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Unfortunately no, there's no way for LaunchBox to gain access to another app's information to tell what's installed or not within them. On Windows we can do this, but on Android we can't. There's a list of preconfigured options in LaunchBox for Android with the expectation that you then need to download the emulator (and core when dealing with RetroArch) yourself.

A Black Screen indicates that RetroArch is missing the core that you configured in LaunchBox, or it's missing some kind of required system file. This is normal. LaunchBox has set configurations for certain cores, but you still need to go into RetroArch and download the cores. In your example of NEC TurboGrafx-16, In RetroArch, go to Online Updated > Core Downloader, and download the 3 cores that start with NEC PC Engine... LaunchBox lists them as their file names (mednafen...), RetroArch lists them under core names (Beetle...). Download the right core (or all of them), configure LaunchBox with one of cores you just downloaded and you should be good to go.

My bad, in Big Box it does use chromium for a more seamless controller support. I don't believe that's currently changeable.

Sounds like you may have forgot to refresh your image cache. You can either: Highlight all your games (CTRL+A), and hitting F5 to refresh Or click on: View > Media > Refresh All Images

Yeah you can. In the CTC, you would place an image there, and most likely you would want to have it fade out at the same time the other stuff fades in. Alternatively, if you don't want any of the animations, you would just have to go through all the elements in the CTC that have animations associated with them, and remove them. Once you have made the changes you like, you simply publish the theme and you'd be good to go.

It's under Options > Views > Default Startup View

That's true. If you want to trick it, replace your game title screenshots with your gameplay screenshots.

Pretty sure LaunchBox just uses whatever your default pdf viewer is in Windows. So, you should be able to adjust that in your Windows settings and you should be good to go there.

LaunchBox uses Screenshot Image Priorities to determine what image types it tries to display. You can find this list under Tools > Options > Media > Screenshot Priorities It sounds like you want LaunchBox to try and use the Screenshot - Gameplay image type before the Screenshot - Game Title. So, you would move the Screenshot - Gameplay to the top of the priority list.

You may want to start your own thread for this issue, so it doesn't get lost in this beta thread. However, to start, you may want to use a program like Windows Focus Logger so you can determine what exactly is stealing focus on your computer.

This view was mistakenly added in the latest version of Colorful. Basically, it's an incomplete view that's not supposed to be there, and will most likely be removed in the next update.

This is actually a setting in Adobe Acrobat (if you use that). Go to Edit > Preferences > Documents and check off Restore last view settings when reopening documents.

You could use the Custom Image creator in the COMMUNITY Theme Creator to accomplish this. Switch to the custom image section at the top of the window: Choose one of the Custom Game Image dots at the bottom, and start editing it: Set your canvas size, place any of these image types in any location you'd like, and then render images for a platform (or your entire collection) at once.

You should be able to right click the platform in the side bar, and choose Auto-Generate Child Playlists

If they work in RetroArch using the fbneo core, then you should have luck setting it up that way in LaunchBox. Make sure RetroArch has an entry for the exact name of your Neo Geo platform under the Associated Platforms tab, then set it to use the fbneo core, and make sure the Extract ROMs checkbox is not checked. The first screenshots you posted may have also indicated that you imported the ROMs incorrectly. During the ROM importer wizard, you would want to make sure you check the option to Force using MAME metadata, and the Force importing duplicate games, just in case you already imported some of these games in another arcade pack. On the MAME page, make sure you check to Import all clones, Check none of the skip game options, and uncheck the create playlists.

Yes, I do believe that's a known issue with that theme.

What theme are you using?

It's possible. There are badges that appear in the top right, you'll have to decide what you want to do with them. I can't remember exactly how I coded it all, but it's possible you just need to change the alignment to the parent containers, and potentially adjust the margins.

Probably not what you want to hear, but I have my computer set to sleep, but when it comes out of sleep mode, Big Box remains responsive for me. So, I'm interested to know why it's happening for you. Maybe there are some adjustments to the Windows power options you could make.

If it's playing a preview video, you may have accidentally imported a preview video into LaunchBox, instead of the ROM. However, based on what you are saying here, you should first figure out what ROMset your files came from. That would be pretty important to determine. You said that they work inside of RetroArch, do you remember which core you have working for them?

If you did it multiple times, but it wasn't working, it sounds like you may have some bad data files inside of your LaunchBox\Data\Platforms folder. I would check inside of that folder and make sure you only have 1 file per platform, and no more.

Few things you can do is to only download the image groups that you want to use, and to turn on the media limit option to only download one image per image group. But just to set expectations, LaunchBox has about 9 image groups, and a MAME fullset with default import settings will net you just under 3k games. Let's say each image you download averages around 500Kb, and you only get 1 image for each image group, that would be 9x0.5x3000 = 13.5GB of images.

This is correct. None of that has been tackled yet, so if you are seeing something that is worse, it wouldn't have come from this update. At this point, we recommend that you do not randomize your Screen Transitions, but use one that won't cause you issues. We still need to determine how we want to tackle this one internally, and it may not come with this next update.

Sounds like you may be using a custom theme with an older version of the Game Marquee View file. You can solve this a number of ways, but the easiest way would be to go into Options > Marquee Screen, and enabling the option to Ignore Theme Marquee Views

Beta 2 is out with the following fixes: Fixed: Possible crash with the LaunchBox context menu for GOG games with application paths that don't exist Fixed: The Change View popup in Big Box was sometimes playing the select sound twice when selecting a view Fixed: Videos will now play correctly in more themes when backing into Platform Views and Game Views