Jason Carr

Odd, shell.AppsFolder doesn't seem to work for me in the Windows 10 run box.

Ah, okay. That's really stupid that you can't just do it from the Start menu. That would sure make it more straightforward.

Nice! That is an awesome idea. :)

Thank you Darren! :)

Hi @dhobo, I understand your point of view; we're not looking for professionals here, only for hobbyists to have some fun. Frankly, there's nothing wrong with that. If anyone views this as work, then please don't do it. For what it's worth, I don't buy the whole "NEVER DO ANYTHING FOR FREE" mindset. I am a developer myself (of course), and I've spent over 10 very successful years in the industry, which I am very grateful for. I still enjoy it and I enjoy screwing around with stuff like this from time to time. It is your choice to participate, and there's nothing wrong with having a little fun with it.

FastFeet, I share that passion. I would love for "perfect" metadata and images collections to be available for integration into LaunchBox/Big Box. If we can find a perfect set of data for a particular platform, then I can actually integrate it straight into LaunchBox eventually. Going forward, ideally I'd like to revamp the metadata engine to by default use a collection of the best metadata available for a platform that comes with LaunchBox, and then only use the scrapers as a secondary option. I know the Hyperspin metadata would probably be a good starting point for this, but it is fairly incomplete from what I can tell (it only contains NA region stuff for the most part, from what I can tell). That said, if anyone wants to put together a perfect list of metadata for any particular platform, I can work on getting that data directly integrated into LaunchBox. We could just use Excel or similar.

Thanks for this @DOS76. Is there any way to tell windows to create a shortcut file on the desktop or something similar for those apps?

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Hi Dany, sure; send me the details to jasondavidcarr at gmail. Per the metadata, again, it's a better solution for us to have all the data locally than to use an external API. That said, I can see it as a good option to add, especially for images.

If you're getting that message, then yes, that is definitely the problem. There are path length limitations in Windows, even with NTFS. It's really stupid that that problem still exists, but it does still exist in Windows 10. The only thing I can recommend is moving things out to a parent folder or a shorter folder path to solve that problem :/

Good question to add here! LaunchBox caches the images, and only updates the cache for certain games when it feels it needs to. Go to Tools > Refresh All Images. :)

Hi magnus, try disabling scrolling via the triggers.

Hexxxer, try disabling EmuMovies options to see if that fixes the problem for you. We apparently do still have some issues there that I am working to resolve.

Sure, I could add a forum for noobs. I think that'd make @SentaiBrad really happy; there'd be lots of questions to answer. :P ;)

Good point, Nathan. Hadn't thought about that.

Wow, that's strange. Do you see the same results if you check the box to ignore duplicates in the wizard?

Hi Liam, it is possible that the large games could take a long time to zip up. How long did you wait on the process?

Good question, @Nickjs; I don't think there is, actually. Can you add a ticket for it on Bitbucket (the "Send Feedback" link in the header)?

^^^^^^ THIS. Thanks, kmoney. We're trying to gain ground. Ex-Hyperspin users are the biggest way to do that, and we need to appeal to them in every way possible, as soon as possible.

Hi @Short Fuse, thanks for reporting this. I am not 100% sure, but I *think* this is caused by the "Root Folder" setting on the game. If I recall correctly, LaunchBox will mount the root folder, and then CD to the directory of the game's EXE. Try experimenting with that setting (or clearing it out). It's in the Folder tab when editing the game.

Okay, will review.

Hi @bjwest, agreed, it would be good to have easier to follow instructions. I think that was the original intent of the wiki, but unfortunately it never really got populated with much data. Brad's right though, we're trying to make the YouTube videos easy to follow and also trying to cover everything eventually.

Thanks Dany. I actually did the same thing; the LocalDB in LaunchBox is a complete copy of all the metadata from TheGamesDB that I distribute with LaunchBox. That said, it would be great to have a mirror of all the images; obviously I can't distribute the images with LaunchBox. So yeah, definitely interested in that. :)

Sigh. Every time this happens I'm reminded why I keep wanting to build a database of our own. But @TracyPoff with MobyGames is working on an API, so hopefully we'll be able to move on from this stuff sooner rather than later. That can't happen soon enough.

Hi Darren, we've discovered a bug recently with the EmuMovies part of the importer. Every once in a while it seems to get stuck on particular games and give up. Try updating to the latest beta to see if it helps. Otherwise, for now you can uncheck all the EmuMovies options and it should work fine. We're working on getting it fixed.