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    Lightspeed: Ultra-Fast Mame Importer Tool

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    This is a great research, Cid! Awesome stuff! Apart from some clear problems with the parsing, for the entries that share the exact same info in parenthesis, how does Launchbox handle them? Does it include the name of the ROM as well? That would help, but I wonder what it does so I can emulate on my end.
     

    Lightspeed: Ultra-Fast Mame Importer Tool

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    21 minutes ago, Neofuuma said:

    Just installed beta6 and about to do what you suggested, but thought of something.

    I may have done this the hard way, but when I imported my parent sets, I had originally gone and made Rom lists of just the parents before importing. This way my Launchbox would show categories listed like "Arcade - Shmups", "Arcade - Fighting Vs.", etc.

    Will this mess up just being able to import the clones into their proper groups as I have them currently? I'm thinking since I did it this way I will just have to reimport my whole set.

     

    Yeah, seems like it got a little specific. Both Launchbox and Lightspeed use "Arcade" to define the Mame games platform. If that is changed, I am afraid things will not work correctly. I would backup the launchbox\data folder and try and see what happens. It's likely that games will get duplicated.

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    Lightspeed: Ultra-Fast Mame Importer Tool

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    9 minutes ago, wirtual82 said:

    How does the copy/move feature work? I ticked the options but nothing gets copied/moved during export. Plus, the export window from the manual doesn't exist in the file menu. 

    1) Under the paths tab, make sure your paths reflect the correct locations for ROMS and each type of artwork
    2) Filter your list and then populate the results into the output listview (buttons 1 and 2)
    3) Open the Copy/Move Files Utility and choose "copy Matched", for example. Select anything you want to copy (ROMS, CHDS, snaps etc). Inform the folders where you want to export the ROMS/CHDs, Software lists ROMs/CHDs and artwork.
    3) Click go and it will copy any matches present in the output listview into the folder you defined, creating a matching set.

    Now that you created a "clean set" matching your filtered ROMs you can go ahead and export your list (button 3) so everything matches.

    If you want to copy roms/artwork into the Launchbox folders instead, there's an option on the right to use the Launchbox folder instead of the destination paths.

    About the manual, until I get most bugs squashed, I am afraid the updates on the manual will need to wait a bit!

    -Kris

    Lightspeed: Ultra-Fast Mame Importer Tool

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    On 3/3/2017 at 10:43 AM, Neofuuma said:

    Awesome work with the bug squashing Antropus! I have not tried out beta5 just yet, but had a quick question with the consolidating the clones with the parents. Since I already have all of the parent sets imported, should I just be able to set Lightspeed to import only the clones, and it consolidate them? Or should I go ahead and re-import parents and clones together?

    Try beta6 instead and let me know!
    I believe the best option for you since you already have parents in there is to, yes, filter and export only the clones into launchbox, then use the merge to library option during export. Once everything exported, use Launchbox's own tool to consolidate everything for you.

    Cheers.

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    Lightspeed: Ultra-Fast Mame Importer Tool

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    Version: 0183_Beta6
    Date: 3/4/2017 3:35am
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B23vaxsfSk1yRjlZYmI3cEk3VUE/view?usp=sharing

    Change Log:
    - Fixed the Crash happening during MAME.xml creation (out of memory)
    - Fixed a bug causing the consolidated clones ROM info to be duplicated when merging games into the library multiple times
    - Before modifying Launchbox's data folder, backups are now created automatically under the "launchbox\data\backups" folder, under a folder represented by date and hour of the backup. If something gets broken or corrupted, just refer to the folder containing the files before the corruption and you should be able to restore everything.
    - Fixed a bug with a very specific Genesis game that was causing date format corruption
    - Region is now correctly parsed for consolidated games

    I tried to reproduce the file corruption mentioned above by hammering my library, exporting with either merging or overwrite and I could not get the library to corrupt, but you never know. As usual, please test and report.

