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Thanks for the update, Jason!
Feature Request: Would love to see the ability for a default Genres View for Arcade now that the Improved Arcade Playlists are included. Basically, I want to get straight to the game library view in every other platform but arcade. I just want to hit arcade, see all the new genre filters, and then the game view after a genre has been chosen.
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Bug Report: Every time I try to replace the clear logo image for the Recently Played category, my Launchbox crashes.
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I am LOVING this new update @Jason Carr! Launchbox on Android is getting amazing.
Quick feature request - I've noticed that when a game doesn't match during the scraping, even if I fix the match afterwards on a one-by-one basis, the media downloads just fine (videos and images) but the metadata still doesn't populate. If there's a way to get that going, that would be awesome.
Anyways, thank you. Keep rocking!
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11 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
LaunchBox for Android 1.4-beta-3 is out now with the following:
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Fixed issues launching Nintendo DS games with the DraStic emulator
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Reverted the home screen support due to it causing issues with Dex and possibly other environments
Thank you!
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On 7/2/2022 at 10:59 AM, Jason Carr said:
I would appreciate if we could have more civil discussions over things like this. We had no intentions of affecting that aspect of the app (Dex support). The fact that it's a problem at all is an Android shortcoming. Most likely we will revert that change, because we use Dex occasionally ourselves, and the home launcher support is not a feature that I feel like we should prioritize anyways.
That wasn't my intention to be uncivil. I guess when I initially wrote it, I didn't write it with a snarky tone. More of a questioning and disappointing one. My apologies. It's great to hear that eventually it will be removed. Take a look, when you get the chance, at how DIG does the autostart with Android function. I believe this basically serves the same purpose and is more elegant for the majority of use cases.
Thanks again!
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58 minutes ago, C-Beats said:
Am I missing something? How is an optional feature not on by default (and required to be configured via your device's settings) negatively impacting your ability to use the app the way you want?
All apps that work as Android launchers don't work in Dex or other Android Desktop environments. Even if the feature is off. ArcBrowser and Daijisho do the same thing. They won't even run in Dex because desktop environments ARE a type of Android Launcher and you can't run launchers within those launchers. But like I said, DIG works just fine because there's no launcher feature in the app.
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20 hours ago, Nabizzles said:
Oh no... 😭😭😭
There goes Samsung Dex support.... Literally the one thing that kept me from going to ArcBrowser... it was nice knowing you guys. I guess I'll just have to slum it in the cesspool with all the DIG users now...
And now... what was once mighty has fallen. I don't know why developers do this. DIG has a feature where DIG launches right when the device gets turned on. This is much better than setting up the frontend to be an actual Android launcher. Once an app is set up to be an android launcher, it no longer works in Android Desktop modes (so say goodbye to Samsung Dex and the Motorola/Xiaomi Desktop solutions), and it usually stinks at being an overall launcher. Why not just keep it as a regular application so it can be used everywhere and just have a feature that makes it startup once the system is turned on? This satisfies those that just want the frontend to be front and center on all those single purpose systems and it still takes care of the high-end users like me. Not being able to use Launchbox in Samsung Dex is a dealbreaker. I literally bought this Samsung Galaxy Tab 8 Ultra for emulation and Launchbox.
Who was asking for this? Why did you work on this, Jason? What was the need for it? Was there some huge clammoring of people to have Launchbox be a launcher on their phones? Who wants that? I can't even imagine an nvidia shield user wanting this. They want their main launcher to switch apps and Launchbox to play games. It's such a niche usecase. I can see why someone with a Retoid Pocket 2 might want this, but you still have to do a ton of customization on those little Android handhelds - and trying to do those customizations with Launchbox acting as your Android launcher seems miserable. It's not designed for productivity. It's designed for making retro gaming beautiful.
On my GPD XD+, when I turn it on, it launches DIG. It's perfect. Right into games. And then when I want to do something else on it, I minimize it and I get my regular android homescreen. This seems like the decison that takes care of everyone.
Sorry for the long post. I am just really passionate about this. Trying to shoot for feature parity is important... god knows, I get it. But man. This just kills one of the best features of Launchbox for all of us Samsung, Motorola, and Xiaomi users out there. Now everytime I try to use video out on my phone or my tablet, Launchbox will not run on the external display. Because Samsung uses Dex for that purpose. Unless I want to mirror my screen, which sucks. Who wants to mirror a screen that's 21:9 on a tv?
