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  1. Thank you for the explanation! Yeah, it is a great way to do things, IMHO, and is very to how we do things between us regarding new content on Arcadepunk (and on other stuff/orgs I'm involved with). And yes, absolutely, a surge in BS data can be problematic. There is some kind of paradox with things that are largely community-based like LaunchBox; low or inexistent community input is very problematic, as is too much community input... And it's hard to find a sweet spot somewhere. Right now, I think that the best would be an easier way to add to the database from the software itself (a little bit like how community star ratings are added by the users currently, for example), but in a way that would avoid getting swamped under a sea of useless data, as you explained very well with your reservations. It can be achieved with the combination of a number of things; a big one that has worked very well in such area in projects I am involved with, is with an internal "user rating," so basically, if a user sends you garbage data, that user would then be internally flagged and his/her "contributions" will then stop reaching the assigned content approval team (while the opposite thing would happen with users that contribute in the right way). Such a system can be a little overwhelming at the very start, because all users will start with the same internal "rating," but things will typically fall in place very quickly, and usually stay that way once it is reached. I tried to explain everything in the simplest way I could think of, in a language that isn't mine, so please excuse me for any mistakes. Anyway, I LOVE LB, I was a VERY early adopter, and you guys proved yourselves to be wise in the way things are run. So thank you!!
  2. I totally understand the point you're making in you last paragraph. The best, imho, would still be to revive the plugin, but make it so that those game addition "suggestions" only get actually added after it is vetted by a mod with such responsibility. So basically, not something that would directly add to the game database, but only be a community suggestion, which can then be added once vetted. But I am not a mod here, so I have no idea how everything is structured... BTW, what is your opinion of the Steam Scraper 2.3 plugin (https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/1440-steam-scraper/?tab=comments ) ? I used it yesterday for the first time, and did EXACTLY what I wanted in the first place. When it comes to a Steam game that isn't in LB's game database, I think it only adds all game infos and media on the user's LaunchBox, without affecting the database. Am I right here? Either way, it works VERY well.
  3. Thanks for the infos Neil. I just added Mighty Goose for Windows. Let's see whether it will be accepted. But something more streamlined is sorely needed! All possible information they ask for are, in such a situation, on their Steam page. So it should be a no brainer to be able to add a steam game to the database, from LaunchBox itself, by just pointing out the URL of the game's store page... No?
  4. Yeah, it seems like it stopped working about 3 years ago. And UW, it's awesome that you are currently working on a rewrite! Thank you very much man. But my question is, right now, how do we add new games to the database? I only have only entered about 60 steam games on this specific laptop's LaunchBox, and I can already see 2 games that are not in the database. And those games are not totally unknown or forgotten at all... I would take the time to enter everything manually, but how do I submit all of that to the database?
  5. As of the month of December 2021, this plugin does not seem to work. I am on Win 10 and do use the latest Chrome version as my default browser. Every time I try to add a new game to the database, by right-clicking o on said game and using the "add game to LaunchBox games database" option, it will ALWAYS result in an error message, no matter what I tried (including the "Nlog.dll.nlog" tweak using Notepad)… Please, have a look at said error message below. I took a screenshot of it. It is always the same error. Is there anything I can do to fix that? If not, then how are we supposed to add new games to the database?? Any ideas, comments? Thanks for your time either way!
  6. Hey thanks a lot for the reply. Unfortunately my setup is the same and I get that error message...
  7. Hello! I am getting error line 2111 in launchbox. Like the other guy that had that error and fixed it, I deleted everything, reinstalled the emulators, reimported all the roms and the bios, and added all of that in Phoenix. After that I launched your program and it detected my jag games, ticked hotkey and pressed backup. Then I relaunched your program and pressed restore and it worked the same way as shown in your attached images. After all that I took a game in LB, and edited so that the emulator is your program (_Phoenix_Rom_Launcher.exe). And I still got the same error message. What am I doing wrong? BTW the emulator itself works great. Thanks for the help and for all of this!!
  8. Hello guys! Like the title says, I would like to play my jaguar games with Phoenix instead of VJ through Retroarch. I cannot find a tutorial for it, and I am not able to use it through Launchbox. Is there anyone that successfully played Jaguar through Launchbox with Phoenix? BTW, the reason I don't want to use Retroarch is that Phoenix is just better in term of performance. Thank you very much!!
  9. So problem solved I guess. From the recently played list I made a new list called history, and in that list I could access to the autopopulate tab, and put it out like you indicated, and it seems to be working. It's a bit weird that the recently played list would not, by itself, work, but eh. Thanks!!!
  10. Thanks for your answer. There is an issue. When I Right click the list and then go to edit, there are only 3 tabs - DEtails , Notes, and Parents. Nothing about autopopulate. Again, the list is at, for exemple, Platform Category --> Consoles --> Recently Played. From where did you find your playlist (the one you right clicked on)?
  11. Thanks for your answer. It is in Launchbox. I have not tried those in BB yet.
  12. So I just realized today that a "recently played" tab or history would be useful, and after a bit of digging, I found out that it indeed already existed. The issue I have is that those playlists are always empty. For instance, I just finished Super Star Wars on Snes with Retroarch (great game btw), and when I browse to Platform Category --> Consoles --> Recently Played, it is completely empty. Before that I was playing a Windows game and the Recently Played tab under Computers is also empty. Do any of you guys know how to make it work so that it actually shows my recently played games? Thank you so much!!
  13. Thanks for your reply! I did try with WinUAE. I was not familiar with it but I managed to understand how it works and launch several games. But in the end I wasn't able to launch the CD version of T-zero archived as an .LHA. It seems that it is possible, but I lack the know how to do it. If anyone would like to try, I can provide a download link of T-Zero (it is really buried deep in the internet) via PM. It is an awesome SHMUP, maybe the best on the platform, so I think a lot of people would enjoy it, especially if we can launch it via FS-UAE or WInUAE (as opposed to the .exe version out there, which is very slow to starts, with no save features at all - it is a pretty long SHMUP therefor the .exe version is a dealbreaker to me). Let me know!
  14. Hello guys, Like the title says, 2 of my playlists are sorted by star ratings and won't let me sort them by anything else. For example, in my AMIGA playlist, if I click on "arrange by" and then "genre", it will stay sorted by star rating. It will stay like that no matter what select. Again, only 2 of my playlists do that for some obscure reason, and those are my most recent ones. I have about 45 playlists. Could it be an issue with the latest version? Cheers!
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