Hide Mature Games

[Joe35car]

I know you can exclude these games when imported from MAME. My question is I would like to keep these games but hide them when young kids are around. Anyway to do this in LB or BB?

[JoeViking245]

39 minutes ago, Joe35car said:

I know you can exclude these games when imported from MAME. My question is I would like to keep these games but hide them when young kids are around. Anyway to do this in LB or BB?

I know this something Jason's wanted for years but don't know if anything [else] was implemented.

One way is to select the "platform" All (not really a 'platform' but shows all games).  Click filter and then filter for the rating Mature.

For this to work of course, your games will need to have the appropriate metadata to be able to filter those out.

Next press Ctrl+A (to select all games in that filter) then press Ctrl+E (to start the Bulk Edit wizard).  Select the Field Hide, then set the Value to true (check the box).  Then follow through the prompts.

From here, you can click View, Hide Games, and select Marked Hidden.  (Check or un-check respectively)  I don't know if this carries over to BigBox or not. Or if BB has its own show/hide Hidden.  Using your parental due diligence, I'm sure you'll find out soon enough.

[Joe35car]

Thanks for the reply. Tried to PM you but you're not excepting messages. Seems like a lot of steps to complete this.

Edited January 19 by Joe35car

[Joe35car]

So if I just choose one game and I right click-edit then I can chose hide. How would I un-hide that game?

[spycat]

The only way I know of is to first disable the Hide Games option in the View menu. You can now see all hidden games. Edit the now visible game and uncheck it'd hide box. When you enable the Hide Games option again, all of your hidden games apart from the one you've just unhidden should be now hidden again.

[JoeViking245]

36 minutes ago, Joe35car said:

So if I just choose one game and I right click-edit then I can chose hide. How would I un-hide that game?

Reverse that?  Or

click View, Hide Games, and select Marked Hidden.  (Check or un-check respectively) 

 

46 minutes ago, Joe35car said:

Seems like a lot of stops to complete this.

Not really.  No matter how it can be done, you need to select the games you want to hide.  And then click though a menu (or something) to tell LaunchBox to hide them.  Once those 'stops' are done, click somewhere to hide/un-hide them.

[Joe35car]

I might just have two different platform xml files. Just swap them in the data folder when kids come over and vs versa.

[JoeViking245]

5 minutes ago, Joe35car said:

I might just have two different platform xml files. Just swap them in the data folder when kids come over and vs versa.

If it helps any, once you mark them as 'Hidden', to hide/un-hide them in LaunchBox, you can just press Ctrl+Alt+H.

But swapping the xml files also works.

[Joe35car]

I did your suggestion and just went through every Mame game and hid all the adult mature content games. Works great the Ctrl Alt H.

Edited January 21 by Joe35car