LaunchBox 13.27 Beta Thread

[Rlad]

Using FFMPEG the video pauses when going fullscreen in LB, you have to click once to get the play button to show then click again to play the video, WMP works as intended.

[Rlad]

The manage theme menus have no text in Beta 2

[Retrofrogg]

Just updated and noticed a possible bug with the video preview area. I'm not sure if it is reading the xml properly. I'm using my own custom theme which removes the rounded edges of the viewing area. Currently, when I select a new game the viewing area is rounded on the left side but squared on the right. However, if I interact with the area in any way (including hover), the squared area quickly becomes rounded.

 

[Rlad]

Related games is only showing artwork from the database not local

beta1>beta2

[AzgoRAth]

Hey guys. I just updated to beta 2 and about more than half of the retroachievement systems dont have achievements anymore and the achievements scanning doesn't work/help much. I tried overwriting the rahasher with the latest one on github but not much better. So far the only systems that show achievements now are:

Amstrad CPC

Apple II

Atari 7800

Atari Lynx

Interton vc4000

Mattel Intellivision

MSX

TurboGrafx-CD

Game Boy

GameCube

Wii

Sega CD

Dreamcast

Game Gear

Master System

SG-1000

Neo Geo CD

Neo Geo Pocket

PS1

PS2

SNES

Edited Saturday at 10:59 PM by AzgoRAth

[JoeViking245]

7 minutes ago, AzgoRAth said:

So far the only systems that show achievements now are:

Would it have been easier to list the ones that don't show achievements?

[AzgoRAth]

Sorry Joe. The ones that aren't showing are:

3do

arcade
arduboy
atari 2600
jaguar
jaguar cd
colecovision
elektor

arcadia 2001
fairchild channel
vectrex
magnavox odyssey 2
pc 8800/8801
pc fx
turbografx 16
n64
nds
ndsi
nes
fds
gba

gbc

pokemon mini

virtualboy

32x

genesis/mega drive

saturn

psp

uzebox

wasm4

watara supervision

wonderswan

Edited Sunday at 07:35 PM by AzgoRAth

[JoeViking245]

17 minutes ago, AzgoRAth said:

Sorry Joe. The ones that aren't showing are:

[ ... ]

Lol.  Ok point taken.  You have way more platforms than I do.   But the ones not working does better give something for the developers to look at.

[AzgoRAth]

Yeah I have all the RA platforms except standalone in my LB build. No worries.

 

[JaredN]

Hello,

I have a new issue to report: Ctrl-A to select all games in LB no longer works since version 13.27 beta 2.

Correction: It works, BUT only under certain conditions. If I press CTRL-A after selecting a game, nothing happens!

If I left-click on that game again—not too close, so as not to launch it—CTRL-A works afterward.

The same goes if I want to select another game from my list by typing a letter.

Or delete one with DEL.

There’s an older issue that’s been present for quite a few versions now, but which I hadn’t reported.

Selecting “text-list with details” from another view in BB doesn’t work with the 3-DIMENSIONS theme.

I have to switch themes and then switch back to this one, as shown in the video.

Otherwise, I can also confirm that I’ve encountered these two bugs reported by @Rlad:

- The three menus—Manage Themes, Startup, and Pause Themes—are empty.
- Related Games is only showing artwork from the database, not local files.

Thanks for your work anyway! 👍😉

Edited yesterday at 04:23 AM by JaredN

[kobaturtle]

Video control is a great new feature! Thanks!

Since new Beta, I lost the ability to type/navigate/find a game name directly from keyboard input in launchbox main menu. Until now, typing letters was easy way to navigate through game titles

[JoeViking245]

25 minutes ago, kobaturtle said:

Since new Beta, I lost the ability to type/navigate/find a game name directly from keyboard input in launchbox main menu. Until now, typing letters was easy way to navigate through game titles

Double check you're in the main [middle] panel (e.g. click a game), then start typing. Tested in both Default and Omni themes in beta-2 and is still working here. 

[faeran]

On 4/18/2026 at 11:04 AM, Rlad said:

Using FFMPEG the video pauses when going fullscreen in LB, you have to click once to get the play button to show then click again to play the video, WMP works as intended.

