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This is amazing. I'm going to upgrade my LaunchBox and try it out. I'll also share this post in the request I made (https://feedback.launchbox.gg/p/feature-request-to-have-launchbox-cache-my-games-from-nas). Hopefully we can get this functionality added natively to LaunchBox soon.

Just wanted to let you all know that I had submitted a feature request to have some of the features that this plugin can do to be officially added into LaunchBox. Specifically, I was talking about the extraction of zip files to be stored locally (but I'm hoping that they add more). Here is the link to the feature request. https://feedback.launchbox.gg/p/feature-request-to-have-launchbox-cache-my-games-from-nas Please check it out and give it an upvote. Thanks.

So I reached out to the LaunchBox team and they were able to give me the last version of LaunchBox setup file that worked with Archive Cache Manager. So I guess I'll continue to use this old version until either @fraganator comes back, or until LaunchBox adds a similar feature.

The original code or the code that I posted. Because I believe the guy who made the changes for me already did all the upgrades.

If you are talking about the build that i posted, I hope i was clear in stating that it doesn't work. I don't know how to code, but I did get in touch with someone who did, but unfortunately knows nothing about LaunchBox. He did the best he could to update everything as far as he could, and what I posted was for someone else to hopefully take it the rest of the way. Now with that said, it's possible that what he changed wasn't correct either. Ultimately, what we need is for @fraganator to come back and create a fix. But in the meantime, if anyone is willing to try and help, we can try and work together to do this ourselves.

Great FAQ. Regarding the Downgrading section of your FAQ, I just want to point out that this only works if you have updated to the version you want to downgrade to from within LaunchBox. I started on version 13.18 and deleted the installation file after it was installed. After I updated to 13.19, I discovered that one of my plugins doesn't work anymore and I cannot downgrade because I don't have anything in my Updates folder. I've already been instructed to email support about getting the last version emailed to me, but just wanted to mention this specific scenario so you can maybe add it to your FAQ. Or maybe as a feature request, give people the ability to download previous versions from within LaunchBox itself. Thanks.

First off, I know nothing about how to code. But I found someone who was willing to give this a shot, even though he knows nothing about LaunchBox or this Plugin. Here is what he did so far: Even with all that, the plugin is failing with a 7-zip error when I try to launch a game. If anyone that has more knowledge in this would be willing to take a look at what changes were made so far and help us take it the rest of the way, it would be much appreciated. The source code and my latest error log are attached. Thank you. archive-cache-manager.7z Debug 2025-02-15 08-21-55 PM.log

I've been getting help from someone who knows what they are doing. I think we are very close.

I just tried your version, but the Archive Cache Manager option doesn't show up under Tools anymore. That's basically all you really need to do to test it is make sure that the option returns. Check out the very first post and you should see what it's supposed to do. Thanks for trying to fix this for us.

I appreciate your attempts to fix this. I know it still works, but I am still building my library and setting up new platforms so I kinda need that settings menu. I did reach out to support via email to see if they can give me the previous version install file for now so I'm just waiting for that. Unfortunately, I nuked my entire setup and started over from scratch so I don't have the last install file sitting in my updates folder.

The new update just went live. I accidentally updated and now I'm having the same issue as you. @fraganator If you happen to still be around, would you mind looking into this and updating your plugin? Thank you so much.

That sounds great. I was planning on trying to set up PS3 later this week. I will definitely give this a try. Thanks.

Because they are stored on my NAS and I would like them on my local hard drive when I play them. I did figure it out though. When I set up the Dolphin emulator, I left the box to extract roms before launching unchecked (because my GameCube games weren't zipped). However, Archive Cache Manager only works if that box is checked. I've i checked it, everything was working fine.

So with the pull request your made and it being merged in, does that mean that the RetroAchievemwnt badges should be showing up for GameCube games in .rvz format? Because i just imported all my GameCube games and none of them show as having RetroAchievements. Thanks.

Does anyone have any experience with using Archive Cache Manager Plugin with GameCube games? The plugin seems to work great for the games that I have zipped. My GameCube games are in .rvz format and I did copy the file "DolphinTool.exe" to the "Extractors" folder like the instructions said. But no matter what I do, I can't get it to copy my game to the cache folder. Any ideas? Thanks.

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.