Zeaede Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 (edited) Im doing the Amiga set in ADF format Trying to add some roms, does not take them all, even if i try same rom from different set? The roms are in zip files Edited July 14, 2018 by Zeaede Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Maybe they are duplicate games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeaede Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 (edited) No i have checked it, those roms it does not import it can't find with search It's strange With Launchbox roms it adds some roms, with the database on FS-UAE it does not add same roms? Éven if openretro says the games exists but not on my list on FS-UA Edited July 15, 2018 by Zeaede Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultranothing Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 (edited) I'd be interested in finding out why this is happening as well. I've got over two thousand SNES roms and only 172 are imported. Lots of well-known commercial releases simply aren't coming through to the database. Edit: I've been playing around with the import features. What I've done is imported the files, instead of importing the folder. Click the first file on the list, scroll to the bottom and while holding shift, click the last file. Not sure what causes importing via folder to miss so many games, but it seems that being a bit more direct with the instruction did the trick for those SNES games, which now shows up as a few over eight hundred. Edited August 11, 2018 by ultranothing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pomod Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 On 8/11/2018 at 4:33 AM, ultranothing said: I'd be interested in finding out why this is happening as well. I've got over two thousand SNES roms and only 172 are imported. Lots of well-known commercial releases simply aren't coming through to the database. Edit: I've been playing around with the import features. What I've done is imported the files, instead of importing the folder. Click the first file on the list, scroll to the bottom and while holding shift, click the last file. Not sure what causes importing via folder to miss so many games, but it seems that being a bit more direct with the instruction did the trick for those SNES games, which now shows up as a few over eight hundred. One year later, there are still problems with many sets. Let's take the SNES example. I try to import the folder of a well known pack of 777 SNES games ? ...Launchbox imports only 700 (but the readme file ?). Next I marked all titles in the folder and import again >> 1 new game imported. I don't know the name of the game because Launchbox did not tell me. It's not very transparent at this point. I can't even say exactly what games are missing because the titles are not 100% in order, so it would take forever to check all games. But 2 of the missing SNES games are "B.O.B." and "Jelly Boy". For me, the trasparency and reliability of a frontend is much more important than it's looks. (Better don't start talking about the speed of bigbox ?) So I really don't understand why the forum is not full about that. If I import to ANY other frontend (f.e. AttractMode), all 777 titles are there. Same with any other set. Is there a trick I am missing? I did not find a solution in this forum. Please help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 I did some testing recently and there is a bug with the importer missing games and it appears to be somehow related to the platform naming. I also told Jason about it and he said he was going to look into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pomod Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 2 hours ago, Lordmonkus said: I did some testing recently and there is a bug with the importer missing games and it appears to be somehow related to the platform naming. I also told Jason about it and he said he was going to look into it. Thanks for the info. It looks like launchbox ignores games from multiple plattforms. So it's no SNES-only-problem. Hope it get fixed soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 In my tests I found that if you name the platform differently from the default such as Super Nintendo instead of Super Nintendo Entertainment system but scrape as Super Nintendo Entertainment System it worked fine and caught all the games. Another thing I found was if you turn on Force Import Duplicates it seems to catch every game as well. Though keep in mind my test was done using a smaller set of SNES specific roms. I did not go beyond that since I was able to reproduce the issue as it was reported by another user. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pomod Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 I have followed your advice and forced duplicates. Now I have all games twice ?. Actually, I did not want to use this feature because I want to avoid duplicates. But the good thing is that the missing games are now imported too. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 Yeah if you have a lot of duplicate games like in a GoodSet that is a far from ideal solution to the issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeaede Posted August 20, 2019 Author Share Posted August 20, 2019 Since i first wrote this, things has become better with updates Usually when im importing my sets i compare with hyperspin xml or right click to see how many files are in that folder That has improved The thing now seems to be the dublicates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tallpr24 Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 this worked for me. Lordmonkus reported this fix on this thread and it worked for me. I simply imported my roms as namoi 5 (something thats not on the default list) Posted August 17 In my tests I found that if you name the platform differently from the default such as Super Nintendo instead of Super Nintendo Entertainment system but scrape as Super Nintendo Entertainment System it worked fine and caught all the games. Another thing I found was if you turn on Force Import Duplicates it seems to catch every game as well. Though keep in mind my test was done using a smaller set of SNES specific roms. I did not go beyond that since I was able to reproduce the issue as it was reported by another user. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashkaan Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 I'm having this problem too and the duplicates tick doesn't help. In my case, I'm only missing like 1-4% of any system, but it doesn't make sense because I don't have any clones or multi-regions (1G1R). I'm validating all roms with the latest No-Intros. I can't even tell which ones are missing because for example, it'll see 588 of 595 roms. Retroarch sees them all and so do RomCenter and others. Launchbox is the only one with this issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeaede Posted December 27, 2019 Author Share Posted December 27, 2019 This works for me 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolspot Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 (edited) Is there any update regarding this issue - I'm having trouble importing a Redump set of Nintendo Wii, several .wbfs files are not being imported including Sesame Street Wii games. Here are some examples: Sesame Street - Cookie's Counting Carnival - The Videogame (USA) Sesame Street - Elmo's A-to-Zoo Adventure - The Videogame (USA) Sesame Street - Elmo's Musical Monsterpiece - The Videogame (USA) (En,Es) Sesame Street - Ready, Set, Grover! with Elmo - The Videogame (USA) (En,Es) The importer parsed the name correctly in the previews, but doesn't import the actual ROM. I'll try turning off duplicates, but like others, would prefer to have a working importer. Out of 1270 wbfs files, only 1147 are importer - so almost 10% unique ROMs are being ignored. I wish Launchbox would produce an import audit report as well? UPDATE: Turning off the duplicate checking options worked - all games now imported. Edited August 11, 2020 by coolspot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DraxDauragon Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 (edited) Hello, I was curious if anyone has figured out a fix for this yet. I'm having a similar issue where LB isn't importing all the files. If i attempt to import again it might recognize a few roms that weren't imported before but will fail. If there was a way to compare the LB library to my rom folder i could manually import them but when you don't even know what file your trying to import its like a needle in a haystack. Force duplication is kinda a pain when you have over 100 games being added then you have to go through deleting everything. Edited December 21, 2021 by DraxDauragon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faeran Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 10 hours ago, DraxDauragon said: Hello, I was curious if anyone has figured out a fix for this yet. I'm having a similar issue where LB isn't importing all the files. If i attempt to import again it might recognize a few roms that weren't imported before but will fail. If there was a way to compare the LB library to my rom folder i could manually import them but when you don't even know what file your trying to import its like a needle in a haystack. Force duplication is kinda a pain when you have over 100 games being added then you have to go through deleting everything. Hi @DraxDauragon. This issue was fixed a while back and shouldn't be an issue with current versions of LaunchBox. It's possible that you may be seeing other issues. The most common are: You already have the same ROM imported in another platform - you'll have to check Force Duplication option to import the game again in another platform. This is common for people wanting to import MAME full rom sets, but then also want to import certain arcade systems as separate platforms as well. You have combine ROMs enabled during import - this will combine different versions of the same ROM into one game entry, making it look like LaunchBox imported less games than the files that you have. You have something checked under View > Hide Games - this will import games and then hide them based on any settings you have enabled in there. For example, if you have enabled "Hide Games > Missing Videos", then the game won't show up in your list if you didn't download videos for it during import. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DraxDauragon Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Hey, thank you for the prompt response. If i had to guess its the same roms on another platform. I'll go through the folder and the roms to compare. Ty again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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