Playlist Issues

[moudrost]

About a year ago I created some playlists where I picked the exact games I wanted to appear in each list. For example, I created a North American licensed release list for most major platforms. I went through each game one at a time and added those specific games to that list. I have all my games split so one ROM equals one entry in LaunchBox so I can find exactly what I'm looking for easier. I copied this setup to my arcade cabinet and it has been running just fine and still is exactly how I set it up. I make no regular updates to that setup other than upgrading LaunchBox when a new version comes out.

On my main computer where I manage all my games, I have noticed that every playlist I have now has the correct number of games, but the associated ROM is no longer what I had picked. Japanese, European, Betas, even translated ROMs from a different sub folder are appearing in all my NA lists. It is technically the same game, but not the version I had originally picked. What is going on here? Should this be happening?

[moudrost]

Thought I'd bump this one more time in case someone has found a solution to this problem since 5 months ago when I posted this. I was getting ready to do some maintenance and wanted to avoid lost work again. Is the only solution to create 2 versions of Launchbox and only put the ROMs I want for custom playlists in the 2nd install? I keep redoing work and this seems like something that shouldn't be happening. If that is the only option I'll go that route.

[faeran]

On 10/23/2024 at 10:37 AM, moudrost said:

Thought I'd bump this one more time in case someone has found a solution to this problem since 5 months ago when I posted this. I was getting ready to do some maintenance and wanted to avoid lost work again. Is the only solution to create 2 versions of Launchbox and only put the ROMs I want for custom playlists in the 2nd install? I keep redoing work and this seems like something that shouldn't be happening. If that is the only option I'll go that route.

Sounds like you were doing some management work, maybe some imports, which caused the primary application path for your games to change?

I'm not seeing anything in your post that indicates what you might have been doing to cause the change, but maybe you have some ideas of work you were doing on your build that could have caused it.

[moudrost]

Thanks for replying @faeran

I haven't changed URL paths for years. I update DATs and use RomVault and it will occasionally update names or add/remove files. When that happens, I expect LaunchBox to lose a link to the file since the name has changed and I can update it. This however is impacting every custom playlist I have made. I went by hand and created North American lists and picked the specific ROM I wanted to use for each. Over time, the application path has drifted to other versions. I keep all my files split so I pick the specific one easier.

It took days going line by line from various "official lists" and spent a long time reviewing the data. Could there be a chance of some mistakes here and there? Sure, but half the NA list mixed in with Beta, Pirate, France, Japan, etc releases? No way. I'm at the point of giving up any custom work and using it as is since there is no easy way to repair the issues except to review it line by line again and hope for the best. I would love to figure out what is going on. I originally used the lists to export a copy of the files to use on my Analogue Pocket. It was an easy way to create a list of games I was more likely to play on the go. I have reviewed the files exported with those playlists months ago and those files are what I would expect them to be; North American releases.