Retro808

You may have to type it in. If it does not have any games added it typically does not show up in the drop down list. You can see from the pics I just added Naomi 2 and no games in it. When I edit an arcade game it does not show. Once I type it in, that game moves to the Naomi 2 platform.

Then you may have something else going on. Do Platform Marquees show up in any other theme? You can see here the view folder for Viking's theme contains none of the Marquee xaml files. The Images\Platform\{Platform Name}\Banner\{Platform Name Image.jpg} showing a banner and BigBox using the Colorful theme showing that same image on a secondary marquee screen. If you want to start a new thread to troubleshoot that would be fine so we do not keep bottling up Viking's theme.

You dont need either of the Game or Platform Marquee xml files. BigBox will display them by default. It pulls from the folder you mentioned. Are the images named exactly as the platform name in BigBox?

Also if you are using the normal default theme turn of the Dynamic Box resizing and reduce or turn-off the background blur. When Jason developed that new theme it did cause some issues for users. He refined the theme and Launchbox a bit to reduce the performance hit. His last update put in toggles for those items as he discovered those two were causing the most performance issues. But honestly it should not hurt specs like you are using. But then again, you are seeing an issue. In >Tools>Options look in the visuals section for both those items. One will be under boxes the other background.

Are you using a paid version or free version? Just asking to determine if you can change theme. Even if free try switching to "Old Default" and see if any difference. You definitely should have no issue.

No. I run several cabinets with far less specs and no issues like you mention. Even a simple Ryzen 2200G 8GB RAM and using only the Ryzen APU. Something is definitely not right. How many systems and games have you added? Do you have a ton of playlists that are auto-populated?

The wheel spin simply will keep spinning as long as you hold the button. Once you let go it will spin for about 3 seconds and stop on a random game. If you just press the button and let go, it will do the same 3 seconds and then stop.

Well one thing we do not recommend is running Launchbox as admin. If you remove admin rights does the issue still occur?

Glad you got sorted.

Here is how I have mine.

If you had 9.9 installed previously the launcher to install it will be located in your \Launchbox\Updates folder. Is it not there? I know you said you do not have it onhand, but it is not clear if you mean it is not in the backups folder and many do not know they are there.

It should not. The core supports both. How do you have it set up. Can you go to >Tools>Manage Emulators in Launchbox and edit Retroarch. Share a pic of the first tab and the Associated Platform. Be sure in the Associated Platform tab we can see the section for N64.

BigBox will do this as a default even if a theme designer does not make a GamesMarqueeView.xaml for the theme. As @viking mentioned make sure in your BigBox settings you have you second monitor set to show marquees. Here is a snap of his theme showing the marquee on a second monitor. Nothing special needs to be done to the theme. As long as you have marquee images located in the correct Arcade - Marquee folder and they are named after the games or the rom name it will work. Where are your marquee images located?

Can you post one of the corrupted xml files. Also maybe try downloading a fresh Launchbox into a completely different folder and import a couple games into a single platform (mainly one that the existing LB is showing is corrupt). Do not download media just import the game and test if Launchbox works.

No worries. That older code we used a lot then a couple members discovered it messed with some emulators the do save states on close. So one of the members that is knowledgeable in AHK shared a better way to close emulators. So anytime I see that other code I try to recommend a better solution. Feel free to use, I do not own it in anyway and would rather see people using a cleaner exit code.

You do have a process to downgrade. Just open your updates folder and in there are all the version you have had previously installed. Just run the installer for the last version you want. Since Jason made some of the fixes/updates in the latest betas many of the users that experienced issues have responded things are working well again. A couple of my simpler cabinets are running well and one of them is only on a Ryzen 2200G 16GB RAM. What specs are you using? If it sits for a while and Launchbox finishes caching images does it get better or stay the same?

There is a chance than it got imported at sometime and may be hidden. Do you have any of the options to hide games missing media checked?

Well, that is one issue. We do not recommend running Launchbox or BigBox as admin. It is not needed and can mess with emulators/other software ran through Launchbox that may require elevation.

Anyone wanting to report wikipedia issue please see Jason's response to one of other posts on this issue.

Can you drag and drop any other type of game file into Launchbox. Like a Mame rom or a Window game .exe/shortcut?

The best thing to do is set the same button combo directly in Mame. In Mame settings I have both "Esc" and my Button Combo (4+2) listed.

You should just be able to drag the .rpx file right into Launchbox. Never had any issues importing Wii U roms this way.

If it is telling you a specific platform xml is corrupt remove it from your \Launchbox\Data\Platforms folder. Then go to your \Launchbox\Backups folder and look for the most recent version of the platform xml (note: it will have the platform name with a date so for example a back up for the Arcade.xml may look like Arcade_2020-01-16_18-29-48.xml) and copy it and paste into your \Data\Platforms folder and rename it simply "Arcade.xml". If all works well you should now look to find out why the xml files are corrupting. On main reason we see this happening is Launchbox being forcefully closed. You can also open that Arcade.xml and see what is wrong with "Line 1 Position 1". In a working xml file in Line 1 Position one you should see the "<" symbol.

What exactly are you trying to do with Marquee images? BigBox by default will show marquee images on a second screen so long as you set your second screen in BigBox options. Or are you trying to get something to show up on the same screen as the theme does?

Here you go. The timing "9500" can be adjust slower or faster. I think that is set at that time from something I was testing. You can reduce it to 5500 Normally the code is written without the {Alt Up} at the end but I have seen without this sometimes Pause Menu will not work.