LaunchBox Games Database - Game Comparer

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LaunchBox Games Database - Game Comparer

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See What You're Missing™

Compare games in your platforms against what's listed in the LaunchBox Games Database
See which platforms are in the Games Database that are not in your collection

Filter out games by Release Type, Genre and Co-op.

Import placeholders (see Game Placeholders below) into to a new platform, those platforms or games not found.
(optionally, import missing game placeholders into your existing platform)

Output the results to a tab-delimited text file.

Requires LaunchBox 13.19 or newer

 

Installing;
Copy the contents of the zip file into your /Plugins/ folder
e.g.  D:\LaunchBox\Plugins\LBDBcomparer\LBDBcomparer.dll

Using:
In the Tools menu, select LaunchBox Games Database - Game Comparer

Select a platform to compare.
    (the list excludes platforms you've imported using Add Missing Games to NEW platform [see below])
    This will show games listed in the database for this platform that are not found in the selected platform.
    (this searches and compares by database ID)

Click the games ID # to open the LaunchBox Games Database to that game.

Other things:
Toggle Local games NOT in Database
    This shows your games that either don't have an associated LaunchBox database ID # or their ID # is not in the database for the selected platform.

Toggle Missing Platforms
    This show database platforms not found in your collection.  
    Search is done by Name Only.  Exact match (but Ignore Case). 
        Does not cross-check the platforms Scrape-As value.
        Does not exclude platforms you've imported using Add Missing Games to NEW platform (see below).

Settings:  (click the gear icon)
    Show only games that match the criteria (boxes that are checked).  Filter by Release Type, Genre and/or Co-op.
    Click Save and Close to save the selected filters and close the settings window.
    Click Reset All, Save and Close to reset all filters to the defaults, save and close the settings window.
    Click the Close icon to close the window without saving and changes.

The column headers will be highlighted Orange if any filters are set for that column.

Add/Import options:
Add Missing Games to NEW platform 
    This will create a new platform named platform_name (M)  e.g. Atari 2600 (M)
    Add game placeholders of games listed in the datagrid (filtered or otherwise) to the new platform.

Re-running it will essentially recreate the platform based on the items in the datagrid.

Add missing games to selected platform (not recommended)
    This will import game placeholders into your existing platform for games listed in the datagrid (filtered or otherwise).

Game Placeholders:
The imported game placeholders will have set their
    Title
    LBDB-ID
    Broken=True
    Installed=False

With Installed=False, you can set Arrange By and choose Installed.  But you can't Filter by it (nor Broken)
You can also, on the left panel select View Installed [vs. e.g. Platform Categoy] and then select the No option.
This can be helpful if you decide to add them to your existing platform.  "Broken" can be used to hide the placeholders.

Output Results to A Text File:
This will output the results to a tab-delimited text file.
The file will be named platform_name (missingGames_count).txt and gets created in /Output/ under this plugins folder.
If it's a platform missing from your collection, the filename will be platform_name (M) (missingGames_count).txt
    e.g.  D:\LaunchBox\Plugins\LBDBcomparer\Output\Atari 2600 (137).txt
            D:\LaunchBox\Plugins\LBDBcomparer\Output\Atari 2600 (M) (137).txt

Click the view file icon to view the created file.
Click the open folder icon to open you Windows Explorer to the /Output/ folder

Notes:
This will not check your games that are Additional Versions (Additional Apps).  Additional Versions don't contain a LaunchBox database ID # to compare against.

It "the numbers don't add up", check your platform for duplicates.

If an update is available, the Info icon will flash red. Click it to find a link to the downloads page.

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• Submitter
  JoeViking245
• Submitted
  09/03/2025
• Category
  Third-party Apps and Plugins