legolas119

Hi, i'm trying to understand how to manage Media for games with multiple disc. For example, for PSX, Parasite Eve 2 has 2 discs: if I name the 2 games like " Parasite Eve CD1 and Parasite Eve CD2, I can manage 2 different game themes, one for every disc but in this way, LB isn't able to link the game to the database and so it can download few media... If I name both the disc like "Parasite Eve II" I can link the game to the database, but i suppose that i can manage only one theme for both the disc. is it correct? thanks

thanks, I deleted only all the games, but the platform "MAME" disappeared and its Playlist were still present, but empty and without a parent. I imported again the fullset without media: 2942 games (instead of 2945 so i supposed that 3 romes were removed in mame 0.221). Now I have to manually associate every plalylist to "MAME" as parent... I'm doing it, but even if I click click on every playlist and checked MAME as Parent, the playlist isn't added under "MAME". And the playlist disappeared! How can I solve this issue? I also noticed that during the import process, it duplicates all the playlist. Now I'm able to add under MAME oly "Pinball Arcade": I tried to remove duplicate playlist and remove the word "Arcade" before every playlist name. But it doesn't help. I noticed that if i remove some duplicate playlist, LB remove both the playlist", So fo example now I don't have 2 Players playlist, and so on... How can I fix this mess? thank you! EDIT: I closed and opened again LB, and now it correctly moves evey playlist under MAME. Probably there was an issue and rebooting LB it as solved. But for sure I deleted some default playlist /2 Players, etc...one). How can I re-create all the missing playlist? Have I to delete again ALL the games, import again the fullromeset and again modify the parent of every playlist, removing the duplicates? Currenlty I have these playlist but I don't know which are missig (2 Players for sure): thank you

hi, i'm looking for missing game themes. I suppose that the only source that I can check is here, https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/category/11-game-theme-videos/ correct? thank you

hi, is it correct what I wrote? Is it correct the way I described to delete the platform? If so, I think that after the new fullset import, I will have to manually create again all the playlist...:( thanks!

thanks. Currently I still not know how to create an auto-populate playlist and then how to convert it into a manually-populated playlist...So, in my case, I have to perform only these 3 steps now: 1) Delete all my MAME games: it means right click on the platform MAME and Delete it 2) Re import using mame full set, and uncheck both "download images from database" and "download media from emumovies" 3) Tool --> Download metadata and media, in order to download media for the added new games. Usually i update my mame romset every month, but i think that i will not do the same thing in LB too... I have a question: if I delete the MAME platform, I will loose all the playlist automatically creaded. When I will reimport all the fullset, LB will re create them again, but i think that I will have to rename all the playlist in this way, as I have done the first time. In this way I'm sure that i can take separated the Final Burn Alpha playlist from the MAME playlist. I mean, I named every MAME playlist with "Arcade" prefix, and with "FBA" prefix for Final Burn Alpha playlist. Here an example: If I delete MAME platform, do you think that I will have to rename all the playlist...again? I think so...

ah...really? If so...how I can remove games not playable in 0.221?

I have done what i wrote in my post above and now my roms set is increased, from 2912 to 2944 games. So it seems that LB has detected the new roms

thanks well, I have just updated the games database metadata. Strangely, the date/time is 01:00...but here (in italy) now it is 5:30pm... In any case, when I imported the first time the mame fullset 0.220, with all metadata, in this way: I imported 2912 games. Some days after, when I updated to 0.221 my mameUI fullset and i tried to re-import again the fullset (Tools --> Import --> Mame fullset Import) and no new roms were added. Someone here explained the reason here in the forum Now, could I try to reimport again the full set in this way Import --> MAME fullset import, in order to verify if it will add some roms? thanks!

Hi Jason, but are you from the LB programmer team? well, your front end is absolutely fantastic I have a lifetime subscription also for Big Box, that is really really cool. Thank you! Ok I understood for the MAME issue. So, for example, LB probably will be able to correctly import the additional roms for 0.221 full set in the next weeks? Usually LB could support the new MAME release after some weeks after the official MAME release date. Is it correct?

so the only way to correctly update MAME in LB is wait for a new MAME.xml version that consider the updated MAME.exe version. But unfortunately we can't know when this file is updated...

