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    The LaunchBox Development Team will most likely have this issue resolved with their next beta release.
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    I wish it were that simple. This erratic behavior can be reproduced without the (or any) plugin(s) being present. (Only tested with version 12.11) Exit LaunchBox Delete any and all plugins in the Plugins folder. Start LaunchBox Go to Tools, Manage, Platforms Click Add Click the dropdown for Scrape As (everything looks OK) Click Cancel. Click Close. Go to Tools, Manage, Platforms, Click Add Click the dropdown for Scrape As Scroll down past the blanks until you start seeing the list of Default available Platforms
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    This Special Edition version adds a change to renaming "PC Engine" to "NEC TurboGrafx-16" when updating. If you have a Platform for NEC TurboGrafx-16, NEC TurboGrafx-CD or PC Engine SuperGrafx (or any variant of these 3), after you have all your metadata and media for that Platform, set that Platform to Scrape As "NEC TurboGrafx-16". This will ensure the Retro Achievement badges appear in your Platform. RetroAchBadge v2.2.1SE.zip Download and install this version the same way as How to install the plugin: listed at the top of this page.
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    Because Retro Achievements combined PC-Engine, TurboGrafx-16 and TurboGrafx-CD games all into one category/console/platform. There are 86 games listed in that 'console' (PC-Engine) spread amongst those 3 listed. Some of those 86 also happen to fit into 2 different ones. i.e. "Alien Crush" achievements are in both TG-16 and PCE. I haven't decided on whether to change "PC Engine" to "NEC TurboGrafx-16", "NEC TurboGrafx-CD" or "PC Engine SuperGrafx". Though I think "NEC TurboGrafx-16" may be the logical choice. For now, you can edit AllGames.xml and rename "PC Engine" (approx. line #2307) to "NEC TurboGrafx-16" and save it. And as long as Scrape As is set to "NEC TurboGrafx-16" for your given Platform, the badges will appear.
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    2 posts up from yours details just that.
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    It will show that error when chdman fails to convert the file. This is where plan "B" comes into play... Open the Windows Command Prompt to where your cue/bin files are located and run the command "d:\Mame\chdman.exe" createcd -i "filename.cue" -o "filename.chd" Change (inside, and keeping the quotes) the full path to where your chdman.exe file is located. also change (again... inside, and keeping the quotes) "filename" (2 locations) of the cue file you're converting. i.e. "d:\Mame\chdman.exe" createcd -i "Lunar-Silver Star Story Complete (Disc 1).cue" -o "Lunar-Silver Star Story Complete (Disc 1).chd" If (when?) it fails here, it should give an indication as to why. You didn't by chance simply rename your m3u to cue? That won't work unfortunately. You need to have all the different discs imported into LaunchBox and pointing to their respective game_name (Disc #).cue files.
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    That's odd that it removed the other 2 added games when adding these 2. And more confusing when you added the other 2 back in, these 2 stayed. I'm calling it a Win! 😁 Oops. fixed. This may fix some other little oddities as well. RetroachievementBadges (v2.1.4).zip Nice discovery on the Aero Fighters 2 and seeing the achievements in LB! Since (it looks like) it wants the Neo-Geo AES port to be able to gain achievements, you may need to add "aes" to the command line for that game. i.e. "mame.exe aes sonicwi2".
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    Your 'shorter' title is also listed (in AllGames) under Nintendo Family Computer which is the console name it will look for first. If it doesn't find the games' Title there, it will then look under the scrape-as console name. (just an FYI) Between then and now, I was doing some code cleanup and don't think I really changed anything when I had a thought. (ya, crazy. I know!) I created a new Platform called Nintendo Family Computer (a novel idea) and added Akumajou Special: Boku Dracula-kun / Kid Dracula to it. And the badge appeared. I then renamed it to Akumajou Special: Boku Dracula-kun and there was (as expected) no badge. Right clicked, added the badge, and it showed. Ran the updater, the badge was still there. Same thing with DQ6. So either I did change/fix something, or "you got issues". Try this. RetroachievementBadges (v2.1.3).zip If it's still not working, edit the game(s) and check the Title. Maybe there's a leading or trailing space, or one of the characters is an atypical ascii character (even though it may look OK)... Actually, better yet, if to the right of the Title there's a LB DB ID#, click the red X and then Search for metadata and select the game that appears. Click OK. If no LBDB ID#, Search for metadata, select game and click OK. BTW (at least on mine), no Retro Achievements show in LB for the game Akumajou Special: Boku Dracula-kun. Also, I did end up playing it for about 15 minutes to "see what it's all about". It kind of fits in line with my style of old-school Nintendo games.
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    To clarify, for Nintendo Family Computer and Super Famicon, most of the games having achievements show a badge.?. The 2 games mentioned for these consoles don't show a badge. Which makes sense because they are named differently from what R-Achievements names them. But an issue remains (at least with these 2) that if you right-click and click to add a badge, it doesn't appear? I see the games are getting added to the Added.xml. Are they showing up in AllGames.xml? (pro-tip: When viewing AllGames.xml in Notepad++, press ALT+2 to collapse it just the consoles. Then you can click the + next to the console you actually want to see the games for.) Actually, can you share your AllGames and Added xml files? (just drag & drop the file onto your reply) I'm at least glad to hear most all of the other idiosyncrasies are getting ironed out.
