faeran Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 Hi Everyone, 1.17 Beta 1 is out with a bunch of fixes that solve a number of issues that cropped up due to the big MAUI framework change. This will be a short development cycle to shore up as many bugs as we can. Once this update goes live we will be pivoting to new feature releases. For users that were having issues on 1.16, it would be great to hear from you if this beta solves the problems you were facing. Thanks to all who help test these beta versions. Don't forget to include the following information in your feedback to help us out with tracking down with any issues you may face with these betas: Your device specs The version of Android and API version Description of the issue Can it be reliably reproduced on your end? Reproduction steps You can opt into the beta within LaunchBox for Android by going into Option and turning on the Update to Beta Releases option. If a beta release is available, you will get prompted each time the app opens up. Full Changelog: https://www.launchbox-app.com/android-about/change-log Beta 1: Filter Views that utilize background videos should better identify the correct video to play Fixed an issue where LaunchBox would freeze when launching games if notifications were blocked The app no longer crashes if the user exits the network share username/password input dialog Manually changing media from the LaunchBox Games Database for a single game should better reflect the new image selected Fixed a rare crash that could occur when attempting to play a game Addressed a crash that could occur when attempting to import games from a network Fixed an uncommon crash that may occur when users navigate between the hamburger menu items Fixed a crash that could occur on devices whose API is 27 or lower Fixed a rare crash that could stop users from proceeding with the import process Fixed several minor crashes reported by our reporting system 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAKAMY Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 (edited) Thanks for the update 😃 One remaining bug from 1.16 is the crash when trying to import any arcade, cps123 and neogeo Roms. It starts and crash without notification each time. Tried these 5 mixing in all import option with and without make data using mame 263(Merged), mame plus 2003 set with and without chd, noeogeon only set all from NAS(SMB2+MTU/SMB3) or local sd card 80MB/s, 1TB. Cheers Your device specs: Retroid pocket 5 8GB LPDDR5 128UFS internal storage CPU sm8250 GPU Adreno 650 The version of Android and API version: Version 13, Api 33 Description of the issue: Mid import crash for any Arcade set preset with any custom import setting. Can it be reliably reproduced on your end? Tried many times with 3 different rom set, all fail. Reproduction steps: Import arcade roms set from NAS or Local SD card. Added crash log and import video for neoegeo roms Debug 2025-01-07 11-27-32 PM.log Quickstep_2025-01-07 23_36_55.mp4 Edited January 8 by JAKAMY Added video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xyb0t Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 (edited) Thanks for the update 👍 Unfortunately i still experience the issue with tiny videos, described in more detail (with screenshots) here https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/88851-tiny-videos-unified-lite/ Device specs: * Odin 2 Pro * CPU: Snapdragon 8 gen 2 * GPU: Adreno 740 * RAM: 12GB LPDDR5x Android and API: * Android 13 Description of the issue: * https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/88851-tiny-videos-unified-lite/ Can it be reliably reproduced on your end? * Yes it is quite persistent * I downgraded to 1.15 and the issue disappeared. All videos are normal size * I did a factory reset on my Odin 2 Pro and re-installed 1.16 again, and the issue reappeared. All videos are small most of the time Reproduction steps: 1 - Export games from LaunchBox (with videos) 2 - Import games to LaunchBox Android 3 - Select the gamelist view "Wheel with two-column details" 4 - Now when you open the gamelist, the video is most often tiny, about half size. Rarely the videos will show in normal size, but if it does you can just go back to platform view and then enter a gamelist, and the videos are all small again 5 - Also confirm that videos do not loop any more Edited January 8 by Xyb0t Readability in the Reproduction section Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faeran Posted January 8 Author Share Posted January 8 16 hours ago, JAKAMY said: Thanks for the update 😃 One remaining bug from 1.16 is the crash