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Unfortunately not. he is currently pretty busy with the new playlist feature. I also can't say when he will be able to find the time to add it to LaunchBox. Your best bet would be to ask him directly

Btw. this data folder only contained games/platforms which were imported by Lightspeed. Here's another data folder with games which were only imported directly through LaunchBox so that you can reproduce the data corruption issue

Sure buddy, here you go: Data.zip

And just found another huge bug. If you import the SoftwareLists with the latest Lightspeed beta you’ll get a sweet crash report from LaunchBox if you try to start it. This only happens for SoftWareLists games and it doesn't matter if you have the consolidate ROMs option checked or not (tested it). If you import Arcade only everything is fine.

Phew, there would be a lot to choose from. One of these might work:

Incredible how many platforms you have already covered. Great job! EmuMovies has videos for all 4 released games in their “ArcadePC” category. It's not the best picture but the only one that I've found which is half-decent I would also like to request platform videos for the following two Arcade systems: - IGS PolyGame Master - Taito NESiCAxLive

The background of your DC logo features characters from across many different comic book publishers, actually it has way more Marvel than DC characters in it. Sorry if I bother you but I thought that you may want to know that

Amazing how fast you’ve added the consolidated ROMs feature. Thanks man, I really, really appreciate it! Unfortunately is the data corruption issue back again when your LaunchBox installation already had some platforms in it. Two things that I’ve noticed regarding the consolidation feature: 1. The region tag for additional apps isn’t imported correctly. It uses the value of the developer instead of the region. Just look at the last screenshot that you’ve posted for Captain Commando, it says Capcom instead of World. 2. The hack “Supercharger 1942” for the game 1942 has an empty name. It’s the only game that I’ve found so far with this issue so I don’t know if there are other hacks/clones which are affected like this.

Lol Neil. Great to see that you are so excited about the new beta but I‘m sure that Jason will fix this issue soon enough. I would really appreciate it if you wouldn’t spam every few minutes that it still doesn’t work, the notification system of the LaunchBox forum is killing me right now because of you

Awesome, the release date situation has vastly improved! Although there are still quite a few games which don’t have the exact date but each of them has it’s very own way of describing the release date, so that’s not your fault that Lightspeed can’t parse them correctly. At least in my eyes it's fixed. Thank you for that

You can basically add your own meta data fields which aren’t supported by default. For example, the Lightspeed importer adds custom fields like “Display Orientation”, “Control Type”, “Number of Buttons” or “Sub-Genre” for all your MAME/MESS games. With that info It’s really easy to create dedicated playlists for “Vertical Shmups” or “Lightgun Shooter” with just a few clicks. That’s just one example how they can be used, of course this feature gets mightier the more fields and tags you add.

You can't add or edit platforms. But you could upload the picture here: Jason hasn't found the time to update the platforms yet but once he gets to it he will work through the linked thread.

You definitely don’t have to. But if you want to than go for it. I think quite a few people would like that. There's no specific thread for that, so it should be fine if you just open a new one to inform about your updates. Also thanks in advance for contributing to the database, we appreciate it

It’s not just CPS1. It happens across all arcade platforms (haven’t imported any SoftwareLists yet) and the majority of all games which have January 1st as date are affected by it. I just thought it could be related to the “export release” notes because your parser may only look for the date in the export version notes and not in the a lot more detailed Japanese notes. For example, only the entry of the original Japanese version of Captain Commando has the exact release date while the entry for the export version hasn't any useful information's at all.

I can confirm the emulators.xml issue. My platforms are fine though.

The year is correct but the day and month are set to January 1st. For example, that’s the case for Captain Commando while it clearly says in the notes November 1991. It's also just in LaunchBox because Lightspeed only shows the year as far as I can see. Btw. the file corruption is gone for me in Beta-2. Lightspeed now imports the games to my existing setup perfectly fine! I’m wondering if it is too soon to ask for an additional feature? You may or may not know that Jason has reworked the ‘Additional Apps’ feature in LB 7.7 to make it work better with clones. LB now automatically adds all clones as additional apps to the parent on import. You still have only one entry per game but you can also launch all clones within LaunchBox now. It would be great if Lightspeed could do the same. You could use the LB importer to import your MAME ROMs to see how it works if you haven’t tinkered with it since 7.7 came out.

Great to see you back with a new version. I really love it! I just tested it and besides the issue that @JCSRT05 has reported I’ve also noticed that the release date parser doesn’t work for quite a few games. I can only speculate but I think it could be related to games which originally had those ‘export release’ notes because games like Captain Commando are affected by this.

Yes, CLRmamepro can update any game related MAME files you want. You can do only CHD, Samples, etc. as well. So you should be fine.

Just did a quick test and the auto-population works really well for me. Thank you Jason! But would it be possible to add support for Custom Fields to it as well? One of the major flaws I had with the Custom Filters was that they didn’t support any Custom Fields. My BitBucket ticket regarding that issue is also one of the highest voted ones https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/368/add-the-option-to-include-custom-fields-in

It’s possible but would require some work. You can also use only one aspect ratio for all of your platform videos, so either 4:3 or 16:9, mixing is not possible at the moment because of a bug in the theming engine.

Yes, you have to do extract each game seperately.

These are multi-part archives. You have to open the .001 file with a file archive tool like 7-Zip or WinRAR and extract the files in it.

I just installed the new beta and the first thing that I've noticed was that in the platform categories filter the “All” section doesn’t get populated with any games anymore. That seems to be only the case for platform categories as it still works for all other filter options perfectly fine.

I just tested it and I can reproduce it, so it’s definitely a bug. If you arrange them by play count, release date, etc. LB starts to show these values right in front of the game names and if you change the arrangements again to a different sort type these values will stay. So if you have selected Play Counts first you will always see them in front of the title no matter what other arrangement type you choose. I could also narrow it down even further. It’s directly related to the cache. If the cache for a game was already created than will this game be unaffected by this but if it wasn’t cached already it will have the value of the current arrangement settings in front of it. So if you select arrange by title, close LB, delete the cache folder, open it again and let all games be cached again before you choose a different arrangement type you should be fine. But that’s obviously not an ideal solution, so @Jason Carr definitely needs to take a look at this.

What do you exactly mean @neil9000?