Retro808

I have not used the new RA installer since I have had it set up for years. However, I believe the prompt will only show up if you do not have the bios already inside Retroarch folders. In your case was the bios already in the correct RA folder? Just setting the platform name is the associated platform does not link games already in a library to Retroarch if those games are already using another emulator. You need to select existing games (you can select one, several, or all) and then bulk edit them and change the emulator to RA. This will set it as the default emulator for existing games. Also to note, since you deleted Retroarch it removed RA from all those games.

You have to add it. You manually enter a name (there are some more common ones in the drop down but you can enter any name you want). Then you point to the emulator .exe file. I suggest watching at least one of our videos on adding a new system to get an idea of what needs to be done. Here is one on adding PSP Minis. It will show you the most common things you need to do.

No. Even if you did that you would still have to manually add the platforms individually and import the roms. The Retroarch scan works because you are only using Retroarch. So the programming knows what each of its cores need to run and the platforms it runs. LB is file type and emulator agnostic so you can use whatever you want. With that being said, LB does not maintain records of what file type each and every emulator out there needs to run and what systems each can run. So, the import process is manual.

Can you elaborate on what you mean? Scanning for missing roms will search the default games folder which is located inside \Launchbox\Games\[Platform Name] folders. If your games are not located within these folders inside LB the scan will not find anything. You would have 2 options. 1. Place the games in these folders and scan will work. or 2. Edit the platform inside LB (right click the platform name and edit) then go to the "Folders" tab and change the "Game" folder location to where you actually store your roms. Then when you run the scan it will scan the place you store your roms.

You can dictate where playlist will show by going into LB and editing the playlist. Right click on the playlist name and edit: 1. On the details tab you can click on the option at the bottom for "Include Paylist with Platforms" 2. You can also go the the Parents tab place a check if you want a playlist to show in a more specific place within your build to further refine a location.

Where these systems working before or is this a new build and those systems are just not working? What emulator are you using for them? Did you make sure in the Associate Platforms field, in the emulators settings in LaunchBox, do you have the platform name listed and it matches exactly how you named the platform in LB? Also, if you are using Retroarch, did you select the correct core for the platform in the Associated Platforms page?

Right click a game and edit it. Check its rom path and see if it is pointing to the correct rom path. If it is not, select all games in that platform (ctrl+A) and then under Tools > File Management >Change Rom folder Path to update.

This question has been touched on in numerous threads. https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+move+launchbox+to+new+drive+site:forums.launchbox-app.com&client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=AOaemvKNXpc1mFM4boN_xTWpTP2k7KNAiQ:1636643898664&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjLucvRzZD0AhXxTDABHWV8DLcQrQIoBHoECAcQBQ&biw=1602&bih=953&dpr=1 In short, if you have everything installed in the \Launchbox folder you can simply move the folder to the new drive. Pretty much things should work. Now, there may be some outliers with emulators you may need to correct a path or so, but settings should not be affected. If your roms are moving roms and emulator to separate folders you will need to go into each platform and select all games then under Tools > File Management >Change Rom folder Path to update. For emulators you will need to use the Manage Emulators option and edit each .exe path. You should be able to find more information in most of the topics linked in the Google Search above.

That is the issue then. The recommended format is NTFS. You can test getting it to work by copying the Themes folder from \Launchbox\ to \LaunchBox\Core. Best option if you have space is to copy the data off that drive and reformat to NTFS.

We understand. Not the point of the issue though. Still need you to confirm what I asked about the actual issue so we can try to get you sorted.

It is not the license it is the downloaded build. These at times can be a pain to troubleshoot. Depending on your answer to my questions though we should be able to figure this out.

Is that D drive an external drive? LB does look in the core folders as it uses symlinks to many files, even themes. If that D drive is an external drive and is ExFat and not formatted NTFS that would cause the issues since ExFat does not have some of the features NTFS does and can cause issues with symlinks.

Launchbox would not touch any media, games, or emulators you added. When you did the reinstall of 12.2 did you confirm it installed to the correct folder? Many times users did not notice it installed into a second Launchbox folder. \Launchbox\Lunchbox and when they open it they see nothing. Much in the same way you stated happened. Is the media actually missing from within their folders or just missing from within LB?

In your \Videos\Platforms folder. Each platform you have added has its own \Videos\[Platform Name]\Marquee folder.

The theme creator cannot do Startup/Pause/Shutdown currently. Those have to be done by creating/editing xaml.

I did watch them. Watching the videos though people cannot tell if a script is running. So, Thanks for confirming.

What I was saying I understand was the part about you deactivating the Startup. That part I understood. What I was trying to clarify is does this happen if you completely remove those scripts you use and run just the Startup screens and the emulator (with no custom script at all). Just trying to get more information to see if we can figure out why having the Startup screens on does not work all the time for you.

No worries. I understood what you meant. I am just wondering if it is a combination of using BigBox Startup and that custom AHK application together is causing this issue. As I mentioned I can run BigBox startup with Mame dual screen settings and it works fine.

@Sbaby Before you turned it off were you using the BigBox Startup with your script?

What video setting are you using in Mame. I run two screen setting on my big cabinet for all Mame games and not seeing the issue you are.

What I meant by the reinstall question is are you reinstalling by running one of the installers in the \updates folder or are you downloading a fresh version from our site? Also have you tried installing to a different drive and seeing what happens? Is this a LB build you made on your own or is this one of those prebuilt sets users can download?

open Event Viewer then on right navigate to Windows Logs > Application and tell us if you see any failures in there related to LaunchBox? Also, when you did the reinstalls of LB how did you do it exactly?

Might want to check out this thread. Looks like you can use the plugin with PCSX2 https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/63863-reshademanager-pre-realese-plugin-for-launchboxbigbox/

@SWEATYDRACO So are you up an running now?