CriticalCid Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 Hi I’m Daniel. I posted a few request on Bitbucket and thought it’s time to introduce myself here :) I’m 23 years old and come from Germany (so I excuse my not so perfect English ;)) and I’m a big video game fan. Maybe you could even say historian because I spend more time collecting games, hearing video game music and reading/learning about the video game history and gaming culture in general than actually playing some games. My love for retro gaming started nearly 7 years ago through a very popular videogame podcast here in Germany when they started to make podcast about retro consoles I played or even merely heard about. My favorite game of all time is Final Fantasy 9 but I also really love the Mass Effect, Kingdom Hearts and Pokémon Series with all of my heart. LaunchBox is actually the 4th FrontEnd I tried in the last couple of years. I started with the Advanced Launcher and ROM Collection Browser Add-Ons for Kodi(mainly because I use Kodi as my multimedia center) but both of them have many flaws. At the beginning of last year I switched to HyperSpin because of the beautiful flashy themes it offers, but when it comes to functionality and organizing your collection it’s not really worth the huge amount of time you have to invest and the lack of a lot of metadata was not my cup of tea as video game history enthusiast. So I hope I have found now the perfect FrontEnd for me (especially when all my requests are fulfilled and LaunchBox starts to support HyperSpin Themes ;)). But with such a committed developer like Jason I have no doubt that it will become in the near future the ultimate FE for me. :) Oh, and you can thank SimplyAustin. When it wasn’t for him I would never have known about your project! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Welcome and don't worry about your English most of ours is terrible too and we are from America. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Hi Daniel, welcome indeed. I've definitely appreciated your help on Bitbucket; thanks for that. :) We've gotten a lot of traffic from Simply Austin's video recently, so yes, we absolutely have him to thank for some decent growth. He's a really great guy and it's been awesome getting to know him, even if only through emails and YouTube comments. ;) Also really looking forward to new LaunchBox videos of his; I know he plans to do more soon. Thanks for saying hi, and glad to have you @CriticalCid. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriticalCid Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 Glad I could help. My list of missing features in LaunchBox is actually quite longer but that's all for the distant future because it's mainly special interest and for now there's a lot more important things to integrate ;) Now that a Mobygames scraper is a thing I hope the APIs I found are still useful for you. As for me there can’t be enough sources for metadata scraping :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Agreed, yes, can't have too many APIs. Obviously that's a crucial part of LaunchBox, being able to easily import data on your games. That's probably one of the biggest selling points, and with the stability issues of TheGamesDB, we definitely need more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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