How do region priorities work?

[kal9000]

Hi there, I've been noticing that a lot of times Launchbox tends to prioritize regions that I wouldn't expect based on my settings.

I've selected 5 regions in the region priorities and ordered them as so:

- US

- North America

- World

- Europe

- Japan

 

Based on this, I would expect launchbox to prioritize US over Japan for images, and use US as the default option when merging multi-region ROMs.

However as an example, I have G-Loc Air Battle on Gamegear. There are three versions of the rom:

- G-LOC - Air Battle (Japan) (Rev 1)

- G-LOC - Air Battle (Japan)

- G-LOC - Air Battle (USA, Europe, Brazil)

 

Launchbox is prioritizing The first one, (Japan) (Rev 1), but I would prefer the version including USA. Maybe it's not working because Europe and Brazil are also present, or because of the (Rev 1)? 

 

Please help!

[DOS76]

besides editing the game and going to the additional apps tab and changing the default facing game there isn't really much you can do about it.

[kal9000]

@DOS76, launchbox offers the option to prioritize and select/deselect regions. Does it not seem reasonable to assume that that feature would prioritize default version of the game when there are multiple?

[DOS76]

definitely sounds reasonable and should work that way but when its wrong that is how you can fix it.

[kal9000]

Thanks @DOS76, I'll see if I can raise this as a bug then. 

[Retro808]

Here is a thread on the issue. In the thread Jason did say he has put this on his list to look into. The post was just under a month ago and I do not think I have seen any release notes updating this so it is likely Jason will get to it in time. 

[kal9000]

Thanks for referring me to that thread, I'll post comments there.