SentaiBrad Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Yea this is why I asked you to try the beta, there were a lot of fixes made to EmuMovies. Tools -> Options -> Updates (Under General). Check Update at Startup and Update to Beta Releases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franklb Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 The latest beta (5.8-beta4) doesn't improve things. It's the same as before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 Okay, will review. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmosef Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Hello, I'm trying to import a MAME ROM collection and I've run into the same issue. I'm using version 6.12. Has there been any progress on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Hi @schmosef, this thread is really old; we don't even use thegamesdb.net anymore. What exactly are you seeing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmosef Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Just now, Jason Carr said: Hi @schmosef, this thread is really old; we don't even use thegamesdb.net anymore. What exactly are you seeing? Hi Jason, Thanks for responding. Sorry for the necropost. I've been a "forever" premium member for a while but just got around to building a MAME cab and ran into this problem. Up until now I've been using LaunchBox with GOG games and haven't seen this issue yet. After I posted here I saw the other thread that talks about thegamesdb.net site issues. Anyway, I'm following your video tutorial on importing a MAME collection and I notice that during the import an error counter in the bottom right is racking up an impressive count. At the end of the process a window pops up with a scrollable list of all the errors and asks me if I want to import the ROMs that did not have errors. I don't remember the exact wording but all the errors say something like "404 error" contacting "api.thegamesdb.net". I should have taken a screenshot. I'll do another import and get one. Also note that I'm an EmuMovies platinum member as well. I saw earlier in this thread how that might be connected to this problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Ah, gotcha. That's actually not thegamesdb.net; I'm guessing it's the database that EmuMovies uses. It could be that EmuMovies is having trouble; go ahead and try again and save the error if it happens again. That way we can talk to Circo from EmuMovies about it and get it fixed. Otherwise, it's probably just minor downtime or a fluke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmosef Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Hi @Jason Carr, You are correct. I misremembered the URL. It's api.gamesdbase.com. Sorry. I work in IT and I hate when customers give me bad info. Oh well... I've attached a screenshot. This is from part way through importing a 0.178 MAME ROM collection. I used the filtering you recommend in your video, except I didn't skip adult games (I probably should have; they are all terrible). Is there a way to dump this to a text file? Would it help to have that? My concern is that, per the comment earlier in the thread, the games with download errors are not going to be imported into LaunchBox. Or has that issue been resolved? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 We should talk to @circo and see if there's something going on there. Unfortunately I don't have any way to dump it in the app. I do believe, however, that I fixed the issue where games were not getting imported if they ran into download errors, so the games should at least get imported successfully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmosef Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 (edited) I found another thread here with the same issue I'm having. In that case the user was not a premium EmuMovies member. I'm going to ask about this issue on the EmuMovies forums. It's possible that one of their API systems doesn't know I have a premium account. Edited October 20, 2016 by schmosef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmosef Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Well, on the bright side, I can confirm that the import issue for games that had download errors is indeed fixed. The import above, with EmuMovies selected, and the filter settings mentioned previously, resulted in 2899 games being imported with around 6000 errors reported. I then cleared the games list and redid the import with the same filters, this time selecting "none" from EmuMovies. The result was also 2899 games imported, but this time there were no errors reported. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Sure, good to hear. Now that you have the games imported, you can run Tools > Download Metadata and Images to see if you're still getting the same errors from EmuMovies. If you are, we should send some examples to Circo. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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