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Can you post a screen grab showing the contents of your "SupportFiles" folder?

Excellent! That will make things easier for me. I will look at this tonight when I am home. Cheers!

Hard to say without looking at the listviews on both launchbox and Lightspeed. Can you send me your lightspeed.ini so I can see if I can reproduce the problem by using your exact settings?

I am afraid that would be a question for @Jason Carr, unless it's being caused by some specific data being added by Lightspeed. It looks like a BigBox bug, but you never know.

I ran into something similar with clrmamepro in the past. I remember having to use a combo between it and romcenter to get the right results O_o Moral of the story: don't trust any software, because they are all developed by hacks like me

@Pacman56, alright I went ahead and decided to add the "ghost zip" name even when the game is not present in your collection. I would STRONGLY encourage people to use the "Roms" option to export only games which you have roms for though! BUT, I am a Anarchist/Libertarian/Classic Liberal kinda dude and I am all for freedom and choice, so I will give you the tools but the decisions are up to you! It will be in the next release. Cheers, -Kris

@Pacman56, yeah, I ran it with your exact options and I got the same exact results. Then I checked "Roms" under the "Match These Folders" options, to make sure it forces the export to only games I have ROMs for and they disappeared from the Arcade.xml file I could have an option to inform a "ghost zip" file if nothing is found, but ultimately you will not like to have games listed which there are no ROMs for, right? I mean, clicking on stuff that will not launch any game at all?

@Pacman56, I just looked into my collection and searched for the 6 games you mentioned. I have a pretty complete collection, but none of these games are in it, so Lightspeed reports them as "missing" for me. I dug into the ROMs folder and they are indeed missing. Use the search in Lightspeed and look at the path column. If they all say missing for you as well then you don't have the ROMS. If that's the case, under the options tab if you check "Roms" under the "Match These Folders", those games should not be populated into your listview. Take a look and let me know if you have those ROMS in your system first.

@Pacman56, I will take a close look, thanks!!!

The only problem I see is if people use it to rename everything and then later on decide to change those names again. That would not work

Oh! So you never unzipped those large files into folders then? You need to do that. Each artwork folder should be separated and contain a collection of files matching the rom names. The extensions can be varied, including .zip and .7z, but you need a collection of files. A large zipped file will not be recognized. Same with MAME itself when it comes to artwork.

Most platforms need their names hard-coded so they are compatible with Launchbox and that way can read and use Launchbox's databases. With that being said, a little tool could be written to post-process that. There are just too many possible platform names at this point (85+), so adding this to Lightspeed would bloat it and it would be tedious to rename them one by one. The simplest approach would be for me to generate an .ini files containing all Platform names, one per line, followed by the "=" sign. All you would need to do would be to enter the new name on the side and run the little app and it would rename everything for you. The ini structure would look something like this:

Can you post a screenshot of one of the artwork folders containing the artwork that is not matching? Is it matched in the paths tab?

If the files are correctly named after the rom name, they should work still! Most artwork folders are parsed using the following extensions: png, jpg, bmp, 7z and zip. So if they are named correctly, even if they are zipped they should be parsed and should be shown in your listview.

That's true. I forgot that some people might want to do that. I will make two versions available on every release from now on, one as a installer and the other as zip file, with no installer for cases like yours.

Sure thing! Try to imagine those boxes as additional filters working like all other filters, so only results that attend to all requests will be generated. If there's not 100% overlap on the results, no matches will be produced.

@Tetsuo1981, I copied all your filters and I got 2000+ results, so my guess is that you are trying to force Lightspeed to match the artwork/roms contents and there's not enough matching artwork to produce a list. Try going to your "Options" tab and uncheck all boxes under "Match These Folders" and run the filters again. If your list is now populated, you can try to match the most important stuff first, for example: roms, then snaps, since those have a ton of files available. You can try checking one by one to see which one is causing the list to not be populated. When you do, check that artwork folder that's breaking it and you are very likely to find out that it's missing a lot of the artwork. Try it and let me know. Thanks!

Glad the updater is fixed! About the installation, this is expected. As soon as you uninstall the previous version properly you will be able to select the installation folder again. Try going to the current installation folder and run the uninst file in there. -Kris

Version: 0183_Beta7 Date: 3/5/2017 2:30am https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B23vaxsfSk1yNk51WmJvc1lpSFE/view?usp=sharing - Improvements on the consolidation of clones - Fixed the parser to extract the correct version from the support files during the update process - To avoid corrupting files due to Launchbox being opened during the export, Lightspeed will now check if Launchbox is open and you will not be able to proceed until you close Launchbox. -Kris

Solved all problems you mentioned , apparently, @CriticalCid. I decided to include the short ROM name to everything and removed the word "Version..." at the end. There are many games that share the exact same tag in parenthesis and the only way to assure the info is unique is by adding something with it and since the rom name has only 8 characters, that should be it I believe. When no tag is found, the clone/ROM name is listed instead:

@CriticalCid, I was able to replicate the problem with 1000 Miglia only importing 2 clones. Chasing the bug now.

Hmmm, that's weird. And you are using 0183_Beta6b, right?

The clones will not be imported to LB if "Consolidate Clones" is checked. They will be added to the right-click menu instead. To add the clones you will need to uncheck "consolidate clones".

Ha! Interesting. I just exported a clean set of clones and parents into launchbox and used Launchbox's own consolidate tool and I can tell you that at least for 1000 Miglia, my results are more precise as far as I can tell Compare this snap with the previous one I posted. Notice that the clone called "Great 1000 Miles Rally: Evolution Model!!!" is not being added by Launchbox at all and some of the description shows parenthesis, others not. I guess it's really up to us to improve that as we want, so yeah, adding the name of the clone will be necessary to distinguish the different games, as some of them have the exact same info inside parenthesis and others don't have anything at all. In fact. we can pick and choose what info we want represented there. Lets brainstorm on that. Here's what Launchbox does:

1000 Miglia looks fine for me, parsing it correctly: