Vertical game playlist question

[maabus]

How are the vertical games, and CHD playlists populated? 

I wanted to make a playlist like 2 player simultaneous Vertical, but you can't auto populate Vertical. The games are manually added on import. 

is there a way to have a vertical tag instead of just being added by Launchbox? When mame updates, will you need to manually update the list again if there are any new games added to mame?

[C-Beats]

The new CHD/Vertical playlists are manual playlists. We utilize information given to us by MAME to put the games in the appropriate playlist. If you want to filter or further use those games in an auto-populate playlist you would need to go to that playlist, select all the items, then add a custom field to them for that data.

[maabus]

Thanks C-Beats. 

Just a question... if we can pull the orientation from Mame, wouldn't it be easier to just make it a filterable tag?

[C-Beats]

2 minutes ago, maabus said:

Thanks C-Beats. 

Just a question... if we can pull the orientation from Mame, wouldn't it be easier to just make it a filterable tag?

Thought process was that we'd rather NOT make two new fields for Games and Apps that is only really useable for one emulator/platform. We also can't reacquire the data after the fact since MAME may no longer be installed, and getting that data from MAME takes a pretty considerable amount of time. This way gives users the tools to do so if they want, without burdening those that don't.
 

[maabus]

@c-beats

 

Makes sense... thanks for the info!