JoeViking245

Welp... I am at a loss. The only last thing might be (which I tried to avoid [for no particular reason]) is to remove and reinstall MAME.

You said when you start MAME itself ('starting stand-alone MAME'), you also indicated you're actually starting it from a shortcut (which in your case is a file you renamed from mame.exe - Shortcut to just mame, and the whole filename is mame.lnk). Which is fine. This should technically be the same as starting stand-alone MAME from the actual exe file. (Unless of course you changed some of the Compatibility settings of the shortcut. Which I doubt you did.) This shortcut is pointing to E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\MAME 0.269\mame.exe When you edit your MAME emulator in LaunchBox it shows the [relative] Application Path as Emulators\MAME 0.269\mame.exe. If you click Browse, it opens Explorer to your E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\MAME 0.269\ folder. Correct? (just double checking) Continuing with 'starting stand-alone MAME', you can "load and save games without any issues". This indicates your E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\MAME 0.269\sta\1942\ folder (or '1941' from previous tests) has some files in it. i.e. 1.sta, 7.sta, a.sta, d.sta... depending on which numbers or letters you pressed when prompted to save. When you 'start stand-alone MAME' (via the shortcut) and press F6 to save, you can see those previous save states (1, 7, a, d) and can select one of those or press a different number/letter. The fact that you're not seeing those previous saves when starting MAME via LaunchBox (vs stand-alone) and trying to save is a disconcerting. You also stated, "I click on Open MAME 0.269...", meaning you right-click the game and select that. Doing so starts stand-alone MAME (via LaunchBox). You then start 1942 from within MAME and save/load does NOT work. You're also not seeing the 'other' save states as indicated from your screenshots. Again, disconcerting. To summarize, no matter how you run a game via LaunchBox (launch the game directly or right-click and Open MAME and load a game from within it), saves DO NOT work (nor show previous saves). But starting from the shortcut .lnk file, all is good. One last ditch effort... as mentioned earlier this week, it appears to be a write permissions thing. You never did answer if "you use Google Drive or Dropbox or some other cloud syncing service?". Since you didn't, I'll assume you're not. (But if you are, that's a potential can-of-worms that should have been opened earlier.) With LaunchBox (and MAME) not running, in Windows Explorer right-click your LaunchBox folder and select Properties. Click the Attributes - Read-only box until it's empty (no black square or checkmark inside it) and click Apply. Any chance you, at some point manually reinstalled LaunchBox? If so, does a path exist for E:\LaunchBox\LaunchBox\? (double 'LaunchBox') Do you have any other installs of LaunchBox like on a D drive or an F drive? I'm grasping at straws and am at a loss. Besides, unless you have a special needs case (hope that doesn't sound derogatory), you shouldn't be saving, let alone pausing an Arcade machine anyway. "Back in my day, when we went to the Arcade (walking up hill, in the snow, both directions), we never had the luxury to save or pause our games!" (side note: I personally always use 1942 in all my MAME tests. You started this with 1941, so I just went with it. )

If you're talking about seeing them in the Main (middle) section... Go to Tools < Options < Media < Box Front Priorities, check the box for Arcade Cabinets and then click Move Selection Up until it's at the top of the list. Click OK to save and close the Options window. Click Image Group and select Boxes. Moving it the top selection works nice because it won't interfere with other Platforms (as they typically won't have any Arcade Cabinet images). If you're talking about wanting to see them somewhere else, please elaborate.

tldr the whole thread, but someone on Discord had the stuttering issue recently and they turned vsync off and it appeared to fix their issue.

No. Do NOT have LaunchBox extract MAME ROMs. Ever. When you start sand-alone MAME, you can load the games without issue. (correct?) Which tells me you have either the ROMS in the /MAME 0.269/roms/ subfolder or you have the path mapped [to where they're actually located] in MAME itself. So try removing from the Default Command-line Parameters -rompath %romlocation%.

If you disable the plugin, does the game music then play as before? Really though, this plugin enabled or disabled shouldn't be affecting any music playing/not-playing. It doesn't even look at nor touch anything to do with sound.

Via Windows Explorer, in your Data folder (../LaunchBox/Data/), do you have any extracurricular files that shouldn't be there? Maybe something that has in the name or file extension 'backup' or '.bak' Can you share a screenshot of that folder.

When testing stand-alone MAME, in LaunchBox right-click 1941 and select Open MAME (or it should say Open MAME 0.269). If for some odd reason there are 2, that will open the mame.exe that you've assigned to LaunchBox. Try your standalone testing from there (that way). What is the actual full path to your mame.exe? x:\something\something\LauncBox\Emulators\MAME 0.269\mame.exe (what is x and something(s)?) "Do you use Google Drive or Dropbox or some other cloud syncing service?"