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    I'm pretty sure I fixed it "this time". 🤞 This was mainly an issue with Titles that had an ampersand in them. ("Dragon Quest I & II") Another issue I saw a couple times in the vids had to do with capitalization. (Jeanne d'Arc vs. Jeanne D'Arc) These 2 issues should be fixed as well. With these last 2 fixes, can you see how it looks without using the Added.xml file? Before updating with this version, delete, move or rename Added.xml. Run the updater, then see how your badge collection looks. RetroachievementBadges (v2.1.2).zip Second verse, same as the first. (download, unblock, unzip, replace the 1 file, run the updater...) Let me know how it goes. 😎
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    Edit your emulator for your BuildGDX. (Tools, Manage, Emulators). Under Default Command-Line Parameters:, (based on the information you provided) put -path %romfile%, -silent Leave all check boxes un-checked. I presume you already have given the emulator a name, pointed to the Application Path and selected a Platform under Associated Platforms. I've never heard of nor used BuildGDX, but I'm skeptical about the , (comma) in the command line you show. (You don't typically see those) So if the above Command-Line isn't working, try it without the comma. -path %romfile% -silent
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    Thanks for the screen shots. The CUE file appears fine. Please Edit your game Lunar-Silver Star Story Complete. Based on the output display, I'm guessing you have (Disc 1) as the main game and (Disc 2) is an Additional App. Go to the Launching section and share a screenshot of the 1st field, ROM File. My guess is that it's not point to "Lunar-Silver Star Story Complete (Disc 1).cue". Now go to the Additional Apps section and edit the one for Disc 2. (assuming it's an Additional App) Check the Application Path. Is it pointing to "Lunar-Silver Star Story Complete (Disc 2).cue"? If my guess is correct, they both do not point to file_name.cue. (quite possibly they point to .chd? [which doesn't exist]). If that's the case, change the file extensions [back] to .cue, save and run the plugin again. If that's not the case and/or it doesn't resolve the issue, we'll look at Plan "B".
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    I was able to download them and am viewing them now. Thanks again. I'll do some checking.
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    These should still work fine. 1 CUE per disc. So your imported games would be something like (4 separate games in LaunchBox) This_is_a_game_(disc_1).cue This_is_a_game_(disc_2).cue This_is_a_game_(disc_3).cue This_is_a_game_(disc_4).cue And then in your folder you'd also have something like This_is_a_game_(disc_1).bin This_is_a_game_(disc_2).bin This_is_a_game_(disc_3).bin This_is_a_game_(disc_4).bin For the multi-disc games, you say you see in the output window that is says "Checking main game This_is_a_game_(disc_1)". Then right after that, does it say "Converting Complete"? Or does it go right to saying "Checking Additional Apps...."? If it doesn't show "Converting Complete" or "Error Converting", then that particular game ("This_is_a_game" in this example) isn't pointing to a CUE file. Double check that the games path is pointing to a .cue file. If you had created a .m3u for these multi discs, that won't work for converting. Are you using the most recent version of chdman.exe?
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    @MD-Geist Thanks for letting me know!! Sony PSP ("PlayStation Portable") was not on the list of 'Platform names to fix' (just like Sega Dreamcast wasn't). It has now been added. When updating, added Platforms ("Nintendo Family Computer" etc.) were not being added back into AllGames.xml from Added.xml. Only games that fell under an existing Retro Achievements console/platform ("fixed" or not) were added. This has been fixed which should in-turn fix doubling up game entries in Added.xml (since you won't have to add them again after updating ). I still haven't done anything with TurboGrafx issue. And there's a real strong chance I won't because of how R-Achievements has grouped console variants. But this revision should fix the issue with manually added games for consoles not specifically on the list. This zip ONLY contains one of the files for the plugin. Download, UnBlock, and replace the file in your /Plugins/RetroAchBadge/ folder with the one in the zip. Keep all other files in the folder. Run the Badge Updater from the Tools menu. Since your Added.xml is small, either delete it and start over, or just delete the duplicated games from the xml and save. You could even do nothing, but those duplicates will always be there. It won't hurt anything. Just looks ugly. RetroachievementBadges (v2.1.1).zip
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    It shouldn't be skipping any games without giving you the popup error message. Since you are seeing the message [on some of them] tells me you have the latest version (v1.02, released Saturday). Which is good. Are the games that are not converting and not showing the error message 'main' games? Or games that are Additional Apps to a main game? And are all these games [and Additional Apps] all pointing to a .cue file in their application path [path to the ROM file]? How it works The plugin looks at each game and its Additional Apps (if any) in your selected Platform, at the games path to the ROM. If the ROM file in that path has a file extension of .cue, it sends it to chdman to convert it (the .bin file(s) that particular .cue file references) to a CHD. After conversion is 'completed' (chdman exits its process), the plugin checks to see if the [created] CHD file exists. If the CHD file doesn't exist, something went wrong with the conversion and you get the [generic] error message. I've only heard of one instance where conversions were failing. The fix was update the version of chdman being used.
