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optimus0 said SentaiBrad said optimus0 said Jason Carr said Did you figure this out, @optimus0? the GameDB thing? no, not even close, is taking forever going game by game i have more than 12gb in DOS games, not to mention NES, Sega Genesis, N64, PS2, PC, etc. Then if you are only paying for your internet service, and not a VPN service, then you should get in contact with your ISP and see how they can fix this. I presume that this isn't your first similar issue, and I would assume it wont be your last. yes did that already, NO fix, they are aware of the issue, and don't consider a problem nothing i can do with them .... :( i guess i just to give up with this program and keep using a folder with shortcuts until find another way to make TGDB work, perhaps a travel to a big city..... i don't like to travel :( Do you have other ISP options? I am really stumped as to what the hell is going on...

optimus0 said Jason Carr said Did you figure this out, @optimus0? the GameDB thing? no, not even close, is taking forever going game by game i have more than 12gb in DOS games, not to mention NES, Sega Genesis, N64, PS2, PC, etc. Then if you are only paying for your internet service, and not a VPN service, then you should get in contact with your ISP and see how they can fix this. I presume that this isn't your first similar issue, and I would assume it wont be your last.

Jason Carr said Wow, that's pretty cool. Too bad GOG has had this for ages. ;) nah, they've only had it for a few months, maybe a year. ;)

Enough said. SO HAPPY! http://fallout4.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnn2rJpjar4

Yea thank you. PayPal has done some updating recently... but they still seem to be backwards on their back end.

LocalDB will insert the info, and you should still be able to get most images. The ones you can't: Right click any game entry and click edit. Bottom right will be a box where the images go, click it to add what ever you want.

optimus0 said SentaiBrad said optimus0 said Jason Carr said Try turning off your VPN? i connect to internet using a vpn connection with user name and password if turn that off ... no internet i test in some other friends houses and the same result. but we all are using the same internet provider and the same method to connect so...... (in fact all town use this service) Erm... so generally an ISP doesn't issue a VPN. A VPN is an external service that a user generally pays for so that their IP is routed through other servers first before reaching the desired website. For example, if I used a VPN, it would bounce to say... 4 other server locations before ending up at its destination. Unless you are paying specifically for a VPN service, you shouldn't be using one. Your ISP and your VPN are separate. This could be different in other countries... but I am fairly sure that is not a standard practice. nothing is standard practice here, here 2+2 is not 4 and green and red i can assure you is NOT yellow any way ....so no workaround? any way to change the scrapper? like gamefaqs or something? BTW thanks for your help. :) No, GameFAQ's is not support through LaunchBox because they do not offer up their content for free. Us attempting to do so, which we could, could lead to users getting banned permanently from GameFAQ's. There are reports from another front end who's users got temp banned. The Games DB was chosen, and Wikipedia added on for specific reasons. They were relatively easy and offered their stuff up for free. This is something that has been discussed in dozens of threads at this point. Other wise, if you are using a VPN, there is no way to tell what your standard experience with The GamesDB should be. They've personally been giving a lot of users trouble but not related to VPN's.

optimus0 said Jason Carr said Try turning off your VPN? i connect to internet using a vpn connection with user name and password if turn that off ... no internet i test in some other friends houses and the same result. but we all are using the same internet provider and the same method to connect so...... (in fact all town use this service) Erm... so generally an ISP doesn't issue a VPN. A VPN is an external service that a user generally pays for so that their IP is routed through other servers first before reaching the desired website. For example, if I used a VPN, it would bounce to say... 4 other server locations before ending up at its destination. Unless you are paying specifically for a VPN service, you shouldn't be using one. Your ISP and your VPN are separate. This could be different in other countries... but I am fairly sure that is not a standard practice.

optimus0 said bd000 said They could be simply blocking the ip of the vpn. Too many requests maybe. but if that were true, i will not be able to enter their web through the web browser....!! /? i tried Kodi (old xbmc) adavanced launcher addon (it work like launchbox) and all scrappers are working but TGDB (REALLY DONT LIKE kodi/xbmc) any idea? or workaround? GDB may be blocking the access from your VPN, even unknowingly. There might be an IP that your VPN uses that for what ever reason they've blocked potentially.

