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I got free Launchbox looking pretty snazzy with media but I since upgraded to Premium, for no other reason than to support Jason and everyone on his team that have done so much for the community. I'm all about Big Box now;)

Oh, awesome. Why didn't I think of that? The issue I'm having now is the exe's don't generate any metadata because of their abbreviations so I still have to edit the entry haha. Serves me right for nuking my collection on accident.

Thanks. It's still manual but a little faster. Hopefully a mass import for external drive option will be available someday. My SSD won't hold the amount of games I have.

I am trying to find the quickest and easiest way to re-import a large collection of installed Windows games that are installed on a secondary drive. I tried using the Windows game importer from the tools menu but it went looking for games installed under Program Files on the system drive. I tried dragging and dropping the exe but it didn't find any metadata or launch correctly. The way I've been doing it is to simply "add game", type in the game name, Launchbox adds the metadata and then I select the application path. Works, but long and tedious. Any way to select the folder on my secondary drive and have Launchbox find all the games at once?

I have always used the full MAME set but lately I am overwhelmed at all the garbage games, games I've never heard of and will never play, so I am starting with a All Killer set and adding my other favorites. I really love lightgun games such as Lethal Enforcers and CHD's like Area 51, Maximum Force, and Carnevil. I use the mouse and it works just fine for me. I also like the Cruisin USA games. Ideally, I'd like there to be a way to remove games by date range and region. This way I can remove primitive games from the 70's and anything that is not North America. That right there would probably be enough to satisfy me. I'm always looking for new ways to trim MAME if anyone has suggestions.

I have successfully emulated the CD-i with the few aforementioned methods although most of the games I wanted to play required the as-of-yet unemulated Video Cartridge. I don't want to criticize CDiemu too much because the author put a lot of work into it, but it didn't have enough compatibility or features to be competitive. My main issue is he wants $35 or so for it which is an insult to the community. In the end I turn to the 3DO for the CD-i experience; lots of shared titles, similar experience, etc. I remember when Cruisin USA was first added to MAME and watching it crawl through the CPU Board Test and gameplay so choppy it looked like a slideshow when I had the fastest PC my budget could build. Hopefully, the CD-i will get continued development. Poor as the system may be, it is a part of gaming history.

Thanks. I checked the combine games checkbox and it created one game. If I right click the game it says Disk 1 version and Disk 2 version. I tried starting the game from Disk 2 as a test and it asked for the first disk so all seems to be well. My remaining question is how do you switch disks when you get to that point in the game?

I just tried importing Chrono Cross (Disk1) and (Disk 2) and it created two separate entries. Mine are bin/cue instead of chd's but I wouldn't think that would make any difference. Any other import options I might be missing?

I imported some PS1 multiple disk games and they are still showing as separate disks. I thought Launchbox was supposed to automatically take care of these now so maybe the titling is wrong. What is the correct way to title multiple disk games so Launchbox knows what to do with them? Some games have the Disk 1, 2, etc. under version so maybe it must be in the actual title like "Final Fantasy VII (Disk 1)" in order for it to import properly.

I was getting ready to delete and import a single system but didn't realize I was under the "All Games" tab. Whoops. Entire collection, every system, many with manually fixed titles... gone. I don't suppose there is a magic way to bring everything back so I have been re-importing. I would welcome any thoughts on backing up the Launchbox installation for the future. In any case, I hope I'm not the only one who has done this, lol.

I forgot how to access the core options in Retroarch. I need to turn off the FM sound in Genesis Plus GX. Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi everyone. I have recently been inspired to customize my Launchbox and I wanted to see what all of your creative minds can do. It would be awesome to see not only Premium/Big Box, but Free/Standard Launchbox as well. Ready? Show off your Launchbox!

Whoops. I'm dumb to forget CTRL A before using the rescrape under the tools menu. Thank you Neil. But alas, the MVS scrapes no images. When I did this collection as AES it scraped most of them. However, there are several exclusive MVS titles in here. Wierd. Back to the drawing board.

