Rawcardo Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 So i managed to load all my MAME games about 2700 roms but when i consolidate only about half get divided up between the different systems... is there any way to consolidate the full list? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawcardo Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 is there any way to view the games that have not been sorted into playlists? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 4 minutes ago, Rawcardo said: is there any way to view the games that have not been sorted into playlists? Not that i'm aware of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 all your arcade games should be in a platform called Arcade it should contain all the games from the playlist also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawcardo Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 while creating the platform it asked if i want to sort into playlist for separate systems... but only a little more then half got sorted of the 2700+ games. don't see the point in only sorting half the games. should at least make a playlist for the games that have not been sorted, so that we can sort them manually. please bring this to developments attention... should be an easy fix to just create a extra playlist and call it unsorted, that way we don't have to track down whats been added and what has not. I really cant believe no one thought of this. Who want to sort just half their games? my opinion is that this is a broken feature, and should probably be removed or fixed... just my two cents... And aside from that... honestly, keep up the good work guy's. we all know your trying your best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 The generated playlists were for the more popular arcade systems and manufacturers. To say it's broken is a massive over statement, the playlist feature works perfectly fine but in the case of the Arcade platform there are so many games that generally would be very difficult to filter into a commonly agreed upon set of playlists that it wouldn't be worth the time and energy. The playlists that do get generated (if you allow it to) covers the more popular stuff leaving the user plenty of room to create their own custom playlists if they wanted to do so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawcardo Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 ya i totally get that, but at least add a "unsorted playlist" so that if someone does want to finish the job manually they don't first have to figure out what has been added and what has not. you have to admit it's a little broken... there are plenty of "more popular" games that were not sorted... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 No, it's not broken, maybe it do with a little more polish but that doesn't make it anything close to broken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawcardo Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 ok broken may be an extreme word to use, lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 yes, broken would imply it didn't work at all or had severe problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawcardo Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 I cant track down all the awesome games that have not been sorted but i can say killer instinct 1&2 are nowhere to be seen. and if those two are missing i know there are more. Do you not think my solution to the problem is a decent one? if someone does not like the unsorted playlist they can just simply delete. but at least everything goes somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 I would agree that an option to generate a playlist based on games that have no playlist associated to it would be a nice thing to have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawcardo Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 Ok great, please pass that on to the powers that be... and sorry for busting your chops. Again, nothing but love for this program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon57 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 (edited) Hmm, I could probably write a command line script to parse the xml database files, then create a new one that aren't assigned to anything. Would that be helpful? Am I understanding that the main output be a new Playlist entry only with games not assigned, and only from the Arcade platform? What about just outputting a formatted report containing the games not assigned? Edited January 31, 2018 by dragon57 Added question Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 8 hours ago, Rawcardo said: I cant track down all the awesome games that have not been sorted but i can say killer instinct 1&2 are nowhere to be seen. and if those two are missing i know there are more. Well the Killer Instinct games are a perfect example of what @Lordmonkus was saying, where should they be sorted to? They are made by Rare but they only made a handful of Arcade games so don't really need there own Playlist, they were published by Nintendo so could be added to that playlist, but that playlist currently only has games Developed by Nintendo I believe so they would be out of place there also, so that's why they are not added to any playlists by default. Also the Killer Instinct games need CHD's so if you don't have them they may not of been imported at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawcardo Posted February 3, 2018 Author Share Posted February 3, 2018 I think the easiest thing would be to sort the remaining games by decade. maybe call it Misc 70's, Misc 80's, etc. but i think ideally it should be sorted by the manufacturer of the board kinda like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_system_board not sure if this would actually work though, there might be some games that appeared on various boards. another thing i noticed is that some games appear in more then one playlist, so that means even less games then i originally thought are actually being sorted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawcardo Posted February 4, 2018 Author Share Posted February 4, 2018 (edited) where does Launhbox get the information it needs to sort the games? is it built into launchbox or does it get the info from EmuMovies? Edited February 4, 2018 by Rawcardo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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