Jason Carr said Yeah, it's probably the VPN. And the captcha is definitely what is causing the problem. No idea why TGDB would do that... Bot protection. Isn't that generally the main reason for implementing them? To stop applications like LaunchBox?

optimus0 said SentaiBrad said bd000 said @optimus0 are you using a vpn or proxy? I get errors consistently without the use of either. So while this could contribute to this specific case, GDB has been having unrelated issues as of recent. vpn, i think. Well they're close to similar but not quite. VPN's are generally a paid service. At least good ones. They're generally used to hide the source of your IP address. I'm still not convinced that this is the problem. I am convinced that it is GDB. I don't know if they fixed this, but even editing games was broken. You had to save what you did to an entry in a specific way. Add on this potential CAPTCHA thing... I am starting to think the Lights are on but no one is home type deal.

bd000 said @optimus0 are you using a vpn or proxy? I get errors consistently without the use of either. So while this could contribute to this specific case, GDB has been having unrelated issues as of recent.

optimus0 said SentaiBrad said optimus0 said Hello to all. I am getting this when trying to get any info from TGDB.net. An error occurred while trying to search TheGamesDB.net The remote server returned an error 403 forbidden. I can enter normally trough the web browser thanks As far as I know, this is still GDB sadly. They've been having... issues as of late. I will pass this on to Jason however to see if he can't double check to see if its still GDB though. If it is though, all the more reason we want to move on from them. thanks for the answer. i will wait en check again later, BTW each time that i try to enter GDB trough the web browser it ask for a captcha, i guess that could be the problem That... might actually be it... If they changed an aspect of the how the site works and our method is now obstructed... that could be it. Knowing how a 503 error works compared to a 504, this is most likely the situation. 504 is a denial when the IP tries to connect to the server and fails when trying to connect, a 503 fails when you're trying to get a response back.

Etock said Sorry to be a pest, but was wondering ... Is local image scraping still planned? I've seen videos mentioned in regards to BigBox, and that sounds awesome. I'd love to ditch searching for a new frontend to RetroArch but this is a major hang up for me. Thanks again for your hard work. As far as I know it should still be, but I would assume its low on the list. You can already change the images and the scrapers get a majority of the games for most platforms. PC Engine still seems lacking. The priority in this regard is our own Database, but BBM is still being worked on heavily and that is taking up most of his time.

combstim4419 said I was wondering if there is a way to use Launchbox to play games that require the use of Daemon Tools such as a Sega Saturn Emulator or the use of an iso file to play a game. Any help would be greatly appreciated Yea there was a thread about this not too long ago. https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/emulation/trouble-with-yabause-through-launch-box

optimus0 said Hello to all. I am getting this when trying to get any info from TGDB.net. An error occurred while trying to search TheGamesDB.net The remote server returned an error 403 forbidden. I can enter normally trough the web browser thanks As far as I know, this is still GDB sadly. They've been having... issues as of late. I will pass this on to Jason however to see if he can't double check to see if its still GDB though. If it is though, all the more reason we want to move on from them.

Jason Carr said Thanks @Syriacn. I do have videos like that on my to do list. It may more likely end up in Big Box Mode before the desktop app, but it is planned. Per EmuMovies, that's another thing I have on my to do list, but I'm not sure the priority at this point, nor do I really know about the feasibility of it (whether EmuMovies would be willing or not, for one thing). They might be assuming we reach out to them.

