mlsaunders1985

I'm choosing the first option in the wizard (to replace all existing metadata) as I'd like any fields that have been updated to be, well, updated in my collection. Can't understand the logic in the app performing a whole new search, though. I mean, how else are you supposed to actually update the metadata? I come across incorrect developers, publishers, genres, even game names all the time, and I always go into the database to correct them. But what's the point if I can't actually get this data back into my collection?

Yeah sorry, what I mean was that after Launchbox assigned it to Dig Dug II, I removed that, emptied the platform field, changed the game name back to Dig Dug, then searched again. Then I get all the results for Dig Dug, click the Famicom entry (#16476 as you said) and then change the platform back to Nintendo Entertainment System. When I run the Download Metadata wizard, it overwrites all of this and again assumes the file is Dig Dug II, so it doesn't appear to use the existing ID info at all. My hope was that I could, for example, go onto the database, change the publisher or number of players or something, then in a few days, run the wizard, and this info would be refreshed in my collection. Now, I can't run the risk of running the wizard over my whole collection since I'd lose all the manually corrected links that I've made.

Thanks, but that's not what I'm experiencing. To use the Dig Dug example, I've got this game in my library under the NES platform, even though it's a Famicom game. I had to reassign it to the correct game myself, since Launchbox searches NES games for Dig Dug and all it can find is Dig Dug II. When using the Tools>Download Metadata and Images... option in Launchbox, the same thing happens again - it links the ROM file to Dig Dug II instead. It obviously just does a new search and ignores what I've previously assigned the game to.

Is there a way in Launchbox that we can refresh the metadata for our games? For example, if I notice a couple of errors in my collection, I'll edit them on the database, then wait for the changes to be approved. If I then want these changes to be shown in the software, do I have to do it manually? Or is there a way to update everything with any changes made since the last data download? I know I can select all games, then 'Download Metadata and Images', but will this make the software search for each game again, or will it use the existing database IDs already assigned to each game? Only reason this matters is because when importing games, a few were matched incorrectly, and I spent a bit of time going through and manually assigning to the correct game in the database when they weren't assigned correctly (the 'Famicom' game Dig Dug gets matched to Dig Dug II, or the two versions of Indiana Jones on the NES for example).

Great update to a great theme. Very underrated. Thanks!

I think there's a problem with the side bar in Launchbox. It doesn't appear to be sorting alphabetically. At least, not all the time. Sometimes, everything will be sorted perfectly, however at other times it seems to sort everything randomly. For example, right now I'm looking at 'Publishers', and it's sorted Acclaim, Beam Software, Koei, FCI, Capcom, Activision, Data East, Jaleco, Hudson Soft, Electro Brain, Bandai etc... Doesn't seem to be any logic to it whatsoever. This also applies to other side bar filters too (year, genre etc).

I've been rejecting them. Not just because of the logo on the side, but they're all terrible quality in some really low resolution.

If a change is accepted, but has at least one rejection, how do I see the reasons for those rejections? I know it shouldn't matter since the change has gone through, I'm just curious to see what reasons others have given for rejecting a change.

Had the same problem here, thanks for the suggestion on how to fix it. Something definitely changed during one of the recent updates.

Ok, appears 6.12-beta-4 has fixed this issue, so nevermind!

Might have found a bug in the latest beta (6.12-beta-3) on Windows 10. Games that start with 'The' are sorted properly like they have been for the last few versions (not using custom sort orders), but the game title displayed isn't right. For example, I've added Legend of Zelda, The, and even though I've edited the metadata so it should show The Legend of Zelda, it's shown as Legend of Zelda, The. Not using the Launchbox Games Database, if that makes a difference.

Some games had ratings from the VRC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videogame_Rating_Council) which I believe came before the ESRB. Most of the VRC ratings roughly match up to an ESRB rating, but what I'm asking is should we add these as ESRB ratings, even though the game technically wasn't rated by the ESRB?

Ah ok, thanks. Another thing I've just noticed, is sorting by Release Date when in List View doesn't actually sort by release date. Is there any way to sort my games by release date?

Not sure if this is intentional or not, but I've added sort titles for some of my games, and when viewing in List View the sort titles don't seem to apply (Adventure Island 3 before Adventure Island II, all the games starting with 'The' are under the letter T etc).