Drybonz

I've been tagging files since the first beta went up tonight and I'm also noticing that it needs a more exact title to get a match than the old database. Just wanted to add my observations into what was said above. *edit* Overall, after my initial *ahem* confusion, I have not noticed any problems in the tagging or pulling images with the new database or EM at this point.

Are the EmuMovies images back to normal? It seemed like I had a couple that said there were images available from EM but that didn't download. I'm not sure if that was before the second beta. I'll check again. *edit* I went back through on the ones that didn't pull the images and did it a second time and it all seems fine now for EmuMovies.

Never mind... my apologies... I thought it was going to show as "gamesDB" still in the search results. Sorry for adding confusion to your probably already stressful day! o_O

I'm saying the metadata search is not working for me.

Jason Carr said Drybonz said I'm checking out the new beta now, but it doesn't seem to be pulling metadata from the new LB/GamesDB server. Currently, since the database is read-only, there's no reason to retrieve metadata from the server. It's simply using the local metadata database, which has a side of effect of making everything a lot faster. Going forward we may stick to this and provide daily updated database downloads or similar because of the performance benefits. So the images are the only thing being downloaded from the server at this point, by design. If we need to tag the games with proper titles, etc so that it knows what images to pull, is there still no way to do that as of now?

I'm checking out the new beta now, but it doesn't seem to be pulling metadata from the new LB/GamesDB server.

Jason Carr said New beta version is out. I got sick and tired of TGDB going down so I ragequit. We're no longer reliant on TheGamesDB.net. LaunchBox is now connected to a read-only database hosted by us (based on the data from TheGamesDB.net). Awesome... sounds great. Thanks.

SentaiBrad said I've already posted about this here: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/troubleshooting/some-new-information-on-the-current-unfortunate-gamesdb-situation Brad, sorry I missed that other ongoing thread and thanks for commenting on the issue.

They posted some more in-depth information on their facebook today. It sounds like they are not going to be back any time soon, if at all. I guess it has a fairly strong impact on LaunchBox users as well.

I played around with the new ePSXe for a couple days and eventually decided to go back to RA Mendafen... seems to be better all around. YMMV

I have a CoolerMaster Scout case... I love it so much just for the built in handle on the top. I don't think I would ever own another computer case without a handle. It's been really useful. *edit* Oops... Storm, not Scout.

Cool... I checked those sites out, they look good. Looking forward to it.

SentaiBrad said That's more communication we've heard out of them in a very long time. They don't respond to us at all really. It's a main reason we're switching. I didn't know about the switch... what's the new service going to be?

Oh ok... I see that now... thanks for the link.

Not sure if anyone has any communication with the games.db people, but is there any news on this? Been down for three days now. Seems like it might be more than a glitch.

I think links to the tutorials on .bat files for SSF and Daphne, etc... would be useful. There are good ones on the forums, but would be useful if people could get to them easily through the FAQ as it's some of the more complicated stuff to set up.

crt-Hyllian-3d-glsl in the crt folder looks great on N64... lines are not uneven like many of the other scanline shaders.

If you change the Dolphinbar setting to "1"... meaning that the first blue light is on the xbox controller should work fine... then change it back to 4 for Dolphin use. If you didn't notice it, there's a little button on the top of the Dolphinbar to change this. It took me a bit to figure this out so don't feel bad... the Mayflash instructions are less than clear.

Wow... this looks awesome. Says it's going to be on Steam too.

Is there an alternate source for tagging that Launchbox could use? A lot of features depend on gamesdb and it doesn't seem too reliable.

Yeah, down for me too.

I just picked up a copy of the DL 20th anniversary discs and did the downloads through Daphne... I noticed the files were a little different than the ones I had been using previously and it did, in fact, fix the problem I was having with brief messages displaying between some scenes, so that was nice. I have a small problem with the attract mode starting over when it is half-way through... I would like to fix that if possible. Also, the 2.1 Enhanced version is no longer playing the initial drawbridge scene like it did with the old files I was using, and I would like to get that back. Anyone have experience with either problem? Thanks for the help.

SentaiBrad said Yea auto hide has bugs like that from time to time. I remember having that happen to me as far back as Windows 7. Yeah, it has always been like that. Certain programs just don't work well with it.

I don't have it in fullscreen... every once in a while a program will block my taskbar (which I always have on autohide). I know they aren't supposed to do that but some programs will.

Thanks guys, now just have to figure out the controller issue for older games, like SotN that were before analog sticks. *edit* On a side note... the reason I don't run Launchbox in a maximized window is that it blocks my taskbar... I just size the window to almost the full screen.