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  1. For whatever reason my forum account is my correct email, but my lic email (just tried to upgrade) is an old email i no longer have access to. How do I go about fixing this?

     

    Ive already sent a email to support. Anything else i need to know?

  2. I was looking at the new default theme and came across my Sega CD category.

    What amazed and shocked me, is that the Sega team back in 1991 was so advanced and determined to get the edge on Nintendo, they made a time machine to over ten years in the future to grab the HDMI and 1080p standards!. AMAZING.

    Seriously though who is filling in this information and why is there no edit button on the site (i know i can in lunchbox, thats not the point, im not going to edit it there every time i make a new installation)

    https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/platforms/details/39-sega-cd

    I can't really trust the information on any of the platforms now without verifying. I dont (and many others) mind going through them to verify information and push change requests but I do not see the option there. Where would be the best place?

  3. Il8uuI3.png

    Listen, I understand what rounding is, but this is ridiculous. When I have something that says literally "4+", that means anything with 4.00 and higher. That's the "+" part of "4+". 

    Also, I have everything sorted by star rating, yet they are listed by title instead.

     

    What am i doing wrong that these two weird issues are plaguing me?

     

  4. 8 hours ago, Lordmonkus said:

    From what I remember and I could be remembering wrong CG is an Nvidia proprietary shader language where the devs and most people prefer open source cross platform which is why OpenGL and Vulkan is the more preferred shaders.

    Seems reasonable enough, but it  people would naturally go that direction over time. Abandoning large and useful shader packages to try and force it instead of regulating it to legacy seems weird to me. All good though.

  5. For the love of god please just add a toggleable (hideable) icon bar under the the upper left LAUNCHBOX logo so we can put our 10~ most used menu options. Its a HUGE pain in the ass to have to go through the super crowded menus dozes of times for a handful of things i need to get to.

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  6. I've already Help>Force Update Games Database Metadata

    I've already fully deleted this file

    I've already tried importing with the duplicate option.

    I've already deleted everything to do with the platform im trying to import (CD-i)

    I've already used a known-working LB data backup set

    Importing this exact file worked fine literally 9 hours ago before LB force-installed 11.9 (it tried to do this several time and i force-quit it before it could, this time it got through the install process). Everytime in 11.8 this window would show the files im importing. Everytime i would delete the game from LB as I was testing things and import again. 11.8 would continue to show the file to be imported, and i did this 4-6 times. 11.9 gets installed? window is now blank? Is this user error here? Can we get this fixed? Can we have an option to NOT force-install updates even if an update exists in the "Updates" folder?

  7. I wanted to ask if this was already on the todo list before i made a feature request. 

    • Allow each category/platform to have separately configurable arrange by settings (Like Playlists do)
    • Also how about 'sort by' within 'arrange by'? For example, Im "Arranging" my NES categories by genra. It would be nice to then "sort" within each genre section "by" playcount, or star rating or publisher, etc etc. 
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    Now that we have an better ability to control dos games in Retroarch, we may need to reevaluate how DOS is imported into LB. Currently the standard method tries to do most of the work for us, however now that we can play in RA with just providing a .zip file the playground has shifted. 

     

    Right now what is working for me is:

    1. Import DOS games as if they were ROMs

    2. Setup Retroarch to be the emulator for the MS-DOS platform

    3. Wait for the config files to start rolling in

     

    You can use your eXoDOS collection in this (obviously). test by importing a few games using the above method. No doubt LB will evolve their MS-DOS import in the near future, but as of now I have not seen a better way to import for RA use. Please comment if you have ideas. 

     

    Below attached image is for people that haven't used this. Link is in twitter post above.

     

    walk.png

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  9. 11 hours ago, C-Beats said:

    Just so we are clear, that Release Type field does have drop down values for what the DB currently uses, but you CAN put anything you want in that field. If you want to use Beta in that field for your library you have that option. You can also bulk edit games and change that field en masse to make things easier on you.

