DaveC1964

I didn't uncheck they were not checked in the first place. LB can be a bit confusing at times. It works now though so that is what matters.

I use the standalone Dolphin. I am not sure why Retroarch is checked, I didn't check that box and if GC is already associated with the standalone I am not sure why LB would check it on it's own instead of Dolphin that I associated with it. It does work if I uncheck it.

So I tried to edit Genesis 32X to use Picodrive. I edit associated platforms, change Genesis 32X to Picodrive but when I try to continue it tells me it wants to update Gamecube. Gamecube?! I don't get it, so confusing. What am I doing wrong.

Is there a way to have LB give some kind of stats of games imported vs files in the directory, then maybe naming the ones skipped so I could troubleshoot those? As it is now it does an import and I have no idea what is missing until I go to play it.

Why would LB skip the one file but import the others? Those others with "bad names" show up. I thought LB was just supposed to import everything in the directory. If not there should be an option to. I have had LB skip a bunch of C-64 games because I suppose they weren't recognized. For example the c-64 game Alleykat will not import no matter what because it must think it is a bad name but in fact is a real game. There needs to be a way to import these otherwise the whole point of LB which is to launch games is rather limited to only what it recognizes. Also how do I know the right names that LB wants? I am not sure how to go about renaming everything. Then I get this below importing BIOS files as games. It ignores games but imports BIOS files? It seems LB is a bit wonky.

It seems you missed the whole point. I wasn't asking about Sonic 4 which shows up. I was asking about Sonic 1 which shows in the import directory but does not show up in LB at all, it is completely skipped.

For some reason some games just get ignored by LB. In this case Sonic the Hedgehog one on Genesis is just missing in imported games. I am confused. This is just an example, this happens in other systems too.

I am running the latest version of LB. Will the one you linked to work with it? It says that version is out of date. Does that matter? Thanks.

I am trying to install to an arcade PC that is offline. LB complains that it needs a ".net core". What version do I need and how to install? I searched but it gives me all kinds of SDK info and version numbers. Which one do I need and best place to get?

Ok where are these base files located? Are they all in the LB directory or in various different places on the PC?

I want to know if I can set up LB on my desktop and then move the launchbox folder to the offline arcade PC easily. Does LB "spray" misc files all over the installed PC directories hidden from me when I move the folder? Or are the files self contained in the LB folder?

Do you know how to get it to work with LB? I tried that first (2003 plus in RA) and when I selected the game nothing happened. I assumed maybe it was because LB didn't like that old version. The games imported, box art loaded, but it doesn't seem to work. The category was arcade with retroarch as the emulator. I am guessing it isn't loading the right core but I don't know how to tell it to. I also then tried the MAME standalone for 2003 and had the same result, nothing loaded.

So from what I heard MAME gets more and more resource hungry with every release. If I just want to run classic games (1990s and older) what is the best performing MAME version running on weak spec PCs such as AMD 6800H and other SOC used in handhelds like ROG Ally, Steam Deck, GPD Win etc? If I go too old I miss out on features, too new and it is too laggy. Any recommendations?

You really can't easily. The only way to do it is open the case and solder two wires to the spot where the switch is. Then run two the wires out of the case.

I set LB up and imported arcade games for MAME then set emulator to retroarch but when I select game in LB nothing happens. No loading, no errors, nothing. What am I doing wrong? Do I have to tell LB to load a certain core and if so how do I do it?

I had the same issue on another device which was more of a "potato" with only 4GB of RAM. I assumed then that it was the lower RAM capacity and it was running out and crashing. With the new device I have 16 GB of RAM and it seems to crash just as much, maybe even worse, so limited RAM is not the issue.

Ok had to use this suggestion again. While trying to import 3DO CHDs LB crashed FOUR times right after accepting the import list. The app just closed to desktop with no message. Poof! just closed after trying to import, corrupted the XML. I am going to be very upset if it corrupts the 1 tb SD card and I have to format that and start over. Why is it crashing so much? It seems very unstable at least while trying to import.

How do I back up the settings file so that I don't lose everything when LB crashes? This seems to happen a lot (crash/exit) when importing, crashes probably 1 out of 3 times? It says "the grid" is installed but doesn't show in the theme "change view". Any idea on how to fix without starting over (repair option says customization will be lost)?

It showed up in the import list but didn't show up in the game grid (was using a boxes grid theme). It just wasn't there, at all even with blank metadata. There are indeed other games with no box art but do show. I renamed it to "Alley Cat" and it showed up but understandably with the wrong box art. I am using the Android version. For some reason this game confuses LB. Who knows what other games are not showing, I didn't audit the list.

What is happening is that there are games not in the LB database so it just doesn't show them. Every file I have in a directory is a game ROM. LB tries to "help me out" by not showing a file that it doesn't know as a game. The problem is that their database is not 100% or sometimes a game doesn't match their pattern so it is like it isn't even shown. The one example I gave is a C-64 game called AlleyKat. Since it is not in their database it doesn't show up at all. I litterlly had ro rename as Alley Cat to have it show up. It shows with the wrong box art ffrom a different game but at least it shows. I am sure there are other games that don't show as well because there is no database entry. We need an option to show all files even if not recognized so that nothing is missing. If some games are hidden and not selectable it kind of makes LB useless for loading all of our games. Clicking the add button is not practical because how do I know what to add? If there are 50 games not showing out of 800 how would I know which ones don't show? As I said I would have to compare what is in the directory to what is shown in LB then manually add 50 or so games. That would be extremely time consuming to do.

The problem is that I don't know which games LB is hiding from me. It could be hundreds. In order for me to know I would have to call up a directory and audit games one by one. That would be insanely time consuming. I wish they would just give me the option to display everything in the ROM folder I choose even if they don't think I should see it.

So there is this C-64 game called "AlleyKat" and LB refuses to display it in the list. When I import games it shows in the import list but then doesn't show in the game list. I assume because it doesn't recognize the name. It "helps me out" by ignoring it but now I can't play it. If I go in and rename it to Alley cat is shows as a different game with the wrong box art but at least shows up. Is there a way I can keep LB from deciding what is a game and what isn't and list it anyway? If the file is in the import folder I want to see it.

Ok so it is possible just not by a user. I would need to wait and see if someone makes something like that. Ok I suppose it is something to hope for at least in the future.

So I get grid view that shows box art (boxes grid). Is there a similar grid view that shows screenshots instead of box art instead? This is kind of important for arcade games in MAME, arcade machines didn't have box art, screen shots would be better there. I couldn't find anything like that in the view options.

I think the game names now match better (I re-imported games) but it still goes to a black screen and locks up when I select a game. Still no work. Says: default emulator= RetroArch Default Core = mame2003_libretro_android.so Any ideas? Again it works fine if I load through Retroarch. (BTW other systems like Lynx, Intellivision, etc all work fine just not MAME.) Edit: a few games in MAME do work. Most do not. It is not due to a mismatched/wrong ROM version because if I load the same ROM in same core RA directly it does work.