LaunchBox organises all (and I mean all) your computer games into one easy to access, easy to search library. If you’re the type of person who has their emulators, ROMs and other gaming software strewn throughout the hard drive of your PC then you need this app. LaunchBox (as the name suggests) gives you the ability to run any game on your PC from one application, negating the need to constantly close down and reopen different applications every time you want to change games.
But what features do you get with your initial free setup of LaunchBox?
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LaunchBox is free to install on your machine, however there is a premium version which adds extra features to the application if you choose to upgrade. What’s Included In the Free Version of LaunchBox? The LaunchBox dashboard showing SNES gamesĪs well as organising your gaming library, LaunchBox sets up so that so that you can scan through your games using a wide variety of search criteria, such as genre, rating and many, many more. For retro-gaming it can run using pre-installed emulators or you can run it on top of your existing RetroArch setup. Basically it’s mission is to be the go-to application for all your computer gaming. Originally built to run on top of DosBox it now incorporates modern PC games as well as emulated systems. As you can imagine sifting through all these games is a painstaking task, even for the most patient of people, so it would definitely be useful to have an application that assists with this.Įnter, LaunchBox… What is LaunchBox? LaunchBox is a front-end graphical user interface for organising and accessing games (a video game library manager and launcher) on your Windows PC. As a vague idea of the amount of games I now have access to, we are talking tens of thousands. As an avid retro gamer the amount of emulators and ROMs I have compiled over the years has grown to an astronomical, almost unmanageable amount.