SentaiBrad

I don't think most cores will load from archived files. I can't imagine performance would be great though... If you load a core and go to Information on the first tab, it should tell you what file extensions the core will use.

I remember that recent thread... sometimes people wont listen and the dumbest solution is the best solution. xD

My suggestion as always is RetroArch of course. We have tutorials up on our YouTube channel regarding RetroArch.

Oh I missed that. Yea, ini's in documents and PCSX2 folder. "ini 1.4.0" should only be in the documents folder. It looks like they are switching to this, at least in the PCSX2 settings there is no option to change where ini's are stored.

You've always been able to have your files in your documents folder or your PCSX2 folder. However, only savestates, memory cards, BIOS and logs can be in your PCSX2 install. It looks like ini's need to be in the ini 1.4.0 folder for the new 1.4.0 version. You might not have file permission so PCSX2 can't access it, otherwise try removing all installs of PCSX2 (keep your memory cards and save states if you have any) and install PCSX2 fresh. See if it boots after this.

Sex Holograms.

LMFAO! That one reminds of Leisure Suit Larry Shipwrecked. And yes I went with those, we gotta make the Sexy Men of LaunchBox calendar! Cmon, you know you'll buy one with me on the cover Derek. :P Edit: Sorry, Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! :P

AGDQ and SGDQ, I've watched for several years now. It depends on the game or run, any% OoT lasts like 13 min? I fell asleep during Majoras Mask but the OoT run right before Majoras Mask was an all dungeon run, but you don't do it in order. https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule It's almost over though, gotta wait till SGDQ next year. So for TheYetee and SomethingArtistic, they're regular shops and you can buy what ever you want when you want unless they are limited designs for AGDQ and SGDQ. TheYetee also has daily deals and those designs might show up again later, but maybe on another Daily Deal type thing. I bought several daily shirts (which the GDQ shirts are), discontinued shirts (they just try to get rid of the stock for cheaper than daily) and some regular full priced shirts. I am happy with all of them. I don't know about SA, but on Yetee you can submit your own designs for shirts, if they like it and think it can go up on the site they'll even profit share with you. This would be different if Jason and I were to get in to business with them, but they have deals with YouTuber's and other organizations where they sell their themed shirts. The shirt quality is nice and tagless too. My other favorite place is http://www.fangamer.com/ as well. Edit: Oh, for the calendar I can always get in to a banana hammock and get in to... positions... surrounded by consoles.

That could just mean your internet is freaking out or the GamesDB is not working. When the scan is done it will say there were errors, but do you still want to add the games? Hit yes. At any time you can Ctrl + A one of your systems games and scan for metadata and images from the menu.

Google is VERY powerful when it comes to algorithms. They LOVE them. So much so that sometimes after updates, for brief periods, content creators (like myself) get annoyed or upset when they break how much we get paid or other things. The most major one was when videos started getting weighted very differently when it came to search results. Several years ago, though I wasn't mad at this, they made it to where videos with the most views weren't automatically the best in search results. Boobs on a thumbnail would attract people in and gain them tons of views but the video was crap. They changed it to be a multitude of factors like thumbs up, down, comments, retention and then views. Sorry...... I know A LOT about YouTube. Edit: Oh, in my last post I did also mean to say too that YouTube knows what images and audio you are playing. So if the SMB theme pops up and their system knows what it is, they may even know exactly how long the song is. The other by product of this is the DMCA / Copyright "features" in YouTube.

YouTube is really smart about how it handles those things. YouTube takes cues from Titles, descriptions, tags, even comments to drive relevance up. So say there are 200 videos of the Super Mario Bros theme (there are actually tons more than that) it will look at thumbs up and down, description, title and tags (if any tags) to then figure out relevance. How many views and how well its retained viewership will also factor in to it. The more obscure stuff might have a harder time, but generally when I type in something specific it can usually find it within the first 5 searches.

