Firefairy

When I have LaunchBox import my Steam games, some, but not all, get two different entries, with different game ID numbers. An example: About Love, Hate, and the Other Ones, two entries, one is File 277680, the other is File 269270. Neither number matches its entry in the GamesDB, so I tend to think this is somehow a problem on Steam's end, but I'm not sure. Regardless, does anyone here have any suggestions about which entry I should keep/use? Or ways to avoid this problem when importing?

I have quite a few that are listed as Windows in the DB for some reason, but they usually recognize okay and stay listed as DOS in Launchbox. Not sure why The Dig doesn't. Hm. Thanks for the response, though!

I am trying to add the DOS game The Dig to my LaunchBox, but it isn't being listed as one of the options when LB tries to identify the game. There is a correct DB entry for it: http://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/172 But that isn't being pulled up. Instead, only the entries for Dig Dug, The Digger, Dig It!, and Digital Matrix are found in the LaunchBox DB. The correct Wikipedia entry does come up, however. Is there a way to manually link a game to a DB entry, rather than looking it up?

Okay. If I see any others like that, I will just mark them for deletion as invalid games.

Cool, thanks for the clarification. :-)

How are developers added to the list? Same for Publishers. I just added a puzzle game in my DOS collection, and neither were in the database. What information is needed, beyond the name? The game is Revelation! for DOS. It was developed by Teque London Ltd. and released by MicroLeague Multimedia, Inc., both of whom put out several other games.

Many old games from GOG.com come in the form of pre-configured DOSBox installs, and LaunchBox scanning pulls these up as Windows games. For the purposes of the DB, should we be considering these DOS games, or Windows ones? Will this interfere with Launchbox correctly identifying the game both when run through the GOG version and directly through LaunchBox's DOSBox install?

I second this; I was coming to the forums to mention this myself. Glad to hear I'm not the only one. Many of the entries are ones I either know already, or can look up with fair speed, but some I just don't know, and I have to stop and go do something else until someone clears that item from the queue. I can see how this feature might leave some more obscure items languishing, however, so maybe also include something (like an icon or number of skips) to tell us when an entry has been skipped a lot, so we know it might be worth taking the time to really look into it even if it's not really our area of strength?

I have a few items on my computer that Launchbox incorrectly recognizes as games. Usually, this is it mistaking a non-game for a game that is in the database, like Atom text editor being mistaken for Atom Smashers Online. No big deal, I find and delete the entries, and I can see why it made the mistake. However, there is one item that actually has a DB entry and is definitely not a game; Paint.net, which is a graphics editing program. Is this intentional?