when trying to import any arcade, cps123 and neogeo Roms. It starts and crash without notification each time. Tried these 5 mixing in all import option with and without make data using mame 263(Merged), mame plus 2003 set with and without chd, noeogeon only set all from NAS(SMB2+MTU/SMB3) or local sd card 80MB/s, 1TB. Cheers Your device specs: Retroid pocket 5 8GB LPDDR5 128UFS internal storage CPU sm8250 GPU Adreno 650 The version of Android and API version: Version 13, Api 33 Description of the issue: Mid import crash for any Arcade set preset with any custom import setting. Can it be reliably reproduced on your end? Tried many times with 3 different rom set, all fail. Reproduction steps: Import arcade roms set from NAS or Local SD card. Added crash log and import video for neoegeo roms Debug 2025-01-07 11-27-32 PM.log 10.62 kB · 0 downloads Quickstep_2025-01-07 23_36_55.mp4 Thanks for the report. Arcade over NAS is actually not yet supported. We added a prompt to beta 1 to stop users from accidentally importing them. Local MAME imports are supported, but we are unable to reproduce any crashes with those imports. If you have time, can you upload another video showing the process from the home screen and going through the process of trying to import a MAME set on your local SD card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faeran Posted January 8 Author Share Posted January 8 11 hours ago, Xyb0t said: Thanks for the update 👍 Unfortunately i still experience the issue with tiny videos, described in more detail (with screenshots) here https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/88851-tiny-videos-unified-lite/ Device specs: * Odin 2 Pro * CPU: Snapdragon 8 gen 2 * GPU: Adreno 740 * RAM: 12GB LPDDR5x Android and API: * Android 13 Description of the issue: * https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/88851-tiny-videos-unified-lite/ Can it be reliably reproduced on your end? * Yes it is quite persistent * I downgraded to 1.15 and the issue disappeared. All videos are normal size * I did a factory reset on my Odin 2 Pro and re-installed 1.16 again, and the issue reappeared. All videos are small most of the time Reproduction steps: 1 - Export games from LaunchBox (with videos) 2 - Import games to LaunchBox Android 3 - Select the gamelist view "Wheel with two-column details" 4 - Now when you open the gamelist, the video is most often tiny, about half size. Rarely the videos will show in normal size, but if it does you can just go back to platform view and then enter a gamelist, and the videos are all small again 5 - Also confirm that videos do not loop any more Thanks for the report. Did a few round of tests but was unable to reproduce the tiny video issue. Were the video files sourced from EmuMovies or somewhere else? As far as looping videos, we were able to reproduce and it should be fixed in beta 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAKAMY Posted Thursday at 02:09 AM Share Posted Thursday at 02:09 AM 5 hours ago, faeran said: Thanks for the report. Arcade over NAS is actually not yet supported. We added a prompt to beta 1 to stop users from accidentally importing them. Local MAME imports are supported, but we are unable to reproduce any crashes with those imports. If you have time, can you upload another video showing the process from the home screen and going through the process of trying to import a MAME set on your local SD card. Thank for the swift reply, I recorded NeoGeo import from SD, mam2003plus from SD, mam2003plus import without Mame data from sd. I also tried moving the LaunchBox folder to internal storage but it crashes all the same. I started using LB on android from 1.16, I also own the pc version, I'll try the export to Android if this is a pocket 5 only issue 👍 NB: I reencoded the screen recordings to AV1 to save space for the upload Cheers Mame2003p - Made With Clipchamp (1).mp4 Mame2003pnomamedata - Made With Clipchamp (1).mp4 Neogeo - Made With Clipchamp (1).mp4 Debug 2025-01-08 08-28-44 PM.log Debug 2025-01-08 08-27-01 PM.log Debug 2025-01-08 08-24-08 PM.log Debug 2025-01-08 08-22-37 PM.log Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAKAMY Posted Thursday at 05:41 AM Share Posted Thursday at 05:41 AM (edited) 3 hours ago, JAKAMY said: Thank for the swift reply, I recorded NeoGeo import from SD, mam2003plus from SD, mam2003plus import without Mame data from sd. I also tried moving the LaunchBox folder to internal storage but it crashes all the same. I started using LB on android from 1.16, I also own the pc version, I'll try the export to Android if this is a pocket 