[C64 Dreams (massive curated C64 collection)]

The "add all reviewed games" angle is an interesting one, that I think will resonate with a lot of people. Being able to read every game review in Zzap!64 and immediately play the game is a really cool way to experience the C64!!

[Commodore VIC-20]

11 hours ago, MacGuyver said:

I feel like the best option is to follow in Zombeaver's footsteps on the C64 Dreams project, and use RetroArch with the latest VICE xvic core.  There is a lot of great features being added right now on the VICE cores, and the ability to to use shaders etc from Retroarch is just too powerful to ignore.   I'll update when I'm further along.   

Thanks for the update, Mac. I'll be watching this thread veeeery closely

[Infocom Platform Video]

Better a late reply than never, I guess! Thanks very much for this!

[Commodore VIC-20]

I must admit I'm having a rough time with getting the different types of files to work with Vice in LaunchBox. A few work fine, but most don't work at all. Can anyone who has all the tape, disk and cartridge files working nicely possibly share their configuration, please?

[The Image Thread (Platform Images, Clearlogos, Box Templates and More)]

1 hour ago, MrDiggle said:

You can find one in my old post, have a look and see if you can use them

Thanks a ton--this is great. I was able to create a smart object based version of the template that should make it easier for anyone with Photoshop to make covers more quickly for PS2 if there're any gaps in the already available covers (and for custom discs like the 16-in-1 Shmups collections etc.)

PS2_3D_BOX_Smart_Template_1-Side.psd

[The Image Thread (Platform Images, Clearlogos, Box Templates and More)]

Is there a Photoshop template for the 3D Playstation 2 box cover somewhere, by any chance?

[Enhancements that would improve user experience]

Hi, Launchbox is great, but it could be even greater if we could:

- Right-click on a platform and get a menu option to scan for new roms in the folder

- Get a toolbar with nice big icons for the most common tasks, like "Import Roms", "Manage Emulators" etc.

[Crash on save after import, losing everything :(]

Okay, I *am* an idiot. I see that just redoing the metadata and not downloading the images again makes everything sync up and all the images are used. Whew.

But I still think it makes more sense to download metadata, save it, then move on to the next one, rather than saving in bulk at the end.

And an option to automatically say yes to an import despite errors would be a huge plus.

[Crash on save after import, losing everything :(]

Hi. I ran an import of my NES titles last night, this morning I see the usual "there were these errors, do you still want to import?" message. I say yes. Launchbox begins saving, then crashes out, just vanishes. I load it back up, there's no NES platform.

So I try again, and I see that it's not checking for local media at all, it's just re-downloading all the images that it spent the whole night before downloading.

So do I now have to do the whole process again? Surely there's a better way? Checking hashes maybe?

I'm not the best of coders, but would it not be more logical to download the metadata for a game, save it to the database, download the images, store them and their hashes, then move on to the next game? Doing it in bulk right at the end seems to be courting disaster....

Or am I missing something obvious because I'm a bit of an idiot?

Edit: See below, idiot confirmed.