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Did a quick test, and yes the issue seems to be that touch screen controls aren't working on that page. Plug in a controller and it works. I'll add that to the list.

Hey guys, Sounds like we can continue the conversation in the beta thread post, but from the sounds of it, this is all due to video playback, which should be addressed in beta 2, which should be coming out soon. We can test the media replacement thing as well, just do some testing and confirm which image types you are having issues with and we'll take a look.

Hi Everyone, 1.18 Beta 1 is out with a bunch of fixes and small improvements. Thanks to all who help test these beta versions. Don't forget to include the following information in your feedback to help us out with tracking down with any issues you may face with these betas: Your device specs The version of Android and API version Description of the issue Can it be reliably reproduced on your end? Reproduction steps You can opt into the beta within LaunchBox for Android by going into Option and turning on the Update to Beta Releases option. If a beta release is available, you will get prompted each time the app opens up. Full Changelog: https://www.launchbox-app.com/android-about/change-log Beta 1: Orientation Lock has been added, allowing users to lock the app's orientation to either Landscape or Portrait, overriding the device's global orientation settings The application framework has been upgraded to .NET 9 (from .NET 8), providing enhanced performance and stability Sega Triforce is now available as a supported platform Video streaming functionality has been restored; however, please note that only video will be streamed at this time due to the limitations of YouTube Video downloading from streamed content is now functional. The application will now combine the video and audio streams and save them as a single file to your local drive Known Issues with Beta 1: There's a known crashing issue with beta 1 that's due to video playback. This is due to the media element that we are using. It has a known crashing issue that we can fix by updating the element, however, in order to update the element it requires that we update specific dependencies, including .NET and MAUI workloads. This work will come out in beta 2, which should be soon. Touch screen controls not working on the "Browse for New Games Database Image" page (controller navigation works fine). Fix slotted for beta 3. Beta 2: Added a visual loading indicator to provide feedback during shared drive connection attempts Significantly reduced the frequency of application crashes during video playback by addressing underlying stability issues Implemented functionality to automatically delete partially downloaded files when a game download is canceled over the network Resolved an issue where platform theme videos would unexpectedly restart when the device orientation was changed Updated the "Video downloading..." indicator text to "Video Stream loading..." to better reflect the process of streaming video content Known Issues with Beta 2: Screenshots may sometimes not appear in certain views when they should. Fix slotted for beta 4. Touch screen controls not working on the "Browse for New Games Database Image" page (controller navigation works fine). Fix slotted for beta 4. The app suddenly gets stuck during startup - this is due to a crash report not sending properly Workaround: You'll need to downgrade to version 1.17 and wait for beta 3. You can find a copy of 1.17 in your LaunchBox\Upgrades folder, or you can get one from our website ( https://www.launchbox-app.com ) Beta 3: The beginning of Scoped Storage support has been implemented. It's in an incomplete state, with more work to come for the next beta Additional Apps on a Network Share should once again download and play Users stuck in a startup crash loop should now be unstuck (introduced in beta 2)

Yes very. We even showed it off to Andrew on a live stream on at least one of our test devices (which is a Samsung Galaxy S21 FE) just to confirm that I was reproducing the steps properly. We'll keep hacking away trying to reproduce this as time permits.

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Beta 2 is out to address the issue with the Game Details menu not fully initializing.

Thanks guys. Easy enough to replicate. Looks like the view itself is not fully initializing. I'll add it to the known issues and we'll have it fixed up before release.

