Rinusch

Hi, I recently submitted an edit to the metadata of the Amiga game Adrenalynn (it's 4 players, not 2 as it stated before). I notice it has been applied in the meanwhile when I follow the link shown in the game's metadata. However, in the metadata in Launchbox itself, it still states the old value '2 players'. I forced updating all metadata and still no luck. Am I missing something? If not, can anybody confirm maybe? I'll then report a bug as the question then rises what other meta data may not be correct in my collection.

Great, thanks, this helps!

Since 'list view' is a lot less heavy (LB is responding much faster when searching or editing games), I like to use that when doing 'maintenance'. It's a big nuisance for me that the sorting settings don't apply to this view. When I'm in 'images view' and sort on 'date added' for example, this sorting is initially also used when I switch over to 'list view'. But when I switch to another platform, or edit a game's metadata and close it's window, it falls back to it's default: sorting based on title. Could this please be addressed in a next release? I read other, quite old posts about this as well but unfortunately this hasn't received any attention since then.

This bar seemingly indicates LB is doing some kind of indexing for the selected platform, or for all platforms when 'all' is selected. It looks like this process is heavy on the CPU. When it has completed, it seems this doesn't happen again for that specific platform. However, on the other hand I regularly see this happening again anyway. Not sure what triggers it, because I also see it happening again for platforms that I haven't touched (i.e. not added games or media) sinces the process last completed. I can't find anything about this blue progress bar on the forum unfortunately.

I have been having this issue for quite some time already. Launchbox freezes for approximately 5 seconds when I have e.g. checked or edited a game's metadata and close the details window, or when switching to another platform. Windows says 'not responding' in the taskmanager when this happens. Is this just me? I have searched the forum for similar reports but can't find any so it feels like this is a local issue, or...?

I've reported similar issues before, not sure if this is the same underlying issue, but the version of Launchbox (13.15) is much newer and this is still broken. Both 'squash.zip' and 'squaitsa.zip' are being recognised as 'Squash' (https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/39104-squash). However, when I edit the metadata, the details are different. For instance, the latter lists 'Itisa' as the publisher, while the former lists 'Gaelco'. When I 'unlink' the latter and type 'squash' before hitting the 'search for metadata' button, it only yields 1 result, namely the exact match. Only when I shorten the search term to 'squa' I can select 'Squash (Itisa)' from the search results. This shouldn't be to hard to troubleshoot/fix I expect? Regards!

Great, thanks! No need for me to add it anymore then. Looking forward to the fix being released, thanks again.

Hi @faeran. I wasn't aware of the bitbucket site until just now, but when checking for this item I couldn't find it. Is this correct?

I would appreciate if my posts were to be acknowledged in some way at least. My most recent contributions haven't been replied to at all. Now I don't know whether they have been missed, ignored, appreciated. I can save my time if I know nothing is done with most of my posts anyway.

I noticed when auditing, none of the keyboard shortcuts work that are listed when you right-click a game, e.g. ctrl+e for editing that game, or 'del' for deleting etc.

Hi, I've reported some more issues with media category priority settings and downloading media, but this intentionally is a separate post in order not to confuse different findings together. I noticed two more strange behavioural issues when trying some scenario's. The game tested was Cauldron for platform Amstrad CPC. I found that the media category priority settings impact the options that are presented to the user when downloading media from Emumovies via (Tools->Download->Update metadata and media for selected games). When I set every media category priority setting to contain only 1 option (the 'default' option, e.g. 'box-front' under 'box front priorities' and so on.. ), media types 'Compact Disc' and 'Floppy Disk' are not visible. When I revert all media category priority settings back to their default values, those media types are visible however. Either way (no matter which scenario you pick for the first bullet in terms of settings), when you download the floppy disc image from Emumovies via the 'edit game' window and close it, you are again presented the suggestion to download the floppy disc image. And if you keep it selected, it also downloads the same duplicate image. When you try the same not via Emumovies but via the LB DB, this doesn't happen. Maybe this is a more generic issue under the hood, so I thought it might be something important for the devs to look into. Regards!

Hi @Retro808, it's me again 😉. I found another example but I think it may be a different issue. Please read for details. Both roms 'ddragon.zip' and 'doubledr.zip' were originally matched against the same game 'Double Dragon' with LB ID #10901. However, 'doubledr.zip' is a different game and should be matched against 'Double Dragon (Neo-Geo)' with LB ID #26804. Only thing I notice in mame.xml is that only the latter has a '<MameListItem>' entry at the end of the file. Maybe that could be a lead for trouble shooting. Hope this helps?

Thanks! It actually seems to be a different issue as I got the same result you got (see my 2nd paragraph from the February 11th post). But then another specific test (final paragraph) yielded unexpected behaviour again. I think we may be onto something as it appears that the fact whether or not a media category has an associated image group has an impact on the download process. And if this test yields a different result on your end, it means that something else is wrong on my end...potentially also a bug (maybe an error in a version update process), or otherwise somebody please tell me what config setting has an impact on this behaviour. So it would be much appreciated if you could try once more on your end.

Hi @Retro808 and/or anybody else interested in this topic, Have you been able to check my findings above? Easiest way to reproduce is to focus on the last paragraph. So if you configure all media priorities to contain exactly one category and then download media, 'advertisement flyers' should have no image group listed and you shouldn't be able to download flyers. If you are, then something else is going on here.. Hope you can check and get back. It would be appreciated!

Thanks. However, they both have the same LB ID assigned in my case..but with different metadata. Not sure if this was clear from my post. Here's what I see (Mame0.259): Keen to hear your thoughts, thanks!