natemac00 Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 Arcade - 4-Player Simultaneous View File MAME Arcade Games that play 4 Simultaneous. Version 170827.1 This is an Auto-Populate playlist, it will look for any games under "Play Mode" labeled "4-Player Simultaneous". Submitter natemac00 Submitted 08/27/2017 Category Playlists Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegreatiandi Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 So this seems to be the best thing ever...but i can't get it to populate anything for me in LB. A few of the great guys over on the Discord said my metadata is screwed up. I've tried to re-download it a few times for all the MAME stuff, and it still will not give me anything in the 4player playlist. I opened the XML after i've done the re-dowload, and this is all that's inside: Any clues? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 That is all you should see in the xaml since it is only the relevant data to build the playlist. It will not show game data. You should be able to just drop this in the Launchbox\Data\Playlists folder (make sure LB is closed first) and then open Launchbox. I just dropped it in and it populated 14 games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegreatiandi Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 1 hour ago, Retro808 said: That is all you should see in the xaml since it is only the relevant data to build the playlist. It will not show game data. You should be able to just drop this in the Launchbox\Data\Playlists folder (make sure LB is closed first) and then open Launchbox. I just dropped it in and it populated 14 games. Not working like that for some reason. LordMonkus said my Platform XML should have certain information in it to help generate the list. I looked at the Arcade info in the platform xml, and it looks kinda empty to me: Am i wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 Monkus definitely has greater depth of knowledge than me. Just to compare though here is a snap of my platform xaml and it looks pretty much the same as yours. I have never done anything fancy when importing roms and creating platforms. Standard process and then just do a normal scrape for data. He may have been talking about the platforms game metadata. If the metadata for the games does not contain the "4-Player Simultaneous" data then the playlist will not populate. The games that I have in the pic earlier if you have them imported right click on each of them and make sure it has the metadata in that field populated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegreatiandi Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 1 hour ago, Retro808 said: Monkus definitely has greater depth of knowledge than me. Just to compare though here is a snap of my platform xaml and it looks pretty much the same as yours. I have never done anything fancy when importing roms and creating platforms. Standard process and then just do a normal scrape for data. He may have been talking about the platforms game metadata. If the metadata for the games does not contain the "4-Player Simultaneous" data then the playlist will not populate. The games that I have in the pic earlier if you have them imported right click on each of them and make sure it has the metadata in that field populated. So i went to the exact game you have here...and this is what mine says. So this is what he must mean by the metadata being incorrect. Im not sure how that happens or how to mass change that though. It would be next to impossible to do each individual game....yikes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 Mass editing is not that hard you just need to know which games you need to edit. How long ago did you import the roms? Mine has been in this set-up since early 2017. Odd that your play mode listing is only multiplayer. I really do not edit metadata at all. So I know it was not something I added. If you know all the games the meet 4-player simultaneous you can just CTRL-Click those games then choose edit. It will bring up the bulk editor. Choose the Play Mode field and then add "4-Player Simultaneous" to the edit. Then save. The playlist would then pick them up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegreatiandi Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 I imported these like 3 weeks ago. There all from this pack: I have a list off line of 4player arcade games...but i don't think i can just click and choose easily since they are scattered throughout. Here is the list i was sent: 2 On 2 Open Ice Challenge (rev 1.21) Alien Storm Alien vs. Predator (US 940520) Arabian Fight Arabian Magic (US) Armored