PiperCalls

Hi Jason, I deleted all the files in Data & launched & it recreated all them. I had to recreate a few playlists but other than that it was painless..so I'm all good. LB11 is looking great! Thanks...Piper

Like it is an understatement, this is the best theme available IMO. Oh, OK thanks for letting me know...I just figured I had done something wrong lol. Thanks...Piper

Wow, I tried this theme previously and it was too sluggish on my rig. I dl'd the final version and it is beautiful and peppy. I'm switching over to this theme permanently! Great work!! One issue I have is that the category, platform & playlist clearlogos are for some reason super zoomed/expanded...they are all ram-jammed on top of each other. When I get to the gamelists, the clearlogos are spaced correctly. Any ideas? Thanks...Piper PS: i'm in 4K rez if that matters.

Also, restoring backup doesn't work. Every one I've tried errors out...says error occurred data has not been changed. If I try to go to a backup from this morning (before the issue when everything was fine) I get a different error...access to the path Launchbox/Data is denied and then LB crashes.

Odd...LB is now reporting 11.0 whereas it updated to beta 7 this morning. It looks like a stable got pushed over the beta?? I do have allow beta checked. Wonder if this is causing the issues...

Hi, I deleted settings.xml, then it said bigboxsettings.xml was corrupted...deleted then inputbindings.xml was corrupt...deleted, then listcache.xml was corrupt. I deleted them all and was able to launch LB/BB. LB seems all good to go but BB is not showing my 3D Boxes in the gameslist or any backgrounds. They show up in LB just not in BB. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Hi Jason, how would I go about doing Tools>Restore Data Backup? LB won't open, it crashes with error about corrupt settings.xml file.

Hi, I was using LB/BB this morning with no issues. The latest beta downloaded (thing it was beta-7) and now neither LB or BB will open. I'm getting an error msg that the settings.xml is corrupt. I looked in my backups folder and there are a bunch of timestamped zip files each containing several xml's one of which is settings.xml. I've tried to copy that to the Data folder but still get the error msg. I've tried all the backup files going back and none of them work. What to do?

I'm currently building out my PS3 library in LB/BB and haven't been successful in finding any good sources for game video snaps, other than some crap on YT. Emumovies has 0 as far as I can see. So I decided to just start making my own. I'm using an HDMI cloner to capture video straight from the games running in RPCS3. I've done a dozen or so just to test the waters. All the videos are captured in 1080P. My LB/BB is a 4K setup but the cloner device only captures in 1080P but they seem to be ok. I'm no video expert but they aren't too terrible so far. I'm just going to work down the list from # to Z doing a few at a time. I wasn't sure where to upload them if anyone else was interested so I put a folder in the upload here on Emumovies FTP. It's under PiperCalls if anyone is interested. This is the first time I've tried this so any input on improvements before I get too far into it are appreciated. Thanks...PiperCalls PS: if there is a good site/source for PS3 vids, let me know lol.

Hi, So since LA is no longer being developed I was looking for another way to enjoy the great LB/BB experience for my "couch" gaming sessions on my Shield TV. I've tried a few of the Android frontends (Arc Browser, Reset Collection, etc) and they all work fine but don't have the pop that LB/BB (on PC) has. So...I setup Gamestream to my STV. I have my main LB/BB PC setup in a Arcade Cab. Almost everything is working great with GameStream to the STV, I get the nice BB experience, games launch, etc. Here's the rub...on my Arcade Cab I have an F350 (wired) controller that work great. On my STV I have a Sony DS4 (Bluetooth) setup and it works great as well. But...on the STV, while the DS4 controller works fine in the BB frontend, in the emulators it isn't recognized. I'm new to this setup so I'm pretty sure because GameSteam is literally just streaming from the PC to the STV, so the DS4 would have to be setup on the PC in the emulators as well. Is that correct? Assuming that is the situation then is it possible in most emulators to have both the F350 and the DS4 setup simultaneously? I have several emulators but primarily I'm using Retroarch, Dolphin, PCSX2, RPCS3 and CEMU that covers 80% of my library. The reason I would need to have both controllers setup simultaneously is that if I'm playing at my Arcade Cab of course I want the F350 to work and if I'm playing at my STV then I want my DS4 to work. I did fiddle with Dolphin and I can setup the DS4 for control but it seems as though I have to go to my Arcade Cab and select the DS4 controller before I get control at my STV and conversely if I'm playing at the Cab then I have to open Dolphin and select the F350 to get control. Just wondering if anyone has a similar setup and any tips/tricks to get this working correctly? Note...I do not want to have the DS4 as my primary control at the Arcade Cab, I like the F350 wired controllers for serious gaming sessions. Thanks for any tips...Piper

If its Pinball only maybe look into Pinup Popper? I think it's made for that. If you're gonna have some vertical Arcade games also maybe it can launch BB for those. I have Pinball setup in BB & love it but I have a rotating screen so I use the "hand" method to solve the issue lol.