5 only issue 👍 NB: I reencoded the screen recordings to AV1 to save space for the upload Cheers Mame2003p - Made With Clipchamp (1).mp4 Mame2003pnomamedata - Made With Clipchamp (1).mp4 Neogeo - Made With Clipchamp (1).mp4 Debug 2025-01-08 08-28-44 PM.logFetching info... Debug 2025-01-08 08-27-01 PM.logFetching info... Debug 2025-01-08 08-24-08 PM.logFetching info... Debug 2025-01-08 08-22-37 PM.logFetching info... I tried the export from LB PC for mame 263 merged no CHD. Launching the games landed to a black screen after a side load window. I made sure that the romset works in retroarch by manually importing there with the dat file and setting the sample folder for mame in system. yet they run from retroach playlist but still not from LB. I found then 2000+/3000+ <ApplicationPath> roms in the data xml to use their pc location instead of the games arcade folder on the sd card. I replaced the paths with the local one and now they do run now great 👍 I will test again the import locally when the next beta is up. For now as a summary of what doesn't work on my pocket device: any arcade imports beside naomi Video streaming display of platform videos SMB download speed inside LB is very slow. (same roms using a file explorer from the nas to sd card downloads at 80MB/s and finish fast while in LB (no extract) it takes 5-10 times longer if not more. Cheers Edited Thursday at 05:50 AM by JAKAMY bullet points Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xyb0t Posted Thursday at 07:54 AM Share Posted Thursday at 07:54 AM 11 hours ago, faeran said: Thanks for the report. Did a few round of tests but was unable to reproduce the tiny video issue. Were the video files sourced from EmuMovies or somewhere else? As far as looping videos, we were able to reproduce and it should be fixed in beta 2. Yes, they are primarily sourced from EmuMovies, and a handful from ScreenScraper. Also the videos work perfectly for me if i install version 1.15 - that is a bummer. This might be on my end then, but i tried everything, messed with every setting, but no cigar. The 1.15 version works with just the default settings. As soon as i upgrade to 1.16 (and also the new beta) the issue arises. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St3althShock Posted Thursday at 05:35 PM Share Posted Thursday at 05:35 PM Your device specs Samsung A52s 6GB of Memory Snapdragon 778g Adreno 642L The version of Android and API version Android 15, not sure about API Description of the issue Images not always loading after highlighting new game Can it be reliably reproduced on your end? Yes, I've uploaded a video to show this Reproduction steps Selecting any new game has a chance to not correctly load the media for that game. The crash when rotating my device seems to be fixed in the beta update. Thanks screen-20250109-171941.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faeran Posted Thursday at 09:52 PM Author Share Posted Thursday at 09:52 PM 10 hours ago, JAKAMY said: Thank for the swift reply, I recorded NeoGeo import from SD, mam2003plus from SD, mam2003plus import without Mame data from sd. I also tried moving the LaunchBox folder to internal storage but it crashes all the same. I started using LB on android from 1.16, I also own the pc version, I'll try the export to Android if this is a pocket 5 only issue 👍 NB: I reencoded the screen recordings to AV1 to save space for the upload Cheers Mame2003p - Made With Clipchamp (1).mp4 Mame2003pnomamedata - Made With Clipchamp (1).mp4 Neogeo - Made With Clipchamp (1).mp4 Debug 2025-01-08 08-28-44 PM.log 17.75 kB · 0 downloads Debug 2025-01-08 08-27-01 PM.log 15.29 kB · 0 downloads Debug 2025-01-08 08-24-08 PM.log 3.39 kB · 0 downloads Debug 2025-01-08 08-22-37 PM.log 104.58 kB · 0 downloads Thanks for that. While it wasn't happening on our devices, we were able to use your logs to figure out why it was happening with your specific dataset and fix it. We'll push this in the next beta. Not related to the crashing, but in the first MAME2003 video - You checked the option "This is a full MAME set". You shouldn't do this for a MAME 2003 set, or there will be games (and version of games) that get imported that don't actually exist in your set. 7 hours ago, JAKAMY said: I tried the export from LB PC for mame 263 merged no CHD. Launching the games landed to a black screen after a side load window. I made sure that the romset works in retroarch by manually importing there with the dat file and setting the sample folder for mame in system. yet they run from retroach playlist but still not from LB. I found then 2000+/3000+ <ApplicationPath> roms