rommaster Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Hey All, Not sure if I've missed something? LB has a genre "Shooter / Gun" which most of my lightgun games assign to by default, but not all games. I've manually updated several games to "Shooter / Gun" in LaunchBox and wanted to edit this genre on GamesDB, but the website only has the overarching genre "Shooter" and none of the sub-categories available in LB. Older games imported as "Shooter / Gun" so not sure if this is a recent-ish change? I don't feel this "Shooter" category is granular enough as if you want to make an auto-populated playlist of lightgun games, or flying games "Shooter / Flying" it is no longer possible without manually applying sub-genres manually to all of your games. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-Beats Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Our DB doesn't have sub-genre data. What you're seeing is the MAME genre data we get from MAME and the supporting INI files and NOT our database. I do have my own platform data on the site and JoeViking has a plugin around here somewhere that lets you apply that data to your collection. Between the two you could set Genre/Sub-Genre on the platforms I have done. Outside of that you'll need to manually assign them to games in your collection as our database at this time doesn't support any genre/sub-genre pairs like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rommaster Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 10 hours ago, C-Beats said: Our DB doesn't have sub-genre data. What you're seeing is the MAME genre data we get from MAME and the supporting INI files and NOT our database. I do have my own platform data on the site and JoeViking has a plugin around here somewhere that lets you apply that data to your collection. Between the two you could set Genre/Sub-Genre on the platforms I have done. Outside of that you'll need to manually assign them to games in your collection as our database at this time doesn't support any genre/sub-genre pairs like that. Thanks C-Beats, that makes perfect sense! I should've picked up it was the MAME roms with the extra data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackhulk Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 On 3/8/2024 at 2:03 PM, C-Beats said: I do have my own platform data on the site and JoeViking has a plugin around here somewhere that lets you apply that data to your collection. Hi C-Beats, where can I find your platform data and this plugin you mention please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-Beats Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 7 hours ago, jackhulk said: Hi C-Beats, where can I find your platform data and this plugin you mention please? https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/74346-c-beats-metadata-effort/?_fromLogin=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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