Launchbox Adding Deleted Games After Reboot

[DasiyAge12]

I have remove game files checked and when I delete games I no longer want (like bootlegs or bad roms) they will reappear when I restart launchbox. I have made custom backups using the option in the tools menu and removed the other back ups as well and they still reappear. Right now I'm trying to remove KI and KI2 that are not working (the fbneo emulator no longer supports them) and keep the mame2010 ones I have. The weird part is it didn't do this until after I restarted windows and they don't even have a rom they correspond to so I don't know why they show up at all. Anyway, is there a way to permanently remove these games and never see them again? Thanks in advance

[DasiyAge12]

Managed to fix Killer Instinct 1 and 2 but deleted games still show up

[Retro808]

In your \Launchbox\Data\Platforms folder do you have any platform xaml files backed up in that folder? In that folder you should only see 1 xaml file per platform are there any named backup in the folder?

[DasiyAge12]

There is, one called Arcade Backup. Seems smaller than the Arcade.xaml but I'm guessing I need to delete it?

[Retro808]

22 minutes ago, DasiyAge12 said:

There is, one called Arcade Backup. Seems smaller than the Arcade.xaml but I'm guessing I need to delete it?

Yes. LB will try to read both of them and if the backup file contains the games you tried to delete LB will see them in that backup file.

If you back any of those files up you need to store them outside of the \Launchbox\Data folders.

[DasiyAge12]

Ok I removed the back up file and deleted the first 4 games I saw and they stayed gone! Thanks a ton! One other question while I have your attention:  Is there a way to delete all games missing 3d box art as that's what I'm aiming to do in the long run. I know I can hide them but I have a small ssd and would appreciate the space and ease of removing just games missing 3d boxes.

[Retro808]

Yes. In the left hand pane of LB where you can select things like Platform, Platform Category and so on, select the drop down box and change the option to "Select Games Missing" then in the new options choose "Games Missing 3D Box". It will then list all those games.

 

[DasiyAge12]

Oh my god, what a life saver. Thank you for getting this sorted out so fast!

[DasiyAge12]

Oh jeez I just feel like I'm bumbling around here but.. Some games have both the English and Japanese titles and I have removed the Japanese titles just to have them reappear. Is that going to be fixed with the backup deleted now?

[Retro808]

10 hours ago, DasiyAge12 said:

Oh jeez I just feel like I'm bumbling around here but.. Some games have both the English and Japanese titles and I have removed the Japanese titles just to have them reappear. Is that going to be fixed with the backup deleted now?

It should. If it is not I do not know why it will not delete.

That backup file that was in there did you make that backup and place it there?

[DasiyAge12]

Okay thanks I figured. No I don't know how that backup was created. 

[DasiyAge12]

All of a sudden NES games are now showing up in my arcade category? I checked and made sure the NES platform was only in my consoles platform and I don't see any way to remove them with out having to go one by one and deleting them.