Gardhul

I have to revive this thread: I have to say the issue is still there and it's a real problem when scanning added roms for FS-UAE. Please notice, the OP import from scratch procedure is not feasible, because I will lose all my favourites flags, which are great for Auto-populated playlists, but the weakness is that they are stored in Platform games list. I'll try to explain what I noticed in detail and the workarounds (unsuccessful) I tried to reach my goal: make the added roms scan working as expected with FS-Uae emulator. The main problem is that, when scanning for added FOLDERS (which for FS-Uae represent the game name) Launchbox uses always the FILE name (which for FS-Uae represent the game UUID used to launch the game itself), because LB does not prompt the same options which normally appear when importing games ("use folder name instead of filename" in particular) Another problem is (maybe related to the previous) that when the new games are found, it seems they won't be added if they already exist with DIFFERENT VARIANTS (e.g. WHdload variant instead of ADF variant) To solve the previous problem I tried another approach which unfortunately showed to me another different problem: I actually used winmerge to check the UUIDs added and manually dragged them on Launchbox, importing them normally (without deleting the existing library). In this way all seemed to work and the names were correct (because I had the opportunity to select the option to make LB use the folder name, as I was importing roms, not scanning for added roms). BUT - here arise a third problem: when the new variants for existing games are combined to their "parents" (either by manually "Consolidate" roms from Tools menu AFTER import process, or also by checking the option "Combine roms with matching title into a single game" BEFORE import process), those variants are combined to the correct parent but, again, the variant name is reverted the game UUID (the "file name" we wanted to avoid from the beginning). It seems that the possibility to mantain the use the folder name as name/variant when a FS-UAE library is already present is broken in the moment we are dealing with the roms addition scan or the variants unification, thus forcing to DELETE the library to import all from scratch (which I do not want, since I'll lose favorites, played time and other custom flags). Therefore I think this matter deserves more attention by devs. Thank you.

Hi, I'm going to test it: I was using Lightspeed too. I was wondering: can the built-in import handle the catver and history.dat files? About catver I really want its genres granularity (eg. sports/basketball, sports/soccer etc..).