Pizzaboy140

I realized I didn't put a label for the coloring in "Image Inventory", each color represents a different type of image: 3-D Box, Background, Clear Logo, etc.

I thought to make a Dashboard in Tableau of my collection so I can get some data insights from it for fun. (I favor SNES, I seem to have more Cart Images than anything, and most of my games would be considered Single Player) I also made the start of a sort of audit tab page that semi-dynamically displays all games that aren't in the LaunchBox DB yet, missing a certain kind of image, etc. This involves me having to use the Audit Tool in LB, pulling data for each platform, and pasting the info into an excel doc though. While I wanted to show this, I also wanted to ask if anyone here knows of a better way to more dynamically pull my Launchbox data, and or visualize it?

One bit that folks haven't touched on is what to store on the NAS. I use a Synology NAS, but what I've found is this. DO: *Store your ROMs on your NAS in some folder, perhaps an "Emulation" folder *Map a network drive to that Emulation folder *Copy a second instance of Launchbox/Big box with ROM mappings to that Emulation folder. (I have a Launchbox, and "Launchbox Online" shortcut, I simply don't use the Online version when I don't have access to Wifi) DONT: *Store meta data Launchbox uses (Pictures, startup videos, etc.) as it would take Launchbox longer to load *Store your emulators there (I just assume it would try to run off your NAS's "processor" which wouldn't be good) *Store your game saves there (Haven't tested having emulators read saves off my NAS yet) My 2 cents...

If it helps, I use a NAS set up. I realized that whatever files I put on there are going to take some lag. The approach that I took though is putting ROMs on the NAS instead of pictures or meta data, similar to what you're trying next. You'd think that that would impact performance of the game and that's the last thing you'd want to put on your NAS, but pleasantly, I learned otherwise! All it does is add a few seconds of initial load time which I don't mind, plus ROMs/games are generally bigger than anything else. For my main machine, I've kept copies of all images on it and I have LB read pictures off those local files, so performance of LB/BB is well, but takes up only a few GB overall. I'm interested to see what other NAS setups people use!

I got the syntax in my example off for my NAS path, seems like you guys got the point though. Thanks for the advice on bulk replacement Pacman56. Is the rest of the path stored in where it says ".." though?

I have a noob esk question... I know how to bulk replace in notepad++ (ctrl+h, put in text you want to find, put in text to replace with) However, while looking at my platform_name.xml locations, I get a lot of paths like ..\SNES\Games\(Insert Game Here).smc the piece I'd need to change is where the ".." is. The path I used before (for SNES in this example) was (My Drive letter):emulation/LaunchBox/SNES/Games/(Insert Game Here).smc I'd want to Change it to: Emulation(//(My NAS Server Name which I'm not going to disclose here))/SNES/Games/(Insert Game Here).smc So the only difference is everything in front of "SNES". Can this be done with Notepad++? I can do this manually in LaunchBox. Just wanted to know if I'm missing something here though.

Shortly after the stream today, I figured out why I was getting duplicate games/images. I mentioned I made a sort of "NAS" version of LaunchBox. Before changing my ROM paths, I copied my whole LaunchBox folder and called it "LaunchBox Online Version". Feel free to check up and discuss, but I think changing the folder name of where all of LaunchBox's files are is what caused the issue. I changed all my ROM Paths in the new "LaunchBox Online Version" folder.