SiriusVI

If you already have the hash files for a whole mame setup, you should already have the xml file for the cdi in place, so you don't need it. In fact you can skip this whole part. You don't need the ini file either.

I don't know of any preexisting list, but I'm really not qualified. I've gotten into this whole emulating Software List thing just a couple of months ago

Yeah, I love the Software List Import Tool as well. The only downside to using Software Lists is that they contain so much software that isn't games that you have to go through all of the files separately once importing is donw. Would be great if there was a way to filter out all the non-games from the software lists.

OMG, that did it. Thank you so much =D. This means, however, that the info here is wrong and needs an update: https://pastebin.com/18W3EbD0

Yeah I'm sorry. I still can't get Aamber Pegasus to work. Same settings as 5200, also cartridge based, cli enabled. It does not work. Any ideas?

I fixed it! Atari 5200 is up and running. The error was in the mame core options. the option "boot from cli" must be "enabled", same as with Apple II. The reason why I left it disabled was that with mame Software List Roms, Atari and other cartridge-based systems work with CLI disabled. So I just thought I didn't need to enable it. Don't know why I didn't think to test this option before. Edit: interestingly enough. This fix does not work for Aamber Pegasus, even with the same settings.

It's pretty easy. Just make sure you Backup your Data folder so you can always go back to your previous setup if something goes wrong.

That's great =D. So let's look at my apple2 games: Apple II game "Alcazar - The Forgotten Fortress" TOSEC name is: "Alcazar - The Forgotten Fortress (1985)(Activision)[48K].zip" containing "Alcazar - The Forgotten Fortress (1985)(Activision)[48K].woz" Mame SL-Name is: "alcazar.zip" containing "alcazar.woz" Both games load fine. I did however look into the a5200 rom set from no intro and the zip files contain ".a25" files, whereas the mame set contails .bin files. So I went and grabbed the TOSEC set for a5200 which also uses .bin files. Sadly, the roms still don't load. I did some more testing and found out that if you rename the TOSEC .zip files the way mame expects them, the games will load just fine even though the files within the .zip files has a different name than the one in the mame set. Edit: I'm almost 100% sure that the error lies at the command line.This works for Apple and all other floppy and cassette systems I've tried: "apple2e -rp \"L:\LaunchBox\Games\Apple II\" -flop1 \"%romfile%\"" But the same command line does not work for nay cartridge based system I've tried "a5200 -rp \"L:\LaunchBox\Games\Atari 5200\" -cart \"%romfile%\""

Yes I know that it is possible (it was a post by you that put me up to this idea ;)), and I managed to do it with all systems that use floppy disk and cassette images. I'm just wondering why it doesn't also work for cartridge images.

Thank you for answering. Yes it seems to have something to do with mame Software List naming conventions, but this is only an issue for cartdidges it seems. Maybe I explained it badly in my initial post, so I try to simplify it here: 1. I have Apple II roms and Acorn Achimedes roms (from the TOSEC set) which are NOT named correctly (acording to Mame Software List), but mame will still load them if I use the commandline shown above 2. I have Atari 5200 roms and Aamber pegasus roms (from the TOSEC set) which are NOT named correctly (acording to Mame Software List), and mame refuses to load them. 3. As far as I understood, both of you use Software List roms and yes Mame will obviously load any roms which are named correctly acording to Mame Software List So the question ist: why can I load Apple II, Acorn Achimedes and many other disk based systems (with incorrect names), but not Atari 5200, Aamber Pegasus and other cartridge based systems.

