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  1. 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.

  2. 23 hours ago, moudrost said:

    You are out of luck if you converted your CD based games to CHD or RVZ. That is the main reason I keep everything in a format that I can scan even with the space and inconvenience hit in having to extract the game prior to running it. LaunchBox can extract them automatically before running the game and with the exception of a few platforms, it is pretty quick. If it is a game I run often, I'll convert it to CHD and point that one game to a special directory I keep those in and keep the original so I can audit it.

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

  3. 7 hours ago, moudrost said:

    I use a combination of 3.

    ClrMamePro: https://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/

    I have used this for as long as I can remember. I tend to stick with it for MAME, however it will do any DAT. I avoid this for large ISOs such as PS2 since it can't handle decompressing very well and often will fail fixing issues. It is probably one of the easier ones to wrap your head around and is great for cartridge based consoles.

    ROMCenter: https://www.romcenter.com/

    I moved to this one to deal with the above issue for CD based systems. I find this to be a bit buggy sometimes but does a decent job when it works.

    ROMVault: https://www.romvault.com/

    I feel like this is where all the action is on the development side. There is a paid version that will maintain up to date DATs for you, but I'm just starting to migrate towards this for all things but MAME. It is different enough that I'm not the most comfortable with it yet, but I could see myself using this as my go to when I am.

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    Speaking of DATs, these are all useless without them. You will use these in combination with one of the applications above to scan, rename, fix, remove duplicates, or rebuild sets to your liking. I recommend checking YouTube for various how to videos or reading through as much documentation before you begin. I highly recommend creating a backup of your files BEFORE you start because you can destroy things pretty easily if you don't know what you are doing.

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    No-Intro handles cartridge based systems. Go here to get the needed DATs: https://datomatic.no-intro.org/index.php?page=download&s=64

    Redump handles CD based systems. Go here for those: http://redump.org/downloads/

    You can create your own DATs using ClrMamePro. It is built into the executable to generate one. You can also acquire one already made from many places you acquire the games from. I'm not aware of any place that hosts these specifically.

    Honorable mentions for TOSEC: https://www.tosecdev.org/downloads There are tons of systems not covered by the above and are handled by this group. I don't see a bunch of people looking for these games, but it is at least worthwhile knowing about them. For example, I use TOSEC for Spectrum games since what is covered in No-Intro is pretty small in comparison and I like Spectrum games.

    For information purposes only, there is/was a thing called Goodsets. I have no idea if anyone really manages this anymore. The sets were difficult to deal with because of all the garbage ROMs in each. Go here for more information if you are curious: https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/GoodTools

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    Good luck and have fun.

    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.

  4. 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

  5. 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. 

  6. 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.

  7. 7 hours ago, Mr.Laor said:

    I'm currently running an older i500 and a 1050 TI. I'd like to upgrade both by CPU and graphics card. 

     

    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.

  8. amazing work

    1 hour ago, ci2own said:

    I'm doing on my own. Maybe my excel sheet can help with some systems.

     

    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.

  9. Just now, xevious1974 said:

    I think that there is a problem on the feature request. People that does not like to program or "hard edit", loose interest in putting feature request. Using bitbucket is not so easy like using a forum. Seems that became a "specialist feature request".

    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

  10. 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.

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  11. 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

  12. 4 hours ago, neil9000 said:

    Its not a platform though, its a addon for one platform to allow you to play another platform, both of which are in our database, but in reality, this is simply Gameboy and nothing more than that, If people cared that much there must be image packs out there for these, which could be easily added to Launchbox. At the end of the day though Super Gameboy is simply Gameboy, just being run on other hardware, it's really no different to running Gamecube games on a Wii, and i dont see people requesting a "Nintendo Gamecube on Nintendo Wii" platform.

    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 🙂  

  13. 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.

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  14. On 12/17/2021 at 6:56 PM, DeadVoivod said:

    I like Synology products, I had Qnap before, then I switched to Synology, price quality wise it's better in my opinion. I'm using a DS2413+

    do you or others have tried a raspberry pi 4 NAS solution for this?

  15. If I am correct then you need to have the game name from the Launchbox Gamedatabase of that specific game and not the code/titleID to import the games. sometime games have the TitleID as an alternative Name in the Database but normally not. At all, I do not have any game in my library as bfs anymore and use the rvz format - most of the time the games are smaller. I converted them by myself. during this process the tool convert the game from bfs to iso and renamed it to Titel / title ID. and with Dolphin I did the conversion to RVZ. at the end I had the right naming without a lot of manual work 🙂 

     

    I am not aware of such function in Launchbox.  

  16. Hi All,

     

    is it (maybe already) possible to synchronize meta data between both devices? thinking about having the games on my android device and on the go I do some metadata adjustsment and at home I can synthronize both to have it align? something like favourite, complete flags or ratings etc. It would be great to do this from everywhere instead of only sitting in front of my computer. 

  17. On 10/13/2021 at 8:08 PM, Jason Carr said:

    @Chris Kant That's an interesting observation, though I don't know of a solution (or if one even exists). The first thing to check would be to see if you see the same behavior with a different frontend (such as Dig).

    thanks for the reply. I don't use Dig or anything else. I also stopped using Launchbox on my Android Device because of this. maybe someone else can test this

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