Manage Emulators After Updating Plugins

[Gaming.Zone]

This morning 4/17/2026 there were multiple updates to plugins upon launching Launchbox.
After updating all of the plugins and downloading new ones the following Emulators no longer are updating for me:

Dolphin, PCSX2, Retroarch


I attempted to edit these emulators, the download option is no longer there.  

I updated the plugins, repaired the plugins, manual deleted the plugins and reinstalled. No Change.

I Deleted PCSX2 entry and tried to re-add.  The emulator is set to manual updates now.

I didn't want to remove Retroarch as there is a lot of setup to the cores list.

Can anyone think of anything else to try?  This feels like 3 broken plugins to me.

I am on 13.27 beta-1
Windows 11

[JoeViking245]

21 minutes ago, Gaming.Zone said:

Can anyone think of anything else to try?  This feels like 3 broken plugins to me.

I'm seeing the same issue with those 3 updates.  

For now, I suggest leaving the 3 emulators alone.  If you know of and feel you have to update one of them, do it manually.  You know, the old-fashioned way.

[Gaming.Zone]

6 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:

I'm seeing the same issue with those 3 updates.  

For now, I suggest leaving the 3 emulators alone.  If you know of and feel you have to update one of them, do it manually.  You know, the old-fashioned way.

Good to know it is not local to just me.  I can deal with manual updating emulators.  I just needed to know.

I suppose if others post here maybe it is bug ticket worthy.
 

[JoeViking245]

2 minutes ago, Gaming.Zone said:

Good to know it is not local to just me.  I can deal with manual updating emulators.  I just needed to know.

Fixed(ish).

• Close LaunchBox
• Navigate to you /LaunchBox/Plugins/ folder
• Delete the following folders:
  • Dolphin LaunchBox Integration
  • PCSX2 LaunchBox Integration
  • RetroArch LaunchBox Integration
• (Re)start LaunchBox

[Gaming.Zone]

19 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:

Fixed(ish).

• Close LaunchBox
• Navigate to you /LaunchBox/Plugins/ folder
• Delete the following folders:
  • Dolphin LaunchBox Integration
  • PCSX2 LaunchBox Integration
  • RetroArch LaunchBox Integration
• (Re)start LaunchBox

That did seem to fix it. 

I only deleted 1 of these and updated it (in my original attempts to fix).  Deleting all three now seems to fix the issue.

Think it was a caching issue that all 3 had to be removed to clear?

Edited 1 hour ago by Gaming.Zone

[JoeViking245]

2 minutes ago, Gaming.Zone said:

Think it was a caching issue that all 3 had to be removed to clear?

No.  There was a "glitch in the Matrix" that the developers were able to quickly resolve (thanks for bringing it up, BTW).   But the final part of the fix (in this case) required us to remove those folders as mentioned [so LB could rebuild them].

[Gaming.Zone]

4 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:

No.  There was a "glitch in the Matrix" that the developers were able to quickly resolve (thanks for bringing it up, BTW).   But the final part of the fix (in this case) required us to remove those folders as mentioned [so LB could rebuild them].

Great.  I appreciate the quick back and forth.

I also added a feature ticket to the backlog earlier this week for manual version number tracking  just to be able to see that on the emulator page at a glance.

I work in software development as well so I think I captured everything that would be needed.

Thanks again.

Edited 1 hour ago by Gaming.Zone