surreal0769 Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 (edited) Hey there, I've been amassing quite a bit of stuff in Launchbox and upgraded my motherboard in my retro arcade to work almost perfectly with the United theme except for attract mode which I disabled but not too important at this point. Recently I've been adding Amiga adf files and editing the settings for each game and I noticed when I would make a settings change there was a delay and the resolution of the launchbox program itself would "stretch" and sometimes freeze and crash the program after exiting the edit settings unless I gave it a bit of time to go back to the normal look or resolution. So I just tried to open it and I had an xml error before but not the same exact message and i was able to re-install from the most recent update and everything would come back to normal. At this point everytime i reinstall from the update launchbox folder it gives the same error. It will initially load with no content and then when i close and re-open it gives the error in the picture below. The last time I had the different xml error it did come up, but again not this time and I am hesitant to uninstall and re-install lest i lose everything. I'm open to suggestions on how to fix. Havent seen this particular error exactly like this before. Think my game count is 20,000. Thanks. Edited November 16, 2018 by surreal0769 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 Have you tried replacing the corrupt xml file with one from the backups folder ? Edit: By the way, it is way too early for ugly Xmas sweaters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surreal0769 Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 Wasn't aware I could I'll try that right now, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surreal0769 Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 Which folder does that go in to by default? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surreal0769 Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 10 minutes ago, Lordmonkus said: Have you tried replacing the corrupt xml file with one from the backups folder ? Edit: By the way, it is way too early for ugly Xmas sweaters Haha, yeah thats my son. He wears that all the time doesnt matter what season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surreal0769 Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 Here is a good picture of the Arcade I created if anyone is interested. Love Launchbox/Bigbox combined with emumovies. I'm overly ambitious and will break stuff usually but I worked in IT for a bit so can fix some stuff. Only went as far as basic programming though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surreal0769 Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 Yes, what you said worked my friend. I did a Windows 10 search for the file and it only came back now. Oh, how I hate Windows 10. Maybe I'm the minority but... Anyways i went to launchbox/data folder for the newbies and also went to launchbox/backup folder. I tried the the most recent backup and got the same error then went back to the beginning of the day from the backup. In the data folder I renamed the current "listcache.xml" file to "listcachexml.old" I then renamed renamed the file I copied from that backup to the correct file name and it worked ☯. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surreal0769 Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 (edited) I might post a good walkthrough on how to use WinUae with Launchbox as the FS-UAE doesnt cut the mustard in my opinion. I got it almost seemless so far. Edited November 16, 2018 by surreal0769 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 Launchbox\Data folder like in the screenshot you posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 3 hours ago, surreal0769 said: I might post a good walkthrough on how to use WinUae with Launchbox as the FS-UAE doesnt cut the mustard in my opinion. I got it almost seemless so far. @Zombeaver did a big video tutorial for FS-UAE and LB and it works great. I also use FS-UAE without issues with WHDLoad and ADF format games, CD32 stuff is more of a pain in the ass though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 Just to add a point if there was no working backup that was probably a xml file that you probably could have just deleted and LB would have regenerated a new one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surreal0769 Posted November 19, 2018 Author Share Posted November 19, 2018 Thanks, if it should happen again I'll try to delete the xml. Yeah FS-UAE I had some issues with the pointer emulation not working so great. Tried to play Lemmings / Populous and the lag was so bad it made it difficult to click on an object. WinUAE seemed to work quite a bit better, the pointer was flawless and emulation just runs super smooth on most stuff. Got it down where I can launch the games separately in Launchbox but there are a couple more tweaks to implement with disk swapping. I briefly went over your video but the lag with that emulator made me think it wasn't worth it. Was kinda surprised because I think that runs off the same basic engine as winuae. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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