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@Lassiveran I have not started on this latest pack, it will take many hours just to get them in. I am quietly excited that Jason mentioned that he will be creating a bulk import tool for the db on his live stream update video a couple of days ago Hopefully your images may make a good test case for the tool and save us all countless hours, might see how this plays out before I go adding any more of these to the db for the time being!

With updates to the games db scoring so highly in the poll, I Thought a thread with what people would like to see/suggestions might be a good idea. I only recently discoverd that the games db bitbucket is seperate from the launchbox version, so the best place for actual request and up voting is over there. https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/issues/new heres my ideas/wishlist 1) solution to seperated arcade platforms - from what i have seen this is in the works already, quite a few seperate arcade systems will be merged into on arcade platform 2) a way to sort db submissions by rejection status and see feedback - currently the db status page sorts submissions by the order they were lodged, this is painfull when you have just submitted 50 odd pages of submissions and a couple were rejected, its almost impossible to find where you went wrong. It would also be great to be able to easily see why your submissions are being rejected with feedback. 3) all changes to one title appear on one moderation page - currently if you add say ten images to a game already in the db, each one will require ten pages on moderation. Would be great if they came threw the same way meta data changers occur on one moderation page. This would also greatly help with naming changes, as when someone is removing a face name to add it to alternate you just have to hope that the next job in the moderation que is the re adding of the offical name. 4)moderation que size - quality of life adjustment but a moderation que size counter to the accounts page may help people know that we are getting behind in changes 5) moderator edits - moderators should be able to edit and resubmit a change for moderation. Sometimes there are typos, or someone leaves the wiki reference hyperlink brackets in overview. Would be great to be able to quickly fix any problems and re submitt it instaed of accepting/rejecting depending on the error. Same goes with image catgories, i see alot of reconstruced art that is trying to replace offical media(carts espcially) instead of just rejecting them moderators should be able to change the feild to accomadate them. 6) rom hacks and homebrew - needs a home 7) hash/crc checks for scraping - i dont want to scrape and replace all media for a platform. There is some great fixes to media takeing place in the db, the only way for a user to apply these updates it to redownload the entire platform media. This is excessivly waste full as 95% of the media would not need to be redownloaded. It puts pressure on the db server and eats up users download quotas. 8) platform meta data needs attention/ and or a way to to edit 9)moderators to be able to see previous rejection reasons for game creation/deletion ques - would help if a game is being kept in limbo without the 3 postive votes needed for it to pass moderation, could even leave a note to next moderator to check the discord for discussion on said entry..... thats all i can think of for now, sorry for the terrible spelling/punctuation, i am typing this with one finger on an ipad while i work Do you any ideas of your own? Or better ways of implemnting some of my ideas?

nup, nothing special no default commands or anything, easy setup really I might have to look at RL, I really don't want to add another layer to LB but I do really want bezels

thanks craig, I played with it a little last night before you uploaded with a few roms, seems fish and chips works fine straight from launchbox

very cool, I just had a look into it. What did you use as your media? I am interested if you could upload a media pack to the download section

I have gone and added the rest of your pack into the gamesDB, note that I only created the games and put your pictures up in the fan art box front section(box front for those that were real). There is a lot of work to be done getting meta data in with them also.....

Yeah I thought as much @DOS76 but do you know if lb defaults to fan art box front if no box front exists? Seems like a fruitless excercise to put these place holders in place where they are never going to show up anyway, with the amount of c64 stuff I imagine alot of the art is lost to time. If it does great! If it does not then would it be possible for me to add them to both fan art and normal box art for replacement in the future

They have been all approved cept a couple now, i am not sure if i messed up as i listed them as fan art - front and i am not sure if lb automatically uses these images if a normal box front is not available. I may have to add them all again in the main catogory. Can anyone tell me either way? i have not had time to do any latley and will really depend on work/family as to when i can do more, please feel free to grab a pack and add them yourself if you get the time. there was also a few rejections, like "bowling" which has several different versions from different publishers(i listed them as per the file name) but still got regected, i will re up and try them again. 18 according to this site, not sure what we can do about it http://www.gamebase64.com/search.php?f=0&t=0&s=Bowling&searchSubmit=Go!&d=18&h=1&a=0 if you want to help leave which letter you are doing, i was only able to do from # to E for the time being

Is it consolidating different versions into one? Like if you have a usa and a europe version you would only have one entry, but if you right click the rom you have the option to load either version

Nothing wrong with a bit of evil, a dark start up vid could be cool! Glad you like the suggestion, its just how i felt that scene would play out. I like the side scroller to, you could even skip the coin big box and have the heros run up a hill and grab the flag, and the fireworks from the castle spelling big box. Or have a heap of blocks and mario jump on a "p" reveling big box turned to coins in the middle. never heard of galactus but from the wiki he sounds proper evil!

Thats looking pretty sweet, it is amazing skills to be able to make each and every one of the videos for lb. looking at your video i feel that mario and luigi should be headbutting the coins out of the box to write big box. Then Lakitu comes across the sreen dropping his spinies every where forcing the heros to run off the screen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakitu

Most of the art is there for the no intro rom sets, be sure to make an account with emumovies to use their stuff to. You wont get the video snaps without paying for a sub to them though(every thing else is free) not sure how far in you are with importing but it may be easy for you to start again and import your roms. This time check the box that says "move roms files to launchbox folder" that way you can keep launchbox pretty portable as the file links are relative to the folder. you can go threw and rename the file locations in the xml if you want to leave them where they are without re importing, using notepad++ to find and replace works best... Go to your Launchbox/data/platforms folder and check out the xml file to see what I mean

your an animal Lassiveran!

should be able to copy it right over, no dramas did you let launchbox move your roms into its folder as well?

- i installed launchbox on my C drive SSD but its starting to take up too much space. How can i move it to another drive? you should be able to just copy the whole launchbox folder across to a new location, using the "move roms to launchbox folder" keeps them organised and portable. If they are somewhere else you are going to have to go threw and change the file locations in the xml files - I used the wizard to install turbografx16 roms using the recommended emulator (retroarch) but when i try and play them nothing happens at all. how can i solve that? have you associated the platform with the retroarch core you want to use? Tools - manage emulators - retroarch - edit - associated platforms - TurboGrafx-16 -L "cores\mednafen_pce_fast_libretro.dll" True -Arcade roms seem to work fine and my xbox controller seems to work... but how can i insert coins or quit the mame emulator using a controller? check the controller mapping, I think by default it should be the start button but you may have to change not sure about the different emulators and controller options, snes should be easy to get working with retroarch as an option I have not played with dreamcast.... Emumovies is up for me, it has been up/down regularly over the last couple of weeks, their confirmation emails were instant for me, check junk email maybe? not really played with psx files yet either, cant help you there sorry

is it in a zip file that is password protected? try extracting them

Huge project is an understatement, i am no good with making the images but can help with some data entry into the db when you star getting them made

Retroarch and launchbox, about as simple as you can make it i suppose

Not sure it could be any simpler, what are you having problems with? remeber that launchbox is just a file manage with a scraping option, it does not emulate anything

I like the slighly darker colours of the second version but not sold on the white tearing on the boarders, fantastic work by the way!