I'm really heartbroken over this decision.
What I used to enjoy...
What I get now with this new version...
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6 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
LaunchBox for Android 1.4-beta-2 is out now with the following:
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LaunchBox can now optionally be used as the home screen for your device (you can choose your home screen app in your device's Default Apps settings); however, we don't currently recommend it because of Android's shortcomings with exiting games/emulators and the inability to launch non-game applications
Oh no... 😭😭😭
There goes Samsung Dex support.... Literally the one thing that kept me from going to ArcBrowser... it was nice knowing you guys. I guess I'll just have to slum it in the cesspool with all the DIG users now...
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Would really love the ability to add or duplicate platforms that aren't in the prepopulated available list.
With the new Dosbox-Pure core, you can play MS-DOS games in .zip - which works on Android, so you don't have to go through MagicDosBox anymore... even though I love that emulator, I would be fine with MS-DOS running in Retroarch in order to use the Launchbox frontend.
Also would love a seperate platform categories for hacks, translations and what-not. I know you're essentially just one dude, Jason, working like a boss on this - and I commend the effort - but I've been playing with Daijisho, which is a brand new front-end that supports MS-DOS.
The longer this feature takes, the longer I start eyeing the competition - and I've been an avid Launchbox user since forever.
Is there a way we can setup a poll for next version features on the Android client like you guys do on the main Windows Launchbox?
I'm sure tons of people on here would vote for different features on the roadmap than what's being delivered. (I, for example, would have loved to see this feature added before theme support)
Just my .02!
Again, love the work you're doing and love that Launchbox is getting better every month! Keep up the good work - and please note this is not criticism, just a friendly suggestion!
PS- AetherSX2 and Redream directly launching games is dope. Would love Yaba Shanshiro 2 Pro & IrataJaguar to finally get added to that ever diminishing list. (one can always hope)
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19 hours ago, Dbxfan said:
Does anyone have any png recommendations for the category screen? The screen in between the emulators home screen and games screen. I see you can download your own banners and put them on storage and use them. I can't find any decent ones. I have a premium emumovies account too. Or does anyone know if themes will be made about said screen section. I'm using all of vikings nostalgic 16x9 for my emulator screen, and unified lite for all my game screens for a really nice feel. So the category screen annoys me quite bad being themeless and bannerless.
You can get rid of the categories page altogether (which is what I did). Just remove the Default Secondary Filter.
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21 hours ago, Jason Carr said:
Looks like that view/theme might be out of date (from a beta). So it's worth deleting that theme folder from your LaunchBox folder so you get the latest.
As far as why only one image loads though, I've never seen that issue. What device are you using?
Jason,
So I tried downloading the new versions of all the themes and swapping them out. Also moved my data folder from my microsd card to my internal storage on the tablet. No change.
I then looked into the launchbox folder and it looks like the themes are utilizing box image thumbnails. And for some reason I only have one image in all the thumbnail folders but I have the full box images in all the other folders. When I go to download all missing media, it doesn't download the thumbnails.
Do I just have to manually delete all the box images for every platform I set up and redownload them all?
-Nabil
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1 minute ago, Jason Carr said:
Looks like that view/theme might be out of date (from a beta). So it's worth deleting that theme folder from your LaunchBox folder so you get the latest.
As far as why only one image loads though, I've never seen that issue. What device are you using?
That's probably whats going on. I'll give the deleting a try. Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra.
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Any idea why this happens? All the other views show the box images just fine. It's just the Grid Views (both of them) always just show the first image and then they do this:
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These past updates have been incredible. Thanks so much for all your hard work.
This is starting to look great on my Z Fold 3!
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1 hour ago, Jason Carr said:
LaunchBox for Android 1.1-beta-10 is out now with the following:
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Platform theme videos are now available for download by selecting Download Theme Videos from the top right menu
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Platform theme videos can now be played in the background in the Wheel with Details and Text List with Details platforms views
I can't see the videos. The previous downloaded system image is showing over the video.
