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The LaunchBox 12.8 Beta thread is now open and can be found here:

We have not been able to reproduce this on our machines. 12.8 beta 1 is now out. You can try and update to that and see if that makes any difference for you.

Hey everyone, Our first beta for 12.8 is out now, and it's a big one. We have overhauled our entire media download process and you should see a significant increase in how fast media is downloaded. Whether it be during any of our import wizards, using the Update Metadata and Media wizard, or Adding/Editing an individual Game, we can really use your help with testing. If you do help test this, please let us know your results below. Here's the changelog for beta 1: Improvement: We have changed how media items download. LaunchBox with now downloads several files at once instead of using several threads to download one item at a time. This results in significantly faster downloads Improvement: Title text on the image view can now be toggled via the Show / Hide view menu Improvement: Show/Hide view options are now context specific Improvement: Added several new tools that LaunchBox theme developers can use when creating themes Improvement: You can now set the "Extract ROM before playing" option per-platform in the Edit Emulator window Improvement: Added logic to help determine what platform is being imported during ROM imports Improvement: LaunchBox will automatically add the platform you're importing to the emulator you select during import if it isn't there already Fixed: The Edit and Delete buttons in LaunchBox's control bar were not refreshing when changing side bar filters Fixed: Controller Support section of the Add/Edit Game window would sometimes clear new entries before saving occurred Fixed: Rare error when logging into an Epic Games account via Google sign-in Fixed: Added logic to help process images with corrupted color profile information Fixed: Corrected rare threading issue related to marquees Fixed: Rare occurrences where the scrape as value would not save during an import Fixed: Multi-Version badge was incorrectly identifying the primary application path as an additional version (introduced in 12.7) Fixed: Added logic to help resolve file in use errors when saving a game Fixed: Adding an emulator via the import wizard wouldn't pre-populate associated platforms correctly when first opened Beta 2: New Feature: Inside of the MAME Full Set importer you can filter games by CHD requirement and input type (Poll Item #4) New Feature: Inside of the MAME Full Set importer you can prioritize 2 or 4 player variants New Feature: Inside of the MAME Full Set importer you can create playlists for games that require a CHD as well as vertically orientated games Fixed: Right-Clicking a game in List View will now select the game before displaying the context menu (introduced in 12.7) Fixed: Issue where pressing OK in Edit Game would leave the controls view buttons disabled (introduced in beta 1) Fixed: Changed the time-out of EmuMovies media downloads from 5 to 10s (introduced in beta 1) Fixed: The total number of media downloads being displayed should now be more accurate Fixed: The Download Media string was incorrectly changed (introduced in beta 1) Improved error strings during downloads to make it more clear what caused the error Beta 3: Improvement: Games that need installed by the Epic Games client will now take you to the installation options when played (instead of an error screen) Fixed: The ROM Import Wizard was not updating the emulator page when going back to change the selected platform Beta 4: Improvement - A few extra theme developer tools were added for LaunchBox Themes Fixed: Incorrect suffix could be applied to media files Fixed: Media limit setting was being bypassed under certain conditions

Based on your screenshots, it looks like none of your games have metadata. If that was unintended, you may want to download metadata for your games. You can always use the Old Default theme, which still uses the old Game Details view. To create your own custom theme: Make a copy of the Default theme folder in: LaunchBox\LBThemes Rename the copied folder to anything you want Edit the files in your new theme folder If you'd like to grab the old default's game details: copy GameDetailsView.xaml from LBThemes\Old Default\Views into the same location within your custom theme folders.

We are not currently seeing issues with the Epic Games importer. Are you able to run through the process again, make sure you have "Force importing duplicate games" enabled and check your "Ready to Import" results? If you are not seeing a game in this list that you know is in your library, provide some names and we can investigate. Also, make sure you have nothing checked under View > Hide Games.

The Update MAME option refers to the program and not your metadata or media. However, in saying that, if you wish to update your MAME full set ROMs in LaunchBox, you can simply re-run the MAME Arcade Full Set Import wizard, choose to manual configure emulator setup, Edit your MAME emulator to the new one, and import. This should only find any new games and import those. This is not ever necessary. This step is always taken automatically during any imports or media/metadata downloads.

