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Got a fun one here, I love the Bezel project integration! I setup MAME and they look like this: Looks great! So I figured I would get the bezels setup in the Retroarch MAME core by just copying the "artwork" file here: Now when you load the games the bezels are all there, but in the same resolution as the game, so it doesn't look as good as the MAME standalone: Any ideas on how to correct this? Thanks! Jeffe10

Thanks for the video upload! This works great for the Shooters, but how do you get Cliff Hanger and Time Gal to work in Launchbox? There is no .txt file. What do you use for the custom commandline parameters?

Does anybody know a way to load cassettes faster? it takes 2 min to load the game!

That's great to hear! Per#1: Very rarely do game have parentheses in the title, but right now some games do in our database. I wanted to know if there are other ASCII characters that are best to avoid in the title Per#2: Not just for arcade but any platform with identically named games won't differentiate media even with different release dates. In my own collection I was changing the names to split the media apart. (For example: Pac-Man and Pac-Man: Tengen on NES instead of Pac-Man (TENGEN). A better example would be Ms. Pac-Man on NES. There are two different games called Ms. Pac-Man. When you search in Launchbox, only one shows up and only one gets scraped. When trying to create 2 games with the same name in my collection, they merge media and can't tell the difference. I would love to know if anyone has ideas of a better way to for launchbox to know the difference. Thanks again for the feedback!

I'm tackling the Arcade platform and wanted to throw some ideas out to the community to see what everyone's thoughts are: 1. Game titles with parentheses or brackets should be removed since it conflicts with the scraper and it makes it difficult to find in a search in LaunchBox. Does anyone know of any other ASCII characters we should avoid in game titles? 2. I've run across several games with the same name in Arcade but they are different games (Badlands, Super Dodge Ball, etc.) I posted to change them to "Super Dodge Ball: Neo Geo" and "Badlands: Atari" because if the game title is the same name, the metadata won't differentiate in LaunchBox. This is the method I used, but I'm curious if anyone has better ideas. 3. I also started migrating all games from platforms that are now being used as playlists (Sega Model 2, 3, Naomi, Sammy Atomisewave, etc.) and putting them all in Arcade since the Sega Model 1 platform is empty and the Namco System 22 is empty. I stopped doing that since several contributors were against it and I'm making sure the Arcade platform has all the metadata and media that is found in other arcade system board platforms. What is everyone's thoughts of removing platforms that are now playlists? Could we remove Sega Model 2 and Namco System 22? 4. Could we create a platform to move all the casino/fruit games out of Arcade since they are not arcade games? Please let me know what everyone thinks. Together we can make this the best videogame database on the internet! -Jeffe10

@Thanatos_Prime Oh no! I had already started and the Sammy Atomiswave platform is empty. My apologies, I will move them back and copy over media and metadata from those games into games under "Arcade". -Jeffe10

I'm tackling the Arcade platform and wanted to throw some ideas out to the community to see what everyone's thoughts are: 1. Game titles with parentheses or brackets should be removed since the parser removes those and it makes it difficult to find in a search in LaunchBox. Does anyone know of any other ASCII characters we should avoid in game titles? 2. I've run across several games with the same name in Arcade but they are different games (Badlands, Super Dodge Ball, etc.) I posted to change them to "Super Dodge Ball: Neo Geo" and "Badlands: Atari" because if the game title is the same name, the metadata won't differentiate in LaunchBox. This is the method I used, but I'm curious if anyone has better ideas. 3. I'm also migrating all games from platforms that are now being used as playlists (Sega Model 1, 2, 3, Naomi, Sammy Atomisewave, etc.) and putting them all in Arcade. I'm making sure that all media is being merged so nothing gets lost. What is everyone's thoughts of removing platforms that are now playlists? 4. Could we create a platform to move all the casino/fruit games out of Arcade since they are not arcade games? Please let me know what everyone thinks. Together we can make this the best videogame database on the internet! -Jeffe10

I would like to know as well. Can we fill the Wikipedia field with links from other sites or are we only taking wikipedia?

I agree @DOS76. Since we don't have a separate section for the casino/fruit games, I will discontinue to request deletion. Thanks everyone for the clarification!

I've been spending the last 2 years going through every arcade game and updating every field in my collection. I'm done and I was moving on the other platforms, but I learned that I have the ability to update the database and I was blown away. I would like to start adding and updating to the database, so I got the plugin but it's been erroring out every few games, so I wanted to manually add games and update. What is the best way to do this? I'm curious if we are going to split platforms based on region: For example, Super NES and Super Famicom, NES and Famicom, Turbografx and PC Engine I'm also curious if we can request new Genres such as the ones now showing in the arcade platform Please let me know, Thanks!

I could not combine games by using Ctrl+Shift+C

I was recently updating my launchbox and my pc was bumped during the update and my computer shut down! When I tried launchbox I got this error and I'm not sure what to do. 1.Should I try to restore to a previous version? 2. How do I restore to a previous version? 3. Install a new launchbox and move the files over? Please help!

Go Jason Go! Works so far for me too! Thank you sir

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Thanks so much Jason for the support! I took your advice and edited my settings.xml and got you your Debug.log I updated to the newest beta and immediately got 2 errors to pop up. They are attached as error1 and error2 Now on beta 3 the application is showing the same results, however they are intermittent and sometime will stay for minutes or go away in seconds. Very difficult to describe... The debug log continued to multiply in size while I had Launchbox open till it was getting to be larger than 100MB! It is repeating the same message, so I slimmed it down and attached it. I also included the data folder zipped up as Data NEW. Please let me know if you need anything else Error1.txt Error2.txt Debug.log Data_NEW.zip