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On 11/16/2020 at 11:28 PM, Jason Carr said:
@Chris Kant Okay, I can see how those features would be beneficial for the game details sidebar; we'll probably put it on the next poll.
maybe outside of the game details like we already have with the system audit solution.
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great work. link for the pack in the first posts is broken. can you add the new pictures again?
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9 hours ago, Jason Carr said:
I'm confused what you're asking for here. Can you explain?
Sure.
I like the Launchbox and BigBox thing for all my games and emulators. that is great and launching everything incl. Steam Archivements (new feature) and Retroarchivements are great. but managing the media and design is not user friendly and most of the time annoying.
example one: adding a 3D Box to one game you have to make multiple clicks. first go into the newer detail screen of the game in launchbox. then choose in the side bar the media. then Drag and drop the png (or whatever) into the place and then choose what kind of Art is this (in this example 3D Boxart). doing this for thousands of titles is frustrating and taking tooo long.
example two: checking what kind of Arts and videos do we have in Launchbox / Bigbox and exchanging it is tooo complicated too. you can go into the detail screen then choose media and then going left and or right. but sometimes I have two of the same Arts like two clear logos. which one is the better one? first helpful addition would be getting media details like file size (i.e. 78kb) and dimension (i.e. 160x90px). this helps during clean ups. and having a flag for "active" and "inactive" if we have multiple arts of the same kind like clear logos or 3D Boxart etc. sometimes I just want to change the art style because of different sets.
example three: in the launchbox board other are uploading art files as a set. like Playstation 1 PAL Box set. thousands of files with great artwork BUT the file names are not align with the launchbox file conversion. so you have to rename most of the file names or manually load it through the game detail screen. I know that launchbox can handle filenames like "Tekken (PAL).png" but the system has a problem with such file names next to the name scheme from imported files like "Tekken-1.png". and sometimes the just copy and paste file names not matching the game names in Launchbox and then you have to find those in a folder with thousand files.
a media manager screen like game detail screen where you can go through the games and see on one screen 4 or more artworks like 2D BOX, 3D Box, clear logo and Start screen plus the video file and manual file directly available would be a big benefit for making the appearance way more better. of course with the change to delete files from there and drag and drop files to import them. also a filter with show all games without artwork x or y so we can dive directly to these missing artwork games. and a great feature would be if we could have the chance to upload those artworks from the launchbox ("media manager") to the launchbox games DB to make the collection available for everyone easier.
downloading great artwork is so easy in retropi (for example) and one of the reasons why it is easy to handle.
I think, this would be another USP - unique selling point. not the unique one but another for the great Launchbox.
and being honest, I do not know what kind of others features do launchbox really need, I am not missing something but would like to see an improvement of the current things in the way of how to use (user acceptance factor can be improved through GUI upgrades).
keep that great work and I hope that my examples was helpful to understand me.
edit: I know there are some external application or plug ins for this but they are not working seamlessly with launchbox. a good starting point was this one
the issue with this tool is that it only looks in the standard location of the files and I had moved my files to another location due to space issues. Launchbox is in my ssd c drive, media Incl. manuals and videos is in a SSD b drive and games are on several discs. changing the folder information is also not easy and I have to make the changes in the xml files directly.
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any change to get improvements in the Mediamanager for the games or changes in the detail screen to make changes in the media? it is really unmotivated work to add media to each Titel like I have a set of PAL PS1 3D Covers. to get them available in Launchbox and BigBox it is a game by game manual work so far.
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I am now at 32..248 Games from total of 100 Systems / Platforms.
not all are configured completely and still missing artworks, videos and Launchbox ID link as well.
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I am still awaiting for a new poll with more chances to get helpful enhancements for media and meta data management within Launchbox.
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56 minutes ago, sarge1979 said:
Please can you explain how this is a multiple thread I have posted before saying I was having issues loading mario kart on sega triforce but not about having issues with sound on the games now I have sorted tje games loading up. ?
you posted multiple threads with nearly the same question. sometimes mixed it up by yourself like Tecnoparrots Mario Kart Arcade DX and Triforces / Dolphins Mario Kart Arcade GP
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which games?
did you configured the sound output? and how many times you will ask the same things?
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I am not sure how many times it needs to ask the same questions before understanding that multiple threads are not the solution for your issue ?
allow me some questions:
Are you sure that you are speaking about Mario kart gp dx? this is not a Trifroce / Dolphin game
does the game works well when you start it in Dolphine without Launchbox? Did you done all the things that was mentioned in the tutorials throughout the net (like some activation of cheat codes etc)?
