LaunchBox 13.23 Released!

[AstroBob]

Version 13.23 - Released August 21st 2025

Release Summary

Full Changelog: https://www.launchbox-app.com/about/changelog

 

Known Issues:

• Although FFMPEG provides some major advantages over VLC, it has both advantages AND disadvantages over WMP. See our doc here for a full breakdown and comparison

 

 

New Features:

• Added a new Screensavers feature to Big Box, letting users discover games with fully themeable views and interact directly with the games shown
• LaunchBox and Big Box now include a brand new FFMPEG-based video playback option, delivering more reliable performance, with the old VLC engine now phased out
• 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
• 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
• A new Media Settings section under Tools > Options > Media > Automatic Imports lets users customize which media files are downloaded during automated imports

 

Improvements:

• Platform detail views in both LaunchBox and Big Box now display numerical counts for games that are beaten, completed, or mastered, based on Game Progress Tracking stats
• When arranging by Game Progress, sorting now follows your user-defined order for progress values and headers
• The "Attract Mode Master Volume" option in Big Box is now called "Idle Master Volume" and now controls both Screensaver and Attract Mode audio
• Platform icons have been visually refreshed for Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Game Boy Advance, and PICO-8 to better represent each system (Thanks to @Dan Patrick)

 

Fixed:

• Games hidden by the user will no longer appear in the Game Discovery Center
• RetroAchievements were not loading in Game Details when using a List View, resulting in no achievement data being shown
• Selecting a game too quickly in Big Box could prevent LEDBlinky from displaying the correct lighting behavior
• The Beat em Up clear logo now displays correctly under all conditions
• Resetting play time and play count now also resets these values for all additional apps attached to a game
• Hybrid views now provide proper audio feedback when navigating with a controller or keyboard
• Some custom LaunchBox themes were silently failing to poll the selected game, which could prevent item highlighting from working correctly
• In some custom LaunchBox themes, multiple carousel controls in the Game Details panel were not always updating as expected
• Legacy Big Box themes using Old Default theme code had a stray completed graphic that would always show, regardless of user data
• Removed the outdated Change Badge Images option from the Badge menu in LaunchBox, which no longer applied after the media manager overhaul in version 13.21
• A specific crash related to the MAME High Score system is now caught with error handling, and logging has been added to help identify the root cause

[kurzih]

Hi,

Just updated and launchbox is stuck in this state right now when it tries to start the latest version:

I haven't changed any playlists or anything else the last 3-5 times I started version 13.22

I there a new function that deep-scans playlists for the first time for a very long time or any ideas why it doesn't open up?

EDIT: it did launch after roughly 20mins wait.

Edited 1 hour ago by kurzih