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It's because there was an issue with the initial release and so they pushed a sma update to the site. It's still marked as 10.1 but the checksum of the launcher is different. I didn't really think about updating it since it will still work, but whatver I mind as well to avoid confusion. The issue with the playlists is that the tool only knows for sure that one of your LaunchBox playlists came from Flashpoint if it sees that Flashpoint has the same playlist. When they change the playlist name, in a pure vacuum with no further content, there's technically no way to tell if the old playlist was a past Flashpoint playlist, or a completely unrelated playlist you made yourself. I could do something like including a list of all playlist names that FP has ever had within the tool and have it remove any on that list that it sees are no longer in the current version; however, this isn't perfect. While not the most likely, it's still conceivable that they could remove a more generically named playlist like "Daily Distractions", which would get added to the list, and then a new user who happens to have a playlist already named that goes to import FP and has that playlist deleted. Perhaps there could be a confirmation dialogue or something like that, but basically I had left this issue alone until I found a solution I felt was effect, but also had no risk of unintentionally deleting user content, since that would be well... bad. It is still something I do wish to improve. EDIT: The update taking into account the small change in version number due to the FP patches (again no functional differences so your import is fine) is live.

Sort of, except you'd have to add in all the games you want which as I mentioned before are a bit of a pain to pull from FP ultimate. At that point you mind as well just going for cutting down Ultimate since it would be needed anyway.

I'm happy to share detailed information with those who actually care about it haha. Yea so unfortunately as you noted there isn't an ideal setup right now. When it comes to the Infinity images, I'm basically just going to setup the importer to have an option to force download the images during the import, which I expect to not be too hard, I just need to get to it. Flashpoint Core is basically just Flashpoint Ultimate but is sometimes a few versions behind and only comes with a few games that are there to act as examples, but otherwise comes with no games/animations.

Huh, odd. When you get a chance, zip up your Data folder in your LaunchBox directory, upload it somewhere and get me a link. That way I can get a sense of what may be going on.

I think I understand what you're asking for, but if so, no this tool does not make that possible, at least not directly, though let me make sure to clarify. Flashpoint is essentially two things: 1) A collection of software, configuration, a database, and a launcher that enables a relatively straightforward way of playing "internet" games from a variety of formats on one local computer without the need to actually connect to the internet (other than downloading the content for Infinity). 2) The hoard of games themselves. I'm not 100% sure, but it sounds like you're asking if you can essentially download Flashpoint Ultimate (to avoid the pitfalls of Infinity), use this importer to import a small selection of games you want to actually use into LaunchBox, and then when it's done discard Flashpoint Ultimate entirely so that you're basically left with a subset of 2) from the above, but with none of 1). As if the games were simply running independently from LaunchBox with no need of the original LaunchBox install. Unfortunately this is basically not feasible. Despite their impressive pile of games that have been archived, the part of the collection that more so makes Flashpoint special/important is the compilation and finally tuned configuration of software that allows you to play games designed for a web browser used in a client/server setup on an independent, offline desktop. When you start Flashpoint you are running what is known as the Launcher, which is just a relatively small front end for browsing the collection, but there is also a slew of programs in the background that are continuously starting and stopping depending on your game choices that actually make playing those games possible. While it's imperfect, the system works pretty well overall considering the variety of platforms it supports and is constantly being improved by a team of people. Trying to recreate that from scratch as an individual would be insane. This tool is essentially two in one, but you can essentially think of it as a way to replace the Flashpoint frontend with LaunchBox instead, but this says nothing about the gigabytes of other software that is required to actually play any games. This tool still relies on that the same way that the official Flashpoint frontend does and therefore won't function without Flashpoint still being installed. Unfortunately the closest you can get to what you want right now is using Infinity. The "alternative" is to download Ultimate and then work backwards by deleting every game that you don't want, but obviously this is a herculean and unrealistic task. To make matters worst, the files of many titles in FP are tightly integrated with some of the backend software it uses which makes removing said games a challenge even with an automated tool. Flashpoint is starting to move over to a different system for storing games called Game Zips/Data Packs which does actually make writing a tool to remove games from ultimate more feasible, but only practical once all titles have been upgraded to the new system. Currently only a smaller portion of titles use this system. Until this new system becomes the only system I wouldn't even begin to consider making a tool that can strip down Ultimate like you required, and even then I'm not sure it would be worth it because Flashpoint makes a lot of backend changes with every major release that require me to make significant changes to my tools to keep them working and I don't know if I'm up to actively maintaining a third tool related to this project. I'd consider it if after Game Zips are fully complete the system the use to store games becomes fairly static otherwise. While I do use Ultimate myself, I've actually had pretty good luck with the more recent versions of Infinity, though I don't know how recently you've used it yourself. The only caveat with this tool is that you have to have to make sure you run a game once through the Flashpoint launcher and then perform the import into LaunchBox or there will be no images, though I'm toying with figuring out how to make this step not required. At the end of the day, you're essentially asking for a third edition of Flashpoint, "Custom Ultimate", that would prepare a packing up front with all the games you select instead of downloading them on the fly. Like I said, once the Game Zip system is the only one in Flashpoint I'll consider making a tool to more or less make this possible, but otherwise this is something that it would be way easier for the Flashpoint team to implement directly, yet I doubt they will given that most are satisfied with the current system and it would still be a huge undertaking even for them. The project has come a long way technically though in a fairly short amount of time so I'd also hold out hope that Infinity will become good enough to meet your standards in time as well.