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On the safe side, I would unzip a few games to test, and don't change their file extension that will do more harm then good. Otherwise... I am a bit stumped myself. You seem to have done everything correctly.

Jason Carr said CliveBarker said I just have a question: can the same thing happen to our database if the community grows a lot and the hosting costs become unaffordable? That's a definite no. Thankfully LaunchBox has a very good revenue stream now (we're making money on LaunchBox Premium sales), so we can afford a good server that can easily handle the load. TheGamesDB.net (at least up until now) has been run on a virtualized (low-power) server because they don't have the revenue for a server that can truly handle the load. We have a physical server that can easily handle the load, and can upgrade it if necessary. There's too much banking on the LaunchBox database functionality for me to ever let it fail, so that shouldn't be a concern. Hosting costs are minimal compared to the income of LaunchBox sales (which are now paying my salary and feeding my family, praise the Lord). I rely on that income too. Like Jason said, we can not let it fail.

Computers some times have fits, especially depending on where things are being installed, and how the program updates.

Thank you for keeping the links in the tutorial legal, I very much appreciate that.

No problem! It might take a bit of work, but eventually we're also going to have a really damn good Database as well. Enjoy LaunchBox and your games.

Yes, thank you to those who stuck it out with us. We'll have a better future this way and I hope that we can create a better database as a community.

Yes, thank you to those who stuck it out with us. We'll have a better future this way and I hope that we can create a better database as a community.

Yes, thank you to those who stuck it out with us. We'll have a better future this way and I hope that we can create a better database as a community.

Yea, this situation sucks really bad but we gotta move past it, and we are. I look forward to creating a better database with the users here.

Well GamesDB is no more. They have been effectively shut down as their service provider pulled their plug on them. We will not be using them going forward, update to the new Beta for the new scraper. As for your images, yes you can use them, but it takes some work. In your LaunchBox's Image folder are a list of consoles. In there is a folder for each category of image. They need to be named after the game so Legend of Zelda in LB, Legend of Zelda (U) as the file name the picture can be named Legend of Zelda or Legend of Zelda (U).

Actually Cid, if you would document that for me and PM me the steps for it so I can adapt that in to the MAME Tutorial for next week I would greatly appreciate it.

It's #1 ASAP.

I've already posted about this here: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/troubleshooting/some-new-information-on-the-current-unfortunate-gamesdb-situation

That I do not know, but rest assured that Jason and I are fixing it. We'll have a solution soon.

Off the top of my head F2 and F3 or F4? F2 is certainly save if I recall.

duhmez said Same here been down 2 days now which is sad as I just got Launchbox and am trying to add my SNES collection. I also just paid $60 for lifetime emumovies membership and cannot import them. Hope it come sback up soon. EmuMovies is fine. GamesDB is having the problem.

https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/troubleshooting/some-new-information-on-the-current-unfortunate-gamesdb-situation

We're working on something our selves, so don't worry. :P

Sharing the XML wouldn't be viable. All of the paths to roms and emulators would be wrong.

Just so everyone reading this knows, GamesDB is not shutting down. Their hosting site has locked them out completely. The owner is a nice guy, and is trying hard to get his site up and running again. Unfortunately It does look like it is time for us to part ways with GamesDB, meaning we will either be adding a new scraping source to LaunchBox (Likely GiantBomb since MobyGames isn't ready to go) or create our own. We had plans for this but with the recent events it looks like this will be happening sooner rather than later. Either way, everyone will be notified soon with our plans. Thank you all again very much.

Yea, Jason and I feel horrible for new and existing users. You all paid for this and now a core function doesn't work. We're grateful that so far we don't seem to be under attack by any users. So far the reception has been really good as to not be mad at us. I've always said we have a great community and times like this warrants that praise.

Thank you very much DudeMan, we appreciate it.

Thank you very much for letting us know this. We are very sorry everyone and ask to give us some time.

You should totally vote on the Ticket on our BitBucket then. https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/342/big-box-screen-saver-attract-mode

Sorry about that everyone, the site wasn't telling me that the posts needed to be approved. I was just sad this morning too that no one was responding. xD @fromlostdays Really good questions, It is hard for me to think of really good questions when I know LaunchBox really well. @Drybonz Links to certain threads will certainly be in the FAQ, thank you for reminding me about these. @DOS76 I appreciate that Derek. Sure, I'll PM Over the questions I've added so far.