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NO WORRIES GUYS, A REBOOT FIX THINGS FOR ME I have 7.9 beta 2 installed and I wanted to check if I'm doing the right thing in BigBox to get this up and running. Initial I had selected platform categories in LB thinking that was all that had to be done. When I ran BB it was just showing the various platform. I went into the settings and selected show platform categories as default, but BB just displays my platforms rather than my platform categories. Usually with things like this BB/LB creates a folder structure for thinks like this, but has not. I yet to get some logos for this but I assume there will be generic lettering for these categories until I do? cheers guys

I'm happy personally that we have the arcade playlists automatically populating. I for one could never find out with any great certainty what games in the Mame set go into each of playlist or for that matter what systems were in the Mame set. If it's automated correctly then I'm happy, and because I've not had a Hyperspin setup with all the Arcade categories I wouldn't know the total number of games I should expect to see in each. The only issue I've seen, for those of you who missed my earlier post, is certain games from other platforms are showing in the playlist, which Jason has said he will be working on. I did notice some games not importing a while back when I was using a merged set, but now I have .183 non merged imported. One game I really wanted that would not import was Pacland. The .183 set seems to work ok and Pacland is there, but as for any other games, without a list of what should be there I couldn't really comment further.

Jason, did you work on the issue I pointed out, where after importing my MAME collection, certain other platforms were showing in the Arcade playlists? If yes do you need some testing done, I'm happy to import my mame collection again.

I will do! It might be a massive list however because just before I switched of my PC I had a look in a few other places and FBA stuff is in CAVE and Konami Classic. Still, I'll check back tomorrow night guys

It's a pain though to pick out some of the FBA stuff, although in most cases the game theme videos are different for the MAME stuff. I won't be able to revisit this until 5pm GMT but I'm happy to plod along and get a nice big list going. However at the speed Jason works it will be done and dusted soon I'm sure

I'm just over the moon that the feature is there. I always hated just having one big Arcade folder. Thank you Jason

Sure will start something now Capcom Classics playlist (show the following games) (Wii U) Super Mario Maker (Atari ST) Willow, Strider, Mercs, Commando, (Final Burn Alpha) Dokaben, Dugeons and Dragons Shadow over Mystara, Dark Stalkers, Capcom Sports Club, Capcom Bowling Capcom CPS-1 (Wii U) Super Mario Maker (I deleted this in the above playlist but all games above appear in CPS-1 so I assume it would have been here also) (Atari ST) Willow, Strider, Mercs Capcom CPS-2 (Atari ST) 1944, Here is a start to the list, I have an early start tomorrow so I'll have to continue this at a later date. I also have the FBA collection imported into LB that Brad mentions in his tutorial and it appears some of those games are showing in some of the playlist. I kind of jumped around a bit but decided to concentrate first on the Campcom Classic. I hope this helps until I can get the list finished, maybe this is unique to me In answer to your question, all I did was a mame import and let LB create the playlists, apart from that I don't recall doing much more

Sure will start something now

No I use Steem SSE to emulate Atari ST

It is a bit strange and since posting I've discovered a few more. Mercy for the ST although the capcom arcade version is present and Strider for the ST. So it appears the games in some of the other platform are getting linked to the arcade playlist? Having just discovered the ST game strider I thought to check the ST platform and sure enough when I popped into the games list the wheel strarted from Strider in the ST list. I'm happily deleting the games from the playlists but it would be nice to know why it's happening Games also show in Capcom CPS 1, not the Wii U game however. I'm happy to look at other lists if needed, I'll stop right now Deleting in case it's wise to start listing these games

Hey guys! I'm not sure if it's been mentioned recently but I'm seeing a few strange things having imported my 183 non merged MAME set. I left everything as default, only selecting to import originals. The import completed with no errors and the various playlists were created. Just having a quick browse through capcom classics as an example, and for some strange reason a Atari ST game and a Wii U game have showed up in this playlist. Willow and Super Mario Maker or the ones I've found so far. Just thought I point this out.... Just updated to the current stable release I believe

Just wanted to check that I understood you with regards to part 9 of your guide. Can I remove the folders from these directories vldp' and 'vldp_dl' and Merge them together?

