Game List Exporter - simple text file generator

[essjaygee]

Hello all,

I've made some significant changes to the internals of the plugin. This de-couples the formatting functions from the filtering/selection code, making it much, much easier to have multiple formats available for the list output and I've created a handful of simple formats to demonstrate. They can definitely be improved on, so all suggestions are welcome.

The plugin code is now significantly more complex than before, so my limited testing may be exposed. Please let me know of any bugs or problems you encounter and I'll endeavour to fix them.

Plugin file: GameListExporter_0x0x7.zip

Installation: Just place  GameListExporter.dll in the Launchbox Plugins sub-directory

Usage: Select 'Game List Exporter' from the Tools menu in LB and a window will appear allowing you to choose between platforms, genres, year of release and publishers as a basis for your exported list. Selecting a group option will display values you have in your database for that field. Check the ones you want to include in the export file. You can choose from a number of available output formats that can be previewed in real-time in both text and HTML (where applicable) views.

Once platforms and layout are selected, hit 'Generate Export List' and you'll be prompted for where to save the resulting export file -- and that's it.

Edited February 24, 2024 by essjaygee
Plugin updated

[Archr0y]

This is excellent, thankyou. It's just what I have been looking for to help fill the blanks when searching for missing ROMs for my collection.

[710breadman]

I used to resort to going into each folder to create a list, but my library has become nearly unmanageably large and that was the biggest pain in neck. This cut that process to a few seconds. A true gift for me. Thank you!

[essjaygee]

Glad it's useful for you both. Happy to take suggestions for improvements, if you have any ideas. I've been thinking about dusting off the code and looking at it again.

[essjaygee]

This new version can list games by genre, along with year of release and publisher.

GameListExporter_0x0x2.zip

[Tekk]

This was exactly what I was looking for, thank you so much! It worked perfectly.

[carstenscm29]

Thanks for making this, I was looking for this exact functionality. 

[marcosgaming]

Wow a great Plugin! I will try it as soon as. But generate txt file or excel file ??? I would like excel file with column philter of different Platforms so i can choose only Ps2 Games for example, or all together.

It`s possible? Thanks!!!

[KP MORRIS]

Awesome & very handy tool!
Many thanks for creating & sharing.
Is it possible to add the game count beside each of the platforms?
example:
- Arcade (234 games)
 -- 005 (Sega) (1981) [Maze / Shooter Small; ]
 -- 1941: Counter Attack (Capcom) (1990) [Shooter / Flying Vertical; ]

[essjaygee]

Minor update to this to add the suggested game count info and an on-screen preview of the output, based on the current selections

GameListExporter_0x0x4.zip

[essjaygee]

Further update to address a bug causing the preview to regenerate multiple times per selection

GameListExporter_0x0x5.zip

[Capa]

Any way of adding gameid numbers?

I'm working on a custom theme and would help me out alot.

[essjaygee]

Quickly added an option to include the game ID in the generated output. I hope that helps.

Good luck with your theme.GameListExporter_0x0x6.zip

[Zakiu]

This doesn't work for me

But this one works fine

CreateGameList (Create Game List Plugin) 1.0.0

[essjaygee]

On 2/14/2024 at 12:44 PM, Zakiu said:

This doesn't work for me

Sorry the plugin didn't work for you. Can you let me know what seems to go wrong please? I'll see if I can solve the problem.

Thanks.

[essjaygee]

The plugin has been updated with more flexible output options. Please see the initial post on page 1 of this thread for details.

 

Thanks

GameListExporter_0x0x7.zip

[PanteraZombie]

Very cool plugin! One thing I would like to see though is when exporting as html... is if it also exported the clear logos to it's own containing folder with the html generated file with them pointing to relative paths. That way it could be portable and I could send it to someone or use it on a different pc other than only where my LaunchBox build resides. 

[essjaygee]

On 10/8/2024 at 12:18 PM, PanteraZombie said:

Very cool plugin! One thing I would like to see though is when exporting as html... is if it also exported the clear logos to it's own containing folder with the html generated file with them pointing to relative paths. That way it could be portable and I could send it to someone or use it on a different pc other than only where my LaunchBox build resides. 

Glad you like the plugin. It should be possible to add an HTML format that does that. I'll have a look at it as soon as I get more than two minutes to rub together (why-oh-why is real life such a pain?).

The new structure means that the output formatting classes are completely independent of each other and can do whatever they need to with the LB data and resources, as demanded by the required output. I may need to look at the file saving code, as it currently assumes one file per list, but it shouldn't be too difficult.

Ultimately, I'd like to implement a way of templating an output outside of the plugin itself. So you can specify the grouping to use etc and the template file and it will just slot the data into the template. However, that may be a way off 🙂

[tpaclassic]

Hi there!  I was looking for a way to do exactly what this does and found it tonight.  It doesn't seem to load up though.  Is it compatible with the current version of Launchbox?  Thanks!

[G4M3R Z3R0]

Thank you, this is awesome and just what I needed.