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Have you tried going into Task Manager and seeing what else is running and what CPU usage etc it's using? If it's running so slow then it might be something eating your CPU cycles. You could try just getting rid of background software one by one until you find what's causing the conflict. Another thing to check is your CPU temps. I recently had a problem with my cooler not working correctly and it was causing my CPU to go to 100% load when I ran BigBox (there was enough cooling to get away with Launchbox) and if I tried to do anything intensive in BB (such as audit a system) I got the Blue Screen Of Death. So, maybe download a small program like Core Temps and just make sure you're not over-heating?

Thanks for the info @Vereor Nox that's great. I'll check it out.

Hi @FlightRisk that's great info. Thanks very much. I'm not too fussed for the warning messages as, I agree, it's a good thing as it lets you know to potentially expect problems. I'll stick the disclaimer/gameinfo bits in my .ini though. Thanks again for taking the time to answer. Cheers John

I get the guys (sellers) point here. It's like buying a classic car in order to cut a massive hole in the bonnet and stick in a huge engine. That cabinet is a little piece of history. It holds the hopes (and coins) of a generation. I hope it finds a good home and gets restored. Why not buy some plywood and knock something up (if space/health/ability allows). If not you can buy flat pack cabinets I believe. Good luck in your search

That's brilliant Dragon!! Thanks!! I'll get on to that tomorrow after work. Thanks again for sharing that

Brilliant!!! Thanks LM and a big thanks to @NJDave71 for your efforts too!

Is it possible to stop this little info window from popping up in MAME? It's not a major problem but I can't see any use for it so would be good to bypass it? Thanks

Hi @Styphelus I wondered if I could be a bit cheeky and also ask for that list? I'm currently going through pruning MAME games that I won't ever play and found that Area 51 didn't work (that one I definitely want to play). A bit of Googling and I found the CHDs that I needed and sorted it but if you had a list already then that would save me a ton of time and be very much appreciated. Thanks

I just want to thank @RetroNi and all the other contributors for this brilliant thread!! It's really helped me get my Pinball FX2 platform looking superb!! Just to add my tuppence worth... with the Pinball FX2 exe I'm using I've found that if I add the command line parameter /LoadTable /LoadTable Then the program starts up with the table already loaded. I also using @Retro808's suggestion of the putting an AutoHotKey script in so that the table closes back to BigBox. So if I edit my emulator those two tabs look like this... Thanks again for everyone's help

Yep, very good points Retro. You would have to open each game in Retroarch, immediately save it as a per game config and then copy/paste the content of one of the others you did via the Retroarch GUI and edit to suit. Phew.... Probably easier to just get used to the Retroarch GUI!

You can manually edit the config files in a text editor as well (not sure how much easier that would be for you though?)

Hi Retro... you are an absolute DIAMOND!!! That worked a treat!!! Thank you for doing that. There's quite a few games so I'm glad I didn't have to hunt them out by hand. Thanks again for all your help, it's very much appreciated

That's brilliant Retro. Thanks

Thanks Neil. Is there a way that you know of to retrospectively go back and ask LB to create Cave from my romset? Or, alternatively, is there a list somewhere of the games that LB extracts to create the Cave platform so I can go and extract those ROMs myself? I'll have a dig through the xmls tonight but I'm stuck at work at the moment so wondered if there was a quick way to do it? Cheers

Yep, waaay off topic. Apologies peeps. Thanks Neil will have a look at the Discord link

How strange, I was exactly the same. My brother and me got one to share too And we got three games with it - Ant Attack, Jet Pac and Manic Miner. I think those were the top three in the charts when we got ours. My brother was big into the games but I preferred messing around programming it. The Speccy lead to an Atari ST, then a PS1 and then eventually a PC in the late 90's. I still play Chaos - Battle of the Wizards on the Speccy with my 12 yr old lad. Despite the graphics there were some timeless games.

That's great Neil, thanks. I'll experiment with it. Speccy was my first computer so holds a very dear place in my heart. I spent most of my youth messing around in BASIC and typing in long programs from Spectrum User etc. Happy days.

Hi Neil, thanks for the info What are the keyboard controls for Kempston though? My cabinet uses the standard MAME keys (ie. Arrow keys for up/down/left/right and then Ctrl key for fire etc) do these keys relate to Kempston? Or have actually got a joystick you plug in? (Sorry to hijack the thread for a moment)

I downloaded a load of different sets of ROMs and the ones in the "Cave" folder came like this. Can I just extract them from MAME set of ROMs then? (If so, how, is there a list of Cave ROMs that I can search through and extract from my MAME 0.201 set? Thanks ?

Hi Retro Yep mine are all unzipped ? Will have a look around to see if I can find out what files go together and try and make them in to zips. Thanks for your help ?

I wouldn't say Retroarch was a "frontend" as such. It's more just a way of organising emulators. So it takes the guts of different emulators and calls them "cores" and then loads your game with the chosen core. It does allow you to remap keys on a per-game basis as I'm using it for the Spectrum and obviously different games used different keys to play. So I have to map each game individually (or I will have to over the next 1000 rainy days as it's going to be a looooong task). I'm sure it would work with N64. You would just pick the most generic key map and use that as your default and then just do a per-game map for the odd ones that didn't work right with the generic map? Unfortunately I've not used Project 64 yet as I haven't got as far as setting up the N64 so can't comment on that. Good luck

Hi all, I have a Cave platform on my set up that has lots of random files in there. I've looked in the Cave folder and I'm not sure which files are the ROMs that I need to import to get rid of all the random files that have appeared? My LB looks like this... If I know what the file extension I need is I can delete all the files and then re-import just those file extensions and hopefully end up with a system with all the box art etc all there? Can anyone give me any pointers? The games that do have box art run fine in MAME so that bit is working well. Thanks for any help you can give me.

Yep, if *some* are working then it's probably either a bios issue or maybe certain chd files missing but it sounds like your overall settings must be fine.

Ooops!!! Yep, after re-reading it this morning I can see that! Apologies for the confusion.