Jump to content
LaunchBox Community Forums

Scriven

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    35

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by Scriven

    Who has the largest collection currently standing in Launchbox?

    in Collections and Builds

    Posted

    Close 120,000 with overall 146 systems, though I have some doubles and I count Steam, Uplay, Origin and GOG as separate platforms, which means a few more doubles. 26 of the platforms have at least one screenshot and/or cover missing, the rest has at least a single picture associated with each game. I'll add Origin, Switch and XBox One next with the latter two being just dummies which point to my gaming rack as I won't emulate any of them soon.

    • Like 1

    Steam Scraper

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Released)

    Posted

    10 minutes ago, CriticalCid said:

    Now I only have to figure out what’s the sweet spot when scraping multiple games as your plugin also stops working at some point when you select too many games at once.

    I had the best experiences with 8 - 10 games per scraping process. But I also tried up to 250 games with most of them getting updated. If you want to update games with missing metadata, go into list view and sort by publisher or developer making it easier to see which you still have to update.

    After you update, you can also scroll them out of sight and scroll back to them. That way you can quickly see how many were updated (still in list view).

    9.0-beta-1 Released

    in Beta Testing

    Posted

    On 10/25/2018 at 12:24 AM, Jason Carr said:

    Alright, beta 4 is out now with an overhaul for the auto-generated playlists:

    image.thumb.png.ac257d11b6b0d8f4725dce9fa8c7c798.pngDetails:

    • Added Favorites playlist
    • Sorted All Games and Favorites playlists first using Sort Title
    • Added notes to Developers and Publishers that they're not recommended for performance reasons
    • Added an option to remove all existing auto-generated categories and playlists

    Unfortunately, the new option to remove all existing auto-generated categories and playlists won't work for the playlists generated with the previous beta, since I added a new Auto-Generated field in order to handle it. The easiest way to remove the playlists generated by the previous beta is just to remove the playlist files from the LaunchBox\Data\Playlists folder while LaunchBox is closed. Going forward, you can use this dialog to remove them now as well.

    I am not sure if this would help or how complicated this would be, but couldn't we have a sort of developers and publishers threshold that would only generate playlists for developers or publishers with more games than the threshold demands or something like this for the top 25 publishers / developers? All other games could then be summed up in a 'various' playlist.

    This way it would be manageable to auto-generate these playlists without sacrificing the performance. On the other hand, this could be of course achieved by creating playlists and auto-populate them.

    • Like 1

    Steam Scraper

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Released)

    Posted

    5 hours ago, srxz said:

    @CriticalCid Please test it, I did the fixes, the only thing that was impossible was the double invalid chars together, maybe Jason could fix this on LB side, since I have no idea on how to do it with replace function. 

    Just returned from a trip. Awesome progress on the plugin. Wouldn't it be possible to change the name of the screenshots to the Steam ID which is the filesname in LB? LB should then accept the screenshots no matter what. It's not the cleanest solution, in terms of the naming of the screenshots but it would be a workaround.

    I checked it with a game and it seemed to work. ?

    • Thanks 1

    Steam Scraper

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Released)

    Posted

    4 hours ago, srxz said:

    Hi Scriven, you can give it a go. I added the features, let me know if its working.

    Seems to work great. I had a problem with the game A Detective's Novel (503820). The plugin won't download any metadata for this game. I have to check if there are others like it. But this is the greatest plugin. I selected quite a few games (maybe 50) and they all were updated in seconds. I can't imagine how long that would have taken me to do it manually.

    You got a Steam wishlist? I got lots of doubles and would like you to have some. ?

    Steam Scraper

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Released)

    Posted

    4 hours ago, srxz said:

    I tried the Steam import from LB last night and I might be able to do it.

    When LB adds the game to the Library it generates the launch parameter on Application path as:

    steam://rungameid/<AppId>

    e.g. steam://rungameid/730

    So I just need to check if there's this pattern on Application path, if yes, does the scrap automatically based on the found ID, if not pops up the form to paste URL. Also I can add maybe the multiple game selection for this one.

    This is great news. Can't wait to try it. ?

    Steam Scraper

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Released)

    Posted

    I love this plugin, one  of the few I use on a daily basis. Would it be possible for the plugin to check if the game's SteamID is present as the file name? The Astonishing Game has the ID 583190. The plugin could just add store.steampowered.com/app/ and the ID to automate the process. If the game wasn't imported by the Steam import through LB, it then could just ask for the URL as it does now.

    I have 6500+ games I have to update manually because most games are not in the LB database while the data is right there on the Steam website and while your plugin is awesome, I think it could be even better if you added this feature.

    Who has the largest collection currently standing in Launchbox?

    in Collections and Builds

    Posted · Edited by Scriven
    Edit to add some info

    Interesting, though I am wondering if the files will remain on archive.org forever. Infinity downloads the files as you start the game and when the files are taken down, the game is gone. On the other hand, this is gold for everyone with limited space. :)

    Oh, and I know about the standalone Flashpoint as an option. Will be checking out both.

    Flash Games in BigBox mode

    in Noobs

    Posted

    Thanks, I know of lightshot. :)

    I always try to find a way to do this with scripts or a batch file of some sort. There are so many Flash games out there and to do screenshots for all of them manually, would be too much work.

     

    Flash Games in BigBox mode

    in Noobs

    Posted

    Thanks for the tutorial. I am been doing some research on how to generate screenshots of the title screens. Didn't have much success yet but there seems to be a way with a tool called swfrenderer. Maybe we could get this to work to add at least some screenshots.

×
×
  • Create New...