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Ohh that’s what attract mode is for !!! I wasn’t sure what that was and I was about to turn it on to see what it does. Thank you for that information. I will check it out when I get home

Ok I only have few weeks messing with launchbox and bigbox, mostly trying to get my roms collection and emulators working. But I have a curiosity. When I start bigbox it start on my platforms views or what ever I choose. I like the platform views because of the video of the games playing in the background. I want to know if there is a way to make bigbox change platforms randomly and automatically when you leave bigbox open on the platforms screen views for let say 5 minutes sort of like a screensaver. if you are not using or moving any key or buttons on you arcade bigbox will start to play randomly video from different emulators every few seconds or what ever time the user decide? I am using the default theme

Thanks you so much. I appreciate your help

Hello everybody I'm still new to LaunchBox/BigBox. For the most part I being able to get Launchbox running. I am still in the process of adding Emulators and games but I am having a little problem. I being adding individuals files rom but today I decided to just add folder which contain hundreds and even thousand files. The problem is I don't want all those games, also a lots of them doesn't have 3d images and I want to delete them all. So the way I being doing it is selecting all the games I dont want, right clicking and deleting them. The problem is when I go to the folder the roms files still there, Launchbox does not delete the actual file. Is there a way that when you delete the game from launchbox it also get delete from the folder? I now Plex Media when you delete a movie it also delete the file from the folder. I do't want to have thousands file in my computer if I don't need them. Also what happen with all the images/videos and media that launchbox download when you do the scraped ? do they all get delete when you delete a game?

Thank you very much I was downloading every theme and trying them all but couldn’t figure out witch one was it ? thanks again

Does anybody know what theme is Joshua using in his cocktail head to head machine? IMG_2658.MOV

Did you get you cocktail setup yet? I’m interested in finding a build foe cocktail so far I had found nothing about cocktail machine using launchbox/bigbox

Wow look very interesting I will play with it once I get back home. I came to visit my family in NYC will be here for almost two weeks

I notes that running some roms on Naomi it look like more like the real arcade machine I dont know if its just me but but running a retropie setup while playing Naomi it give a feeling like you are playing the real arcade, the graphic look kind of better too. Maybe its a retropie thing. But games like super street fighter iii 3rd strike it look good on CPs3. If you can find that link let me know

@Retro808 @Psynaptik @neil9000 I am no new when it come to MAME and yes mame is intend to work fine as long as you put the correct files where there suppose to be or you tell mame where does files are. I started using mame probable in the early 2000 if not on the 90th's. I'm new to Launchbox. I understand everyone point of view and I don't want you guys to argue about it. Maybe we are taking thing the wrong way but we are all gamers and love to keep the retro community alive. I cannot remember exactly on witch version I started using mame but I remember I had used AdvMame, MameUi, Mameuifx and just mame. It being so long that I don't quiet remember the difference between them. I has being so long I think the last time I used it was on my Ipad or Iphone 3gs mame4all and mameios, I know more or less how mame work but finding romset for your version is what got me stuck. I am not planning to have tons and tons of game maybe 50 or less per emulator. but I want to set up my lunch box with a nice look just like the video I posted on my first post. I have a 12in1 cocktail arcade1up and I want at least to have every rom I add to work. I think I am missing few more game on mame then I want to move on to another emulator like CPS1, CPs2, CPS3, Naomi and few retro console. I appreciate every one who is helping me and giving me advice on mame. I do read and try what you guys are telling me to do.

I have to agree with you and disagree at the same time. Yes mame it make to do what it was made for. It shouldn’t be a pain to use it and make it work. The problem start when people started splitting romsets to save space and add more games to their collention which is fine. But with every mame new updates the romset has change and also the files stopped matching. Now days you have hundres of site carrying different romset and for you to find the right one its a pain. Like I say I am currently running mame .225 but I found a site that carry .226 roms, so I downloaded mame .226 and tried few roms from that site and none of then worked. They all need parent romset and CHDs files. in conclusion I hope I can get everything sort out.

