sundogak
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A 2-drive NAS will do much of what you are looking at (depending on how many TB looking at may have to go to large bay units). I have Synology 8 Bay 1817 and 1821, but other brands like QNAP have similar features and would meet Items 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. For example, Synology has normal backup process (daily, weekly etc) or you can use a mirror process where you keep an exact copy of the target drive update all the time on NAS (basically, local cloud). Most also have a true cloud option, so for example the Synology NAS copies my critical /non-replaceable files to my OneDrive account as a mirror which is encrypted on Synology side. NAS will typically have some RAID features, but that isn't a "backup" solution, and only deals with a drive on the array dying and giving you potential to replace. Synology offers a compression option, but don't see it gaining that much space wise and then there is speed hit (similar to Windows driver compression options).
As for 6, I keep my NAS on 24/7, mostly because run Plex and not so much from the game aspect. You can set it to spool down the drives and go into low power mode. It does have Wake On Lan but my experience (back to ReadyNAS days) was that was more bother than worth and takes a bit of time for NAS to wakeup, boot OS, check drives, etc. Just having the NAS send the drives to sleep mode is your biggest power buck anyway. Wear and tear is somewhat irrelevant in my mind if you are getting high quality NAS drives like Seagate IronWolf or WD Red drives. They will run for years on end 24/7 with no issues.....just make sure you have a UPS if doing 24/7.
I have True Image that use to back up my C:Drive on my main PC to NAS but have never been 100% thrilled with it. They put their files in their own compressed format (tibx). The reality is I could use the NAS applet to do the C:Drive backup, but "it works" and just haven't messed with it. In theory, the True Image software should be a bit better than NAS applet backup solution on the restore end of things. But I have found True Image can be problematic on some motherboard/driver combos if doing a full restore of your C:drive. You are also basically on a subscription model if want bug fixes/features beyond 1 year (still works, just major bug fixes only).
I still use "simple" approaches to a couple things though. For example, I have a cheap Costco WD external USB drive that I occasionally use FreeFileSync to mirror a copy of my 8 TB Games drive. I only use that USB drive for backup. I use this as a "I just screwed up my emulation games setup somehow". It has saved me on occasion, particularly with Retroarch or I used a batch file that went haywire. That is the issue with a mirror of target drive solution, if do something bad then will replicate back to your "backup". In my experience it is this issue (deleting something accidently, making major mod that shouldn't have) that happens most often versus "drive dies".
There are also homebrew NAS solutions like Unraid and TrueNAS. But ultimately, for any NAS, the drives are the big expense.
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25 minutes ago, Tommy1981 said:
Is there a way to scrape images from google for the ones the import wizard misses? There use to be a plug-in for this but I don’t see it anymore. It would be great to be able to scrape “best matched” images from the database too. Maybe match as many words in the title as possible to the images in the databases with the most matched words at the top of the list and the least matched at the bottom of the list.
if you could do videos this way too, it would be awesome.
There is already a video plugin that does just that:
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By default, that is the CDi behavior to stop at that launch screen and MAME is just emulating that behavior (RA just uses stripped MAME core). You can map controller pad/stick to move the mouse and click the button as one option (and easiest).
In the settings button, the next screen has the option "Auto FTS" which is the option to auto play a music CD (auto favorite track select) but doesn't do anything for non-audio CDi discs. Plus, MAME doesn't seem to save the setting anyway.
You might be able to use the MAME -autoboot command to send the keyboard mouse click command (or an AHK in LB), but the issue ultimately is the cursor has to be over the play button for that work.
Another option is to use save states post that launch screen and have MAME load that up.
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5 hours ago, Browser Hound said:
I downloaded a full set from what was regarded as a trusted archive. Also, the wizard gave me three options: Move the files into the Launchbox directory: Copy the files into the Launchbox directory or Leave the files in their current directory and run them from there. I tried both "Copy" and "move" niether of which worked. I checked the "Arcade" folder and all the files were present in that folder.
I have had zero experience with Mame so I do not have the skill or knowledge with it, and I am afraid I might screw it up as I don't know the different file extensions and not sure if I have a rom or a bios file and I don't understand the me
nus. I have downloaded Mame again and installed a copy of it on another drive, so I can play with it and not touch the Mame that is used by Launchbox.
The suggestion from Launchbox and YouTubers like ETA Prime, is that when using the wizard it should not be this difficult. Also I have redownloaded the rom set and a different but smaller rom set and none of these work either.
