Tool Others F95Checker [WillyJL]

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batblue

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Is it possible to launch games on MacOS with this?
It actually works really well on Mac to launch apps as URIs instead of files. You just need to know the full path to the game. For example, if you have a game with the path /Applications/HaremHotel.app, you can click the "Use URI" button in the Add EXE dialog, and type: file:///Applications/HaremHotel.app - or, if your game has the path /Users/batblue/Games/HaremHotel.app, you would enter file:///Users/batblue/Games/HaremHotel.app. Basically, just file:// plus the full path of the app you want to launch, including the first slash.
 

WillyJL

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I had it installed and was still not working. Fixed it by changin the name of libbz2.so.1 to libbz2.so.1.0 in /usr/lib64/ DO NOT DO THIS. It WILL brake your SO.
Instead, use sudocp to DUPLICATE de file with the new name.
in latest betas the bz2 issue is fixed, i include the needed bz2 so with the f95checker zip bundle
 

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I know your to-do list has to be at least as long as mine, but would it be within the realm of possibility to add information like this - and from the maintenance earlier this week - to those error messages as possible causes, to hopefully cut down on posts like this?
it is on the todo, but the idea is that the issues should not happen so often that they are such a huge problem. the parsing errors need manual intervention from me typically anyway, unless its a forum issue. and the f95 unavailable errors just need some time for the forum to not be overloaded anymore
 

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I have a minor problem. Checker is set to start with windows and in background. Well the issue I have is that it starts with windows but it doesn't start in notification area, it shows the program window.

Here is how it is set in the app and what version I am running. OS: Win 11 24H2 (26100.3624). Note: this is an insider preview on the release channel, but the issue i said happens even on non insider builds.
what if you quit the app completely and start it normally, does it start in background?
 

KaosKally

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what if you quit the app completely and start it normally, does it start in background?
Starts normally in the background as it should. Either way, I found where the issue was.... it seems i had 2 identical startup entries for Checker, both active at the same time. Once I deleted one of them (the shortcut from startup folder) all is back to normal.
 

Effrontery

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Hello everyone. You can see the picture above.
The Version is 2025-3-28, but the last updated is Feb 28,2025. Why these two data are different?
After i refresh, the data didnt change. Please someone tell me how to solve this problem.;);)
 

KaosKally

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Hello everyone. You can see the picture above.
The Version is 2025-3-28, but the last updated is Feb 28,2025. Why these two data are different?
After i refresh, the data didnt change. Please someone tell me how to solve this problem.;);)
From what I can tell, being updated today, cache api did not read the new date yet, and with it having 6 hours refresh cooldown... i would say tomorrow everything should be fine.
 
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I don't remember what game it was, but a couple of weeks ago I was looking at a game and that was the last tag listed (thought at the time it was weird). If I were to guess it is due to being the last tag added and is probably sorted in the app by index instead of alphabetically.
 

qango

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I can only start F95checker as an admin, when I start it with user rights it starts to the mini symbols (^ symbol) but doesnt open?
any ideas about that? I downloaded a fresh install, copied it to a completely new folder, deleted the folder in appdata, still the same problem
 

GrammerCop

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any ideas about that? I downloaded a fresh install, copied it to a completely new folder, deleted the folder in appdata, still the same problem
The parsing error you reported was likely due to F95 Maintenance. Starting as admin only, sounds like OS issue. More information is needed before anybody can speculate. OS Type / version / build etc. If Windows you might want to run sfc/scannow to check for corruption. Also file locations may play a part. F95Checker and your game files should not be located on desktop folder due to OS path length restrictions.

On another note, deleting the appdata folder deletes the data.
 

qango

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The parsing error you reported was likely due to F95 Maintenance. Starting as admin only, sounds like OS issue. More information is needed before anybody can speculate. OS Type / version / build etc. If Windows you might want to run sfc/scannow to check for corruption. Also file locations may play a part. F95Checker and your game files should not be located on desktop folder due to OS path length restrictions.

On another note, deleting the appdata folder deletes the data.
i read the info about the parsing, so i didnt quoted it again.
as you know, appdata only exists in windows. ofc i made a backup of the folder.
system is win11, freshly installed - it was working before on the win10 pc.
the path is like E:\f95checker, so that could not be the problem.
 

aurinkojakuu

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Has anyone been able to get their data transferred over cleanly when switching to a new system? I copied the contents of AppData\Roaming\f95checker over, but the list of games shows up empty. I guess some things are working because my account is still in there (can add games freely), but would rather not go through manually adding everything, labels, etc. again. Anyone know why this might not be working for me?
 

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From what I can tell, being updated today, cache api did not read the new date yet, and with it having 6 hours refresh cooldown... i would say tomorrow everything should be fine.
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so sad, it didnt change.
I have reviewed the introduction again, and the version refers to the update status of the thread.
The last update is my own update, and I am not sure if I understand it correctly
 
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johnny0183

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I have to thank you for this app Willy.
I was already losing track of the games I (plan to) play and F95's way of constantly changing the URL so your bookmark isn't up-to-date wasn't helping either.
Already partly one my way writing a rudimentary app to keep track which version of which game I completed, I just randomly stumble upon this that basically satisfies all I needed. Saves me the trouble!

If you allow for some feedback, the only minor thing's I'd like are
-optional removal of the "launch game" column (I don't launch games through this so it's wasted space)
-allow games on multiple tabs (I like to use tabs as a first major category selection, something akin to a saved filter)
-allow me to see my personal rating without having to open the game view/right click first

Other than that it has all I wanted and then some. Never thought of automating the update checking for example.
 

WillyJL

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it seems app have trouble displaying japanese characters
"アレンアビス" in dev name turns to "??????", "seト" in title becomes "se ?", no problems with umlauts though - "Übermachine" displayed properly
shouldn't unicode cover all this stuff?
and i dont believe i ever said the app includes a full unicode font, because it doesnt. CJK (combined chinese, japanese, korean glyphs) fonts tend to be over 100mb uncompressed. im not interested in bumping the app size by that much. furthermore, with how imgui works, fonts have to be cooked into a texture surface, which has a very limited size, which we are already hitting with scaling options larger than 200%, thats why it sometimes resets when you set it to a value larger than that, all the *current* fonts dont fit into the font texture atlas. unfortunately this issue will not be fixed.
 
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