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I always failed to convert CDI to CHD so I looked for the CHD version or GDI ones and converted the GDI to CHD by myself.
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Hi,
both: yes
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it sounds more like a specific RPCS3 question. it might be possible but better ask the board from them directly. Launchbox is not the emulator neither can handle the save files.
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great thing. you can also upload it in the download section hier in this board as well.
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I assume it is the nature of the xml solution instead of using a database for this.
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i am still on around 30 to 40K games but the speed is already annoying on my side. even if Launchbox is on a NVME SSD and the artworks and videos are on another SSD. so it will not grow in the near future.
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11 minutes ago, Drodrick said:
In my case for the disc systems i,I just add boxart images as roms, just for dicover new games, and if i like one i download the iso, I have the full sets just for have the complete library, and i download the disc games per demand. actually I have 66k games in the library, using this method
sounds interesting of the way how you proceed on this with images / Pictures.
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2 hours ago, neil9000 said:
Some games have a different name in different reigons, and LB by default uses the US name. For example, Contra is Probotector in Europe, so in theory i could specify to use that name if its in the database as a alternate name for Contra.
and this would be awesome ? and would bring this nearer to a good place for having all games and media in one place ?
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1 hour ago, mcfilmmakers said:
The same is true for images. If two games have the same title, they'll both share the same image matching the game title. However, if I rename one of the two game titles, the image file is also renamed.
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two games are called Launchbox Game and both use Launchbox Game.png. I rename one of the two games to Big Box Game.
I should therefore have two games: Big Box Game and Launchbox Game and one image: Launchbox Game.png
Instead, I have two games: Big Box game and Launchbox Game and one image: Big Box Game.png
This is wrong because the image contains the logo for Launchbox game, not Big Box Game and therefore should not rename when i rename one of the two games. This did not happen under 10.15
HOWEVER, if I only have one game called Launchbox Game and it uses Launchbox Game.png, when I rename the game to Big Box Game I would expect the associated image to be renamed because there is no question as to which game it is associated with.
this is so long an issue I am fighting with in LB/BB. and one of the points I want so much a rework of the Metadata and Database Handling in LB/BB plus userbility of GUI but unfortunately this might be very low on the list. maybe in version 20 or so.
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hi, no it is not possible. but you can show all games in your Launchbox with missing artwork / videos.
Option is in the upper left corner where most of us has Platforms choose. there is in the pulldown menu the option "missing artwork" or so (write it from memory have launchbox not in front of em)
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not sure what you mean. title says Sega Model 3 and the text mentions PS2 Emulator.
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I am "only" using Launchbox to have all my paid PC games in one launcher with more style like Steam, GoG, Microsoft Store and so one.
you can also google for home-brew games for the specific platforms. that us bit illegal. but be aware that some homebrew console games are not allowed to play with an emulator because it needs an dumb of the bios. and if you cannot get an dumb of your bios from your own console it might be illegal - related to the region you are living.
btw: in some regions it is also illegal to make an own copy of a game if you bypass a copy protection
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16 minutes ago, drseussicide said:
you can also just us "SKraperUI" out of the box to get videos just make sure it doesn't save a gamelist as it's not update frequently and "corrupts" the gamelists.
i genrally use launchbox for everything but videos and the come through with skraper and get the videos
thank you. this is awesome and exactly what I expected for the Launchbox Games Database.
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33 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
Just a quick note on this, the changes were made because we were landlocked, and couldn't really add anything new. We can't just keep making that screen bigger and bigger because then the full window wouldn't be visible on 720p displays (which are common on things like handheld devices, and when using high DPIs on TVs), so that really isn't an option. It really isn't much different this way, because all we did was move the tabs to new pages (and separated out the images). Unfortunately those changes are required and are not up for discussion.
is there a chance to get two or three different types of Game Detail Edit Screens? depending on the DPI and resolution settings to make advance of higher resolution on a working screen? I am usually setting things up on a 4K screen with 100% DPI - and I like having most of the things on one screen at once. it is just an idea.
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Hi, it depend on system and sometimes the region that no or not full artwork is available.
Sometimes you need more than one download iterations. Sometimes nonartwork is available in the gamesdb so few of us are also using emumovies as source for artwork.
can you name the system you tried and what kind of artwork are you missing?
11.8 Beta Testing
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I assume this is not new for 11.8 but I found out that it is now possible to have more than one video per game and I dislike this. in the past I was choosing a bunch of games and said "download media" and ensure I that I have the newest set of videos in it. now I saw that some of my games in my library have three to four times the same video. messing my media library. Is there an option that I can choose "add a video" or "overwrite current media"?