I recently added my 183 non merged Mame set to Launchbox because if the implementation of playlists. Im using the latest mame emulator and after the import I noticed various new playlist. I selected only to import originals and kept all the tick boxes checked to ignore clones, adult games etc. 1258 or so games were imported, but some classic seem to be absent. I had a few things to ask and maybe you guys can help... 1) A Daphne playlist has appeared and I have 5 or so games within. However no Space Ace or Dragons Lair is present in the list? Are these games in the Mame sets? I see tutorials mention The Daphne Disc Emulator, so is Mame not an option for emulating Daphne games? 2) One of my all time favorites that I can't seem to add is Pacland, and I've had this problem for a while now. I'm not sure why. I guess the only way to add all the games in the set and manually delete all the unwanted ones. I'm sure it's a filtering issues although I unticked everything the last time I tried to add the game with my previous set and it wouldn't add the game? 3) If I need to add Daphne as a platform to run the other games can I merge it with my current Daphne playlist or is that not possible? Cheers Guys

I found the populating of the Platform/Playlist download menu to be really slow at present. Seeing as I've had a break from LB I can't compare it to previous beta releases but it takes a while to populate when I think back to how it was a month or so ago. My list also populated non Alphabetically?? See my image Also I wanted to point out, and this maybe a Mame import issue that the system Sammy Atomiswave is present in the video list and yet I have not got this system in my list or added in anyway as far as I know? Sorry to bundle everything into one thread but just before I sign out I got this error Sequence contains no elements App: Big Box Version: 7.8-beta-14 Type: System.InvalidOperationException Site: TSource Max[TSource](System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[TSource]) Source: System.Core at System.Linq.Enumerable.Max[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source) at (Platform , IEnumerable`1 ) at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Wpf.BigBox.ViewModels.FilterDetailsViewModel.GetDetails(Platform platform, IEnumerable`1 games) at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Wpf.BigBox.ViewModels.FilterDetailsViewModel..ctor(Platform platform, IEnumerable`1 games) at (PlatformFiltersViewModelBase ) at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Wpf.BigBox.ViewModels.PlatformFiltersViewModelBase.<selectionChangedTimer_Elapsed>b__11_0() at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state) at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart() Recent Log:

Just to update.. The playlists show at the bottom of the platform lists but it is slow

thanks for the help

Will Do!!

It has yet to fully populate but this is what I have so far

yes

Right now it's just showing the standard platforms in alphabetical order, maybe the playlist will kick in towards the end? I'll leave it to finish

Maybe there is something broken with the mame import process when it automatically creates the playlist. Maybe when I have time I'll import mama again and manually do the playlists

Same for me but it does finish populating but no playlists appear as I said earlier

Strange!! I imported Mame a few hours ago and asked it to create play lists during the import process eg. Arcade classics, Daphne etc and when I select Tools/download platform/playlist videos, all it shows in the download window is my platforms that I setup the traditional way, but no playlists?? Any ideas? Running the current beta as of today

I've found James Bakers videos for playlists like Irem Classics and Cave but notice that the ones downloadable from the link below, do not contain some of the updated versions of the videos shown at the start of Jame's thread. Any idea where I can get these? https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/category/11-game-theme-videos/?page=2 The capcom classics and Cave videos for instance are shown in one of the latest vidoes showing off BB/LB

I've been out of the loop for quite a while and haven't touched LB/BB. I rather happy with the separate playlists for all the mame roms but wondered if you can initiate a download of all the playlist platform videos or do you have to skip off to the emumovies ftp and add them manually? Could someone point me to a description within the forum of how you setup a playlist. A search all be it a short one, came up with no results.