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Thanks for this - that's a great starting point. I'll hopefully get a chance to have a play about with this over the weekend. If I do, and if I manage to build on it, I'll post back here. Cheers

Really interesting stuff. Thanks. I did automate Clear Logo creation once just using PHP but that's lost to the sands of time. i believe you can also use Community Theme Creator to automate the creation of them?

@JoeViking245 thanks for the great post mate This is how it all came about... I was watching one of the latest videos from Video Game Esoterica and he was going through all the "Cruis'n" series of games and saying how well they play now in 0.277. I Googled the game series and found one called Cruis'n Exotica and I saw videos on YouTube of people playing the game. The game was nowhere near perfect emulation - the road was transparent and there were lots of problems with it but I just thought I'd fire it up for a look I had the rom zip but it wasn't in LB and so I decided to just do a full import (as I've not done one in ages) as I thought there might be games that have gone from "not working" to "working" over the last year or so that I don't have in my LB build so thought it might be interesting to create a new platform and do a full import. I deliberately didn't select "Skip non-playable" as I assumed that Cruis'n Exotica would come under the "non-playable" category. But the import showed a massive list and when I started checking through it I found all those "Floppy Drive" and lots of random stuff in there... so I Googled how to sort it and found that post... And here we are... a small insight into how a man in his fifties with just a little bit of time on his hands can get himself into all sorts of trouble.....

2025, still an issue unless I'm missing something? I'm getting things like "Double Density Floppy Drive" in the list... I wish there was an extra filter for MAME that we could select to include 'non-playable games' (which often means games that can be played but there aren't perfectly emulated) and another filter for "Skip devices".

Did you ever get to the bottom of this? I just watched a Video Game Esoterica video last night showing the use of Shader Glass and it looked awesome. Unfortunately the video just showed it being used and not set up? I'd like to set it up in LB/BB too? Did you manage to work it out? Thanks

Your code looks really good. I'm not great at AHK so always interested in reading new code. But just wondered what the benefit of this was? Is it just so that you can keep each game zipped together so it's neat or is there another benefit I'm not understanding? Thanks for sharing the code

So glad you got it sorted - felt for you when I read your first post

Yep completely agree. And, for all you know, you might be immortal....

Looks like it would be an amazing project if you succeed with it. Would be a huge difference to be able to play games knowing all the controls etc. and have everything automatically generated.

A bit of Google-foo looking for a Pause theme to display controller mappings brought me to some of your posts about a plugin to handle this. Is this still on the cards? And do you have any rough ideas on a release date? I would be a very willing beta-tester if you needed one. Currently looking at creating images to display on a Pause menu that will show game controls but, reading some of your ideas, it seems you are streets ahead of this?

Great idea - thanks! Thanks for the clarification sundogak. I wasn't 100% sure. It certainly seems like a better way to categorise them though but not to worry. Appreciate the feedback folks cheers

I had a lightgun playlist that auto-populated by the system being Arcade and the genre being "Shooter / Gun". A new game didn't show up and I noticed the genre was just "Shooter" so I went to the LB DB to edit it (thinking it was wrong) and the Shooter/Gun genre doesn't seem to be there anymore?? https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/105186-golgo-13 But this now means that this lightgun game is the same genre as something like "1942" (a traditional 'shooter') ? Is this a mistake somewhere in the system or is there another way of distinguishing between shooters like 1942 and shooters that used physical guns ?