[Questions about program license backup]

22 hours ago, neil9000 said:

Its fine, the license is yours, and you can use it anywhere, and on any PC.

Thanks so far for the answers, it's just that I'm afraid to do a clean installation, and when I put the license it gives invalid or something, because I really appreciate the program and it helps me to organize myself and A LOT of the roms I have here in my PC

5 hours ago, Cassie Ainsworth said:

Recently I found a software which called Vinchin. I think it will be very easy for you to install this application.  Vinchin Backup & Recovery v6.5 has been published, and it includes many new features such as oVirt backup for MSPs, Cross-Platform Recovery (V2V), Database Backup & Recovery, Backup Data Encryption & Backup Storage Protection, and more.

In this case, I already have the license on my PC, right in the program's folder, but I'm not afraid of backing it up, but of doing a new and clean installation, and it invalidates somehow, but as it's just moving the file , then I am calmer. But thanks for the help anyway =)

 

[Questions about program license backup]

Hello everybody.

In case I decided to clean my list of roms, I would also do a clean install of LaunchBox that is on my HDD separate from the computer. And my question is the following:

I have the original license file inside the program that updates without problems, and I would like to know if I do a new installation in another folder from scratch, and put the license in this new installation, will there be any invalidity problems? I'm afraid to do this and the program will invalidate the license somehow.

And the old installation I will delete, because I fixed all my games (wow, it took a while lol)

And thank you for helping

😃

[Message or Warning before starting the Game]

I did it as follows:

-> I downloaded the "Simple Detailed Startup 1.0.6" theme and put it in the LaunchBox folder
-> I edited the XML with the fields, putting in my native language (Portuguese-Brazil) the fields that were in English
-> The last field I changed to "Observations", where I can put some information in the emulation there, in case you need to do this as shown in the example
-> And I liked it ?

Thanks for the help, giving some free time I will see how you edit more and have an even better quality.

Theme Link:
https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/2151-simple-detailed-startup/

[Message or Warning before starting the Game]

In this case, if I choose AutoHotKey to use PNG and then close, is there a list of commands for me to use it, or if I need to download it as an add-on? Unfortunately, I don't understand how AutoHotKey would work in case of making this warning.

And yes, I prefer the shape of a PNG, which I can customize and leave as a warning if possible ?

and these commands I put in the game properties?

[Message or Warning before starting the Game]

Hello everyone Good evening!

I would like to ask if there is a way to put a warning before running any game to apply any custom settings?

Take for example the game "Burnout: Dominator" from PS2, which uses PCSX2 and in the game, you have to press F9 so that you can run without any problems, and it would be something like this:

"During the game, press the F9 button for the game to run perfectly" (And then there's the OK button where the game starts).

I have already added the extra command "--cfgpath = inis \ BurnoutDominator" that makes the emulator make the customized configuration, but because it is about pressing a button in the middle of the game, I am afraid to forget after a while.

[Update LaunchBox in separate devices]

On 21/02/2017 at 6:49 PM, pdavis said:

Are you wanting to keep both Launchbox installs completely in sync, including general configuration settings, themes, game meta data, etc? If the answers is yes, and this is probably the easier of the answers then you can just copy any changes made on one system to another (assuming file paths are relatively the same). You might look at applications such as SmartSync Pro or Toucan that are designed to keep file systems in sync across computers. If the answer is no, then you can still use these applications for syncing but you will need to fine tune their configuration to include only specific files or directories or exclude specific files or directories. They both support this type of configuration. You will just need to determine what files you want/need to sync.

Hello .. Good evening!

Sorry for the delay to respond, but it worked! I have not thought of this before (yes you can call me "noob" kkk) and that in case whenever I make a change in my External HD, it synchronizes and verifies the files that have been changed and that were also added. It was PERFECT the way it is now, thanks for the tip!

NOTE: The program I use is the "SynCBackFree"

[Update LaunchBox in separate devices]

Hello good afternoon!

In my case I have 2 devices with LaunchBox, however I wanted to do the following:

-> When I update one, where I put a ROM I can copy "only" the files it needs for this, since my folder has 80GB total, and copying from one place to another all the time is very time consuming.

Example:

In the External HD I put 2 roms of PS1, and when I get home to copy only those 2 roms and the files that I need for the LaunchBox to recognize what I did in the External HD. No need to copy everything again.

Thank you

[Scrapper Images folder to games on launchbox]

On 19/01/2017 at 3:09 PM, SentaiBrad said:

If the files are named properly, all you need to do is drop them in to the Images folder. I think this tool was written for a sligtly more complicated scenario, and is a 3rd party tool written by a user. Go in to your ../LaunchBox/Images folder, find the system you are looking for, then drop these images in to the proper folders. Arcade games generally use flyers as their front box art. If the image matches the name of the game inside of LB or the name of the rom file, it should attach automatically. You may need to refresh your cache in the options and / or restart LB.

Hello .. Good evening!

I'm sorry for the delay to respond, but it worked perfectly, because FullSet I got it already came with the images, in case I just had to "-image" the files and it detected without problems (and this saved me a lot of time ).

Thank you

[Scrapper Images folder to games on launchbox]

Hello everyone!

I've used the launchbox for quite some time, and have always used it to organize my games. But when I got a FullSet from "Neo-Geo" games, it already came with the games folder, and a sub-folder of game images. With this I tried to use the program "LaunchBoxTools" that could "merge" the games with their covers (With XML file), however as you can see in the "prints" that I attached the same speaks that worked, but in the launchbox does not show the image of the game.

