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Thank you for the the tips. I hade to travel to a family member, so I won't be back home for a couple of days. The launchbox on a new drive is installed from the launchbox setup. So I haven't just moved it so to say. The file names on the files are all run through clrmame with the no-intro, redumo dats. All using 7zip, so the game always get moved to the computer when playing it. I don't use any OneDrive dopebox. But I'll have a look at the file permissions once I'm back home. i have been moving a big number of files from the nas to the computer, just to see that the network speed doesn't drop. And as far as I can tell, the network is working just fine. The folder is mapped to z: and its always available when Windows starts. the hdd vill spin down. Disabled this so the HDDs never spin down, doesn't make any differences

Thank you for your reply. I have imported them using the Tools > Import > ROM files > single platform. I have all the rooms on a NAS. All emulators, lunchbox and art/videos and on the computer itself. All located on a SATA SSD. The NAS has a shared folder, and it in turn contains sub folders. A Roms folder. In it is a folder for consoles, handhelds and so on. Then in the console folder is a Nintendo 64 and in it a folder for Japanese games, one for English games, one for hacks and so on What is making this so hard for me to troubleshoot is that I don't get the same result every time. If I import say N64 and it's doesn't really work. If I delete it and try again it sometimes works, but not always. The computer as I Intel i7 8800k, running at 5GHZ, with 16gb ram and windows 11. I was using launchbox on it before, but never really had this problem. I've had it up and running from before the start/pause themes where a things. It's just been formatted and a fresh install of windows. The only things that have changed is that I moved launchbox from my C drive (m.2) to my D drive (SATA SSD) and that i am using a new nas. Any tips, ideas or help is much appreciated Thank you for your time

Importing Nintendo 64 and Sega Saturn, using the standard names. The same setting all the way. Nintendo 64 is all good, but Saturn has imported all the games, but the game folder isn't the one I selected during the import process. Its the default Launchbox folder instead. So adding a game or two later will not be imported automatically, without changing this. At seams random what launchbox actually saves from the import process. Anyone had any of this problems? Anyone know what I should try next?

Hi, Lunchbox is acting a little odd, and I can't really figure out what's wrong. Just for a little background info. I have been using lunchbox for years. I have just gotten a new NAS and I'm in the process of sorting roms and adding platforms. This NAS is massive compared to what I was using, so I really want to get my games in a nice good organised structure. So before starting I did some testing and everything was working fine. I sort my platforms like so . └── Console/ ├── Nintendo GameCube/ │ ├── Nintendo GameCube │ ├── Nintendo GameCube (Demos) │ └── Nintendo GameCube (Japan) ├── Sega Dreamcast/ │ ├── Sega Dreamcast │ ├── Sega Dreamcast (Japan) │ └── Sega Dreamcast (Translations) └── Sony PlayStation/ ├── Sony PlayStation ├── Sony PlayStation (Hacks) └── Sony PlayStation (Japan) So when I import the roms, I start with the "main" platform, for example "Nintendo GameCube" then, once its done I'll do the "secondary" platforms, "Nintendo GameCube (Japan)" So I'll name it "Nintendo GameCube (Japan)" and scrape it as "Nintendo GameCube" So I did this for about 15 platforms. Once its scanning I left it and came back and just added the next one. So far so go So I looked in the platform "Nintendo GameCube (Japan)" I saw that about 1/3 of the games had no metadata. First I thought that maybe the games aren't in the database, but after looking a bit more, I could see games that I knew where in the database. So I selected "Edit metadata" on a game and it was found at once. But the platform gets changed from "Nintendo GameCube (Japan)" to "Nintendo GameCube", so I had to manually change this on ever game I updated. This was a couple of days ago. So yesterday I added "Sony PlayStation". Everything went fine, and after that I added "Sony PlayStation (Japan)", and for some reason it just doesn't work as expected. There's over 2500 files in the folder and only a handful of games got metadata. I pressed Ctrl+A and tried updating the metadata, but nothing gets updated. So I delete the platform from lunchbox and import it again. Same name "Sony PlayStation (Japan)" and again scraped as "Sony PlayStation", this time lunchbox starts downloading all the metadata for the games. So for some reason its working? I see that "GameCube (Japan)" doesn't have an icon. Under edit platform the "Scrape As" is blank. Changing it back to GameCube and the icon is there. Looking in "Parents" and its parent is "Root" All info like CPU is blank. Looking at "Sony PlayStation (Japan)" and the scrape as is this time "Sony PlayStation" but the parent is "Root" and again no info. Then checking "Sega Dreamcast (Japan)" and the "Scrape As" is "Sega Dreamcast" and the parent is "Consoles". Here all the info is filled in. So what I want to know is how to get Lunchbox to import platforms the same ever time. How to get Lunchbox to use the "Scrape as" and not just remove it after/during import process