So I played a bit with Reset Collection. It's nice but it has a way to go. I bought the app to help the dev & support this hobby. The dev seems to be very responsive to requests. Before LB I had my STV setup with another frontend called Arc Browser. It takes a bit of fiddling but the UI can be setup to look very nice and game launching is spot on. The dev was out of commission for a while but is back & moving forward. I'm not affiliated with it but just wanted to give folks heartbroken about LBA another option. I put up a vid on YT awhile back of it all setup I'll try to dig up & post.

Yea just saw that...real bad timing lol. Oh well. Guess I'll build out a mini PC for my "recliner gaming sessions." Lol. Thanks for all the hard work on this. Side note...is there a 2020 Suggestions poll out yet? I see a lot from 2019 has been tackled already so just wondering if I missed it. Thx...Piper

I've been using LB/BB on PC for a few months now and feel like I'm getting a pretty good handle on how it works...lovin' it so far. I'm starting to work on my Android setup (Shield TV) more and ran into an issue... What is the "proper" way to direct import multi-bin files into LBA? If I import my PS1 set which is CUE+multi-BIN, LBA doesn't seem to know to point the ROM launch parameter at the CUE file. It seems to randomly point to one of the BIN files instead (which of course won't launch). On PC, it's easy...just show only CUE files and import them as files (vs folder) but there doesn't seem to be a way on LBA to do that. I can always long press and scroll down and launch the CUE file but some of these have a large number of BINs. If I'm missing something please let me know. Thanks...Piper

@JoeViking245 Thanks for the help on this. I'm a little lost on this though. It's a Win10 App so there is no emulator. If I assign an emulator to put your suggested AHK script in, then the App won't launch as it's trying to launch via the emulator. If I assign no emulator to the App then it will launch but I don't see how to put in the Running AHK Script. What am I missing? Thx...Piper

Hi, Wondering what is the proper way to close a Win10 App that I have setup in LB? To be clear It's an app, not an emulator. The App doesn't have any keyboard shortcut to exit, it requires a mouse click on the "X" to close. I read somewhere that converting an AHK script to an EXE and referencing that EXE in the additional apps section of the "Game" would do it. Is that the "best/correct" way or is there a better/cleaner way? I have never used AHK so any help with the script would be appreciated. So if my app is called ABC.exe..what would be the AHK script that I would convert to EXE? Alt+F4 does close the app but I think that's a force close and not sure if that is a good way to do it. Thanks for any help!...Piper

Hi, yes the Vega 11 does support 4K. It's actually a pretty good APU. In game performance I'm running everything up to PS2 pretty well. I'll throw in a dedicated GPU when I move to PS3, XB360, etc. I did have to set the monitor refresh rate to 60hz though, it was set at 30hz by default for some reason. I did try going to 1080P but it looks like crap compared to 4K and didn't really help that much. In the end, I was able to go back to the RetroFresh them, there was one transition (the 3D Box art rotating) that was causing the major slowdown. I had to set it to quick swap (or something like that lol) and that sped the scrolling right up. All's good now...thanks...Piper

Thx for help Mr. Interesting...I tried a few other themes to test. So the theme I have been using (RetroFresh) definitely has something wrong with it, The GPU utilization at 85%+ the whole time while using it. If I switch over to another theme...Default, GPU utilization spikes to 80%+ when moving from platform to platform or game to game but then drops down to negligible once the transition has been made. It looks like 10.10 and RetroFresh don't agree with each other..that's a pity it is the perfect theme for my setup. On some of the themes, scrolling from platform to platform or game to game is still clunky...maybe each theme needs to cache images independently? One thing I stated early was incorrect, on any theme (even with RetroFresh)..once launched into a game, BB releases the GPU and the utilization drops down to negligible. I guess I'll stay with the default theme for now, maybe whatever is causing the issue will get sorted in a later release. Note: I did try your Neon Arcade theme (which is a beautiful theme btw) but it was one that would not work for me at all. It was like swimming in peanut butter, unusable. I think maybe I just had too many "things" going on in the options/transitions. I might try to play with the settings on it and see if I can get it to work. Thanks...Piper

