CriticalCid

I agree with Derek. It’s really great to know when something new was added or replaced. Thanks :)

Jason Carr said Thanks, great to hear @ALIE. Glad it's working. I am indeed planning on adding platform image sets to the themes; however, that's not there quite yet. :) I think it would be probably better if the image and sounds sets aren’t part of the themes and you could change them separately instead. This would increase the level of customization and you could change the sets without the need to have a seperate theme for it. Kodi does the same with its sound sets:

Yeah, I had strange problems with the conversion from .zip to .7z in the past as well… The safest way to avoid any problems with the conversion would probably be to add your current ROMs folder to the “Add-paths” and change the folder under “ROM-Paths” to an empty one. When you start the Rebuilder again should Clrmamepro create a complete set in 7z in this new empty folder without any remaining zip files or duplicates.

Thank you very much

Zombeaver said CriticalCid said - Change the text from “Genesis” into “Mega Drive” and from “Sega CD” into “Mega CD”. Your European friends will be thankful :) I had actually already planned to do this, I just hadn't gotten around to it yet. Are there actual default platforms in Launchbox for those variants and are they named "Sega Mega Drive" and "Sega Mega CD"? I want to make sure it's correct for incorporation into the Easy version. If there isn't a default and they're custom platforms as far as Launchbox is concerned, I would just add them in as variants in the -Alternate Versions- folder. "Sega Mega Drive" is indeed listed as default platform but unfortunately there's no Mega CD at all. Thanks in advance for doing some of my requests. It's very much appreciated :)

Zombeaver said CriticalCid said My post was just a generally statement how I feel about video backgrounds and not an additional request for you to great some background images. I’m more interested to see a full set of your logos for all the systems I use first ;) Oh yeah, I understand. Getting a feel for what to prioritize for logos going forward is the primary thing on the agenda once I get the pack out. I've already got everything in my own library covered so it's kinda just whatever people need at this point. If there's some platforms in particular that you're looking for, I'm all ears. Oh boy, there are way too many systems I would want. If you don't mind I will just post my list of all systems I already have added or plan to add to my LaunchBox setup. Of course I have removed all the systems you already did. I know that these are way too many systems and you probably won’t have the time or mood to do all of them. So just work on whatever you feel like to, I’ll be happy with anything from this list. Corresponding platform banners would be appreciated as well :) I also have some requests for alternative versions: - As I have Cave as a separate platform could you change the text of your Arcade wheel into “Cave” and create a new Arcade one which features a classic character like Pac-Man or Space Invaders? I would prefer “MAME” as name for this new logo as well. - Change the text from “Genesis” into “Mega Drive” and from “Sega CD” into “Mega CD”. Your European friends will be thankful :) - The official spelling of PlayStation is with a capital S. So I would definitely prefer a version with the correct diction. You know, just OCD things ;)

That’s why I use either very simple, dark or black&white backgrounds for my platforms. My post was just a generally statement how I feel about video backgrounds and not an additional request for you to great some background images. I’m more interested to see a full set of your logos for all the systems I use first ;)

I just don’t like it when the video is covered with all the text and images. It looks kinda messy to me... Nonetheless I really appreciate your work on these platform logos :)

Zombeaver said I guess I just assumed that everybody used background videos haha. Haha really? I don't like them at all and can’t understand why anybody would use videos as backgrounds

You haven’t lost any images. Try to refresh your image cache: Tools -> Refresh All Images

There’s a ticket for steam video downloads on BitBucket: https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/263/steam-video-download It’s one of the highest voted tickets so the chances are pretty good that it gets added in the near future.

Here you go: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/troubleshooting/how-to-add-windows-store-games-e-g-forza-apex

I just tested it and the MAME -listxml option is broken for me as well in the current version.

Now that I saw your setup with your current FrontEnd I really get why you want .gif support so bad. I really think that it could be a huge improvement for BigBox as well :)

Jason Carr said CriticalCid said LB already downloads the artwork for all available regions. @Jason maybe LaunchBox should now automatically use the corresponding artwork based on the region in order to get the full potential out of this new feature? Because as of now it seems completely random which region cover LaunchBox shows me. Region priorities for ROMs which are multi-region or the World region would be nice as well. Agreed, Cid. We should definitely do that. Just pulling this up so that it doesn’t get forgotten. ;) Because that was also a part of the region scrape ticket (and the reason why I voted for it in the first place) I hope that it will get added very soon :)

Way better! :) I definitely consider using them when your set is finished. So keep ‘em coming ;)

They look awesome! You, sir, have definitely a huge talent on creating such artwork. Maybe it’s just me but I find the platform names a little bit too hard to read, especially the arcade one.

Hi exo, maybe you should read Donarumo’s explanations how he handled the export: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/features/exodos-import#p1713 Personally I think it would be way better if MEAGRE would export the year and set the date to just January 1st. Actually that’s something I asked him myself when I sent him an e-mail with the update request for the exporter. I also asked him if he could add the option that MEAGRE will copy all the extras stuff like the manuals directly into LaunchBox. LaunchBox can handle multiple series values for a game. Just separate them in the series field with a semicolon. This works for other fields like genre as well. I honestly don’t know why MEAGRE doesn’t export the series values into LB so maybe you should ask Donarumo directly about this. As far as I know is LB completely portable as long as you keep everything in the LB folder itself.

Attract Mode is also the official name how HyperSpin calls this feature http://imgur.com/gD7rh6X

Thank you again for taking care of my request. Really appreciate it. It turned out great! :)

Alright, didn’t know that. Thanks for the clarification. I will contact @donarumo then. :) MEAGRE is actually pretty solid for what it does but you won’t find any better FrontEnd than LaunchBox ;)

Great to hear! It would be awesome to have all the artwork without any watermarks :) Also would it be possible to update the LaunchBox exporter so that it uses the current folder structure? And I noticed that the manuals aren’t getting exported either. Nonetheless I just want to say thank you for your work on this projects. I’m a huge fan and really appreciate it :)

I agree with the screenshots because as far as I know they were mostly made by eXo himself. But almost every cover and floppy/CD artwork from the eXoDOS set mostly has a Mobygames watermark on it. The Win3xO set on the other hand should be fine though because it was mostly made after Mobygames has decided to drop the watermark. But I haven’t checked that many games so I can’t confirm if it’s the case for every image in this set.

That looks really awesome. Definitely a big improvement :)

CriticalCid said Hi @bmonomad MEAGRE supports mass export to LaunchBox including all Images and most of the Metadata. But only in the newest version (which comes only with the Win3xO collection and unfortunately not with eXoDOS itself). But you can easily download the newest version from their site and update your MEAGRE version. Here’s a quick tutorial which I wrote: 1. Close LaunchBox and MEAGRE 2. Download the newest MEAGRE .exe file from here: https://sites.google.com/site/meagrefrontend/download 3. Replace the old MEAGRE.exe with the new one 4. Open MEAGRE –> Edit –> Export to LaunchBox -> choose your LaunchBox.xml and wait until everything is done 5. Open your LaunchBox.xml and search for the line which starts with: <ImagesReorganizedFor5 6. Change the value in the middle from “true” to “false” 7. Save and close the LaunchBox.xml 8. Open LaunchBox and wait until everything is finished and have fun with your newly imported eXoDOS and/or Win3xO set :) Just tested it and the method is still working with 6.3! The only issue you will have is that the gameplay screenshots, game title screenshots and the floppy disc/CD artwork are all together in the “Screenshot – Gameplay” folder. Of course that was always the case but now that we have dedicated folders for the different artwork types it seems a little messy.