preachah8

Holy hell gentlemen. After a night (and half a day) of toil and "wtf's?"... I've found the issue. There were 2 "game folders" (identical) in the MAME folder. So, when poking around through Launchbox and looking for associations, it looked as if it was "pointed" to the correct place. However, it was pointing at an identical folder. I cannot for the life of me figure out how that happened/can happen, without having "(copy)" after the name. I actually am not even able to replicate it. Thank you for all your comments last night! I appreciate the effort. LAUNCHBOX IS BACK BABY!

I am running MAME from the mame download site. Man... I've done this launchbox setup a bijillion times. Alright... I'll youtube the setup. Thanks again!

HOLD UP. Wait a minute. Wtf?! I don't know what I THOUGHT I saw... but it appears I do not have an ini file?! How can that be? Everything was running like a clock until an hour or so ago when I updated. So... now what?! Redownload MAME?

ok. I think I'm done beating on this thing tonight. Ill fight another day tomorrow. Thanks for the help thus far. I'll follow up.

So... not to sound like an idiot (which I likely am) I only see one .ini file and it's in the same folder as MAME folder. Running the game from MAME works as it should by the way... probably good information to have given you sooner.

Windows 7 - 64bit Never had a problem with Launchbox. All roms loaded, everything points to the right place (as far as my knowledge tells me). After updating tonight, every MAME game says "initializing" and then disappears back to Launchbox selection screen. No error, no crash. Any help appreciated! PS - LOVE Launchbox and Big Box. Well done folks!