Corgan

I have not fixed the problem, but the good news is that it does NOT appear to be a LB problem. It appears to only be a problem with WIRELESS controllers on my PC. Luckily I had some wired controllers to test and those work fine within LB and within my emulators. The strange thing is that it was wireless controllers that I have been using recently to play, so I'm still not sure what changed with those. But I'll refrain from posting about this again on this thread unless it turns out to be LB related. Edit: well my wireless controllers work fine in every game/application except for BB and the emulators. Edit 2: my theory is that controller inputs are being registered both as controller inputs and keyboard strokes which explains the erratic behavior within BB/emulators that seem to be doing two things with one button press. Edit 3: I think I've resolved it. The culprit was the Steam client controller configuration for default Desktop Layout. I don't know what changed but Steam was registering "desktop mode" button hits when I was using my controller within LB/BB/emulators. I don't know why it only affected wireless Xbox controllers, but oh well. So as an example to help anyone else, the 'B' button on my Xbox controller is mapped to "Spacebar" in the Steam Desktop Layout. And "spacebar" is mapped to Fast Forward in the Retroarch emulator. So hitting 'B' would cause the normal in-game action as well as set the emulator into FF mode.

That's what I'm trying to figure out. But I know this: yesterday it worked fine and today it doesn't after the upgrade and the controller is not working well WITHIN the Bigbox interface. So I've not ruled out the LB upgrade yet. Seems awfully coincidental.

This update messed up my ability to play with controllers. Inside games the buttons are all jacked up. Hitting the Start button now takes my N64 games out of fullscreen. Hitting the 'A' button now make my NES games fast-forward! Simply trying to scroll up and down in BigBox now scrolls so fast even when I'm simply pressing the down/up on the D-pad for an instant. What happened? How do I fix this? I don't know why I do this to myself. I should never install an update, rookie mistake.

So I ended up going ahead with my idea yesterday before I saw your post, but I think I made the right choice. Everything was successful and I've not had any problems. Basically my steps were: Copy the new set into a folder at the same folder level as the previous set (helpful to include the version number - 0.251 - in the folder name) In LB use the "MAME Full Set Importer" tool and point it at the new folder. Tell LB to update your existing MAME emulator (to keep settings I assume) and it will download and install the correct emulator version. I downloaded my assets after the fact and I ended up with a lot of duplicate assets but using the cleanup tool has mostly solved that. The result is: all playlists appear to be intact. I was using LB's built in "Favorites" flag to build my Favorites playlist and that transferred just fine. All other auto-playlists (genre, etc.) are still there and include the additional games I added in this set (previously I did not have a full set). I did not end up with any duplicate games, so LB was smart enough to recognize that by itself.

Hi, I want to update my MAME Set to a much newer version. Do I simply re-run the Full Set Importer, point LB to the new ROMs, and LB will reference the new ROMs and use the newer version of MAME? What happens to the old ROMs within LB? Will any of my custom playlists (i.e. Favorites) be affected? If I mess this up will the LB backup restore even this kind of step?

Perfect, the playlist idea will work just fine. Thank you. But that's interesting, I hadn't heard of other versions of LaunchBox with a badges feature... I'm on 10.15. Is it newer or older versions that have "badges"? edit: nevermind, I found the badges feature! cool

Noob question: Ok, I've marked a handful of games as broken. Now, how do I see a list of these games so I can attempt to address the issues?

I don't see the ability to hide BIOS ROMS in the import wizard. I'm referring to the ROM Import wizard, are you talking about the MAME Full Set import wizard? I'm afraid to run that again and mess up any thing that's already working (especially my favorites playlist).

That's exactly what I'm seeing in the UI. Was wondering about that too. Thanks!

I am not using the same version of mame, I am using the latest (v.221). Thank you, I'll try using the 0.193 version. As far as the rom set, I could only find merged versions of 0.221...

I downloaded a set of "non-merged" v0.193 (latest I could find). I specifically sought out non-merged because I was under the impression that each game zip file contained all of the files needed to run that game. However, I didn't want a library of thousands of games so I carefully narrowed the list down to about 1000. Everything works fine except for a few games that I've noticed so far. For example X-men 4 player (rom "xmen") doesn't work. Mame gives me an error saying it's missing three files: 065-eba04.10d 065-eba05.10f xmen_eba.nv Doing some searching online I found that those files are found in the "xmene" zip file. I checked and indeed those files are in there. So I copied that zip file into my library folder and tried again in Mame and it gives me the same error. I don't understand anymore. Why aren't those files included in the "xmen" zip file? Why doesn't putting the "xmene" file into the library fix the issue? I'm using X-men as an example, but I'd like to find a solution for all games with a similar issue. Is there anyway to have Mame or Launchbox give me a list of all broken games?

Aww man, too bad this isn't supported yet. I'm migrating from GameEx which does support spinner/trackball scrolling and it is so useful. You can really rip past games and quickly hone in on the one you want with precision. That will probably be the feature I miss the most.