No. "In LaunchBox, Edit your MAME emulator. " aka: Start LaunchBox Click Tools < Manage < Emulators In the list of emulators you have installed in LaunchBox, select MAME (or whatever you have it named) and click Edit This will bring up the Edit Emulator window About halfway down, it will show you the Default Command-line Parameters used to when launching that emulator.

Since you have your ROMs and CHDs located in the /roms/ folder under your MAME installation: In LaunchBox, Edit your MAME emulator. In the Default Command-line Parameters does it have -rompath %romlocation%? If so, remove it.

Looking closer, it appears it's not able to create (vs find) the Save State file. Write permissions error? In your /MAME 0.269/ folder, is there a /sta/ subfolder? If so, is there a /1941/ subfolder? If so, are there any files in that folder? If not, do you have LaunchBox or mame.exe set to run as Admin? On a fresh MAME install, /sta/ will not exist. The 1st time you create a save state (F6), MAME will (is supposed to be able to) create it. It will also create a folder within that named after the ROM's filename. Manually creating /sta/ will most likely not fix the underlying issue.

Not sure if this falls under a double entendre or an oxymoron. Merged - (0.273) 76.54 GB Non-Merged - (0.273) 141.6 GB That is course is for the Full set(s) and you'd only be exporting some of those. So "to save space.."? In the end.. Probably not. To have the export feature [more so] work in-your-favor and "Less chances of them not working and less headache"? Most likely.

Depends. If your main ROM file (default game) is the parent ROM, then yes. If it's a clone (located inside the parent ROM zip file [in a merged set]), then no. i.e. path/to/1942.zip (parent ROM) vs. path/to/1942b.zip (clone ROM) In a merged set, 1942b.zip does not physically exist. But that's the [non-existent] filename that gets pointed to. (and it works [plays], because MAME is smart and knows how to handle it) Note: "Only the main ROM files will be copied and not any additional applications." Regarding exporting, it does matter. Regardless of the set. A lot. Again. "Only the main ROM files will be copied..". When imported, the path to the 'game' is (i.e.) path/to/area51.zip. It will export that [Parent] ROM. But it won't touch the other required path/to/area51/area51.chd

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Please verify: Any chance you have more than one install of MAME on your computer? If so, any chance that the one you show the key assignments (above, where you manually changed them for Pause and the Save/Loads) is a different install than the one you point to in LaunchBox? Any chance you have 2 instances of MAME (emulator) in LaunchBox? If so, make absolute sure the one for Emulators\MAME 0.269\mame.exe is the Default for your Arcade platform. (This happens more than you'd think it would.) Pause Menu aside: When Launching 1941 (our test game) from LaunchBox, during gameplay, if you press F6 do you get this Save State screen? If so, what happens when you press "1" (top of the keyboard. Not on the ten-key)? (alternately, press "a") If NOT, exit that screen back to the game press Tab, select Input Settings < Input Assignments (general) < User Interface Is Save State [still] assigned to F6?

When in your Arcade platform, press Ctrl+N (add new game). Fill in the proper title and press Enter. That'll start searching the database for the game and fill in the metadata. Next go to the Launching section and Browse to that ROM file. Import images and videos if you wish. Click OK to save and close. Another option is Tools < Import < then I believe the last option is Add New Game (same as Ctrl+N).

I see you've changed several of the defaults in MAME. Which seems like it should be OK. Just to note, your Quick Save/Load may not work because F8 and F9 are already assigned to Frameskip Dec/Inc. Otherwise, that should all be working. One more screenshot please... in LaunchBox, edit your MAME emulator and share a screenshot of the main Details section. If it doesn't have -keyboardprovider dinput in the default command line parameters, try adding that in.

Not sure if you can change the font size in the Themes xaml file or not (never really looked). Since this is for a vertical-monitor cab, have you looked using at some of the vertical themes users have created? (These might not all be BigBox vertical themes. But hopefully helps) Showing results for 'vertical' in content posted in Custom Themes. - LaunchBox Community Forums

Not sure what to say other than ask, 'can you show your work'? Open MAME and share a screenshot of your input setting showing what's mapped for Create a save state Load a save and the ones for Quick Save while were at it In LaunchBox, edit your MAME emulator and share a screenshot of the load save script section create script section

RE: Pause Menu: You need to change the "Send" key assignment(s) in the Save and Load scripts (in LaunchBox < Edit < Emulator). The giveaway that this is the issue is when you say you "try to save" and it says "failed to open". aka: The Save script is 'pressing the keyboard button' for "Load Save State".

Did you try just pressing "a key or joystick button"? Try pressing the "1" or "2". Something like that.

That's all dependent on the core being used for that system. Just looked back up at your RetroArch screenshot. For some reason Remove Quotes got checked. Un-check that.

Is the profile file actually stored in a different folder than the exe is? i.e. maybe it's actually in C:\Launchbox\Utilities\Xpadder\Wolf.xpadderprofile

Verify that you don't have Extract ROMs checked under Associated Platforms.