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Such a strange thing. Here's mine. I have no idea what happened. \data\Platforms.xml is apparently the culprit as it has entries like So I guess I'll manually rename the folders back to what they used to be and hope the file doesn't get rewritten again by whatever did it the last time

Looking into it, the naming convention for some/most of the directories has changed; for example "Images\Windows\Box - Front" has changed to "Images\Windows\Front" but images were not imported in the process. Same goes with Back, Screenshots and probably some others. Why did this happen and is there some convenient way to fix this? Is this a bug on this release or is it just me? This is not exactly trivial to fix as I'm running 150 platforms so I will have to rename 150 directories per category \:D/

So I have 466 FM Towns-games I was thinking about adding when I noticed DB only has its console brother FM Towns Marty. Marty is backward compatible with FM Towns but is not the same thing. Should I a) add the games as Marty as they do run with it or b) hold until FM Towns is added as a separate platform somewhere around 2025?

The ability to choose two things (filters) from list view. Standard Windows controls ie clicking the second item+CTRL. Like Action + Horror, or Ubisoft + Ubisoft inc. Latter would especially make it easier to browse through and/or fix the developer/publisher mess.

Buffalo DriveStation (connected with USB), so that's covered. When I have something backup-worthy on my NAS, I need to back them up to my local HD or that Buffalo first. Yeah, for $5, I'm sure something sucks I'm not expecting everything to break simultaneously, but should that happen, restoring everything from the service would either suck OR cost plenty of money, As long as you're dealing with single HD breaking down, downloading the stuff is convenient enough; I tested it once and it worked just fine. If you found some specific evil they are doing that I didn't just cover, I'm definitely interested. DVD-era: Exactly what you said. From 6th gen, Dreamcast and Gamecube are completely doable, PS2 and Xbox are not.

Yeah, the storage space is the struggle. I got about 10TB for games. RAID for now, though now that I have unlimited cloud backup for 5$/month (Backblaze), I might get rid of RAID just because I can OTOH as I 1) buy everything from cloud these days (GOG, Steam) there's no real reason to have them locally once I'm done playing and 2) my retro collection is more or less completed and 3) I'm not moving to next gen/dvd-era up until something magical happens in storage prices the storage requirements are not increasing too much anymore. To get the retro stuff to fit in as small space as possible, everything's 7z'd. This has required some annoying scripting to create bat files in order to, when clicking the game in LB, unpack the 7z and then mount the image with daemon tools before the game is launched. LB has the "run this command before running the game"-feature, but in the example you need multiple commands to be ran in sequence before launching the game, which it's not capable of. If I had unlimited space, would love to get rid of this annoyance.

Tested; yes. This does not make any sense and just in case I was unclear in the beginning: most, maybe 3/4 of the list is sorted just fine.

Nope, that's consistently screwed. Here it is in reverse

This seem to happen with some platforms and I can't figure out why: the games move through the alphabet for the most part, but about ~30% of games are sorted wildly, seemingly randomly:Picture tells you more than words can, so here's a snippet from my Win 3.x. Any ideas?

I think my small thing would not take more than fifteen minutes to implement, but it's probably ridiculously difficult for reasons I can't imagine: ScummVM handles game engines rather than single games. Some of those engines are open sourced/come with public development tools, causing plenty of fanmade games to exist for them. There's also plenty of commercial games that work just fine on ScummVM but are not officially supported and therefore not found from the game list, because the experience is not perfect. There's plenty of games to old engine's like Sierra's SCI & AGI and Scumm. One of the more interesting new(ish) developments is Wintermute-engine, which makes ScummVM run modern games (http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/game-engine-wintermute) Anyway, the only thing standing between me and my goal of importing said games to LB as ScummVM games is the lack of said engines as an option in the "what game is it?" -menu ( (this is how d-fend reloaded handled it when it was still alive, ie there's "Gob Engine", "Groove engine" etc as games). I suppose the list stands in an xml file somewhere, but I rather not edit those manually if I can avoid it. So, suggestion: either a) go here http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Engines once a year or so and add the missing engines as "games" or b) open up the ability to let the users write new "game entries" to said list. Not sure which makes more sense but both would do it.

Continuing on the old naming convention talk: So someone's been doing a lot of great work to find games with identical titles for the same platform and then renaming them with "title (publisher)", ie Alien(s) for C64 become "Alien (Personal Computer News)" and "Alien (Softgold)". While I appreciated the effort, I felt it was the wrong approach and rejected some dozen of those before thinking that 1) I mostly use list view so I represent a minority; identical titles could be confusing in big box? 2) People will keep on renaming or trying to rename the titles back and forth according to their preference, unless whatever "we" want is communicated clearly when submitting new games

Crashes approx two seconds after opening, but for whatever reason it did open after ~10 attempts (using compatibility mode, but I don't think that was the solution). Event viewer gives me two errors below (.NET runtime and application error). .NET -one is talking something about VLC and LB opened to a game that has a movie file attached to it, so I assume these are related. In case it happens again, what should I delete to force LB _not_ to open the last game I was viewing? Of course, if you can fix the root cause, that's even better Sorry for the gibberish, my OS is localized, 1) .NET runtime: Sovellus: LaunchBox.exe Framework-version: v4.0.30319 Kuvaus: Prosessi keskeytettiin käsittelemättömän poikkeuksen vuoksi. Poikkeuksen tiedot: System.AccessViolationException kohteessa System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReadByte(IntPtr, Int32) kohteessa Vlc.DotNet.Core.Interops.Utf8InteropStringConverter.Utf8InteropToString(IntPtr) kohteessa Vlc.DotNet.Core.VlcMediaPlayer.OnMediaPlayerTitleChangedInternal(IntPtr) 2) Application error: Viallisen sovelluksen nimi: LaunchBox.exe, versio: 7.13.0.0, aikaleima: 0x59f8ed21 Viallisen moduulin nimi: mscorlib.ni.dll, versio: 4.7.2556.0, aikaleima: 0x59b83443 Poikkeuskoodi: 0xc0000005 Virhepoikkeama: 0x000000000057cab5 Viallisen prosessin tunnus: 0x125c Viallisen sovelluksen käynnistysaika: 0x01d3532ce9d9974d Viallisen sovelluksen polku: D:\Emulator\Software\LaunchBox\LaunchBox.exe Viallisen moduulin polku: C:\WINDOWS\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\mscorlib\07f682c13bb6060ffe5a0af7ef4478aa\mscorlib.ni.dll Raportin tunnus: 72016e3c-fbf6-49cc-937b-0884219d4bc1 Viallisen paketin koko nimi: Viallisen paketin suhteellinen sovellustunnus:

Box covers would be nice, but quite often impossible, sometimes not applicable (ie whatever games they wrote to that beautiful pdp-1 in the picture probably didn't come with a box :D) and in the end not my main goal. I personally care about the genre, release date, developer & publisher, in that order, everything else is a bonus. I only use list view in LB which probably makes me a minority Having said that, I had my "top ~1000" collection going in D-fend Reloaded before jumping to LB and I'm adding them to GamesDB as I go ie you'll get everything I have, eventually

182 platforms, 100k games. I've been working on removing or combining duplicates and I think I'm getting close to the final unique number. LB works just fine as long as I remember to disable the "all" option. Never used big box or images view, those might not work that well.