I dont thing adding the files a romset need to make it stand along its a bad Idea as long as the sumecheck match. I did about about 7 and they are all working fine. I understand what you’re saying about getting non merged romset but believe me I tried that and non of them work. They may be for a different version of mame but non of the files I got worked for me. Also I am just planning to add games that I knownI could play one day. Probably no more than 200 games. Mostly fighting game may few sports games and adventures. I want to ad Naomi but want to check which fame I really want from Naomi.

Yes mame is a pain and I even downloaded.0226 but even the romset I found foe .0226 doesnt work. They are missing other files and CHDs. I understand what you’re saying about using romset and keeping them together to save space but doing so if by any chance you separate any rom zip file you will be screwing a hole romset. So I’m just adding what ever file that rom need into it own zip and worry free. Even if they are in the same directory I don have to worry about moving them out. I also being adding the qsound file into the game rom zip. I know it is going to take more room in my computer but I’m not planning to have over 5k games or so. But I want to keep my collection clean every rom working. About RetroArch I love it but I still need to figure out lots of thing on it.

Yes that is the best thing to do. I wish I had got your replied earlier hahah I already figured out that way is much better and effective. But I need to map my control I have not done that yet. Also I’m not sure if I want to use RetroArch to run most of my emulator. So far RetroArch its only running my neogeo emulator. I have mame64 running my mame roms. Now I want to add cps1, cps2 and cps3 but I remember having some issues with cps3. When I first started I added few emulator and roms but was having so much trouble that I wiped out everything, platforms and emulators and started doing one at the time. What are your recommendations about using RetroArch to run my emulators or should I use other emulator? The problem I seem is that I can find a way to do cocktail mode on RetroArch

Thank you foe your replied. I had don’t all that but running into so many trouble. Inhad posted few videos about some of the problems I’m having. I got neogeo working but was a pain to get all roms to work since final burn alpha was crashing my RetroArch emulator on opening. I kind of sorted it out but n64 using murpen or parallels n64 still crashing. Also I need to figure out how to do cocktail view. I need to find a good working emulator for sega genesis, and some other console. I am trying to donit one at a time because when I just add a console and a hole bunches of rom half of them don’t work on that emulotor and I will be wasting space in my hard drive. Last night I spent about 5 hours just fixing mame roms and neogeo. That include adding missing files to romset etc so now every roms work independently from another. I dont need the parent rom to run another rom. I wish they was an easy way to just find the rom for your emulator version but that was another extra hours searching for them and making it compatible or stand alone rom

I appreciate your help and I will be trying your recommendations later when I get home. As per the cores, if FBNeo is the newest core what roms version does it run? Can you tell me what rom version you are have?

Thank you for your quick reply. I will try removing the quote. Also will uncheck the two boxes you mentioned first. If I uncheck the boxes in the the Emulator window isn’t that check to tell Launchbox to use that core for the specific Emulator ? I will try that as well. But check the video because the big problem is RetroArch crashing. By the way FBneo will load the games but I get black screen when I use that core. I believe FBNeo may be an old core foe old roms. Not sure about this tho.

Hello everybody I’m new to the forum. I recently downloaded and purchased Launchbox/Bigbox I was using a retropie but want something better for my arcade1up. I installed RetroArch following few tutorial I have seeing on youtube from ETA PRIME and Unbroken Software. To make the story short RetroArch keep on crashing when trying to load Final burn Alpha 2012 or 2012 Neo Geo. Please look at the video on the link Click here to see my video on YouTube

Hello I pretty new to LaunchBox. Just got it install it. I have done nothing to it. No emulator, no roms. Nothing yet. I am trying to get Bigbox running on a 12on1 cocktail machine and I'm looking for help since I cannot figure it out. I seen video on youtube of people running it on the same machine I have not clue how they did it. Sorry for my lack of knowledge with launchbox I will like to set it up just like this one