You appear to be mixing import types. If you have a full rom set for MAME you use the MAME Arcade Full set importer option. It will then ask you for the platform name your arcade setup (typically Arcade but can be others depending on what you named platform), then it will ask for location/folder of your ROM set and ROM set version. Once you point it there, then LB will do what it needs to do. For the full set ROM importer it doesn't actually move/copy any ROM files, just sets up pointers inside LB based on your option responses.
If you had things moved around from your prior try, make sure you revert back to the ROMs in the folders as they were downloaded from the original archive (i.e., folder then a bunch of zips containing the MAME roms).
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3 hours ago, srabadan said:
I finally have some time to work on this tonight.
I have the updates folder open and I am looking at a .exe from the day my install got corrupted. I should run this and have it install into the existing folder?
From there it will overwrite ONLY the corrupted files leaving my games, themes and everything else untouched? That sounds too good to be true.
I copying the corrupted install to make a backup of the game folder just in case something goes wrong. I think I would have to jump off a bridge if I had to reconfigure this thing again.
As I said, if you re-run the installer it will not touch the games, themes folders other than reinstalling the files LB needs to run for whatever version you are launching from the updates folder. Also LB keeps backups of the XML files (its settings, data, configuration) in the Launchbox\Backups folder. Go to Tools, File Management, and Data Backup and you can force a backup before you do anything.
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1 minute ago, DarthWHAT said:
Thank you again! I got it figured out. First I removed the daphne.exe from the command line and I also didn't have the dle21 folder in the vldp as the log mentioned that. All square now, really appreciate you help!
Daphne is a bit of dark art with the ROMs/Video files, etc, so glad you got it squared.
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@DarthWHATYour command isn't correct relative to what LB is passing to Daphne, so gagging. Look at your Daphne log it indicates for clues. For most setups, you are not going to be able to put that string direct into custom command line in LB.
You don't show the Daphne emulator settings/details along with what the command is in the "Launching" entry, so hard to tell. But when you use a custom command line, then LB sends that command PLUS whatever settings you have in your Daphne emulator setup and in the Launching line (the pointer to the "ROM" file). So, if your Daphne emulator was setup to point to a batch file then LB is still sending that plus trying to jam the custom command line so Daphne.exe is seeing gibberish.
So, look your emulator setup. Look at what the game is pointing to for ROM as start point.
Edit: also looking at that command line looks like the "normal" DL and not the enhanced at least as far as what I have seen for VLDP naming for enhanced files (but no standard either). You could double check by opening a DOS command window and going to your Daphne.exe folder and pasting in that command line and seeing if it launches what you want.
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2 hours ago, DarthWHAT said:
Anyone know how to get the DLE2 to work thru launchbox? I have it selected as the one to load in the daphne emulator and it works fine when I load it thru the emulator alone. But when i launch thru launchbox it plays the old one and not the DLE2 version.
The Daphne emulator is command line input. So I assume when you say "load in Daphne emulator" you are really speaking about the Daphne Loader. The Daphne Loader is just that, a front end to create a command string that then runs in background and points to the Daphne.exe. That the game runs via the loader means you have all the files needed. However, if running wrong file in LB it then means your command or batch file used in LB isn't correct. What you set/do in the Daphne Loader does not make corresponding updates to anything LB sees.
However, you can use the loader to help troubleshoot what the command line/batch file should look like and adapt accordingly in LB. To do that you can open up the Daphne Loader and click on the Configure Button. Then Advanced, and change the drop down box "Display Command Line" to "Enabled". Then select the game you want and start. Before it runs, it will pop up the command line the Daphne Loader is using to run the game to help you generate the appropriate string within LB (or to add to your batch file).
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LB keeps copies of installer files in the ...\LaunchBox\Updates folder so you can rerun the installer from there as well as try an older version if think that is the issue. It will over write and/or update any files that were missing/corrupted but doesn't touch your games, images, and metadata folders (i.e., your specific setup).
It does sound to me like an antivirus issue if you double click and then nothing happens. Some AVs would trigger due to the way more recent versions of LB running from the ..\\Launchbox\Core folder (symlinks). So I would make sure the LB folder is excluded from your antivirus before rerunning the installer.
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On 4/26/2022 at 5:11 PM, ejz372 said:
@sundogak Hello. Whenever you have time, can you please change the attached files to silver logo? Also, if you have N64 Hacked logo, please let me know. TIA.
Had some time today. This should be all the Unified and Unified Fried genre logos plus a few alts:
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21 minutes ago, ejz372 said:
@sundogak Not a problem. No rush.
