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For Users on LaunchBox 11.7 Beta 1 or Beta 2: There's the potential that your update will not initialize after it downloads. If this happens to you, there are 3 workarounds to get you up and running. Preferred option: Go into Options > General > Updates and turn on the option Automatically Download Updates in the Background, and press Okay. Once LaunchBox has downloaded in the background, it will prompt you to install it. Premium option: Run Big Box. It will notify you that there is an update and run you through the update process. Manual option: Check your Updates folder for the following file and run it: LaunchBox-12.7-beta-3-Setup.exe. During installation, double check your install path is correct (It is common to mistakenly install a second version of LaunchBox inside of your LaunchBox folder, creating a LaunchBox\LaunchBox folder scenario). Happy New Year everyone. LaunchBox 12.7 Beta 1 is now out with the following changes: Improvement: Updated several forms to utilize the new dialog theming colors Improvement: LaunchBox and Big Box startup process has been overhauled, should result in faster start-up times Improvement: LaunchBox context menus should now open more quickly Fixed: Amazon Games importer was not detecting all games in a user's library Fixed: Error when selecting a controller in Big Box while no controllers were connected Fixed: Various issues when using FlowVideo outside of a FlowContext (for theme developers) Beta 3: New Premium Feature: Compatibility options have been added in Big Box for various types of wonky marquee screens that cut off or stretch the image (see the new Marquee Screen section in the Big Box options) New Premium Feature: Big Box users now have the option to stretch marquee images to fill the screen or keep their image aspect ratios (also in the new Marquee Screen section of the Big Box options) Improvement: Big Box will now use platform clear logos with fanart backgrounds on marquee screens if no marquee image exists (just like the games views previously already did) Improvement: Big Box marquees are much lighter to run and should have less performance bottlenecks on lower-end hardware Improvement: Clear logos and fanart backgrounds will no longer occasionally flicker behind marquee screen images during transitions Fixed - Restored ability to delete rows from the Drag and Drop ROM import wizard Fixed - Corrected some Tools menu items from always being disabled Beta 4: New Premium Feature: Added a Documents badge for games with manuals and other documents New Feature: MAME can now be automatically downloaded (or updated) and installed via the MAME Full Set Importer. This makes it super easy to get up and playing just by running the MAME Arcade Full Set Wizard and nothing else. New Feature: Game Details in LaunchBox has been overhauled with a new, modern look New Feature: Added new controls and bindings for use inside of LaunchBox Game Details (for theme devs) Beta 5: Fixed: Game Details background no longer stops you from deleting the file being shown Fixed: Videos now only take the space required to play them (Which caused the black box on either side even when PreviewBackground was Transparent) - For Theme Devs Fixed: Items were showing twice in the carousel previews if the item was used both in Background and Screenshot Image Priorities Fixed: Wikipedia and YouTube link mouse-over wasn't working on the transparent sections of the icons Fixed: Some menu items weren't updating their strings correctly Fixed: Document badge wasn't showing up correctly for all items with a manual Fixed: Completed check box was missing it's tooltip Fixed: Carousel play button flickering when GameDetails is first opening up Fixed: Carousel video now responds to volume change correctly Fixed: Carousel video can now be double clicked to open a full screen player like you used to be able to in previous versions Beta 6: Fixed: Videos in the LaunchBox carousel with embedded thumbnails of different aspect ratio from its source (like some EmuMovies videos) will now play correctly in the default theme Fixed: Videos in the LaunchBox carousel now have the right-click context menu to Fullscreen and Delete Fixed: Viewing a video fullscreen in the LaunchBox carousel now opens a window inside of LaunchBox instead of a VLC instance Beta 7: Fixed: Restored ability to use platform specific game marquee views Fixed: Helped correct some of the issue regarding LaunchBox Game Detail's audio playing after the video closes Fixed: Added more logic to avoid Uri errors while attempting to load a Game Details video Fixed: Carousel preview items can now be navigated correctly using a keyboard

Sounds like some of the things you've done may have caused more issues. If you import your new romset and then combine with the broken ROM, you still have many game entries with broken ROM paths combined with ROM paths that do work. One way you could try to clean this up is to first right click one of your platforms on the side panel and go into Edit. In the Folders tab, Point the Game field to your ROMs folder, and then press OK. You'll now need to run the Tools > Scan > For Removed [platform] ROMs... Then you can run the Tools > Scan > For Added [platform] ROMs...

Not sure if it's related, but I know when I upgraded my computer, I lost permissions on my secondary drives. I ended up having to take ownership of them and apply permissions to all my folders and files once again to my username.

Hi @Truest1. Possibly worth it to share the theme you are using. I believe the pictures you took with your phone show Unified & Ultrawide. If this is the case, you can look inside the following folder: LaunchBox\Themes\Unified & Ultrawide\Images\Platforms\Fanart You'll see all the images in there. You should be able to remove the ones you want, or replace them with something else.

Hi @Kan. This is unfortunately a known issue. While some people have no problem, others are seeing the -200 error. It has not been an easy one to pin-point. Personally, I see it intermittently, and only with certain files.

If you are looking for an aspect ratio in decimal, you would divide the two numbers. So around 0.66

Hi @Hollingsbee, Does this happen with the default Big Box theme?

Pretty sure that the theme was updated to fix this issue a while back. Download the latest version of the theme on the forums and you should be good to go.

Hi @JosephA. For a starting point, one thing you can try is try and run your games through RetroArch and make sure the games are set up properly and can be played. Once you confirmed that, then we can narrow it down to something in your LaunchBox configuration that you'll need to adjust.

