JoeViking245

Oh man! I am so sorry. It was a long weekend. Yes, the above process is for DOSBox. Not ScummVM. For ScummVM I've only installed 1 game. So did it the Manual route. This time using LaunchBox's built-in support for "ScummVM". 😊 Tools, Import, Manually Add game. I typed in the Title and set the Platform to ScummVM. Clicked Search for Metadata and it found the game. ("King's Quest 1 - Quest for the Crown" in this case) Went to the Launching, ScummVM section and checked the box Use ScummVM to play this game. Browsed to and selected the folder that held the Game Data for this game. Then selected the game from the dropdown combo box. (Listed as "King's Quest 1") Clicked OK to save and exit. Clicked Play to play it. As with DOSBox mentioned above, nothing else needed to be done to get it to play.

I've never used RA ScummVM but have used LaunchBox's built-in support for it. To import: Tools, Import, MS-DOS Games. I chose Add Folder and then selected the folder that held my MS-DOS games' sub-folders. Followed through the prompts and when it was completed, selected a game and clicked Play. Nothing else was needed to be done to get them playing. Since you previously attempted using RA for your MS-DOS games, as a precaution you may want to (need to?) edit your RetroArch emulator (in LaunchBox) and un-check it as the default emulator (under Associated Platforms) for you MS-DOS platform. Do this before using the Import MS-DOS Games Wizard.

Ahh... Ya, probably not. But I think you'd still need to do the option I mentioned for existing games. Unless the method you tried has the option change the path of the existing games too (if it doesn't lock up on you).

There is also the option Tools, File Management, Change ROMs Folder Path for Selected Games (select all games in the platform, then do that). That doesn't change the default path though.

There's at least one (if not a couple?) vertical theme you can find in the Downloads section here on forum. In BigBox System Menu, Options, Controller Mappings (or maybe it's only in Keyboard Mappings?), you can bind a button to change Themes (there's also one to change View).

If the version is in the games Title, it will show. You can't hide a part of the Title. If the version is in the Version field of the game(s), you can toggle that in the View pulldown menu, the under Show/Hide and Version.

To add to this, what I have in my notes is: ti99_4a -ioport peb -ioport:peb:slot2 32kmem -ioport:peb:slot3 speech -cart Which simply adds the 32k mem. Pretty sure I go that from here: MAME TI emulation usage - Ninerpedia

Didn't see any of the requested game screenshots, so guessing 2 possibilities to getting it to run via LaunchBox using you dedicated TI99 MAME emulator. Attempt #1 Try checking the 2 boxes: Remove Quotes and Remove File Extension.... Attempt #2 Don't check those 2 boxes and add to the end of the Default Command-line Parameters, -cart

Can you share a couple of screenshots? Edit your MAME emulator and share a screenshot of the Details section Associated Platforms section (where we can see your TI99 platform and its values) Edit a TI99 game you're trying to launch and share a screenshot of the Launching section Emulation section

You're welcome. Ya, I do tend to over annotate. 😊 No and yes. No, not innately. The available image types/groups are hard-coded. Yes, if you put your technical competence to use and modify the appropriate theme View to have the <Image ... > point to the specific folder then add a fallback converter to look for a 'backup' image to display if the 1st one [for that game] didn't exist. P.I.T.A.!!! But achievable. Still, I'd stick with No. Alternatively, you can use an existing image type that you won't/don't use. Like "Arcade - Circuit Board". (Though If you're into electronics, they are cool to look at.) Then just pretend "Arcade - Circuit Board" is called "Craig's anal retentive box art" and move it to the top of the list. Then set your select images to that type. Or drop the image(s) into that folder (via Windows Explorer).

You need to contact your vendor regarding how they setup your pre-configured drive. Support for these will not be given here.