Syriacn said I have been using EmuMovies Download Service Utility version 2.2 for any missing artwork after a gamedb scan, EmuMovies will usually have it. Its free unless you want the video gameplay clips (and even those are free but you'll need to pay for higher quality) but Ill get to that. Lately I have been noticing that the artwork pulled from EmuMovies is a much better quality than that pulled from thegamedb, the contrast is better, the picture are more detailed and clearer, and overall high quality. So I have been going back through and replacing existing artwork with that pulled from EmuMovies. This leads me to a few questions. 1) Can launchbox pull from the same place? Can the use EmuMovies to pull from? 2) Can Launchbox incorporate video gameplay clips. I use to use Rom Collection Browser with my Kodi (xbmc) setup, and with that you could enable video gameplay clips. I switch to Launchbox for a million better reasons, but it would be nice to have this. Thanks Syriacn So the short answer is, its not promising outright. I 'believe' it is a similar deal with GameFAQ's. I wish we had GameFAQ's support, and I put Jason on the right path to being able to implement it. Then I found horror stories of a front end or some application that did pull from their servers en mass, and it was tragic. Some users got total IP Bans from their site. So even if a site doesn't have a license that outwardly forbids it, we're still at their mercy because if they don't want us contacting their servers in a way they do not like, they can and will ban traffic coming from that source. Now, that said, at the bottom of the site: "We partner with most front end designers with artwork content and integration solutions." So that is not to say we can't or wont, but Jason and I have been thinking of ways to incorporate our own Database; but I know Jason, everyone here knows Jason. He will not do it half ass, it will be fully feature rich and right for our community. So its just finding the time in the midst of all the other big projects announced and unannounced that he is doing by himself that holds this specific area's progress back. As far as Movies, I've shot him the idea of integrating a cloud solution to Music and Movies. Use OverClocked Remix and YouTube as a cloud plugin more or less that just serves you with native Internet Explorer calls built in to Windows what ever It can find assuming its accurate enough. On OCR I don't think we'd have that problem but YouTube we might due to the vast size of that website. This is one approach, but not the only approach. YouTube could have an interesting integration though depending on the keywords you feed it. For example, Name of Game, Platform then plug in anything else. Walkthrough, Achievement Guide, Lets Play, Trailer. It all depends on if the video has the proper tags associated with it. Something I deal with all the time. :P

Jason Carr said Brad, upgrades from an i7 would probably be a minimal increase. But upgrades from that E6500 should be much more significant. Well, i7 First Gen which is extremely lacking at this point compared to a 3rd or 4th Gen i7 should show an increase. This would also allow me to have SATA3 and higher clock ram because I would need to change my motherboard. Also, Something else I can recommend ... maybe is to change the priority of the Process. I would do this one setting value at a time, and be careful because if you set it too high it could force a restart. More annoying than anything. Run LaunchBox then Open Task Manager and go to the Details pane from the top. Find LaunchBox, right click it and 'Set Priority'. Try increasing it one value at a time, and I wouldn't set it too high...

Jason Carr said Okay, sure. That is probably pushing it. I work on improving performance all the time, but that is a big challenge for such a graphical frontend. I suspect in your case that your CPU is the bottleneck here. I'll see if I can get back to performance for large libraries soon. In the mean time, the only thing I can suggest to help speed things up would be to use separate instances of LaunchBox for each platform. I know @bd00 has done this in the past, and used another instance of LaunchBox to "launch" all the sub-instances. This is far from ideal, but that's all we've got for the moment for such large collections. However, I can say that upgrading your hardware (specifically your CPU) would do wonders for improving performance, of course. Assuming the CPU Chipset on your board allows for an update. I run an i7 930 2.8Ghz (Gen 1) and I am getting similar hiccups. I would be able to quantify if a faster CPU will help when I can OverClock it when I can afford a new fan. Ultimately though, I still think that hardware upgrades would be minimal increments in performance. I was thinking about it, the most likely best setup would be Internal non-OS SSD on SATA3 (Later Generation). 2-3GB of RAM allocation on preferably an 8GB total system at at least 1600mhz, and a Quadcore 3Ghz - 3.2Ghz. This for libraries at 10k+.

Bil said I have over 22,000 games in my library, as I want to use LaunchBox as a Retro games collection. My machine specs are: Windows 8.1 64bit Dual Core E6500 @3.30Ghz 8GB RAM Radeon R9 280 Garphics Card (3GB) SSD 128GB drive (system) 4TB SATA drive (this is where I have LaunchBox installed) Simple by product of size then. That is my honest take, and I have about 10k.

Bil said Hi, I have been using LaunchBox for awhile now and have recently upgraded to premium v5.0 beta 5. From reading some threads and posts, I have gathered that having a large library will effect the performance of LaunchBox. I have experienced this myself in three key areas: 1. Option Menu takes around 15 seconds to appear (12 seconds to exit it) 2. Game Edit Menu takes around 15 seconds to appear (12 seconds to exit it) 3. Launching a game takes around 30+ seconds I have adjusted the RAM cache, disabled gamepad input and do not use the sidebar counts, but performance is the same. Is there anything else I can try? How many games do you have added? Edit: Also, I just did a bit of testing. Editing a game does take a bit to pop up. This is most likely just a side effect of the Library and no amount of fixes or hardware tweaks, besides code fixes may help this.