Hi, I absolutely love LB/BB, this is the best front end I've personally ever worked with. So...I took the plunge and built a new PC specifically for LB/BB. BB was running buttery smooth and everything up to PS2 was playing great on the new build. I decided to take advantage of the sales going on and picked up a 4K monitor...that's when things went south...deep south. LB has no probs whatsoever, but BB is very very sluggish/slow now..annoying slow. I've tried everything I can find in the forums but it's just not working right...something is up. Here's what I've tried: Windows - fully updated Display drivers - fully updated Nothing else running in the background Tried switching between VLC & WMP Refreshed all images Force populated all images Switched dynamic box sizing off Let it sit for a long time to image cache everything No improvement on anything. I built the PC specifically to run BB...it's not a gaming powerhouse but it's no slouch either. And it was running BB perfectly: Ryzen 5 3400G 16GB DDR4-3000 Windows 10 64-bit WD SN750 M.2 HDD (OS, LB/BB, Emulators & all Media) LB/BB 10.10 I have tracked down what is going on I just don't know why...when BB is running my GPU utilization is spiking and staying at 95%-100% the whole time...just running BB, nothing else. And it stays there even BB is just sitting on a platform, game, etc. When I run LB my GPU utilization is at 5% or less. CPU utilization is very low for both LB & BB. If I fire up a game, any game, even old skool arcade stuff like pacman, my GPU utilization is pegged at 100% the whole time. Somehow BB is now hogging up my GPU and dogging out the system. Other than a reload I'm not sure what else to try here. I didn't change any settings in LB/BB when moving from the 1080P to 4K monitor...same theme, etc. The only thing I did was nuke all my old artwork and let LB down all the better stuff for the new 4K setup. Somewhere in there LB updated to 10.10 so I'm not sure which of these actions was the culprit. I'm at a loss, any help is appreciated. Thanks...Piper

Old topic but very interesting. Just curious how exit is working for you? There's an 'exit on esc' option in MFME but it doesn't exit it just switches from fullscreen to windowed mode.

This is all I get after the "Launchbox initializing" screen. Thx...Piper

DOS76, thanks for trying to help. No updates, it's a fresh install of Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit with the motherboard drivers (Gigabyte), Video Graphics Suite (AMD) and I installed .NET 4.8 directly from Microsoft. Nothing else is installed/running. I was trying to eliminate variables so it's as clean as can be. Thanks...Piper

C-Beats, thanks for trying to help. I thought maybe it was the 64-bit Windows version that was causing the issue so I wiped & tried to install with Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit. I tried to install LB first in C:/Launchbox...same error so I wiped it and let it install in the User directory (the default install location)...same error. It hangs for a while on the "initializing..." screen then says it stopped working. Here is a copy of the error log... Just to be clear this is a fresh install of Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit and I have only installed the motherboard drivers (from Gigabyte), the Video Suite (from AMD) and Launchbox, nothing else. Problem signature: Problem Event Name: CLR20r3 Problem Signature 01: LaunchBox.exe Problem Signature 02: 10.7.0.0 Problem Signature 03: 5dd429b3 Problem Signature 04: mscorlib Problem Signature 05: 4.8.3928.0 Problem Signature 06: 5d39000b Problem Signature 07: 426b Problem Signature 08: 12 Problem Signature 09: System.IO.FileNotFoundException OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: 0a9e Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789 Additional Information 3: 0a9e Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789 Read our privacy statement online: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=104288&clcid=0x0409 If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our privacy statement offline: C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt

Purchased a premium license, I have a couple PC's lying around so figured I'd setup a LB/BB system. I've tried installing on both PC's and neither one will launch LB. I did fresh OS installs on both (Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit) and both do the exact same thing. Try to launch LB and it sits on the "initializing" screen for several minutes and then errors out. I get exactly the same error log as this post ... I followed this thread and uninstalled .NET 4.8 & reinstalled it directly from the MS link given...it installed correctly. I have also turned of UAC. What am I missing here? Thanks...Piper

It's a Mame4Droid issue. It starting happening on STV either 1 or 2 Shield Experience updates ago. It crashes back to the STV Home Screen when exiting Mame4Droid with any/all game browsers (I've tried 3). Thanks...Piper