What could I do? Because downloading it all would take a while.

Thank you

[Export Option and Restore Backup]

7 minutes ago, SentaiBrad said:

No, LaunchBox doesn't care. LaunchBox is a portable application and even if your roms and emulators are on the same drive, it should be using relative paths (you'll know it when you see it, because it looks like ../LaunchBox/ instead of C:/LaunchBox). So as long as the paths are kept in-tact, even on a different drive letter (assuming it's using relative paths), then you're still good. Even if LaunchBox is on a completely different system it should be fine given the paths are the same.

There is a method to editing the paths in the XML with something like Notepad++, and it's a fairly simple process if you need to perform it, but you should be good to. For example, I had to change S:/Emulator to S:/Emulators before and it worked great.

Thank you for your help! Oh really!

Because in my house the internet has a very low speed, and it takes a LOT to download the images. And with that in my work, the speed is much better and easier to download.

Thanks for this then

[Export Option and Restore Backup]

In my case it is formed of the following path:

Roms -> "C: / Games / Roms / ** (where the signal is the name of the console, GBA or PSX)

Emulators -> "C: / Games / Emulators / ** (where I have the emulators as" Retroarch ")

I have already done this process to be able to have a certain "control" of path to the computer, however if the "LaunchBox" software is installed in another way, can this cause problems?

Example:

Machine 1 -> "C: /Users/Lucas/.Launchbox"

Machine 2 -> "C: / Program Files / .Launchbox"

Thank you for your help

[Export Option and Restore Backup]

Hello good afternoon!

I have a little doubt, because in the previous versions I used the function "export" to be able to download the images and ARTS. However according to "ChangeLog" it says the following:

Launchbox 6.12 Change Log October 18, 2016

- Removed: The import and export to zip file features were removed as they are no longer necessary when switching platforms between different LaunchBox installations; Now it's as simple as copying the platform's XML file and media files between installations

So in case what do I do? I copy only the XML file that my installation from the other computer will recognize automatically? Do I need to use a program to match the information?

Thank you and the PROGRAM IS PERFECT !!!
 

[Question: About Organize Roms ( No-Intro, FullSet SNES or others Consoles )]

@DOS76 great man!! In this case the launchbox have some option to show only the games that doens't have a thumbnail? Because i will analise the games and decide to delete them or not. Thx for help!!

[Question: About Organize Roms ( No-Intro, FullSet SNES or others Consoles )]

Hello everyone!! @bjwest in that case there are a lot of files to be filtered, so this tip unfortunately won't work for me.thanks anyway. @Bil I read the documentation, and after that i downloaded the "clone/parent" DAT file, and import in the RC. After this i finally made it!! With the RC, the games haves only 1 region ( preference in USA or BRA ): @garbanzo Yes i understanding about this, example is Final Fight, In the case the japanese version is better than american version, thx for the tip :) And for last question, for the images for each game, i used the launchboxtool: --> Rename Titles --> Create a "gamelist.xml" with somes images downloaded with the scraper.exe --> Used the Option in the Launchboxtool "sselph / scraper" for put the images in the main program --> And finally used the Launchbox for Search in Databases for missing images. Even After That, there are some many games withouth images, and they are not registered in any database ( most are japanese games ), this is normal? there are other ways for download images in the games? ( Example: Yu Yu Hakusho 2: Kakutou no Shou ) Sorry for my english and thanks a lot for the help!! Thanks for all!!

[Question: About Organize Roms ( No-Intro, FullSet SNES or others Consoles )]

Hello Everyone!! Well my problem it's about to organize the roms. I downloaded the fullset ( No-Intro ) of SNES console, but it contais various files of the same game, per example: Aladdin (Europe).zip Aladdin (France).zip Aladdin (Germany).zip Aladdin (Japan).zip Aladdin (Spain).zip Aladdin (USA).zip Aladdin (USA) (Beta).zip My question is: It is possible to delete all of them and leave only one? Or something like that?Because it's the same game, but in country different. I tried to use RomCenter, but i did not make it any option to help me. Thanks For the Support!

[Question about Load a Game for PSX with retroarch and Config]

Hi @Jason!! Sorry for delay to response. Well in the command-line, i put this in the PSX emulator (mednafen from retroarch): -L cores/mednafen_psx_libretro.dll --appendconfig config/PS1.cfg ( This command load the Config for PS1 and load the emulator with the game) And the SNES emulator (bnes from retroarch): -L cores\bsnes_balanced_libretro.dll --appendconfig config/SNES.cfg ( This command load the Config for SNES and load the emulator with the game ) I used this command "appendconfig " because the basic command "-C" or "-config" was not load the custom settings for each emulator. In this case, i put this commands and works perfectly!! The bios file for PSX, i coppied and paste in theses folders and update the core: System roms roms/Sony Playstation ( this is where my roms PSX stay ) Thanks again for the help!! This program is perfect!! =D

[Question about Load a Game for PSX with retroarch and Config]

Hello everyone Good Night! I currently use the emulator "RetroArch" because with it I can put "Shaders" custom and use CRT filters. But in LB I am unable to load the PS1 games (which are in CUE extension), the game simply does not open, and nothing happens. Now opening the "RetroArch" it opens normally. Should I put some sort of command line to load the game? I tried various topics in the forum and found nothing that could help me. I already have the BIOS files and also all Pre-Configured with a CFG file, which would also load along the PS1 I'm sorry for my english. Thank you!