Jason Carr

Here's what we have for clear logos so far, thanks to @RetroHumanoid: Missing: Ball & Paddle Games, Maze Games, MultiGames, and Pinball Arcade

I also just added Rhythm Games and Beat Em Ups to the top list, as somehow it looks like I forgot them.

Those clear logos are indeed awesome @RetroHumanoid; thanks for that. We're still looking for clear logos for Ball & Paddle Games, Maze Games, MultiGames, and Pinball Arcade.

The new playlists are auto-populate playlists and use genre names and other criteria that only work for the MAME metadata. They're purposefully displayed under the Arcade platform category for this reason. They're easy to rename to whatever you like, however. It should still be up. Do you have background updates enabled? Assuming you don't have any custom playlists that you need to keep, it should be safe to just delete them all. Then you can go to Tools > Create Missing Arcade/MAME Playlists and it will recreate them.

@CliveBarker @AFaustini @Wattoo @Opak @dukeemu @cyanjiang @Bardock @MajKSA @gamehacker @Cauptain @Kondorito

It's time to update the translations again guys; I'm hoping to put out a new official release either towards the end of this week or the beginning of next week. All translation packages have been updated. As always, thank you all very, very much.

Thanks Claudio, I don't have this integrated yet, but I will for the next beta.

Beta 9 is out now with the following: - Fixed: LaunchBox (.Next) was missing plugin support for the Tools menu - Fixed: LaunchBox (.Next) was missing LEDBlinky support - Stripped out the voice recognition stuff, which seems to be horribly broken in Windows 10 anyways. I don't know why, but it seems like MS has ruined the voice recognition engine, and it seems to be completely worthless these days unfortunately (no matter what I try it just never picks up the correct words). If requested (which I doubt), we may add voice recognition back in at some point, but it never seemed to be a very popular feature anyways. It was also very finicky since it's implementation back in the day. I'm hoping this beta will be the release candidate for the official release.

You'll want to use the new MAME full-set importer if you're importing a full set, as it was built specifically to solve the problem of missing games. MAME is very tricky since not all games even have ROM files associated with them. The new importer solves that problem. Per TurboGrafx, I would need more information in order to determine why they didn't import, such as the full file names. If you want to troubleshoot it further, let's please put it in another thread.

Did you use the new full set importer for MAME? I haven't touched TurboGrafx; what format are the ROM files in?

Okay, I would say the initial objectives (the biggest priorities) would be in this order: Clear logos for all of the new playlists that match the style of the existing clear logos that come with LaunchBox (typical old-school style that originated from Hyperspin) New theme videos for "Ball & Paddle Games", "Maze Games", and "MultiGames", because those three do not have any videos at all Banner images for all of the new playlists that match the style of the existing banner images that come with LaunchBox New theme videos for the rest of the playlists listed above Fanart for all of the new playlists Thanks again all.

Woot!

ETA will have a tutorial out shortly after the official release, which should be soon. I'm not 100% an expert on MAME ROMs (even after spending so many hours researching and programming this stuff), but I don't believe it would be safe to go in and delete files that don't appear to be used, because many of the games would stop functioning. I believe figuring out which files are needed for each game is a rather complicated process. I'm guessing that the auto-generated MAME data would provide the necessary information, but parsing all that out is way beyond what I've built so far. If that's what you're looking for, though, I would recommend using an external tool of some sort (I know they exist but I'm not familiar with them) to whittle down the set, and then importing it via the drag and drop importer (this has now been updated to use the new metadata). We may add this in the future, but as for now it's not planned for the official release.

I'm still not quite certain what's going on, so I guess if you PM me your LaunchBox\Data folder I can look to see if I can replicate it.

Okay; I believe this means that our testing has been flawed, sadly. The code is now exactly the same as it was back when everyone confirmed that it was working properly with Use All Controllers unchecked. So basically, it may be improved, but I'm guessing that it was never really fully fixed. Regardless, I think we'll run with this for the next official release.

