![]() ![]() If they pull off the messenger bit part though. I would assume they have to realize how important it is to pull that piece off or they have nothing really. However I want to see all my emulation titles show up in GOG I would love for my GOG to just piggy back off my launchbox / big box and even have the option to just click "Launch Arcade" from GOG and drop into the big box front end.Īnyhow its a lame duck they haven't finished the messenger bit still its a coming soon and they won't comment. ![]() IE no keyboard navigation technically, thus you guys have nothing to worry about imho. I bought it because it has the best front end for an all encompassing arcade pedestal. I didn't pay full price for big box for its game library / organization or its achievements etc. The real kicker Is its not just gonna let you combine your game libraries for PC in one place via API's. But it will combine all the different messengers like Trillian did to all the messenger clients back in the day like ICQ MSN YAHOO AOL ETC, One ring to rule them all. To revive a dead thread, GOG 2.0 Client has caught my eye just recently. I would love it if LB could absorb that ability somehow. I always thought the reason it wasn't there was because the information wasn't visible to other programs, but there must be some way for other programs to tell if a Steam game is installed, because Galaxy filters it correctly. Given the nature of Launchbox, I understand that for emulated games there isn't always a way to tell if the ROMs are present at the moment, but even if it was Yes/No/Schroedinger, it would be nice to have. It wouldn't be a terrible idea to flat out copy GOG's API if the structure is at all compatible with LB, as then all the GOG integrations would inherently become additions for LB as well.Īlternatively, an Integration could be written to use LB as the launcher for all the systems it covers, thus pulling users from the GOG userbase?Īddition: Also, there is one other feature that both Galaxy and the Steam launcher have that I would love to see in LaunchBox- the ability to filter by whether or not the games are currently installed. Either a similar API could be developed, and LB users could build integrations of our own, or the GOG integrations could be researched to get key information that could then be used to add those features to LB directly. That said, LB already has mature emulator support, and if one of two things is done (or some mix of the two), it should be relatively easy to pick up on the portion of what GOG does that LB users are likely to want, which is the library integration with the various services. It is definitely competition in the "game collection management" space, and the platform list they have posted on GitHub does include a number of popular emulated systems, so I don't think it is wise to assume it will remain without emulator support forever. ![]() ![]() Particularly useful for me is the Humble Bundle integration, which achieved in about fifteen seconds what took me a few hours on LB, and which can update the information similarly quickly, as opposed to me having to remember to update LB each time I acquire something there. I'm in the beta and I think the main point it has over LB is that it is easy to integrate with a much larger number of game providing platforms than LB, due largely to having published an API for precisely that purpose, allowing users to create "Integrations" for platforms they like. ![]()
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