The Psychologist Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Hi This program is driving me a bit insane. I have the nice shiny new Sega CD/Mega CD set and I'm trying to add multi-game titles to LB. With previous platforms, LB let me add each disc separately and each has a thumbnail in the UI. Then I went in and added "(1)" etc. to the disc names in LB. No problem, each game was pointing to a different cuesheet, so it makes sense I could add them separately for multi-disc titles. But now I'm on LB 6.11 and it throws a "null" path error for the additional discs. No problems importing the cuesheet for disc 1, but all other discs fail in multi-disc sets. I thought a unique ROM path and a unique LB title was more than enough to to generate a unique entry in the LB XML? Why is it now rage-quitting when I try to add the 2nd disc, 3rd disc, etc? Disc swapping is a huge hole in LB's capabilities right now, hope the devs figure out a way to simplify this as there are MANY multi-disc titles. (The Saturn japan set all imported fine and showed multiple thumbnails per each disc #.) I see in "additional apps" that the first disc is added automatically, while you would need to manually add every additional disc to that title. That is a nightmare for large collections. BTW the additional discs are not always the game proper, sometimes they are independent discs of bonus material, etc.. It doesn't work to think of them as all being the main game. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Psychologist Posted October 16, 2016 Author Share Posted October 16, 2016 whoa - so it appears that each disc does get an "additional applications" entry upon importing to LB? so what is the correct procedure for switching discs when prompted by the emulator? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 i would also like to know the procedure for switching discs. also, i see that my dreamcast multi disc games appear as one LB entry with the other CDs as additional apps, but multi disc games in ps2 and saturn for example have one game entry for each and every disc. should they be collapsed into single games like my dreamcast games? if so how to do that easily for all of them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Psychologist Posted October 17, 2016 Author Share Posted October 17, 2016 i dunno, it looks like it may handle each cuesheet separately if you put them all in the same folder (i.e. all four discs of Panzer Saga for Saturn in one folder). when you dump that folder in, the three additional discs may automatically get added to the "additional apps". i personally prefer to have thumbnails for every disc (excluding floppy-based stuff), but i can deal if this is going to help us somehow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 How you switch the disc is going to be determined by the emulator since that is where you will be doing it so if your emulator of choice makes it easy to switch discs then it shouldn't be hard but some emulators don't have the feature built into it and it is virtually impossible to switch discs in game. @ckp alll of your games should import in the same way your Dreamcast games did but only if they are in the same folder and named correctly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Psychologist Posted October 17, 2016 Author Share Posted October 17, 2016 ok, thanks for being patient. so it looks like LB will add each additional disc in the title as an "additional app". but all the files for the chosen game need to be in a dedicated folder? when you import, it shows the disc number on the right. once they are imported, only one has a thumbnail and the others are in the r-click menu for the thumbnail. i still have no idea why LB imported my saturn jp set as individual entries, the files are sorted into single folders, etc.. but no luck. trying to remember if i did them before or after i upgraded to 6.11... now, does that mean i can dump in large directories that aren't sorted with folders for each title and still get the "stacked" entries in LB? will the import wizard scan the filenames and detect (disc 1) (disc 2), etc. and show them as sets during import?? thinking of large computer sets like the Amstrad. cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 I'm not 100% sure it may have to be in a sub folder but I'm not positive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 if some of our platforms already have multiple thumbnails for a single game, maybe because that is how they imported in the past, i guess i am assuming LB won't automatically fix that and i will have to delete those and reimport them or delete them one by one and add the manually to the additional apps - is that right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Yes that is correct Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 ok i figured. i did it and it worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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