    Cheers,
    -Kris

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    Lightspeed: Ultra-Fast Mame Importer Tool

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    4 minutes ago, gerazz said:

    Awesome work so far but I'm having a problem. When I filter any game, the output is always empty. Am I missing something. Here are some screenshots of how I have Filtered the games. I have tried to filter only CPS1/2/3 games but I get no results.

    Thanks!

    Frequently when a problem like this arises, the probability that it's related to the matching folders options is high, meaning that you might be missing artwork in a certain artwork folder and LS is forcing to match it, producing an empty list.
    Try to check off all checkboxes on the right column of your "options" tab and run the filters again. If a list is now visible, that means that a folder path is not informed correctly, has artwork wrongly named or not present at all. If that's the case, you can try checking those boxes on again, one by one, to see which one is causing it to fail. Try it out and let me know!

    Lightspeed: Ultra-Fast Mame Importer Tool

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    Oh, that's good. Thanks!
    The game causing the date issue is called "Pier Solar and the Great Architects" and is for Sega Genesis. I will investigate why the date is not parsing correctly for it. Instead of showing a nonexistent month, which should be replaced with "01" for January, it shows the word "the" instead, causing the corruption :)

    Lightspeed: Ultra-Fast Mame Importer Tool

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    23 minutes ago, CriticalCid said:

    And just found another huge bug. If you import the SoftwareLists with the latest beta you’ll get a sweet crash report from LaunchBox if you try to start it.

     

     

     

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    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.

     

    This is related to the release date fix that happened in a previous beta, to address the "export" versions I believe. Funny that it just popped for you now.
    Although it looks ugly, this is minor fix, but I need to be able to track where the problem is first. I know it's a pain, but would you be able to zip your entire "data" folder and sent it to me? I will unzip on my folder to see what's breaking. Thanks!

    Lightspeed: Ultra-Fast Mame Importer Tool

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    Posted · Edited by Antropus

    Beta5 is up with some recently requested features. Please test and let me know if it's working on your side:

    - Custom command lines for alternative emulators are now fully respected when adding games to the output list, as long as any radio control other than the first one are selected (the first radio control is hard-coded for MAME/MESS only and will force software lists to maintain their mandatory command lines)
    - Emulators are now named after their .exe name and the clean name is now shown as a description for the radio controls:
    ls003.png.4be24b6380fa5144fbb2546ca7f7bc8a.png- Lightspeed can now consolidate clones, just like LaunchBox's latest feature. To do so you will need to check this new option box and make sure that you have "clones" checked on your "filtersA" tab. That way, instead of importing the clones as standalone games, they will be added as additional applications, fully configured and ready to be played in Launchbox (right click context menu):
    ls004.thumb.png.c45e0d8c10d90d061630dfd59fd0342f.pngls005.thumb.png.7dce3d90af6e1559a87031404715e069.pngls006.thumb.png.8ab622115e62809a094e2898c884ad7f.pngls007.thumb.png.94a354fdd61eae999f213325e96dc3ed.pngls008.thumb.png.7ae595e7298d2cf893b65bcb64acd9b8.pngVersion: 0183_Beta5
    Date: 3/3/2017 1:25am

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B23vaxsfSk1ySi00LWtoRkhXTDQ/view?usp=sharing
     

    Please test and report anything funky.
    Enjoy.

    -Kris

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    Lightspeed: Ultra-Fast Mame Importer Tool

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    I just entered the exact same folder you defined for your wheels, exported my lists and the folder is correctly reflected into my platforms.xml.
    Could you try a clean export as a test? Move your platforms.xml, emulators.xml and the whole platforms folder into a safe backup place, restart lightspeed, double check all your paths and try to export your list again. Does the path still look wrong after doing that? Please try it out when you have the time and let me know. It's my interest to squash any bug and help you guys out since I understand the frustration when it comes to a program not doing exactly what you want it to do!

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