Chris Kant

if you are using multiple sources for games it is sometimes hard to manage to see if there are multiple times the same game in your system. especially if you are fighting with game hacks. therefore I would like to know if I have multiple identical copies beside of naming and size. I have trouble to manage this completely manually with the many retro games I have. and checksums are also important for Retroarch. I will not really save space at all because those games on ROMs rarely archived two digits or more (more than 10) of mb. and I have a lot of space. I just want to increase the quality of my collection.

byte per byte comparison is something I would interpret as checksum checks etc. and this is not free. or do I misinterpret something

I know what you mean. at the moment I have nothing and keep it as it is or spend 15bucks and "just" have half way through. I know that I am looking for something bigger that compares my files to find doubles, bring the exact naming plus sort it for me. lets see what the future can handle

interesting: but it costs 15euros for the byte to byte checks.

make absolute sense but as a datahorder and collector I always wanted to have all games - but only once.

How do you all Ensure you are importing new games and not a copy of a game with another naming? For me it is a mess of work especially because not every game has a perfect naming.

LaunchBox is not an emulator, but an FrontEnd to combine Games and Emulators for easier access. so, if you have an PS4 or PS5 Emulator and backup games yourself then we could help you on that. but as far as I know there is no working PS4 and PS5 emulator available - PS4 makes good progress with at least one game that already starts but is far from playable. and for PS5 I am not aware that we are near to where did you seen people? probably share the YouTube links with us.

Even for the none cd based games I potentially have no luck and have to go with the dat files.

Thank. So there is no such tool as I look for. Especially on the cd based one where I did all the chd and rvz conversions.

years ago I found somewhere nice system clear logos with Hardware in it but I lost nearly everything. does anybody still have these clear logos?

after catching several rom packages I know that I have a lot of dublicate roms with (sometimes) different naming. to test, check and delete thousands of games I would like to ask the group here if there is a rom manager out there for i.e. NES, SNES Games etc. to make the checks if there are duplicates. in my dreamy visions I see a tool that would go into the 7z or zip file, check the MD5 checksum put it in a list and after scanning all roms it would then check the checksums and shows me the duplicates. so that I have the chance to delete one or another etc. also with the possibility for renaming it in a batch like way. does someone of you are using something like that and give me some recommendations? best regards, me

You can Cyclops through the different views of a Theme. Setup a Button for this in BigBox an Go through. Most of the bb Themes Should have a clear Logo Wheel view. in LB is no Wheel view. you can also Download and Place the Artwork by yourself. LB /BB Does Not have such media Files in the Installation.

you can download themes within big box and launchbox. somewhere there is a option to find. artwork and videos can get from emu movies. if you use a premium access, you can download it from the launchbox media downloader. Launchbox also has artwork you can download within the same downloader. per game: go into the detail screen (ctrl+e) then media and there is a download button.

for emulators first the CPU is important. if you go with something like 12300 or so, you will gain a lot of more power compared on what you wrote. but new cpu means new mainboard and new ram as well. nearly 800% more power. after that your 1050ti would be great again with the better cpu.

amazing work something like this I would like to have in Launchbox. something that helps at least to manage the artworks, manuals and videos in a better way.

I have the same concern. I would like to see more features to manage the roms, its artworks and playlists to make it more handy. it would be a big jump in quality of life improvements for me. in the meantime I am also losing interest in the development of Launchbox because less and less sparkle in my eyes if I read what's new. on my android device I am just using retroarch. even with its limitation it feels way better compared to LB Android yet

I did not changed it on my behalf because I like the auto populate style and still have hope the "magic" behind it will some time gets an improvement. I have playlists like "games done" "favourites" "hides" etc based on flags in the game details. and this per system. nevertheless: I would like to have an improvement on the playlists as well. bulk editor AND also chance to copy a playlist to another system. I had setup the same 5 playlists throughout 50 systems or so. annoying. even tried copy paste the xml files did not worked for me.

I have similar issues just because of sooo many playlists based on filters. so every time I start BB or LB the system is recalculating the Playlists again.

Hi All, is there an option in Launchbox (PC) to copy paste playlist to multiple systems? I want to have the same playlist structure on all my systems like All Games, Favorites, Completed, Hide Games. and I hope I do not have to do it one by one on every system (like having over 100 Systems in my installation). I appreciate every helpful tip

the challenge is a bit higher. half of the games are GambeBoy Games and the other half is from the GameBoy Color palette. this makes the matching with the GamesDB a bit more exhausting 🙂

great, thank you.

I am not sure if this is an issue with the newest beta but lets see: when I want to import a new system with a folder with roms in it (example Atari 7800) I am going through the wizard and receive a list of files Launchbox wants to import. I usually have to opportunity to delete files manually in this overview but it is no longer possible in this screen.