Tool XLibrary - Advanced Game Library Manager for F95Zone

[Ilya Krichevsky]

Good point, I will include it in the next release

I installed version v1.14.0 yesterday, but the extension remains at version 1.10.1. Yesterday I noticed the web extension's floating window could be moved and minimised. Why, upon reopening today, has this minor feature disappeared and reverted to a fixed mode? Does the extension version need to match the software version?

 

[Detsu Kai]

I have an idea for a cool function.

My collection is huge. Luckily however I've kept a list of all my games so I can copy their names easily to the search bar.
But copying all of them one by one to the search is super tedious. My solution would be to have a bulk search option where you can type or paste multiple queued search queries separated by line breaks and then just go through them individually by clicking a button.

Now I don't know how to actually implement it in terms of code, but aren't us ideas guys still helpful?

Sounds good, but this will be very, very slow because we use services like f95/dlsite directly, and a single search for one title can take 1-2 seconds, and they cannot be done in parallel. Accordingly, searching for 50 games will take around 2 minutes or so

 

[Detsu Kai]

I installed version v1.14.0 yesterday, but the extension remains at version 1.10.1. Yesterday I noticed the web extension's floating window could be moved and minimised. Why, upon reopening today, has this minor feature disappeared and reverted to a fixed mode? Does the extension version need to match the software version?

Do you use Chrome? You need to update the extension in the settings by clicking "Reload" on it.

1. Open Extensions Page: Type chrome://extensions into your Chrome address bar and press Enter.
2. Enable Developer Mode: In the top-right corner of the page, toggle Developer mode to the "On" position.
3. Click Reload: Press the small circular arrow (Reload icon) on your extension's card to instantly apply your code changes.

You can also try fully closing and reopening the application before repeating the update process

 

[WillHammer]

Sounds good, but this will be very, very slow because we use services like f95/dlsite directly, and a single search for one title can take 1-2 seconds, and they cannot be done in parallel. Accordingly, searching for 50 games will take around 2 minutes or so

It would still be so much faster than doing it manually, not to mention effort. Not making the queries in a single parallel bulk would be a good thing in terms of accidentally overloading the site with a one man DDOS.

 

[Detsu Kai]

It would still be so much faster than doing it manually, not to mention effort. Not making the queries in a single parallel bulk would be a good thing in terms of accidentally overloading the site with a one man DDOS.

Got it, I’ll add this to the roadmap and figure out the best way to implement it

 

[Ilya Krichevsky]

Do you use Chrome? You need to update the extension in the settings by clicking "Reload" on it.

1. Open Extensions Page: Type chrome://extensions into your Chrome address bar and press Enter.
2. Enable Developer Mode: In the top-right corner of the page, toggle Developer mode to the "On" position.
3. Click Reload: Press the small circular arrow (Reload icon) on your extension's card to instantly apply your code changes.

You can also try fully closing and reopening the application before repeating the update process

I am Edge browser. Upon clicking reload, it continuously flashes “Inactive”. Clicking the extension details displays version 1.12.3, yet when I directly click the extension window, it shows 1.10.1.

 

[AVM666]

Hi, this is an excellent and very useful tool. I have a question: can I manually add images or screenshots to the game library?

I hope this is clear; I'm using Google Translate.

 

[Detsu Kai]

I am Edge browser. Upon clicking reload, it continuously flashes “Inactive”. Clicking the extension details displays version 1.12.3, yet when I directly click the extension window, it shows 1.10.1.

Try to remove the extension and reinstall it from scratch. It's okay that it shows 1.10.1 (it hasn't been updated, I forgot about it)

 

[Detsu Kai]

Hi, this is an excellent and very useful tool. I have a question: can I manually add images or screenshots to the game library?

I hope this is clear; I'm using Google Translate.

Thank you! Yes, you can, but only by pasting links to these images in manual editing/adding game. Direct image uploads are not supported due to syncing with Google Drive, as this would heavily impact the app's performance and your storage

 

[Redhen]

Hi, My firefox extension says unverified, your old google drive link to download signed version that you gave to someone else no longer works. Can you help? File name:- "xlibrary-1.14.0.xpi"

 

[Detsu Kai]

Please try this one (extract from the archive)

 

[Detsu Kai]

You know what? Take this. That’s everything until February – I need a little break. :3

