Not a problem with MySQL for database is fully populated.
This was issue with old J! installer, I just manually make the config file to work around was just giving a heads up. Also the language strings are missing when installing Gavick Joomla modules on a 'naked' J! package, I have worked around this by copy strings from demo package into language file.
On aside note
is it possible to add the 'aside' menu to gamebox with minimal effort? I'm not much of an HTML / CSS guy and haven't explored it though looking to do this.