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Thanks for the info. Unfortunately it's not for me since it says this feature is for premium users only.

Could you explain the process a bit more? Like a step by step or a tutorial? Thanks in advance.

I would argue it's not functioning correctly. Searching for NBA games brings up Pinball games. Searching for Sonic games brings up games made by Panasonic. There is no filter/option to avoid things like that. Also i agree that, when you want to search for a game title, it shouldn't bring unrelated results like publishers. This should be an option. All the search does if finding the letters you typed. Doesn't take into account any context at all. The only time it works properly is if the titles have enough complexity to rule out anything unrelated. For instance, searching for "Earthworm Jim" or "Golden Axe" won't bring any unrelated results because such titles are complex enough and the chances something else has those exact words in the same sequence are slim. But good luck separating "DOOM" or "Sonic" or anything with a short name, from any other unrelated result. Basically that makes finding all ports from a certain game more difficult than it should (depending on the game name). Let's not forget that Launchbox is used by people who might have huge collections of games. And it's the only desktop front-end that lets you show all games, from all systems, in one big list, which would be AMAZING if a proper search function would exist. It would be a very powerful tool no other frontend has so i always thought this was a missed opportunity (i know i'm repeating myself at this point). But that's just me. If the intention was for the search to be so barebones then i suppose it works correctly. This bitbucket issue was created by me and i also never understood why it was deemed as resolved. I mean, if the developer doesn't want or need to tackle it, for whatever reason, that's fine. It's just a request. But changing the status to resolved without even touching it? I don't get it. It also had plenty of votes (it was 4th place of unresolved issues at some point) but since there wasn't a big push as the developer said, votes didn't matter either.

Sorry, i didn't ask you to support it, i just wondered why such dislike for it, as an outsider end user. And it seems you have your legit reasons to hate it. I won't argue about it, especially considering you are probably the more knowledgeable in the topic of DOS games around here. I will continue using it in silence. However, if you assume i'm playing DOS games on a Pi and only tested 5 or 6 popular games, you'd be wrong. Just because i treasure couch gaming, doesn't mean i want to compromise on accuracy/quality. And i'm pretty aware the majority of DOS games aren't meant to be played with a gamepad but i do like the option, even if it's not the optimal way to play.

DosBox Pure is working great on my end. Being able to load games from zip archives, with full gamepad support and even save states, completely changed DOS gaming for me. It's almost as easy as loading a console game. Oh and it runs any eXoDOS zip file i threw at it, complete with CD music support. I also managed to find a good general midi soundfont so general midi supported games sound good. The author said MPU-401 is in the To-Do list so i'm looking forward to it. The core also shows everything you need in the main menu when you launch a game. You can run the setup and change resolutions, sound cards, etc, just like any DosBox version. So i don't understand the issue with the core itself, if it's compatible with eXoDOS packs then how is it any different than any other DosBox version, other than the few extras it has? In fact, i don't have any DOS games other than the ones from the eXoDOS packs. I don't use files from abandonware sites. @eXo Here's a suggestion. You could keep the re-released versions in the main pack as you have them now and keep the originals in a different folder, separately, for those who want to use them. I don't expect those to be tons of games, i personally found 5 or 6. Magic Carpet, Tomb Raider, Carmageddon, Worms and maybe a couple i'm forgetting. So i don't think it would be a huge deal size wise, the pack is already 600+ GBs, a couple more won't do a huge difference. Just my 2 cents.

Yeah, i see your point also. Still though, it's a bit weird having a huge DOS collection with all classic games and in 1994 releases you don't see the original Magic Carpet or in 1995 the original Tomb Raider. With their original, familiar box art images and all. Feels like there's something missing. Well, one can still add those from other packs i suppose so it's all good.

I noticed some original releases of games are missing. For instance, games like Tomb Raider and Magic Carpet don't exist in the pack. They are included in later released compilations like "Magic Carpet Gold" so the originals have been omitted. Not sure if this is the best decision. At least for historical /archiving purposes, isn't it better for the original releases to be in the pack as well?

What percent of those roms have a box art?

