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That's right but I read that gcz format can cause errors in a few games. Besides, I've already converted the whole library to rvz, so I don't want to spend time converting everything to gcz again. Eventually retroarch will support rvz, I think. I'll just have to wait.

Perfect, thanks for replying!

Absolutely. I also converted to CHD. It's great, but it does take a while indeed. Also converted Wii and Gamecube games to RVZ. Unfortunately the dolphin retroarch core does not support RVZ files, yet. It's not too much of an issue, since I use dolphin standalone for wii games anyway, however I would like to use the retroarch core for gamecube games, because it would allow me to use bezels.

Don't worry, I didn't want to pressure you into anything =). I didn't know that the platforms would retain their parent platform category when updating. In that case, we really don't need the feature I was talking about. On another note, I have trouble figuring out how to exclude the extreme/adult games. When I open the dropdown menu in "tools", the crossed out "18" symbol is marked with a blue square. Does that mean the adult games are excluded or included by default? It's a little ambiguous.

I'm at over 90k at this point. All major popular consoles and handhelds working great, except Nintendo Switch and PS3, which are still fairly experimental. Whenever possible, I built a 1G1R set with USA --> JAP (english language) --> EUR--> JAP (non english language) --> other regions. I excluded betas, demos, and prototypes, but included unlicensed games. I'm not too happy with computers. there are many issues that give me a headache: 1. I like to keep things consistent, so I opted for MAME Software List Roms for computer systems. However, many (most) of the roms are not games, but applications. There are other sets, which have the games separated from apps, such as TOSEC, but TOSEC includes multiple different formats for its games, making it very hard to build 1G1R sets. On the other hand, TOSEC has many games that MAME SL does not have. 2. There is the question of which emulator to use. Again, I like being consistent and use the mame core in Retroarch. This can be a pain to set up, but works in most cases with a few workarounds. However, standalone emulators might work better. 3. Many computer systems require launching every single game / app with a string of commands that need to be typed in manually, which makes launching games from Launchbox a pain. There are ways to automate this process for some computer systems, but it doesn't work for all of them. TL;DR: Consoles and handhelds work great, computer systems are a pain. EDIT: I've also seen people with a collcetion of over 400K. I guess a collection like this includes all regional and version varieties as well as clones for and every single game out there, all imported as separate entries into Launchbox. Such a collection would be borderline unusable for me. I can see the appeal of having regional and version varietes included if they are grouped together under one single entry. E.g. the USA rom at revision 2.00 would be the default rom and other versions and regions would be additional apps. However, at this point, Launchbox does not reliably allow importing and grouping different versions of a game following such a defined pattern. If I incude more computer systems from MAME SL, and maybe OG Xbox (although there currently is no emulator that works well) I might be able to hit over 100K roms in Launchbox.

@oblivioncthI have a suggestion for your tool. In order to organize all the platforms better, I'd suggest the following structure. There should be a platform category called "Web Browser" (Web Browser already is a platform name within Launchbox) or "Flash" if you like that better. Web Browser as a platform category can then funktion as a parent for all the flash game platforms your tool creates. What do you think?

Great, thanks for the info! A better way to filter the vids would be amazing ?.

So I finally get around to testing the importer. A quick question, though: Does it also import the flash videos or just the games? I' also like to import the videos, maybe under a different platform name?

Thank you so much ?

I haven't played online seriously for a long time, mainly because I enjoy singleplayer games and also because I'm getting older as well and don't have as much time to "get good". I do play Co-Op games which I play with my friends every once in a while, which is super fun. If you don't have any friends to play with, I'd suggest joining a forum for the specific game and just ask if someone would like to play with you. There are nice people around, I'm sure. Playing with randos can get nasty pretty quickly, though. As a teenager, I used to play Warcraft III. Once I was in a 2 on 2 random team match. My team lost the game and my dear team mate wrote "I hope your parents die tonight". I still remember this 15 years later. It was actually kind of traumatizing, because I just couldn't believe how anyone could become so hostile because of a game. After that and other hostilities by warcraft 3 strangers, I lost interest in playing online, especially with strangers.

