nintari Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 I've been putting off setting up launchbox / bigbox forever lol, but having to bounce back and forth between all the services and etc kinda broke the camels back. I'm trying to see the best way to add all the PC Games I have installed...but....in a way that is like the console games section where you have consoles and then sub categories for each console, but the main consoles view shows all games. So for example, Windows would be the main category showing all games from all providers, but then I can have a sub category for Steam showing only steam games, epic, twitch, origin, gog, amazon, uplay and so on. And does launchbox in the main "Windows" view show the provider / service for the game? The main reason for needing to do this is I have several thousand games.... lol (I collect physical games too to make matters worse) I tried dragging and dropping, and looking through the tools menu...I'm prob missing something stupidly simple for this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Laor Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 I'm thinking two ways to do this. 1) create a category called windows. Import games using their sources as platforms. Then have those plAtforms nested under the windows category as the parent. 2) create/use the platform for windows. Make sure the games all are tagged in some way with the sources. You can use custom tags if needed. Create smart playlists for each source and use windows as the parent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 If you use the built in store importers then Launchbox adds them to the "Computers" category automatically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nintari Posted August 15, 2020 Author Share Posted August 15, 2020 (edited) Mine just seems to add them all to windows when I go to tools, import, steam games... So when I add GOG for example, it gets added to Computers, windows. When I add epic, it also puts it in Computers, windows Where yours shows Almost what I would like, but I'd almost like to do Computers -----Amiga -----Commodore 64 -----MS-DOS -----Windows (each of these next being subs under windows, but when on windows it shows all games in each category under windows) ----------Amazon ----------Epic ----------Origin ----------Steam ----------Twitch Edited August 15, 2020 by nintari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Just now, nintari said: Mine just seems to add them all to windows when I go to tools, import, steam games...no sub cat You can choose the platform name in the wizard, or just type in the name you want. I import steam to steam, not windows for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nintari Posted August 15, 2020 Author Share Posted August 15, 2020 14 minutes ago, neil9000 said: You can choose the platform name in the wizard, or just type in the name you want. I import steam to steam, not windows for example. Ahh I somewhat see now. Trying to lay this out best for BigBox so trying to see how they will show up to make it was friendly as possible. I stumbled on this thought as I noticed I purchased a game recently it didn't show up in launchbox, so I tried to audit with no luck, then I did an import...and ended up with doubles of everything on steam lol, so though well if I am going to re-do it I might as well figure out how to do it best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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