Hey everyone, some time ago, I tried to emulate Apple II games with the Mame core of Retroarch and succeded. There was some tinkering involved and lots of help by this wonderful forum. I've since managed to emulate lots and lots of systems using using this method. The basics for how this works can be reviewed here: Let's look at how I got Apple II to run: 1. Get Mame Software List Roms and put them in a folder. 2. You make sure that you copy any extra files that mame requires My Folder is called "Apple II" and looks like this: 3. Go to X:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\mame\ini and edit "apple2e.ini". You need to specify where your roms are: 4. Add a new Retroarch Emulator to your list of emulators and check "Don't use Quotes". 5. Add Apple II as an associated platform, choose mame (no year tags) as your core and use this command line (yes with the double quotes): "apple2e -rp \"L:\LaunchBox\Games\Apple II\" -flop1 \"%romfile%\"" This way, the apple roms load fine (in the mame core options, you must turn CLI on for Apple II to work). Now, if this works, why am I complaining? Well, there are some downsides to using Software List Mame roms. First of all, they are named in a way that prevents Launchbox to scrape Metadata, and second, The software List roms include not only games, but also loads of programs and other software that don't work or that I don't need. Recently I've read in this form that Mame actually CAN use roms that are named differently from Software List conventions when using command lines to open them. This interested me so I tried to load Apple II toms from the TOSEC set using the same method as shown above. And what do you know. It works very well. This is great, because sets like TOSEC separate games from other kinds of software and the file names are usable by Launchbox. So what's the problem? The problem is that this method works well with computer systems that use floppy disks or cassettes. It does NOT work for systems using cartridges (-cart). Systems that use cartridges seem to work differently from systems using floppies and cassettes. For example, if I try to emulate Atari 5200 using Software List roms, I don't need t add a corresponding commandline like for Apple II ("apple2e -rp \"L:\LaunchBox\Games\Apple II\" -flop1 \"%romfile%\""). Instead, the game will run fine using the mame core without any command line. The same goes for other cartridge based systems like Aamber Pegasus. If I however try to use a different Set, say the no intro set for Atari 5200, the game will not load. For Example, if I load "berzerk.zip", the game will work. If I load "BerZerk (USA).zip", the game will not load. Then I thought, maybe I need that weird command line to be able to use non Software List roms with mame. So I tried: "a5200 -rp \"L:\LaunchBox\Games\Atari 5200\" -cart \"%romfile%\"" This however causes Retroarch to crash. So why is this? Why can I emulate floppy based systems like Apple II or Acorn Archimedes, but not cartridge based systems such as Atari 5200 or Aamber Pegasus? I'm not against using Software List roms, I just like to keep things consistent and convenient, but I always have the option of going back to using Software List roms. However, I'm really interested in why this just won't work. It's really bugging me.

Ah thank you I didn't check for additional apps. Works perfectly now. Any way to make the local files the default option?

Thank you so much for this amazing update @Zombeaver. Just one question: How can I integrate the offline Magazines module?

Sounds great. I used to play a fair share of flash games back in the day. I feel like there'd be something missing if it wasn't in my Launchbox collection.

I was imagining something like this, although I have no idea how difficult that might be.

I would very much like in somehow include flashpoint into my Launchbox collection. Let's hope that it'll be possible some day.

"nearly 100000 roms (no duplication and all working" This sounds impressive. I can hardly believe that anyone has actually tested if all of their 100.000 roms boot, let alone "work".

I gotta say, this is a great idea. Just added it today and I'm loving it! Thank you so much for your effort!

Thank you so much for taking the time to post that! Feels great to at leat know that it's not an issue just for me. Well.... for the time being I think I'll stick to teh standalone Version of ScummVM and I'll check the core version form time to time. But please, if anyone has an Idea how to hotfix this issue, let me know ?

