TorgoSev Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 Hopefully bumping this thread is the right approach, but... "NEC TurboGrafx-16" platform media is never populating. I've confirmed in multiple BigBox themes, including the default, and before and after the most recent LB version upgrade. All games populate with multiple media elements, it is just the Platform itself. I've reset platform and all image cache and confirmed that the directory and Scrape As is the default for this Platform. I'll manually add a logo at this point, but felt the need to share. It may or may not be relevant, but there are no images here for the platform either: https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/platforms/images/54 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitstorm Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 (edited) I confirm the same issue, for these (newly added) platforms under LaunchBox 9.7: ColecoVision Commodore Amiga Mattel Intellivision NEC TurboGrafx-16 NEC TurboGrafx-CD These platforms (sub)folders are created automatically under LaunchBox\Images\Platforms\ but remain empty. I had to add Banner and Clear Logo images manually and refresh Whell images in BigBox Options. Other platforms scraped appeared automatically just fine so far. Glad I found The Image Thread on this forum, it saved me alot of time to find suitable images. Edited May 2, 2019 by Bitstorm fixed typo in platform name and corrected bad statement. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 8 minutes ago, Bitstorm said: I confirm the same issue, for these (newly added) platforms under LaunchBox 9.7: ColecoVision Commodore Amiga Mattel Intellivision NEC TurboGrafx-16 NEC-TurboGrafx-CD These platforms (sub)folders are created automatically under LaunchBox\Images\Platforms\ but remain empty. I had to add Banner and Clear Logo images manually and refresh Whell images in BigBox Options. Other platforms scraped automatically just fine so far. Glad I found The Image Thread on this forum, it saved me alot of time to find suitable images. Platform clear logos and banners are NOT scraped when importing a platform, they are included in the .exe for launchbox, and are added to the folders when a platform is created. However if your naming does not exactly match what the images are named as then they wont be moved to the respective folders. Also not every single platform has images included in the .exe, the most popular/used are there but its not a exhaustive list of every platform ever made, so you will often have to source images your self from either the specific download section we have just for them, or via google. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitstorm Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 49 minutes ago, neil9000 said: Platform clear logos and banners are NOT scraped when importing a platform, they are included in the .exe for launchbox, and are added to the folders when a platform is created. However if your naming does not exactly match what the images are named as then they wont be moved to the respective folders. Also not every single platform has images included in the .exe, the most popular/used are there but its not a exhaustive list of every platform ever made, so you will often have to source images your self from either the specific download section we have just for them, or via google. Thanks for your (quick!) reply. I understand not every single system that existed will be supported by default (and I can't contribute to fix it as it's not pulled from the LaunchBox Game Database), but the platforms I mentionned are pretty common, and I paid attention to name them exactly as the default list of platform names (except "NEC-TurboGrafx-CD" which was a typo when creating my previous post). I was especially expecting "NEC TurboGrafx-16" to work like shown in your August 17, 2018 post on this thread, unless you added these images manually yourself at this time and meant "See, it works with default theme if you configure it properly" instead of "See, these images appeared automatically in Default theme on my setup" like I thought. I just did a new test: fresh LaunchBox 9.7 reinstall on a clean VM: I created a platform named "NEC TurboGrafx-16" (default platform name), and scraped some roms. The "LaunchBox\Images\" folder has no "Platforms" subfolder at all (like you said, these images are not added during scraping). The first time I switch to Big Box, then the "LaunchBox\Images\Platforms\NEC TurboGrafx-16" and subfolders are created, but empty. Is there a list of which platform images are included in the .exe (and their exact names) so I could at least figure out if these are not included, or if it's a copy issue that should be reported? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschoneman Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 I'm seeing the same issues, Any updates? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klepp0906 Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 Just found this ala google due to the same issue with at least a half a dozen platforms. Plain text and no platform images in bigbox. seems like it should be working but isnt for some people? Like everyone here, scraped every single one via a default platform from the drop down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 19 minutes ago, klepp0906 said: Just found this ala google due to the same issue with at least a half a dozen platforms. Plain text and no platform images in bigbox. seems like it should be working but isnt for some people? Like everyone here, scraped every single one via a default platform from the drop down. On 5/2/2019 at 7:40 PM, neil9000 said: Platform clear logos and banners are NOT scraped when importing a platform, they are included in the .exe for