Jason Carr

I can probably add that at some point, yes, though unfortunately it won't be an immediate priority. I think you're the second person to request it.

If you download the videos as you import, it will work. However, they won't all be found unless you re-download, because the root games are not all the same as they were before, because of region prioritization. So you'll have to just re-download them via the Download Metadata and Media wizard. If you don't want any duplicates, you should probably clear out the video folder first. It's currently not possible to automatically find all the clone videos and match them up.

Do you mean to show the same videos for the MAME parent games on the child games? This should already work through EmuMovies just fine if you group all the clones together into additional apps with the full set import wizard.

@Urzaz Sorry to hear about the trouble; to be honest I'm baffled by it as I still have no idea what might be causing that, but I'm glad we've at least narrowed it down to a controller. If you can, try disabling "Use All Controllers" in the controller settings. If necessary, you should be able to disable it in the Settings.xml file just by changing the setting from true to false.

@pitaru Let me know if you're interesting in translating and I'll put a package together. You can read the beginning of this topic for the details and process. @Cauptain That's pretty awesome, but I would be slightly concerned about the quality of the translations. That said, I would expect it would still save you a lot of trouble if you were able to do it and then just manually review them.

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Not currently. One of the items from the poll is support for multiple levels of custom nested folders/filters. That is planned for soon.

I believe this is actually the first time I've heard that requested. We can certainly add it in at some point (it might be a good item to put on the next community poll).

You can always take a look under Help > Changelog.

I see; yeah, the property is not currently a proper binding, so it won't update correctly when it's used in a XAML binding. Hopefully I can address this soon.

Thanks Spidey; I've fixed this for the 8.7 official release, which should be out shortly.

@Aevans0001 It does not put the parent ROM as the main ROM and the clones as additional; instead, it uses the region prioritization options that you specify in the wizard: See "Region to Prioritize" above. It's not ordering them by the first one it finds; it's ordering them by region. I do recognize though though that there are some improvements that can be made yet, such as ignoring hacks and prototypes when first looking for the main ROM to use.

So I'm still not exactly sure how that happens, @Spidey077. If you would be willing to zip up and PM me your LaunchBox\Data folder, I can look into it.

I will add this to the list to fix, though I think we'll wait until the 8.8 betas as I need to get the 8.7 fix release out.

I think we'll probably wait until we implement the full folder solution. In the mean time, I think you can just create two separate playlists.

This is something that I think is currently missing iirc. Hint, hint to plugin developers, it would be pretty useful to build a plugin control to be able to pull custom field info. Otherwise, it is on my list.

It is pretty strange @Grila. I think I would have to see the code and play with it to try and figure it out.

Beta 4 is out now with separate options for showing playlists in the list of platforms and/or underneath a platform category: This way, we can please both folks who want it the old way with them listed under platforms as well as folks who only want them listed under the Arcade platform category. I think the latter makes the most sense, because the genre playlists are Arcade-specific. Of course, you can set up your playlists however you like. If you delete and recreate your playlists though, they will now be configured to only show up under the Arcade platform category and not in the general platforms list. I still plan to release 8.7 official in the next few days, assuming the issues are confirmed to be solved and nothing new comes up.

I guess one thing I should mention is that laptops in general (and Mac Books do have a history of this) will tend to under-perform on purpose either for heat reasons or battery-saving reasons. I have no idea if that has anything to do with this, but I guess it's worth mentioning.

Okay, I did a test with my Arcade platform myself, and I can confirm that the CPU usage does go up for around 10 seconds or so while it saves the Arcade.xml file and does some other cleanup stuff. It does seem to be longer with bigger platforms. As far as why it would be taking multiple minutes though, I still don't have any good ideas on that. So I'm at a loss currently, as your hardware doesn't seem like it should be performing that poorly.

Ah, I see more of where you're going with this now. We use the catver.ini, mame.ini, languages.ini, nplayers.ini, and series.ini files behind the scenes to populate the metadata that is used when importing MAME games. Initially I thought about requiring users to download these files themselves (most of them in fact do not come with MAME), but that seemed to be way too difficult/annoying for most users, so that idea was thrown out quickly. Most of the metadata that is used when importing MAME games comes from these files, and very little comes from the games database. There are more files we could use (such as history.dat), and we may do that at some point in a future release. We do our best to cater to the average user, and the average user does not have the knowledge nor the setup in place already to manage all of that properly, with the media in the proper folders and such. It's certainly easy enough to change your folder paths in LaunchBox to match MAME's for the arcade platform, or just copy the files over. I don't envision us taking this approach in the future, because our goal is to make it as easy as possible for the masses, not to pigeon-hole things into existing solutions.

Okay. I'm guessing the best solution then is for Grila to make sure that no default colors are being used. That's my guess at least without looking at any code.