Good point. I will try that. Although still weird that all the other games seem to work with the core. It's just this one game (which I would really like to play)

Hey everyone, I already posted this problem on the libretro forums, but sofar nobody seemed to able to help me out over there, so I'm trying my luck here: Scummvm core works mostly fine, however Phantasmagoria 2 crashes upon launching. I get his error message in retroarch. Does anyone know what to do about that? If I hit retry on the window, retroarch crashes and shuts down. Debug shows me this error: ------------------- Error occurred on Saturday, March 28, 2020 at 11:52:45. retroarch_debug.exe caused a Breakpoint at location 00007FFC734C0BB2 in module KERNELBASE.dll. AddrPC Params 00007FFC734C0BB2 000000000A25F733 000000000A25F5E0 000000000000021C KERNELBASE.dll!DebugBreak 00007FFC7528BBD9 00000000281F32F0 0000000000000162 0000000000000002 msvcrt.dll!_assert 0000000013D012C2 00000000000005BE 0000000013F7A336 00000000000005BE scummvm_libretro.dll!retro_get_region 0000000013CEBD98 0000000014DEC040 0000000027F560B0 3F80000001050000 scummvm_libretro.dll!retro_get_region 0000000013FFCCA9 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 scummvm_libretro.dll!retro_get_region 0000000013CFD6F4 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 scummvm_libretro.dll!retro_get_region 0000000013CFD84B 00000000280C94A0 0000000000000280 00000000000001E0 scummvm_libretro.dll!retro_get_region 0000000011A924EF 0001000000000003 0000000000000000 00000000202D0470 scummvm_libretro.dll!retro_run 000000000043C709 000000008FA495D7 000000000045712F 00007FFC762D65E0 retroarch_debug.exe!core_run [C:/msys64/home/buildbot/buildbot/windows_x64/retroarch/retroarch.c @ 30583] 000000000043B7E3 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000000A25FD40 retroarch_debug.exe!runloop_iterate [C:/msys64/home/buildbot/buildbot/windows_x64/retroarch/retroarch.c @ 30013] 000000000041124D 0000000000000004 000000000F010000 0000000000000000 retroarch_debug.exe!rarch_main [C:/msys64/home/buildbot/buildbot/windows_x64/retroarch/retroarch.c @ 9847] 000000000058EF27 0000000000000004 000000000F010000 000000000A362AE2 retroarch_debug.exe!SDL_main [C:/msys64/home/buildbot/buildbot/windows_x64/retroarch/ui/drivers/qt/ui_qt_application.cpp @ 150] 0000000000ABB58E 0000000000000003 000000000000007A 0000000001A1EEE0 retroarch_debug.exe!main_getcmdline 00000000004013B4 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 retroarch_debug.exe!__tmainCRTStartup [E:/mingwbuild/mingw-w64-crt-git/src/mingw-w64/mingw-w64-crt/crt/crtexe.c @ 339] 00000000004014DB 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 retroarch_debug.exe!WinMainCRTStartup [E:/mingwbuild/mingw-w64-crt-git/src/mingw-w64/mingw-w64-crt/crt/crtexe.c @ 195] 00007FFC762D7BD4 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 KERNEL32.DLL!BaseThreadInitThunk 00007FFC7642CED1 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ntdll.dll!RtlUserThreadStart retroarch_debug.exe ntdll.dll 10.0.18362.719 KERNEL32.DLL 10.0.18362.329 KERNELBASE.dll 10.0.18362.719 ADVAPI32.dll 10.0.18362.329 msvcrt.dll 7.0.18362.1 sechost.dll 10.0.18362.693 RPCRT4.dll 10.0.18362.628 comdlg32.dll 10.0.18362.693 combase.dll 10.0.18362.693 ucrtbase.dll 10.0.18362.387 bcryptPrimitives.dll 10.0.18362.295 shcore.dll 10.0.18362.1 USER32.dll 10.0.18362.719 win32u.dll 10.0.18362.719 GDI32.dll 10.0.18362.1 gdi32full.dll 