dbalcar Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 22 minutes ago, Jason Carr said: I looked into this recently and the VLC 3.x series unfortunately makes some major changes that will require significant work to get working with LaunchBox and Big Box. It is on my list, but as it's not a simple task, it's currently not my highest priority. Thanks and no worries. Just being a security person. I like to make sure I patch software that has known issues. Thanks Jason. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted November 14, 2018 Author Share Posted November 14, 2018 42 minutes ago, Brandito said: I think in the play lists view it would make sense to be able to combine all like playlists into a single play list, so the list contains games from multiple platforms, or maybe easier to code would be to have them as children under the platform? I have no idea how much of an undertaking that would be, just throwing the idea out there. Having them as children under the platform is pretty much exactly what you get with the platform categories. Have you tried the platform categories view? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandito Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 27 minutes ago, Jason Carr said: Having them as children under the platform is pretty much exactly what you get with the platform categories. Have you tried the platform categories view? Yes, that view is fine, I see the playlist view as still being valuable. I have playlist, platform category and platform views set to hotkeys. It sounds like if I want console playlists I just need to not use the playlists view. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted November 14, 2018 Author Share Posted November 14, 2018 2 minutes ago, Brandito said: Yes, that view is fine, I see the playlist view as still being valuable. I have playlist, platform category and platform views set to hotkeys. It sounds like if I want console playlists I just need to not use the playlists view. Yeah, for the moment, it seems that way, though I see now how it could be an issue for some people. At some point we may look to overhaul that playlists view. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kondorito Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 (edited) I do not know whether the below can be possible or not at the moment. I mainly use BB to game, and would really like to use the Genres feature, but I do not want to generate dozens of Genres lists for each Platform (I like the clean look of my set up platforms); my idea would like to map a button to an action (let's call it 'Genres') so when pressed, depending on the Platform I'm in, it switches to the Genres list, and when choosing one of those genres, it would show me the games under that genre inside the Platform I pressed to button in. If for example I press the 'Genres' button in the Platforms main screen, it switches to the Genres list, and its content would be for all the games from my set. Makes sense? Edited November 14, 2018 by Kondorito Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted November 14, 2018 Author Share Posted November 14, 2018 1 hour ago, Kondorito said: I do not know whether the below can be possible or not at the moment. I mainly use BB to game, and would really like to use the Genres feature, but I do not want to generate dozens of Genres lists for each Platform (I like the clean look of my set up platforms); my idea would like to map a button to an action (let's call it 'Genres') so when pressed, depending on the Platform I'm in, it switches to the Genres list, and when choosing one of those genres, it would show me the games under that genre inside the Platform I pressed to button in. If for example I press the 'Genres' button in the Platforms main screen, it switches to the Genres list, and its content would be for all the games from my set. Makes sense? We might be able to do something of that nature in the future. One disadvantage of that approach is that it wouldn't be usable by anyone without training, unless you had a button on your console marked "Filter by Genres" or something. Still, I can see that being useful. One idea that has come up before is to add a new button to the alphanumeric index bar with some simple filter options, so we'll probably go that route eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kondorito Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 55 minutes ago, Jason Carr said: We might be able to do something of that nature in the future. One disadvantage of that approach is that it wouldn't be usable by anyone without training, unless you had a button on your console marked "Filter by Genres" or something. Still, I can see that being useful. One idea that has come up before is to add a new button to the alphanumeric index bar with some simple filter options, so we'll probably go that route eventually. Awesome. I like the index bar approach as well The less button presses and menu navigation layers the merrier. Thanks for taking it into consideration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alec100_94 Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 @Omen @neil9000 this is an issue with my plugin. My plugin pretty much governs the command line for ps2 games, and I don't think I ever fully considered the idea of changing that when there was no config present. It should be easy enough to fix but don't know when I'll get around to doing it. I've taken a bit of a break from the plugin's development as of late. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natemac00 Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 (edited) When I do a full set install of mame even though I have skip mechanical CHECKED, i still get about 4,000 Deviced added. You can see them when you sort by Genere. I do have unchecked skip unplayable games(so Naomi and other roms still get installed). Edited November 15, 2018 by natemac00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 15 hours ago, Jason Carr said: If you run the full importer again, it will add any new games without making any duplicates. It won't delete any games that have been removed from the new version of MAME, however. Will it re-add any games that have been deleted in LB? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 3 hours ago, Dan said: Will it re-add any games that have been deleted in LB? I'm going to say if you removed a game marked as playable and run the importer again then yes it will be added again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbalcar Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 I am seeing in 9.0 when you have Platform selected that it is also show some playlists. for me it's the Capcom stuff. As you can see in the image the I have Platform selected but some playlists are still showing up and with different counts for Capcom Play System. One have 32 and the other 30. Has anyone else seen this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 right click on a playlist that is showing select edit and see if the checkbox to show in the platform list is checked if so remove it if you don't want the playlist to show under platforms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted November 15, 2018 Author Share Posted November 15, 2018 11 hours ago, natemac00 said: When I do a full set install of mame even though I have skip mechanical CHECKED, i still get about 4,000 Deviced added. You can see them when you sort by Genere. I do have unchecked skip unplayable games(so Naomi and other roms still get installed). If you take a look at the MAME.xml file in a text editor, you can see the reasons for why games are or are not excluded. That data comes from MAME. It's not always perfect, but it's very close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted November 15, 2018 Author Share Posted November 15, 2018 6 hours ago, Dan said: Will it re-add any games that have been deleted in LB? Yes, it will. It will add anything missing that is in the current version of MAME and selected in the criteria. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted November 15, 2018 Author Share Posted November 15, 2018 2 hours ago, dbalcar said: I am seeing in 9.0 when you have Platform selected that it is also show some playlists. for me it's the Capcom stuff. As you can see in the image the I have Platform selected but some playlists are still showing up and with different counts for Capcom Play System. One have 32 and the other 30. Has anyone else seen this? It looks like you have duplicated arcade playlists. I'm guessing one is the old style and one is the new style playlists. You can manually delete them and then just go to Tools > Create Missing MAME/Arcade playlists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natemac00 Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 (edited) Could we add an additional 'Skip' checkbox for Genre: "System / Device" or PlayMode: "Device"? Since these ROMs don't have a Status and in a full-set import, it imports 4000+ non-game ROMs? Edited November 15, 2018 by natemac00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Just now, natemac00 said: Could we add an additional 'Skip' checkbox for Genre: "System / Device" or PlayMode: "Device"? Since these ROMs don't have a Status and in a full-set import, it imports 4000+ non-game ROMs? Those are skipped by default currently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natemac00 Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Just now, neil9000 said: Those are skipped by default currently. I just ran the import last night and it did not Skip those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Just now, natemac00 said: I just ran the import last night and it did not Skip those. Weird, they were skipped just fine for me, i have 2769 games in my Arcade platform. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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