Removing emulators and other library-related issues

[shock66]

Hi, I'm really loving the LaunchBox interface. Comparing between this and EmulationStation/Retroarch I have to say it's the right balance of features and ease-of-use. Once I can get my emulators all running smoothly, Big Box will be an integral part of my Kodi setup. I've been experimenting with multiple emulators for the same platform (Genesis in this case) and because of that really messed up my games library. Here are some issues I've run into. Addressing these issues would vastly improve the usability of Launchbox I think. *Changing the default emulator for a platform from one registered emulator to another doesn't work; games will still run through the initially-registered emulator. I think registering a new emulator as the default emulator should alter the association within the individual game configuration *Deleting the default emulator for a platform completely hoses that platform's library. All games are still associated with the initial default emulator, and can't be changed to a new one. Re-importing the platform's games does not work (0 successfully imported). *Deleting a platform orphans all its games, with no way to get rid of those games other than manual deletion. I understand this can be prevented by manually deleting all games before deleting the platform, but I think games should be removed along with the platform (rather than being orphaned) or something else. Re-importing roms to the same platform fails (0 successfully imported). After having done this several times I can confirm it's not easy to find a way around these issues. I have to wipe and reinstall Launchbox every time. Anyway, just thought I'd give some feedback. Great work Jason!

[SentaiBrad]

You can easily change the emulator associated with games. I'll switch between RetroArch and a Standalone all the time. Add the emulator you want, setup command line parameters if you need them. Once it is setup if it is not the default you use the Bulk Edit to change the games to use the new emulator. In this case on the left, select Sega Genesis. Once you are viewing all of those games, Ctrl + A to highlight every game then right click edit an entry. From there select Emulator then choose the new one. They should all use the new emulator.

[shock66]

Cool, thanks! That's very useful to know. However, I do think that when one changes the default emulator for a platform, it would be intuitive that it automatically changes the individual game associations to the new default emulator. My library is still very difficult to use as per my third point above, so once I get that squared away I'll try some more testing.

[Jason Carr]

Hi @shock66, yeah, I do have those items on my list. They can't really be automatic, because the user needs to know what's going on, but I'm planning to add prompts when deleting platforms, or changing default emulators to ask what to do with the games. :)

[shock66]

Yeah, anything that adds a little more control over what happens to the associated games in these situations would be helpful, I think. Thanks for such a great application and your amazing responsiveness!