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    It won't modify any existing files other than move or delete (if you select one of those options).
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    Glad to hear you got it working! Myself, I only have one controller to test with. But with yours, if one fails to load, I wouldn't think it would make them both not work. But I've been wrong many times before. Try making sure you have the controller that's assigned to player one (they won't be interchangeable because of the controller specific ID's) plugged in (give it a sec to fully register) before starting MAME. I assume when you changed the mapdevice to JOYCODE_1 and JOYCODE_2 respectively, all the stick and button reassignments were changed to 1 & 2 as well. Also try to keep where you plug then in relatively consistent. They shouldn't need to be exact, but don't try using them both in a USB hub and then later, just one in a USB port right at the computer.
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    Then cheat and use Google.
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    The error looks like it's in the cue file. Which would also lead me to believe that if you tried to run the game via the cue file, it won't. But it may also be that the older chdman.exe you're using is 'the one with issues'. Maybe try - downloading the latest MAME release and extract it to a temp folder and then attempt the command line test again pointing to the 'new' chdman.exe. If that doesn't work, you may need to try to find different cue files (or different cue/bin roms?).?.?.? I just uploaded an updated cue2chd v1.02 that will now (actually) catch the error 'the chd file was not created'. It will also not move the files if/when this error is reached. It still won't tell you why something messed up, but you'll at least know something went wrong.
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    Then plugin doesn't cross check alternate names. (*) = your name (-) = RAchievements name (*)Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Oratorio Tangram (-)Cyber Troopers Virtual-On: Oratorio Tangram (*)Disney Donald Duck Quack Attack (-)Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers Donald Duck: Quack Attack Disney's Donald Duck: Quack Attack Disney's Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers (*)Dynamite Cop! (-)Dynamite Cop (*)Soul Calibur (-)Soulcalibur (*)Alone in the Dark 2 (Japan) (-)Alone in the Dark II Alone in the Dark 2 (*)Trip'd (-)Trip'd. (looks like an error in RAchievements with the added period)
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    If the chd file wasn't created, you would have (should have?) seen a message Edit one of your CD-I games in question and look at the application path for the rom. (it'll be in Launching and under ROM File. Since you attempted it a couple times, the file will probably end in .chd. Anyway, look at the full path and make sure it's the same path where you believe your [new] chd files should be. Although as I think about it, it should be the same because it knew where to move the file from. Process of elimination... You could test to see if chdman can actually convert your files (the apparent step that failed?). Open the command prompt where your CD-I cue/bin files are located and run the command "d:\Mame\chdman.exe" createcd -i "filename.cue" -o "filename.chd" Change (inside, and keeping the quotes) the full path to where your chdman.exe file is located. also change (again... inside, and keeping the quotes) "filename" (2 locations) of the cue file you're converting. Example: "D:\LaunchBox\Emulators\MAME 0.242\chdman.exe" createcd -i "hotel mario (1994)(philips)(us)[!].cue" -o "hotel mario (1994)(philips)(us)[!].chd" EDIT: I just ran some tests and it seems a chd will not be created if the .bin file doesn't exist or if the bin file is zero bytes. But if (for some odd reason) the bin file 'bad', but is still larger than 0 bytes, a chd (though probably not usable) will still be created. So not sure why the error message didn't appear when no chd file was created.
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    Is that your whole james.cfg file contents? (hope not) Have you been able to assign and keep the respective controllers as Player-1, Player-2, ect. (your initial issue)? I re-read this and it sounds like you added "james" to the appropriate section in mame.ini. Did you also put the file (james.cfg) in the /ctrl/ folder?
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    You'll need to Right-Click the 20 TG-CD games in your collection that have achievements and manually add them. You will also need to do them one-by-one as there is no bulk option to add badges. Another option is the edit the console name in AllGames.xml, changing it to the [exact] name of your Platform. The caveat of this is you will need to it anytime you run the updater. Retro Achievements combined PC-Engine, TurboGrafx-16 and TurboGrafx-CD games all into one category/console/platform. There are 86 games listed in that 'console' (PC-Engine) spread amongst those 3 listed. Some of those 86 also happen to fit into 2 different ones. i.e. "Alien Crush" achievements are in both TG-16 and PCE. To make matters worse, appears I didn't even change the name PC-Engine to anything that's default in LaunchBox (NEC TurboGrafx-16, NEC TurboGrafx-CD, PC Engine SuperGrafx). So even if you have Scrape As set correctly, it won't work.
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    That's good to know. But if it's creating new achievements for existing games, nothing with badges will change. They'll still be there from before. Adding new games would be different. Updating has been changed to "as often as you want". The 24 hour limit has been removed because it's not making calls to the API anymore. Thanks Mongu!! But I don't know how to accept $, so instead, just "pay it forward". Do a good deed and/or help someone else. It'll go even further if you don't know them. And it doesn't even have to be for someone in the LaunchBox community.
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