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Looks like it cannot find two identical rom files if their title and metadata are different. Renamed a GB rom, imported it with a different name and as the scraper was not able to find the title, it was added just as is, but the images related to the other rom (the one correctly recognized) were added to this rom. So I am curious: was the rom recognized or not? If not why ended up having correct screenshots even if the title does not match and the application did not recognize it, adding the correct metadata? Here are two images of the details of the roms

I want to divide the games by platform instead of have everything in the generic "Arcade" platform. I tried to check if there is a way to add sub-platforms but it does not seem to be the case. So at this point I tried to mass edit the Neo Geo games but when I select platform I can only pick a platform that already exists... Cannot assign games to a different platform basically, unless it already exists. Considering I want to do the same also for CPS2 and CPS3, I am wondering how do I do that, as the platform does not even appear as available when I edit the roms.

Thanks, so 2 rom files should be matched as duplicate if the gamesDB ID would match, from what I see here. In my case I need to check and verify; as the title is different for sure, although the game file should be the same as they are the same rom file from what I can remember

I ran an audit for a platform, with known duplicates, but the files have different names. Sadly not a single file was found as duplicate when I ran tue audit, so I assume that the duplicate tag is set only if there are 2 files with the same name, and not checking things like size or CRC?

Thanks! I didn't even realized that this was an update that happened! And now that I scanned my Vita games I can see that I have no duplicates importing and removing the text files does import the games directly from the emulator... Awesome! Will need to do the same from PS3 too!

I noticed that when you add games for Vita for example, or for other platforms where you need to create an "alias" (Amiga games were another instance if I remember correctly); you end up creating a text file for each game that may have an ID for the actual title. For Vita games it could be something like PCSEXXXXXX When you scrape these games, the result is that none of these games are recognized by Launchbox, so you need to manually change all these IDs with their relative names. Is there a way to add those names in the parser, so nobody else has to do this? Can the data be sent to the parser so it can "remember" what these IDs are, and in this way other users can get the names ? I looked at the documentation but found nothing that allow me to save my info and upload it to the main DB of the parser; and the result is that even after few years, when I need to re-parse my games after a clean up or a crash of a hard drive, I end up having to rename by hand all of these games that have IDs and aliases all over again. It would be awesome if there was a way to actually avoid to do that and save the data that we know it is legit (like all the PSN and PS codes for PS, PS2, PS3, PSP and Vita games); so when these games are parsed, it is easier to just scrape them and get the correct titles.

Thanks; so this could work with the custom fields then. Would there be at any point in time an option in the UI to right click on a game and add a specific field directly from the contextual menu (or even better, using a keyboard shortcut)? That would really speed up greatly the process. These are changes you mostly do once when you set up your collection, but I can see value in quick change for fields changes in other situations too. And if it is an option you can toggle, you could set it on, do your assignments and then just turn it off when you are done, cleaning up the menu from extra stuff that you won't be needing at that point

I want to create some custom tags/parameters that can be applied to games at global level; so I can apply this tag basically to any game in any platform running on any emulator. I tried to look in the prefs but didn't find a specific area to do that. If I change the metadata of the game there is a "custom field" area there, but if you add it to the game you have to add it manually to the other billion games you eventually want to add that tag to; while I was hoping there was an easier way to do that, like right click-> apply tag for example (or mass-apply tag of sort). I find those already in the app useful, but I want to make my own, to further divide the games across platforms into different categories/genres/types that I see fit, but I can't really see how this can be done, without change manually EVERY single game one by one in their metadata (and not even sure if that is then working if I want to filter only the games with that tag. TL:DR I want to pick games, add them something like "favorite" tag (one or more) across platforms and then be able to get a list only of these games, exactly as I would do if I was using the "favorite" tag for example. Is this possible or do I have to write my own parser outside Launchbox that would make these changes to the metadata for each game? Thanks

I figured out this even exist; so I got the emulator and followed the tutorial here and games are working in the emulator, but they do not work in Launchbox. Made text files that have the same name as the game ID; added the config changes so the extension of the file is stripped and imported those test files, but Vita3K just die when running any game. If I just run the emulator it works fine and all the games show in its interface. Is there a new or better way to import games in Launchbox for Vita3K? Or is better support coming to the next releases for this emulator? Thanks

After deleting a chunk of roms I noticed that for some roms it was asking me if I want to remove the rom too; At this point I have no clue why it is asking it for some games but not for others, but I will look into it further as I go. Any suggestion is more than welcome, about what to look at to troubleshoot

Thanks; for some reasons I was not looking at that section, since it is in the "boxes" section. I totally forgot it was there and was looking for it in the visuals section. BTW is there any plan to add the feature to Launchbox to resize images to a certain size, when importing games? I had to do that with an external tool, so all the games cells do look the same now, and would be great to have it in Launchbox directly. Thanks!

Not sure what changed; I just updated to the latest build and now when I delete either via right click or with the delete key, the game is removed but I don't get the "want to delete also the rom" prompt. Checked the settings and the option to delete the rom file in the general section is checked. Is it a bug or am I missing something? Trying to clean up 2 folders I merged from duplicates, and without the feature to delete roms and related media, it is all manual work that I don't really want to do

I remember that some time ago I could change the theme settings for how the images were displayed on the main view (like size, aspect ratio, space between each screenshot and so on). But I can't find this option in the settings anymore. Was it removed? Or has been moved somewhere else?

Just install it somewhere, and copy the necessary files in the same folder and reference everything in that folder. I am doing that to have multiple versions of Launchbox and it works so far when I use it on different computers. Although there is a chance that different OS from the one you used for the installation may not work... Never tried, I run everything on the latest Windows 11 version.

Looks like I am the only one with interest in such things, considering that there was no reply on this post. I guess I will have to figure out how to handle this outside the app then, which means separate installations for each platform 🤷‍♂️