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Oh I know, but then if I modify the BAT file then it will have different dates than the other files. If I modify the Catacomb.exe file, if I ever have to download games again, I hope only to have to rename some folders but not even the Exe names. because I do not want to backup games, only launchbox.if I need too. So using start.bat it is the easiest way it's like the fastest easiest way not to create conflict with images. I could have used the conf autoexec one, but I only want to create confs for couple games, I am grabbing the setting from D-Fender Reloaded, and if the game is not there or is not part a series of the games (like there is Catacomb Abyss so I can use it on the other catacomb 3-D games) then I can just leave the default DosBox conf launchbox has and hope it works on the other games. Not a big deal using start.bat, I had to use it for other games as well. but the main reason is I don't want to touch much the structure of folders and its filenames. Thanks anyway! it was really helpful knowing how Launchbox finds the way to use images. I thought it only used "title" from the xml. Hope this system doesn't cause many conflicts in future, but if nothing can be done, I would create a bat, or use the autoexec option. ??

Oh thanks to much Zombeaver it worked, now I understand it. yeah the EXE I chose for the catacomb II game was named "catacomb.exe" and that's why that happened, the I chose the "start.bat" and it worked again. so I guess it can't just have the name of the game. like you did, rename BLOOD.BAT on Captain Blood and it stopped grabbing the images from the other Blood game. I guess this answers my question about how it is a launchbox way of working things. which sucks. but I don't mind getting now an "instructions" screen rather than go directly to game, it gives a nicer DOS feeling I had years ago anyway Thanks so much!

Hello, So I am having problems with two games, Catacomb and Catacomb II, I started to get gameplay images from mobygames, but everytime I add images to Catacomb they display on Catacomb II. is there a way to avoid that without changing the name of the game? why is it even happening? when I click on "save image" I get Catacomb-01.png and Catacomb II-01.png so apparently it should work but it keeps displaying the same images on both games, and if I delete the images on either game it of course deletes from the other game. I was thinking about even setting up ShareX or something to make new screenshots with better resolution and my gameplay (if only Launchbox had a screenshot function) but now I am thinking that it might not even work fine on some games just like Catacomb and Catacomb II and then I will end up with different games "sharing" images. But I also wonder if it is a small bug or just the way Launchbox is meant to do things.

Jason Carr said Sounds like I've got a glitch to work on there with the resolutions. Thanks guys. :) Well it seems it was not normal and it wasn't reported by anyone until I came in :P, I just play on window mode so I find it important to change the resolution. I hate playing on fullscreen. so thank you Jason! But thanks for your help Zombeaver! I am sure I won't bother you. I actually spent the evening planning how I would do the transition if I need better settings for a game, or on any game I load (I don't add games often since I add games when I play them) But I found a workflow, I just grabbed the Prof file from Dfend reloaded, open it on Notepad++ the settings are there so to make it work only need to change =1 to true and =0 to false so Launchbox would load it fine. but there are some lines frameskip=0, dma=1 and dma1=1, so if there is a normal replace it would turn those values to false or true, and while Launchbox convert them to 1 or 0 again, I wanted to go and make it look nice right away, just to be ready to load. so I used expression to search for (?<!dma)(?<!dma1)(?<!frameskip)(=1$) and replace it for =true (?<!dma)(?<!dma1)(?<!frameskip)(=0$) and replace it for =false Then I loaded the prof file (sounds like a good point to rename the file to conf lol) in Launchbox click on edit, now it should load the file with all the settings. nothing special, Launchbox seems to add few lines but everything loads fine. But Dfend Reloaded seems to have a lot of extra stuff for the autosetup, junk for Launchbox so I wanted to go further and remove all the extra stuff that DFend Reload and make it look nice like if it was done through Launchbox. All I did was I click edit the prof/conf file again, I went back to notepad++ deleted/replaced everything in that prof with dosbox.conf text from Launchbox folder and saved the file with the default dosbox.conf info. Then it was just about going back to Launchbox and clicked Ok to save again the values, and since I had the dosbox.conf structure in the file, the values would be updated in that way, which means they looked finally nice, like if they were made by Launchbox. it might seem like too much for just a profile and make a conf file for individual games, but I trust D-Fend Reloaded settings on many games, so at least I don't have to manually tweak anything, or if I do it, would be just because default DosBox.conf and the one taken from DFR just don't work! But I found a way to import the game and take the settings from DFR. not straight forward but good enough for me! better than full manual tweaking like I would have had to do. It's not like I add games in bulk, I just add the ones I will play so I make sure everything is okay. Anyway thank you! have a good day both of you.

Oh I see it, the first time I clicked "create" it didn't come with an Edit option for the UI. or maybe I didn't see it, I didn't even see the "Open in Notepad" menu. haha. weird. I didn't even try it again, so maybe it was just that day or maybe I was too distracted thinking about all the options and edits that I wanted to do. Still the edit should be manual, there is no individual profiles like Reloaded, that's not a problem, I mean, reloaded just have some .prof files, that cointain the settings. so it's only about looking for it if I ever have a problem with a game, I wish Launchbox read them but Launchbox reads true/false and DFR is about 1 and 0. Well thank you! it was proven once again, I was being blind this time, I am making my DOS transition to LaunchBox and it works differently than DFR which I used since many years ago. I still have to change the resolution manually on notepad, but it's good one dosbox.conf file rules all games. so I don't have to change it on every single game.

I have a little question. D-Fend reloaded has different DOS profiles for each game depending on the md5 of the exe or whatever. If I wanted to do that, the only way would be to use the Create a conf or create a new one myself and add the options myself? isn't there something like DFR has in LB, different profiles and such? because if not and trouble happens in some games, I would just copy the conf settings from DFR prof to a conf to be used in LB. Also, why LaunchBox doesn't show like resolutions when you edit the Dosbox.conf? you only get 0x0, and I had to manually change the 640x480 to 800x600 or higher in the DosBox conf (I like playing on window mode). I am just now using LB for Dos games too, and I would stop using DRF since I am LB premium, but I was wondering about these minor details I got in DRF that I don't see in LB. I usually add games as I play them so I haven't seen if default DOS conf on LB is good for every dos game I have, but I want to be ready. and if I create a custom conf is there an easy way to edit it like the "Edit Default DosBox configuration"? or I have to manually do it as well? Maybe I am just blind and don't see these options.