Achievements not showing in LaunchBox

[Penlab]

Hi, I have a very weird thing going on and I don't know if it's because of the API still or not.

I see my key is recognized properly in Options and I can view my Achievements profile again, but here's what's happening.

I'm using the Omni skin, which should let me both see available Steam Achievements on the right with the game profile, Steam style, as well as see a progress bar on the game entry itself.

Weirdly, I get this on many games like expected, but there are a lot that I don't, even though when I go into the game, RetroAchievements registers the game and the achievements as expected.

It's frustrating because I'm trying to go through my library and verify which games I need to replace with the correct version to earn achievements, and I used to be able to tell at a glance, but now I have to go into each game, which is tedious.

I've tried removing and readding games, I've tried repairing the Omni skin, and at one point I tried just reinstalling Launchbox.

As a glaring example, none of my Neo Geo Pocket Color games are showing achievements, even though they're clearly there when I start to play the game.

Anyone have any ideas?

[C-Beats]

1 hour ago, Penlab said:

Hi, I have a very weird thing going on and I don't know if it's because of the API still or not.

I see my key is recognized properly in Options and I can view my Achievements profile again, but here's what's happening.

I'm using the Omni skin, which should let me both see available Steam Achievements on the right with the game profile, Steam style, as well as see a progress bar on the game entry itself.

Weirdly, I get this on many games like expected, but there are a lot that I don't, even though when I go into the game, RetroAchievements registers the game and the achievements as expected.

It's frustrating because I'm trying to go through my library and verify which games I need to replace with the correct version to earn achievements, and I used to be able to tell at a glance, but now I have to go into each game, which is tedious.

I've tried removing and readding games, I've tried repairing the Omni skin, and at one point I tried just reinstalling Launchbox.

As a glaring example, none of my Neo Geo Pocket Color games are showing achievements, even though they're clearly there when I start to play the game.

Anyone have any ideas?

Did you go to Tools > Scan > Achievements and scan your library for achievements?

[Penlab]

1 hour ago, C-Beats said:

Did you go to Tools > Scan > Achievements and scan your library for achievements?

Yes, multiple times. 

[C-Beats]

Moved the convo to it's own thread @Penlab. If you got to \\LaunchBox\Data\Platforms\ and look in your Neo Geo Pocket xml file do you see any <RetroAchievementsHash> and the ones that DO have them do they have a <RetroAchievementsId> as well?

[Penlab]

Hi, sorry, I'm just now home from work and able to check.

For my Neo Geo Pocket Color games, no, none of them have any of that, which makes sense because none of them are displaying properly.

Gamecube however, does have games displaying properly, and I see those fields with those games.

[Penlab]

I've tried removing the games from Launchbox and putting them in again, and no change.

I saw other past topics involving some line along the lines of <RetroAchievementsHash>COULDNTFILEHASH</RetroAchievementsHash>, and I don't have that at all.

I tried deleting and replacing the RAHasher file, no change.

RetroArch knows I have the right ROMs, it's like Launchbox isn't even trying to check them. It's weird.

[Penlab]

Okay, holy hell, I figured out what was going on with the Neo Geo Pocket Color games at least.

It's because Launchbox scrapes them as Neo Geo Pocket Color, which makes sense because that's what they are, but RetroAchievements lists them as plain Neo Geo Pocket.

I changed Scrape As to Neo Geo Pocket, rescanned achievements, and now those games are showing up normally.

That at least solves that problem. Armed with that information, I move onward. Thanks for your help.

[bob_the_blob2]

2 hours ago, Penlab said:

Okay, holy hell, I figured out what was going on with the Neo Geo Pocket Color games at least.

It's because Launchbox scrapes them as Neo Geo Pocket Color, which makes sense because that's what they are, but RetroAchievements lists them as plain Neo Geo Pocket.

I changed Scrape As to Neo Geo Pocket, rescanned achievements, and now those games are showing up normally.

That at least solves that problem. Armed with that information, I move onward. Thanks for your help.

@Penlab I saw this and realised it may be the solution to a problem I'd been having for ages. I had the same issue with platforms like Famicom Disk System, Nintendo Satelaview and Sega Naomi. Low and behold, it's as you said, they were getting scraped as systems different to what RA categorises them as.

Thanks so much for uncovering this! For you though, apart from Neo Geo Pocket are you still seeing other games that have achievements not showing correctly, or it's all good for you now?

[Penlab]

First, glad to hear that I was able to help you out through my own discovery.

As for me, I'm fine now. I'm back to going through my roms and replacing ones that are the wrong hash for RetroAchievements with the right ones, but here's another weird quirk.

So just went through my PSP isos. I replace a game, like I said, and you'd think rescanning achievements would be enough to get Launchbox to notice the swap, but it doesn't. Instead, after some experimentation, I've found what works fastest is editing the game in Launchbox, removing a letter from the ROM file in Launching, saving it, going back in, and putting the letter back. It's like it forces Launchbox to acknowledge the new version of the iso/rom/etc.

[Clutz450]

On 7/17/2024 at 11:34 PM, bob_the_blob2 said:

@Penlab I saw this and realised it may be the solution to a problem I'd been having for ages. I had the same issue with platforms like Famicom Disk System, Nintendo Satelaview and Sega Naomi. Low and behold, it's as you said, they were getting scraped as systems different to what RA categorises them as.

Thanks so much for uncovering this! For you though, apart from Neo Geo Pocket are you still seeing other games that have achievements not showing correctly, or it's all good for you now?

I'm having the same issue with my Famicom Disk System ROMs.  I imported as Famicom Disk System and scanned all my ROMs for RetroAchievements but LaunchBox didn't find any.  I see the fix is to change the scrape as setting.  Does that mean I have to delete all my games and reimport with the scrape as setting selected?   But if I do that, won't that mess up the media and metadata?  Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

[JoeViking245]

26 minutes ago, Clutz450 said:

I see the fix is to change the scrape as setting.  Does that mean I have to delete all my games and reimport with the scrape as setting selected?   But if I do that, won't that mess up the media and metadata?

I think it means

1. change the scrape-as for that platform
2. scan for achievements for that platform
3. ('undocumented') change the scrape-as back to what you had it [for future metadata and media scraping]

[Clutz450]

Yep, that did it.  Thank you for that clarification.  Any idea if this issue is documented and on the list of things to fix?  I feel like a normal user shouldn't have to do this work around to get achievements to scan in for Famicom Disk System (or any other systems that this happens to).  Thank you.