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Expand "Missing Images" Section Browsing to Support All Media Types

LaunchBox for Windows

📋Summary

Extend LaunchBox’s current Missing Image Group functionality to include all available image categories, including more specific and newly added types like Box Spines, Disc Art, and gameplay-specific screenshots. This would improve the ability to visually audit which artwork is missing from games and better adapt the media viewer to system-specific content.

❗Problem

Currently, the Image Group filter in LaunchBox allows users to browse specific types of media across games—such as box front, clear logos, or carts. This is incredibly helpful for spotting missing artwork. However, the feature only supports a limited number of broad image categories, and many subtypes (like Box Spine, Screenshot - Game Over, or Disc Art) are excluded from the view options.

In addition, the same categories are presented for all platforms, even if they don’t logically apply (e.g., showing cartridge images for CD-based systems). This can lead to inefficiencies when managing or sourcing missing media.

💡Proposal

  • Add full support for all image subcategories within the Image Group selector, including:

    • Box - Spine

    • Box - Full

    • Disc

    • Cart - Front / Back

    • Screenshot - Title / Select / Game Over / High Scores

    • Arcade - Marquee

    • Steam Banner

    • Other platform-specific categories

  • Optionally allow users to customize which image types appear in the selector per system, so irrelevant media types can be hidden (e.g., no “Carts” for Dreamcast).

  • Dynamically adjust available image groups based on the selected platform, offering a cleaner and more context-sensitive experience.

✅Benefits

  • Makes it easier to audit and maintain complete, consistent media libraries

  • Saves time during artwork curation and media pack creation

  • Adapts better to evolving community standards as new image types are added

  • Improves overall polish and organization for users with large or heavily customized libraries 🧼🎨

  • Helps users spot and fill in missing artwork with greater precision

Posted by purringc ¡
Status: Open To Community3 comments

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  • AstroBob

    Team•

    Apr 9, 2025

    Hi there,

    Thanks for the request here. I wonder if I could confirm which image categories you’re specifically referring to that aren’t covered here. The main ones should be covered, however is the ask that you’d like to be able to see each individual category (i.e cart - front and cart - back instead of just missing carts, which bundles them both together? )

    Let us know and we’ll do our best to flesh out this request.

    Cheers,

    • purringc

      •

      Apr 21, 2025

      Hey AstroBob,

      Again…sorry for the long delay to reply.

      So, the menu bar has the category IMAGE GROUP.

      IMAGE GROUP

      • Backgrounds

      • Boxes

      • 3D Boxes

      • Carts

      • 3D Carts

      • Clear Logos

      • Marquees

      • Screenshots

      • Steam Banners

      These are certainly the main ones I would imagine the majority of people use

      It’s really just an OCD and efficiency thing for me when it comes to seeing which media is missing from a particular game. Sometimes a so-called complete set of media isn’t available, but could be in the future. Or new image features get added later by the community and implemented into LaunchBox in an update…like the box spines.

      So being able to quickly pick a system and a specific image group would be very useful. Maybe the IMAGE GROUP changes selections depending on the system chosen. I always understood that Carts meant Disc when looking at a CD based system, but it would be more elegant if the selections matched what was available for that system.

      IMAGE GROUP (ADVANCED)

      Box - Front

      Box - Back

      Box - 3D

      Box - Spine

      Arcade - Marquee

      Banner

      Steam Banner

      Cart - Front

      Cart - Back <don’t really care about the back>

      Cart - 3D

      Clear Logo

      Disc

      Screenshot - Game Title

      Screenshot - Game Select

      Screenshot - Game Over

      Screenshot - Gameplay

      Screenshot - High Scores

      There’s even a Box - Full category now. Maybe that’s for the 3D Model of the box?

      And there’s even more categories than listed above. Maybe allow the user to customize the image group selections per system? I would like that for sure.

      Well, I think I’ve said quite a bit. Thank you for taking the time to read all this non-sense. I really do enjoy the work everybody at LaunchBox does for this project. It just keeps getting better and better.

      • AstroBob

        Team•

        Apr 21, 2025

        Hi there!

        Thanks so much for taking the time to explain your use case — that context is always super helpful.

        I’ve gone ahead and fleshed out the main idea using the info you provided, and I’m opening it up to the community for further discussion and feedback. Please let me know if this fleshed-out version doesn’t match your original intended request.

        Feel free to let me know if you have any extra thoughts, examples, or edge cases you think might be relevant!

        Cheers,
        The LaunchBox team