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Thank you for your reply. I'll give GIMP a try. Sounds simple enough. Do you happen to be involved with maintaining the database? I personally like the idea of submitting the inside box covers just for the potential that one day things may change and we will have fully reconstructed boxes that we can open. I can kind of compare it to how we have all these front and back scans of NES, SNES, etc boxes, but no one really thought to scan the sides. Now we have all these reconstructed 3D box arts that don't 100% match how they originally looked because some kind of template was used to create them. So my thought was that even if LaunchBox can't use them right now, maybe we could make a more appropriate category to upload them to just so they can sit there until needed. But aside from that, I will keep these kinds of scans to myself for now until I find a better place to upload them. Thanks again for your help, and hopefully soon I will have the rest of my images uploaded to the database.

Sorry to revive such an old post but I am having the same issue. LaunchBox scanned and is showing the RetroAchievements badge for all my cartridge based games. I just imported my Playstation games and did a scan in LaunchBox, but none of them matched. I verified all my games against the Playstation Dat from Redump using RomVault and they are all zipped using torrentzip. Do you have any updates on this? Thanks.

@huh123 Looks like he havn't been seen here in a while. Maybe try posting an issue on his github page as well to see if he sees it. https://github.com/fraganator/archive-cache-manager

I have about 20 Nintendo Switch games and I just recently finished scanning both the inside and outside of the full cover as well as the front and back of the cartridge. I am not a photo editor at all and I was wondering if someone would be able to help me with what I assume would be something very simple. On my front an back cart scans, I don't know how to remove the blank space in the corners to turn them transparent. It's very minor as I did my best to ensure the cart images filled as much of the screen as possible, but still I would like the quality of my submissions to be a correct as possible. Also, if you look at my full box cover scan of Bluey, you will see that there is a small crease that can be seen in the middle of the spine that I would like to fix but again I do not know how. Speaking of the full box scans, I did both the full outside of the box as well as the full inside of the box (what you see when you open up the case). Obviously, I will tag the full outside box scan as "Unassigned Images --> Box Full". But what should I tag the inside scan as? I'm leaning towards tagging it as "Background Images --> Fanart - Background". However, that is not entirely correct as it is an actual scan from the box and not Fanart, but in my opinion is the most "correct" based on how LaunchBox would use this image to display it. Lastly, I also scanned any inserts that were inside of the box. Some of them are advertisements for toys or the TV show (in the case of Bluey), and others were cards that had DLC codes on them (I was able to remove the code in Paint which looks ok but if you look closely you can tell that I removed it). Again, these images don't really have a proper category but I am leaning towards adding them to "Box Front Images --> Advertisement Flyer - Front" and "Box Back Images --> Advertisement Flyer - Back" respectively. Please take a look at the scans I attached as examples of what I am talking about and if you have any advice either for or against my plans on how I plan on submitting them. Thank you. Edit: It turns how that me trying to attach the images errors out. Maybe because my file sizes are too big. I uploaded them to my Google Drive and linked to them instead. Hopefully this works. Thanks. (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hFhCHhlVWnOOi9lsgxKXl1umSimcDw3m?usp=sharing)

Sounds good. Thank you for your response.

I have noticed that if you delete all games for a platform and then go to Tools, Clean Up Media, For all Platforms, the media doesn't get removed for the games I just deleted. If I delete all but 1 game in that platform and then go to Clean Up Media, then LaunchBox will delete the media for the games I removed. Just a guess here, but I think it has something to do with after I delete all games for a platform, that platform no longer appears on the left side of my screen. So when I choose to clean up media for all platforms, it doesn't see that platform anymore since I removed all games. This is why when I leave just 1 game and the platform still shows on the left it works. Again, just a guess. I am using 13.18 stable and not any of the betas. Let me know if you need any additional information. Thank you.

Yep, that did it. Thank you for that clarification. Any idea if this issue is documented and on the list of things to fix? I feel like a normal user shouldn't have to do this work around to get achievements to scan in for Famicom Disk System (or any other systems that this happens to). Thank you.

I'm having the same issue with my Famicom Disk System ROMs. I imported as Famicom Disk System and scanned all my ROMs for RetroAchievements but LaunchBox didn't find any. I see the fix is to change the scrape as setting. Does that mean I have to delete all my games and reimport with the scrape as setting selected? But if I do that, won't that mess up the media and metadata? Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Well I did find this logo here (https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/69226-nintendo-game-boy-2-player-logo/). This was the only thing I found on the LaunchBox forums regarding 2 Player Game Boy. But I really wasn't sure what to do with it. I don't mean to take over your post with you providing support to me, so let me know if you want to take this conversation somewhere else. Thanks.

I meant specifically for the Game Boy Link Cable. Like 2 Game Boy linked together with the cable and 2 videos playing on each screen of them playing together. I have no artistic skills nor idea how to create any of this stuff myself. So I've been looking for things that are already created that I can maybe somehow manipulate to add in myself. But if someone with your skills wanted to make one, that would be awesome. Here are links to videos and pictures that I found that I was going to try to use (and they're not really that good, but I'll take what I can get). https://www.pinterest.com/pin/477733472945846606/ https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Game_Boy_Link_Cable?file=Linkcable.png

Just wondering if you happened to make any kind of theme or media for 2 Player Game Boy Link Cable games. I just recently discovered that I can play games that use the link cable to connect 2 Game Boys together in RetroArch using the Sameboy core. Now I plan on creating a new Platform called "Nintendo Game Boy (2-Player)" and would love it if that platform had unique media to go with it rather than me reusing the regular Game Boy one. Thanks.

Ok awesome. No rush, just curious. I recently set up all the eXoDOS projects and importing all my other console games into it. The one change I made was I created a new platform category called Retro-eXo and placed everything from his projects under that category (I did that because I think it looks neater that way for when I import other computer games). So I was looking for an all encompassing video showing off all of his projects to add as a video for when I select that category in BigBox. In the meantime, I'll give all your other projects a look. Looks like you put a lot of work into them and from what I can see just in this post alone, they all look amazing.

Thank you for your response and for your solution to attach those games to the correct database entry. I'll give that a try and then look over the media and metadata again. Are you one of the moderators who approve/disapprove or otherwise maintain the database? I agree with you that the Pokemon Stadium Kin Gin should probably be deleted. I just didn't want to put in the request if you already did or are handling it. Thank you.

In case I didn't understand correctly, are you saying that you plan to have an eXoDOS project completed by the end of the year? If so, that would be awesome.