in the data xml to use their pc location instead of the games arcade folder on the sd card. I replaced the paths with the local one and now they do run now great 👍 I will test again the import locally when the next beta is up. For now as a summary of what doesn't work on my pocket device: any arcade imports beside naomi Video streaming display of platform videos SMB download speed inside LB is very slow. (same roms using a file explorer from the nas to sd card downloads at 80MB/s and finish fast while in LB (no extract) it takes 5-10 times longer if not more. Cheers The export to Android for MAME isn't the best thing to use for a number of reasons, but the main one being that unless you have a full non-merged set, you'd end up with paths to files that don't actually exist. On Windows this isn't a problem, MAME can fill in the gaps, but on Android, you'll end up trying to send a file to the emulator that doesn't exist, causing a black screen. Black screen can also indicate missing core, as in the core LaunchBox thinks RetroArch has isn't the one RetroArch actually has installed. I'm guessing you found yourself in the former. Thanks for your list. Just to give context to it, the only one that's a global issue is the video streaming which was broken whem Google made some security changes. We've searched for solutions to their new security measures, but have yet to find a suitable one, so if we can't, we may disable it temporarily for this update until we find one. We are also exploring possibilities of increasing speeds of the ROM downloads, but no promises there. 5 hours ago, Xyb0t said: Yes, they are primarily sourced from EmuMovies, and a handful from ScreenScraper. Also the videos work perfectly for me if i install version 1.15 - that is a bummer. This might be on my end then, but i tried everything, messed with every setting, but no cigar. The 1.15 version works with just the default settings. As soon as i upgrade to 1.16 (and also the new beta) the issue arises. Could be device specific, but not really sure at this point. The only thing we know at the moment is that it's not happening globally, which makes it a tougher thing to track down. Pretty sure a few people on the team have the same device as you do, I'll get them to test on it and that will give us a few more answers anyway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faeran Posted Thursday at 09:59 PM Author Share Posted Thursday at 09:59 PM 4 hours ago, St3althShock said: Your device specs Samsung A52s 6GB of Memory Snapdragon 778g Adreno 642L The version of Android and API version Android 15, not sure about API Description of the issue Images not always loading after highlighting new game Can it be reliably reproduced on your end? Yes, I've uploaded a video to show this Reproduction steps Selecting any new game has a chance to not correctly load the media for that game. The crash when rotating my device seems to be fixed in the beta update. Thanks screen-20250109-171941.mp4 Thanks for the report. The video is a bit unclear, but is it that screenshots didn't load into the background of the list for the double dragons, or was it something else? If it was, can you edit the game's media and make sure one has downloaded for it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xyb0t Posted Friday at 12:48 PM Share Posted Friday at 12:48 PM On 1/8/2025 at 9:47 PM, faeran said: Thanks for the report. Did a few round of tests but was unable to reproduce the tiny video issue. Were the video files sourced from EmuMovies or somewhere else? As far as looping videos, we were able to reproduce and it should be fixed in beta 2. Please let me know if i can assist in any way, with videos, screenshots, logs or if you would like for me to test something specific I love what you guys are doing, and i still carry a tiny hope to not get stuck on version 1.15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St3althShock Posted Friday at 12:54 PM Share Posted Friday at 12:54 PM 14 hours ago, faeran said: Thanks for the report. The video is a bit unclear, but is it that screenshots didn't load into the background of the list for the double dragons, or was it something else? If it was, can you edit the game's media and make sure one has downloaded for it? Sorry, I should have explained better. Yes, the box art & background don't always load after highlighting a new game, even though they have been manually downloaded from the database. It will still show media of the previous games media Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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