Hi guys, we are talking about this topic also here: I hope that it could be help

hi, well, I updated my LB to 10.15 yesterday evening, more or less at 10:00 pm (CET). If I check my mame.xml file, it is updated at 01:01 am, so it seems that it was updated before to LB update: I don't know why... In any case, currently we are not able to understand if and when LB will update its mame.xml file in order to correctly run again the full MAME import process. So, now, i could manually import the fullromset with the standard way (Tools --> Import --> Roms), uncheking all the Media. In this way, LB should automatically add the new roms and delete the not used. After that, I can use the standard function (Tools --> Import Metadata and Media --> Do not overwrite existing file) in order to download media only for the new added roms. Am I right? I hope that in the future LB will clearly show which mame version is currently supported and will provide us an easy way to monthly update it thank you

thank you! really useful!!! Well, now in Final Burn Alpha I only have this files without video/box cover. https://i.postimg.cc/Lsk9fV6V/Immagine.png But i suppose they are bios or some other stuff...not real game. So, if I delete from LB these files, do the games which need these bios will continue to run correctly when launched with LB? I think they they still continue to work because they are present in the roms folder, even if i delete them in LB (Note: I don't duplicate the games imported in LB, i use the original copy of every game in my roms folder). thanks!

thank you! well, today I updated LB to 10.15 version and the official MAME official 0.221 has been releases. I have already updated my romset with clrmame so, now, i I will import again the full set, it should add the additional roms included in the MAME 0.221 update, am I right?

hi I'm checking, for every platform, the missing box cover and the missing video. I have almost finished but with MAME and FBA it is really boring...to many games to check. Is it possible to quickly retrieve, for each platform, only games with missing cover (and missing video)? in this way I can directly review them without sliding all the fullset... thanks!

yes sure, but i discovered that my plugin.ini file is empty. This is the problem! But here in the forum sundogak helped me

yeat, thanks! It works now!!! Do you have this emulator too? The PGM2MAME v0.193? If so, are you able to add scanlines? I dind't find any option many thanks!

thank you

yes sure I tried, ma same error.... the plugin.ini file is an empty file...I don't know why...do you think that it appears the error message for this reason? thank you

yes, I followed this guide: I use spectabis also with LB because with this frontend, i can use every game with its specific settings. For example, I set PCSX2 with some setting for 3Dgames and with diffrent settings for 2D games. In this way, with Spectabis, every game automatically starts with the right setting Unfortunately there isn't in Spectabis a specific command in order to exit from a game. Donìt worry, it isn't a problem

hi, please, can anyone help me with this little issue related to a hacked MAME version? https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/54924-pgm2-mame-and-error-loading-pluginini/ the plugin.ini file is present and saved in the "ini" folder (\PGM2MAME v0.193\ini), so I don't know why, when I run the .exe file from LB, it appears this error message.. thank you

yes sure, I have a lifetime subscription! I can download the themes in that page, many thanks! I have a little question, about Spectabis, the frontend for PCSX2 emulator: I mapped the EXIT command in Launch Box with L2+R2 button on my Logitech pad. It works perfectly with all emulators, but if I run Spectabis it doesn't work. I can't exit from a running game. Do you know if it is possible, only for a specific emulator, to configure specific command in order to do some actions? thank you

thank you guys for all these info! ok, I think that I will use the platform themes from Unified Refried's. But in any case, if I want to download additional Platform thems (with the Launchbox option Tools --> Download Video/Themes), I see that LB chooses, for every platfom/playlist, a theme (1), from a list: Probably LB chooses the best theme for every platform. But for example if I want for all the platfom the same theme (for example Big Box cinematic), i can choose to Prioritize (2) this theme and LB will probably download these theme for each platfom. I think that I can save the additional platform themes in this path \video\platfom\not used. In this way, if I want to change a platform theme, I simply take the theme saved in "not used" and copy it in \video\platform Perfect, sure. I will download every platfom theme available fro Unified, but for the missing themes for Playlist (for MAME and FBA) I will use the themes available with the LB download section. I hope that they will work correctly with the Unified Refrie's theme

wow! it absolutely fantastic! I will try it! So I can download this BB theme and it will be possible in addition to download platform/playlist themes thar perfectly fit with this theme, very good. In addition, I can download the default theme for platform/playlist with Tools--> Download Theme... So, I will have 2 different themes for each platfomr (one downloaded from LB and one with Unified Refried): it means that I can choose which theme I prefer to load in BB? I mean: i can download and save more than one theme for each platfom. Really good!

don't worry, thanks. I'm using CAPTURA, it is really easy to use, I'm recording by myself the missing video, it is really quick As soon as I finished to download all the missing media files in all my platforms in LB, I will start to configure themes in BB, that is fun I would like to add games themes like these I suppose that they are available for every console/game, more or less. Currently in BB I still have the default theme, with no games themes, no system themes, and so on... And I would like to use a theme with wheels: I want every Platform/Playlist in a wheel and then all the games of each platfom in wheel