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I have just experienced the exact ! same thing. what did you end up doing? I have also moved stuff around but lost all emulators Thanks.

I too had the same problem. I made a link in the games folder of Launchbox, imported it as a game in the relevant platform section and only imported my favorites. Then if i have to grab a game i can launch it from the folder of all the games instead. Sorry for off topic: Bil said I have a LaunchBox folder and within that a folder for each LaunchBox library named -Arcade, Computer, Console, Handheld and Pinball. To make it easier to select which one I want to load, I also use Jumplist Extender - https://code.google.com/p/jumplist-extender @Bil: i too have fs uae! incredible program - i launch fs uae arcade inside launchbox, works extremely well! (its an offline setup so i dl'ed a snapshot of images used for displaying the game from http://oagd.net/download! try it out its GREAT!

Jason Carr said CoX said Thank you Jason, its nice to see things are evolving sp quickly atm. btw. noticed another small thing. If you don't add all your MAME roms in the specific folder in MAME you have to edit a .ini (which i can't find at the moment for some weird reason), which kinda defeats the purpose of the genius way launchbox can import the roms to the games folder inside its archive for portability... any thoughts? Sure, I see what you mean. It works well for most platforms, but there are a few that it doesn't, of course. I should probably disable that option for MAME and the others, or change it. I actually have some significant revamping that needs to be done for those platforms to better support searching TGDB, etc. ok, minor update on the MAME issue, figured that you just need to specify the ROM path in the mame.ini file. This file is not, by default, compiled, you need to run the commandline version of mame with the parameter -cc this creates the mame.ini file, where you can specify your rom folder. This could either, maybe, be done by default as a range of operations that LaunchBox executes (i dont know if mame supports only specific paths in mame.ini), or maybe just make a small notice pop up to the user, where they are noticed on how to do it (like the genius pop up you created for each emulator when bulk importing games).

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? I actually got better performance on said operations after significantly increasing the ram cache, set at 2 gb used to be 512 mb. though it is still slow...

Jason Carr said I actually currently require a server as-is, and the server that I already have could support it. So hosting costs would theoretically go up, but it would be a long time before traffic hit that point. Currently, it costs me about $100 a month for my physical server (I have an incredibly good deal). That said, I do have plenty of concerns with this, and I have a lot of thinking/planning to do before I would attempt to approach this. However, I have been surprised by the community response, so I'm taking the concept a little bit more seriously. Moderation is the biggest concern that I have, but I do have some ideas to get past that issue. Take a look at how fs-uae and the open amiga game database (http://oagd.net/) is connected and used. User contributions but also a direct voting system, in that way the users not only vote on the db content but also votes on the best configurations for each game. Its possible to switch, but fs-uae (the emulator) cleverly selects the topmost voted content and (most importantly) the best configuration! Just an idea on how to accomodate the moderation issue: use the contributers to actively (and inside launchbox) vote stuff up and down...

Just a quick note, is the big box .exe in your main launchbox folder?

Thank you Jason, its nice to see things are evolving sp quickly atm. btw. noticed another small thing. If you don't add all your MAME roms in the specific folder in MAME you have to edit a .ini (which i can't find at the moment for some weird reason), which kinda defeats the purpose of the genius way launchbox can import the roms to the games folder inside its archive for portability... any thoughts?

Loving the big box mode! really loving it, though i still launch fs-UAE arcade through LaunchBox for AMIGA games :P So, have begun setting up the HTPC from my main rig, one thing that i would really suggest is the ability to turn on custom filters for select platforms or instead the ability to turn on a specific custom filter to be displayed in the platform list. That way i can make sure that only games with images or a TGDB.net entry is shown. (this is really helpful when you only want one version of each game eg. if you have different versions of the rom present after bulk adding your collection). This would also ease the incredible amount of scrolling necessary... Not a native english speaker so sorry if its not completely clear, please ask for clarification! Thanks again and much love for all your hard work! EDIT: come to think of it, an option to collate all titles with the same TGDB ID into a submenu (say like the additional app submenu) could be even more neat!