Assuming it's safe to say that when you say "icon" or "app icon", you're referring to the displayed image in the main section. The image that gets displayed is primarily based on 3 things. Your selected Image Group, your chosen Media Priorities, and images the individual games actually have. (there might be another one based on region priority. Don't recall) It starts with your selected Image Group. From there, Media (Image) Priorities. In this example, when LaunchBox goes to display a games image in the main section, it will look to see if that game has a Steam Poster. If it doesn't, it looks for a Box-Full image. And so on down the list until it finds an image that exists, respectively for each game. But it does stop looking when no more boxes are checked. i.e. If your Image Group is Boxes and the only image "this' specific game has is a Clear Logo. If Clear Logo is not checked in your Box-Front priorities, no image will show for that game. Here, the game 3-D Genesis doesn't have a Steam Poster nor Box-Full image (see 'priorities' above). But it does have a Box-Front. Adventure doesn't have a Steam Poster, but it does have a Box-Full image. So that is what is displayed. Note: you can set the selected Image Group on a per platform basis. If I'm understanding you correctly, one way to have an individual game display an image that is different than what the Image group is set to for that platform, and what the media priorities look for (in order of precedence) is to not have those other image types for that particular game. (And make sure that image type you do want to display is checked.) Conversely, move that 'different image' to the top of the priority list, and have all the other games NOT have that image. For example, (unlike as shown above) I have Arcade-Cabinet at the top of my Box-Front priorities list. Only my arcade type platforms (Arcade, Sega Model 3 etc.) have that specific image type. And if I set all my platforms to display Boxes, Atari 2600 will get actual Box-Fronts and Arcade with get Arcade-Cabinets, etc. The LaunchBox database is completely user supported. So images come from vast sources. But consistency is much better than it has been in the past. Also, the platform you're downloading images for, and your region priorities can account for "weird sizes". i.e. different regions can have different shaped boxes for the same game. So if in your platform you prioritized Region "A" when downloading and a particular game doesn't have one for that region, but it does have one for region "B", you'll get region "B"s image. That way you're not left high-and-dry without any image at all. You do have the option to download image packs from here in the Downloads section. Go to Downloads and look in the Game Media section, you can select your platform and then choose from various media types. Once you downloaded a set, in LaunchBox go to Tools Image Packs, Import and follow the prompts to get them into your collection. If you meant something completely different by "icons", my apologies.

"Easy" is in the eyes of the beholder. There is not a built-in way. Here you can read 'Why' (2nd paragraph). And then 3 posts down is a way 'to prevent this'.

lynx48k, lynx96k and lynx128k as mentioned above are the BIOS files which are found in with your Full MAME set. The 2 available softlist sets for Camputers Lynx are camplynx_cass and camplynx_flop which both should be in your 0.263 Software Lists.

Because it's the Full Set of [all] available MAME ROMs. This is where LaunchBox has-your-back with its Full Set Import Wizard. It can filter out (if you choose to do so) those non-working ROMs. Quite a few other filters are available as well. Keep looking in arcadeitalia. If you scroll down to ADDITIONAL INFOS and look in the Info tab, you'll [sometimes] see Other Emulators. i.e. for "Melty Blood Act Cadenza Ver. A (Japan)"

Prior to MAME release 0.237, high scores were stored in the /hi/ subfolder. Starting in MAME release 0.237, high score files are saved in /hiscore/. If your MAME 0.263 is in its own (new) folder, create a subfolder "hiscore" (if it's not there already) and copy the contents from your old MAME's "hi" folder into it. Some games store their high scores in the /nvram/ subfolder. So copy that as well. Though you might not be able to see your old high scores in 0.263. Over the course of just over 3 years (0.227 to 0.263), how the save files are written (bits and bytes) may have changed for some (or possibly many) games. There is no way to convert (update) them. So, if you want to show off your old 'nasty hiscores', you may want to keep your 0.227 version in a separate folder.

