Hello everyone,
Im a noob to the launchbox scene. Hope you guys can answer my questions since I dont know the vernacular to use in order to explain what im needing answers to lol. WOW i almost choked on that word lmao.
My question,
1. Why does launchbox import doubles of my roms? I dont have doubles in the folder they are imported from. *Could it be that i copied them to a folder I created in launchbox then imported them from the same folder to that very same folder?
2. Im gearing to build a full size arcade 2 player cabinet. My question about the number of buttons. I see images of them with 20 buttons. Looks like 8 player button and 2 buttons up top. Also seen some with 6 player buttons and 4 up top. i think i know 4 of them are 1 and 2 player coins and 1 and 2 player start. Thats the 4. But what are the spares for?
My cabinet I want to run Arcade, CPS1,2,3, Nes, Snes, N64 Sega Gen, Game Cube. Possibly PSX. That should be about it really. Whats that 9k of games im guessing if you get them all. Which im not, I will be doing the old pain staking weeding through and getting ones im familiar with to put on it. So its not going to be a massive collection. Just a nice one.
So far with the free version of launchbox I have a few of these systems running. i will be buying the lifetime launchbox after i have a decent working system. And a membership to emumovies as well.
3. So can retroarch be used as the emulator for all of the platforms? And just configure one app?
4. Got some issues with PSX games not wanting to run. First it was saying a bin file was missing. Once i got that in I get retroarch to run but only black screen. Also use 190 and 201 psx emulator and those fail to run also. Using "Windows 10" and im sure I have something not setup right. But from what I been reading is people do use retroarch as the emulator.
5. What emu do I need to run CPS1,2,3? Retroarch or something else? I am lost on these roms. I think I may of ran 1 with Mame. If thats the case then Im good. (Need to slow down and do one thing at a time I guess)
Now for some crazyness. I need all this help on launchbox/retroarch setup. But I have a raspberrypi 3 B fully setup by me running Mame, Nes, Snes, Sega Gen, 9001 Games total. i can use this in a cabinet and be done. However, It isnt good enough to run N64, Gamecube, PSX. The last 3 systems I care about getting up and going. I could be ok doing it with the pie. But the front end isnt that great. Nothing like hyperspin or launchbox.
So im going to build a PC to run this launchbox system. I have a system now im testing on thats overkill for something like this. And could use it. But then im out of desktop PC kind of lol.
Sorry for such a long winded post guys. Im excited to be here. I have been out of the pc programming/gaming scene for a few years just playing on xbox. I would not be surprised if someone here knows of me from the past lol.