10.0.18362.719 msvcp_win.dll 10.0.18362.387 SHLWAPI.dll 10.0.18362.1 SHELL32.dll 10.0.18362.719 cfgmgr32.dll 10.0.18362.387 windows.storage.dll 10.0.18362.719 profapi.dll 10.0.18362.693 COMCTL32.dll 5.82.18362.720 powrprof.dll 10.0.18362.1 UMPDC.dll kernel.appcore.dll 10.0.18362.1 cryptsp.dll 10.0.18362.1 ole32.dll 10.0.18362.693 SETUPAPI.dll 10.0.18362.1 bcrypt.dll 10.0.18362.267 WS2_32.dll 10.0.18362.387 DINPUT8.dll DSOUND.dll 10.0.18362.1 HID.DLL 10.0.18362.1 IPHLPAPI.DLL 10.0.18362.1 MSIMG32.dll 10.0.18362.719 OPENGL32.dll 10.0.18362.387 libwinpthread-1.dll 1.0.0.0 WINMM.dll 10.0.18362.1 libstdc++-6.dll avcodec-58.dll 58.54.100.0 libass-9.dll cg.dll 3.1.0.13 avformat-58.dll 58.29.100.0 avutil-56.dll 56.31.100.0 cgD3D9.dll 3.1.0.13 libcaca-0.dll cgGL.dll 3.1.0.13 libfreetype-6.dll 2.10.1.0 exchndl.dll 0.9.2.0 PSAPI.DLL 10.0.18362.1 libopenal-1.dll Qt5Core.dll 5.13.2.0 SDL2.dll 2.0.10.0 IMM32.dll 10.0.18362.387 libssl-1_1-x64.dll 1.1.1.4 OLEAUT32.dll 10.0.18362.693 Qt5Network.dll 5.13.2.0 CRYPT32.dll 10.0.18362.592 MSASN1.dll 10.0.18362.1 GLU32.dll 10.0.18362.387 swresample-3.dll 3.5.100.0 swscale-5.dll 5.5.100.0 libusb-1.0.dll 1.0.23.11397 WINMMBASE.dll 10.0.18362.1 libgcc_s_seh-1.dll libcelt0-2.dll liblzma-5.dll 5.2.4.0 libmp3lame-0.dll libgsm.dll 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10.0.18362.329 clbcatq.dll 2001.12.10941.16384 explorerframe.dll 10.0.18362.418 XAudio2_7.dll 9.29.1962.0 MMDevApi.dll 10.0.18362.387 AUDIOSES.DLL 10.0.18362.628 Windows.UI.dll 10.0.18362.387 avrt.dll 10.0.18362.1 wdmaud.drv 10.0.18362.1 ksuser.dll 10.0.18362.1 msacm32.drv 10.0.18362.1 MSACM32.dll 10.0.18362.1 midimap.dll 10.0.18362.1 deviceaccess.dll 10.0.18362.1 Windows 10.0.18363 DrMingw 0.9.2 EDIT: I should add that the game works flawlessly with the ScummVM standalone Version. I'd prefer to use the libretroversion however, since it gives me the easy option to add a bezel and also I like how save states work in Retroarch. EDIT 2: Mabe someone who has this game can try launching it. This way I can rule out that maybe the issue lies with the scummvm core.

Hey everyone, I have a no intro set of Commodore Plus/4 and all the file in there are in .bin format. I try launching them with retroarch xplus4 core to no success. I've been researching for hours and found out that I might need a certain command line to "attach" these cartridge files in order to load them. However, all the commandlines I've tried so far didn't work. I can load .tap files, .d64 files and .prg files just fine. I just can't get the no intro set working. What will happen if I try launching the games is that the default screen of the emuator will show up. Nothing else happens after that. If I use the standalone vice version for windows, I can attach te roms and they, so the files are not corrupt. I guess I just need the correct command line... Does anyone know what's going on here? EDIT: I also found this option in the retroarch menu: "Read 'vicerc'", "Process 'system/vice/vicerc'. The config file can be used to set other options, such as cartridges.", I have no idea however how to edit this file properly. I also couldn'd find anything online on how to set it up properly.

Awesome! I'm looking forward to it!

@eXo is there any way to import your Win3xO collection into Launchbox, similarly to how you would import the exodos collection?

@Headrush69 Are there any news on this issue. I couldn't figure it out, unfortunately =/