kal9000

It works, I guess 'consolidate roms' was the feature I was looking for all along, thanks!

interesting; I'll backup my collection and give it a shot. If it's not destructive maybe the messaging should be changed. Right now it says 'This process is permanent; it is recommended to create a backup of your collection before proceeding. Are you sure'. It sounds like it's changing files around to me anyways.

I tried the approach of adding more roms using the tools-> import approach, and I think it still created some duplicates. For instance, I now see two copies of 'wonder boy' for genesis; one with region 'Japan' and one 'North America, Europe'. Looking at each more closely, one is actually combining 'brazil/japan', and the other, 'NorthAmerica Europe/ Brazil'. I think this happened because I added a brazil version, but I need to try and replicate to be sure. Even still, maybe we could just have an option that scans selected games and combines them? That function seems to work really well during initial import, and I get one entry, labelled as the NorthAmerica region, but then it combines all other regions into that one. There is an option, 'consolidate roms', but it sounds like this will actually mess things up on the file system, which is not what I want (I have complete no-intro sets and I'd like to keep the files matching the datfiles). Thanks!

My update process has been to remove a platform and re-import everything whenever I add roms to a platform. As such, everything on that platform was temporarily removed, favorite or not.

Thanks, I did specify the folder during the tools->import->rom files process; it's an option there. I wasn't aware that you could repeatedly run the import->rom files process. I assumed you do that for initial import, and then use the 'scan for added/removed' roms feature when you change the roms in that platform's folder. From now on I'll just try re-using that feature when I add a rom to a platform's folder. Since you both asked why I removed games from launchbox, it's because I wanted to do a clean import of my updated collection when i change it, and didn't think 'scan for added roms' would do that. Now that I know I can just re-do the import rom files process I'll try that next time, and won't have to delete things beforehand.

It could just be that I'm approaching things the wrong way, but here's what I've been doing and the problems I'm seeing: First, I import a set of games; let's say 100 genesis games, using the tools->import->rom files option. I always choose the option to de-dupe imports so that similarly named games aren't imported twice (multi region etc.) Later, I have some more games to import. If I just choose 'scan for added roms', there is no option to do the de-duping, so I assume it is not doing it. So, what I end up doing is: - delete the genesis platform - do the tools->import->rom files option all over again to ensure everything happens cleanly. Some side effects of this: - all of my favorites are lost. It seems that launchbox doesn't remember a favorite once I delete it from my library. - i keep my roms outside of launchbox folder. Every time I import anew, even when I point to a different folder, it always sets the folder as the default under launchbox, ie launchbox/roms/genesis or whatever. I end up having to re-open the platform after importing and changing the directory. If I'm missing something here I'd love to know. Maybe all that's needed is a feature to 'remove duplicates' on already imported games, the same as is made available during an import. Then, I could always just run that tool after scanning for new roms. Thanks!

I'd like to create a playlist that is like: community rating is greater than 4 stars and # of ratings is greater than 20 It seems I can choose 'rating' now as a filter, which filters on community rating, not my rating, which is already confusing, but that's another issue.. The problem is that there are many games with high ratings like 5.0, but done by 1 person, and I'd like to ignore those.

Shared playlists, with the ability to vote. Would be cool if I could browse popular playlists like 'best 90's shmups' etc. that others have curated, then upvote if I like it. Community could then collaborate to create meaningful playlists together.

I have two 4k machines in place. One with an i3 and 960, the other with an i7 and 1070. The i7 seems to perform fairly well with big box, but the 960 really chugs. I'm not sure if it's the gpu or cpu, but I was wondering if it has been considered to add a resolution option to bigbox? I'm not sure how it's rendering, but I don't see a problem with it rendering at 1080p as there's little to no use for the 4k detail in it's UI. Maybe the performance problem is something else, but I'm not sure what else it could be.

Thanks I'll check those lists out. Looked to me like no-intro is fairly up to date considering the recent activity on the dat-o-matic, http://datomatic.no-intro.org/?page=download, but I guess they don't bother with some of the more recent systems.

I'm finally getting my rom collection organized. To start I've been using Romcenter with some older cartridge based consoles (genesis/n64/etc), and have used the no-intro dat files to audit the collections. What I can't figure out is how to audit the cd based systems? I don't see any dat files on no-intro for sega-cd, psx, turbo-cd, etc. Is there a particular reason these don't exist, and what do people do to audit cd-based games in their collection? P.S. Just bought launchbox pro, totally worth it!