kulverstukas Posted May 2, 2016 Author Share Posted May 2, 2016 Launchbox is really nice, I'm using it for my portable custom emulation rig in a box (WIP) and I'm in a process of dealing with software, and I noticed one thing, and I'm not sure if that's normal, because I can't find any information about it - when you import ROM games, all information is scraped perfectly. But when I import MS-DOS games, nothing gets scraped, it doesn't even tries to search... maybe I need to download the covers manually somehow? tl;dr - does Launchbox scrape information for ms-dos games when importing them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 Yea there should be scraped games, granted not everything, but you should have something. https://i.imgur.com/lNPiEdy.png If you want to re-run the Metadata and Images feature, click a game then hit Ctrl + A to highlight them all. Then go to Tools -> Download Metadata and Images (at the bottom) and that process will run again. If the platform is the same as the database (MS-DOS) you should be getting something, unless you have games that are the less scrapeable kind. I even have a bunch of games with no box art but screenshots and video (from EmuMovies) too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kulverstukas Posted May 3, 2016 Author Share Posted May 3, 2016 Interesting. Because I have a pack of over 2k MS-DOS games and none of them got scraped... I believe at least half of those games should have some sort of information found on the web :P I'm probably doing something wrong... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 Check your firewall, give LaunchBox elevated permissions, give the folder permissions, make sure that the system is called MS-DOS or try a clean install of LB (make a copy of the XML file and delete the original) or try a new PC? I have 4.5k games for DOS myself, and while a lot of the games aren't being scraped (because the information doesn't exist yet), as you can see from the screenshot a lot of it does. I also just recently re-imported my DOS games too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kulverstukas Posted May 4, 2016 Author Share Posted May 4, 2016 Ok, so I imported the games again, and some of them got scraped. Many wasn't found tho... Don't know what I was doing wrong, but most likely I didn't notice the scraped games :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 It's alright. Our DOS section is kind of ... pathetic to be honest. We grabbed all of our data from the GamesDB, and their DOS section was merged in with PC and wasn't given a lot of love. One of the first things I made sure we did was start to do right with all of the information we got. Number 1 was splitting DOS and PC and making sure we have the tools to allow everyone to start uploading for it. Jason and I love DOS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XoRRoX Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 I'd just like to add that "PC" got renamed to "Windows" so that there's now "DOS" & "Windows". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Was just going to ask - isn't DOS the same as PC in gaming terms? I mean one refers to an operating system and the other to the machine that runs the operating system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 I believe we don't use PC any longer. MS-DOS and Windows are what is used now instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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