maabus Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 I have a few questions about importing, updating, and combining Mame games. I have a full set of Mame roms, and had it import the full set. I did not tell it to block casino or anything. I then had Launchbox combine roms. I went to play a game, and i could not find it. I searched the arcade.xml file and it was not in there. I manually imported it again and then it was there, and I had to manually combine it to the parent. Not a big deal, but then i came across a few other games that were not imported. Some games i would try to manually import, and i enabled force duplicate, but when it said it was completed the game still would not import. Some games i had to try multiple times before they would stick, and others i had to go into additional apps on the parent, and add it there. I created a playlist for "clean arcade games" this is a play list for actual arcade games, and not casino, slots or other random things. Going through this play list i came across arcade games that were not listed. I tracked them down in the xml and they were combined with Slot machines and some of the other random systems, so they got flagged as that type of system. I downloaded MameUI, and compared it to LaunchBox. There are a LOT of games that get grouped together incorrectly or are missing and I had to manually add. By the time i went through the entire list, the new version of Mame came out. I updated my set, told Launchbox to update missing roms. I decided to check against the new MameUI, and some games were imported correctly, and others were missing again. So now if i want to have a full list i have to manually check each game again to see if it is imported into Launchbox correctly again. Am I doing something wrong, or are there some issues with the import/upgrade/combine features of launchbox? Why doesnt LaunchBox use the MameList.xml file that comes with Mame to do sorting? Are there any tools to check what launchbox has listed to what Mame lists? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallmachine Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 I have other import questions but related I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallmachine Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 Is the "MAME Arcade Full Set..." import updated every release (monthly) and how would be the best way to keep up to date with every release without having to re-import it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 There is no way to keep it up to date with out reimporting. you just run the wizard once a month and let it go best bet is to not get any media while re running the importer this makes it much quicker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maabus Posted May 5, 2019 Author Share Posted May 5, 2019 Thanks DOS76, The main issue with running the import, is the import is not reliable. When i ran the import the first time there were a lot of games it did not import, then the combining of roms grouped a lot of the games incorrectly. Oh well I guess i'll have to stick with manually checking... I wish there was an easier way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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