Thank you for your reply. I'll try it out tomorrow and see how it looks 😊 I now understand how it works. I just wish it would work the same in BB and LB. But I can't always what I want 😊

Hi, I am about to start the adventure of a new build. I just got my new HDDs and I will be adding my games to them and starting over in Launchbox. There's a lot of old emus and app not used anymore, and the build has gotten a little cluttered and unorganized, so this time around I want to get everything organized in a good way from the beginning So I plan on organizing my roms something like this Roms |-- Consoles | |-- Nintendo GameCube | | |-- Nintendo GameCube | | |-- Nintendo GameCube (Japan) | | |-- Nintendo GameCube (Hacks) | | `-- Nintendo GameCube (Translations) I really want to separate my collection, having all non English games, hacks, fan translations separated, in folders. Stuff like hacks I'll be adding games from time to time. But the official releases are more or less add once and that's it. So on my test build, I have been trying a couple of things. A added the platform "Nintendo GameCube", Then I added a Platform "Nintendo GameCube (Japan)" Scraped as GameCube, and the parent being "Console Non-English", but this makes BigBox very cluttered, and that's not wat I wanted. So I thought that I'll add the "Nintendo GameCube (Japan)" as a child for the "Nintendo GameCube" platform. But a platforms can't be child for another platform. So it looks like playlists are my only option? In the platform "Nintendo GameCube (Japan)" I unticked the parent, and I made a playlist containing everything from this platform. Then I added this playlist as a child of "Nintendo GameCube". This way I thought that Id have all my Gamecube games in one place, with the Japanese games only showing up under there playlist. But when I go into BigBox, all I now see when I enter GameCube is my playlist, the games from this platform aren't shown. So I'm a little stuck to what to do now. Any ideas or suggestions?

Hi, I know we are talking about adding new systems to the database. But I'd like to see more content rating systems. Personally I live in Europe and I'd prefer to use PEGI instead of ESRB. Its just what I'm use too. But I also have a lot of Japan only games, and this have never been rated in the US, so they are all unrated. But if we added CERO to the database I'd start filling in the ratings for the games. I listed all the Video game content rating systems: Australian Classification Board (Australia) CERO (Japan) Chilean Rating System (Chile) ClassInd (Brazil) ESRA (Iran) ESRB (US, Canada) FPB (South Africa) Game Rating and Administration Committee (South Korea) Game Software Rating Regulations (Taiwan) Gmedia (Saudi Arabia) Indonesian Game Rating System (Indonesia) iOS App Store (online) National Audiovisual Institute (Finland OFLC (New Zealand) RARS (Russia) SMECCV (Mexico) PEGI (Europe, Israel) USK (Germany) It be really nice if we had the option to pick rating system priorities, like we can do with art. For example I'd pick PEGI, then ESRB and then CERO So if I add "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" to my games collection, I'd get it rated PEGI 12 But if I add "Arc the Lad: End of Darkness" I'd get ESRB T - Teen, because this game was never released in Europe. In addition to some of the rating systems have content descriptor. PEGI for example has "Fear" or "Violence" for example. I know this has to be added to launchbox, but it all starts with adding it to the database, so we can start filling in the ratings for the games. So, yes I know this post is a little off. This thread is about adding new systems. But as you are adding to the database, I'll post this here in the hopes that you might consider adding more rating systems, so we that don't live in the US can use the ratings we are more familiar with. And so we can get ratings on games that aren't released in the US Thank you for you time

Hi, Is there a way to cancel a submission to the database? I was updating some games, and clicked on the wrong tab, added info for the wrong game and clicked submit before noticing what I had done.

I just wanted to know, how long have the servers been in the Netherlands before the move to the US?

As proghodet said, https://howlongtobeat.com/ would be great. Maybe a howlongtobeat game-id field so the info can be scraped straight from them. It's nice to know before starting a new game if it's going to take 5h or 50h to complete. My kodi skin surprised me when Halloween came around and it suggested spooky films and tv episodes. And then at Christmas it suggested family/christmas films. I really like the idea and think a field with this kind of information (mode/style) would be great so a bigbox theme can suggest games based off of this. But most of all, I would like to see more rating systems added to the database. ESRB is great but I'd like to see PEGI added as I’m from Europe and this is what's used on games that I buy. And as I have a big Japanese only game collection, CERO is the only rating system used for those games. So having multiple ratings for all games and then in launchbox/bigbox having a priorities order just like for media, so for example I would have PEGI then ESRB and last CERO. (more/all rating systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_content_rating_system#Comparison_table)

Thanks, I'll do that

Hi, I'm working on a theme in the COMMUNITY Theme Creator, and I'm a bit stuck. Where would be the best place to post my questions?