Retrofrogg

Think there might be something up with the "tools/scan for added (platform name) roms" feature with the current beta. There are a bunch of new roms in the NES folder; I do the scan, it says "searching for additional roms" - this seems to take quite a long time - around 2 minutes or so. I then get the "import ROMs from files wizard", asking me if I'd like to download metadata for my games. To me this suggests that it has found some new roms - otherwise it would say no new roms found. So I go ahead and select the media I want, and on the next screen tick "force importing duplicate games". On the "ready to import" window however there are 0 games. I click finish and it doesn't seem to import any.

Well I did the other things it suggested.....and it made no difference to the problem, unfortunately .

Thanks - I'll take a look. The very first instruction seems out of date; I don't have the "content type reported to the display" option.

Any progress with this issue @Sbaby?

Improved auto-playlist logic seems to work as intended....bravo!

You can't download games from Launchbox. Launchbox is only a front end to display, manage and launch your games. You have to download the games elsewhere, and then you can put them into Launchbox.

1. You're in the themes forum - your message should be in the "noobs" forum 2. You'd have better luck translating your message into English 3. You don't need a login and password to download or open Launchbox

You have to set the background for that item as transparent.

Shouldn't this post be under the BigBox themes section, rather than the LaunchBox themes?

Still no fix to this? Bit of a hassle having to adjust the screen brightness after every time I exit a game.

Hi @AstroBob - it's specifically this particular banner image style, which seems to be present for a number of platforms: I don't know if it's some kind of default image? It's only this particular type of banner image that the problem happens with. If I remove it (by clicking the red X in the image above) then click OK, then it just reappears in the game carousel:

I just tried deleting a platform banner image and when I clicked OK, it was still there.

Is there any move towards a CTC for LB rather than just BB?

Great topic @AstroBob - and a topical one for me; I've recently written a guide (updated - version 2) on the forums which covers many of these issues: I've found this method to embrace the best of both worlds - you have complete sets (as per DAT files, e.g. for No-Intro sets etc) though also have streamlined playlists showing only the original games. For example, the root platform shows all the roms, but for my main playlist I use the auto-playlist function to narrow the entire set down to USA (and world) region only and released games only. I then try and use the auto-playlist rules to narrow down the set further by excluding duplicates as much as possible. This is done by setting auto-playlist rules to exclude certain terms found in the version and filepath fields. This highlights a current issue however - you can only exclude 2 terms currently, as the auto-playlist rules don't allow AND or OR qualifiers. So it's impossible to exclude all the duplicates necessary to get a fully clean set. Please include this functionality moving forward! Using the above method, it's also very easy to update the sets as necessary (using the ROM manager as well as the scan for added/removed ROMs in Launchbox functionality). I keep all roms in the same folder as otherwise it doesn't work with the ROM manager. I collect aftermarket games as there are DATs for those also (e.g. for platforms covered by No-Intro). I collect some hacks but those are less organised as there aren't DATs. I don't include non-playable games, as there's plenty to keep me busy without doing that!