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Okay, now I'm even more confused... I'm using the latest version (11.17) of Launchbox, full licence

I do have a full rom set - this was actually trimmed and exported in my 'old' Launchbox setup as I'm trying to streamline. But if I import the full set I have the opposite problem, I clear out all the roms but every entry still has all it's clones linked etc which there doesn't seem to be an easy way to clean up... @Jason Carr sorry to bother you, but are you able to shed any light on the above - it doesnt seem like there is much rhyme or reason for the way this is importing

To add to this weirdness, if I DRAG those 4 games in, it still only selects two of them, but the opposite two to what the rom importer does

@Lordmonkus @Retro808 please help me, i'm losing my mind here So, I just deleted everything, starting afresh Import Roms -> MAME -> following options BUT LOOK - those TMNT (the example above, but must be happening with others I cannot identify) are STILL skipped. Even if I go back and select only the 4 zips they're skipped... There are right there in the folder... I can't see how any of the options I'm looking at would skip this?! How on earth can I get it to import every single zip I have in that folder. It does this whether i select all the zips individually or the folder, so that doesnt work... Is there an alternate way I can try this? Maybe if I import a full mame set can I easily clean up what I don't have somehow? (I don't think so, but maybe I missed it) Is there some alternative to importing this way?

Kinda frustrating, seems that the unit way to fix then is to delete everything and start again, as if I import duplicate now I will get two of everything... Guess that means all images will need to download again too 😞

I've been selecting to use mame data in the import options tho as well

Yeah, I said that (two games, two versions of each). But in my previous setup it imported them as clones (additional apps is how it is listed in the UI), they're not there despite telling it to import everything Are you saying that on individual ROM import the behaviour is different to full set import and it will simply ignore them if I don't add them as a separate entity? And if so, is the only way to rectify this to delete and restart? Because if I select all files and try this it will duplicate everything or import nothing depending on options...

Okay, so I've managed to find an example of something that hasn't imported I have tmnt.zip, tmnt2.zip, tmnt2po.zip, tmnt22pu.zip - two different games, two two player versions of those games. Despite having checked import all clones, it hasn't imported them, neither as separate games OR as additional apps within those games... no idea why... Guessing this is the case with a few others that I have hence the drop in number. Any thoughts?

Okay, so I did this and I've ended up in a weird situation. In my old Launchbox setup I have 2932 individual games, of which 3 are roms i manually created, so 2929 This matches the filecount in my exported trimmed set When I imported via the Rom import listed above in my new Launchbox instance, I only have 2804. Since I can't open two copies of LB I don't know how to find out the disparity, but why would this occur. I've double checked and the zip files in the new LB instance is 2929, so it seems to be skipping some zips? I told it to import clones separated (and there aren't many anyway, that's part of the point) so what might cause this?

I think I'm missing something - the only mame option I see is for Fullsets?

I'm trying to start afresh with my LB setup as things got a bit messy... I have a curated folder of MAME roms I want to import into Launchbox. This contains mostly parent roms with a few clones, all as separate zips If I go through the MAME Import, and select "import clones as separate entities (recommended)", it scans my folder and i get a HUGE list of tons of stuff that does not exist in my folder... (presumably a list of everything there is available) How do I make it so it only pulls what is in the folder I give it?

I'd like to do this but when I go to install it gives me a warning that launchbox is already running, but implies to me that it's not going to like it Should I be using some install free version or will it happily install a second version if I quit?

There is some kind of bug here - I thought it was the missing \ in the xcopy line after destCDHs variable, but wasn't the fix. Without the \ I end up with a folder name of the "destCHDsfoldeRarea51" so there does need to be a slash, but with the slash the files end up in the root (temp1 in your example) rather than the destCHDs I can definitely work with this, but would be nice to work out what is wrong so that can be useful for others and seamless updates! (I could probably work this out but my kids aren't giving me a minute today!!!) EDIT: It was the missing \ but I put it back in the wrong place @echo off set sourceZIPs=I:\CLEAN ARCADE SETUP\Roms\MAME 234 Trimmed set sourceCDHs=I:\ARCADE ROMS WIP\CHD set destCHDs=I:\ARCADE ROMS WIP\CHD IN USE for %%F in ("%sourceZIPs%\*.zip") do ( if exist "%sourceCDHs%\%%~nF" ( xcopy "%sourceCDHs%\%%~nF" "%destCHDs%\%%~nF" /e /i ) ) pause

That looks exactly the ticket! Will give it a go tomorrow if I get a chance!! Thanks so much

Correct. The problem stems from the fact that while Launchbox does the trimming, and the exporting to a separate folder (which I've called trimmed), it doesn't pull the chds So while all the ROMs are in the trimmed folder the matching CHD folders are not. I'm trying to find a way other than a manual compare to pull the needed chd's into the ROMs folder.

Okay, so this didn't work for me and I think I know why... it's looking for folders matching folders - the files/folders description led me to a false sense that it would compare both What I need is folder names which match zip So, for example - area51.zip is in my Mame 234 Trimmed folder I want to copy area51 folder across from the CHD folder... Is there any way for it to ignore the type? EDIT: Also, there is a way to make this destructive accidentally so be warned - I tried removing the .zip from area51.zip and then ran it, it didn't do anything except delete area51 file for some reason... EDIT2: Even if I create an empty directory called area51 in the destination then I still don't get a copy, only a skip

This sounds like it'll do the job nicely. Will give it a go when I get some time!

I like this idea, but think you may be overcomplicating - we just need to find out if a folder matches the file and if so, move it... I don't understand Powershell well, but this https://stackoverflow.com/a/32751715 seems like it could work with a little tweaking

Okay, fine, that's good to know. That's why I posted. Seems odd that it doesnt exist however when All Killer lists exist, assumed such a thing must exist! But now I know EDIT: There seems to be a reasonable list here which I just came across:

I think this is fair, but given my setup being in a cab I don't want to have to hunt it out if I want to play something, so am trying to pre-prepare. "There are too few playable good games that require a CHD to warrant the download (and storage) of a full CHD set IMO." "there are really only like 50-60 working and way less than that are even worth keeping/playing." I'm really looking for that list that are worth keeping/playing

For playing you're right. But launchbox also offers copy files functionality under the tools menu. Doing this does not copy the chds even if they're there to be copied

That's a good idea - is there a way to filter by CHD games themselves tho? It seems that Launchbox doesnt really handle the CHDs in the same way as the zips when it comes to MAME as all the actions I take seem to ignore them

That's a really useful site - not come across that before! So, this gives me a way of filtering, which in essence I can do with Launchbox on import (by saying remove non-working) but while Launchbox allows me to eliminate non-working on import and then export a rom set, it doesnt seem to bring the CHDs with it when you do that - is there any automated way to clear these out rather than going through one by one? On top of that, this only gets part of the way to what I was looking for - in the same way that there are all killer lists etc I was hoping there might be some list of things that are actually good! E.g. Eggs Playing Chicken - is that any good? (I'm guessing not), are California Speed A and B different enough to keep both... etc and while i could try all 200 games, i would rather not

Clarified

Been googling a lot around this but not found a definitive list of CHDs for MAME that are worth keeping, those that are useless/pointless and those that are maybe worth holding onto... anyone got a list?