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I'm adding Wii Virtual Console and Wii U Virtual Console into my Launchbox setup. 

Wii Virtual Console, I've had set up for a while now.  
The way I set that up was by having a Platform Category called "Nintendo Wii Virtual Console" and within that I created Platforms for each system:  WiiVC-NES, WiiVC-SNES, WiiVC-N64, etc.  The reason why I did it this way is so that I could scrape each of these Platforms as that system, but have custom art without affecting the NES, SNES, or N64 Console Category Platforms (non Virtual Console). 

This worked great because I have all the metadata, videos, manuals, and pictures for each game but am able to have my custom Virtual Console Box Front images, instead of the regular NES and SNES Box Fronts. The only thing I don't like about this setup is that when going into Big Box mode, all of the Virtual Console Platforms are lumped in with the rest of my Consoles.   So I was thinking that I'll need to change the Platform Category  "Nintendo Wii Virtual Console" to just a Platform and change the WiiVC-NES, WiiVC-SNES, etc. to be just playlists instead. So that the hierarchy/"folder structure" in Big Box works right. 

So I hadn't set up Wii U Virtual Console and figured I would try this out on it. 
The issue I'm running into now is that it seems like you can't really scrape a Playlist or just the items withing a Playlist. Like I can select all the games in the Playlist and there doesn't seem to be a Bulk Edit entry for it. So when I import the games into the Platform "Wii U Virtual Console" I don't want to scrape them all as the same system. 

I already have a set of Box Front images that I custom made specifically for each system from the Wii U VC that I want to use.  Is there a way to scrape the metadata, images, screenshots, manuals, videos, etc. of a selection of games as a different platform without actually changing it's platform?

I like how on my Wii Virtual Console setup, all of the games have the same metadata as the regular Consoles do, but I want the functionality of the Playlists in Big Box. 

In the attached pictures you can see that Wii Virtual Console has the custom Box Front images, but still has the same metadata for the games on the right as the console the game is from. In the Wii U Virtual Console the Box Front Images are there, but the metadata on the right is non existent. 

I hope this makes sense but here goes....
There any way to selectively Bulk Edit only some games (or a playlist) within a Platform and scrape them as a different Platform without actually changing the Platform? 


 

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Wii U VC.png

Edited by CuzzinChizzy
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+1 to this. It would be very useful to have some more nuanced control over the list (be it platform, playlist or catagory) and how it interacts with bulk-whatevering. Also I dont see a section to manually edit in icons for the list in the UI but i havent looked that hard yet.

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