I made a huge update in my collection and i'm now sitting at 21.000+ roms/games across 70 systems. This collection, however, is heavily curated and mostly clean. I spent days for each system, especially for home computers that are the hardest systems to curate. So, there are no duplicates, no crappy demos and no public domain shovelware. My OCD dictates that the whole setup must be consistent and as clean as possible with name corrections and replacing wrong boxes, and other media as well. Multy-disk/CD games are either merged or i just add the first disk in the list (i don't need to change disks through the Launcbox UI anyway). The consoles are mostly complete libraries except a few CD/DVD based systems (due to limited space, i only have 4TB to play with). Home computers with large libraries such as C64, Atari ST, Amstrad and Amiga are not complete of course since they got curated, but they still have a bit less than 2.000 games each with all the boxes, videos and snapshots complete. I also curate MAME/Arcade roms to remove multiple clones (unless there are big differences between them), gambling machines, non-working games, etc. I scrap my collections with Emumovies sync, Screen Scraper and Launchbox. With all these databases combined i end up with very few missing media and i also try to fill the gaps using google if i can. Most of the missing stuff are usually garbage, fan made stuff, different region versions, demos, etc anyway. A few rules i follow are that the setup only has consoles/handhelds and home computers that can be emulated. My newest systems are the Wii/PSP/DS/PS2, etc. I'm not going as far as WiiU or PS3/360. I also don't add my Steam library in there. I don't have "collections" or "classics" or "best of" such as Taito, Konami, Sega, etc, only Systems. Having separate collection entries means you duplicate your games. Pinball stuff, Pop-Cap, OpenBor, Flash Games, Magazines, Movies, and all kinds of random stuff i see in many large collections are also out. The only entry i have that counts as duplicate is the Neo-Geo (MVS as a console and AES in arcades). I also keep stuff like Model 2, 3, Naomi, etc in their own sections since they don't work in MAME. So what's left to do? I still haven't completed the Arcade, Atari-8bit and Sinclair Spectrum sections. I'm adding roms alphabetically, for instance, every rom that starts with A, then B, etc. This way i only have to work with a sensible amount of roms each time and when i finish a letter then i go the the next one. When these systems are complete, i should have at least 24.000 roms in Launchbox. Not bad for an OCD driven, heavily curated collection. Oh and one more thing. I haven't touched DOS yet... Now that will be a challenge. I'm waiting for DOSBOX pure to be released that supports archieves and maybe i can use the Exodos pack with it...

My Launchbox setup is heavily curated and currently at 17.000 games but it's 100% complete asset wise. I have complete collections for most cart based consoles but everything optical disc based or home computer is handpicked. My question is... How do you end up with 60.000+ games? Do you also count every MAME clone, home computer software/shovelware, different regions, etc?

Are there any news regarding this?

I had version 8.3 until now and decided to upgrade. There are a couple of things i noticed that makes the program less useful for me. The scroll bar for the game list doesn't make the list scroll. There is no scrolling. You just "teleport" where you leave the scroll bar. That's not a very good thing because you don't have a reference of where you going. You can only scroll with the mouse wheel but that's way too slow. Is there a way to use the scroll bar to scroll? You can scroll the systems list, why not the games list? I also use the "scan for removed roms" quite often because i do many changes in my rom lists. However in the newest version this is much slower compared to 8.3. In the old version it could scan all systems in less than 30 seconds. Now it takes about 3 or 4 minutes for the same roms? I wonder why it's so slow now? The overall navigation is faster/snappier now which is nice.

Bumping this to ask, is there ever going to be possible to scrap these games? Renaming them DOES break some games, especially the AGA ones for some reason.

I found this command for CD32 files: winuae.exe -G -s quickstart=cd32,0 -cdimage= Makes CD32 launch directly from LaunchBox. But i can't find anything for .lha files.

Is there a way to launch .lha (whdload) files for the Amiga using WinUAE? I know WinUAE can launch these games because it works with other frontends. But when i use LaunchBox i get this screen: Edit: Can't figure out how to run CD32 games either.