sundogak

Classic works for many of us. Particularly, for an arcade setup as most (just count wise) will be classic/older games where my preference is a consistent theme style. A brief video intro of gameplay to remind person of what the game is about, then title card, and fade out...move on, or play the game. Particularly for scrolling through game wheels quickly this theme style works well (30 to 40 secs). Plus there is the sheer volume of videos/themes already in the hyperspin style. From my view, missing media and/or mismatched styles than everything else around it (at least at platform level) drags down even the coolest LB/BB themes. My 2 cents, others opinions I am sure will vary.

Duh, I missed that and I should have tried the old Shift/CTRL thing anyway.

That is what I was thinking but typing didn't come out that way! This option makes sense to me as well if easier to code than above.

Yeah, definitely didn't expect nor think really needed as intent is looking at small subset of new items for each MAME release. You already have the "clone of" info in your descriptor. I likely wouldn't have even noticed but I had completed a full re-import of 0.281 into LB after moving of bunch of folders/things/drives around and thought maybe had messed something up as should show no gaps. One thing that would be helpful is selector to turn off import of a game(s). So if it is the millionth clone of Pac-Man can skip it. Especially if using curated MAME setup similar to yours. Again, not huge issue as 9 or so games and can just run import and delete ones didn't want...but feature creep is fun if I am not coding it!

Hi JoeViking245, thanks for this plugin. It ..plugs...a major gap in my mind on how LB handles the full set import aspect for MAME. 😀 I always keep an updated set but hesitant to run full set importer as it nukes any customization to metadata. As there typically isn't huge updates to the arcade platform it is a drag to wade through the change notes to see if anything cool added. Much slicker to see what is new and add things that are of interest and keep any customization post fullset import using your plugin awesomeness. One thing I noticed and not sure if intended. I have a current non-merged set 0.281. For fun and giggles, I went back in tool to Ver 0.260 to see anything missing. The tool says missing in my collection the demonwld5 entry. But it is in the additional application listing for that parent so it has been imported into LB and ROM is present. Does the tool only look at the main entry within LB under ROM File Launching entry or was it intended to also see the additional applications/clones? I noticed in other sets such as 0.279 for 280zzzapa a clone of 280zzzapa as well. Not a big issue just want to make sure something isn't amiss for my understanding of how it is working.