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    Roms showing in Launchbox verse what is in the rom Folder

    in Noobs

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    I origionaly had my folders in the root of launchbox under gaems where Launchbox created the folders. Due to the increase size of media etc. I elected to put my roms on a remote drive. I since went back and made new folders under games under launchbox and put the No-intro roms under folders with the names of the folders used by Launchbox. This way I can go in at any time and do a daily build update in Clrmamepro and it would do all the work. I did this because of the fantastic update Launchbox did in the 13.# update with importing new roms when available. I went in and under each paltform settings I added the new rom folders location and name.  I did notice that until I completely changed all the systems, everytime I rerstaerted Launcbox it created the system folders again  even throught I no longer needed. I just went in and manually deleted them. Images have always and still are being created under Launchbox in the image folders. But even though I have 1 image per category clicked it makes a new image for the duplicates renumbering them 01 - 02 - 03 etc. (See attached)

    Is there a setting where Launchbox will name the roms as they are named in their folders. Example: My old setup I created my playlists - English Japan, Homebrew etc. from my roms and it worked fine. My goal this time was to make No-inro my main list and down the line add in Aftermarket, Unreleased etc., Japan etc that doesn't make it into no-Intro. Example bing Colecovision and  the Atari Systems are putting out new games almost weekly and it will be awhile before they get into No-Intro. As you can  see in the Image folder there is no difference in a rom regardless where it is made. So if I wan to play the japan version of a No-ntro rom and there is a USA one I have tom guess which is which.

    Image folder.jpg

    Roms showing in Launchbox verse what is in the rom Folder

    in Noobs

    Posted

    Thank you once again for helping me with this C-Beats. 4 screenshots attached. 

    1) No-intro Roms Folder - Atari 2600

    2) Launchbox  before Import - Atari 2600

    3) Import showing correct amount - Matches what is in the No-Intro Folder

    4) After Import

    After inport, I show more than the 830 roms. Have a lot of duplicates. Will I have to delete each system one at a time and do a new import. Also when I update my no-intro sets.Do I do a import and  will the count again have duplicates Or will Launchbox automately pick up the new roms when it starts.. If It does why is Launchbox not pickingn up the new roms in my No-intro folder that were not in my origional roms folder.

    2) Launchbox folder before Import.jpg

    1) No-Intro Roms folder.jpg

    4) After Import.jpg

    3) Import showing correct amount.jpg

    Roms showing in Launchbox verse what is in the rom Folder

    in Noobs

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    I am not.  Even if I run an audit they don't show. Have ran the importer on several of the no intro sets and they never match. Curious if any one else are using the no-into sets. Intetresting enough I tried the no intro sets in several other frontend and they all showed up. When I ran a scaper on them they all scaped. 

     

    Current results on some of the smaller No-intro sets.

    2600 - No Intro: 830 ,  Launchbox 615

    5200 - No Intro: 168 , Launchbox 108

    7800 - No Intro: 178 , Launchbox 120  + Ran the importer on this sytem, a second time and it now shows the 120 amount but now showing with 240 roms in launchbox so the origional 120 is doubled. and launcbox show 2 enries for each rom and scrapes as such.

    Colecovision - No Intro: 202, Launchbox 173

    It appears that for what ever reason Launchbox does not like No-intro sets. Not sure why.

    Before I set up the no-intro sets, Launchbox showed exactly what I had in each rom folder. When I changed to the no-intro sets my problem started.

    Guess my best bet is to go back to my old rom sets. Using no-Intro sets made sense to me as I could updated them on a monthly basis and launchbox would add the new enties.

    Thank you for yopur help C-Beats

     

    Roms showing in Launchbox verse what is in the rom Folder

    in Noobs

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    I am using the No-intro Rom sets and understand that when you point your launchbox games folder to said folder it should display all the roms in Launchbox. In every case the number of roms in my rom folder has more roms then are showing in Launcbox. Example: Nintendo DS has 7365 roms in my no-intro folder. Launchbox only shows 3977 entres. Most differeneces are 100 or less. The DS folder is the most different. Is this because the Launchbox database does not have the other entries in it, so it skips these. Or, which is probably the case I am doing domething wrong.

    Incorporate New Launch build into years old Launchbox build

    in Noobs

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    I didn't copy to a new drive I simply made new roms folders using the No-into folders names in my games directory.. I then went into manage and changed the roms folder to the new folders for each system. Unfortunyately it kept the rom names from the old folders and added the roms from the new folders creating duplicates and way more roms then are in the new folders. Should I simply kill the old playlista=s and when i restart Launchbox, it will make new playlists. Of course I will back up the old playlist folder.

     

    New Launchbox build over old Launchbox build

    in Noobs

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    Finally gtetting back into updating my launchbox build after life getting into my way over the last couple of years. My old setup had all roms in the system folder (hacks, nogood, no-intro etc.) I have now downloaded only the no-inro sets and have them in my launchbox games folder under the name of the folders in No-intro. This will make it easier to update my roms thru Clrmamepro has they become availasble. My problem is all the old games are showing up in each system even thought they arer no longer there, giving me lots of duplicate roms.. How do I delete the roms out of launchbox. In the older bersion you could delete all games not in a folder. I can find the option to get rid of duplicate images but not the deleted roms. 

    Thank you for your help

    13.1 Beta Thread

    in Beta Testing

    Posted

    work at a hospital and have been very busy and not much time for playing with Launchbox. Was on 12.3. Just upgraded to 13.1 and now I have in my platform list the all games platform listed twice. Showing i have twice as many games as i ready have. How do I delete one of the two all games platforms

     

    Clear Logo Requests

    in Game Media

    Posted

    Working on a project and can't seem to find logos for the following

    Does a logo exists for the following.

    No-Intro

    Hacks

    Homebrew

    Prototypes

    Demos

    Various countries - Example: Japan, France, Brazil, Germany,Spain, World, USA, Chinese

    Conversion

    Missing Games

    Translations

    Unreleased

     

    Gamelist

    in Playlists & Playlist Media

    Posted

    Being a player who wants ever game, is there a file I can create or that some one can share that lists every game for a given system. A number of years ago I beta tested a front end that would show every game and display artwork etc. If you did not have the game a icon was displayed next to the game showing missing.  You could then sort and print a list of missing games so that you could look for them. Whether you had the game or not you still could scrape the artwork. You then could make the call if you wanted it or not, by looking at the video artwork etc. If you found the game the icon went away and you already had the artwork etc.

    12.3 Beta Testing

    in Beta Testing

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    I have roughly 80,000 games in my Launchbox setup. After running the last update. My setup shows 190,000 games. This is because I now show twp platforms for all games. I have let the startup run for 2 days in the hopes that once it fully loads I can delete one of the all games. Unfortunately after 2 days it is still loading. Is there a way to delete one of the all games and then restart launchbox. I am only showing one all games in my dat files.

     

    Thank you

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