Mr. RetroLust

Hi all, I love @Robin55 work on the mame 3D boxes, I also love the 3D boxes by @spycat and @MadK9 a lot! So I wanted to make something in between this with a more darker colored Mame box variant while I await Spycats and MadK9's boxes for the future (can't wait! ). I got to talking with Robin for permission to overhaul his Mame boxes and he helped me out a lot with all my questions and on the automation process, thanks for everything bro! This project can be seen as a joint project as I couldn't have done this without his work and help. Also credit goes out to @spycat as I used the Universal Game Case as a base to work from and changed it, whom should I ask permission for for this box case? as I see more people use it, did you create it @MadK9? Now I like to keep this project as automated as possible as I'm already doing manual work on the Arcade Cabinets Project 2.0, a lot of work those 4000+ images and research I tell you 😮 The best results will always be gotten by manual work but I wanted to try what I could do quality wise in automation. I used Robin's packs from Emumovies for the boxes and the game logo's from Emumovies as they both have the Mame shorthand filenames, I like to use these filenames for better syncing in the automation process and wider compatibility reasons but most importantly I don't have the full mame set so am unable to create a full set to release, I realize there are more versions of Robins boxes and game logo's on the launchbox database than on emumovies but I can't figure out how to convert these files to mame shorthand filenames automatically, is there any smart person or way out there that could help me out on this? @Jason Carr ? A few more questions in which I really hope people could help me out with to make this project work out, you will be added to the finished projects credits. 1. 1943 3d box on the launchbox database is a good example where a poster or side art was used instead of the flyer on the launchbox database. Is there a way to download these but keep or convert them to the mame shorthand filename? Same goes for logo's which are present in the launchbox database but it would be too much work to manually edit these filenames from launchbox to mame. (this is basically the same question as above) 2. Do you know of a way to batch sort the image files to different folders as in: Arcade, Pinball, Devices, Casino, Computers etc.? Using the mame metadata I'd like to put different category text on the spine. (see example below) There is a lot of complete metadata out there, could it be done to edit a dat file to a bat file changing zip to png with a lot of creativity? Surely there must be some way. 3. Do you know how I can sort the arcade image files to different folders based on manufacturer/developer, would be cool to put a logo on the spine of the company. (see example below) 4. Is anyone willing and able to help me out once I'm finished to provide a generated list from a full mame set of all 3D boxes that are missing in mame shorthand filenames. 5. And people that are motivated, willing and able to sort out the files in different folders which have something wrong with it, like a logo not lined out correctly, missing logo, better quality artwork needed or alternative artwork etc.? Hope you guys like the results. Example, this is where I'm at but am stuck with above questions. Example 2, this is what i'd like it to be: Other examples of the automated project:

Version 1.7 Added pack "FGHIJK - UPDATE PACK" Enjoy! 🤘 After all update packs are done I'll release the resources and template so people with the skills can make their own or any missink ones. NOTE! : After installing the images you have to select all (or any alphabetical ra

Version 1.6 Added pack "0ABCDE - UPDATE PACK" Enjoy! 🤘 After all update packs are done I'll release the resources and template so people with the skills can make their own or any missink ones. NOTE! : After installing the images you have to select all (or any alphabetical range) arcade games (CTRL+A = select all) go to Tools and click 'Refresh selected images', let it load and the games should now display the right 3D boxes.

Looks amazing! I can use it for my windows version (its the only windows game I have at this moment funny enough)

Thanks both for your replies and the compliments, really appreciate it. I hope you both wont go into anymore discussions and stay friendly towards eachother lol lets leave that stuff where it belongs; the rest of the internet, so tired of facebook, twitter and the likes where people misunderstand eachother and go into endless discussions, it good for nothing and only drains good energy. I am a launchbox user indeed in fact my life is wrapped around launchbox this past year, working almost full time on media for it, this software and passion mean a lot to me for various personal reasons, its like medicine for me. I still have a lot of work to do on these, after I finished the update packs there is a large amount of data (thousands of images/flyers/art) that I collected, fixed, cropped and made that need to be uploaded to the database as well, i'm not sure if I still have energy left to do this at the point I finished this project. I did thought about converting to mame naming but this would take me far too much time which I like to spend on the other running projects but maybe @circo likes them for emumovies as well and maybe he knows how to convert them to mame naming so they can be used for different frontends.

Version 1.5 Added pack "TUVWXYZ" (remember: missing boxes will be updated through update packs in the future) Enjoy! 🤘 Next up are the update packs for missing boxes. Tip!: I noticed in my setup that games starting with "The" (examples: The Adventures of Robby Roto, The Amazing Adventures of Mr. Flea) where not showing up as 3D boxes after caching, if you experience the same do the following: In Launchbox, select all arcade games (CTRL+A) go to Tools and click 'Refresh selected images', let it load and the games should now display the right boxes.

Looks amazing! \m/

Love em like always bro, you accidentally added the vertical bezel link to the horizontal version (on youtube it's correct), here's the horizontal link: https://bit.ly/2TJU0zf

Good to hear bro, thanks