Add Gamebase Support

Issue #1099 new
Not The Greatest Gamer created an issue

Add Gamebase Support for C64 and Amiga games.

Comments (7)

  1. Marcos González Troyas

    Gamebase can export part of all the games information on RomLister MAME XML format. It can also export a screenshot for each game with the correct filename.

    LaunchBox could import this XML and populate the games list and metadata from it, so pointing to the Gamebase ZIP game files. The screensots could be optionally placed on Gameplay Screenshots folder.

    For launching, simply "gblauncher.exe" (part of standard Gamebase install) can be used, it's designed specifically for this scenario.

    All the information is described on the following page: http://www.bu22.com/wiki/exporting_gamebases_to_other_frontends

    Once games are in LaunchBox with correct names, it's great image andvideo matching and downloading capabilities sure can do a great job.

    I'm attaching an example of XML exported from Commodore 64 Gamebase.

  2. Pixel

    It was a long, long time ago when I requested it, but I found a way how to do it, though. Without any programming skills :)

  3. Marcos González Troyas

    Would you mind sharing a general explanation? There are many ways but an official one should be integrated in LaunchBox if possible for all users.

  4. Pixel

    I don't think there are many ways to do it at the moment. Unless you can program and write your own application to inject the data into xmls atuomatically. When I have more time, I will make a tutorial about it.

    General explanation is not enough, I think. But the tools you need are MS Excel with commercial addins installed plus Advanced Renamer to quickly re-name some files.

  5. Pixel

    To tell you the truth, I am doubtful this will be implemetned soon. Just as mobygames support. Because the current policy is to the job all over again for LaunchBox database. But it's getting messy. There should be only one pattern for genres, for instance. I have many games and genres field is completely useless to me - hard to manage, hard to find anything. One genre or sub-genre can turn into 50 different genres - no pattern at all.

  6. Pixel

    Look at LemonAmiga or Lemon64 genres. How clean and detailed they are. They follow one detailed pattern to classify games.

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