New gamelist manager in 1.33

[Tom Speirs]

Now includes fully featured game list manager

- Add to, edit, and create game XML lists

- Automatic import of HyperPin Media Packs

- Import Artwork and Videos

[KRC]

Nice work Tom!

[horseyhorsey]

Nice job on the game manager. It helps to see the wheels outside of a FE.

HyperPin Manager is one I used untill I found it deleting some table files when the description is a dupe. This will basicly show you what you miss from all of the current media. Wheel, Table, UVP, Instructions, videos. Then allow you to rename the bits by double clicking to match description.

It would be very handy if you could show whether all other media for that table is present.

Problems with process not closing when you exit. This happened on version before this. I had played a game of SWTOR with this running in the background and didn't realise until I came to update 1.33 when I couldn't overwrite the exe as it was still being used. By opening pinballx and closing straight away it doesn't happen. If you scroll through some tables for a bit sometimes the table videos just dissapear and don't load again, when you exit pinballx when this is happening, I think this is where it doesn't get shutdown properly. Switching back to FFDSHOW has helped this.

[dboyrecords]

Thank you for game list editor! I love seeing wheel images. Makes me wish you could see thumbs of all images used...

I would still like to know how to edit the main list. Instead of seeing 1970's, 1980s I'd prefer one entry, "By Decade" and in that menu have 30's, 40's-modern. Same for By Manufacturer with sub-menus that would include Originals (I like to keep those seperate).

I'd also really like to ditch the scroll and bkg strip at the bottom.

Sorry, I'm sure you're chasing down a million other things...

I LOVE the look soooo much!! The full Playfield and small wheel-less wheel are GREAT!!!!

Thanks and I'll be donating very soon!

[slydog43]

can't get the game manager to run, it crashes right on startup. Win7 x64. any ideas?

[Tom Speirs]

1.34 adds the following to the game list manager.

Shows missing media.

Allows import of all media types.

[horseyhorsey]

1.35. Like the way you chose to show missing media, very handy, will be very very usefull!

Only thing trouble I have with is my Visual Pinball.xml. If you check the image I posted above it gets stuck at Street Fighter II. Now stuck on Roller Coaster Tycoon. Xml hasn't been touched last few days.

[dboyrecords]

I have 2 weird ones...

I have snaps for Full and video snaps for Full House. Fine and seperate in hp but in pbx Full has adopted Full House's vids. I reassigned in latest list mgr and rebooted pc still shows vids... even tried changing vids to Fullhouse...(no space)

King Pin had no wheel image and used Indiana Jones!?!? Workaround was make a cheeay one from backglass png. But before there was no way to delete image association, right?

[Tom Speirs]

1.35. Like the way you chose to show missing media, very handy, will be very very usefull!

Only thing trouble I have with is my Visual Pinball.xml. If you check the image I posted above it gets stuck at Street Fighter II. Now stuck on Roller Coaster Tycoon. Xml hasn't been touched last few days.

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Does it work in 1.36? It should use less resources.

[horseyhorsey]

Does it work in 1.36? It should use less resources.

No. It's on Riverboat Gambler now.

[Tom Speirs]

Does it crash or get stuck or what?

[Tom Speirs]

Its odd though. I tested it on a low spec XP virtual machine and it works fine. Could it be a bad XML or wheel image?

[horseyhorsey]

No crash, it just parses no more than riverboat gambler. Yesterday was SFII. The list is about 300.

Xml should be fine because pinballx-hyperpin shows all games.

It can take probably just under a minute to show the list but app is fine you can do anything as normal.

Tried moving some wheels out and still same.

[Tom Speirs]

Yeah there is a limit to how many it will display.1.37 should work for you although it will still max out at 312 tables. Let me know how that works out.

[horseyhorsey]

Ok , cheers. Works now but missing only 5 off the list. Can always have 2 parts and be merged after.

Another thing would be to just select .vpt in this list. For VP anyway & probably FP.

[Tom Speirs]

Ive just uploaded a new version it should show all your tables now. Ill look at a better solution in the future but you have a lot of games!

[horseyhorsey]

Currently flyers are just selected from a set name that you allready have? So a table called "whatever" clicked on Bad Cats will make flyers for "whatever" from bad cats.

I had no haunted house flyer, so grabbed some resources and can't really do much with them in there. Back ,Front , Inside 1 - 6. It wouldn't bother me to have a big'ish list on the dropdown tab for media which has the extra flyer & instructions, so these can be picked from somewhere and copied to correct place.

Apart from that This is really well done, it will save people loads of time. Cheers!

[horseyhorsey]

Ive just uploaded a new version it should show all your tables now. Ill look at a better solution in the future but you have a lot of games!

I'm sure there's bigger lists out there, they will be free from the problem now though, cheers!

[Tom Speirs]

Its still limited to 332 items but I doubt that will affect many. Glad its working for you.

[teppotee]

Has anyone else noticed a small bug in the Gamelist Manager that doesn't close the <menu> tags correctly when saving the file? I'm using the latest 1.41 version.

Every time I save changes to my visual pinball.xml -> I need to go and manually edit the <menu> tag in the end of the file to </menu>.

No big deal but just something I wanted to report.

[Tom Speirs]

Has anyone else noticed a small bug in the Gamelist Manager that doesn't close the <menu> tags correctly when saving the file? I'm using the latest 1.41 version.

Every time I save changes to my visual pinball.xml -> I need to go and manually edit the <menu> tag in the end of the file to </menu>.

No big deal but just something I wanted to report.

This is fixed in 1.42

[nelman]

I've noticed it doesn't save the EM or SS dialogue box , it usually wipes it clean then you have to do it manually....maybe because I'm importing a hyperpin media package and it doesn't know what type it is.... Other than that I've had no problems.

Nelson

[Tom Speirs]

If this in general or just when importing? I was pretty sure it "was" working.

[nelman]

Just importing Tom,I guess it overwrites something in the XML file

Thank again for a great product!