Invention Destruction The elevator pitch for my RPG is Sword Art Online meets .hack with a dash Visual Novel. A socially disordered teen with paranoia. He is shut off from the rest of the world including his family, friends and work. His only respite in a world where he feels like he doesn't belong is a VR world and an MMO called Innocent Sin Online. Here our protagonist can actually hold conversations, relationships and excel at anything he wants to do. What happens when the world you want to run away from encroaches on the world you escape to? What happens when the world you escape to starts to change and deform to a mystery that you must solve. Do you even solve it? The main character's name, for now, is Brad. Yes, I took my own name. I took it as a place holder, but the more and more I created my world I realized I put in a lot of my own insecurities and issues. Yea... I am kind of putting my self out there with this game. The story takes some really deep personal cues from my life. The basic story arc doesn't get fully laid out in the Prologue, which is what I want to work on, but you get a serious idea. -Lot's of Custom Scripting -Custom Sprites -Awesome music (At least I think so) -Trying to stay away from the RTP Data except for some sound effects. (Not that RTP is bad) I am hoping for the game to be a blend of inspirations. I don't expect it to win awards necessarily, though I wouldn't be apposed to that, but I want to create a game that has an interesting story. Something I will be proud to have made. I am trying to go for that classic JRPG feel of games with side view battles and some inspiration. It will have a decent cast of character's, a story that I hope could span two titles with mysteries to solve. Current Theme Song: Noapusa - Tokitsuki Mio http://bit.ly/1WHdfBt The game, in its current state is in an extremely Alpha. I just want to get the community's opinion mostly. See if you guys like the look of the game. The maps that are set up aren't in a final state but will be used in the final game. They've already changed around a bit internally and will probably change around some more. This way though you can kind of get a feel for the game, some dialogue and the world around you. I think the game is currently in a very short prologue state. For the story and the feel of the game though I don't know how to extend the prologue without making it feel like padding. I want the Prologue to end before the Virtual World as a sort of chapter break. Any advice, notes or constructive criticism you have for me is all welcome. Just remember that this is still a very alpha state. If you see any error's with text, graphics, sounds or error's feel free to let me know. If you have any suggestions for any Art Asset's that would be great. I have several of the Paid content packs but I am always looking for Freely available Commercial Use assets. Tips on how to fill the maps would be great. I think I can make some fairly cool looking maps (a later section I just made) however, it feels like something is still lacking. When I look at other more experienced developers maps it feels meaty and quality. It could potentially be the tile sets I am using? However I paid money for them so their quality isn't necessarily in question but rather my ability to use them properly? I would also love to figure out some cool shading and lighting effects. I am also perpetually on the hunt for Modern / Sci-Fi / Gaming icons, tile's, generator parts etc etc etc. I have probably read through hundred's if not over a thousand replies to threads trying to find as much as I possibly can that can fit a Commercially Viable game. I am still unsure If I want to sell what ever becomes of this project, but I want to work in those limitations because I want Game Development to potentially be a real source of income. Though I do need to make that Power Ranger RPG I've been planning for years... xD The images are a bit outdated using the Ace engine and I've since migrated to the MV Engine! Images! Download the game! https://www.dropbox.com/s/40btvy5sdt0vi1p/Invention%20Descruction.rar?dl=0 Updates ”Issues” I know that some of my scale is off for buildings. Some of the later parts that you can't see are scaled a bit better... but those Hallways for example in the building are a bit too wide. In a future update they will be a tad smaller. Known Bugs: Current Full Credits (Shortened version is what appears in game)

Syriacn said Excellent SetaiBrad, That did the trick, thank you! I was just checking the full screen option with inside Launchbox. Now I need to figure out a hotkey or something to shut down these emulators, or exit back to launchbox. Jeremy Alt + F4 should work. If you use a controller (probably not for DOS) You can map that to a button on the controller assuming the emulator will shut down with Alt + F4. Otherwise, some emulators do shut down with Esc directly.

Yea I've added so much to LaunchBox its insane...