Retrofrogg

I can't add a platform that has no games, and I can't change the platform of existing games to NES Hacked because I can't create it!! This is some kind of catch22!

Quick question here about the Criticalzone theme that comes with LB. I have it set to the full screen platform videos view. The problem I am having is that in this view, the selection wheel disappears 1-2 seconds after moving it each time. Is there a way to have the selection wheel remain? Thanks

Thanks Viking, that makes sense. Currently I’m using one of the themes that came with LB - I think it’s called Criticalzone? Is it possible to edit this to stop the wheel disappearing?

Truly great work for the cause Viking! Many thanks. I just downloaded a couple of the platform videos in 16:9. My favourite view is the one where the platform video fills the whole screen. A problem I have with that view just now is that the wheel/menu disappears after about a second using that theme. It reappears if I press up or down to scroll, but I would prefer it to stay as I think it looks a bit odd with the wheel missing. Is the wheel supposed to disappear, and if so how can I make it stay? Many thanks! PS is there a list somewhere of all the platforms/categories/playlists supported in this pack?

What about the cabinet images that come with the MAME extras pack?

Ah! Wouldn't it be better if it did show in the sidebar, just with no associated games? Then the user could add games to that platform as they wish. What I am actually trying to do, is to move the "hacked" versions of NES games out of my NES platform and into a separate platform which I would names something like NES - hacked. I would obviously want this new platform to be listed in the console category along with NES. What would be the best way to go about doing this?

Thanks very much Pacman! But isn't there an easier way to import MAME into LB? The above all sounds very complicated!

Sorry for the high noobness level of this query, but something is odd here. In LB, I go to add platform in the side bar. I pick an example one - give it a title, a sort title and a category, and tell it to scrape as NES. I click OK, but the platform does not appear in the platform menu! Am I missing something?

Must have done something wrong the first time. Followed the instructions above and theme videos seem to be downloaded fine. Items without box art are showing the game screen instead (though still think that a default image of a floppy with the game name written in it would be better). I pointed the LB video folder at my old HS video folder so I didn’t have to DL a lot of the videos again. Oh, and thanks exo, like Meagre, this is looking amazing.

Thanks, will try that. Loved the quick glance into the chasm of infinity at the end.

I tried doing this, downloading only the gameplay videos and the theme videos, though it seems to have affected a lot of my games - I now have duplicates, and some games which should have artwork are missing it! Deleted all of LB and am downloading the torrent again to start afresh.

How to I remove the art behind the games in LB? I have selected the default background, but whenever I select a game, the screenshot for that game appears in the background. I've searched the background options and can't find this anywhere.

Why would it affect the existing artwork media if I am only scraping for the game video?

Took over 5 minutes. I haven't re-run the setup.bat again. I'm wondering if these particular games just don't have covers. Do they have covers on yours? Also - does the exoDOS collection have sound or video samples? Don't seem to see any in LB.

+1

This would be a great feature. I don't buy the argument that it encourages users to add to the database - as for many early DOS games, no boxart exists and an image of the disc or something is used instead. Hassle to go through 3000+ games doing this - would be good to specify a default "missing" image for each system.

Keen to take a look at this!

Any progress here?

Just ran setup....how do we know when it has finished? My CMD window appears to have stopped inflating files, and it says "1 file copied" at the bottom (though it seemed to inflate many files just not 1). And the window just stays there when finished. Also - the folder structure is now D:\launchbox\exodos, with the exodos folder containing the launchbox files. This seems a bit messy, as the launchbox folder is empty apart from the exodos folder. Can I move everything that is in the exodos folder up 1 level into the launchbox folder, so that launchbox.exe is in the launchbox folder? Plus a lot of the games have no cover art (see below) - is this expected behaviour? Just checking I've done it right

And all is well with the world!

Or perhaps not....! So what is the best way to import a full MAME set and all the extra artwork into LB at the moment?

I just happened to be browsing the games collection of another user (@elitemanhood, as it happens) and can see the list of platforms in the menu bar on the left. The number of items per platform is not shown however. It would be great if the number of items per platform was shown, so we can see how many games the user has per platform. Can this be implemented? Thanks!

12 days of PD starts today The vol.1 torrent is not FL yet - do we know when it will become FL?

I take it that these links also work to locations on a network drive (all my space-intensive material is on a NAS on my local home network, connected via ethernet).

Wow, invaluable advice, many thanks!!