Reduce Beta games priority

[Abdulla Al-Mutawa]

Whenever I run a game, the rom with (Beta) in it will be prioritized, I have to manually fix this for every game, an automatic feature is a must, and this severly decreases the enjoyment of LaunchBox.

[Retro808]

What version Launchbox are you using? Release 11.3 added improvements to ROM prioritization routines to try and avoid this.

[Abdulla Al-Mutawa]

11.12 Beta-6
It’s also prioritizing Kiosk demons and Wiiware versions etc..

Priorities that didn’t work:
GBA:
Legend of Zelda, The - The Minish Cap (USA) (Demo) (Kiosk)
Mario & Luigi - Superstar Saga (USA) (Demo) (Kiosk)

N64:
Legend of Zelda, The - Ocarina of Time - Master Quest (USA) (Debug) (GameCube)
Donkey Kong 64 (USA) (Demo) (Kiosk)

Atari Jaguar:
Rayman (World) (Beta 1)

GG:
Bonkers Wax Up! (USA, Europe) (Beta) (1994-10-31)

Genesis:
Bonkers (USA, Europe) (Beta) (1994-03-28)

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Priorities that worked:

SNES:
Legend of Zelda, The - A Link to the Past (USA) > (Prioritized over many various versions)

GG:
Ristar ~ Ristar - The Shooting Star (World).zip > (Prioritized over Betas)

I don’t mind testing/helping out more.

[Retro808]

Thanks for reporting and providing some more details.

[Abdulla Al-Mutawa]

You’re most welcome, thanks for looking into this!

[Retro808]

Abdulla not sure when we will have something on this. I did mention it to our devs and it is on the radar. So just posting an update.

[Abdulla Al-Mutawa]

I can’t expect people to be dedicated to working on what bothers me, my main point was to report it, and hopefully have it fixed eventually. So thank you for support.

[Christian]

Thanks for the report, I adjust some of the ROM prioritization logic to help with this. The changes will be in next release. You may still run into problems with ROMs that have “(Beta 1)” (or any other numeral) in them. The rest should prioritize correctly though with the changes put in place.

[Abdulla Al-Mutawa]

Thank you very much, appreciate your effort.