[Multi-discs question]

1 hour ago, DOS76 said:

Also are you aware that the disc are actually (or should be) getting added under the 1st disc if you right click it you should see the additonal discs listed as additional apps and you can access and launch them like any game that was displayed or are you more looking to have them all on display and not worried about just being able to launch them.

now that I know what is going on is there a way to group all my other muli-disc games the same way? and while I'm at it how do I switch disc's when asked to now that they are not displayed separately?

[Multi-discs question]

1 hour ago, DOS76 said:

Also are you aware that the disc are actually (or should be) getting added under the 1st disc if you right click it you should see the additonal discs listed as additional apps and you can access and launch them like any game that was displayed or are you more looking to have them all on display and not worried about just being able to launch them.

THANK YOU! I was looking in the rom path to see if they were all listed but they weren't and I wasn't sure I would be able to launch each disk as needed if they weren't displayed separately I had not considered re-naming them 1of2/3/4 etc but a good idea if I run into problems later. I had tried the force duplicate but that didn't work either. thank you so much for explaining how to find the rest of my discs when everything else failed

[Multi-discs question]

3 hours ago, Mizar said:

Hi.

Just done it. I have all the 3 discs imported. Rename them as i said on the post before and should be working

Good luck!

as you can see in the image I have both the FF 7 and 8 files done just a little differently for FF 7 I thought the issue might be that I originally had them in all separate folders so I combined them into one folder as you can see each disk is named for the game with the game disk number (disk1, disk2, disk3) for the FF 8 games I left them in the separate folders my preferred organization method again with each disk named for the disk number (disc1, disc2, disc3, disc4) as you can also see in the shot of my launchbox FF 7 and 8 are only showing one disc while FF 9 which was imported before the upgrade has all four discs in separate files. perhaps I'm being dense or just missing something but as far as I can tell I've done what you said and its not working

[old computer games emulation required/possible?]

2 hours ago, DOS76 said:

You will be running a Windows XP virtual machine basically so it will run programs like XP did. The issue with the 3d games is I don't think they can virtualize the hardware acceleration and things of that nature so it is a less than perfect experience but one of your few options

thank you for clarifying things for me 

[Multi-discs question]

3 hours ago, Mizar said:

Try rename the three isos like this:

Final Fantasy VII Disc 1

Disc 2

Disc 3

I did the same for Legend of Dragoon, with the difference that had 4 discs and worked fine  Let me know!

tried with both FF7 and FF8 removed the () from the (disc 1,2,3) so the file names were Final Fantasy 7/8 Disc 1 (2,3,4 respectively) still not importing I no longer get an error message it just says "0 games were imported" I already have ALL the other FF multi disc games imported before the Launchbox upgrade (also legend of Dragoon and Dragon Warrior 7) but can not get it to work for the 2 FF titles.... 

[old computer games emulation required/possible?]

1 hour ago, Belgarath said:

You could download VirtualBox https://www.virtualbox.org/

You'd have to find a copy of Windows XP if you don't have one already but it's a very good program for playing older Windows games on modern Windows (although it's not great for 3D games).

I don't really know how you could get Launchbox to load the games up individually though, you'd probably have to settle for it just loading VirtualBox (either that or make a separate Windows installation for every game you wanted to play).

thank you for your help. in the interest of not having to open a new thread is there an option for 3D games that works? and just out of curiosity is virtualbox just for games or does it also run programs such as word or photoshop?

[old computer games emulation required/possible?]

I have a few older PC games that I have started having problems playing since the forced upgrade to window's 10 (Diablo 1 and the expansion Hellfire in particular) is there some way to use Launchbox to play these games as if I was on a computer running XP? is there an emulator that I should have but just haven't found?

[Multi-discs question]

On 8/25/2016 at 5:32 PM, Mizar said:

I found a work around. Rename the 2nd disc and onwards something different from the first. Then you get all the discs added singularly like it used to do it before

I tried this by adding the disk number to the game name i.e Final Fantasy VII (Disc 1) Final Fantasy VII (Disc 2) Final Fantasy VII (Disc 3) and it is still not importing discs 2&3 am I doing something wrong? the discs work in the emulator when launched without Launchbox so I know its not an issue with the game files.