Jason Carr

Thanks again all for all your help and support. Looking for some feedback on new fields here: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/games-database-news-and-updates/new-fields

I'll be adding new fields soon to the database. I want to add all new fields in one fell swoop so I figured we should discuss it first. Open to ideas and suggestions about new fields to add. First off, one field I want to add is Series, to match the Series field that we have in LaunchBox. Beyond that, I want to better handle the description for multiplayer games. Right now we have "Max Players" and "Cooperative" but that doesn't quite cover all the details. At first I thought about replacing Max Players and adding a new "Play Mode" field to match the one in LaunchBox with options like "2-Player Alternating" and "2-Player Simultaneous", but with online games these days I'm thinking that would get unruly fast. So my current plan is to keep "Max Players" and add a new field called "Multiplayer Modes" with these options: Alternating Simultaneous Cooperative Online Split-Screen This would eliminate the Cooperative check box (we can move the data over to the new field easily). Also, of course you would be able to select several of these options at once. Looking for feedback on the above and also any new fields you think are important to add. Thanks guys! I'd like to nail these down before I implement the last major piece, which is adding new games.

New beta 7 is out with an updated Spanish translation. Planning to put out the official tomorrow; thanks again everyone for all your help. Speak up if you find anything new or if you are still seeing any bugs in this beta 7 release. Thanks!

Thank you very much, Clive. New beta 7 is out with the updated translation. Still planning on putting out the official tomorrow. Any testing you guys can do with your translations would be greatly appreciated, just in case we introduced a bug or two. If we find some bugs, I can put off the release. Thanks!

I'm not an expert on the matter, but I've been marking any box with PEGI as Europe. We may need to change our region list; right now it's basically just continents. If anyone has concrete details on that stuff, let me know. I quickly reviewed a few other sites and came up with what we have.

Awesome to hear, thanks @orac31.

Hi @Izzy, I'll be adding that this week. We're opening things up one thing at a time as I can develop them. :)

Images from one region should never replace an image from another region (we want to keep both images instead). So if a user submitted an image replacement that replaces a European image with a US one, or vice versa, it should be refused. Instead, users should be adding a new image with the correct region listed on it, and if necessary, they can update the old image to be the correct region as well. Sooner or later I will be adding notes text blocks to the moderation and submissions so that we can explain this to people in the moderation process. Also, I think it'd be nice to have an option to keep both images in this situation. So that'll be coming eventually as well.

Thank you @billyc999. The metadata all looks great; got your email as well. I should be able to merge the data into the LaunchBox Games Database.

Thank you guys for getting this conversation started. Hopefully we can get it all figured out.

Great, thank you both. Planning to put out the new 5.10 official tomorrow. :)

Hi @graf, if you want a custom library with MAME, unfortunately the only good way to do it is to build it manually. Although favorites do work well too if you want to have everything and just show favorites at the top of the list. The other thing you can do is mark the games that you don't want as hidden. And then set LaunchBox/Big Box to not show hidden games.

Yes, "Accept Delete" means to approve the deletion and actually delete the image (if there have been enough approvals). "Reject Delete" means to keep the image. One issue we're seeing with the images right now is that some users are deleting existing images and then adding new ones instead of replacing them, which gives us no visibility as to why they're deleting an image. Really, images should only be deleted if they don't meet the quality requirements or are misplaced. If in doubt, you can reject image deletions. I'd rather not get rid of images unless they really are incorrect.

Wow! Very cool @AHmedia, you've got some great ideas there. Very pretty too. :)

Hehehe, thank you @Cebion and everyone else who's helping moderate. :)

Yes, should be pretty kosher now with the latest betas.

For starters, in order to keep us out of hot water and largely because we don't yet have any age restriction stuff in place (not to mention that all data is always accessible whether you're logged in or not), we need to enforce the "no nudity" rule. In the future once the more important things are taken care of, we can add safeguards in for that stuff and perhaps eventually allow those games in a restricted state. For now, though, we don't have that stuff in place, so unfortunately this means we do need to block nudity for the time being.

New beta is out with the Brazilian Portuguese translation update. I think we're pretty much ready for the official release. @AFaustini, can you translate these release notes? Thanks! Also, @CliveBarker and @Wattoo, the last line is a new one so if you guys can translate just that last line, that'd be awesome. Thank you all! Here are the biggest changes for the latest releases: - New optional VLC video playback engine - 7-zip, RAR, and Zip archive support for ROMs - XInput support for controllers - My Collection syncing to the cloud - Significant improvements to the MAME importer

@DR9, @DOS76, @jking3 I think I have the Big Box stability issues fixed (at least the ones that were related to VLC). See the beta testing post: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/features/launchbox-beta-testing/page-76#p15467 Please let me know if you are seeing any more stability issues with the latest 5.10-beta-6. Thanks! :)

It didn't use to do that, but I had to enable it because if I don't then people are constantly getting errors related to missing runtimes, sigh. So that's the trick...I'd rather just force the DirectX install every time and not have people getting crashes because of their machines not having it all. Sorry for that.

Alright, new beta 6 is out, and for me at least, it has fixed the VLC-related Big Box stability issues. Hooray! This was driving me nuts for like 2 weeks, not even kidding. Nothing seemed to work. So I literally prayed about it and 10 minutes later an answer popped into my head. Turns out, all I needed to do to was update the VLC libraries. Lo and behold, no crashes. Wish I would have asked the Lord for help 2 weeks ago. I'm also hoping this fixes the errors with 32-bit Windows installations as well. The Brazilian Portuguese translation is also updated thanks to @AFaustini. I believe we're ready for the official 5.10 now; I'll give it a couple days though to make sure nothing else pops up. Thanks! :)

Thanks @SagaXIV. Yes, that is a known issue that I do plan to solve here soon. There is a general issue where if you want to name a platform differently than the official names or one of our alternate names, then there are issues scraping. I think I'm going to take the community's advice and add a field called "platform to scrape" or similar on platforms, which will let you override this stuff.

Hi @SagaXIV, by chance are you using the latest beta? @muppets4 is having an odd issue with controllers here: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/troubleshooting/strange-behaviour-with-big-box-and-steam-in-home-streaming#p15464 Was curious if you had ever seen that or if you happened to know how to solve it, since I don't have a Steam Link. Thanks!

Okay, hrm. It does seem that there are other people using beta 5 with Steam Link streaming without issues, so my guess is that it would be some sort of odd configuration with the Steam Link. Unfortunately I don't have one to test with to confirm either way. I'll see if I can get some other people with Steam Links in on the conversation.

Wow, thank you guys for all the support. There's a heavy emphasis on the community here, and that's because *you guys* are such a huge part of making this all successful. Thanks again and thanks for being such a great community.