Replaced all marquee images with my own yet it's still using the old marquee images. (SUCCESS!)

[StupidDorkFace]

Hi, I have remade all my marquees in photoshop and have put them in the \\Launchbox\Images\Arcade\Arcade marquee folder where all the old default marquees where.  But when I launch BigBox, it's still using my old marquees and doesn't see my new ones.

So basically

A.  Where do the marquee images go so that when I'm navigating the wheel they show up on the marquee, and when I select the game they stay on the marquee

B.  What is the naming convention that ties the marquee to the game?  Even after moving the old marquee's to another folder for safe keeping the games are using the old marquee's, even though they're no longer in \\Launchbox\images\Arcade\Arcade marquee

Any help is appreciated.

Edited August 25, 2020 by StupidDorkFace

[neil9000]

33 minutes ago, StupidDorkFace said:

Hi, I have remade all my marquees in photoshop and have put them in the \\Launchbox\Images\Arcade\Arcade marquee folder where all the old default marquees where.  But when I launch BigBox, it's still using my old marquees and doesn't see my new ones.

So basically

A.  Where do the marquee images go so that when I'm navigating the wheel they show up on the marquee, and when I select the game they stay on the marquee

B.  What is the naming convention that ties the marquee to the game?  Even after moving the old marquee's to another folder for safe keeping the games are using the old marquee's, even though they're no longer in \\Launchbox\images\Arcade\Arcade marquee

Any help is appreciated.

You need to refresh the cache in Bigbox, Options/Image Cache.

[Retro808]

Since you added new images directly into the folder you should also go into BigBox and refresh the image cache. ]

I deleted your other thread on the same issue. 

[StupidDorkFace]

OK thanks, being a noob, how do I do that?  Do I uninstall and reinstall?

 

Also, do the images need named exactly as the ROMs?

Edited August 16, 2020 by StupidDorkFace

[StupidDorkFace]

Does anyone know if the marquee images need to be names the same exact name as the Roms?

[Retro808]

17 minutes ago, StupidDorkFace said:

Does anyone know if the marquee images need to be names the same exact name as the Roms?

You have to have a bit of patience. Our forum is small when it comes to how often our members comment/assist. Plus the dev and mods are not on here full time.

Game images need to be named as your games are named in LB or as the rom name (LB default it to name it as the game is named directly in LB). Outside of that, I would recommend just taking a few minutes to look around your various LB image folders and you will see the specific naming convention for game images and for how to name images for the actual platforms.

[StupidDorkFace]

WOW I didn't think it would be this difficult to replace these marquee images.  I'm trying to match my marquees I edited in photoshop and the naming convention of these marquees is horrid.  So matching 1400 marquees to obscurely named roms is proving to be much more difficult than I hoped.  I may just grab an image, do an internet search for the ROM and do it that way.  See you in 3 years.  LOL  Does anyone know of a good way to find out what a game rom is named?  For instance something like VirtuaRacing I would think would be VRcing or VRing.  No, it's like VV0875 or something like that.  SMH.

[Kiinkyfoxx]

No idea if this will work..... But do an audit of the platform you are working on. 

That audit should give lots of info including game name and Rom name (I think) 

Copy the info into Excel and then use that as a basis to work from. 

How did you name all your files when you made them in photoshop? What naming convention did you chose at the very start of this? and obviously hindsight is a great thing but if you made 1400 images wouldn't it have been an idea to figure out naming at the start? 

You might then be able to go through changing your images one at a time or maybe make a bat/ahk file that will do it for you with the info from above. 

[StupidDorkFace]

1 hour ago, Kiinkyfoxx said:

No idea if this will work..... But do an audit of the platform you are working on. 

That audit should give lots of info including game name and Rom name (I think) 

Copy the info into Excel and then use that as a basis to work from. 

How did you name all your files when you made them in photoshop? What naming convention did you chose at the very start of this? and obviously hindsight is a great thing but if you made 1400 images wouldn't it have been an idea to figure out naming at the start? 

You might then be able to go through changing your images one at a time or maybe make a bat/ahk file that will do it for you with the info from above. 

I looked at the image, if it was for 3 count bout for neo geo I simply named the file 3 COUNT BOUT.  Simple. 

I though the roms would be named the same, but they aren't.  I don't know what you mean by audit.  How would I audit 1300+ roms?  Is there a batch script online to do that?  No offense but being in the noob section I have no idea how to "audit" "batch" or anything.  I'm literally just making images and calling them what they are.

I guess I'll have to load each rom separately into another instance of mame to see which is which?  There four different versions of 1943 and they are only differentiated by letters.  I named my graphics files the actual name of the game.  Can I rename the roms, would that break them?  Ugh sorry guys, just very frustrated right now.

 

edit: I'm also noticing that some games have multiple roms for the same game but with different letter designations.  Can I delete the others and keep one?  So confused.  Thanks

Edited August 18, 2020 by StupidDorkFace

[neil9000]

7 minutes ago, StupidDorkFace said:

How would I audit 1300+ roms?  Is there a batch script online to do that?  No offense but being in the noob section I have no idea how to "audit" "batch" or anything.  I'm literally just making images and calling them what they are.

Launchbox has a audit built in, select your platform then go to Tools/Audit name of platform.

[StupidDorkFace]

3 hours ago, neil9000 said:

Launchbox has a audit built in, select your platform then go to Tools/Audit name of platform.

OMG THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!     *FAINTS

[StupidDorkFace]

On 8/18/2020 at 10:20 AM, neil9000 said:

Launchbox has a audit built in, select your platform then go to Tools/Audit name of platform.

OMG THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!     *FAINTS

 

How do I export the audit to a document?  doesn't seem to have an option to do that.

[Retro808]

1 hour ago, StupidDorkFace said:

OMG THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!     *FAINTS

 

How do I export the audit to a document?  doesn't seem to have an option to do that.

Click on a row and CTRL+A to highlight all the rows and CTRL+C to copy (or click the small cell to the left of the First Column Header and it will highlight all rows). Then you can paste into Excel or various other programs.

[StupidDorkFace]

Guys I want to thank all of you for all your help getting this stage of the project complete.  I have cut it down to 800 games that I think are the best games available on Mame all with brilliant marquees!  You guys are awesome for answering the questions of new people like me!

Now onto trying to make my control panels work.  I have 3 different panels.  A twin 6 button panel for 2 on 2 fighting.  A roller ball and rotary for centipede and tempest type games.  And a control panel for twin stick and other 4 way joystick games.  Have to figure out how to program these for each type of game, is there a suggestion on how to do this for similar games?

Currently I only have Mame and now want to add a section for Dreamcast, is there list where I can see what Launchbox supports as far as systems and emulators?  Again THANK YOU!!!

 

[technabob]

If I have a bunch of new marquee files named for specific MAME ROMs, is there an easy way to get all of these loaded and lined up with the right games in LaunchBox/Big Box, and also to have them replace the existing marquee.png files that are inside of the MAME artwork zips?