Warriors (US 941024) Atari Football (4 players) Atari Soccer Barricade Battle Circuit (Asia 970319) Battle Toads Blazing Tornado Bomber Man World (World) Brute Force Bucky O'Hare (US version UA) Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (US 930201) Cadillacs Kyouryuu-Shinseiki (Japan 930201) Captain America and The Avengers (US Rev 1.9) Captain Commando (US 910928) Car Polo Checkmate Comotion Cops'n Robbers Crime Fighters (US 4 players) Crypt Killer (ver. UAA) Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat Dark Adventure Dead Connection (World) Desert Assault (US) Double Dragon 3 - The Rosetta Stone (US) Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara (US 960619) Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom (US 940125) Dunk Mania (DM1/VER.C) Dynablaster (World) Euro Champ '92 (World) Exvania (Japan) Face Off (Japan) Football Champ (World) Gauntlet Gauntlet II GI Joe (US) Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder (US) Growl (US) Hard Dunk (World) Hat Trick Hero (Japan) Hat Trick Hero '95 (US) Heated Barrel (US) High Impact Football (rev LA3 12/27/90) Hit Me Hit the Ice (US) Hook (US) Hot Rod (turbo 3 player) Hyper Sports Special (Japan) Ironman Stewart's Super Off-Road Ironman Stewart's Super Off-Road Track Pack John Elway's Team Quarterback Judge Dredd (rev LA1, prototype) Karate Blazers (US) Knights of the Round (US 911127) Knuckle Heads (World) Mercs (US 900302) Metamorphic Force (US ver UAA) Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (Set 2) Muscle Bomber - The Body Explosion (Japan 930713) Muscle Bomber Duo - Heat Up Warriors (Japan 931206) Muscle Bomber Duo - Ultimate Team Battle (World 931206) Mystic Warriors (US ver UAA) NBA Hangtime (rev L1.1 04/16/96) NBA Jam (rev 2.00 02/10/93) NBA Jam TE (rev 4.0 03/23/94) NBA Maximum Hangtime (rev 1.0 11/8/96) Nettou! Gekitou! Quiztou!! (Japan) NFL Blitz 2000 NFL Blitz '99 Numan Athletics (World) Oriental Legend / Xi Yo Gi Shi Re Zuang (ver. 126) Pigout Pit Fighter (rev 3) Power Drive Powered Gear: Strategic Variant Armor Equipment (Japan 941024) Punk Shot (US 4 Players) Quartet Racin' Force IS THIS RIGHT? 8 PLAYER? Rampage (revision 2) Rampage: World Tour (rev 1.1) Rampart (Trackball) Rim Rockin' Basketball (V1.2) Ring Rage (US) Run and Gun (US ver. UBA 1993 10.8) Run and Gun 2 (ver UAA) Runark (Japan) Rushing Heroes (ver UAB) Sangokushi II (Asia 921005) Saturday Night Slam Masters (US 930713) Senjou no Ookami II (Japan 900302) Silent Dragon (World) Snow Bros. 2 - With New Elves / Otenki Paradise Spider-Man: The Videogame (US) Sprint 4 (set 1) Star Guards Sunset Riders (US 4 Players ver. UDA) Super Cup Finals (World) Super High Impact (rev LA1 09/30/91) Super Sprint (rev 1) Tecmo Bowl (World?) Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (UK 4 Players) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Turtles in Time (US 4 Players ver. UAA) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (US 4 Players) Tenchi wo Kurau II - Sekiheki no Tatakai (Japan 921031) The Combatribes (US) The King of Dragons (US 910910) The Main Event (4 Players ver. Y) The Ninja Kids (World) The Simpsons (4 Players) The Three Stooges In Brides Is Brides TouchDown Fever TouchDown Fever 2 Tournament Cyberball 2072 (rev 1) Tournament Table (set 1) Trog (prototype, rev 4.00 07/27/90) Turbo Force Undercover Cops (World) Vendetta (World 4 Players ver. R) Violent Storm (US ver UAB) Vs. Tennis Warlords Warriors of Fate (US 921031) Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey Wheel Of Fortune Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa (US version UA) World Soccer Finals WWF WrestleFest (US) Xenophobe X-Men (US 4 Players) I guess i can try that though...i can't really see any other way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 Yeah that's a good bit. I do not know any faster way to bulk edit a metadata field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegreatiandi Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 (edited) Update here...i got it figured out man. Deleted the XML and re-downloaded meta data only...so no other check marks checked for snaps or any kind of media ( with the inclusion of the " use MAME " option on the last screen because this was an arcade import ). Restarted LB and all was well. There is still a few roms that are off...but just a mouse click or two and we're good. Thanks for all the help. Edited August 23, 2018 by thegreatiandi 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Nice. Glad it wasn't all the CTRL+Clicking that needed to be done. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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