For anyone that has this issue, and has already made sure that under Options > Sound > Attract Mode Master Volume, you have that value set to something greater than 0%. Please send us your BigBoxSettings.xml file (Located in LaunchBox\Data). You can post it here or PM myself and @C-Beats.

ROM imports will attempt to match based on the file name (although this can differ depending on the import method you use and the type of game you are importing). When parsing, it will ignore the parts of the file name that are in parathesis, and use that information in other parts of your metadata (like version and region). If you use the Audit tool, there's a column for LaunchBox Games Database ID. If there was a match, then you'll have something in that column. If a game was not matched, you would have to Edit the game and adjust the title and press the Search for Metadata button to see if it can find a match.

You would have to load up BannerBox into the CTC, and animate the video element in the views you'd want. Basically, the animation would be saying, after selecting a game, and after a certain amount of seconds, scale and position the video to make it full screen.

I don't believe this is currently possible to change themes based on the different types of filter types. You can always put in a request for this by using the Help & Support menu option at the top of this page and choosing Request a Feature. You could always learn how to make videos in BannerBox full screen by using the COMMUNITY Theme Creator. That may be a good option for you.

This is possible, but you'd have to create a custom theme and then in the Wall View you'd like to alter, you would need to change the FlowImage ImageType to Screenshots

Hi @drunkwithpower. Which platforms were you trying to import, and what are some examples of your ROM file names?

One way you can do this is by creating a new Emulator entry inside of Tools > Manage > Emulators You can even have it pointing to the same emulator. Then set up your specific light gun configs in there. Then in your playlist, you can select all your games and bulk change all your light gun games to use your newly added emulator.

I've republished the theme using the CTC 2.3. Not sure if that will help with what you are seeing, but worth a shot.

Check if you have a process (and service) running on your computer called nahimic. It can cause issues like this.

Have you tried to delete the InputBindings.xml file, also found in the Data folder?

Unified CTC - [Theme Workshop] View File Unified CTC was built during a Theme Workshop live stream. If you are interested in creating themes, subscribe to the Unbroken Software YouTube channel. Unified CTC This is a direct port of the great Unified theme's original port by CriticalCid. The benefit here is you can now load up this theme inside of the COMMUNITY Theme Creator. Watch this theme being built: Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UPjNhHo0l8 Credits COMMUNITY Theme Creator by @y2guru. Find it here: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/2115-community-theme-creator-for-bigbox/ Rincewind's awesome character graphic's pack is included (at a much reduced resolution) Subscribe to catch future live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSIht6UXIEXIgz4eXAEShxA Submitter faeran Submitted 02/04/2022 Category Big Box Custom Themes  

For now, the only way to add images to the carousel is by adding to either Background or Screenshot priorities. Having a specific Carousel priority option is something we have discussed, although is not in the immediate plans.

Just guessing, but sounds like a color profile issue with Steam Link and your Windows settings. Some kind of mismatch there maybe.

The best way is to copy and paste the FlowControl from another theme, like The POC, and then play around with it. You'd be looking for everything inside of coverFlow:FlowControl Replace over your coverFlow:FlowControl in your wall view. Then play around with the properties and the items inside of the FlowContext. The Documentation.pdf also has descriptions of the properties inside of the new FlowControl. This is found in your LaunchBox\Themes folder.

Default Plus View File The newest version of this theme requires version 13.3, or higher. An alternative to the LaunchBox Default theme. This theme's main difference is the Game Details. Providing an alternative layout, with an image border at the top, and smooth animations upon load. The theme also has icon support on the side bar. Around 90 controller images have been added to the theme to showcase how it works, but the images can be changed out to anything you'd like (icons must be in png format). The icons can be replaced in the following location (restart of LaunchBox is required). LAUNCHBOX\LBThemes\Default Plus\Images\Icons Installation Extract the Default Plus folder into LaunchBox\LBThemes In LaunchBox, open Options, under Visuals > Main Window Theme and select Default Plus from the dropdown. Submitter faeran Submitted 01/31/2022 Category Custom Themes  

Beta 7 is out with the following fixes: 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