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  1. 13 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

    Your philps one has a + in your platform that doesnt match the image, cant see why the 3DO isnt showing though.

     

    List view helped see the problem. There is a space in front of the name. The messed up part is I can't rename it because it says the file already exists but I don't see it.

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    When I copied the file to another directory the space was already gone. I deleted the original and copied it back. When I removed the trailing space from Philips Videopac, it created a new version without the space. I deleted the other file and added the + in and both work fine now. Something screwy happened for sure. Both platforms have images now.

    When I closed out of LB and opened it again, it rebuilt both of the messed up versions.

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  2. I have just tried scanning the games for the RetroAchievement hashes. I first tried to do all games at once. It crashes with no error. I then tried a single platform. It too crashes, but takes a bit longer.

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  3. I think the short answer is you can't control it. At least there is no way I know of or have seen a solution. I believe it updates the first one it finds. I have 5 installs for the exact same reason. When I tried running it, my generic one was updated but all the others I have that have custom configurations for different controllers and hotkeys were untouched. It also added every core including ones I don't use which was a bit annoying so I haven't touched it since. I have seen this questions asked a few times since this was introduced and haven't seen a solution. I think this use case is probably not common, but maybe a 3rd party plugin will be made at some point.

    As far as solutions go, I have used this video as a guide to safely upgrade Retroarch without losing any of your custom configurations.

     

  4. Would creating a new game type help alleviate the confusion this is causing? Something like "RetroAchievements Subset" so it will delineate the purpose of the new entry. I get why you are wanting them added, but reading these posts over the past few years, it seems clear than any time devoted to getting these added as alternate names and new entries seems like it is wasted work. They either get rejected out of hand or eventually get pruned over time.

    It is asking a lot of the free time people devote to not only understand the uniqueness of an entry but understanding one that is needed for a 3rd party service. I thought long and hard when I started creating and sharing my own RA playlists and intentionally left out adding any of those until an actual system is in place to reliably show them.

  5. I came up option option 3 after I ran into the same problem with some N64 games. I created a LaunchBox testing install and imported fresh skipping past all the extras to speed things up. (no emulators, images, manuals etc.). Open the XML for the platform and find the file name(s) that are being stubborn and find the GameID.

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    Then find all the entries for the same ID and locate the one not like the others.

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    This homebrew attached to a completely unrelated game and there doesn't seem to be anyway to find this unless you dig into it here. The GamesDB doesn't have any reference to this other game on the entry either. Even though it imported, CUBE still isn't a word that you can find the game by.

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    How does LaunchBox decide this game is related? Does it just find one with the word "Cube" and pick that one? How would one go about an fix this in the GamesDB? All of the ones I have looked at seem to be the same problem. Most of these I can't even guess why game A is being attached to game B.

  6. I am aware of an issue with LaunchBox where if you scan for a new ROM and the new records it wants to insert are alternates of an existing entry that LaunchBox simply will skip over them. I have 8 new NES games that are falling into this trap and will say 0 imported when complete and they show up over and over again as new items on each scan. I usually can only solve this problem by 1) deleting all the games from that platform and importing again or 2) finding the blocking entry or entries and deleting just those. I'm at the point now I don't ever want to do the first option. I have customized so many entries so the correct ROM loads by default since many of them were not the preferred version on the original import that it would be really painful to lose all of that for the sake of 8 games. I usually can do option two but am running into a problem.

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    I had about 8 other games I was able to manually find and delete and those were picked up on the next scan. These however, I can't identify the blocking game. I have tried searching for the name in LaunchBox and the GamesDB, but it isn't clear which game(s) I need to delete to get these to import and group correctly. Is there any logging I can look at? Any better way to search the GamesDB than how I'm doing now? It doesn't look like you can even constrain search to a single platform so I often have to click page by page trying to find games that way, but that isn't too helpful if the game is an alternate of another game with a different name entirely. Am I out of luck and am forced to use the nuclear option of deleting everything and starting over?

  7. Microsoft MSX and MSX2 RetroAchievements Support

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    MSX playlist has 11. MSX2 has 9. RetroAchievements lists 31 total, however there are a mixture of homebrew, non goodsets, and TOSEC that are required. I only use ROMs from the No-Intro set which is why those have been excluded. RetroAchievements treats MSX as a single platform while No-Intro and LaunchBox have it as two hence the separate playlists. These two are based off of MSX (20221022-011122) and MSX2 (20221022-005429) DATs.


     

  8. GCE Vectrex RetroAchievements Support

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    This playlists contains all 15 of the 17 games that RetroArch/RetroAchievements supports for the Vectrex. Each game has the compatible version selected and all 15 have been opened in RetroArch to confirm it was recognized as having achievements. The set I used is based off the No-Intro 20170908-211236 DAT.

    The 2 games are missing from the playlist that aren't part of the latest No-Intro release. Vector Pong is a homebrew and Dark Tower is a prototype that requires a patched ROM.

