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I didn’t un-check any filters, I believe they’re all checked by default, and I left them that way. To re-cap my experience; First Pass I downloaded mis-matched full romsest (split) & MAME (different versions) Ended up with around 32k files – way more than I wanted to deal with just to play pac-man etc Second Pass Deleted the roms per Neil9000’s instructions above Downloaded new full romset (merged) & MAME (same versions) Ran the Launch Box full set import wizard Ended up with around 3.2k files I’m not sure exactly what caused the difference in the # of roms. I suppose it’s either the fact that during the 2nd pass, I used matching rom set & MAME versions, or, the first time I used what’s called a ‘split’ rom set, the second time I used what’s called a ‘merged’ romset. I don’t know the difference or if that had anything to do with it. Or maybe I just clicked something I shouldn’t have the first time. Good luck, I know it’s frustrating.

Just an update - I removed the old MAME & associated roms using Neil9000's instructions above. I did a re-install of the full rom set using Big Box's import wizard & all is good. My total game count went from something like 32k to 3.2k. Not sure if this may have been the culprit, but on my first pass the versions of the full romset & mame didn't match. On the second pass they matched (I downloaded new versions of each to get the matching set). All good. Game on!

Yeah most likely user error! I did check the filters for no fruit games, etc, but don’t think I changed anything else. Thanks ItchyRobot for the suggestion about creating a ‘favorites’ list, that would certainly help. And you’re right, at this rate, I think it will take a day or two for all of the EmuMovies content to update. It started about 12 hours ago, and it’s currently about 20% complete. Then again my internet isn’t the fastest either. Thank you for your help.

I followed the instructions from ETA Prime’s tutorial. It did use some type of MAME import wizard thru Launch Box, maybe I used the wrong one. I’ll double check.

Long time retro gaming enthusiast, first time Big Box user, first post. Just installed Launch Box/Big Box. I followed ETA Prime’s tutorial for importing a Mame rom set from. I didn’t find the same set used in the tutorial, I believe he used something like .211, I used .193. In the tutorial, there were something like 3.2k roms imported. When I imported .193, there’s something like 32k roms/files imported. It’s still in process, currently loading extra content from Emu Movies. My question is 32k sounds like an awful lot. Is that normal? I don’t think I want to sort through that many titles in Big Box, probably really only interested in 150 or so. Would I be better off starting over & getting the individual roms instead of trying to clean up 32k of them?