Greetings,
I'm evaluating moving from D-Fend 1.4.4 to LaunchBox/BigBox to manage all my games. With my recent discovery of eXoDOS/Win3Xo game management is much more involved now.
I found the threads where MEAGRE exports data to LB and updates images. However, that info is for LB version 5.x. I currently have 6.2 and the method outlined in the specific thread does not work.
Since the "LaunchBox.xml" file no longer exists and appears to be replaced by "settings.xml" in the data folder, the method above won't work. I did find a workaround where I create a single xml file and point MEAGRE to that. It creates two new Platforms - DOS and PC Loader - and all the files and metadata are imported correctly. It seems though that there's no way to get the images added except to manually copy them.
So I guess there are a few ways to do this;
1. Have LB 5.x available for d/l for users that need to export 6,000+ records from MEAGRE and use the above method.
2. After the successful export upgrade to the latest and greatest version.
3. Work with LB support to get this working for version 6.x
4. ...or create a Powershell script that will scrap and create the necessary image files.
I'm hoping that perhaps I just missed something and there's an easy way to get the images copied to LB. I really like this application. However, I'm not quite ready to plunk down half a c note if it's going to require a lot of work for me.
I appreciate any constructive feedback about this.
Thanks,
-Matt