Fursphere

Currently its "OR" for same fields and "AND" for different fields. For example Platform = NES OR Platform = SNES OR Platform = TG16 AND GENRE = Beat'em UP AND REGION = USA OR REGION = JAPAN ---- I hope that makes sense. like fields are "OR", different fields are "AND"

Why is downloading metadata required when trying to download media? Shouldn't it be an option? "Just download media" In my experience, I usually have to run the download media a few times on larger system sets before it gets everything for whatever reason - but I don't see why I have to download metadata over and over again?

Is this because of launchbox's insane desire to use relative pathing for everything? I wish they'd disable that, or at least give you a choice. Relative pathing is super annoying.

So for the sake of discussion and clarity, I recommend the verbiage be updated to be more clear (in both launchbox and bigbox). I know this is a little silly, but its confusing as it stands. Launchbox - "Automatically download updates in the background" "Updates will be automatically installed when ready" BigBox - "Would you like to install this option right now? (Choosing no will install the update the next time bigbox or launchbox is started) The way its coded, you cannot opt-out of an update once its downloaded. That needs to be clear to the user. Like hey, I'm right in the middle of configuration something, can I not update this second please?

New TeknoParrot emulator profile looks good.

Has anyone tried running this code through ChatGPT or something to see if it can help update it?

The Steam install on that particular PC is pretty light, so if it only targets 'locally' installed games, it should be fine.

Hmm. There are a bunch of entries in the import blacklist. I wonder if they all got BL'd when I deleted the platform before? (I didn't know this file was a thing) Is it safe to just delete this file?

I made these notes as I was doing them, so this is the order of events I went through... manage - playforms - path to DC roms is correct Delete 'Sega Dreamcast' platform completely. Move portion of roms to another folder Re-imported Dreamcast collection. Manage - Platforms - Path to DC roms is correct. Confirmed Options - Automated Imports is enabled shutdown launchbox moved a portion of roms back into the 'main' folder restarted launchbox After 10-15 seconds, automated import appeared to happen successfully. shutdown launchbox again Moved the remained roms back into the 'main' folder Could NOT restart launchbox, as the process will still 'hanging' from when I shut it down. Waited 5+ minutes for it to close on its own (used a stopwatch) finally just killed the process.... started up LB again after 10-15 seconds the autoimport process ran and imported the remaining roms. So besides the weird hang on shutdown (not a normal thing), deleting the platform seems to have fixed it. Even though the configuration appears to be exactly the same? anyway, thanks!

Importing steam games manually works fine. I purchased a new game. Installed it. And it didn't import. So I installed a few more games, and they didn't import either. No symlinks. I am running Stablebit Drivepool. Launchbox is installed on c:\ (nvme), and Laucnhbox, steam, roms, etc are on D:\ with is a drivepool of 2x 14tb drives. Never had an issue with drivepool and launchbox before though.

Rom path: D:\Roms - Console\Sega Dreamcast - UN\CHD USA Nope, just CHD files in the folder. I think it was happening with SegaCD too, which has a similar path. If I "import - folder" it will pick them all up. But if I add more CHDs to an existing folder, and then do one of the things that should trigger an automatic import, it doesn't work. Restarting launchbox or "scan for added roms" this is in the latest release, 13.19 The automatic importing of Windows games (steam) doesn't work anymore either. I have to manually do it.

Are CHD files supposed to be ignored by the auto-import process? I'm seeing more and more disc based systems convert to CHD file format, and Launchbox seems to ignore them from an automatic import stance. (similar to the XML file issue with teknoparrot). On the initial import select 'folder' seems to grab them all, but scanning for newly added roms, or just auto-importing functional doesn't appear to work at all with CHD files. (Dreamcast, Sega CD, Saturn...)

Literally no options. Just select the folder, select the platform, select some media options - then on the last screen nothing checked. Import. Roms are all no intro based. At least they're supposed to be. Let me try and recreate the scenario on my side.

Import matching is still broken in 13.19 release. Imported some "NEC TruboGrafx-16" roms. 13.19 - out of the 143 roms I have, only 4 were matched to a LB DB ID # 13.18 - over a hundred were matched.

The automatic storefront imports from Steam appear to be broken in the current release. I installed a bunch of steam games on my cabinet, and launchbox isn't picking them up at all. manage-storefronts - automatic imports is enabled, and for steam its set to 'installed games'

If this plugin doesn't get updated, I have a batch file script that I wrote a long time ago that essentially does the same thing, at a basic level. Unzip's the game, moves it to an archive location, and runs it. Then afterwards, nukes things that are 'x' number of days old. I can share it, but if you don't know old DOS batch files.. its gonna look gnarly.

I used to do a symlink for launchbox. I finally just gave up on that.

Yesterday I imported "Sammy Atomiswave" "Sega Naomi" and "Sega Naomi 2" platforms. These did not have a 'scrape as' setting, they were just 'native' (?) lunchbox platforms. Not a single rom was matched in the imports. I know C-Beats said he found an issue with 'scrape as' and this process, but these three weren't setup that way, and still had the issue. I put on a movie and went through and manually fixed them all. But something is broken there in Beta 4.

I couldn't get anything to work in that field. I added 'badges' - and not a single title in my list had anything in that column.

Ok, here's the issue. "Controller Support" doesn't support partial matches. So I've have to go find every variation and put them all in. And then "Controller Support" field isn't exposed in the "display fields" list... so there isn't a quick way to see them all. You'd have to spot check every entry in the list.

Ok, did a little spot checking. I see why my query didn't originally work. The console systems appears to be setup like "Controllers = Zapper (Light gun)" or "Controllers = GunCon2 (Light gun)" The only outlier is Nintendo Wii - where everything is "wiimote". Which makes sense. I think I had a "controller type equals light gun" rule, where it should be "controller type contains light gun" rule. Lemme try that.

I was playing with that yesterday. It seemed to only be supported on MAME, HBMAME, and Sega Model 2. Didn't pickup 'light gun' games on any other platform. And, in the scope of our other conversation about LB DB - that's another field that's not exposed in the LB DB online editor - so no way to clean it up.