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Thanks for the tips. When I get a chance I'll try changing the EmuMovies password. Especially in light of the same exact thing happening on my other Shield, a Pro. So it may be a EM authentication issue, not a Shield thing or a LB thing. Albeit, the pw works in a browser. But it's worth a try. If it doesn't work, I'll activate the logs and see if that can yield some relevant info. Cheers

Hi all, was setting up LB on Android, (full version) - mostly so far so good - games imported - the couple games I've tried so far launch, Retro Achievement integration all good - however EmuMovies is an issue, currently. When I input my creds, the password only shows ***** - 5 digits - even though the password is longer. Testing the Emumovies credentials, nothing happens until LB finally crashes. When I test the creds with no creds, or just the username, it politely says it can't log in - expected behavior. User name with password, though, crashes LB. Back to the Shield's app page. Admittedly I did put the wrong creds initially (still no reason to crash), but then double checked and it still crashes with the correct creds. The EM account is current/paid. Anyone else run into this or know how to fix? I've got the 2019 'tube" Shield, Android 9.02. I rebooted the Shield, same result. Thank in advance EDIT: I tried to access a log file to provide it here, but there doesn't seem to be one. There is a folder called Logs, which is empty as far as I can tell.

I just want to say as a brief counterpoint to some of the recent posts here, as someone who has played with a variety of similar-ish media projects like Plex, Emby, Roon, etc. - the Launchbox devs are UNBELIEVABLY responsive to the community by comparison. If you want to experience what true "sweeping under the rug" feels like, I recommend Plex. I bought their lifetime pass 3-4 years ago now, due to their promise of a working DVR for over-the-air TV. Still waiting for it to actually be fully functional all these years later. Myself and many others have repeatedly requested assistance which is typically ignored or paid lip service to at best. Roon ripped out many features that people used with absolutely no warning, and only restored them after howls of protest from paying customers. So Launchbox's responsiveness to the community, open-mindedness, and total lack of the arrogant "we know best" attitude displayed by some of these other outfits is very refreshing to me. Not to mention the insanely fast development. I'm sure any performance issues not related to a user's hardware or the read speed of their storage media will be ironed out in due time. LB in its Android development infancy is already "top dawg" as far as I'm concerned. I'm not sure where these supposedly better Android front ends are, I thought I'd tried them all. Anyway, I realize this is off topic - sorry. Feel free to remove if desired. Keep up the good work, cheers!

Hi, I hope this is relevant, just wanted to suggest that if there are problems with sets and different regions, etc. I've been using the Hearto 1G1R collections to begin setting up my Shields, and have had good results so far: ((REMOVED LINK TO ROMS)) These sets prioritize the USA region, then World > Europe > Japan, etc. In other words, it will only provide a Japanese rom if there are no USA, World, or European releases of the game. It has basically done the work for you that Vader suggests. Also, to those adding entire sets of thousands of games and experiencing scrolling issues, as Jason says these Shields and other Android devices have a fraction of the CPU and GPU processing power of a gaming PC. Thus, it might be better, with less headaches, to take a more curated approach to setups with low powered hardware. I think curated is better anyway, having added every single game for every platform on other setups. Too many games, too much junk I'll never play. For the Shield setups I've been adding, depending on the system, anywhere from just a dozen or two key games to around 175 for the SNES, so far. Basing it on games I like/have heard of, plus those mentioned in various top 100, top 50, or hidden gems-type lists available online from Racketboy, Retro Sanctuary, Ranker, AtariAge forum, and elsewhere. I get a well rounded collection of legit games. For cartridge-based consoles I've set up a folder for each system with an archive of all games in it, and a folder called Added to LB where the imported games are. I just read the lists and drag/drop games from the master to the Added to LB folder. That way, I can have just the "hits" plus select hidden gems for each platform, eliminating a lot of garbage, keeping the total number of games manageable, but can easily sprinkle in some new games for each platform from the master archive later on if desired. Not saying everyone has to do it this way, just a suggestion. But curation is where it's at, for consoles anyway. For Arcade I understand it's harder to do that as you need non-merged and also the abbreviated file names make it hard to know what a game actually is. I've never been able to find a list of Final Burn roms with the real game name. If anyone know of one please let me know. Anyway, cheers! And thanks to Jason and staff for all the hard work in rapidly developing LB for Android.

