SentaiBrad

The problem though is that the entries don't always have the No-Intro name. I am more concerned having the real names up than the name a group gave it, and there's a lot of mistakes (especially in Japanese games). So, sure, as a base No-Intro would be good (I actually agree to some extent) but someone would have to put all those names in and create entries for them. There's lots of things that the Database needs. Maybe @Jason Carr will get to them soon (like merging and using alternate names), but this is exactly what the alt name box is for, not just more regions.

So moderators work on a queue, and moderate things in order. Some mods could be farther ahead than others, but when they catch up they'll see it, and if the info is correct, which I think it is, then a 3rd one will approve it and it'll be good to go. 3 Mods have to approve or deny (3 in any direction), and then it can take up to 24-48 hours to make it in to LaunchBox. We don't have too many mods, and they donate their time, so it should be approved eventually. Also, I love Super Sentai if you couldn't tell by my name.

If you import multi-disc games, as long as the verbiage is right LB automatically combines them, then you just do a save state and save load trick to load the next disc. There are tons of files related to emulation (depending on the emulator), that can be crucial, but that doesn't mean it all needs to be imported. BIOS for example don't need to be imported, the Emulator just needs to know where they are. I am doing a tutorial this week about the new combining features though, if you want more of an explanation.

Huh, that's odd, LaunchBox shouldn't care which drive your stuff is located on. I wonder why in this case...

I hate when people do this. There was a similar situation where a game dev said publicly, if you voted for trump or are a trump supporter, don't play my game, you're not welcome. I don't get that mentality. Who cares, especially if someone is giving you money. I am certainly much more of the mindset that more views on life and the more stuff im exposed to isn't going to change me as a person. If I disagree with someone, hopefully we went away learning something, maybe someones mind was changed, maybe not, but shutting out discussion and civil discourse is ludicrous to me.

No, thanks for the background. I mean, I don't doubt they've said some less than stellar things to a lot of people, hell, I don't have a perfect track record either. I've only ever had contact with 1 or 2 people, and those very limited reactions were fine. I sometimes can't separate out the people from their work, finding out someone is a dick sometimes ruins something for me. In this case, there are so many people involved, so many walks of life, attitudes, and the work they do being fairly thankless (most developers go un-thanked actually), so you're bound to have conflicting experiences and reports. When I said each their own, it wasn't meant as a negative, I meant it just as it sounds, sometimes two mostly normal people have two completely different outlooks on stuff. I did see some of the crappy posting, but I've also seen some new faces trying to change that perception over there. I sympathize a bit I guess, given the position our team is in, I get it.

You shouldn't have BIOS files imported, but bin files should be fine if they're the game. It sounds like you're importing the folder and not selecting the files you need. Personally, I never keep ANYTHING like roms inside of Archives, especially larger discs. I personally CSO'd all my PS2 games to save space, but not use an archive. If you have the space, I would try to re-order your library and just import the files you need. Using "Add Files" and the Windows Search function (regardless of if you want to stay with archives), should sort out your extra files problem. If you're using LB to unzip your files, then it creates a cache that should be removed each time you close it back down, and it keeps the archive so that you still have your game. Again, I would skip the archive all together if you can spare the space, and if you can't looking in to CSO's might be a way better compromise. Save some space, don't have to deal with the archives. If you are curious:

Sometimes that happens, random stuff that's hard to control. AV software can cause havok too sometimes. Also, glad you got the searching figured out!

I always say Retro Arch (ark). Just personal ways of saying things I guess. As far as I know, nothing. At least in my limited interaction with them, they've been good people. *shrugs* What they do is hard, and the bad rep they get is a little misguided I think, but to each their own I guess. In my interactions, I have nothing but something good to say, so.

Well, the Famicom platform shouldn't actually exist, we're still waiting for them to be merged so that there is only 1 platform. A lot of the moderators have discussed this actually, and it seems that they're rejecting the changes, most likely for this reason. If stuff has been fully rejected, you should see the reasons for each item that the mods need to give you. We would love your submissions, so don't get their actions wrong, they're just acting according to everything we've discussed. As long as your submissions follow the Submission and Moderator Guidelines, then there is no reason to reject it, other than the platform is wrong. Please keep making your changes, but under the SNES platform instead. This is something that has already been decided, but there hasn't been enough time to merge all of the platforms that need it currently.

If your LaunchBox install, roms and emulators are all on the same hard drive, you can move everything to a new hard drive just fine. When they're on the same drive (or by extension in your LB folder), they use relative paths, meaning, it doesn't even know what drive letter it's on, but it knows where to look assuming you never mess with the path. If you have games on a different hard drive, and you need to more your games for example, you'd move them then need to edit the platform XML's with a program like Notepad++ to find and replace the old paths with the new ones.

I put a lot of English translations in RSS actually, so more stuff like that, or it's own show? If I did it's own show, some weeks RSS might be really short.

You could scrape AES and MVS as Arcade and you'll probably find more metadata and images, since they're the same thing more or less.

When running split or non-merged, there should be nothing special you need to do at all. Merged just doesn't have everything as it's merged to make it as small as possible (though split isn't honestly much bigger for .182), and because of that you may need multiple imports with LB to get the games you want. With split, and by extension non-merged, all of the files are available so when you run the import, it sees everything it should.

You don't need to copy the games to the LB directory if you don't want to, they'll load from anywhere. If everything (LaunchBox, emulators, games) are all on the same drive, then it's easier if you need to move things to a new drive (it would need to be all of it), but otherwise you can import your games from anywhere.

You need to click on a platform, then click on a game, Ctrl + A then click on Tools -> Download Metadata and Media. Even if you click on a platform, then run it, it still tries to update the entire library.

Yea, I think something in it's name just doesn't play nice.

Huh, I'm surprised you got it to import properly. Merged has never played well with LaunchBox... Did you try launching that game from inside MAME or running an audit?

CSO's for PS2 work great. I showed it off in the video.

You can also use the Add button in the bottom right as well, if you want to add a single game.

There was a method on the forums that someone posted that got it to work, you could try searching a bit more, but I don't remember where off hand. I wonder if creating a shortcut and adding the shortcut works?

Yea, that'll do it. There is a Famicom platform technically speaking, but it needs to be merged and any games added need to go in to the SNES platform, not there. Editing a few games may pull up the data from there, but ideally it just needs to be merged once and for all. It's harder for some of the Japanese titles too, because some places can't agree on a name. Sometimes there will be extra letters, or combined words, in the Romanji name.

Does it load and give you errors? What .182 rom set did you get. By chance did you get the split set?

If you want to ditch archives, there is an alternative, but Derek's suggestion should work:

That rom set should come with the proper BIOS files, but if you open the zips and see files are missing, and you have them, you should be able to put them in to the zip and it work. Also, the older MESS tutorials I used a standalone version of MESS that is no longer being built, so I do advocate using regular MAME now. It eliminates some extra steps. Just make sure to add MAME a second time to LaunchBox and call it MESS (per the Vectrex tutorial, which is using just MAME, so you can watch both to get the full picture).