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I full on deleted the mame install from Launchbox and the emulator and loaded it all from scratch. Will double check the paths though.

When I try to launch any title from the front end, Mame just opens and closes real quick. But I can load the games straight from the emulator just fine. Updated the mame set and the emulator,

You can got into the "Images" & "Videos" folder of Launchbox and delete the folders for the respective systems and that would clear them out for you. As far as a button to do it all for you, don't think they have one that works for EVERYTHING, just one for an individual game at a time.

https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/6696/feature-request-for-mame-the-ability-to Basically it is for you to be able to setup multiple controller configurations in Launchbox for mame, for example: You can setup a button setup for 2 button games, for 3-4 button games, and for 5-6 button games. Then when you load up a game in Mame, depending on the button setup for that game, it will load up the appropriate configuration. So you don't have to make 1,000+ game specific configuration files. Thought about this jumping between Virtual Fighter 2, Tekken, and Street Fighter testing stuff out and having to redo controller settings for each one and thinking about all the other games I would have to do that for.

Nevermind, evidently, even though the PS5 controller can be detected by the operating system, many things will not outright use it without going out of their way to do it unless you use a steam app or DS4Windows..... Cemu just made sure to have built in support for it.

Got a Playstation 5 controller today for Cemu, Cemu uses it just fine minus a few glitches but Launchbox seems to hate it. It doesn't seem to detect it for much. After I launch a game or even seem to lose focus on it, it stops detecting it at all. I tried to bind the Playstation logo to exit a game but won't work either. Xbox 1 controllers work just fine though but motion for the Wii or Wii U games. Edit: PC detects the PS5 controller just fine too except for 1 button on it, it detects it as a generic controller

Worked, thank you very much

Will try again later when I get the chance, tried to type in the full name of "Commando" after deleting the ID, but it just kept pulling up that single one with no alternatives.

The game is Commandos, they have 2 games, one from 1985 and one from 1983. The metadata keeps wanting to pull the 1985 version no matter what I do, but the games database does have the right one, how do I get launchbox to pick the direct one?

Still setting up Launch/Big Box so haven't had a chance to really dig into it, but will definitely try this one out, looks really well done.

Stand corrected, it booted from the mame.exe with those directories without issue, but won't boot from Launchbox that way. Oh well, back to experimenting. Really hated to do it and will annoy me thinking about it, but I just put the CHDs in the same directory with the roms and copied the samples to the mame samples folder. But all I can do for now since it doesn't want to honor any changes I make when I go through launchbox.

Thank you for the help. I am one of those who are obsessed with being organized. So I wanted the Mame Executable with the Emulators directory while putting the games themselves in the games directory and separated by type. It also makes it easier for me to audit them later or find them if I forget exactly where I put them. I am also the guy who typically separated his roms into subfolders by letter and will still put a folder if there is only 1 rom going in it. 6 hours and it is still downloading media, glad I didn't stay up and wait.

I appreciate the help, I will try again tomorrow, just realized its almost 1am here. Going to bed and let this stuff run while I sleep and try tomorrow. Thank you very much for your time.

But my files aren't there. Emulator is at: Launchbox\Emulators\Mame 0.240\Mame.exe Roms are at Launchbox\Games\Mame\Roms \CHDs \Samples Wouldn't putting what you have make it look for them in subfolders of the mame emulator itself?

Making it come up 2 directories from the mame launcher to then go into the games\mame directory where the games are to launch them.

Because my mame launcher is in LaunchBox\Emulators\MAME 0.240\

Ah, so do rompath roms;..\..\Games\Mame\chds hashpath hash samplepath samples;..\..\Games\Mame\samples artpath artwork in the mame.ini?

When I said "It", I was referring to the mame executable. It works now, it went from saying it couldn't find the games to loading them (CHD's included) without issue. Not sure why it wouldn't detect them before with zero change, but it detects them now. So good enough so long as it sticks.

Ok, nevermind, it went from giving a missing rom error to actually loading the games. I retract (and delete) my previous statement. Using rompath roms;..\..\Games\Mame\roms And it didn't work till it did....

I understand I can probably just put the CHD files in the Roms folder and get them to work, but that still wouldn't solve the issue with the sample files.

Have my mame setup as: Launchbox\Games\Mame\Roms \CHDs \Samples Had Launchbox auto install and configure Mame .240 for me. Not sure how to edit the paths so it loads the CHDs and Samples when it loads the games. Do I put it relative to the emulator itself or relative to the roms launchbox will be launching for me. And if I put it relative to the emulator, I think I am doing it wrong.