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got it, thank you for the help. I created the file in the command prompt.

The ini folder has presets and the 2 files I got from you. then there is plugin.ini and in.ini on the page with the EXE file. I did a computer search for mame.ini and nothing came up. Still looking. using mame64. the file will be mame.ini correct?

I don't think I have it. Is this to file I have to create on the command bar?

where should mame.ini be? I did a search and it did not come up. that's the file that I make 1 instead of 0?

I'm not getting the lines. I tried several setups, currently, only the raster and vector files are in the ini folder.

do I just swap them out with the current raster and vector files?

that looks good. are those settings in the mame emulator?

I remember one effect that put scan lines in the screen

I may need a cabinet and a joystick set up, to capture some of the nostalgia. The games are almost unplayable now. Maybe I'll search for an old CRT monitor.

What is everybody using for a display? I am on a 27-inch gaming monitor 144 MHz and I can't say that any games look good. Maybe my memory is off and they always looked bad?

Thanks for all of the help so far. I tried to install Snes and now when I try to play an arcade game, it tries to open in Snes. hoping I don't have to reconfigure mame.

So my Front end has a front end?

round 3 What is retroarch and do I have to use retroarch?

ok, so I got bezels enabled, but they don't show up. I'm guessing I don't have the artwork to display on the set i just downloaded. If I want to move the bezels from my old set to this new set, where would they be? I looked through some folders, but could not find them.

I got the 0.202 merged set and everything works. A few posts back I complained about the bezel that was displayed around the screen. (an actual photo of the real bezel that displayed around the playable area of the screen) How do I get that back?

I downloaded "[FREE] MAME 0.202 Software List ROMs (merged)" from Pleasuredome. are there no arcade roms in there?

round 2 I got the most recent rom pack and Mame64 to go with it. Am I wrong, or are there roms for every emulated console in there? Where are the arcade roms? I see a folder that says mame 0.202 software list roms (merged), but when I open that there is a N64 folder with Nintendo 64 games and a folder that says X68K flop

my old romset is from 2007, so I guess the real answer is to get the current romset and go from there.

yes, I got this big 27 inch monitor and with the bezel displayed, the screen yardage on some games would fit in a 12 inch monitor.

ok, so even with norton removing files, my old romset works perfectly in launchbox. My issue must be with the romsets I have been trying to get recently. they are somehow not compatible with the emulators I'm getting. couple more questions. my romset only has 3000 games, I assume that is including bootlegs (that don't show up), and is tough to find games. How would navigate a full rom set (30,000 games?)? with a current setup, do you still have to press OK? How do I get rid of the bezel art? so It does not show up when I play?

norton just removed a dll file and an exe file. maybe my issue is Norton?

I just found my old romset from 2009. All of the roms worked with MAMEUl32. I will try and put that in launchbox and see what happens. Watching some of the videos now while I download from my storage media.

I just don't understand. I've built computers, I've used mame since the middle 2000's since it was released. I got a raspberry pi retro setup going. I can't get this front end going. It seems simple. Put an emulator somewhere, point launchbox to the exe file of the emulator. Put the roms in the rom folder zipped. I can't seem to find rompacks that work. I don't have my old romset. I'm too knowledgeable not to be able to get this to work.

this is the error I get with the latest download

BEULER?