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If you are referring to platform theme videos, they work in certain views. Click on the top-right menu and choose Change View. Views like Wheel with Details, and Text List with Details will work with the those videos.

Beta 5 is out with the following changes: Improvement: More logic added to help keep EA and Epic Games authenticated for longer Fixed: The Automatic RetroArch downloader has been fixed and will once again download the emulator (It broke due to a change with Libretro's Buildbot) Fixed: Update prompt will now appear when using MessageBox Notifications

The "ALL" text can be adjusted under Tools > Options > Visuals > Filters Side Bar. I think the initial concept was that if someone were to switch to another language, the text would get updated (if available in that language), with the idea that the user wouldn't then want to switch back to another language, so it doesn't switch back to English if you change it back. All language packs are done by the community, so if you are using the French language and you see English, you can help contribute over on this thread:

You wouldn't find the code for FlowVideo in the xaml unless you added it yourself. You'll probably need to know a bit of coding to understand what to do, but in the end you would place the FlowVideo into the view file and position it the way that you want, and it will show up when you select that view in Big Box.

Ah yes. Thanks for pointing that out. Message Boxes is a deprecated system and we'll internally decide what we want to do about it moving forward. Highly recommend sticking with LaunchBox Notifications moving forward.

Go into Options > General > Updates and turn off "Automatically Download Updates in the Background". After you do this, you may need to go into your LaunchBox\Updates folder and delete the latest setup file.

Beta 4 is now out with the following: Improvement: EA and Xbox Storefront credential tokens should now last longer before expiring Improvement: Available translation updates have been added (thanks to all of our translators) RetroAchievements integrations have been disabled at this time due to the extended downtime of their API

If you are looking to reduce a full set to only a particular set of ROMs, a non-merged set is more what you are looking for. I think if you reduced a non-merged set to only officially "working" games, the set reduces to under 20GB or so. Using a merged set has a host of issues, one of which you are seeing. LaunchBox reads your file, but cannot determine which set it's from, so has to treat it as one game. Merged sets also have other issues like requiring outside dependency files in order for some games to work, so if you end up moving these files outside of a full set folder, you'll break a lot of your games. In general, the full set importer ignores what type of set you have and just makes everything work, while the ROM import wizard does not and treats each ROM file as a single game.

From purely a user's perspective, the video code ties to a user's video prioritization settings, which can be viewed in LaunchBox under Tools > Options > Media > Video Priorities. Once that is set, you should be good to go. As a theme creator, if you are wanting to bypass a user's settings, the only way is to use a FlowVideo and choose your preferred video type to appear. There's some instructions about this in the Documentation.pdf located in your Themes folder, and an example in the Default theme's marquee view. One thing to note about doing it this way is that you lose the ability to have fallback types, so if you choose to show theme videos, but a game only has a video snap, your theme will never play the video snap.

Thanks. There's a number of duplicates that we are aware of that need sorted. It's on our long list to tackle, but it can break unexpected things unless we are careful.

This would be unrelated to the beta and points to more of a configuration issue of the themes. I would start a separate topic under troubleshooting if you require assistance.

It looks like you changed the "Arrange By" value to Genres. I assume you want to change that back to Title, but there's lots of other ways you can arrange your games by. There's a box size slider in your screenshot on the bottom bar, drag it to adjust the size of your boxes to the size you want. To adjust theme elements you would need to create a custom theme and change the code to reflect the changes you want to see.

Sure, no problem.

Beta 2 is out with the following changes: Improvement: Big Box's Recent Games list has been adjusted to better represent games a user last played Improvement: The Most Played Game listed in Platform/Filter details is now chosen based on both play count and play time, instead of just play count Fixed: Some LaunchBox themes were using more memory than they should and not releasing it correctly Fixed: Storefront auto import setting was incorrectly being applied (introduced in beta 1)

You'd have to go into each emulator you are using and attack it from that end. Each emulator does things a little differently. However, I would personally attack it from the other end by making it so all buttons on all my controllers are recognized in Windows in the exact same way using a program like x360ce.

If you are referring to this specific theme, the black space is reserved for platform videos, which you can download in LaunchBox under Tools > Downloads > Platform/Playlist/Category Theme Videos.

If you are just referring to Arcade games, and you've used the arcade full set importer, all light gun games should be categorized under Shooter / Gun. There's an automatic arcade playlist that LB can create for you as well if you right click the Arcade platform (while under Platform Categories) and choose to Create Missing Arcade/MAME Playlists. For other platforms you could use the filter button to filter by Controller Support > Light Gun, and create playlists based off of that.

From what I can see, the OP doesn't close RetroArch, but returns to the home screen without closing it. Just like on a phone, if you go back to the home screen, the app continues to run in the background for a while. There's 2 ways you can close RetroArch and return to LaunchBox. Setting up a close combo button inside of RetroArch: In RetroArch go to Settings > Input > Hotkeys > Quit (Controller Combo) or just Quit, and set one up. Then from now on you can use this to close RetroArch and return back to LaunchBox. Use the RetroArch menu: By default RetroArch should have a key that opens its menus while you are playing the game. On most controllers this is usually mapped to the home button. You can choose what key is it by going to Settings > Input > Hotkeys > Menu Toggle (Controller Combo) or Menu Toggle. This will allow you to open up RetroArch's menu while playing a game, and navigating to the Main Menu and choosing to Quit RetroArch, which will then bring you back to LaunchBox. There's actually a third way you can do it if you would like continue navigating around like in the OPs video. In LaunchBox, if you go into the platform and then into its Emulator settings, there's an option in there called: Quit RetroArch on Losing Focus (Makes it Easier to Launch New Games without Exiting RetroArch First). This option will then quit RetroArch when you leave RetroArch by any means (even if you don't quit it yourself).

That looks like a custom theme you are using there. You can ask over on the theme's support thread, but it most likely involves editing the theme's code to accomplish what you are after.

You can use the Request a Feature link, which is under Help & Support at the top of the page. We triage feature requests there based on votes. Turn on Startup Screens to see if that helps The option is under Tools > Manage > Storefronts. You can disable it from there. You should create a separate post, maybe under troubleshooting with as much information as you can add about your issue. Also, don't worry, translations will get added before release.