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I've personally never been able to reproduce this. I know there something is confusion when downloading videos. For example, if you only select to download HD Videos during the wizard, but EmuMovies only has a HQ video, you'll end up with nothing. If you want to maximize your chance of getting a video for any game, you should check HD, HQ, and LQ video options during the wizard, then LB should prioritize from high to low until it finds one. They also have theme videos for some games, but that will download independently of the others. If you have any specific examples of a game that will download videos within the edit game window, and won't download the same video during the import or media wizards, let us know. Screenshots would go a long way as well.

Sounds like you may have some files in the wrong spots causing these problems. Like a Big Box theme in the LaunchBox theme folder. Something like that anyway. You may want to clean out some of these folders until things return back to normal. Do it in small steps, like move all items from LBThemes into another folder somewhere else (outside of the LaunchBox folder), while LaunchBox is closed, then open LaunchBox and see what happens.

This is caused by old theme files, particular an old keyboard view file in your theme. Check your LaunchBox\Themes\[theme name]\Views\ folder and delete the KeyboardView.xaml file. The theme should then correctly fall back to the default theme's keyboard view.

You will only see the option during import if you don't already have RetroArch added within the Manage Emulators area, and you are importing a system that we've automatically configured to work with RetroArch. However, you do not need to download RA via an import wizard, you can simply click on Tools > Manage > RetroArch, to find the install options, then run the import wizard and RetroArch will show up as an option when choosing your emulator.

Welcome in! Nice cab there, and a very spacious workshop. One thing to note, if you import a full MAME arcade set, by default it will organize the games into different playlists automatically for you, including a light gun games section, which are accessible within both the Platform Category filter area and the Playlists filter area.

Deleting the image should be good enough. When you use the Download Metadata and Media wizard, you have the option to only download 1 image per image group, you also have the option to not replace any existing fields or media. With these options, it would not re-download another box front image if you already have one.

What's confusing here is that your first screenshot shows LaunchBox, while your other two screenshots show Big Box. What theme are you using?

I do believe this is normal to how the theme was created. In the future, you may want to post over on the theme's file page for theme specific questions. That will usually get the eye of the author of the theme. However, I'm sure @Rincewind could shed some light on this.

When something like this happens, it's most likely caused by a bad update. I believe Big Box has a repair option for themes that may work for this scenario.

The first 13.0 beta is out now and the thread for it can be found here:

Thanks! Will add it to the list to review.

Hey everyone, LaunchBox 13.0 beta 1 is out with a heavy focus on the new 3D Box Models in Big Box (#4 on the last community poll). They currently work with the images you already have in your collection, along with a new spine image type. In this first beta you will notice: Any view that used the old Cover Flow wheels will now show 3D Box Models in its place. This includes Fullscreen CoverFlow and CoverFlow with Details views in the default theme, and is also backwards compatible with any theme that ever implemented that type of wheel. The selected item in the wheel can be rotated via the flip box mapping, or the new Rotate Model mappings for both keyboard and controllers. Any theme that uses the Game Main Image Transition element will now display the 3D box model of the game where applicable. You can also use the flip box mapping, or the new Rotate Model mappings on them. Future betas will focus on providing UI management options for the 3D Box Models, and expand on their functionality. Full changelog for Beta 1: New Premium Feature: Big Box now supports 3D models for boxes! They are available in most existing themes where boxes are displayed and can be rotated with the right stick on a controller (or bound to something else). We've worked hard to make these 3D boxes work well even with the images that you already have in your collection. New Premium Feature: CoverFlow views in Big Box have been overhauled to be completely 3D, and selected items inside of CoverFlow views can also be rotated New Premium Feature: Big Box theme developers now have full control over how to present 3D boxes in wheels and in CoverFlow, including angles and animations New Premium Feature: Big Box now has a global "maximum speed" setting for wheels Improvement: New image types have been added for Box - Spine (for the spines/sides of boxes) and Box - Full (for DVD-style wraparound scans) Improvement: Big Box's Flip Box feature now rotates the model 90 degrees instead of just showing the back of the box Improvement: Big Box's animation backend has been improved, which should require less processing power and provides more options for 3D box models Improvement: Big Box's performance has been improved when loading game details Fixed: Some bindings in LaunchBox's WorkingViewModel weren't updating correctly in some circumstances (for theme devs) Fixed: Big Box's TopBoxesViewModel and BottomBoxesViewModel bindings weren't always notifying on update in platform views (for theme devs) Beta 2: New Premium Feature: LaunchBox now supports 3D models for boxes as well; they are available in most existing themes in the Game Details panel and can be rotated with a mouse or a controller New Feature: 3D model settings are now available as platform-specific settings under Tools > Manage > Platforms in LaunchBox. Each platform now has a new "3D Model Settings" tab that lets you customize everything from what type of box to use to the sizing and coloring of the boxes. Fixed: The Big Box Theme Manager should once again be accessible (introduced in 13.0 beta 1)

That's more of a Big Box functionality question and not a theme specific question, and I'm pretty sure there is not. You should be able to make a keyboard or controller mapping that would jump you to the different filter types, if you are wanting to go that route.

It's designed to not re-populate games you have deleted.

The bezel option will only show during import on compatible emulators, which right now only consists of RetroArch and MAME. If you are importing games where the Emulator you selected is not one of those two, then the bezel page will not show.

If you are wanting to only import a selection of ROMs, then it's better if you use a non-merged set. Our ROM import wizard will import one game per file. Therefore, it cannot tell that a number of different clones are within that one file or not. A non-merged set provides one file per clone, and all files are self-contained and work independently without the need for extra dependency files. Due to the nature of a merged set, it really should only be used if you use the MAME Arcade Full Set Import wizard.

You can play around with it. I believe you need to leave those options on, or else you are telling LaunchBox to not display Android apps.

This would mean that the core you have chosen to use inside of LaunchBox has not been found inside of RetroArch. Check the arcade's emulator settings and make sure the core selected matches one you downloaded within RetroArch. This can be a little confusing since LaunchBox lists the file names while RetroArch lists core names (which can unfortunately be drastically different names sometimes). There may be other reasons you get presented with a black screen, but this is the most common one.

Check the Options section. You'll find: Parse/Add Android Games on Startup - This will make Android games automatically show up in their own Android section, as long as they are categorized as games by the app author Include Non-Game Android Apps - This will add all Android apps to the Android section, which you can then pare down by deleting the apps you don't want to see.