LaunchBox a été conçu comme une interface attrayante pour DOSBox, mais a depuis été élargi pour supporter à la fois les jeux PC modernes et les consoles émulées. DOSBox continuera d’être une priorité principale pour LaunchBox.
Il peut rechercher dans la database TheGamesDB.net (une base de données en ligne communautaire qui permet à quiconque de contribuer) pour les metadatas & box-arts. Il peut exporter les fichiers image, dispose d’une meilleure compatibilité avec dropbox.
LaunchBox comprend des processus d’importations automatiques pour Steam, D-Fend Reloaded, et les fichiers ROM pour des gains de vitesse.
– New Premium Feature: Custom fields are now available for games!
– New Feature: LaunchBox is now easily translated! Also, thanks to Clive Barker from the forums, LaunchBox has been translated into Spanish! Select the language from the Options dialog.
– New Feature: New DOSBox configuration editor replaces editing in Notepad with a proper GUI!
– New Feature: Five new filterable and sortable fields have been added to games: Series, Play Mode, Region, Play Count, and Portable
– New Feature: Developer and Publisher fields now support multiple values
– New Feature: New voting system allows users to vote on upcoming features
– Fixed: Crashes could occur ocassionally when parsing icons for the right-click and Game menus
– Fixed: When adding custom emulators, settings from previously selected default emulators were not cleared
– Fixed: When using the AutoHotkey close button to close Kega Fusion, LaunchBox was closing as well
– Fixed: Very rarely a « collection was modified » error could occur
– Fixed: Imports from LaunchBox zip packages sometimes resulted in corrupt configurations
– Fixed: Exporting to LaunchBox zip packages did not include related ROM files (bin/cue)
– Fixed: When using the custom themes, the window was growing slightly with every minimize/restore (and other related positioning glitches)
– Fixed: A certain set of selections in the MS-DOS Installer Wizard resulted in an error message and would not launch DOSBox
