Questions regarding ROMS by folder and metadatas

[Bigb_ch]

Hi everyone

I’m completly new to the world of Launchbox and I’m already stuck with some questions:

1. Is  it possible to organize the ROMs in Launchbox and BigBox for a system by folder? My whole collection is organized in folders (after region, alphabet, unlicensed, etc.) and I would like to adapt this for Launchbox/BigBox.

2. When I search the LaunchBox Game Database for metadata, there are a lot of missing pictures and informations for my collection. Is there a way to use https://www.screenscraper.fr/ as a source, or even the Skraper from http://skraper.net/ ?

 Thanks in advance.

[sundogak]

@Bigb_ch

1. Ultimately, you can organize the roms location wise however want, although if get exotic it takes longer to import. You can use the import function or drag and drop a folder or ROMs into LB to start the import process.  But if working on a system level folder and then folders underneath that then you just import (or drag and drop into LB window the folder) the top level folder and start import process.  However, a platform also can take from folders that are not co-located together at the top level.  Although, in that case you have to import each (hence the time comment).  For example, for Apple II platform I have some games pulling from an Apple II rom folder, and another that pulls selected games from the MAME software clean cracked set in completely different folder structure outside the Apple II top level platform.  I have found that, drag and dropping the folder (or selected ROMs) into LB is typically easiest/quickest in cases where folders you want together in one platform are scattered outside the main platform structure.
2. Not at this point unless someone makes a plugin for it. The LB DB is pretty comprehensive at this point. So I would make sure that the games are linked name wise if missing media.

 

Edited October 11, 2020 by sundogak