That looks amazing @harryoke! For the clear logos that end up being included with LaunchBox, we'll need a set that mostly matches the existing ones with the basic, typical style. However, we certainly can't go wrong with lots of good options! @Klopjero Per the artwork, the main priority is to add images for the above mentioned playlists that match the existing set, though like I said above, new sets are great as well. We can look into creating a list of what's still needed, though this was an attempt at that for all the new playlists. Generally, video coverage is pretty amazing at current sans for the new playlists, as we have videos available from like 5 different creators using the built-in theme video downloader in LaunchBox. I also just added a bunch of @RetroHumanoid's videos up there, so now there's more than ever. But coverage is lacking for the above list currently. Thank you @Padou! And no worries; we'll look forward to it. Haha, that's awesome @harryoke.

Great to hear, thank you my friend. I have approval from @dragon57 as well, so I'll get them uploading here very soon. We're going to stick to platform, playlist, and platform category videos for now.

The new MAME metadata is very specific for genres and such; it's much better than the old data, so you might find that it's better anyways. I would recommend creating a temporary, new instance of LaunchBox and trying out the full set importer to see if it's what you want or not. You may find that it's what you were hoping for from the beginning. Otherwise, there's not much use for the new metadata if you don't want any of it changed, and if you're happy with what you've got, then there's nothing to worry about anyways.

There is no way. Just kidding, but I really have no idea what that means or what your collection actually looks like. Regardless though, if you can't update the metadata, then the playlists and most of the new features are not going to work.

Also, with your permission @dragon57, @Padou, and @CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT, I'd like to get you guys' videos uploaded to the server so that they can be downloaded directly via the theme videos downloader in LaunchBox. Just want to check with you all to make sure you're okay with that. You can PM me if needed.

First off, I want to thank all of the amazing media and theme creators we have in this community for the incredible work they put in day in and day out. I'm constantly amazed how much awesome stuff gets uploaded here (and elsewhere) and I'm forever grateful for all of it. I wanted to let everyone know that LaunchBox 8.6 will be released soon with a lot of new features, including themes for LaunchBox (same theming engine as Big Box!) and a huge MAME overhaul, with updated metadata and a brand new full-set importer for MAME 0.200 (which is easy to update for new MAME versions). Most importantly though, there are a bunch of brand new automatically-populated playlists that will be immensely useful for peoples' libraries: 2-Player Games 4-Player Games Ball & Paddle Games Beat Em Ups Board & Card Games Fighting Games Flying Games Light Gun Games Maze Games MultiGames Pinball Arcade Platform Games Puzzle Games Racing Games Rhythm Games Run & Gun Games Shoot Em Ups Shooter Games Sports Games Of course all these new playlists will need images and videos! Thanks to @RetroHumanoid we already have some great videos available for most of them, but as we have so many video options for the rest of the platforms and playlists out there, I'd love to see some more options for these as well. And of course we'll need images: Clear Logo Banner Fanart I'll be able to include the best clear logo and banner images with LaunchBox as we've done in the past with all the other playlists, and of course we can make all the videos available for download using the "Download Platform/Playlist Theme Videos" option in LaunchBox. Thank you all once again for all the amazing work, and I can't wait to see what's to come.

I don't think it will matter with this latest beta, sans for clones (which you're not using) and games that might have been removed or added from MAME since your set was created. Let me know if you have any issues with the playlists though, as that would mean that some of the metadata didn't come through. You might find that you get better results though if you start over with a full set and prioritize regions with using the new full set importer (assuming you have the disk space).

Adding a single game will still use the updated metadata.

Beta 8 is out now with a fix for the Namco System 22 playlist, which was incorrectly set the to CPS3 games. If you use Tools > Create Missing MAME Playlists it should fix the issue (assuming you had already downloaded them all from beta 7). Edit: It looks like you do have to first delete your existing Namco System 22 playlist, however.

A few minutes isn't normal though, but this could be due to a bunch of different factors, including the size of your collection and your hardware specs.