launchbox, and are added to the folders when a platform is created. However if your naming does not exactly match what the images are named as then they wont be moved to the respective folders. Also not every single platform has images included in the .exe, the most popular/used are there but its not a exhaustive list of every platform ever made, so you will often have to source images your self from either the specific download section we have just for them, or via google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klepp0906 Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 (edited) yea, probably wrong terminology. wrote that from the gym lol. so what your saying is either, theyre no longer included with launchbox, they never were, or they should be? I got my launchbox from the source, as thats the only place you can afaik. Ive updated only via the guis update option. My playlists arent altered, theyre exactly as launchbox imports them from the dropdown (aka not a naming thing).... so not sure what to say /shrug just an observation. EDIT - looked in the launchbox>images>platforms section and NEC TurboGrafx-16 folder is there, but inside contains no images. TG16-CD doesnt even exist. ColecoVision is another one thats barren. Only thing i can think of if these are "supposed" to be there is that running the media cleanup purges them if you dont have a platform with them set up at the time of running perhaps? Gonna check on an untouched install on my backup pc. (its my reference install :P) EDIT2 - ok, i think im misunderstanding you or something. If theyre included with launchbox, theyre definitely not present on my untouched install. None of them are. Unless theyre obfuscated/compressed/hidden somewhere until a playlist is created. In that case, it still begs the question why many of us are missing the same images for the same platforms. At what point they populate/where they come from - im unsure, but if someone were able to upload the full platform set it would be awesome Edited September 30, 2019 by klepp0906 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 7 minutes ago, klepp0906 said: so what your saying is either, theyre no longer included with launchbox, they never were, or they should be? No thats not what im saying. Im saying that some platforms are not and never were included with the program. The main systems are covered but there are a ton of systems that are not, those will need to be sourced and placed in the correct folders. As for the NEC stuff i believe there is a disconnect there. The default name in Launchbox is NEC TurboGrafx 16, but i believe the included images do not have the NEC part in the name, so they dont match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klepp0906 Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 aaaaaah. didnt think of that potential angle. So launchbox default platforms are giving the wrong name, or the artwork is named incorrectly to match up with it, either or is up to the person that implemented it i guess. So would changing the name of the platform cause it to populate, or does this only happen at the time of creation and thus would require a new playlist? Anywhere we can source the actual list of the way they should be named? So i can discern what is a case of not being included, vs a case of a naming discrepancy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 4 minutes ago, klepp0906 said: So would changing the name of the platform cause it to populate, or does this only happen at the time of creation and thus would require a new playlist? I believe if you renamed to remove the "NEC" and refreshed the platform logos it would show, yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 5 minutes ago, klepp0906 said: Anywhere we can source the actual list of the way they should be named? So i can discern what is a case of not being included, vs a case of a naming discrepancy? https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klepp0906 Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, neil9000 said: https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/ you see, that list shows as NEC TurboGrafx...... ill try renaming regardless my problem entries ftr (typed exactly as they are/all pulled from default platform list) ColecoVision GCE Vectrex Mattel Intellivision NEC TurboGrafx-16 NEC TurboGrafx-CD Nintendo Switch Sega CD 32X SNK Neo Geo AES SNK Neo Geo CD SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color Sony Playstation (has platform image but logo generic) Sony PSP Minis If anyone can confirm which one of these do in fact/should in fact have art "out of the box" and which ones need to be managed by the user (in a perfect world) it would be helpful. For the ones with more potentially obvious solutions (like with company name preceding, ill try a rename) if it does turn out to be a naming discrepancy ill submit a bug report at some point today. 1 thing at a time Still cant get the ui picking up my desktop wallpaper right lol. Edited September 30, 2019 by klepp0906 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malystryx Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 I know this is an old post, however I figured since I ran across this today looking for answers that I would add my two cents to hopefully help someone else. If you import your games using the default platform suggested which is "PC Engine" and you have the USA rom set you won't be able to get images to download. To fix this I completed deleted all of the games from the platform and re-imported them but this time manually selecting "NEC Turbografx 16" as the platform. This immediately resolved the issue and didn't require me to rename anything at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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