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Hi, here's my latest tool;
🎬 Videos to Images Clipper – Extract Screenshots from Your Videos with Ease
Videos to Images Clipper is a lightweight and user-friendly Windows application designed to extract high-quality screenshots from video files. It automatically captures images at key moments - First image, 25%, 50%, and 75% of the video's duration or a specific frame.
This tool is especially useful for LaunchBox users who want to generate screenshot quickly and efficiently from their game videos.
✨ Key Features
📸 Automatic Screenshot Extraction
Captures images at ¼, ½, and ¾ of each video.
📂 Batch Processing
Processes multiple videos based on a list of titles.
🔎 Smart Title Matching
Matches video filenames with titles entered by the user.
🧹 Clean Titles from LaunchBox
Extracts and cleans titles from copied tables from the LaunchBox Audit window.
🌐 Recursive Folder Scanning
Searches for videos in all subfolders of the selected source directory.
🧰 Automatic FFmpeg Integration
Detects FFmpeg on your system or downloads it directly within the application.
🛠️ Supported Video Formats
mp4, m4v, mkv, avi, mov. 📖 How to Use
Select the Source Folder
Click Source and choose the directory containing your videos. Subfolders are included automatically.
Select the Destination Folder
Click Destination to specify where the extracted images will be saved.
Enter or Paste Titles
Paste game titles into the textbox, one per line.
You can copy data directly from the LaunchBox Audit window.
Clean the Titles
Click Clean Titles to remove headers and keep only the relevant titles.
Install or Locate FFmpeg
If FFmpeg is not detected, click Download or browse to its installation folder.
Start the Extraction
Click Start to generate screenshots at 25%, 50%, and 75% of each matching video.
Once finished, you can move the images to the platform's image folder (Screenshot - Gameplay). Run a platform audit to detect the new images.
 



 
 
🖼️ Output Example
For a video named:
Assassin's Creed.mp4 The application generates:
Assassin_s Creed-01.jpg Assassin_s Creed-02.jpg Assassin_s Creed-03.jpg 💻 System Requirements
Windows 10 or Windows 11
.NET Desktop Runtime 6.0 or later
FFmpeg (automatically detected or downloadable within the application)
🚀 Feedback and Contributions
Feedback, suggestions, and bug reports are welcome! Feel free to share your experience and ideas to improve the software.
Thank you for trying Videos to Images Clipper!

Hi,
I created a small Windows tool that allows you to build a customized copy of your LaunchBox setup by selecting only the platforms you want to keep.
The goal is simple: reduce size, organize your collection, and create portable LaunchBox builds (for external drives, backups, or dedicated setups).

How it works:
Select your LaunchBox folder (source)
Choose a destination folder
Pick the platforms you want
The tool calculates the total size (games + media)
Start the copy process
What gets copied:
Games
Images
Videos
Manuals
Music
Only the selected platforms are included. Everything is reorganized automatically into a clean structure. The games are copied to the Launchbox\Games\Platform. The configuration files are modified with the new path. Optimized for emulator games with a single file or with .cue and m3u files. For other types of games (Windows and others), which contain multiple files, you will need to copy them manually.
Game handling:
Supports single-file formats (ISO, CHD, RVZ, etc.)
Supports M3U playlists (multi-disc games)
Supports CUE files and their referenced tracks
Automatically includes all required files
Avoids duplicates during size calculation
Additional features:
Estimating size before copying
Automatic update of ApplicationPath in platform XML files
Preserves all other LaunchBox data and configuration
Does not modify the original LaunchBox installation
The result is a fully independent LaunchBox setup containing only what you selected.
This tool is especially useful if you want a smaller, optimized LaunchBox build for emulation setups or storage-limited environments.
There is no progress bar, but the 2nd window indicates the folder being copied.

Hi,
LaunchBox often downloads multiple images for the same category (e.g., multiple front covers for a single game). However, not all images are equal — sometimes you want to keep the higher quality version, or prefer the American cover over the European one.
My tool helps you quickly compare and clean up duplicate images by relying on filenames to group related images (like multiple covers for the same game). Instead of going through the LaunchBox interface, selecting a game, navigating to the images tab, and manually sorting through them, this tool shows image pairs side by side so you can instantly decide which one to keep or remove.
⚡ This will save you countless minutes when cleaning up large collections.

