lovewiibrew Posted June 4, 2020 Posted June 4, 2020 On 5/19/2020 at 8:46 PM, PaulC said: it doesn't bug you that you haven't tested them all to see if they work? and it seems silly to take time getting something to work you will never want to play just so you can look at the box art in a menu. For me, it's not about what I will play, it's what my guests may want to play. To have a friend say, "Oh man, do you have game X?", and I can say yes is an awesome feeling. 1 Quote
Drodrik Posted July 30, 2020 Posted July 30, 2020 (edited) In my case for the disc systems i,I just add boxart images as roms, just for dicover new games, and if i like one i download the iso, I have the full sets just for have the complete library, and i download the disc games per demand. actually I have 66k games in the library, using this method Edited July 30, 2020 by Drodrick Quote
Chris Kant Posted July 30, 2020 Posted July 30, 2020 11 minutes ago, Drodrick said: In my case for the disc systems i,I just add boxart images as roms, just for dicover new games, and if i like one i download the iso, I have the full sets just for have the complete library, and i download the disc games per demand. actually I have 66k games in the library, using this method sounds interesting of the way how you proceed on this with images / Pictures. Quote
Drodrik Posted July 30, 2020 Posted July 30, 2020 2 minutes ago, Chris Kant said: sounds interesting of the way how you proceed on this with images / Pictures. yes is a very good way for discover new titles without spent your disk size, I put as favorites the best games in every system and i download just that, other games are marked as uninstalled Quote
cleverest Posted July 30, 2020 Author Posted July 30, 2020 44 minutes ago, Drodrick said: yes is a very good way for discover new titles without spent your disk size, I put as favorites the best games in every system and i download just that, other games are marked as uninstalled How large the drive you have all this one? do you have non-english games, betas, version A, B, etc...like, is it fairly messy? Quote
Chris Kant Posted July 30, 2020 Posted July 30, 2020 i am still on around 30 to 40K games but the speed is already annoying on my side. even if Launchbox is on a NVME SSD and the artworks and videos are on another SSD. so it will not grow in the near future. Quote
zugswang Posted July 30, 2020 Posted July 30, 2020 16 minutes ago, Chris Kant said: i am still on around 30 to 40K games but the speed is already annoying on my side. even if Launchbox is on a NVME SSD and the artworks and videos are on another SSD. so it will not grow in the near future. Speed is the biggest flaw Launchbox has. Example is Hyperspin where I have over 100,000 games and still the setup loads instantly. Obviously it must be due to Launchbox trying to load everything at once on startup. Maybe look at just loading the interface only on startup, then individual systems once they are selected? Quote
Chris Kant Posted July 30, 2020 Posted July 30, 2020 I assume it is the nature of the xml solution instead of using a database for this. Quote
zugswang Posted July 30, 2020 Posted July 30, 2020 42 minutes ago, Chris Kant said: I assume it is the nature of the xml solution instead of using a database for this. What ever it is, I would have thought it was an easy fix and should be priority number 1 IMO. Quote
Drodrik Posted July 31, 2020 Posted July 31, 2020 (edited) 16 hours ago, cleverest said: How large the drive you have all this one? do you have non-english games, betas, version A, B, etc...like, is it fairly messy? you just need a hard drive for the media images and videos, due that I have all the games in my collection but i just download The games i want to play, i just use no intro and tosec packs for roms based systems, and for the disc system i just add a boximages pack as roms, and marked them as unistalled, later i download the iso games i want to play and chage the asociated boxart.png that figures as rom with the iso dowload, with 1 or 2tb for use this method is ok Edited July 31, 2020 by Drodrick Quote
cleverest Posted August 1, 2020 Author Posted August 1, 2020 (edited) ^ Tosec packs are very complete but have a lot of versions, dupes and software junk. I prefer my set because it want it immediately useable.. my collection is about 41k games, but containing no dupes or beta/dupe version games...which means only one version of each game per platform, only English roms and translated to English roms, (unless a system is ONLY in Japanese, sharp X68000 of NEC PC-FX for example)...all this just fits snuggly on an 8TB hard drive, ready to play. Edited August 2, 2020 by cleverest Quote
vzc Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 On 4/20/2018 at 9:53 AM, Retrofrogg said: It would be pretty handy for there to be a feature in LB which lists ALL of the possible systems and perhaps the number of available games for those systems. I don't think that the LB Games Database does this? Hi - im new to the launch box scene - was this a feature that ever came to fruition? Quote
zetec-s-joe Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 No - you will have to stick with XML/dat files like HyperList/no-intro/Redump etc for complete lists Quote
CMOSS Posted October 4, 2020 Posted October 4, 2020 13 hours ago, vzc said: Hi - im new to the launch box scene - was this a feature that ever came to fruition? What you can do is to use the feature to build a fake rom list of the Community theme creator. This will create folders for every known platform in the LB database and txt files within for every rom of those platforms. Quote
Storm8873 Posted October 5, 2020 Posted October 5, 2020 I have been working hard on my Launchbox Collection. So far I'm at 41320 and it still fits on a 8TB hard drive. 1 Quote
cleverest Posted October 5, 2020 Author Posted October 5, 2020 29 minutes ago, Storm8873 said: I have been working hard on my Launchbox Collection. So far I'm at 41320 and it still fits on a 8TB hard drive. Yours is probably the closest collection to my own collection from what I see in this thread. I'm at 44,857, but that includes 2,344 vide game related magazines/comics. Quote
Storm8873 Posted October 5, 2020 Posted October 5, 2020 2 minutes ago, cleverest said: Yours is probably the closest collection to my own collection from what I see in this thread. I'm at 44,857, but that includes 2,344 vide game related magazines/comics. Nice! I still have a few platforms that run as stand alone until I can figure out how to make them Launchbox friendly, eg. Fujitsu FM Towns, Dragon 32, BBC Micro and Acorn Archimedes. Quote
cleverest Posted October 5, 2020 Author Posted October 5, 2020 1 hour ago, Storm8873 said: Nice! I still have a few platforms that run as stand alone until I can figure out how to make them Launchbox friendly, eg. Fujitsu FM Towns, Dragon 32, BBC Micro and Acorn Archimedes. Of those 4, I only have Fujitsu FM Towns running okay. If you need settings, let me know. (msg me) 1 Quote
Chris Kant Posted October 5, 2020 Posted October 5, 2020 I am now at 32..248 Games from total of 100 Systems / Platforms. not all are configured completely and still missing artworks, videos and Launchbox ID link as well. Quote
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