If you can, also please include PS2 Asia. TIA.
Here are two PS2 Asia ones:
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17 hours ago, ejz372 said:
@sundogak Thanks for telling me where the N64 Hacks logo is.
For the genre logo, I personally don't like the arcade text on the logo. I don't think these have been done in silver logos yet.
There was one or two non-arcade I found (puzzle, fighting) but not a complete set. Will see what can work up but may not be until next weekend.
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You do not need a script. See here.
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7 hours ago, Emilio5639 said:
I was looking and I was wondering if anyone has the following systems and collections. I'll double back through the post and see if I can find some, any help would be appreciated.
Arcade Shmups Bandai Sufami Turbo Bandai WonderSwan Bandai WonderSwan Color Driving Games Fatal Fury collection Final fight collection Konix Multi-System MAME 4 Way MAME Kids NEC SuperGrafx NEC Turbografx-16 NEC TurboGrafx-CD Nintendo 3DS eShop Import Nintendo 3DS Import Nintendo 64 Import Nintendo Famicom Translated Nintendo Wii U Ware Pacman Museum Panasonic 3DO PC Fighting Games PC Games PC Professional Driving Games Philips CD-i Shining Force Collection Treasure Collection Twisted Metal Collection Visual Pinball FSS World Heroes collection Almost all those have been done prior in this thread or in Vikings original zip files in first post.
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Hacks: Page 42 has a bunch hack logos including Nintendo 64 both blank and non-blank version mid-point in page. Page 48 towards end of thread has another style with hack N64. Another style here
On the genre logos most with those were done with "Arcade" style. See end of page 41 (others are scattered). If don't want arcade text on bottom not sure on if those genres from Unified were done yet.
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7 minutes ago, ejz372 said:
Thanks @sundogak.
Can you also please make a Playstation Network or PSN logo as well?
Here is a PlayStation Network one using current style logo:
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2 hours ago, ejz372 said:
Can someone please make a Nintendo Switchware and PS3 Wares? Thanks in advance!
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Haha....not sure about that but glad it worked.
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The default MAME keys are Left Shift F7 to save state and F7 to load state. Each is then followed by a number to select which slot. LB uses these as the default key commands and slot 1. So if you changed mapping in MAME you would need to update your settings in LB accordingly. Go into edit emulator and look at the Save State and Load State blocks. Those are what LB uses when doing things through the LB Pause menu.
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On 4/14/2022 at 10:23 AM, hyunchris said:
Hey so I have Big Box on my C drive, which is my SSD, but I feel like all of the videos and pictures are taking up a lot of space that could be used for games. Is there an easy way to move all the art from Launchbox/Bigbox to my HD on my E: drive?
thanks
Copy the folder to whatever location you want. Then update LB via the edit platform option and change the paths to the media accordingly:
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2 hours ago, ers said:
Hi, everyone.
I want to loose a lot of images that I don't really need and leave the screenshots and not much else. Is there a way to delete certain kinds of media?: 3D boxes, for instance, or Steam Banners.
I guess I could delete folders in Launchbox/Images, but I don't know if that could mess something up.
Thanks!
Just delete the folder or rename it (best to do, then delete later if works as you wanted). Just close LB/BB prior to make sure no files are locked but otherwise won't mess anything up.
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On 4/13/2022 at 8:41 PM, Emurge said:
Hey guys thank you for all the hard work. Been going through the nearly 60 pages and found everything i'm looking for that's in my current setup. Only thing missing is singe 2. I'm sure someone has made it. If not would someone be willing to whip one up for me? Thank you again!!
Here is a quick one. Wasn't sure if wanted the "2" in there so have both.
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14 hours ago, Jaypolly said:
How do you get it to launch Burning crusade classic? It keeps launching battlenet launch instead of loading in game
same process as above with:
--exec="launch WoWC"You do have to toggle if Burning Crusade or WOW classic directly in the launcher first. All the various commands listed here
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On 4/1/2022 at 11:36 PM, ejz372 said:
Hello. I am looking for Doujin Games, MGT Sam Coupe, Philips VG 5000, HD NES, Sega Dreamcast AW Ports, Sega Master System Import, Watara Supervision, and Zaccaria Pinball logos. Can someone please create these for me or if there is already one out there, can you please send the link? Thanks in advance!
Here you go:
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A Big Collection Games on LaunchBox
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LB has option to use the game folder name for scraping or the rom name. So as long as your game folders have some semblance of logical naming then should get most for purpose of DB scrape.