LaunchBox 13.23 - Beta Thread

[C-Beats]

16 minutes ago, BiRaitBec said:

Sorry but what if i want to just mark as completed a game that i have played before Launchbox or Retroachievements existed?

What should i use to reflect that? Cause now it only displays games i currently have mastered on retroachievements. If this is missing there should be a need for the old filter.

Sounds like you're transition from Completed to Progressed didn't go as planned. You can use a plugin I built to manually force completed data in the progress field I built. Once you run it once it's safe to delete and shouldn't need it again: 

 

[bbweiners]

10 hours ago, AstroBob said:

Here ya go: 
🔗 https://feedback.launchbox.gg/help/articles/3524268-hybrid-views

Thanks Bob!

[UnnUndrgrnd4114]

Hey everyone. Having issues syncing EmuMovies to LaunchBox. I changed the password to exclude special characters, downloaded EmuMovies Sync 2.70, as well as the FTP Clients FileZilla app, but no luck. Problem started yesterday. Please help.

[launchretrogirl2562]

55 minutes ago, UnnUndrgrnd4114 said:

Hey everyone. Having issues syncing EmuMovies to LaunchBox. I changed the password to exclude special characters, downloaded EmuMovies Sync 2.70, as well as the FTP Clients FileZilla app, but no luck. Problem started yesterday. Please help.

known issue.
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[5thWolf]

I had that issue a bit ago. Was working again later that same day. They go down very often. Just have to wait it out.

Edited August 6 by 5thWolf

[Cineaste]

Not sure if beta related but I manually changed a game's progress from Done/Beaten to Done/Completed and it reset play count and play time. Last Played = Never.

Tried another game and it behaved exactly the same way. Is this metadata now lost forever? What could be causing it? 

[C-Beats]

10 minutes ago, Cineaste said:

Not sure if beta related but I manually changed a game's progress from Done/Beaten to Done/Completed and it reset play count and play time. Last Played = Never.

Tried another game and it behaved exactly the same way. Is this metadata now lost forever? What could be causing it? 

Sounds more like a potential issue with Cloud Sync not playing nice. Do you have it enabled? Do you see if still if you turn it off?

[Cineaste]

1 minute ago, C-Beats said:

Sounds more like a potential issue with Cloud Sync not playing nice. Do you have it enabled? Do you see if still if you turn it off?

I disabled it, thanks. The issue appears to be gone. 

I assume there is no way to get my play time and count back? 

[C-Beats]

Just now, Cineaste said:

I disabled it, thanks. The issue appears to be gone. 

I assume there is no way to get my play time and count back? 

Fairly certain if you have logging on you can see in the log the before/after values. Also if you have auto-backups enabled you can look in those files to see what it was and set it to that again in the current files.

[Cineaste]

6 minutes ago, C-Beats said:

Fairly certain if you have logging on you can see in the log the before/after values. Also if you have auto-backups enabled you can look in those files to see what it was and set it to that again in the current files.

Is this a feature now? I was under the impression I could only reset the values, not overwrite them. How would I go about doing this? 

EDIT: Replaced the corresponding platform .xml and everything is back to where it should be! Appreciate it! 

Edited August 6 by Cineaste

[skizzosjt]

25 minutes ago, Cineaste said:

Is this a feature now? I was under the impression I could only reset the values, not overwrite them. How would I go about doing this? 

EDIT: Replaced the corresponding platform .xml and everything is back to where it should be! Appreciate it! 

not really a feature but it is possible. you can manually open the appropriate xml file and change the value. you can enter that you played a game for 5000 hours that you never played if you really wanted to.

