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Fully Integrate Multiple Region Boxarts

LaunchBox for Windows

📋 Summary

Expand LaunchBox’s media handling to allow downloading, storing, and displaying multiple region-specific boxarts per game (e.g., US, EU, JP). Users could then select which region’s artwork is displayed globally, per-platform, or even per-game—without overwriting or breaking other entries.

❗ Problem

Currently, LaunchBox is designed to display only a single piece of boxart per game. When downloading media, LaunchBox pulls the artwork that matches the ROM’s region (or based on region priorities set in Options). This creates several issues:

  • Users who want to see multiple regional boxarts (US, EU, JP) cannot download them all without workarounds.

  • Manually renaming files to match regions is cumbersome and error-prone, and sometimes results in mismatched covers being displayed.

Many collectors care deeply about regional differences in boxart—sometimes even preferring alternate artwork from a different region than their ROM. LaunchBox’s current system doesn’t accommodate this.

💡 Proposal

  1. Download Multiple Regions at Once

    • Allow users to select which regions’ boxarts they want to download (US, EU, JP, etc.).

    • If available in the Games Database, LaunchBox would fetch all selected regional boxarts automatically.

  2. Flexible Display Options

    • Add a new submenu in the Image View dropdown to control which boxart is displayed:

      • ROM Region – artwork that matches the ROM’s detected region.

      • Global Override – show all games with US, EU, or JP art regardless of ROM region.

  3. Optional Enhancements

    • Per-platform settings to prioritize one region over another (e.g., always show EU art for PlayStation, JP art for Super Famicom).

    • Quick toggle in the right-click context menu or game details pane for switching boxarts.

🧩 Benefits

  • Gives collectors the ability to showcase regional differences in their libraries.

  • Prevents unwanted overwrites when downloading additional regional art.

  • Provides greater customization of how collections look in both LaunchBox and Big Box.

  • Reduces manual renaming and file management workarounds.

  • Improves the overall presentation for users who enjoy exploring boxart history and design differences across regions.

Posted by Morthux ¡
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  • AstroBob changed status to Open To Community
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    Aug 20, 2025

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    Hi there!

    Thanks so much for submitting this request and 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. I hope it’s okay that I’ve expanded the scope a little bit to fully accomodate multiple regions boxart. 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

  • Retrofrogg

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    Sep 11, 2025

    Very interesting idea - but rather than have multiple region artworks for one rom, why not just have the regional roms themselves with the correct artworks?

  • Morthux

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    Aug 20, 2025

    Option to download multiple regional game covers

    SUGGESTION: Add an option to download the cover of games from different regions. We could select wich regions we would want to download, and if they exist in the database, they would be downloaded.

    The different covers would be seen in the overview, you could also chose which version to show by default per category, platform, title, etc…

    Right now, when I want to download a different regional cover, I have to name a file with the proper region. But this is far from perfect, because a lot of the time, downloading a new region, ends up changing the shown cover for games from different regions.

    There was this time where I downloaded a few japan covers, only selecting the japanese games, and half of the european titles changed to the japanese cover too.