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1 hour ago, Jason Carr said:
LaunchBox for Android 1.1-beta-8 is out now with the following:
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Full game editing is now available by long-pressing a game and selecting Edit Metadata or Edit Media
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Fixing incorrect matches to the LaunchBox Games Database is now possible by selecting the Search LaunchBox Games Database option in the Edit Metadata screen
This is amazing news! Keep it coming and you're the man, Jason!
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On 3/3/2022 at 11:56 AM, oyehia said:
Same here works fine with the latest beta
Interesting. Perhaps I need to find a better ROMset. Also would love to have a separate section for NAOMI.
Also, for those of you that have DC games and Sega CD games... what's the best way to import those collections to Launchbox for Android?
My ROMsets might not be the best, there are a ton of tracks on some of my DC games. Redream and Reicast both import the games just fine, but LB creates a million copies of every game in my games list. And then when I try to download all missing media and videos on one of those systems, LB crashes.
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Sammy Atomiswave doesn't show up as a Platform after I add roms and download media.
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1 hour ago, Jason Carr said:
I spoke with Tahlreth, the AetherSX2 developer tonight. I was as careful and polite as I could have possibly been, but unfortunately he has no interest in supporting frontends or allowing frontends to launch games in AetherSX2. He ended the conversation with "I might just make the activities private next update", suggesting that he is going to completely disable any chance of frontends launching games at all.
So unfortunately that is bad news, but it is his choice if he does not want frontends to be able to launch games in AetherSX2. From what I can tell, his reasoning is that he wants users to use his user interface only, and does not want it to be hidden or bypassed by a frontend.
So, for now, we have to give up on supporting AetherSX2.
That's really unfortunate and short sighted... *Sigh*
The UI of AetherSX2 is nothing to write home about and it'd be so nice to not have to look at it every time I want to play a game...
Thanks for trying @Jason Carr
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Yes. That will work. Same thing happened to me when I updated my Z Fold 3. All your stuff will still be there.
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2 hours ago, Vader said:
@Nabizzles Did you check to see if you have the install unkown apps option set to allow? Also i don't have a fold of my own to test on, but I can ask my wife when she gets home from work, to see if she will lend me hers to test the app on. However I do know that she has not yet recieved the android 12 update, though. This could be the issue.
Perhaps someone else who also has Android 12 can comment, if they are having similar issues as yours or not.
Hope this helps
Yes, I made sure that I had the unknown apps toggle set to install. That would be great if you can. If you manually check for the Update, it'll probably be there.
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44 minutes ago, Vader said:
Hello. I thought I would throw in my experiance. I just updated to 1.0 beta 2 on my Galaxy Tab S7 Plus and had no issues. I'm currently on Android 11 and have Launchbox installed on my main storage drive and my roms on my sd card.
I am wondering if the installation issues that some are having are related to where Launchbox is installed i.e. main storage vs sd cards. Also I made sure that install unkown apps was set to allow. I haven't installed the beta on my other devices yet (shield, phone etc) but will update once i do.
All of my Roms and everything is on my main storage drive on Launchbox... Because the $1800 Galaxy Z Fold 3 does not have an SD Card slot.
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Recently updated my Android on my Fold 3 to Android 12. Launchbox disappeared off the phone, but all the data was still there. I redownloaded the app and installed it and all my games were there - but since I was updating to the Beta releases, Launchbox immediately asked me if I wanted to update to the latest Beta. I said yes. It downloads the Beta and then I get an error message when I try to apply the update: There was an error parsing the package.
Do I just need to uninstall and reset my whole Launchbox because it didn't carry over nicely when I upgraded Android?
EDIT: I just deleted the whole app, deleted all the app data, rebooted the phone, reinstalled, and tried to update to the Beta. Same error. 😭😭😭
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5 hours ago, Vader said:
Hey @Nabizzles
How are you handling the space issue since the fold does not have sd card support? I am waiting for my fold to arrive but am concerned about space. I did order the 512gb version for this reason.
Thanks
You've got to curate your game collections. I do have a full 2003 Mame set on the device, but I just deleted the CHDs for games I'd never play. The close to 4:3 open screen on the device is just a joy to use for emulation and I absolutely love the phone. Totally needs MicroSD card support. I need to whittle down my ScummVM and MS-DOS collections on my phone, though. That's really difficult for me to do for some reason. Love all those games. (and can't wait for Launchbox Support for them
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Launchbox Down For Anyone Else?
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