Jason Carr

If the game already exists, it shouldn't be overwriting it...are am I misunderstanding something? Are you overwriting metadata?

LaunchBox creates the playlists under the Arcade platform category, so yeah, if you re-create them you'll need to manually modify them to put them under MAME if that's where you want them. Otherwise, you could just leave them in place and delete all the games instead of deleting the platform. That should keep everything in tact.

Thanks, updated for beta 4.

What version of LaunchBox did you update from? You might want to look for an update to the Unified theme if you're out of date, just in case that's the issue. You can reinstall LaunchBox, but I doubt that will solve the issue as I expect it's an issue with the Unified theme. You can temporarily fix the issue by just removing the Unified theme folder (and then hopefully you can reinstall the latest version of it via the themes manager).

Beta 3 is out now with the following: Fixed: Very rare "argument out of range" error when submitting MAME high scores for certain games Fixed: Rare "must create DependencySource on same Thread as the DependencyObject" error when editing theme-specific options in Big Box Translation updates

@Chris Kant Okay, I can see how those features would be beneficial for the game details sidebar; we'll probably put it on the next poll.

Thank you guys; I have these translations all updated for 11.8-beta-3, which should be out shortly.

Nope, there's no need for that. It would just cause unnecessary extra confusion. Thanks, though.

Hey all, I'm planning to put out a new release much sooner this time around; we're looking at early next week for the new release. Sorry to put you guys back at it so soon. Thanks as always. @Opak @cyanjiang @Bardock @MajKSA @gamehacker @Kondorito @Nyny77 @alexposad @k_kutsugi @dukeemu @Just001Kim @Cauptain

Well that's dumb, but I guess we get to live with it. Probably how it's designed.

Thanks guys; this issue has been a real pain to fix. I've tried to fix it several times with it then popping back up somehow. I'll come back to it again here soon. The good news is that it's easy for me to look at the backlog of the data to just manually delete all these things later on when I tackle it, so at least your work hasn't been in vain, even if it does take a while.

Did any of that help your issue @TheGenius?

That's correct; LaunchBox will not delete obsolete ROMs when running the process again for new MAME versions. If this is a problem for you, the recommended way would be to delete the playlists, platform, and games, but keep the media, and then re-import. It will then create all the playlists again as well.

Beta 2 is out now with the following: Fixes for the netplay-lobby related issues above An overhaul for the add/edit platform category screen

If we get the chance, we may look into some of these options, depending on our schedule next week. GOG achievements would indeed be good to add, so we'll look into that for the future. I'm confused what you're asking for here. Can you explain?

I can see how that's confusing. Unfortunately though, right now we don't remember separate views for each platform and for each theme. The option is there to turn off remembering separate views for each platform for certain themes if you want, which will allow you to use a different view for that theme only.

The first 11.8 beta is out here:

Any platform-specific views will override the theme-specific view settings. So if you use the keyboard shortcut to change it for a platform, then it will be platform-specific instead of theme-specific.

Hey all, the first 11.8 beta is out now with the following: New Feature: Steam Achievements are now available inside of both LaunchBox and Big Box! They can be viewed in the game details sidebar and via a popup from the game details menu in Big Box. New Feature: LaunchBox and Big Box now both have a Retroarch Netplay lobby browser! Access it from the tools menu in LaunchBox or the system menu in Big Box. Improvement: Games are now marked as duplicates in the Audit window if there are multiple games with the same LaunchBox Games DB ID assigned to them Improvement: Manuals/documents that have been added as additional apps will now be automatically recognized and dealt with properly in the Delete Platform, Edit Platform, Bulk Edit Platform, and Clean Up Media processes Fixed: Potential error when downloading media for manually-added games before they are saved for the first time Fixed: On rare occasions, Bulk Edit changes were not properly saving after a restart, mostly affecting Custom Field changes Fixed: Uplay import was not working due to Ubisoft's changes to Ubisoft Connect Fixed: The "Set Selected Name as Title" button in the Alternate Names section of the Add/Edit window wasn't always adding the currently used title to the list of alternate titles Fixed: The "Prioritize Music Over Video Audio" option in Big Box was sometimes not allowing video audio to play if no music was playing

Thanks @Nyny77; I have the translation in for the first 11.8 beta. We're hoping to put it out tomorrow.

Welp, the forums software is what handles this, so I don't have the source code for it. I've noticed that other searches seem to be working fine, but I have no idea why SNK Neo Geo isn't coming up with anything. Sorry for the trouble.

Yes, we'll add something like that when we do the MAME updates I referred to above. I just updated to version 0.226 for the MAME metadata. You'll need to go to Help > Force Update Games Database Metadata in order to pull it down.

Yes, we'll probably do that too whenever we tackle the new MAME stuff.

It's the filtering and combining processes that require the extra metadata, and those processes are arguably the most important features of the MAME importer, as no one wants all those duplicates just thrown around in their collection. So I don't consider it a possibility at all to provide any of this functionality with just the MAME dat file. It's just wouldn't be very useful, and it'd be cause for massive confusion (as if there isn't enough confusion with it already).

Hey there, sorry for the late reply. I've cleared your high scores for Flying Shark.