andreasrocha

Here i am playing Renegade on my ZX Spectrum (custom made Bevel)...

As you suggested, I ticked the "Use file name only..." However, the other problem I was having was with the naming of the roms, or so I believe. Although the roms were showing up on Launchbox, some of them were not running. I simplified the names, removing all spaces and strange characters and that made them work. I believe Mame has some problems with weird named roms. Another strange behaviour inside Launchbox, was that after importing the roms and selecting the option to leave the roms in the original directory, the rom folder listed in the details of the Platform was something like "Games\Sinclair ZX Spectrum"...so I redirected it to where I had imported the roms from originally. By the way, the reason for running these platforms through MAME is that I can get the amazing look through the HLSL shaders and the ease of customization. I just love the phosphorous trails and never found anything similar in other emulators. It really ends up looking the way I remember...

Everything worked out! Many thanks for the help.

Thank you very much JoeViking245 and spycat for pointing these things out! One of the Spectrum roms started working but the others didn't. But I must be doing something wrong so I will have to test things out. Spycat, I don't have any other systems working...I first want to get these 2 working and then I will pass on to the others. Thanks again for the help!

The SNES rom was compressed (zip). I tried running an uncompressed version (sfc format) inside Launchbox but nothing changed. I assumed that if I can run the zipped ROM through MAME using command prompt I should also be able to run the same ROM using MAME through Launchbox.

I have been trying to find a solution to my problem all over the Internet and I have found tids and bits but I just can't figure out what I am doing wrong. So here is what I am trying to do (nothing fancy as I am complete NOOB): I want to run ZX Spectrum and SNES emulation via MAME inside LAUNCHBOX. I got the ROMS working via the command prompt in Windows. ZX SPECTRUM example: D:\RETROGAMING\0LAUNCHBOX\EMULATORS\mame>mame64 spectrum -snapshot d:\retrogaming\0launchbox\emulators\mame\romsspectrum\manicminer.z80 SNES example: D:\RETROGAMING\0LAUNCHBOX\EMULATORS\mame>mame64 snes -cart d:\retrogaming\0launchbox\emulators\mame\romssnes\aladdin.zip However, I can't get them to work inside LAUNCHBOX. Here is my setup: Whenever I start the roms inside Launchbox the screen goes black and then goes back to Launchbox. I thought it had something to do with the Default Command Line Parameters but after seeing other videos on YouTube I do not think that is where the problem lies. Can anybody help me out, please?