Emulation_Guru Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Forgive me if am posting in incorrect location guys but, I have a huge issue with most of my platforms and missing images. for example noticed when watch that guy Brad tutorials, he always has full images on each game and system... I got 2400 nes games alone in launchbox but not even half of them are showing images... do we really have to click on every single game one at a time and download correct image for it? God hope not I got a little over 10k games on my setup. Is there not a way to get launch box to search for missing images or update them per platform? Someone please point me in the right direction thank you for your time and patience in advance... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fromlostdays Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 2400 is a lot of games for the nes. Your set must include releases from other regions home bees hacks etc. Are you using to sec and uploading a bunch of the same roms? Either way, art probably doesn't exist for all of those games. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fromlostdays Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 You can do and audit, sort by cover at, and hide all the games with no art at the same time, by the way.Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fromlostdays Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 You have to understand that for many systems, art might not exist at all yet. Nes usa region is pretty much 100 percent on art, but when you get away from popular systems like that, there could be none at all.Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fromlostdays Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 One last thing, the art that does exist is matched to your rom based on how the rom is named. I don't know where you got that nes pack, but if the names are weird, they won't parse correctly and thats when you have to click the game and manually change the title and download the art. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emulation_Guru Posted February 20, 2017 Author Share Posted February 20, 2017 16 minutes ago, fromlostdays said: One last thing, the art that does exist is matched to your rom based on how the rom is named. I don't know where you got that nes pack, but if the names are weird, they won't parse correctly and thats when you have to click the game and manually change the title and download the art. no each game is different I filter clones to make sure just several regions as I speak, write, and read 7 different languages so I can enjoy games all over. yes I'm aware the name might throw the metadata off. but no way I'm renaming that many games lol. what do you mean by audit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fromlostdays Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 (edited) 7 different languages, wow. Alright, he's my recommendation. Open Launchbox select your system, go to Tools, and then Audit. Let it do its thing. This audits a lot of things... duplicates etc. but it also audits your art. If you scroll over the columns you can sort the list by box art... or video... whatever you want. Scroll down until you see 0s by the box art. Select all the games with no art. Right click, then select edit. This will bring up the Bulk Edit Wizard. In the dropdrop, click "hide", this should be bring up a hide checkbox. Check it, and then and go through the next few screens. This will effectively "hide" every game without boxart for a system. You can "Unhide all games" via the launchbox menu whenever you want, but if you're just doing casual scrolling it will only show games with boxart. It looks better, in other words. But, if you find a particular game for another region that you want to have displayed, you can just unhide that game, and do a search for the art. If it comes up with some, awesome. If it doesn't, you'll have to make the art yourself. That's about all you can do. Remember that the LaunchBox Database is a community project and is by no means finished. And also remember that the creation of the art itself has been a "retro" community volunteer project for years. Some art might not exist at all. Edited February 20, 2017 by fromlostdays 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emulation_Guru Posted February 21, 2017 Author Share Posted February 21, 2017 6 hours ago, fromlostdays said: 7 different languages, wow. Alright, he's my recommendation. Open Launchbox select your system, go to Tools, and then Audit. Let it do its thing. This audits a lot of things... duplicates etc. but it also audits your art. If you scroll over the columns you can sort the list by box art... or video... whatever you want. Scroll down until you see 0s by the box art. Select all the games with no art. Right click, then select edit. This will bring up the Bulk Edit Wizard. In the dropdrop, click "hide", this should be bring up a hide checkbox. Check it, and then and go through the next few screens. This will effectively "hide" every game without boxart for a system. You can "Unhide all games" via the launchbox menu whenever you want, but if you're just doing casual scrolling it will only show games with boxart. It looks better, in other words. But, if you find a particular game for another region that you want to have displayed, you can just unhide that game, and do a search for the art. If it comes up with some, awesome. If it doesn't, you'll have to make the art yourself. That's about all you can do. Remember that the LaunchBox Database is a community project and is by no means finished. And also remember that the creation of the art itself has been a "retro" community volunteer project for years. Some art might not exist at all. thank you so much friend... I shall use this new found info to fix my issues I'll create art ad needed heck my youtube channel was created dedicated to this community though I just only did 7 bigbox startup videos I'll get it going soon enough... all my themes,videos,artwork and gfx designs will be on the channel as I complete more thanks again... Happy gaming! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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