Windows Games Asking For Emulator

[Hades68]

I had hundreds of Windows games imported into Launchbox as shortcuts which were working just fine.  I had to remove them all and re-add them, but now when I try to launch them it keeps asking me to configure an emulator for them, even though I imported them as Windows games.

Any ideas?

[Hades68]

I found the solution!

For some reason when I re-imported the Windows games, the "Use an emulator to play this game (primarily for console games)" option was ticked on the Emulation tab of the Edit Metadata/Media... window.  I have no idea why this was ticked by default for Windows games.

However, it can't be unticked in the bulk metadata change option, so I had to edit the \LaunchBox\Data\Platforms\Windows.xml file and do a find and replace on "<Emulator>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</Emulator>" replacing it with "<Emulator />".

Now my Windows games all launch again!

[ElDiablo77]

I had the same issue. I tried doing as described, I replaced the whole line with <Emulator /> yet it's still not launching games. Instead I renamed the Windows.xml after removing all the shortcuts and letting Launchbox generate a new Windows.xml file. I then re-added the shortcuts and everything works as it should.

Thanks for posting the solution as too many times people just say "never mind I've fixed it"