LaunchBox

What's New:

    • New Premium Feature: Added a new Screensavers feature to Big Box, letting users discover games with fully themeable views and interact directly with the games shown
    • New Premium Feature: 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
    • 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: 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
    • Improvement: When arranging by Game Progress, sorting now follows your user-defined order for progress values and headers
    • 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: 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
    • Fixed: RetroAchievements were not loading in Game Details when using a List View, resulting in no achievement data being shown
    • Fixed: Selecting a game too quickly in Big Box could prevent LEDBlinky from displaying the correct lighting behavior
    • Fixed: The Beat em Up clear logo now displays correctly under all conditions
    • Fixed: Resetting play time and play count now also resets these values for all additional apps attached to a game
    • Fixed: Hybrid views now provide proper audio feedback when navigating with a controller or keyboard
    • Fixed: Some custom LaunchBox themes were silently failing to poll the selected game, which could prevent item highlighting from working correctly
    • Fixed: In some custom LaunchBox themes, multiple carousel controls in the Game Details panel were not always updating as expected
    • Fixed: Legacy Big Box themes using Old Default theme code had a stray completed graphic that would always show, regardless of user data
    • Fixed: 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
    • Fixed: 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