Missing Games Checker Plugin 1.2

That's great to hear! I'm taking a break for a bit unless something drastic comes up lol But now that I got my feet wet, I may be back with something else 😁🤪 Cheers!

Was looking for something like this & boom there it is on the forums. Looking forward to trying it out. For the live db vs local db sync issues, would it make sense to have the plugin, or alternatively direct the user, to update their local copy first? I'm not sure what the built-in time frame is for LB to update the local xml but I know if I'm importing new games & it's been a while since I did it last, LB will update it before the scan. Maybe there's a way to fire that process off? 

I do believe the metadata file is updated when you open LaunchBox. When I first started at the beginning of September I think there was around 157000 titles pulled. By the time I was done a few days ago I was pulling in around 161000, and I never updated the metadata file specifically. And there's only a portion of the LaunchBox app I have access to. And I don't believe I saw that type of functionality exposed in the API. Hope that helps! Cheers!

People can always force a metadata update via the Tools, Download option menu to update their local version. It is done automatically in several cases (such as searching for game in edit view). 

Even the metadata you download lags the "live" DB as those are not immediately reflected in the download once approved.  On top of that you have changes in process that are not shown in the live DB view or download.  So ~24 to 48 hours is what I have seen from time a change submitted to time available in local DB (just my observation over years..approval queue length can drastically alter that time).  There is nothing this tool can do to alter that, it is just more visible when using this useful tool. 

Fantastic Tool. Thanks for your work. My wish for a future version: blacklist to exclude unwanted games permanently

Just trying it now. Really liking this plugin man great work. Once question I have is how do I get that filter by region window to come up that you show? I would assume by clicking on the funnel icon for that column but it doesn't seem to do anything. The column will sort fine if I click on region but I can't seem to get the filter window.

Thanks.

7 hours ago, PiperCalls said:

Just trying it now. Really liking this plugin man great work. Once question I have is how do I get that filter by region window to come up that you show? I would assume by clicking on the funnel icon for that column but it doesn't seem to do anything. The column will sort fine if I click on region but I can't seem to get the filter window.

Thanks.

Click on the funnel to bring additional window up.

Yuup, that's what I'm saying though it doesn't bring up the window when I click on the funnel icon. I'm trying to filter in the Missing Games List in the region column. There is no window or reaction when I click on the icon. I tried a few of the other column icons and nothing.

29 minutes ago, PiperCalls said:

Yuup, that's what I'm saying though it doesn't bring up the window when I click on the funnel icon. I'm trying to filter in the Missing Games List in the region column. There is no window or reaction when I click on the icon. I tried a few of the other column icons and nothing.

Huh... lol Any chance you could copy the debuglog into a txt file and post it here? I'll take a look. Odd that it's the missing games, since that is direct from the xml. Thanks!

Sure. I enabled debug log, closed LB, reopened it & went straight to the plugin & tried to filter again.

Thanks for checking.

Edited October 2 by PiperCalls

Oh sorry! I meant the log from the plugin  Click the little bug icon under the column selection. Replicate the issue (load up your data, then click on the filter icon in the header column), then copy the log into a txt again please! Thanks!

6 minutes ago, AgentJohnnyP said:

Oh sorry! I meant the log from the plugin  Click the little bug icon under the column selection. Replicate the issue (load up your data, then click on the filter icon in the header column), then copy the log into a txt again please! Thanks!

oh lol, ok here you go. note, i could not click on the region filter in missing games because the debug log window covers it and doesn't appear to be moveable. i did click on a few other of the filter icons that I could see though.

debug.txt

Very useful plugin!

Is there any chance to allow resize windows in both ways and also allow navigate through LB platforms/menus while using your plugin?

Fantastic plugin this is, great job 👍   It works perfectly for me.

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Also, if you would like to have MGC perform additional tricks, let me know!! I do appreciate the feedback and will enhance the plugin over time based on your findings/suggestions.

This may be beyond what you're trying to do here, but what I would love to see is to be able to add DAT files or scan a folder with multiple data files in that have been filtered through something like Retool so we can compare our collections to them to get a one-game-one Rom (1G1R) setup instead of reading the Launchbox database (which has a lot of regions missing).

