Jason Carr

pasteko @alexis254 I've mentioned it before and I know it's not an automated solution for imports, but remember that you can use additional applications to achieve this for now. For example, create one game for it, and then add additional applications that point to the various versions of the ROMs. "Play US Version", "Play Japan Version", etc. Only problem is you have to set it up manually, the imports won't do it automatically.

Thank you @Hexxxer, I appreciate the mockup. Helps to see it visualized. :)

Thank you @klownk! :)

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Drybonz, solution to stop waiting for EmuMovies is simply to remove your login creds per what @SentaiBrad said. I agree though that it would ideally save your preferences per what to download. That's slightly tricky because different platforms and games have different available downloads, but agreed that it's good to put on the list. :)

I agree that the error handling should be improved, and this is indeed on my list.

Yes, I will be looking to improve the MAME metadata soon, which should help to resolve some of the issues.

Drybonz, agreed. I'm not sure why it would be needed as it should be automatic. Though there might be situations where it helps, I'm not sure. Can anyone clarify?

Batch files are definitely supported; lots of people have used them successfully. That's a pretty weird error; I'm guessing that maybe something that the batch file is doing might be causing the error?

Hi @znibro, responded in your other thread.

Hi @znibro, the double quote issue was fixed with 5.7. However, it could be that a different character is causing the problem. What exactly are you seeing? Is the importer just disappearing?

Hi @franklb, that shouldn't be happening for all ROMs unless the site is down or there's an issue with your connection. Or, if you're using EmuMovies, it's possible that the daily download limit was hit.

Hi @pasteko, welcome. That's not a common request, but it is a good point. Feel free to add a ticket for it using the Report Issue / Feedback link in the header. :)

Hi @phly95, skins are planned for Big Box, indeed. Per a splash screen, I'd probably want to leave that up to the community to create a different application of some sort to handle that.

Hi @sndinc, welcome. Yes, I believe what you describe per the multiple instances should work without issues. For MAME ROM scraping, a MAME step should show up in the import wizard if you use MAME for the emulator. There's also a check box to force it in the custom options wizard page.

Speaking of the videos, it's frustrating because I have it working on one machine but randomly it just doesn't work on one of my other machines, sigh. I might put out the beta anyways to see if it's just a fluke on my one machine or something.

Thanks @mute64, I believe it, as we've seen that before. There's probably a game in there that's causing problems with EmuMovies somehow or other. I'd appreciate if someone could add a bug ticket for that so I can track it and get it fixed.

Thank you @Dormat! For what it's worth, this has been planned for a while, but probably not fleshed out yet. Appreciated. :)

That is true, I need to gracefully handle those errors better for individual ROMs. I believe it aborts the import for that one ROM when it runs into a 404 error. Can somebody add a ticket for this with Report Issue / Feedback in the header? :)

Basically, it shows up if you select MAME as your emulator by default, but you can also force it to use that logic by checking the "Force using MAME metadata" box on the custom options page.

Fixed. Thankfully when it happens it's really easy to delete the user and everything they did. Unfortunately it's not so easy to prevent automatically. :/

That is an important feature request; I don't think it's on the Bitbucket yet. Can you request it using Report Issue / Feedback in the header? :)

Gotcha. :)

Great to hear, thanks @djcarnage. :)

It has been done, but yeah, it's not exactly going to be easy to do, as the format is fairly particular. LaunchBox will filter MAME ROMs out of the mix for duplicates and BIOS files, etc. But of course it should obey the options you specify in the wizard.