    Yeah unfortunately this doesnt change much due to the limitation of how files are initially imported, LB not knowing about 1000s of files (i really cant expect it to) and thus doesn't have an appropriate type attached to them. This leaves 1000s of files to deal with in an awkward way. It was a good suggestion and the best current way to do this though, but is still highly prone to error and mis-sorting. Ex. Fresh install. Import 100 snes beta roms. After import select them all and change release type to 'Beta'. Import 100 more roms, do the same --- oops an unknown number of these next 100 roms had release type 'beta' by chance too. No way to find what ones unless i want to comb through 1000s of files later. Drink heavily. I have an idea how to get around this, but you get the idea, tedious.

    I made a feature request on bitbucket. Basically, if the rom import wizards last screen also included the bulk edit wizard, this process becomes massively easier and the import wizard becomes a lot more powerful in terms of initial organization. From that, playlists become useful in this regard. https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/5798/please-add-the-bulk-edit-wizard-to-the This would use already existing features in LB and adds them in a very useful place when doing initial importing. 

     

  10. So looking more into Release Type, and while it is a great start, it is severely underdeveloped and prone to mis-catagorization.  The system itself is good, but the database just isnt upto the task (yet?). As its been many years since most of the SNES roms have been created (even 99% of hacks and translations etc) and the LBDB has been around for many years as well, Im not really hopeful this will be filled out properly in the next few years.

    It is also missing a few important category distinctions. Namely Beta, Prototype, Revisions, Translations, Samples, and Regions maybe but regions has good development behind it so its not as big an issue. 

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    So I think it comes down to this; what is easier,

    1. adding in the ability to do sub-platforms that inherit a main-platforms general config (like emulator, overarching platform, and all the folders associated with it). This allows for a more hands-on approach in separating ROMs when filters are not enough while foregoing silliness like having to add "SNES - Revisions" as a platform type to Retroarch and watching hundreds of folders fill up the image/music/etc with fake platforms. This causes a huge issue with duplicate files too as it stands currently without this inheritance.

    2. Making a huge effort to update the database and the 'release type' so ROMs are categorized appropriately for their release type, letting the user import their 7000+ (non-duplicate) SNES roms and watch LB work its magic separating things itself via playlists?

    3. Let this continue to be a hole in advanced users setups even though 99% of the functionality is present to implement it... ? 

     

     

    Thanks for reading! Love LB and want to see it continue to improve. 

    (one of my snes sources list is attached, i have several more, but after overlap i assume 7k~+ roms is in the ballpark)

    snespartlist.txt

  11. 4 hours ago, JoeViking245 said:

    That's a pretty elaborate breakdown which will require some extra work on your part, as you've discovered.

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    As you've eloquently laid out, this is basically what Im doing now. Im mainly making sure as I redo Launchbox fresh that im not missing a better method. Thanks for the response!

  12. 5 hours ago, C-Beats said:

    No there is no way to leave the hierarchy you are describing without each of those subsections being their own platform.

    Ah well, thanks for taking the time to respond anyway. I'd like to request this feature in a future version, it would be great for the few of us that are super into keeping things *very* organized. Possibly this can be done with Playlists but ive gone through a couple hours of that and its rather hit or miss. I think it needs a hard-coded XML to go along with it? Im not advanced enough to know if thats possible in 11.8, and after all that it feels like there could be an easier way to do with with subfolders for categories that all look to the same Super Nintendo superstructure, so to speak. 

    4 hours ago, C-Beats said:

    Could potentially just use the Release Type field to auto-generate playlists as well. Set up a "Hacks" playlist for games with "Hack" as the release type sort of thing.

    I will look into this

  13. Hacks, Homebrew, Beta, Revisions, and subcatagories of each by region is what im looking for. Just like the picture. Region only wont do this unless im not understanding.

     

    Inside the "beta" folder is separated by region. Inside the "revisions" folder is the same. The folders that are "Usa" "europe" etc have the non-beta, non-revision, non etc pure first generation games. It would be easy if it were just those, but SNES had far far more games and I would like to add them respecting separations of their categories under the Super Nintendo main category.

     

    As it stands now Im having to create entirely new categories inside of launchbox for each folder so hierarchy is maintained, as I dont see a proper non-tedious way to do this. 

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