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Thanks for the suggestions for more playlists, I'll use a bunch of these. -
correct, these are mapped to my own drives. If you want to use my .xml files you'll need to update them with your own.
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I use both symlinks and junctions, depending on weird admin things between internal and external drives. This has been a work in progress adding and changing drives, I don't change old settings unless something breaks. I may at some point go back and re-work a few but for now i'm leaving them as-is. Your lists will help if and when I decide to go back and change things for uniformity.
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Not all of the games have working emulators, if that's your goal. All I did to manage each platform was Google the best emulator for it and use it.
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Thanks for this. Many of these have differing locations due to symlinks, some emulators are in the 'games' directory due to the games and their emulators requiring special relationships, different but similar emulators are intentional due to some games working better with older / newer emulators, and more. Capitalizations and sub folders are of no interest to me as I keep adding more and I'm not changing individual games names. My '. xxx' platforms are intentionally named that way.
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Almost every time I add to or create a Platform, LB starts rebuilding almost all of the other .xml files in the Data folder. This adds several hours to the process and I'm not sure why it does this. Earlier in my build this only happened occasionally but now it's happening about 95% of the time. It happens during the 'Saving games...' process and each platform takes 6-7 minutes to be rebuilt. I have quite a few platforms so this can take up to 80 hours per Platform update... not ideal Has anyone else come across this?
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I think I have some of these already... but maybe I had them and then scrapped them. Thanks for your list, I'll add what I can.
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Wow! Thank you for going through and doing all of this, I appreciate it. You've saved me a lot of work while simultaneously giving me a lot Was this done by a third party app or software or did you create all this yourself?
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When I do an audit inside MAME (currently using .260) it shows 5 games as missing, the rest are complete. When I import using the Launchbox MAME importer (from scratch - previous MAME.xml file was removed) and run the audit tool inside the MAME platform it shows over 11,000 games missing. I have included all ROMS, CHDS and Software Lists. What else am I missing?
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I've collected all the main sets as well as a whole lot of others sets, collections and individual games from wherever I can find them. Also I'm not fussy about separating some files from others depending on language, beta, prototype, etc as they're all valid in my collection. I'm over 6 years in on this, I'm always looking for more.
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By cores, do you mean Retroarch? I only use that for the standard sega / nintendo / atari systems as well as a few others. For the rest I've tried to find specific emulators for them all, and I have close to all of them (I think) that exist. Emulators are continually updating and being created so every now and then I'll check for better or for ones that I haven't found yet. A lot of the games for these outlier platforms I can only get going by pointing the game path at the emulator then loading the game inside the emulator itself. I'm ok with that if it only means a few more clicks. I usually only test a couple of games with an emulator to make sure it opens or at least is seen by the emulator so I can't speak for every game working with the emulators i've chosen... But when I find another, I add it as a possible emulator insode Launchbox so I have a choice. My hope is that eventually, all old systems will have perfect working emulators, but as you know we're not there yet. I've added a screenshot of a few of my emulator folders so you can see what I mean.
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I have another thread, more active and regularly updated here - Feel free to continue to comment here if you wish.
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Version 2023-1112_Images
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This is my current collection of clear logos, banners etc from my ...Launchbox\Images folder. Drop these in the same place to add to your own collection of images. Overwrite or rename to suit. These are just these specific folders from the ...\Images folder, these aren't individual system specific folders (XBOX, NES, etc.). All 4 zip files extract to almost 8GB. Looking for my .XML files?-
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Image Folders | Platforms | Playlists | Platform Categories | Platform Icons | complete zip packs. View File This is my current collection of clear logos, banners etc from my ...Launchbox\Images folder. Drop these in the same place to add to your own collection of images. Overwrite or rename to suit. These are just these specific folders from the ...\Images folder, these aren't individual system specific folders (XBOX, NES, etc.). All 4 zip files extract to almost 8GB. Looking for my .XML files? Submitter -McFly- Submitted 11/12/2023 Category Platform Media Packs
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New updated Platform and Playlist zip files, see page 1 for downloads.
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What are you trying to download? Are you getting any error messages?
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.Magazines.xmlno playlists, just this platform.Cartoon Capers.xml Might be useful..?
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Updated today, October 28th '23. No big increase in Playlists, a few more Platforms. See page 1 for list.
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I'm using 3 large TB drives, 2 internal, 1 external. My emulators are on an NVME stick which I think works a little faster with my setup. As for lag... try turning off the video hardware acceleration.
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No, i don't use that. At least for now. I'm getting it from 2 places: LB games count and everything I find with Notepad++ </ApplicationPath> Granted, 1 is real, the 2nd is everything including dupes and more. The dupes don't count, only the LB count with all the dupes removed and ROM consolidation.
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a little over 33TB right now
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I like your question, it's one of those 'should i / why do you / how about this' questions, one that ultimately comes down to personal wants and needs. Mine changes all the time. For instance I have many Playlists for the ZN-1, System E and more which I could have as a platform instead. Why do I have some that are Platforms and others that are Playlists... is a question I can't really answer tbh as I make it up as I go along. Will I change some platforms to playlists and vice versa? Probably. I might even change them back. Your .xls spreadsheet is interesting, I see what you're getting at there. You could just plop them all under Sega, or you could spread them out over platforms, playlists or both. How much time do you want to spend on everything? That's the question. If you don't mind spending more time than most then make everything as granular as you want. If you don't like them later you can always change them to someting else. I do have a fairly small Platform Categories list I sometimes play with which may take more of my time later, if I want to get more granular. I don't think anyone will mind how you do yours, I expect everyone does them differently. I do have a bunch of Platforms and Playlists that only have 1 game though. You could have a 'Boards' category that has specific board types in there if you preferred, it sounds like a good idea that I might think about doing myself... Several of my platforms and playlists are in more than 1 category as well. Keep doin' what you're doin, make up your own rules and go for it, it's your collection
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My 144TB Launchbox build 200k Games !
-McFly- replied to Achisweden's topic in Collections and Builds
Can you show us Launchbox or Bigbox running on it? Which systems have you chosen?
