Pen and Paper RPG Support?

[DruidofParadise]

Hello everyone! I've been having alot of fun with LaunchBox ever since I discovered it last month, and between it and Plex, my data hoarding finally looks pretty. Love it!

I was perusing the subreddit for the first time today and saw that someone was able to upload their AD&D manuals and make them look amazing. I have a ton of other old RPGs from back in the golden age of this media in PDF format. Old FASA Star Trek, TSR classics like Top Secret and Marvel Super Heroes, etc. Has anyone been able to import this content into their systems? Is there a repository of artwork for them, or is it fairly easy to create yourself?

Thank you in advance for any help or pointers you can provide!

[JoeViking245]

Glad to hear you're having fun with LaunchBox!

In short:  To import manuals, just place the pdf files into \LaunchBox\Manuals\name-of-your-platform\.  However, the files will need to be named the same as the game's Title. 

 

As for making them look amazing, they'll only look as good as they do in your pdf's. 

 

1 hour ago, DruidofParadise said:

Is there a repository of artwork for them

Not sure what you mean by artwork for them, but EmuMovies does have manuals for some (not all) games.  That will vary by platform and what's been submitted to them.

[neil9000]

I think they want to import these as a platform and scrape artwork like a rom. While you can import them fine (just add them like roms and choose a pdf reader as the emulator) you wont find any scrapers for this, your best bet would be screenshotting the front page of the pdf.

People have done this for comic books for example.