Retrofrogg

Can you confirm exo? And if we can do this, does it change your instructions at all?

Surely it’s possible to have LB on the local drive and the ROMs elsewhere with more storage?

But can’t you just point the torrent at that folder on a network drive? Why does it all have to be copied to a local drive? My laptop only has about 50GB free space.

Erm....do we have to copy the entire 220GB exodos folder to the LB install folder on our local machine? There’s no way I have that much free space. All my games and ROMs are stored on a NAS. Surely this step isn’t necessary? Exo?

So just to check - if we point the torrent at our existing exodos folder as per the instructions, then when we import into LB doesn’t it import the whole lot, including the old V2?

Thanks Retro808 - so how do you know if you have all the ROMs for a system?

I'm looking to set up multiple systems within Launchbox, include MAME, computers and consoles. The thing that is confusing me a little at the moment is the ROM management side of things. Do you need a separate ROM manager (e.g. such as RomCenter) when you have Launchbox? Does Launchbox "audit" the ROMs in any way (and by that I mean check that they are intact etc).

While we're waiting, it would be an opportune time to mention MEAGRE again - the original frontend for the eXoDOS collection. I'm glad that the collection is moving to a more modern, flexible and active platform, though MEAGRE was quite well suited for this particular use. It is able to show a number of images simultaneously when selecting a game, such as front box art, rear box art, title screen, game screenshot, CD/disk art etc, as well as game information at the bottom of the screen. This is a great way to delve into the game and be immersed in all the available media for maximum retro effect. I don't know if Launchbox can replicate this kind of view - I suppose it would have to be in BigBox and them with a custom theme. I had asked a question elsewhere on these forums regarding viewing all this good art/media in the game details pane within Launchbox (not BigBox). I have not yet had any replies to that question; I wonder if someone here could humour me and post a reply.

Wow, in the language of all fine chocolate connoisseurs the world over, monsieur you are spoiling us! Feel free to press that FL button on the existing torrent too, help get those seeds going....

Oh boy, long time to wait!

Does anyone happen to know when the 12 days of PD FL begins?

eXo - I see you have a "Complete SCUMMVM 2.0.0 collection" on PD. Are the games contained within all in the eXoDOS collection?

Great news! Hope your back gets better soon exo. Can't download the torrent - something do with my ratio. I had thought PD didn't fuss about ratio for some reason Edit: I have the following message on the PD page: "The tracker is unable to contact your client on the IP address and port you are reporting, which means other clients cannot initiate a connection to you either". Funny thing is, I am currently downloading from PD, and others are uploading from me also (torrent client is running on NAS which is conneted to router which is connected to modem) - though my SR (ratio) on PD shows "---". Any help appreciated!

As far as I can tell (please correct me if I am wrong), when browsing game media via the "game details" pane, the only artwork that shows are the screenshots and community art. How can I get the other artwork to show, e.g. box art, etc. I know that I can right-click and then "view images", but this seems a bit of a funny way to do it when there is already a game details pane. Besides, I would like to be able to view all the available artwork in this pane. A lot of emulator frontends (e.g. the MAME ones) have various tabs for cabinet image, screenshots, controller, poster, marquee, flyer. etc. Something like this would be great!

Launchbox loads fine on my laptop. As the screen is small however, I have a second external monitor (24") connected via USB-C running at 1920x1200. The laptop screen runs at 2880x1800. For most windows and apps, when I drag them to the external monitor they are initially too big/too low resolution, though as soon as the window is more than half way onto the external monitor it resizes to the correct size/resolution. For some reason, Launchbox doesn't follow this behaviour. It stays at the same size/resolution, and is far too big/low resolution on the external monitor. Any help appreciated!

Thanks eXo, that sounds fairly clear - so the new torrent will only download the missing stuff if I point it to my existing exodos/win3xo folder as you describe. Would it be a similar procedure when downloading the other packs? This is going to be the biggest thing to hit Launchbox this decade

If I don't delete 2.0, how do I update it to 3.0 with the Launchbox package included? I don't really have anything in Launchbox at the moment, as I had been waiting for these packs So no need to merge with existing LB install.

I have the old 2.0 collection. So just to confirm - I delete this, download the new ones pack by pack and import into Launchbox as per the instructions?

Great news eXo. Worth doing it right with a project such as this. Wonder if you can get anyone to help. I would have back in the day when I had more time. They should have a stamp “certified by exo” on the games DB so that we know which items have the correct data

Spycat - I found that option and selected it, but the grey box round the game on hover remains the same. Is there somewhere I can change the colour of this now? ckp - glad it bothers you too! Maybe the devs will take note of this and fix it for us. The same box is shown round the selected game - I think the selected game does need some kind of box, but it could be made much less intrusive. Take a look at Openemu on the Mac for an example of a clean interface in this regard.

When browsing games in Launchbox, whenever the mouse moves over a game a big grey box appears behind it. This looks ugly and detracts from the experience. How can I stop this from happening? Thanks!

Yeah me too, if this is the recommended course of action.

Thanks for the tip eXo, and great to hear that you are still working on it. I will continue to wait for the time being with the import.

How are things progressing here? I'm looking to import exoDOS/Win3xO into LB, but have got things on pause until there is a clear way forward.

Keen for some advice here. I am keen to set up LB/BB to show as much of the available media/assets per game as possible. For example, when I am browsing through games, I would like it (depending on the system of course) to show the box art, game video, marquee, title screen, controller, cabinet, cartridge, manual etc. Alternatively, I would be almost as happy as having another easy option to access this media from the game menu, as long as it was straightforward. How can I set top LB/BB to show all this media - is it possible? Thanks!