Btw the completion image made me chuckle when I saw it, i want to see that for everything 😁

On 10/1/2024 at 11:38 PM, PiperCalls said:

oh lol, ok here you go. note, i could not click on the region filter in missing games because the debug log window covers it and doesn't appear to be moveable. i did click on a few other of the filter icons that I could see though.

debug.txt 1.92 kB · 4 downloads

I haven't been able to reproduce this issue. I might need to add some additional debug logging to catch it. I'll post an update in a few weeks, a little wrapped up with other things right now  Maybe you could try it again, but just close the debug log window and click on the filter. The logging is still going in the background so you can click on the filter, then go into the debug log and grab the updates and post here again. Thanks for the help! Cheers!🍻

On 10/2/2024 at 12:58 PM, ci2own said:

Very useful plugin!

Is there any chance to allow resize windows in both ways and also allow navigate through LB platforms/menus while using your plugin?

Thanks, that was what I was going for, useful  lol 

I could try a few things to get the window to resize vertically as well. Not sure about the navigation in LB while the plugin is open. Might be a limitation of Windows with this one. I can look into it though!

On 10/6/2024 at 6:54 AM, Baggio said:

Fantastic plugin this is, great job 👍   It works perfectly for me.

This may be beyond what you're trying to do here, but what I would love to see is to be able to add DAT files or scan a folder with multiple data files in that have been filtered through something like Retool so we can compare our collections to them to get a one-game-one Rom (1G1R) setup instead of reading the Launchbox database (which has a lot of regions missing).

Btw the completion image made me chuckle when I saw it, i want to see that for everything 😁

Thank you for the feedback! Glad it works not just on my PC lol  And I had to throw Leo in there somewhere! (It's the ADHD in me lol) 

That is an interesting idea. I could look into something like that. I've actually wanted to do a little more with my MAME collection. I'll see what plugins are available and see what I can build! Might be a little while out, but I'll add it to my plate. Cheers!   🍻

Mine just says I'm missing every game for the Arcade platform.  It works for all the other platforms.  I'm using the newest version of MAME stand alone (0.270).  Any advice?

 

Edited October 18 by DaveTheLeg

On 10/11/2024 at 3:42 PM, AgentJohnnyP said:

Thank you for the feedback! Glad it works not just on my PC lol  And I had to throw Leo in there somewhere! (It's the ADHD in me lol) 

That is an interesting idea. I could look into something like that. I've actually wanted to do a little more with my MAME collection. I'll see what plugins are available and see what I can build! Might be a little while out, but I'll add it to my plate. Cheers!   🍻

Good stuff, let me know if you need it testing if you do give it a go 👍

Dont know what is the culprit but recently tried running the plugin to only get this after the second pass resulting in a red x where the metadata found message would be.

 

Debug Log
2024-12-06 06:08:32
->Looking for Metadata...
Looking for Metadata at C:\Users\wolfr\LaunchBox\Metadata\metadata.xml...
Metadata found at C:\Users\wolfr\LaunchBox\Metadata\metadata.xml!
metadataFilePath: C:\Users\wolfr\LaunchBox\Metadata\metadata.xml
xmlReadCompleted: False
xmlGames.Count:  92361
gameCount: 92360
platformCount:  0
GameAltNamesCount:  0
Ended processing games
 

On 12/6/2024 at 12:11 PM, zyute said:

Dont know what is the culprit but recently tried running the plugin to only get this after the second pass resulting in a red x where the metadata found message would be.

 

Debug Log
2024-12-06 06:08:32
->Looking for Metadata...
Looking for Metadata at C:\Users\wolfr\LaunchBox\Metadata\metadata.xml...
Metadata found at C:\Users\wolfr\LaunchBox\Metadata\metadata.xml!
metadataFilePath: C:\Users\wolfr\LaunchBox\Metadata\metadata.xml
xmlReadCompleted: False
xmlGames.Count:  92361
gameCount: 92360
platformCount:  0
GameAltNamesCount:  0
Ended processing games
 

Same issue for me

On 9/8/2024 at 8:21 PM, zyute said:

I'm not sure what's going on but I put the .dll in the plugins folder and followed the steps but every system I check for missing games using the plugin results in it saying the system isn't in the Launchbox DB such as Atari 2600 or Atari 7800 and lists all games.

I get the same error.  When running, it can't find any system that I have loaded.