[Cannot get LB to launch Intellivision or SuperGrafx]

As far as I know PC-FX only has Japanese games. 

[Created loads of C64 clear logos]

Ok, I've uploaded them.

 

[C64 clear logos]

Here are 488 clear C64 logos that are missing in the database. Keep in mind that I created them and I'm by far a Photoshop wizard. Some are quite basic.  

C64 Clear Logos.zip

[Overwriting existing LB install]

After fiddling around this whole afternoon, I managed to put it under the E:\Launchbox folder, but had quite some work to do. I edited all of the xml files, every single one of them to alter games, images, video, music, manual paths and in the end it got everything to work properly.

Updates are indeed much easier to do this way, no need to manually copy everything over. Just encountered some problems with FS-UAE, as you can add the new correct folder and remove the old one, but you need to rescan the directories, otherwise it keeps the old paths. 

[Retro Controllers (looking for advice on purchases)]

8bitdo

[Sync backup disk]

I'm using Vice Versa Pro since over 15 years now, absolutely love it, although it's not free. I tried many free ones during that time, didn't find anything to my taste, so I stick with it. 

I also do my backups manually, just to be on the safer side, I don't want anything to sync/mirror if I don't have the control. 

[Overwriting existing LB install]

Or does the path  <ApplicationPath>..\Games\ also work if my stuff is under E:\Launchbox\Games? 

As at the moment it's under E:\Games

[Created loads of C64 clear logos]

I finally finished my C64 section in LB, took months as I was going through every single game of the TOSEC. As there were many clear logos missing from the database, I created several myself, 488 in total.

I would like to share them with people who are interested, but I'm not going to upload them into the LB database, as I had enough work with all this now. Perhaps somebody would like to do that, or some admin knows how to bulk upload them. 

Let me know what you would like me to do. 

[Overwriting existing LB install]

I know, but I would also have to rename all my different paths.

[Overwriting existing LB install]

But can I safely copy it over into my root without overwriting important files? 

[Overwriting existing LB install]

I do a manual install, as an automatic doesn't work, it just saves me the new LB.exe into the updates folder and I have to run it myself.

When I run it, and point it to E:\, it will automatically create a folder on E:\ called LaunchBox. There's no LaunchBox folder existing as LB is installed inside the root of E:

[Overwriting existing LB install]

So as it is I have my LB install on external, E:\Launchbox. When I install a new version, it installs it in the E:\ root but under a new folder called Launchbox. What I then do every time, is moving stuff from that folder to the actual folder, but always paying attention not to overwrite older stuff, which is then a lot of work. I was always concerned that I would otherwise overwrite some settings or xml files.

My question now, is that the case or not? What does it overwrite exactly if I just move the whole folder as it is? Don't want to mess up obviously. 

[MAMEUI gone?]

Strange enough, that one didn't come up when I searched, but I didn't use "prior", just old or previous releases. Anyhow, I will stick to the no nag version, long time I completely forgot about that, and it's much nicer when launching a game and getting directly into the game, instead of clicking away several windows, especially in BB. Thanks for the post. 

[MAMEUI gone?]

EDIT: Actually I found a no nag version of 0.210, that one works fine. Topic can be closed or deleted. Thanks.

[MAMEUI gone?]

I can't seem to find older mameui64 version, I need 0.210, tested my ROMs now with 0.223 but I get a LUA:error:41, "entries" field. Apparently that happens when trying using a newer release with an older set. Games run fine after you click away the pop up window though. 

Unfortunately I don't have a 0.210 version anywhere, and I googled like crazy, don't find one. On the official site there are only non UI versions available. 

[Converting to new computer, possible to bulk edit paths?]

Edit your xml files.

[Illegal characters in path]

I was adding letter S to C64, and with one game it get this illegal characters in path error. It's Split Second.d64

I tried different ROMs, different names, different paths. Every time the same error. Tried importing any other game, that worked.

I can keep the game in my list, that works, but editing, f.ex. adding pictures doesn't work as it gives me the same error, cannot save the picture as there's illegal characters in path.

[Anyone used Skraper?]

I wanted to upload logos, but the minimum size required is 600x600, mine are not. 

[Anyone used Skraper?]

Yeah, I donated 10€, and with that, I now got 6 threads for scraping instead of only one, is much faster. 

[Anyone used Skraper?]

I just used it 2 days ago for around 15 systems, and it worked fine. Mainly used it to scrape images for my RG350M and the SimpleMenu frontend, you can chose the images you want, I use the user defined 3 in 1 images, they look quite nice, plus they get resized to the correct size for the RG350M screen. 

[Import 2 roms and get 3 roms in games folder?]

Either when importing you chose the option "combine games of the same name", then it will only give you one entry and by right clicking you can chose to run the version you want. 

Or once in LB, if you have all 3 of them displayed, select them, richt click, and chose "combine selected games".

[Swapping Game File Without Losing Associated Media]

LB will keep your media. 

[How to maintain a full set of MAME ROMs?]

I meant that in the update it always said which ROMs were updated and which were set to from non-working to working, so from the new "complete" set, just copy it over to your MAME folder, as the name usually stays the same. For the newest added ones, you have to import them obviously, if not already existing in your set. 

Sorry if I explained that wrong. 

[How to maintain a full set of MAME ROMs?]

Indeed ?

[How to maintain a full set of MAME ROMs?]

Or do like me, OCD here too. So I once went through a whole set, was actually v210, and played every single game there is. I only kept the games that I actually like, or the ones that are more "famous", left me with around 1.300 games. A lot of work, but definitely worth it, plus you can play ALL the games at least once. 

Now I only have to look out for the MAME update sets and see what has changed or has been added since the last set. Very easy. Just copy it to your existing folder, and add it to LB. Done.