Importing PSX Games - Not all are imported despite being valid

[wockawocka]

Window 10, RTX 4070ti, i7 8700 - Licensed Launchbox

I'm having issues importing PSX games using the importer on LB.

Everything otherwise works. I'm using BB / LB with Duckstation. The emulator works, the games load via LB / BB fine, everything is ok on the surface. But, when importing the games using the importer, be that using the whole rom folder or individual cue or CHD files out of 14 games only 10 go over.

I've gone through the forum posts that I could see addressing things but there's no apparrent answer I can see and I'm surprised it's an issue with an older established format like this (so I'm assuming I'm at fault and it's a user error on my part).

I've been using Launchbox for almost 3 years now but I'm finally going to try and deal with the issue but I'm stuck. I've used PSX Cue / Bin files and CHD's - The error is the same.

I've made some progress but tbh I've got as far as I can with them, two examples are as follows:

'Einhander' is not detected in the importer but change the file names incorrectly to Einhaender and they import, (this works on a couple of others too).

In The Hunt (Both one and two) don't import regardless what I do to the wording.

I don't know the inner workings of the Launchbox importer. Perhaps it matches the files up against an existing list to import them or not. But either way it's frustrating. I haven't got 500 games in there, just 14 I want to play. If I use Bigbox then leave the frontend to Duckstation they're all there and working / playable. I'm at a lost to understand why the can't be loaded into Launchbox for selection.

I'm happy to manually do it but I don't know how to do that.

[sundogak]

On 2/10/2024 at 3:36 AM, wockawocka said:

Window 10, RTX 4070ti, i7 8700 - Licensed Launchbox

I'm having issues importing PSX games using the importer on LB.

Everything otherwise works. I'm using BB / LB with Duckstation. The emulator works, the games load via LB / BB fine, everything is ok on the surface. But, when importing the games using the importer, be that using the whole rom folder or individual cue or CHD files out of 14 games only 10 go over.

I've gone through the forum posts that I could see addressing things but there's no apparrent answer I can see and I'm surprised it's an issue with an older established format like this (so I'm assuming I'm at fault and it's a user error on my part).

I've been using Launchbox for almost 3 years now but I'm finally going to try and deal with the issue but I'm stuck. I've used PSX Cue / Bin files and CHD's - The error is the same.

I've made some progress but tbh I've got as far as I can with them, two examples are as follows:

'Einhander' is not detected in the importer but change the file names incorrectly to Einhaender and they import, (this works on a couple of others too).

In The Hunt (Both one and two) don't import regardless what I do to the wording.

I don't know the inner workings of the Launchbox importer. Perhaps it matches the files up against an existing list to import them or not. But either way it's frustrating. I haven't got 500 games in there, just 14 I want to play. If I use Bigbox then leave the frontend to Duckstation they're all there and working / playable. I'm at a lost to understand why the can't be loaded into Launchbox for selection.

I'm happy to manually do it but I don't know how to do that.

More than likely they are duplicates as the LB Database sees it. For example, on the "In the Hunt" do you have a game already in your LB listing for "Kaitei Daisensou: In the Hunt"?  If so that is the Japanese title and LB won't import it unless you check the box on import to import duplicates.  By default LB won't import dupes but sadly isn't good about telling you that (it just shows zero import).  My guess is anything you are seeing not importing is likely another name already in your setup. 

For Einhander, the spelling you see is for the World release so it isn't incorrect.  You can override which name is presented/shown by going into edit game and selecting Alternate Names and click on version you want as primary.