Thanks for the info. I updated the chart ? @kurzih

Unfortunately, the retroarch core for scummvm is incompatible with certain games, such as phantasmagoria 2, last I tried.

I postetd in the wrong thread, I wanted to ask about your 4K bezels for Retroarch. I don't use Mame standalone.

Just a small question: is it at all possible to make these great Bezels work with 1080p screens without manually readjusting the game-video-window-scale to fit the bezels? Or is there a way to easily adjust config files and "convert" them so the image fits a 1080p screen without booting each game and editing the window scaling in retroarch?

Oh no =(

Yeah the input lag is there. maybe I'm too sensitive, but I did constantly miss jumps in Super Mario World and DKC, for example. Well I don't use up all the 40 meters. it's actually just 30 meters of cable used. As for the input, well ... I also use a 20 meter USB cable, which connects to a usb hub. In that hub I have my xbox one controller stck, haha. I don't know, but the input lag was just too much for me to handle.

I would like to know the same thing.The full version of 3dsen is supposed to be released on steam this week.

I used to use steam link, however there are 2 problems, one of them being a serious PINA. 1. The image quality with steam link is noticably worse than using an hdmi cable. I'm usually not too concerend with having the best pissible image quality, but with steam link the colors just didn't pop. I didn't even have to A/B it. One day I just tried an hdmi cable and the differene was immediately apparent. 2. This is the problem that killed steam link for me. The input latency. I have a fairly powerful PC and internet, I connected the steam link via ethernet cable and tried many different settings. Input lag is not noticable in role playing games or so, but try playing super mario world, for example, and you really feel the input lag. I tried to convince myself that it wasn't too bad, but the longer I played, the more it bothered me. Now I have 2 X 20 meter HDMI cables with an hdmi repeater running through my house. Now I have zero input lag and as a bonus, superb image quality.

So sorry for the late reply. I've taken a little break from Launchbox, since I've been a little bit too obsessive in the past months. I'm not entirely sure how the dummy files link to the actual roms. The only thing I do know is that dummy files, the cdimono1.zip (bios), and the roms have to be inside the same folder and the .xml file for the cdi needs to be in place inside the specific retroarch directory. I don't know where you went wrong, but I suggest setting up everything from scratch. Maybe you just made a small mistake along the way. If it doesn't work the second time, please contact me again. What kind of error does 7zip give you?

I feel you. It would be great if Launchbox prioritized the latest revision of each game. As of now, it is really inconsistent. Sometimes the first edition is prioritized, sometimes rev 1, 2, 3, ..., sometimes beta or demo versions. The solution for now seems to be to filter out all the versions you don't want. Another semi-related problem is that if you want to import all regions of a game, but e.g. the Japanese title is different from the US or EU title, Launchbox will import the US/EU and the Japanese versions as separate games.

I've added the ABC 80 to my autoboot chart. Thanks @JoeViking245!

Sounds great. But I understand your concern. It would be a shame to put too much work into this just to find out that a few updates down the line, we can't make use of your hard work.

Yeah, this takes a bit to understand, I guess. What you've accomplished so far is to load the rom successfully and what you now want is to autoboot your games. Now it depends on how this system boots roms. If all games have to be booted by typing the title or filename, then I don't know how this can be automated. If there is a commandto autoboot the mounted disk, then you're in luck. To just autoboot "Avenger", you could try: abc80 -skip_gameinfo -autoboot_delay "2" -autoboot_command "*load"Avenger"\n\n\n\n\n\n*run\n" -flop1 I'm not familiar with the abc80 yet, so I have no idea if this works.

@oblivioncth The new version of Flashpoint is out ?

Is there an easy automated way to create cfg files for use with retroarch? I would very much like to try these.