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Interesting that you suggest to open Mame before launching BigBox. I have tried that with no success. one thing I neglected to add which was the issue is that my whole build is on an external hard drive (LB,Mame,…). I decided to move LB and Mame over to internal storage of my pc and I don’t have the issue. I was monitoring the activity of the external hard drive and noticed when I launched the first game I was at the drives limit, hence the slow start.

I notice others had issues with long times with mame launching but I have not noticed my issue in particular. The issue that I have is that after start-up of my system, BigBox loads, and select a game to play it takes long time to load the first game. I have no issues after this. It does not matter what game I try and the issue does not persist after the first game launches. This has been happening for me for both old and current versions of LaunchBox and Mame. Currently running LB 12.9 and Mame .240. Does not happenn when I run mame outside of LB/BB