JoeViking245

First off, I must sincerely apologize. I swear we were on a different thread for a different plugin when I first replied to your initial request. (guess that's what I get for trying to multitask with multiple tabs open. 😊) Some games have multiple alternate Titles that have no Region associated with them. i.e. Halo: Combat Evolved (default), Halo 1 (alt, no region), Halo CE (alt, no region). When choosing to Select First Title, honestly I think it's coincidence that they're grabbed alphabetically. But there's so few to choose from, it's hard to say. Before changing a games Title, the plugin adds the existing Title to its Alternate Names list if it doesn't already exist there. Thought being, so it doesn't get lost (i.e. you wanted to revert back). But it shouldn't end up with duplicates listed under Alternate Names. 'Duplicates' being case-sensitive. 'Joe' and 'JOE' is not considered a duplicate. However what it doesn't do is remove the 'new Title' from the Alternate Titles list once applied (I debated back-and-forth on this, sticking with the 'safe route'). Making an available Alternate Title a duplicate of the game's [now] Main Title. Hopefully that's what you're seeing. If that's not it, please let me know and I'll dig into it further. [long, boring background details left out...] I have on my list to look into restructuring this plugin to make use of the 'new' metadata database file making it so that it will no longer have to rely on per-game downloaded metadata. aka, Alternate and Default Tiles will come "straight from the horse's mouth". This will also allow me to add an option to "update the game title with the default/main title from the LB games database". No promises on how soon (or not) this may take place.

Cool. So you got 2 options. Use the plugin. Or request a feature (Feedback - LaunchBox), hope others agree and wait.

That's pretty much outside of the scope of this plugin's intent. But might be within the realm of this one:

Ah. OK. This is the one I saw which references Naomi 1 & 2.

At near the top of this page under the authors name, click View their other files. There you'll find all sorts of goodies.

Thanks! That does look pretty sharp! As for the mouse, only play games that don't require one. For me, what I'm seeing is, the emulator mouse looks like it gets stuck in the upper left edge between the emulator and the bezel. My only guess is the emu cursor is 'fighting' with the bezel: The bezel, forcing itself to stay on top. While at the same time keeping the emulator the active window. Pressing the Pause/Break key "takes care of it". But does no good if you need the emulated mouse in-game. Not really sure if something can be done, for whatever is causing the conflict. The good thing is it seems to work great with the LaunchBox Pause themes (I mapped start/stop emulation to "P". Not sure if it was needed) and the game I tested (Bubble Bobble) plays and works great.

What settings do you have in Steem? Are you able to get it windowed full screen and then the plugin sizes it to fit within the bezel? I ask because I can't get it to do that. Though, I did just install it within the last hour and am still figuring it out. (If you could detail, or better yet share some screenshots of your Steem configuration(s) [in the emulator itself], it'd be greatly appreciated.)

Thanks! Glad you like it. Really, the only potentially useful DAT to have accessible during gameplay would be command.dat. 'gameinit' is a one-and-done thing, so would just get in the way. Even though I don't create themes, Pause or otherwise, I do know it would be a right pain to add a DAT viewer into one. It would be a lot easier to properly add the DAT to MAME, press Tab and access it (or even them) from there. Just sayin'.

The process for getting the images from the LB Games Database hadn't changed since the last official release of this plugin. It's essentially downloading the images from the LB Games Database. They download and appear when they download and appear. I can't change that. Also, I'm not sure how the other plugins would affect this.

I'm unable to reproduce the images not showing in the betas. I moved some stuff around in the code for beta-3 to change the loading sequence. Hopefully that'll fix it. If not, I may need to remove the 'save hide images checkbox' addition. The odd thing is, that's the only thing changed between v1.2.1 and 1.3.0 betas. Save the checkbox status on exit and set it on reload. Nothing else was touched. LBDBimages (v1.3.0-beta-3).7z If anyone else reading this can test the beta and confirm the images are/aren't showing, that'd be helpful.

Thanks for letting me know. When adding the 'hide game' part, I forgot to change something with the Zoom level. This should fix it. LBDBimages (v1.3.0-beta-2).7z As for the images disappearing, what the heck "game" is "IK+"? Also, ID #6415 doesn't even exist in the local database. You may need to a "Tools < Download < Force Update Games Database Metadata..." and then also rescan Metadata your games. But that does remind me, I have it check that the game has an associated LBDB ID# before it'll load. Didn't think to have it check if it has a valid LBDB ID#. I'll add that check in next time.

v1.3.0-beta-1 New Feature: Saves Hide images you already have on close and is used next time you open the plugin Note: This release won't show up in the plugin as having an update available. LBDBimages (v1.3.0-beta-1).7z

Thank you very much. Not sure what you mean by the right-click menu other than that's how the plugin is accessed already. Unless you mean the right-click menu in the audit window. The provided LaunchBox API doesn't give us access to the audit window. Glad you like. Just "Be[ing] excellent to each other".