 
🔧 Features:
Compare images from two folders based on filename similarity (e.g., Zoop-01.jpg vs Zoop-02.jpg)
Detect and display duplicates within the same folder
Preview matching images side-by-side
Move or delete images with one click
Optional: Move unselected images to a target folder while recreating the original folder structure
Automatically sends deleted files to the Recycle Bin if no target folder is set
🚀 How to Use:
Select Primary Folder and Secondary Folder — These are your two image collections (e.g., cart and fan art cart).
(Optional) Choose a Target Folder — This is where non-selected (duplicate) images will be moved. If left empty, files will be sent to the Recycle Bin.
Click Start to begin the comparison.
If matches are found:
Images are shown side-by-side.
Use Move/Delete buttons to act on one of the files.
Use Skip to move to the next pair.
After inter-folder comparison, the tool will automatically check for duplicates within Primary Folder, then within Secondary Folder.
🗂️ If a file is moved to the target folder, the tool preserves its original structure.
Example:
If the file is located at V:\Launchbox\images\snes\Cart\Zoop-01.png, and the target folder is V:\Duplicates, the moved file will be placed at:
V:\Duplicates\Cart\Zoop-01.png

Hi everyone,
I’d like to share a small utility I created called M3U Generator. It’s designed to automatically generate .m3u files for multi-disc games, commonly used with emulators like RetroArch and others that support playlist-style disc switching.

 
💡 What it does:
Scans a selected folder for game files (.cue, .iso, .img, .bin).
Groups discs belonging to the same game (based on filenames).
Creates .m3u playlist files in a subfolder named m3u.
Optionally includes single-disc games as well.
📦 Features:
✅ Supports subfolder-style or flat playlist paths (..\\ or current folder).
🔍 Filter results based on a keyword (e.g., "Disc" or "CD") to process only relevant files.
📝 Displays a log of the generated .m3u content directly in the software.
🧠 Automatically names playlists based on the first disc.
🕹 Example use case:
Let’s say you have these files:
Game Title (Disc 1).cue Game Title (Disc 2).cue The software will create:
m3u/Game Title (Disc 1).m3u
With content:
..\Game Title (Disc 1).cue
..\Game Title (Disc 2).cue
📥 How to use it:
Launch the application.
Click "Select Folder" and choose the directory where your ROMs are located.
Optionally enter a filter term like Disc to process only multi-disc games.
Choose path mode (relative or current folder).
Check the "Include single-disc games" option if needed.
Click "Start" – the .m3u files will be generated in a m3u subfolder.
The output will be shown in the result textbox and also saved to 1-m3u_results.txt.

This software was created to download missing videos from your games and which are among other things missing from emumovies.
What it does:
📥 Clips YouTube Downloader – Creates 40-second gameplay clips directly from YouTube URLs stored in your LaunchBox platform XML files. Perfect for building a consistent library of preview videos. 40-second clips are created from half of the video or the first 40 seconds if it is too short.
🧹 Remove URL from XML – Cleans up dead or broken YouTube links in your XML so LaunchBox won’t try to download them again.
🔧 Fix Missing Video – Scans your video folders, compares them with your XML entries, and corrects the missing status if a clip is already present but incorrectly marked as absent.

How to use it:
Download the required Youtube downloader and FFmpeg via the button or browse for the path to use. Select the platform XML file you want to work with.
Choose what you want to do:
Download videos from YouTube and create clips with the Start button,
Create only video clips, useful if ffmpeg freezes during a video, even if the software tries to detect problems at this level.
Move the downloaded clips into the correct LaunchBox Videos folder for that platform.
Use the button Remove URL from XML, to remove dead links and Fix missing videos to fix the platform file with the newly created clips.
Use the "update metadata" tool if some errors persist in the platform file; video present, but not seen by launchbox.
Select all games on a platform, Tools -> Downloads -> Update metadata and media for Selected Games. Choose not to download any media and "Yes, but do not replace any existing fields of media (recommended)". That’s it — you’ll have a cleaner, more accurate library with proper 40-second preview videos for your games.

Hi,
This application helps you find missing games for all your main consoles.
Step-by-step usage:
Select the folder that contains your platform XML files — usually located at LaunchBox\Data\Platforms.
Choose the output folder where the result files will be saved.
Check the consoles you want to scan.
Click Start to begin the comparison.
Important notes:
For each selected console, the app will generate a CSV and an Excel file with the results (own and not found).
Only games marked as "Released" in your database will be included in the comparison.
If you click on Auto select all platforms in launchbox, all the platforms displayed or not in the software will be processed.

 
As the software compares the results with the local launchbox database file, as long as it is up to date or used by launchbox, this software will work and have an up-to-date list.