[faeran]

Beta 2 for LaunchBox 13.23 is now available, and it brings even more polish and usability improvements. Here is what is new in this update:

• New Feature: LaunchBox now opens with a brand new Welcome Wizard that helps users quickly set up their games, preferences, and media so they can jump straight into the fun
• New Feature: A new automation rule for Game Progress Tracking now allows games to be marked as paused if they have not been played in a user-defined number of days
• New Feature: A new Media Settings section under Tools > Options > Media > Automatic Imports lets users customize which media files are downloaded during automated imports
• Improvement: When arranging by Game Progress, sorting now follows your user-defined order for progress values and headers
• Improvement: Platform icons have been visually refreshed for Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Game Boy Advance, and PICO-8 to better represent each system
• Improvement: Screensaver 4 for the Default view is now complete and available for testing
• Improvement: The “Attract Mode Master Volume” option in Big Box is now called “Idle Master Volume” and now controls both Screensaver and Attract Mode audio.
• Improvement: Marquee screens and LEDBlinky integration should now function properly with Screensavers
• Fixes: Games hidden by the user will no longer appear in the Game Discovery Center
• Fixes: The Beat em Up clear logo now displays correctly under all conditions
• Fixes: Resetting play time and play count now also resets these values for all additional apps attached to a game
• Fixes: Hybrid views now provide proper audio feedback when navigating with a controller or keyboard
• Fixes: Some custom LaunchBox themes were silently failing to poll the selected game, which could prevent item highlighting from working correctly
• Fixes: In some custom LaunchBox themes, multiple carousel controls in the Game Details panel were not always updating as expected

The new Welcome Wizard is a big step toward improving the experience for first-time users. You will only see it on brand new installations, but we would love testing and feedback around it. The goal is not to overwhelm new users but to help them get up and running quickly. By the end of the wizard, users should have some games imported, a few preferences set, and some additional features enabled.

Also, with this beta, the fourth and final default screensaver view is now complete. That gives you four unique built-in screensavers to try out. You will now see each one has a name, and theme developers can name their own as well using the ThemeSettings.xml file in their themes. The default theme is a great example of how to do it.

As always, thanks guys for helping test the next release.

[Fursphere]

13.23 - BETA 2

trying to update my MAME set to the new version.  Import wizard - "select rom location" - NEXT button is not usable.  Unable to move past this screen.  

[5thWolf]

For us mapped drive users, updated and auto ran. Boot up time is still very slow. Runs fine once completely up.

[Fursphere]

16 hours ago, 5thWolf said:

For us mapped drive users, updated and auto ran. Boot up time is still very slow. Runs fine once completely up.

How fast is your network between system running LB/BB and network share?   

If its Wifi, I would expect it to be very slow.   I would even expect it to be slow on a 1gb ethernet link.  

[Drybonz]

21 hours ago, faeran said:

Beta 2 for LaunchBox 13.23 is now available, and it brings even more polish and usability improvements. Here is what is new in this update:

• New Feature: A new Media Settings section under Tools > Options > Media > Automatic Imports lets users customize which media files are downloaded during automated imports

This is a great, common sense improvement.  Maybe not the flashiest update ever, but this is a great time saver.  It was tedious to re-check these boxes each time you imported something.  So, thanks for this update... I really like to see these practical improvements.

[C-Beats]

21 minutes ago, Drybonz said:

This is a great, common sense improvement.  Maybe not the flashiest update ever, but this is a great time saver.  It was tedious to re-check these boxes each time you imported something.  So, thanks for this update... I really like to see these practical improvements.

Not sure this is doing what you think it is. The import or download wizard still will only have checked what items you checked previously. This feature just determines what we grab for you when we automatically import games via startup auto scan (ROM or Storefront)

[Drybonz]

5 minutes ago, C-Beats said:

Not sure this is doing what you think it is.

You are right.  lol.  Thanks for letting me know.

[5thWolf]

7 hours ago, Fursphere said:

How fast is your network between system running LB/BB and network share?   

If its Wifi, I would expect it to be very slow.   I would even expect it to be slow on a 1gb ethernet link.  

Wired network. 2.5gig. This is an issue for us with both betas after 13.22 stopped working for mapped drive users. 13.21 and older was super fast.

[Joe35car]

Using the newest beta and see it now supports a new video player. I go into options and all I see is vlc and windows media player.