Mr. RetroLust

All good things come to those who are pushy wait ?

I'm doing a lot of research through launchbox by going to different titles and reading their data a lot, I love the fact that you can type a letter to quickly browse through the lists which I do in windows explorer and itunes as well, I don't know if it is hard to program but it would be even faster browsing if you could type the second or even the third following letter in sequence like you can in windows and itunes. At the moment I'm using the search function which works really well as well but when closing the search term you'll be back at the top of a list, so maybe if you can go back to where your position before the search was it would be awesome as well. ?

Everything is going smoothly! I'll be busy with this upcoming weeks, will sort the boxes by company logo manually and sort them like this as I have to check them 1 by 1 anyhow, will keep you all up to date once I have something nice to show. Thanks everyone for helping me on the way \m/

You guys are the greatest, thank you so much for always providing help guys, you don't know (or probably do lol) how much of an effort and time saver this is.

Awesome!!! Yes please Thanks dudes!

Oh @neil9000 one last question(s), I guess I can just start a new platform and name it "temporary" and do the full mame importer here so I don't mess anything up in my existing arcade platform media? Do I really need the newest mame for it to correspond well with the full mame importer? I have mame 0.198 installed at the moment but I guess I can just drag this folder to another place and put it back in place after the import fase right?

Dude, really! Bro-Hugs for you!!! ?? Thanks man, so happy with this! Gonna try this out first thing tomorrow

Thanks for the explanation Jason, I really love bezels but if it eats too much performance it would take away the fun of playing a game. Here are my answers: How important is it to you for the startup screen to fade into the game? Is it worth the performance sacrifice to you while playing the game? Personally I don't need or use transitions or fades because of performance, but as long as it's an optional thing I'm all for it. How important is it to you to use bezels? Are they worth the performance sacrifice to you? Very important, but if it means stuttering games and input lag I won't use the feature. Mame and retroarch work very well but I guess thats because its build in if I understand correctly? What features are you most looking for with startup screens? No ideas on this What features are you most looking for with pause screens? Read manuals, browse the images scraped from launchbox database like instruction images, flyers and covers (Being able to zoom in on images to see some smaller details is something I really like to see), being able to play, skip, pause sound files like music or (arcade) ambience sound files.

Thanks bro but I already downloaded the set of 6607 logo's from Emumovies to go along with the Emumovies 3Dboxes from Robin (4885 boxes) all in mame naming, but there are too many important roms not covered in these so I would have to manually correct all those and I simply don't have the time to do that, that's why I think it would be much better to switch to the complete launchbox logo's and 3D boxes now with some help. If you know anyone that can help could you let me know? Or tagging a person? Maybe @DOS76 @Lordmonkus @Retro808 @neil9000 know how I can obtain a full set of launchbox Mame 3d box and logo images from the database without having a full mame set. (sorry for my long explanations though)

Thanks @zetec-s-joe bro I'll abandon the mame shorthand filename version from the Emumovies packs as it is missing too many important games, so I can work on a Launchbox name version. @Jason Carr (or anyone else) In order for the automatic addition of the logo's to the box spines I need to pair 2 image files (box and logo files) with the exact same filename (It should be scraped in one go so there is no naming difference as the titles may have changed over time), I don't have a complete mame collection so I can't scrape this from the launchbox database, is there a way someone could send it or a trick I can do to make the scraper think I have a full arcade mame set? (pm answer is ok if needed) If I can get this to work I'm set to go.

Thanks guys much appreciated!

Thanks for everything bro! I just thought of an alternative to make two versions, one for launchbox and one for emumovies if all else fails. Do you happen to have a complete Launchbox collection of your 3D boxes and logos of Mame with identical filenames? My collection is an incomplete mess lol

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:

There's a new british show with many retro gaming youtubers participating, I friggin love it already, it's growing really fast in popularity and so it should, check it out Digitizer2000: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdMWnD7qCz4Y7FbbbfyDq5g

Ah okay, thanks like always bro

I'm really sorry if this has been explained somewhere else before, I can't seem to find the solution using the search bar. Quite some time ago - pre-launchbox.next I believe - I succesfully moved/separated quite some roms (pinball, casino, slots, mechanical) plus their images to another folder, for the live of me I can't figure out now how I did that now (could have been some manual trick with screenshot images next to the rom files, I have done this before but not sure for this matter), I do see the option "Change ROMs Folder Path for Selected Games" but the warning message pop up says it will change the paths but not move the rom files. Was there an option before that could do this or did I use a trick somehow? Basically what I want to do is move Naomi, Model 2 & 3 and systems that don't run on mame to different folders. I see some different batch script solutions on google but I really don't want to screw anything up and am hesitant to do so without information of people with experience on this matter. My Mame set is 0.198 non-merged in case this is important.

An interesting read about the man and his work: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Amos

I just saw this video by MJR and after watching it I feel we should consider giving this man (the legend Evan Amos) a bit more recognition and credits seeing his beautiful work. Thought i'd share this seeing his contribution to the width of the retro gaming community:

I'm experiencing a weird issue with games database moderating, when I accept or reject an entry it will load but instead of a new entry it shows the same entry over and over again, the queue entry number also will stick on the same number, which shows it won't 'refresh'. I already deleted all browsing data including cookies but it won't resolve the issue.

Thanks man The final pack will have a long delay as I'm working on another project (arcade cabinets 2.0) for months to come. All dual layout marquees can be downloaded through the launchbox scraper, the full marquees are whats left to do.

Yeah it should be in game details, if you dont see it you might have turned it off in the options menu

Lets say you have already rated all of your games then it'll be a bit difficult but if you haven't you could pick a number, lets say 3 stars or 1 star, if you only rate those games you want to play later with these and then make a smart playlist for just 1 or 3 stars you'll get them together. But for that matter you can add games to a playlist within BigBox as well if i'm not mistaken, wouldnt be a smart playlist then but a manual one.

The way I do it as a workaround is by giving them a specific star rating to later add them to a playlist. Edit: smart playlist can work directly with star rating.