Thanatos_Prime

There are some big ones, but I don't see anything too large. It usually will give an error on the submission page if it has an issue. Your cart images will need to be converted to png, even simple free programs like mspaint will do this. As you said the images need transparency on the corners. This can easily be done with Photoshop or GIMP, GIMP is free so that is often a good starting point. Here is the procedure for creating transparency. Once you have converted them to png files, open the png file in GIMP, click the fuzzy select tool, use it to select the section in the corners and click delete. If it shows a checkboard pattern on the section you just selected and deleted then you have transparency on that corner, if it shows white then go to Layer\Transparency and choose Add Alpha Channel and click the section again and delete so you see the "transparent" checkerboard. Do this for all sections, you can also use the Rectangle Select Tool and the Free Select Tool to select sections to change to transparent. Once you have the image as you want it, choose File, Export as and choose where you want to export to. Et voila, you have an uploadable cart front image. -There really isn't any place for the inside of the box scans. Please don't upload them as Fanart Background, this is the image shown on the background of your monitor when you click on the game. It should be a modern monitor size image related to the game, this is a background not a place for media scans. Hope this helps.

Thank you for all your help with this, sorry this is a recurring thorn in your side.

They're baaa-aaaack! Getting them pretty consistently with over 200 moderations pending.

The database is split into platforms, the vast majority the items in the from MESS\Mame have entries in the Arcade platform. Some of those items can likely be found shoe-horned under the Game & Watch platform, some like Palm Phones, Imagic Selector for the Atari and Macintosh 512ke roms are not currently part of any of the platforms. There is currently an effort in place to expand the database, perhaps you can think of which useful platform should be added in order to achieve your goal.

Does skipping non-arcade games when importing no longer fix the issue?

Creeping back in, but just when I get down to the last 20-30 moderations

Frankly, it appears to be getting worse.

Yes, I am still seeing it as of right now.

I'm back to getting an error when moderating, starting again yesterday and now much more frequent. It seems to be more prevalent as I get closer to finishing. Happens in all browsers and in browser with no add-ins.

I imagine lots of folks start off as collectors\completionists and end up curated. That is how it worked for me. On the flip side, I have lots of game variants, versions and minor hacks. I track them very easily using the Version DB entry, and View\show versions.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Moderation is not responding this morning. It just fails to load, all browsers.

Things are running much more smoothly now. I've moderated well over 200 items without a single issue.

That is...until you moderate for a time and then the errors come again. Same on Chrome, Firefox and Edge.

It looks like it is working now. Logged out and back in and it is working on FF. Thank you!!

I'm guessing someone is currently working on this as I can neither connect to moderation, nor add new games, so thank you! But just in case, letting you know that neither moderation nor addition of new games is working. O.O