On 4/18/2026 at 11:52 AM, Rlad said:

The manage theme menus have no text in Beta 2

On 4/18/2026 at 5:14 PM, Rlad said:

Related games is only showing artwork from the database not local

beta1>beta2

Thanks. These are fixed internally and should be part of Beta 3.

On 4/18/2026 at 12:20 PM, Retrofrogg said:

Just updated and noticed a possible bug with the video preview area. I'm not sure if it is reading the xml properly. I'm using my own custom theme which removes the rounded edges of the viewing area. Currently, when I select a new game the viewing area is rounded on the left side but squared on the right. However, if I interact with the area in any way (including hover), the squared area quickly becomes rounded.

 

If you'd like, send me your theme and I'll take a look for ya.

On 4/20/2026 at 1:16 AM, JaredN said:

Hello,

I have a new issue to report: Ctrl-A to select all games in LB no longer works since version 13.27 beta 2.

Correction: It works, BUT only under certain conditions. If I press CTRL-A after selecting a game, nothing happens!

If I left-click on that game again—not too close, so as not to launch it—CTRL-A works afterward.

The same goes if I want to select another game from my list by typing a letter.

Or delete one with DEL.

There’s an older issue that’s been present for quite a few versions now, but which I hadn’t reported.

Selecting “text-list with details” from another view in BB doesn’t work with the 3-DIMENSIONS theme.

I have to switch themes and then switch back to this one, as shown in the video.

Otherwise, I can also confirm that I’ve encountered these two bugs reported by @Rlad:

- The three menus—Manage Themes, Startup, and Pause Themes—are empty.
- Related Games is only showing artwork from the database, not local files.

Thanks for your work anyway! 👍😉

 

40 minutes ago, kobaturtle said:

Video control is a great new feature! Thanks!

Since new Beta, I lost the ability to type/navigate/find a game name directly from keyboard input in launchbox main menu. Until now, typing letters was easy way to navigate through game titles

Thanks guys, What's actually happening here in LaunchBox is that the video control UI is pulling focus from the image grid, which explains things like, keyboard navigation stops working, jumping to game by typing, and anything requiring the image grid to stay focused, stop working in certain situations. I've fixed this internally and it'll make it into beta 3.

As far as the 3-DIMENSIONS issue, this one is a bit of a mystery. I ran some quick tests but am not seeing what you are seeing. You may want to delete the theme and redownload and see if that helps. I'm also thinking maybe there's some Options or theme specific options that could be getting in the way there, but that's more of a high level thought than anything else.

On 4/19/2026 at 3:35 PM, AzgoRAth said:

Sorry Joe. The ones that aren't showing are:

3do

arcade
arduboy
atari 2600
jaguar
jaguar cd
colecovision
elektor

arcadia 2001
fairchild channel
vectrex
magnavox odyssey 2
pc 8800/8801
pc fx
turbografx 16
n64
nds
ndsi
nes
fds
gba

gbc

pokemon mini

virtualboy

32x

genesis/mega drive

saturn

psp

uzebox

wasm4

watara supervision

wonderswan

This one I'm also not seeing, in that I checked a number of those platforms but their Achievements show fine. All I can do is talk about the troubleshooting basics. Make sure you are logged in and provided the API, go into Tools > Options > Integrations > RetroAchievements and you should get a green check mark to confirm that your API key is good. Make sure you've run the achievement scan on the games under Tools > Achievements. Then make sure you are using the Default theme, or a theme that does show the achievements within the Game Details pane. Make sure the Achievement badge is enabled. Things like that.

At this point, I've got about 12-ish things ready to go for beta 3, with another handful I still need to tackle over the next few days. But if all things go well, we should have another beta by the end of the week or beginning of next.

[SqHd]

Hi. Great update! Im really enjoying the Retroachievements enhancements. Two minor BigBox requests: 1) allow wrap around from the top of the achievement list to the bottom (currently, it only works from bottom to top) in the pop out window and 2) allow a controller button press to fill in the verification box when trying to view an achievement from the Retroachievements website (currently, I cant get past this). Thanks.