Thanks for the info!

Hi, just want to say, I've been playing around setting up both my Shields and it's pretty seamless in its integration with Retroarch. It's very user friendly and I like the detailed yet concise explanations for things in the UI. It's already the best front end for Android! At least that I've encountered. Didn't hesitate to get a premium license. Anyway, was just wondering, is there a publicly available roadmap as far as the general trends for future development? I did some web searching to no avail. I suppose I'm curious specifically about gameplay vids/emumovies integration. And additional views/themes/skins. I realize these things take time. No rush! Thank you, keep up the good work. Cheers!

Thank you Retro808. Yeah I can submit a request, was just sort of wondering if anyone else thought it was a good idea first. Cheers

Hi just thought I'd bump this to see if anyone knows how to do this, or would be interested, to where we could request it. Again, I just want favorited games in Big Box to appear at the front of the list, but also to remain in their alphabetized positions (so there'd be two entries of favorites games within the platform). Anyone?

Awesome!! What great news. Thanks for all you do. This is especially great news since I still can't get a replacement GPU for my living room gaming PC at anything like a reasonable price...but I do have a 2019 Shield Pro. I set up Retroarch with the best front end I could find, I forget the name... it's just not LB so I never used it.... Thanks for resuming Android development. Can't wait to re-launch LB in my living room with the Shield! Cheers

One last question if you all don't mind - I don't actually need the "software list" MAME romset versions, right? Unless I intend to use MAME to emulate consoles that MESS used to do like sega genesis, PS1, etc. - which I don't. Are there any non-arcade systems where there's no good option other than MAME? I haven't really come across any. Colecovision?

Thank you! This is useful. I don't see a way to actually access these lists from the MAME site. However, replacing the version portion of the address above with what other version you want to see (i.e. replace 0228 with 0225, etc) seems to work. It's still hard to sift through and sort the wheat from the chaff in terms of new games added that you actually might want to play, but it's very useful and better info than I had.

Thank you. I also posed a similar question on reddit/MAME and someone said MAME ran faster and someone else indicated there are some graphical enhancement filters. Very valid reasons for upgrading even if there few if any killer "unicorn" games that have been added at this stage which is what I've been mainly fixated on in terms of bothering to update, until now.

Yahtzee!! This looks like just the thing. I'll have a little fun playing with this over the weekend. I knew of CLRMAMEPro but I thought that with my MAME set so far out of date that the only real option was to start from scratch and DL a new set. Thanks! As you say it will be more than 700MB but a whole new MAME set with CMDs would be more like 700 *GB*. So I can probably save a lot of data.

Hello all, I have MAME v 0.182 I set up about 4 years ago. I'm looking for compelling reasons to upgrade, if any. If I'm honest, I don't really care about computer chess, or handheld games from the 80's, or obscure curios and the like. But if there were legit new arcade games that have been newly dumped or made to work/work better in the past 4 years, that may be tempting. Especially if those games are shoot 'em ups, racing games, or platformers. But anything of note, really. I'd also like to get into Pinball emulation eventually if there has been any advances there. It's surprisingly hard to find a straightforward list of newly emulated MAME games, etc. There used to be youtube vids every month, From I think SimplyRussian? But those ended years ago. Can anyone point me in the direction of such info, or simply shout out some key arcade titles that have been rendered playable in the past 4 years? Reason I'm asking now is my lovely ISP will be imposing a lovely new "feature" called a data cap in March. Since a new MAME set is obviously a hefty download, I'd want to DL a set before then, if there enough compelling reasons to do so. Thanks for any information! Cheers

Hi thanks for the reply. Yes, there is that option in the Bigbox options under Views I believe, "show favorites at the beginning" or thereabouts. If toggled off, the games appear in their normal alphabetical position. But then you lose the list of favorites at the front. I'd like to have both. Since they're my favorite games, I wouldn't mind the redundancy, and in fact would welcome it. Cheers