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I admit I get pretty impulsive about all this Ha!Ha!Ha! So little time I have in which I work on making all these games right. Even my Fiancee thinks I need to chill

I chose "Ignore" but now it seems it's not opening at all. Not even giving me the Intro. I went and did a manual Install and things are opening again

Got this while trying to Install the latest Beta

Okay..so I hope I got 9.7 running again after checking the Backups and replacing the Data. Thing is I couldn't get in LaunchBox..but could get in BigBox. Not sure if replacing the Data was the solution or not since before that I had to open LaunchBox about 4 times or so before it brought everything up. I thought Resetting my Laptop and then turning it off would help, but that didn't really do anything. All I know is thing has gotten much slower in the newer updates when at one point it seemed the slowdown was fixed somewhat.

My 9.7 refuses to open at all now. Just says things are Initializing and then stops. I even went to ReInstall it Manually, but no luck of getting in at all now. Gets as far as says "Loading Interface..." and that's it! Other than my cursor starts to buffer like something it about to happen..but doesn't. Not exactly sure what to do at this point to fix this matter.

Not sure if it's my Laptop or LaunchBox but seems when I Edit it now is taking forever that even when I screenshot this and hit the Windows Key after, the whole thing closed out. Before that, I had to try open it like 4 times as it would Initialize and then go away each time until it finally opened

Cool..and I appreciate this info as well. Just got my Lynx stuff going through it now since Handy doesn't wanna Fullscreen correctly, and the alternatives of RetroArch and Mednafen did as I spoke of before too, so I'm glad to get the MAME option going now. As far as the 7800 I noticed ProSystems can't seem to properly Emulate everything to where some sound quality loses parts to it or some sprites get scrambled or don't even show up in ProSystems, so MAME did it right. I may use MAME as an alternative for everything else, especially if I'm not satisfied with particular control scheme for a game and don't wanna mess up the entire platform. I know RetroArch could do that too..but as you know my projector setup for some reason acts up with RetroArch, even when I adjust the Mirror settings

Okay..so looks to be that Atari 7800 trick worked very well! Thanks so much @Lordmonkus on that too. I guess keeping the BIOS in the MAME ROMs Directory was the right place. Now if I can get this to work with everything else via MAME. Do we happen to have a thread for that somewhere within the Forum?

I really wish I could get RetroArch and Mednafen to run on my projector setup since they both can do so much, but RetroArch crashes to a black screen and Mednafen speeds up so fast and has no sound to where right as soon as I hit start it's game over for me. So until I find out how to fix that, I have to look for alternatives. I use RetroArch at most on my GPD Win though. I was thinking it was a BIOS thing with MAME, but not sure if having them in the MAME ROM Directory or have whichever console ROM Directory has the BIOS MAME needs in there instead. I have a BIOS pack for just about everything in my MAME ROMs Directory though

They seem to still update MagicEngine, and they expect people to pay for it too or it'll lock up after 5Mins of play, which of course is likely to get some not to wanna upgrade after years of it being free before then. Besides that, it seems some ROMs I had are acting strange as I tested it with TurboEngine, so they no longer will be listed for play in MagicEngine. Didn't help some were PD and I guess updating my Video Drive somehow helped too. So for now it seems MagicEngine is back to normal as far as I know, and I don't even have to disable the Startup Screens now. TurboEngine would get unresponsive while setting the controls for it I think I'm still gonna look into using MAME for more than Arcade and find out how I can simply do it through LaunchBox without doing it manually too. I have a feeling someone or a few here already know how. Even someone on YouTube claimed to get their Atari 7800 stuff to run on MAME through LaunchBox, but they never really said how.

I have Mednafen, but for some reason it speeds up and has no sound when I HDMI it to my projector. I may check that TurboEngine though. Right now I'm seeing about which version of MAME will run TurboGrafx-16 since MAME works very well when I HDMI and seem to be working on Emulating various Consoles since I guess MESS is part of MAME now. I've yet to get any consoles to Launch through MAME without having manually do so though, but I'm sure I'm overlooking something

