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    Is Launchbox updating my game info in the background?

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    On 7/14/2018 at 4:17 PM, Retro808 said:

    I think I may have to do with importing two games of the same name for two regions. Well, at least that was the only instances I could get this to occur.  

    I imported Die Hard for NES for JP and US regions (also did the game Reon showed in his video). I then deleted the images from the JP version and the issue showed up. Doing it for any single import game or for any game that I imported versions for two regions, but each game had a slightly different name it did not occur. 

    I see, I'll be doing that moving forward and I'll separate the existing platforms first. I had planned on separating them after gathering images but it's been driving me nuts so I'll gladly separate the regions first :D

    Is Launchbox updating my game info in the background?

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    Posted · Edited by reon

    18 hours ago, neil9000 said:

    Looking at the second video there it looks like it could be a cache issue. During the whole video when you deleted and when you added the correct images you didn't once refresh the cache for that game, so its likely you simply have the older images you want to remove cached in the Launchbox/Images/Cache folder. What i would do is edit that game again and remove the images, then exit out of the edit screen and with the game still highlighted hit F5 on your keyboard to refresh the images for that game, it should now show you dont have any images at all. Add the ones you want and exit and refresh again and see if that fixes it for you. I believe that is what is happening that game has been previously cached with the images you do not want so they need to be removed/refreshed in the cache.

    I'll try that next time it happens, but I do want to point out that the game does "blink" (around 1:17) as if the cache was cleared (hitting F5 with a game selected appears to do the same thing).

    Question, does restarting lunchbox clear cache?

    Is Launchbox updating my game info in the background?

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    Posted · Edited by reon

    Yeah at least for me, all the art work is already downloaded (which is why to fix it, I have to manually go into launchboxes images folders and delete them) but here's an example I found after getting back from work. It's hard to explain in writing but here's a minor example... While it's not the worst case I've run into since I can still add the Japanese box art myself and it will "stick" in this instance.

    Maybe there should be some sort of checkbox to "disable media auto management" per game and maybe even a global setting?

    edit: Just ran into this again and this video shows how frustrating it can be as it continues to override my images.

     

    Is Launchbox updating my game info in the background?

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    Posted · Edited by reon

    This has been happening to me constantly and it's super annoying... For example, right this second I'm editing "Teitoku no Ketsudan"(Japan) for Sega Genesis which is "P.T.O.: Pacific Theater of Operations"(USA). Both names are completely different but the Japanese version keeps having its Japanese box art overwritten and changed to the USA box art. No matter how many times I delete/replace it , as soon as I click "OK", it gets overwritten by the USA boxart. I can sometimes workaround the issue by messing with the name a bit, for example, if I name it "Teitoku no Ketsudan " (with an extra space at the end), the box art sometimes works just as expected at least until I refresh that games meta data. This happens to me constantly, I even tried removing all the images for all languages of one game and they kept coming back! Ended up deleting them from the images folder manually and then everything appeared to work as expected for a previous game but I'm tired of doing that because it happens so often and even my workaround doesn't always work... And I've tried refreshing meta data which was suggested before but that seemed to exacerbate the problem.

    I'll try to share some screenshots when I run into this again.

    tl;dr: launchbox should NOT override images set manually by the user period. At most, it can add secondary images which it sometimes does correctly.

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