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Gotcha. I understand at a basic level, but am very intrigued on understanding it mode in depth, but certainly I don't ask for you to get into this. I can make the effort on researching and learning on my own. You gave me the basic understanding, and for that I'm very appreciative. Thank you. So, if I understand you correctly being I'm new, your suggestion is to get my games, and settings all working first by launching and testing my games in say RA. Once everything is working properly, then launch my games via LB?

I see. Thank you very much for taking the time to explain. You've been very helpful. The one area I just don't understand yet is how a program such as LB launches other programs. This concept is new to me, and not having a working knowledge of this concept doesn't help me considering I like to have an understanding how how the innards work.

I see. So in other words I could have told LaunchBox to look for the application(RA) from my desktop if I so choose?

I believe I understand somewhat. What is hard for me to understand though is this...I get the fact of needing, and adding emulators to use in LaunchBox. This I understand, but what I'm not grasping is how LaunchBox sees Retroarch, and is pulling the features out of that application? So, I'm guessing that in order to use an emulator in LaunchBox you "need" to create a folder called "emulators". So how does LaunchBox recognize Retroarch and all of its features/settings, and saved configurations all within this folder we create? I don't believe I'm over thinking this, I believe this is a valid question on understanding how the two programs work together. One other thing is being I am new to forums in general is that it amazes me how fast I got a response from someone. I didn't think I'd hear back for days. You mean to tell me there are people(like yourself) just at the ready to receive notifications to questions like mine?? It's incredible to me.

Hello neil9000, First off, I want to say thank you for taking the time to explain. I believe I understand, but let me recap just to be sure. I understand Retroarch is a "one-stop-shop" for emulators, so if I'm understanding this correctly, LaunchBox as a "front end" does not have this feature such as Retroarch, so in turn, embedding Retroarch inside LaunchBox utilizes the feature sets(emulators) from Retroarch somehow? Is that correct?

Good day to all, I am writing because I am struggling trying to understand something in LaunchBox. I am fairly new to emulation, and have used Retroarch before on Android, but I recently followed ETA Primes tutorial video on setting up LaunchBox on PC and in his video he created a folder called "emulators", and placed Retroarch inside this folder. Now, my understanding of Retroarch is that this is also another front end program, so what I am confused about is why would you place another front end program inside LaunchBox, and not just add emulators to said folder. I am not understanding why Retroarch is placed here in the first place. Any help would be greatly appreciated.