     


     

  9. Fairchild Channel F RetroAchievements Support

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    This small playlists contains all 18 of the 23 games that RetroArch/RetroAchievements supports for the Magnavox Odyssey 2. Each game has the compatible version selected and all 18 have been opened in RetroArch to confirm it was recognized as having achievements. The set I used is based off the No-Intro 20120223-000000 DAT.

    The 5 games are missing from the playlist are all homebrew that aren't part of the latest No-Intro release.


     

  10. You are out of luck if you converted your CD based games to CHD or RVZ. That is the main reason I keep everything in a format that I can scan even with the space and inconvenience hit in having to extract the game prior to running it. LaunchBox can extract them automatically before running the game and with the exception of a few platforms, it is pretty quick. If it is a game I run often, I'll convert it to CHD and point that one game to a special directory I keep those in and keep the original so I can audit it.

  11. I use a combination of 3.

    ClrMamePro: https://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/

    I have used this for as long as I can remember. I tend to stick with it for MAME, however it will do any DAT. I avoid this for large ISOs such as PS2 since it can't handle decompressing very well and often will fail fixing issues. It is probably one of the easier ones to wrap your head around and is great for cartridge based consoles.

    ROMCenter: https://www.romcenter.com/

    I moved to this one to deal with the above issue for CD based systems. I find this to be a bit buggy sometimes but does a decent job when it works.

    ROMVault: https://www.romvault.com/

    I feel like this is where all the action is on the development side. There is a paid version that will maintain up to date DATs for you, but I'm just starting to migrate towards this for all things but MAME. It is different enough that I'm not the most comfortable with it yet, but I could see myself using this as my go to when I am.

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    Speaking of DATs, these are all useless without them. You will use these in combination with one of the applications above to scan, rename, fix, remove duplicates, or rebuild sets to your liking. I recommend checking YouTube for various how to videos or reading through as much documentation before you begin. I highly recommend creating a backup of your files BEFORE you start because you can destroy things pretty easily if you don't know what you are doing.

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    No-Intro handles cartridge based systems. Go here to get the needed DATs: https://datomatic.no-intro.org/index.php?page=download&s=64

    Redump handles CD based systems. Go here for those: http://redump.org/downloads/

    You can create your own DATs using ClrMamePro. It is built into the executable to generate one. You can also acquire one already made from many places you acquire the games from. I'm not aware of any place that hosts these specifically.

    Honorable mentions for TOSEC: https://www.tosecdev.org/downloads There are tons of systems not covered by the above and are handled by this group. I don't see a bunch of people looking for these games, but it is at least worthwhile knowing about them. For example, I use TOSEC for Spectrum games since what is covered in No-Intro is pretty small in comparison and I like Spectrum games.

    For information purposes only, there is/was a thing called Goodsets. I have no idea if anyone really manages this anymore. The sets were difficult to deal with because of all the garbage ROMs in each. Go here for more information if you are curious: https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/GoodTools

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    Good luck and have fun.

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  12. Magnavox Odyssey 2 RetroAchievements Support

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    This small playlists contains all 7 of the 9 games that RetroArch/RetroAchievements supports for the Magnavox Odyssey 2. Each game has the compatible version selected and all 7 have been opened in RetroArch to confirm it was recognized as having achievements. The set I used is based off the No-Intro 20200720-221603 DAT.

    2 games are missing that are both homebrew that aren't part of the latest No-Intro release.


     

  13. Sega Saturn RetroAchievements Support

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    This playlists contains all 56 games that RetroArch/RetroAchievements supports for the Sega Saturn. Each game has the compatible version selected and all 56 have been opened in RetroArch to confirm it was recognized as having achievements. The set I used is based off the Redump 2022-11-24 14-41-27 DAT.


     

  14. 3DO Interactive Multiplayer RetroAchievements Support

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    This playlists contains all 19 games that RetroArch/RetroAchievements supports for the 3DO. Each game has the compatible version selected and all 19 have been opened in RetroArch to confirm it was recognized as having achievements. The set I used is based off the Redump 2022-12-02 18-15-16 DAT.


     

  15. Sega 32X RetroAchievements Support

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    This playlists contains 9 of the 10 RetroArch/RetroAchievements supports for the Sega 32X. Each game has the compatible version selected and all 9 have been opened in RetroArch to confirm it was recognized as having achievements. The set I used is based off the No-Intro 20220522-112342 DAT.

    One games is not include because it is a hack and not part of the latest No-Intro set.

    Sigil


     

  16. Sega SG-1000 RetroAchievements Support

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    This playlists contains 14 of the 16 RetroArch/RetroAchievements supports for the Sega SG-1000. Each game has the compatible version selected and all 14 have been opened in RetroArch to confirm it was recognized as having achievements. The set I used is based off the No-Intro 20221213-212753 DAT.

    Two games not include because they are not part of the latest No-Intro set. Both are Homebrew.

    Snake
    Vexed


     

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