[Adding Android games]

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Welp, apparently I was wrong with some of this. Back when I implemented it, I did find a way to filter out to only games, but unfortunately it's relatively unreliable. The reason that Lone Wolf Saga isn't showing up is because it's been categorized under productivity for some reason, instead of games like it should be.

It looks like we could also do better at not including non-games by not adding the "Undefined" category. The only trouble there is that any game that doesn't have an explicit games category won't show up. But that is the most likely cause for non-games showing up in the list.

I guess really, to do this right, at least for the automatic approach, would be to ignore the fact that some games just aren't categorized properly and expect the games to get fixed instead of catering to the issues. I'll probably do that going forward, and then maybe we can add a manual option to fix badly categorized games/apps later.

No worries.  Things happen.  I am glad to see Launchbox returning to Android regardless.

As for Lone Wolf...figures.  Productive is definitely what I am when playing it.  Soooo productive.

Do what you can and I'll still appreciate your efforts.

[Adding Android games]

Consider this my vote to add some sort of manual import function for Android games.  I personally don't mind removing apps that are automatically imported from Launchbox, but one of my favorites never showed up and is unavailable.  My problem game is Lone Wolf Saga by GDV Games and Software.  The opt-in option would also accomplish this, but may require all apps be automatically imported which can become a massive headache in the other direction for other users.

[Adding Android games]

Where did you find how to import Android games?

[Final Fantasy 7 Remako Mod with 7th Heaven.]

I've got it starting easily enough.  I put "7th Heaven.exe" as the application path, and "/PROFILE:Default /LAUNCH" in the command line parameters.  To keep the startup pretty I overrode the default start screen settings to hide all windows that aren't exclusively fullscreen.

The UAC prompt still pops up.  UAC can be turned off, but that creates a security hole.  I haven't figured this out yet.

I created the following .bat file and set it in the 7th Heaven -> Settings -> Game Launcher -> Programs to Run Prior to FF7

@echo off
sleep 60
:check
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq ff7.exe" 2>NUL | find /I /N "ff7.exe">NUL
if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" (goto check) else "7th Heaven.exe" /Quit

Everything runs beautifully, except for the UAC prompt.  I don't see a way around it.

[Final Fantasy 7 Remako Mod with 7th Heaven.]

There is a way, though I am still working through it.  And if you didn't know, 7th Heaven has updated and is MUCH better.

What I am having the most trouble with is getting 7th Heaven to launch without Windows UAC kicking in.

[GOG Galaxy Launch]

I love the idea of launching a game through GOG Galaxy in order to be able to use achievements and such.  However, would it be possible to be able to launch only specific GOG games through Galaxy?  A number of my GOG games (ie. Quest for Glory V) have no extra features available from GOG.

Or another way to go about this would be how do I assign or remove a GOG badge from a game?  I presume that by removing the badge LaunchBox would no longer attempt to use GOG Galaxy to launch the game.

[GOG Galaxy Launch]

I love the idea of launching a game through GOG Galaxy in order to be able to use achievements and such.  However, would it be possible to be able to launch only specific GOG games through Galaxy?  A number of my GOG games (ie. Quest for Glory V) have no extra features available from GOG.

Or another way to go about this would be how do I assign or remove a GOG badge from a game?  I presume that by removing the badge LaunchBox would no longer attempt to use GOG Galaxy to launch the game.

[Work in progress: gog.com plugin]

Just discovered this today.  Like the idea.  My collection on GOG is still quite small, though I am certain there are more than a few out there with massive collections that would find this VERY useful.  Perhaps you could get the word out by seeing if this could be covered in one of the semi-regular Launchbox videos?