1.14.1
- Added: Game session tracking - see how long you play each game in the journal
- Added: Active session indicator with live timer while game is running
- Added: Session history in game journal alongside comments
- Added: Total playtime display on game cards and in game details
- Added: "Playing now" indicator next to game title when game is running
- Added: Toast notification when session ends showing play duration
- Added: "Most Played" sorting option to find your most played games
- Added: Support for launching HTML, Flash, Java and batch games directly from the app
- Added: Clear button in search field for quick reset
- Added: Browser back/forward buttons now work with game modal
- Improved: Badges in game details now grouped with visual separators for better readability
- Improved: File picker now shows all supported game formats at once (.exe, .html, .swf, .jar, .bat)
- Fixed: Extension popup now shows correct version number
- Fixed: Extension popup "Last Connected" now shows "Now" when connected instead of confusing time ago

 

[Detsu Kai]

AVM666 I forgot to mention: just use a site like imgur.com

 

[WillHammer]

You know what? Take this. That’s everything until February – I need a little break. :3

Break well deserved. You've been super active with the tool and this thread. Happy holidays!

 

[Detsu Kai]

Final release, for real this time (hopefully)! :')
To make my and your life easier — you no longer need to manually update xlibrary

1.14.2
- Added: Automatic update checking on startup with notification when new version is available
- Added: "What's New" button showing changelog with update indicator when update is available
- Added: One-click update download and install for Setup version
- Added: Quick link to download page for Portable version updates
- Added: Skip update option - skipped version won't show notification until next release

 

[Unidentified]

In setup launch when using Sandboxie I want to extract the compressed game first within sandboxie so that the extracted game is islolated. However I can't seem to figure out how to then point the game file path at the game exe within the sanboxie enviroment. Is this possible?

I can only get it to work when I have alread extracted the game to my non-sandboxed enviroment (Like with anything else) and then point the game file at that path. Sandboxie then works fine, but the extracted game is sitting in a non sandboxed enviroment.

Hopefully this makes sense.

 

[Detsu Kai]

In setup launch when using Sandboxie I want to extract the compressed game first within sandboxie so that the extracted game is islolated. However I can't seem to figure out how to then point the game file path at the game exe within the sanboxie enviroment. Is this possible?

I can only get it to work when I have alread extracted the game to my non-sandboxed enviroment (Like with anything else) and then point the game file at that path. Sandboxie then works fine, but the extracted game is sitting in a non sandboxed enviroment.

Hopefully this makes sense.

Sandboxie doesn’t create a separate filesystem with its own paths.
Processes inside the sandbox still use normal host paths, and files extracted only inside the sandbox aren’t visible to apps running outside of it.
Because of that, you can’t point a launcher (running outside Sandboxie) to an exe that exists only inside the sandbox. That’s just how Sandboxie works by design.
The intended workflow is:

• extract the game normally to a host folder
• point the launcher to that path
• always run the game through Sandboxie

All writes and changes will still be isolated inside the sandbox.
If you need full filesystem isolation, that requires a VM, not Sandboxie.

 

[Blither]

Hi there! Love the program. Are there any plans to make more bulk operations? Example: Custom tags in bulk.

 

[DasOrakel]

(...)
1.14.1
(...)
- Fixed: Extension popup now shows correct version number

Cool! Thank you, that bothered me for a long time now.

Thank you @Ilya Krichevsky for bringing this up again.

(...)

1.14.1
- Added: Game session tracking - see how long you play each game in the journal
- Added: Active session indicator with live timer while game is running
- Added: Session history in game journal alongside comments
- Added: Total playtime display on game cards and in game details
- Added: "Playing now" indicator next to game title when game is running
- Added: Toast notification when session ends showing play duration
- Added: "Most Played" sorting option to find your most played games
(...)

I don't really love that. I don't really like being tracked. Not only that, but I use anti-tracker for my cooking website. You bet I don't want to be tracked while playing these games. Especially shortly after the developer announced the program code will be held a secret. So we can't really check what happens with our data...

And talking data safety:
Is the google drive backup encrypted? Or can it be encrypted? Google already knows that we are perverts, but does it have to know exactly which games of these sorts I play (and how long)? A bonus would be securing it (the encryption) against quantum computing

Nonetheless, I wish you happy holidays!

P.S: Will v1.14.3 also be released on this thread?

 

[ChingBiling64]

First of all, nice job! It looks really clean and its intuitive to use
Thanks for talking about Sandboxie it really is a useful tool and I've never heard of it

But I do have a question, how do I use sandboxie? I'm not sure if its me that is using it wrong or not

I created a sandbox (a regular one without supporter role) and it was recognized by the XLibrary GUI, then I setted up my game options with the correct sandbox, but it isntantly crashes, a pop-up appears saying:
"XXX game has been launched succesfully" but right away I get "Session ended - Played XXX for 0 min"

- I tried to open the game in the sandbox and it launched fine
- I tried to open the game without sandboxie but from XLibrary and it worked fine too

But when I try to open from XLibrary with Sandboxie the behaviour above happens