I went and tested the same Sony PSP games running through PPSSPP and was able to successfully launch them from LaunchBox for Android using an up-to-date Android 11 Samsung Galaxy S20 device. Sorry that I can't really help you out here @Kaio0411, but just thought I'd mention my findings for anyone curious.

Hi @DraxDauragon. This issue was fixed a while back and shouldn't be an issue with current versions of LaunchBox. It's possible that you may be seeing other issues. The most common are: You already have the same ROM imported in another platform - you'll have to check Force Duplication option to import the game again in another platform. This is common for people wanting to import MAME full rom sets, but then also want to import certain arcade systems as separate platforms as well. You have combine ROMs enabled during import - this will combine different versions of the same ROM into one game entry, making it look like LaunchBox imported less games than the files that you have. You have something checked under View > Hide Games - this will import games and then hide them based on any settings you have enabled in there. For example, if you have enabled "Hide Games > Missing Videos", then the game won't show up in your list if you didn't download videos for it during import.

Anything made in the Community Theme Creator should work pretty good for your situation.

Sorry for the delay. Here you go: The POC - babynebbia edition - 1.4.zip

Hi @Papadon, I do believe that Big Box will take the height of your main monitor and determine text size based off of that. This is why when you set your screen as the main monitor, the text appears fine. Some custom themes are built using third party plugins that get around this somewhat, so you can say that it's theme dependent. Using these themes could help, or adjusting the resolution of your monitors to more closely match each other could help as well. You could also create your own theme and adjust text sizes to work with your setup. While these are not the best solutions, hopefully they can point you in the right direction.

Hi @BrainyCabde. If your PC crashes, pretty sure LaunchBox won't be able to do the necessary save procedures to save your download position. You could use the Audit tool to determine which games received media and which did not. Then select the games that didn't and run the Download Metadata and Media tool.

Bezel Template for COMMUNITY Theme Creator - [Theme Workshop] View File This Bezel Template was created during a Theme Workshop video. If you are interested in this type of content, subscribe to the Unbroken Software YouTube channel. Bezel Template for the COMMUNITY Theme Creator These bezel templates can be used to load into the COMMUNITY Theme Creator to create your own Platform or Game bezel images. The files can be used to create your own bezel images based off of your own LaunchBox library's media (you will still need to create your own layout/config files). Learn how to create your own bezels by watching the below video. Watch this being built: On YouTube: Theme Workshop - Create Your Own Bezels! - YouTube Instructions Drop into your \\COMMUNITY Theme Creator\My Theme Projects folder. Open up the COMMUNITY Theme Creator and select the theme. Credits COMMUNITY Theme Creator by @y2guru. Find it here: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/2115-community-theme-creator-for-bigbox/ Subscribe to catch future live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSIht6UXIEXIgz4eXAEShxA Submitter faeran Submitted 12/17/2021 Category Platform Bezels/Overlays  

CoinOP - Vertical [Theme Workshop] View File CoinOP - Vertical was built during a Theme Workshop live stream. If you are interested in creating themes, subscribe to the Unbroken Software YouTube channel. CoinOP - Vertical This theme was designed for a 9:16 vertical screen monitor. Created during the December 10, 2021 Theme Workshop, the idea was to show off the process of converting a COMMUNITY Theme Creator theme to work with a vertical monitor. Playtime tracking and controller badge support were also added to this theme to round it out. Watch this theme being built: Watch on YouTube: Live Stream: LaunchBox / Big Box Theme Workshop - Building CoinOP - Vertical - YouTube Files CoinOP - Vertical.zip - The Big Box theme files. Drop into your \\LaunchBox\Themes folder to load into Big Box CoinOP - Vertical - COMMUNITY Theme Creator Files.zip - Coming soon Credits COMMUNITY Theme Creator by @y2guru. Find it here: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/2115-community-theme-creator-for-bigbox/ Subscribe to catch future live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSIht6UXIEXIgz4eXAEShxA Submitter faeran Submitted 12/14/2021 Category Big Box Custom Themes  

That does sound very odd. Themes don't actually control any of that logic, so very curious to know what could be happening here. A screenshot would be nice to see. What images are you trying to change?

Settings are saved when you close LaunchBox. Is it possible that you are rebooting Windows without closing LaunchBox first? This would force close LaunchBox and skip that saving process that happens in the background after closing.

Beta 4 is out with the following: Fixed: Some Amazon Games' install flag were being incorrectly set on start-up and during game import Translation updates Thanks for the help testing.

Beta 3 is out with the following: Improvement: Added 7 more emulators to LaunchBox's default emulator settings: Xemu, Cxbx-Reloaded, RPCS3, Xenia, DuckStation, bsnes, and Supermodel Fixed: Adding an image to a Platform, Platform Category, or Playlist's edit window will no longer cause an error while using certain languages. Fixed: The LaunchBox Add/Edit Emulator window will once again filter for the emulator's specific application file by default, if an emulator was selected from the drop down list (introduced in 12.0) Fixed: All badges can now be used with the FlowBadge control in Big Box Fixed: Rare null reference error when using the FlowBadge control in Big Box Thanks everyone for the help in testing.

Hi @GarbonZoni. Couple things: Your platform names and the names in Associated Platforms do have to match, so it's good that you figured that out. You'll need to uncheck the "Extract ROM archives before running" option, which is in the Details section of your RetroArch Edit Emulator window. All MAME type arcade systems cannot use this option.

Should be able to update all your fields by selecting all your games and running Tools > Download > Update Metadata and Media During the wizard, uncheck any of the media types and choose "Yes, but do not replace any existing fields or media (recommended)"