Thanks. Do I need to delete and reimport or can I rescrape the existing imported games? I tried the rescrape under the main menu that Lordmonkus has mentioned but it started rescraping the entire collection.

I am missing all images for Neo Geo MVS and cleared a lot of junk manually before import. Normally, only a batch wouldn't scrape due to the name being incorrect, etc, and I would simply change them but in this case a delete and import is a pain in the butt. What would you recommend for a rescrape? I was thinking to delete the unwanted games from the folder itself so it never gets added in the first place.

I like this method. Thanks for the feedback.

Thanks. I recently organized my collections to US releases only which makes me super happy, and I like the completeness thereof. Except... the educational, workout, kids games. MAME on the other hand is a colossal mess. I appreciate your reminding me again how to organize this. It will be my project for the weekend.

Hey folks, I wanted to hear some opinions of NES game series to look out for that are useless to most adults. I am aware of Fisher Price, Sesame Street, Barbie and the Aerobics Pad games, but are there any others to look out for? There's a lot of fat to burn in the NES, same with Atari 2600, Coleco and Intellivision.

I used MESS 0.161 and bin/cues work fine. The only problem I ran into was a Digital Video Cartridge error which I at first assumed was related to not being in the right format. But it seems this is an unsupported function necessary to run certain CD-i games. Coincidentally, the games that won't run are the ones I want to play. C'est la vie.

I setup the CD-i with MESS version 0.161 the same way Brad did in his video and what I get is: A teal colored screen for 15 seconds before the Philips settings screen appears (clock, date/time, etc) I select "Play CD-1" and the teal screen appears for another 15 seconds At this point the majority of the games display the error message "Sorry. In order to play this disk your cd-i must come equipped with a digital video cartridge." All of the games are CHD. Very few of them start without this error message. Before I start tweaking I want to know if everyone else experiences these same issues. Teal screen, long launch times, fatal digital video cartridge error.

I think this is really the way to go. It is so much easier to grab a couple games from the "warehouse" so to speak, rather than bring the warehouse to the front counter.

I collected for several years, been into emulation since the mid 90's, and am now starting to trim the fat on a morbidly obese collection. I hand pick CD based systems but as far as the older systems are concerned I find a Top List and add the specific titles I remember playing. The older or less popular the system, the smaller the Top List. So I might import 25 Atari 2600, 10-15 Colecovision or Intellivision, a handful of Apple II, Amiga, etc. Then I use no-intro sets for 8-bit on up where I spent a lot of time gaming, getting rid of duplicates and foreign titles where necessary. I played some titles when I went to Japan but other than that, gone. Some systems like the 3D0 are treasured to me because I wanted one but didn't have one. MAME has the worst calorie count and I am going to use Lord Monkus tools for dealing with that. I just see no point in collecting a ton of Colecovision and Intellivision arcade ports when you can have the real game in MAME, or 2,000 Apple II disk images when all you ever played was Oregon Trail and Zork in the school library. Of course, the full sets are backed up and I can draw from it as needed, but I want a more manageable and playable library.

This is good to know. I wasn't aware Cd-i emulation was working. I have been using 3D0 as I consider the two of them fairly cross platform.

This worked flawlessly, and I thank you very much.

I have been buying some GOG releases lately and from what I gather when you click the GOG exe it unpacks the original assets and a Dosbox folder to run it. I then can use the Dos game importer in Launchbox and it uses the game exe it finds with Dosbox and all is well. However, some games close and won't run when launched through Launchbox but will run if I click on the desktop shortcut GOG created. For example, when imported into Launchbox, Tex Murphy Under A Killing Moon's launch executable "MOON.exe" will launch the game to a blank screen and close after several seconds. But if I click the shortcut on the desktop, which seems to be MOON.exe being launched from the Dosbox in the GOG folder, it runs fine. Any workarounds? Obviously, this isn't the end of the world because I can play outside of Launchbox, but it would be nice to have everything organized and contained.