Jason Carr

Lol, both. This is now just becoming a useless argument over semantics. I'm sorry you were offended; let's please move on now. As always, I have more development to do and stuff like this just ends up causing pointless delays.

Wow. Well, it's my personal preference to not participate in the hate, and I don't want hate of any kind on these forums either.

I am fully aware of what he said.

@rexryan Monkus may have been a tad bit insensitive, but nothing he said suggests that you're illiterate or that your purchase was useless. I certainly don't believe that was intended. I am sorry that it was phrased in a way that was offensive to you.

The reason we removed the aforementioned thread was simply to ensure that the specific crook mentioned in the thread does not receive any extra publicity from us. It had nothing to do with us censoring the thread; we just choose not to provide criminals with any extra publicity. We do very much appreciate your purchase @rexryan.

Hmm, good to know. I know that used to work but apparently it stopped for some reason. I'll add it to my list to investigate.

@nrage If you play it manually with the play button, the songs should keep playing. They only stop when auto-played.

That's the point of the Nested Name vs. the Unique Name fields.

Odd. Okay, well things seem to be working just fine for me when I use your same data, so it appears that the issue is not with the data. Maybe try backing up your data folder, reinstalling fresh, and putting it back?

You mean to reimport? Yeah, that should work fine. You can also just keep your games and re-run the import process and it will skip any games that already exist.

We're gonna leave that up to EmuMovies for now.

Looking at your collection, everything looks perfectly fine, so I assume that we just have a bug with the Scan for ROMs process. I'll look into it here soon.

Ha, somehow I didn't make the connection to the previous issue. I get it now.

The recommended solution in this case would be to just put that platform in the root instead of a inside a platform category. Stuff is easy to move around now so that should be a non-issue.

The parent folders are supposed to now display the actual game count (which is one reason for the marginally increased performance requirements): If the game counts aren't displaying, please let me know where.

Oh, also, I think the issue of items being sorted incorrectly in Big Box has been fixed as well.

Beta 3 is out now with a ton of fixes/changes for the nesting: - Orphaned items should now show up in the root - New Add options in the sidebar right-click menu to add a platform, category, or playlist - The parent tree views in the Add/Edit screens now only expand to make checked items visible (instead of expanding everything) - When adding a new platform, category, or playlist from the sidebar right-click menu, the currently selected item is checked by default in the parent tree views - Root is now checked by default in the parent tree views if nothing else is selected - Fixed overlap/DPI issues with Add/Edit Parents tabs - When adding or editing a platform, the Parents tab now only allows you to add the platform to the root or to platform categories, as there's no good reason to add a platform to a playlist or another platform (and this discourages misuse of platforms where a platform category or a playlist should be used instead) - Various related fixes Testing is still much appreciated on this stuff. I did find a whole slew of potential bugs that have been fixed in this beta, so stability should at least be significantly improved. If you've previously reported a bug, please re-test with this beta and let me know if you still experience it. Thanks all!

LaunchBox.xml used to be used for all data, but it was separated out into the various XML files a long time ago. I wasn't aware that there was an error message that still referred to LaunchBox.xml. Anyways, what platform are you trying to add ROMs to? If you can zip up and PM me your LaunchBox\Data folder, I can take a look to see what might be going on.

This is actually not beta-related at all, and isn't how LB should look on high DPI configurations. My guess is that somehow Windows is either stuck in between DPIs, or maybe you just changed DPIs and haven't signed off or rebooted yet? Windows is quirky when you change DPIs without signing out. Try signing out and back in or rebooting to see if you still have the issues.

I haven't heard from @t17fenics in quite some time, so I don't believe so at this point.

I do very much appreciate the effort of adding no intro alternate names, as that will ultimately improve the search for others in the future. That said, it seems to be very rare as of current for a game not to be matched properly to the DB, so I don't consider it to be a priority for the moment, at least. For example, my N64 platform has 100% matched games, while only 5 of my 617 GameCube games weren't matched on initial import. I recognize that the accuracy does go down for hacks/prototypes/etc., but that's usually mostly because of them being missing from the games database. Eventually I can look to add the No-Intro names to the games database metadata (that is actually something that I had not previously considered doing), but it will likely be a while as I have a lot of other things that are higher up on the priority list. Still, thanks for the proposal; that is certainly a good idea.

Ha, I'm turning into a broken record. I think something fishy is going on here; can you PM me your LaunchBox\Data folder?

Please PM me your Data folder, and I can troubleshoot, assuming it still happens after a restart?

Yes, it can. Probably the best way to do this would just be to use auto-populate playlists that search for values in the Region or Version fields, and place them underneath the platform. Have you seen this since? Are you able to replicate it at all? Remind me what your hardware is? I am interested to know how much performance is affected by the new stuff. Also, if you can zip up and PM me your LaunchBox\Data folder, I can do some performance testing to see if there's anything I can speed up. Keep in mind that new features almost always require more processing, and performance is often affected. I've already done some work to help with performance, but I may do some more to see how things can be improved.

Should be fixed for the next beta.