Scan For Added ROMS Questions

[DR9]

Hi-

How does this feature work, ever since it was implemented it never works for me. I tried added some roms to Sega Genesis, scan and tells me zero. I go and add new .ISO for gamecube and tells me zero. I restarted LB too, same results. I do use a NAS but that shouldn't matter since LB sees all my roms normally fine. I still have to manually add anything new manually by files.

Thanks!

[DOS76]

Unless your games have been moved into the LaunchBox games path this setting won't work until you go to manage platform and set the path to your roms in it the path by default is set to the LB Games folder regardless of where your ROMs actually are.

[SentaiBrad]

 

[pdavis]

Wow, this never worked for me either, I just assumed it set the rom path based on where I imported the roms from and they are stored (same location). This will save me a bit of time!

[moudrost]

Would be a nice feature if it set a path to the folder when importing.  I assumed it already had.  Thanks for the information!

[SentaiBrad]

Well, it might in the future, or even on a beta currently, but at least when I made the video it needed to be set.

[dbalcar]

Hello,  I have been trying the feature out but it still does not find any new rom .zip files.

Edited September 28, 2017 by dbalcar
fixed some text

[DOS76]

Scan for new rom by default is only looking in the Games\PlatformName inside of the LB root folder so if you didn't add your games to that location then it won't find your new games. To change the path go to Tools and select manage platforms go to your platform and edit it. Navigate to the folders tab on the form that opens up and change the games path to the path that your games are located at after that it should find your new games when you run the scan.

[dbalcar]

Thanks,  yes I have does that and double checked that but still LB will not find any new roms or remove old roms either.  my dir structure is LB\Games\Arcade\

 

[DOS76]

Okay if all of your paths are correct than maybe there is an issue with the program.

[dbalcar]

I tried it again with other MAME roms and on LB 7.11-beta1 but still no luck.

 

[DOS76]

I wonder if it is MAME specific as MAME in LB only uses up to version 0.175 so any games made working after that in MAME would still be seen as non-working in LB as it hasn't updated the data its using.

[dbalcar]

Hum,  I am on MAME 0.190.   Is there a way to update the data in LB?

 

Thanks for the reply

[DOS76]

I mean if you know the roms you can try to import them and at the end uncheck the skip nonworking games but for LB to do it Jason has to put in the work on the code side.

[dbalcar]

Yes if I import them they work great no issues it's just to search for missing and add roms does not work for me.

 

Thanks

 

[Funkitude]

I tried to add games though a data transfer cord from my phone to my PC and LB is not seeing my phone I am using a cheap Samsung Galaxy S5 because it does everything I need it to do and has 0 problems same with the cord it has 0 problems I am using the cord it came with when my mom brought it it was a free hand me down the reason I want to do this is because I don't want to scratch the 128 gig micro SD card inside of it evetime I try to get it out anyways the data transfer cord method I find is better because I am worried about basicly bricking it please someone help

thanks Funkitude