oreozzy

I never could get LaunchBox 5.0 to search anything other than Wikipedia... With the update to 5.1 though, everything is perfect! Searches Wikipedia as well as TheGamesDB as well as the LocalDB. This is a great piece of software and I'm loving it, thank you!

Jason Carr said Welcome @oreozzy. Not sure what would be the cause for that, sans for maybe a firewall issue. TGDB searches are working fine in 5.0 for me, and if the site is up, your firewall is all I can figure might be an issue. The Metadata.xml file has nothing to do with TGDB search, only the LocalDB search. OK thanks, I'll take a look into it and report back with any findings.

Not sure why, but my LaunchBox 5.0 won't search TheGamesDB at all. It says it is, but won't find any one of my games. TheGamesDB.net is up and running, so that doesn't seem to be the case, and all of my MS-DOS games are listed in the metadata.xml file, but it won't grab information from the .xml or the website. It will go on to search Wikipedia and for some games that works (for the games it has listed), but not TGDB. I've made sure to install LaunchBox to the default directory (in my user folder) and tried a couple methods when importing my DOS games, including leaving the original files, moving them and also copying them to LB's recommended folders. I also tried renaming the in the metadata.xml to as I noticed in a pic above that's what it used to be named as. All it did was create a new .xml file with the original TGBID string. And searching for the TGBID in LB doesn't help it either, still won't find my games. Also, I'm running Windows 10, although I'm guessing it shouldn't make a whole lot of difference to Windows 8.1 anyway?