Hi everyone, Another beta round is upon us. This would be a shorter round the usual, as we are hoping to address some of the major issues that we have with 13.19 that have cropped up. Thanks to all who help test these beta versions. Don't forget to include the following information in your feedback to help us out with tracking down with any issues you may face with these betas: Your Windows version Description of the issue Can it be reliably reproduced on your end? Reproduction steps You can opt into the beta within LaunchBox by going to Tools > Options > General > Updates and turning on Update to Beta Releases. If a beta release is available, you will get prompted each time the app opens up, or you can manually check using Menu > Help > Check for Updates. Beta Changelog Beta 1: New Feature: Added a new Teknoparrot emulator profile to assist users with setup Improvement: Achievements scan option now supports RVZ files for Nintendo GameCube and Nintendo Wii using the Dolphin emulator Fixed: The "Attempt to hide console window" emulator option caused flickering, windowed mode, or prevented emulators from launching Fixed: Bug that prevented the Big Box options menu from functioning when the Sounds folder was missing Fixed: Crash related to the Game Save backup, restore, and delete options Fixed: Rare visual errors where Arrange By headers were missing when using custom badges from a plugin Fixed: Badge menu visual issue where parent categories didn't display a checkmark when all child elements were enabled Fixed: .scummvm files can now be imported into the ScummVM platform using the Single Platform and Drag/Drop import wizards Beta 2: Big Box Game Details menu view not fully initializing Known Issues Known Issues in Beta 1: We have been heavily testing the reported issue with Big Box freezing in certain scenarios. We are unable to reliably reproduce it. If you are one user that is facing this issue the following information would be extremely useful: Theme it is freezing on View it is freezing on Which section of Big Box you are in (eg. All Games, Platforms, Platform Categories... etc) Which plugins you have installed What you were doing when Big Box froze (eg. was it in Attract Mode, did you return after a while and press a navigation button and then it froze) Which game did it freeze on? Whether you have 3D Models turned on or off List of transitions used Do you have background music playing Do you have game music playing Do you use videos and source of the videos (eg. Steam videos, EmuMovies videos... etc) Screenshot of the freeze could be helpful Big Box Game Details menu view not fully initializing - Addressed in beta 2

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Yeah, it's because the name search on the GamesDB uses the main name and any alternate names. The alternate name for this game is "Starwing", so when you search "Star Wing", it wouldn't find this particular game.

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I just ran about 4 different types of imports on my TurboGrafx-16 roms, but each time it worked just fine. I assume you are either setting a specific import option I'm not, or your roms are significantly different, or there's some other factor going on that's different than just an ordinary import. Maybe you can take me through the exact process, step by step, option by option, that you are doing. A video could definitely help here.

This is actually an issue with region tagging on the Games Database. If you notice, there's no Europe box on the Games DB for this game. We have a fairly lengthy set of fallback systems in place for this scenario, and it looks like none of the fallback scenarios were hit until the very last one (actually the Android app is missing some of these fallbacks that the Windows app has), which is a hard coded set of region priorities where the NA box is probably set as one of the higher priorities, and therefore, since it found an NA box, it downloaded it. If you look on the GamesDB, there looks to be a bunch of other countries with a box front, but not one for Europe. The simple solution there would be to get a box front on the Games Database with the Europe tag on it. I've adjusted one myself and I'll try and quicken the process to a GamesDB metadata file update so I can test and confirm without having to wait 24 hours for the server-side metadata rebuild.

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Ok, interesting. I just set that same thing up, but not seeing an issue, games are still running fine, so something else also must be configured. If you can, zip up your data folder and PM it to me, maybe that will give us some clues. Good to know. Good deal.

Can you be more specific to what exactly is your symbolic link and how you are utilizing it?

A very specific scenario that we are unable to reproduce on our end. Every attempt at importing either a UNC or mapped network drive is successful. If you can zip up your Data folder and send it to me in a PM that may help track down what's going on in your build.

That could do it, if that's the case for everyone, that should be fixed internally already.

We need one more foundational building block in place before we can look into it, but once that is done, the goal is to make this emulator as seamless as we possibly can. I wouldn't want to make users go through some hassles of setting up dummy files and such if I can help it, so stay tuned. Good deal. Platform videos have already been fixed and tested internally, so they should be good to go. Everything else I mentioned in my response is also fixed or shored up and is ready internally. Unified was definitely not made for a 1:1 screen aspect ratio like that, which is why you are seeing it like that. However, since I'm the one who coded that theme, I could look into what it would take for it to work in that aspect ratio.

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It's referring to these options you can see that are grayed out when on the free version: Big Box has something similar for both Controller and Keyboard controls. From the sounds of it, while your friend would benefit from those options, it doesn't sound like that's their immediate issue.