Drybonz

M-6502 said Drybonz said Man, I love that glass overlay you have on the box art. That looks so good. It would be cool if LB could support an art overlay in the game list so you could just make one overlay and have it displayed on each game. Thanks. Having a template option for cover art would be amazing. Also, if templates could have a 'fit to size' option that scaled all cover art to fit the template for consistency! Yeah, that would save an insane amount of time and think of the possibilities for homebrew customization of LB. *edit* Not to mention, people could share their overlays through the new LB games database.

Tested and working! :)

Antropus said Drybonz, thank you so much for all the tests and I'm really sorry you have to go through this! No worries, man... I was actually thinking the same thing about you having to try to figure out what was going on... and hoping I hadn't done something really dumb to cause it. haha. Once people realize all the applications of this app, I think a lot of people will be using it. I had posted about wanting something that could filter out and delete roms from my set before Lightspeed came along and now it has that feature. Even if you don't use LB that is an awesome feature. I think it's a great project.

It's weird that all my LB stuff has always been in that folder and I have never needed to run admin rights on Lightspeed before. It's an easy fix though if it works. Let me test it out. *edit* It just added another .xml to my D drive.

Man, I love that glass overlay you have on the box art. That looks so good. It would be cool if LB could support an art overlay in the game list so you could just make one overlay and have it displayed on each game.

Here's a screenshot of my wizard settings... path to .xml is correct.

Well, I ran it and there was a new .xml in the root of my D drive timestamped 1 minute ago.

Ok to use the old .ini or delete it?

Antropus said Ha! The mystery is killing me! How the hell did those files magically appear in other drive without you pointing to that drive? LOL! Weirdest thing :) No idea... my LaunchBox.xml is in my profile folder on the C drive.

Well, I just stumbled upon some LaunchBox.xml files that were randomly saved to the root of my D drive today. :P So, at least you know what happened to them now. *edit* Just moved one into my LB dir and opened it and, sure enough, there was my arcade platform I was making from the wizard today.

I asked this question when I first started using Launchbox and unfortunately it's one of the organization and ease of use features that, IMO, is glaringly missing from LB. It was explained to me that you can go into a text editor (notepad+ makes it easier) and edit the .xml file to change the rom location, which I did. It works, but an obvious PITA. The other option is to delete and start over each time you make a mistake or move something to a new folder. If there is a new way to do it since I originally posted about this I am not aware of it. Unfortunately, organization features seem to get passed over a lot because it's based on what features people vote for on the bitbucket site.

Antropus said Drybonz said *edit* Unfortunately, it leaves me with the same .xml... no changes, new games or platform. Holy! Really not sure what's happening. What's your windows version? If I remember correctly, the previous version was working on both win7 and win10. Could someone else try it and report, please? I can try it in another machine once I get home tonight! Sorry for the delay... I'm on Win 8.1. Same exact Windows setup that I have had for all versions of Lightspeed... super weird. *edit* It couldn't have something to do with re-naming the platform could it? I did use that feature.

Antropus said I hope it works. I cannot reproduce the problem in my machine. Oh man... if it's something stupid that I've done I'm going to be embarassed. lol *edit* Unfortunately, it leaves me with the same .xml... no changes, new games or platform.

I renamed the .xml, ran Lightspeed, and then opened LB. What I got was a default .xml with no games or platforms.

Antropus said Are you seeing the listview populated at the end, after you press "preview" and before pressing "go!"? Yes... I even used the clone manager after it was previewed.

1 and 2 check... let me take a look at the rom folder setting again. *edit* Yeah, the rom folder is correct also.

Just tried the new wizard version... everything is very slick and polished looking. I love that it now saves your settings... also love the clone manager. Very cool. The problem I'm having is that everything goes smoothly right up until I import and re-open LaunchBox and none of my games have imported. Am I missing a step somewhere?

I guess I don't understand the original problem. If I had tried to mark all the games as hidden, which I filtered while importing in about 5 minutes (including configuration), it would have taken me a very long time.

I would use Antropus Lightspeed importing tool. There are enough filters included that you can completely and easily customize your game set. Easy as checking a few boxes. It will basically do exactly what you are wanting. https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/emulation/lightspeed-ultra-fast-mame-importer-tool

Hmm... I'll have to check around for that.

CADScott said Cliff Hanger is still commercially available, and is therefore not available for download through Daphne. I didn't realize that... what platform is it available on? Just curious.

Cool!

Thanks guys... have not used Nebula since the big CPS2 explosion. Gonna try out his Model 2. Does it use the same rom set as MAME?

Hey guys... not too long ago I discovered a guy's project to compile a massive archive of custom MAME bezels over at the Hyperspin forums. It's a great collection... thousands of bezels from multiple artists. Some of you may have seen this... if not, here's the link. http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/topic/13722-metalzoics-mame-mega-bezel-pack-bezels-for-900-games-inside/page-11 I just started contributing some of my own bezels to the collection as well. If you are interested, check it out. You can pretty up your MAME.

I just noticed that it is listed as not working in MAME... wasn't it working at one point? Anyway, what's the best emulator to use for this one? Modeler?