GB v1.4 Feature requests

[Vicman]

Please add the Feature to creating own/new Genre-Name to the GB v1.4 / Toolbox

[Deleauvive]

What about the possibility to right-click on a column header and tick - untick any of the columns title in a pop-up menu ?
That would be a faster way to edit View than using the current extra columns menu (or at least allow right-click - unticking to quickly hide columns).
Obviously, it would be even nicer if we could drag and drop columns headers to place each of them to the desired position (or at least allow reordering in the selected columns panel).

[Flarp]

Hello, I was wondering is their a way to play a video clip in the "splash" folder when you start a gamebase.. I know I can put pictures and sounds there but could I for example put the startup video like on a real Playstation.. for my ongoing Playstation Gamebase project.. also I'd love to do this with my PS2 and other gamebase projects as well.

Currently I have just the PSX startup sound file (though I could get the video if it would work like suggested abive) but the sound is slightly too long.. the list comes up a bit before it''s done playing the whole sound file.. is there a way maybe where I could specify for each gamebase how long it takes/waits for my startup music or video to finish playing? I use VLC for all my video files if that helps. If you think this is stupid or not worth doing I understand but I think it would be cool and make each gamebase even more authentic and true to the actual system(s)


Thanks for your time

[Deleauvive]

Perhaps in v1.4 I can disable/hide the "add to favourites" option for games already in the favourites list. Also, (add) the ability to remove games from the favourites list, from the main view.

That would be nice.

Also, there's me wishing it'd be possible tot add 'Notes' as an extra column, so that when I export the game list to a text file, I may share all the notes I have attached at once, in the same manner as with any other column data.
About these notes, it seems they get erased from one update to another. Could it be possible to prevent that from happening, please ?

Could it be possible for the gamebase maintainer to enter multiple values in control : Joystick Port 1 AND Keyboard... and display those values of course.

Finally, second the requests which aim at a better portability of Gamebase.


Thanx again for taking into account all these requests !

[Vicman]

to remind for Jimbo :

add a new GEMUS function that kills a running program.
needed for Xpadder / joy2key Application...(maybe other programs, too ?)

something like : Kill_Program(%dbpath%\Joy2Key\JoyToKey.exe)

[William Moore]

Yes, there is no apparent way to end some games when they are running. A keyboard shortcut to close the emulator for these problem games would be good!
At present, I have to bring up the Task Manager to close the emulator!

The ability to at least change the colour of the GUI (without having to change your Windows Theme) would be nice!

[Pugsy]

Yes, there is no apparent way to end some games when they are running. A keyboard shortcut to close the emulator for these problem games would be good!
At present, I have to bring up the Task Manager to close the emulator!

I think you need to know how to shut down whichever emulator you are running rather than it being a GameBase feature, it's not GameBase's job to keep track of which emulators you have open!

If an emulator is running in full screen then pressing the standard windows key combination ALT+Enter together will switch the emulator to windowed mode and you will be able to find out how to close the emulator down and do other stuff. Generally of course most windows programs honour the default windows close key combination of ALT+F4.

[William Moore]

Fair enough! But when you know how to do something, it is easy, when you don't know, you need help!
So thanks for the help!

[Flarp]

Is there any way where I could tell Gamebase to just switch file formats for my games? For example for my SNES project I just started using BSNES.. (which is awesome) and it can handle .7z files and the new Gamebase also has .7zip support so I used a wonderful free program I just found and might help others "Arc them all" to covert all my SNES games from .zip to .7z to save a little space but now I have to go through all 900 some of them in Gamebase and repoint each individual game to it's new renamed converted counterpart.. what a pain in the... But other than .7z instead of .zip at the end the game files are all named the same and in the same place.. can't I just tell Gamebase.. okay look for the same file names you did before but only look for them in .7z format? I hope I'm explaining this well. This would save me so much time and would probably help others as well.

[.mad.]

@Flarp

for now, you can change the extention of the Filename in Access.

Highlight the Filename column by clicking on it.
then from menu bar select Edit, Replace.
and use these options.

Find What: .7z
Replace With: .zip
Look In: = Filename
Match: = Any Part of Field
Search: = All

then click the Replace All button.

if you don't have Microsoft Access,
send me the MDB file and i will do it for you.

[StaNDarD]

Find What: .7z
Replace With: .zip

Find What: .zip
Replace With: .7z

This would be the proper way to do.

[hardmanm]

How about adding the ability to have a piccy of the programmer, and also one for the graphics artist, just like you can for musicians.

[Vicman]

Hi Jimbo,

it would be nice to have an X-tra TAB for additional Infos.
I know, that it is possible to "rename" the existing Fields,
but i need more Fields....

So, a "freely usable" TAB (or maybe more...) should make sense
There is enough space for this on the GUI, i think.

what do you think ?

Example:

[K.C.]

In the GEMUS edit window, a "Save" button would be welcome.
The only way to save changes made to the script is clicking the OK button, which will close the GEMUS edit window.

[J2003C]

Please add the Feature to creating own/new Genre-Name to the GB v1.4 / Toolbox

Same thing for the Control field, since roller controller or super controller for Colecovision is missing.