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Thanks C-Beats, that makes perfect sense! I should've picked up it was the MAME roms with the extra data.

Hey All, Not sure if I've missed something? LB has a genre "Shooter / Gun" which most of my lightgun games assign to by default, but not all games. I've manually updated several games to "Shooter / Gun" in LaunchBox and wanted to edit this genre on GamesDB, but the website only has the overarching genre "Shooter" and none of the sub-categories available in LB. Older games imported as "Shooter / Gun" so not sure if this is a recent-ish change? I don't feel this "Shooter" category is granular enough as if you want to make an auto-populated playlist of lightgun games, or flying games "Shooter / Flying" it is no longer possible without manually applying sub-genres manually to all of your games. Thanks!

It works for me too, but only in launchbox. BB does not show any score information for this rom. Other roms have scores working fine across both applications.

Hi Guys, I'm not sure that my setup is picking up new hiscore games properly, can anyone shed some light on how this works or if there's a refresh I need to run? I have one rom as an example but now I'm worried there's more I'm missing out on. Last year support was added for pang3 (https://github.com/GreatStoneEx/hi2txt-xml/issues/27) In LB if I browse to the arcade platform and view this game I can see it supports hiscore and I can view leader boards etc. In BB if I browse to arcade platform then select pang3 it does not show any leader boards or score support. I have an auto playlist "MAME High Scores Supported = True" so I can filter supported games, pang3 does not show in this playlist in BB or LB. Any ideas? Thanks!

Thanks, this fixed it. Had to untick 'check with local database' (spelling?) when you first start the wizard to get the source field updated.

This is how I was doing things, but it means separating out roms for every platform and maintaining them when MAME updates, much easier to import the lot as arcade then have auto playlists. I also found the launchbox db would contain media & info when scraped as the arcade platform but when you scrape it as neogeo, naomi, etc, etc the same info is not available under those platforms. I think the missing source is my main problem, here's King of Fighters for example which should pretty much all have neogeo as a source but most show up as Imported ROM Perhaps I'll try another arcade import rather than doing 'scan for new roms' Edit: just remembered it's a full mame full set import which won't help me here.

Hi All, Looking for some tips and good ideas for playlist creation. I have all arcade roms in the same directory and setup using mame and launching fine, I wanted to create a NEO-GEO MVS auto playlist but i'm having trouble finding a common field to auto-populate this playlist. Originally I was going to use the 'source' field as this contains 'neogeo.cpp' however upon further investigation only a handful of games have this field populated and the majority don't. Any good ideas to get this working? Cheers!

Should the scores upload after every time a game is quit regardless of if it is a personal high score or not? I presume this is how weekly, monthly, etc lists work. I've played Tapper & Timber a couple of times this week and score's aren't showing in any leader boards, the uploads seem pretty inconsistent. Log from latest round of Tapper, BETA box is ticked in Launchbox. Debug 2020-06-10 08-31-12 PM.log

I must be going crazy, can see a beta-4 download but not beta-6, where are they available for download? ?

I was going to wait for the next build with new fixes to investigate this further but this morning it just decided to upload my scores from the last 3 days of gameplay, prior to this morning it wouldn't detect any scores as shown in my earlier logs. Hopefully stays working ?‍♂️ 2020-05-04 08:57:29 AM Processing hi2txt output for tapper: RANK|SCORE|NAME 1|35600|NIC 2|19200|NIC 3|14825|NIC 4|13600|NIC 5|12525|AIC 6|11775|NIC 7|7825|NIC 8|6625|NIC 9|6150|NIC 2020-05-04 08:57:29 AM MameHighScores.Parse: Uploading score 35600 for rom file tapper and name NIC... 2020-05-04 08:57:30 AM MameHighScores.Parse: Uploading score 19200 for rom file tapper and name NIC... 2020-05-04 08:57:30 AM MameHighScores.Parse: Uploading score 14825 for rom file tapper and name NIC... 2020-05-04 08:57:31 AM MameHighScores.Parse: Uploading score 13600 for rom file tapper and name NIC... 2020-05-04 08:57:31 AM MameHighScores.Parse: Uploading score 12525 for rom file tapper and name AIC... 2020-05-04 08:57:32 AM MameHighScores.Parse: Uploading score 11775 for rom file tapper and name NIC... 2020-05-04 08:57:32 AM MameHighScores.Parse: Uploading score 7825 for rom file tapper and name NIC... 2020-05-04 08:57:33 AM MameHighScores.Parse: Uploading score 6625 for rom file tapper and name NIC... 2020-05-04 08:57:33 AM MameHighScores.Parse: Uploading score 6150 for rom file tapper and name NIC...

Hi Guys, Converted from Retroarch to MAME 220 for scores, the first 2 times I ran MAME scores uploaded fine, now reporting nothing to upload. I've been trying with tapper and in-game this remembers my scores no problem. I've deleted the hi and nvram folders from MAME for testing but it has made no difference, ideas? Thanks. Debug 2020-05-01 10-54-15 PM-NOTWORKING.logDebug 2020-05-01 10-46-53 PM-WORKING.logDebug 2020-05-01 11-09-28 PM-NOTWORKING.log

Confused also ? Couple days ago high scores feature was working fine, now it's not showing against any gamed at all? I've reconnected to cloud and unticked/re-ticked the mame upload/download scores boxes. I'm using core 'Arcade (MAME)' in retroarch, this is the latest GIT build, currently 0.188

Hi all, When downloading video I've always selected LaunchBox DB and emumovies, I've also left all video quality tick boxes selected low/high/highest. On my latest import it popped in to my head how LaunchBox will handle multiple qualities being available? If all 3 options are available will it only download the highest quality, or does it download all 3 because all 3 are ticked. If I search LaunchBoxDB and emumovies, as well as all qualities, which takes preference and where can we switch these settings? Thanks.

Bugger, that's a simple answer. Thanks.

Hi Guys, I really love the attract mode from ES\RPi. A full screen video of the game is displayed with the game name in the bottom corner, if you press a button the game being displayed launches. This feels like more realistic as if you were walking around an arcade the machines would be displaying full screen graphics of the game to lure you in. I can't find any setting in BigBox to copy this style, so I'm thinking it might be part of each theme? Can anyone point me in the direction of the location I'd find the code for attract mode so I can have a crack at adding this? Cheers.

I've been trying to find a solution to this myself lately, No ones ever going to play a full set of 200,000 games over 400 systems. I liked the idea of maybe the top 100 games for each system I'm interested in, I started googling "top 100 arcade games", "top 100 nes games" etc and was presented with several lists. I copied these lists in to txt files which I've attached to this post. I planned to go through and remove duplicates, any junk games, incompatible games and convert the lists over to rom name so I could use scripts to copy them to the right places, as usual time is thin and it's been put on the backburner for another day. But the raw lists are here if anyone's interested arcade games.txt atari2600.txt c64.txt master system.txt mega drive.txt neogeo.txt nes.txt snes.txt amiga500.txt appleii.txt

Hi Guys, I've just purchased BigBox and I'm slowly getting everything setup and imported. I spent a couple of hours yesterday going through in BigBox and marking games that don't work or that I don't want as broken. Thinking I could go to Launchbox later, show all of the broken games then I can delete them from my HDD, I can't work out how to view broken games in LB though? Cheers.