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Heh, found someone provided my same exact example four years ago. I guess I should forget about that ever being an option, which is a shame, because it really handicaps what you can do with playlists to not have that ability.

Correct, I'm looking for comparison logic which will give Game A (USA), Game A (EU), Game B (JP) = Game B (JP). Figured LB might have an option for it since it basically has an Audit List capability already built in per platform which would make it easy to do the comparison. I Can always have Ai do the comparison and make the Data xml, but just thought it would be nice if there was a work around already built into launchbox.

You cannot force LB to only use ROM named media. As you have seen if there is any other named media via title in addition to rom-named media it will add to game as well. If you have media/image pack with ROM names then easiest is to nuke the media folder specific to MAME and then add your media with ROM name. However, there is still a gotcha as if you ever edit a game in LB, then LB will merrily rename the media back to LB naming convention of game title (via Database) and a -0# sequence. There is a useful plugin in download section to rename media back to ROM name but the reality is you have to battle LB's tendency to name things the way it wants. It would be great if there was some way to lock media overall to avoid this but currently no such feature.

Basically, i wanted to use the same images for both launchbox and MAME. The MAME extras contain a lot of the same media launchbox uses (screenshots, video snaps etc) so i figured a good way not to have double images for everything was to just make symbolic links that point to the same folder so the same images can be used by both launchbox and MAME standalone. Since launchbox can pick up media using the rom name, i figured why not. Turns out launchbox picks up ANYTHING that is similar in name. So for instance there's a buttload of roms that have the word "tetris" in the name and all the images named after those roms show up under the same tetris game. Is there a way to force launchbox to use images with an EXACT match to the rom name?

Two doubts about Playlist Auto-Populate: - Can I search for information in the Application/ROM Path in additional application? This is to have an automatic list of games on itchio or other stores/ROMs, when my main version is one from Steam or GOG. - I'm preparing automatic lists of series based on their titles. Is it possible to filter by a field that contains one word and excludes another? For example, the Call of Duty series: contain "Call of Duty" while exclude "Commandos" so that "Commandos: Call of Duty" doesn't appear.

Same, it seems. I'll let it do it's thing for a while but so far it is stuck at the exact spot. If it helps I'm running launchbox on its own nvme ssd (samsung 990) and it isn't in the root directory. It's an all amd system (7800x3d, 7900xtx, 96gb amd expo ddr5, and all the auto overclocking/boosting features turned on) Update: changed a diaper, fed a baby, and ate a sandwich. it's still stuck. Never mind, went to close the window and there was a popup that opened in the background. I'm not using any window pinning.

Here's is a realistic Arcade Bezel for the game Rush'n Attack using the MegaBezel Reflective Shader for Retroarch.

😄 No worries!

Regarding the Star Rating, what is now the exact cutoff between rating numbers? I have some auto playlists and custom badges that I'd like to update with the correct number values so the grouping is accurate, so for example: would Between 4 AND 4.99 be right for a 4 star playlist after the 13.21 update?

I tried mine in dll groups. The problem was not in Launchbox or in the program to create the dlls but in one of the dlls. If I saw well after the update and after I had copied my dlls into the plugins folder, there were two with different names but same parameters. Maybe they were in conflict. Anyway, problem solved!!! Thanks!

Overriding the clear logos has worked for me on most of the platforms, except for where I have scraped platforms as Arcade i.e Sega RingEdge (see screenshot for example). I did highlight it before in the betas and was told it would be fixed either for the new version or an up and coming beta. Cheers.

For anyone else looking for a fallback options, I did find this in the feature definition on Feedback: So placing custom Clear Logos there should remedy the issue. Also: This is likely what needs to be done to use Clear Logos in the original location. I can't confirm this solves the problem quite yet, I'll try later tonight and update.

It works again.

I wanted to upgrade from 13.18 to 13.21 but get error message i cant read because of another launchbox dialogue box is blocking the view. Went back to 13.18 The last few updates were and are a mess...

I hope they fix this soon... Do they know this problem?

Thanks, that was kind of my point in mentioning since you all seem to be discussing reasons why an "and" "or" structure would be useful. Name changes and variations wouldn't be that much of an issue since Launchbox already allows for "contains" as a qualifier. The "or" part is the real problem. And yes, of course games can be added manually, but as an example, Capcom. They've got a lot of games, you know? It's not viable as a long-term solution. Frankly, I admit I'm surprised "or" isn’t a function. No offense, but it feels like a pretty basic standard for any kind of system like this.

Oh, thank goodness. I thought I was going mad. I feel somewhat better now knowing I'm not the only one. In the 4 half years of using LB and emumovies, I've never had this problem 😅

It's because in v1 you could set the index. Which really shouldn't be done. That's why Jayjay removed it in v2.

Nothing has changed in LaunchBox related to EmuMovies in quite a while. Their API is down at the moment. We can't do anything on our end.

Same issue here.. I hope it will be fixed soon..

A reboot didn't help. Must be API issue or something