Without looking at the theme to see if it's hard coded, you might be able to... In LaunchBox, go to Tools, Options scroll down to Media, Screenshot Priorities. Select Screenshot - Gameplay then click Move Selection Up until Gameplay is at the top of the list. What this will do is, anytime a theme goes to show a games' screenshot, it will attempt to show 'Gameplay' 1st. Unless the theme has it hard coded (forced) to show a specific screenshot.

If it's just the 3, you can manually add single games. Tools, Import, Manually Add Game... "Conquest (prototype)" is not in the LB database. But you can still add the game manually. Just won't get any metadata nor media. "Super Tank Attack (prototype rev. 1.12)", same thing. Note: "Marble Madness II (prototype)" is in the database, but comes up as "Marble Man: Marble Madness II". Though it does have an alternate name "Marble Madness II" if you prefer that. (Not sure where the prefix 'Marble Man' came from)

I imagine the beta version was selected as it's more stable the minimally tested Development versions.

I previously had LaunchBox install RetroArch for Atari 2600. It auto populated many Associated Platforms (which is great!) which included the Nintendo Wii platform (which I did not have a platform for, yet). Dropped ROMs into the /Games/Nintendo Wii/ folder and after the auto import was complete, launched a Wii game and RA started. It wasn't enough to uncheck RA as the default emulator for Nintendo Wii. Need to completely remove it. (Which stands to reason.) But then nothing would happen when attempting to launch a game. Restarted LB and still nothing happened when attempting to launch a game. Attempt #1 I removed the Wii platform, closed LaunchBox, removed the ROMs from the Nintendo Wii folder and re-started LB. Put the ROMs back in the folder and the games were automatically added. Went to launch one of the games and was prompted with the option to install Dolphin. Selecting "Yes", the emulator was downloaded and installed. I did make some QOL changes directly in Dolphin that I would not (and do not) expect the installer to do. Attempt #2 I did try removing the platform in LB and removing the ROMs from the folder, then adding the ROMs back to the folder (without having to restart LB), but the 'added' ROMs weren't detected. So I went old-school and dragged those ROMs onto LaunchBox which started the Import Games from File Wizard. After selecting Nintendo Wii as the platform, was prompted with the option to install Dolphin (which was removed prior to this attempt).

You 'should' only need to set "screen" to \\.\DISPLAY4 (note ALLCAPS!). vs. having to also set "screen0", "screen1" etc. i.e. you can leave those set to "auto". Double check that 'writeconfig' (in mame.ini) is set to 0 (zero). If it was set to 1, you will have ini files for each game you've played. And those ini files will most likely have the 'old' "auto" setting. (Remove as necessary) Note: if you start stand-alone MAME, the UI will still show on the primary screen, but the games will launch on the other monitor. I'll take your word for it but having a \\.\DISPLAY1 and a \\.\DISPLAY4 sounds odd. (vs \\.\DISPLAY1 and \\.\DISPLAY2). Also note that what Windows sees as 1 and 2 (or 4) may be different than what MAME sees.

In the command line parameters you can add -view opengl to render video using OpenGL acceleration. (in lieu of creating/modifying mame.ini) To be able to help further, can you share some screenshots: Go to Tools, Manage, Emulators, select you’re MAME emulator and provide a screenshot of the following sections: Details Associated Platforms Select one of your Arcade (MAME) games and click Edit (or press Ctrl+E). Provide a screenshot of the following sections: Metadata Launching Emulation And to clarify, your MAME ROMs are located in /LaunchBox/Games/Arcade/? And your MAME emulator (within LaunchBox) is in /LaunchBox/Emulators/MAME/?

You can add the rompaths to mame.ini if you'd like. (Make sure you're adding it to the correct one. At 1st you said you manually installed MAME and then you indicated you had LaunchBox install it. Thinking, you might have 2 installs.) Or you can add -rompath %romlocation% to the end of the Default Command-line Parameters in your MAME emulator. Which I though LaunchBox added that in when you had it install MAME for you. 'To handle the ROMs location automatically.'