Looks like that helped somewhat because the first time I did it the game was all black and took a while to exit, and then I went in again to where it it showed up. I'd hate to disable the Startup Screens for most of my TurboGrafx-16 since I'm working quite heavily on making them all look awesome for each game I launch that I've even been trying to submit them to the Database too when I can get around to doing so. I pretty much have to do Non-RetroArch stuff on my Laptop because I still have yet to find a real solution on why it freezes up on the projector when I HDMI to it. Almost thinking of seeing how I can get TurboGrafx-16 to run through MAME instead if this MagicEngine stuff keeps getting as screwy as it does. It's a great Emulator, but I don't need it to be such a hassle through LaunchBox when all we're doing is trying is making things easier to go about and play. I'm in the middle of getting Beta 12, so I'm unsure if that's gonna oddly fix it to where I can use Startup Screens again or not. I've only tested one game without a Startup Screen, so it's hard to say if it's a complete fix or not. I was almost thinking about doing the feature that hides the console window and see if that fixes it to where I can have my Startup Screens and have everything running right again or not

Just wanted to update everyone on the MagicEngine issue. I did later after posting about running it without LaunchBox and everything works fine in Fullscreen and everything as it should. In the first post yes it got stuck in a Unresponsive Window to where it usually loads up from that into Fullscreen, but didn't. I Reset everything and went on the update further in the 2nd post to let you all know it did go Fullscreen, but refused to play most of the games. So as it seems it is a LaunchBox thing, which I'm guessing somehow it's not commanding MagicEngine to load up the ROMs correctly like it used to, but then again I'm not a Programmer to really know in full, but just going based on what I see.

Okay so after Restarting both LaunchBox and my PC it seems most of my games through MagicEngine aren't running at all. There was even one time I Launched a game and was able to go back to MagicEngine's Main Menu when usually that exits me back to LaunchBox, but most of the games are Launching to a Black Screen. I can't seem figure what really is causing this that even MagicEngine in the Main Menu acted as it couldn't find my ROMs when they're in the same place they've always been. I have yet to manually run MagicEngine without LaunchBox to see how that goes, but seems more on the LaunchBox side than anything.

So I'm running into this issue when I launch with a Black Background right behind it which I'm sure is part of the Startup. Not sure if it's LaunchBox related, but figured I'd let you know @Jason Carr, and see whoelse maybe had this issue too. It used to run just fine

Same on my end..and I thank you for fixing it too @Jason Carr. Now to see if the glitch where Screenshots don't switch over to the next game title in BigBox if you use a video Background. Any chance on that getting fixed next?

Yeah..and with mine I have no music for LaunchBox set to play and have even the volume turned all the way down to off. I don't have music playing in LaunchBox..but like you I have the music for the title playing on Startup when doing a "Launch With...". When it first happened to me I thought it was cool to have it playing the music I picked for it while things load up..but then once the game was on it was colliding the music with the game and knew right then it was a glitch.

So I guess I figured out another glitch within BigBox which is the Screenshots don't switch over on a Title that plays video behind it.

Still seems to be an issue with the music playing in LaunchBox when a game is Launched to where you have to go back and turn it off and try again or it will play while in a game

I usually keep mine Default so that nothing gets buggy and I can work around creatively within the Default Theme, but like the idea you can easily download within the App other Themes which gives me the thought that things with each other Theme will be stable as we get new Updates without the worry one of the Themes might get messed up. I'm Installing the Latest Beta as I type this and look forward to seeing what improves

Not sure if this has already been mentioned, but seems in LaunchBox if you have a title with music set with it and choose "Launch With..." you'll likely end up having the music you set with that title to play once the startup screen shows up, but never turns off unless you back out and use Ctrl+P or Right-Click over to the title and select "Play...". You'd think maybe the Music would play in Startup until the actual game had loaded up, but doesn't seem to be the case here I guess

So I had time and went back to BigBox and seems all my Genesis is fine now

I don't believe I've even accidentally hit something or anything like that, but I will try let you know later if anything worked itself out whenever I get around to trying BigBox again though. I tend have everything in BigBox set as Platform only as Default too. As far as duplicates go I try keep all versions of a game on its own listing instead of merging them so they can be displayed with all interesting variations they have based on Region. I also keep forgetting to mention there seems to be no optional way for the Version of a game to be seen in BigBox unless perhaps I overlooked it? I'd like to be able to see which Version it is so I can tell how something might be Hacked, Modded, or what Revision it may be

Just came across and odd glitch within BigBox. For some reason my Genesis games are listed in a pattern of F, D, B, as you can see. I'm unsure what other order it will be in on the way down the list once outside of those letters, but it's crazy though. Hope you have an idea @Jason Carr

I'm sure in time you'll figure something to help it, no matter how long it takes. I wonder if the process you're talking about will even help with freezing when you Edit too. All I know is I have faith in you and it'll only get better and better as I can't wait to continue testing things out though.