CliveBarker said Could the YouTube API data brings privacy issues? I don't want to sound paranoid tho. I mean, are you going to need to log in to your account in order to use the API inside LB? However, I do like what you suggest, that way I can also save storage space. No, think of it like when you go to a webpage and see an embedded YouTube video. You don't even need to be logged in for YouTube to work, let alone play an embedded video. You can even have it autoplay and hide so only the audio is playing. You just have LB make the search for you, you click on a video based on titles sorted by relevance or something and it starts playing in the background. OCRemix would be the same way except there is no video, just the audio player.

DOS76 said It always put metadata right in my video folders when it was XBMC (but the last version before they switched) It's never done this for me, and I've been using it since XBMC11. I wonder if its a setting.

DOS76 said Both are top notch I do prefer Plex though because they don't clutter up your video folders with metadata files which Kodi does I do support full media support just because the other guys don't have a gaming section on their front ends and i would love to see the comic, ebook feature that Plex doesn't support. Kodi does have comics but the reader is terrible with no way to configure any changes. Kodi doesn't put any metadata in my folders? It has its own metadata folder in my users folder. Edit: Oh, ComicRack and Calibre are awesome for comics, manga and ebooks respectively.

Soundtrack integration and Trailer integration does work in BB, but it would be nice for it to be widespread. Granted I think implementing the YouTube API and searching up videos based on specific tags would also work wonderful for those with smaller hard drives; though this would require decent internet and if you have bandwidth caps you'd want this turned off. :P My theory is though, how often would you realistically listen or watch stuff like this outside of LB? So an internet based solution makes more sense. If it is a soundtrack you already love you probably already have that with the rest of your music in your music player of choice. On the talk of cloud based solutions, I do think OCRemix music implementation (like YT) would be awesome too.

Sorry kids, the parent's are fighting. ;)

8 months ago? :P

I've been telling him this LITERALLY for over 8 months. He magically forgets a lot of the stuff I tell him (I do tend to talk a lot) then someone else says it in the forums and "OH THATS A GOOD IDEA!" :P Love you Jason. But yea if we could get something going through http://somethingartistic.net/ or http://www.theyetee.com/ (these I learned from GDQ years ago) it would be awesome. http://www.fangamer.com/ would be awesome too. Also, I bought shirts from TheYetee (I love them all!) and I am waiting on Decals from SA (they don't mail out till AGDQ is over).

The Steam of Retro Gaming. Linux and Mac support would be awesome. Personally the thought of media integration doesn't sound appealing to me at all in LB, and I've held my tongue on that long enough. There are enough programs doing that well enough (Kodi and Plex).

You're slacking Clive. :P Also, CSO has been around for a while, all but 4 or 5 of my PSP games are CSO's. Some games don't load properly compressed, like the GTA Stories games. Here is the link for the other program I use for PSP CSO's: http://yacc.pspgen.com/ Technically there is no difference between the CSO's(?) but the program the PCSX2 dev wrote can address files over 4GB, and some PS2 games (not a lot) are on a dual layered DVD.

I use one that was primarily designed for PSP games, but one of the devs developed a program to compress to cso files. Apparently they can increase load times? https://github.com/unknownbrackets/maxcso/releases

Huge enough changes to not go back. You can now also launch games as a cso instead of an iso/mds/bin file too.

Thankfully there seems to be no change in the UI in any meaningful way, so it still fully holds up. But I update to the latest 1.3.1 git, and the stable is now 1.4.0. I do say several times in the videos usually "at the time of recording" for this exact reason. I am just very glad it wasn't bad. All of the changes must be on the back end.

OF COURSE THEY DID, OF COURSE THEY DID, SON OF A BIT-............... when I did my tutorial, WHICH I SHOT LAST NIGHT, there was no new stable................ FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

My theory is they don't want the headache, I am surprised MobyGames is finally developing an API even after the rumors of users being banned from other front ends forcing out the information. GameFaq's main focus is also guides not pure metadata like Moby, Wiki or GamesDB. Downloading all the guides, images, maps and metadata they do have could cause their server costs to skyrocket, not that they probably aren't already high but still. Lack of interest or fear of what it could do to their servers, or both.