing this is if you accidentally already imported those ROMs into the wrong Platform, or somewhere you didn't expect to import them to. The system is designed to not import the same file twice. One way you can test this is to try and import one of the ROMs that won't import, and when you get to the second to last page giving you some options, check off to "force importing duplicate games", and then press next. If you see the game on the next page with this option checked, it means you've already imported that game and it's somewhere in your library.

We made some educated guesses and we should have this fixed in the next beta. Thanks for the report. Unless we run into some kind of unpassable stop block, videos will come in the next beta. The clear logo thing is a little strange since it's using the default fallback where the system generates an image with the text on it, but I'll take a look. @uchuskies921 Yes, a lot of what you say will be possible for theme devs. If you do want to learn more about the system send me a PM.

It's hard to say. It would be nice to get some specific file names so we can recreate it on our side, but it is what it is.

It would be important to get some files names that are disappearing so we can figure out what's going on.

In this screenshot, can you list the file names of all the files here that they are pointing to.

Thanks. This is a known issue that's been around for a long while. It's on our long term list to take care of, but most likely will not make it in this next version. Thanks for the confirmation. This would happen if your list contains only a handful of items. It will be fixed in the next version.

Hi Everyone, Beta 2 is out with the start of a new feature inside of Big Box called the Game Discovery Center. This feature is still a work in progress, but can be accessed in its current form from the System Menu. The idea of this feature is to be a dynamically changing list of lists that provides users new ways to explore their own library of games. The view is fully themeable, but we recommend that theme developers hold off for now as the XAML code contains a lot of placeholders. The next beta should contain new types of lists while making the lists more random and dynamic (instead of the static ones we have in place for now). Here's the complete changelog for beta 2: New Feature: Big Box has a new view called Game Discovery Center, which allows you to discover your games in new ways. Access it through the system menu, or optionally make it your startup view Improvement: Added a View Additional Documents menu option to Game Details in Big Box Improvement: LaunchBox will now scroll the selected item into view when a side panel is hidden/unhidden Fixed: Epic Game Store re-authentication time-out period has been increased for slower internet connections Fixed: Issues with the Theme-specific Background Music (introduced in beta 1)

Good deal. I'd recommend if you haven't already to open a separate thread and provide detailed information about your device, your LaunchBox library, your import settings and anything else you can think of that would help narrow down why you'd be seeing this.

The LaunchBox for Android 1.12 beta thread has been opened, and can be followed here:

Hi Everyone, This post is reserved for anyone willing to help us with LaunchBox for Android 1.12 beta releases. You can opt into the beta releases in the app by going into Options and enabling the Update to Beta Releases option. Then restart the app and follow the steps. Full Changelog: https://www.launchbox-app.com/android-about/change-log For people that are either on Beta 2 or Beta 3, you will find that your update will freeze on the prompt that starts the LaunchBox update. If this happens to you, use a files app to navigate to your LaunchBox\Updates folder and install the latest apk file you find in there (which at the moment is beta 4), and you should be good to go. Beta 1 contains the following changes: LaunchBox now keeps track of your games' play time automatically. Use your LaunchBox Games Database account to sync play times between all of your Android and Windows LaunchBox builds. The official Citra Nightly and Citra Canary emulators are now fully supported The PX68k, Citra, and BSNES RetroArch cores are now available for Sharp X68000, 3DS, and SNES respectively Beta 2: RetroArch can now be automatically downloaded and installed when launching a game (if it's not installed already); this makes it super easy to get up and playing without the need for a user to set up RetroArch separately RetroArch cores can now be automatically downloaded and sent to RetroArch when launching a game (if the core is missing) A Manage RetroArch option is now available in the root menu, which allows you to download, install, and update RetroArch, and all its cores, with a touch of a button An "Add Downloaded Core..." value has been added to RetroArch's Default Core option. This will allow you to choose from core files that are placed inside of the following folder: \\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\Cores Play Time Tracking no longer requires notification permissions (however, it is highly beneficial to grant it) You can now sort by play time The following emulators are now fully supported: MAME4Droid 2024, Yuzu Early Access The Melon DS RetroArch core is now an available option for the Nintendo DS platform PPSSPP Gold will now launch on certain problematic devices (like the Odin 2 Pro) Menu text will now size dynamically based on a user's resolution and DPI settings A rare crash has been fixed caused by attempting to load an image that does not exist Turning the Cloud Sync feature off and on again would sometimes cause incorrect changes to local sync data Beta 3: Small change to some default theme views which help with background fade displacement issues on select devices Many navigational crashes have been fixed across the app Beta 4: Fixed issue where the app would freeze during the update process (introduced in beta 2) Pressing No when asked if you would like to install RetroArch will no longer try and launch the game Fixed a crash caused by video playback that may happen to some users when returning to LaunchBox after the RetroArch install process Thanks to all who are willing to help us test our betas.

Welcome in. You'll want to either create a separate thread, or go to the high scores thread to ask these questions. This wouldn't be beta related. This could also use its own thread, where you can do some troubleshooting. This wouldn't be beta related.

Big Box is already in a borderless fullscreen mode. Sounds like an ALT+TAB or Windows Key+TAB would work for what you are wanting to do, if all you are wanting to do is switch to another app while Big Box is running. If instead, your request is wanting to specifically use your mouse to minimize Big Box while it's in focus, then that would be a feature request, which can be submitted in the top menu under Help & Support > Request a Feature.

This will be fixed in the next beta.

This would more likely be caused by a change to Windows, Acrobat, or another program that adjusted your PDF file launching settings.

The first two things that pop into my head is: Make sure the manual still exists. Edit the game and check the manual path. Check file explore that the manual file is still there. If it is, then it could be your default PDF viewer. LaunchBox just tries to open the file and it lets Windows choose what to do with it. It's essentially the equivalent of trying to open a pdf file directly. Check your Windows pdf default app setting.

Make sure you went through the registration process here first: https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/account/register It's a different registration process than the forums. If you did and you still don't receive a verification email, hit the Contact Us link at the bottom of this page and reach out to support.

It's a bit unclear what your issue is here. Are you having issues registering for an account somewhere?

That's the text games view. If you were hoping for a different view for Game Gear it probably means you have turned on in your options the ability to have separate views per-platform. Set a mapping to switch views (if you don't have one already), then when you are on the game gear view, press the switch view mapping and choose the view you are wanting to use for Sega Game Gear.

Do you have a screenshot of what that view looks like to you?

Yeah, we've talked about it internally, but that requires a good amount of dev time, and then time to brew and see how it plays out. Then probably a good amount of tweaking. That may be one direction we want to get to eventually and is definitely on the table for future revisions of the database.

Yeah, one game one platform. Could just manually duplicate the games between them, since it's correct for them to be in both platforms, but I don't think that's the smartest answer, but it's one the community could do in the meantime. We'll discuss internally how we can more handle this situation better so things don't just break down due to a decision made by the community.

At first glance it looks like something may have happened to the Metal Slug game entry that used to be under the Arcade Platform. The one you are linking to @neil9000 seems to be under the SNK Neo Geo MVS platform, which would break future scraping of this game for anyone importing into the Arcade platform. It's possible someone moved the game to the different platform at some point, which would break scraping in this way. We'll investigate this and see what the best way moving forward will be. In the meantime, @Zodiark12, you'll need to switch the Platform to SNK Neo Geo MVS, then do the Title lookup. Once you link the game up with the ID, switch the Platform back to Arcade, and press OK.