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Strange behavior - every time I launch a game (not start actual game play but rather just selecting a game which starts the ROM image) it pauses about 5-10 in. I can easily unpause by hitting the spacebar... but it's a bit annoying and it's probably something stupid I did somewhere. I tried looking for some kind of scripting function that's running each time I play a game, but I can't find such a control. When I tried searching for "pause every game start" I'm only seeing results for ~ screens locking up (e.g. it has to be killed by Task Manager). Any suggestions on where to look/how to triage? Thanks

Hi. I'm setting things up for the first time. Starting with MAME itself I've managed to get to the point where I downloaded 0.244 and some ROMs and corresponding TITLE.zip and snap.zip files. Based upon that I can get the games running in MAME, and when browsing the list in the kludgy mame interface I see images on the right side of the screen (presumable from either the title or snap files (?)). Moving to Launchbox 13, when I did the import I unchecked having LB download images since I assumed that they'd be in the title.zip or snap.zip files. What happens now is I can launch LB and run the games... but when browsing the games the ~ game grid only shows basic squares with the name of the games in generic font (i.e no artwork whatsoever). When I single click any one game and get the details on the right I DO see images there --> maybe from my having done Tools | Image PAcks | Import, and pointed the ~ wizard to Mame's title and snap subdirectories? So at this point I still don't have the artwork showing when looking at the games list (and I do have it set to "Images View" and not "List View". I have learned about using Tools | Manage | Platforms to get to where I can edit default directories for things like Box Front, Box Back, etc.... but want to see what's the [best] next step to get the graphics showing in the main game grid. 1) By default, which images does LB normally use to populate the grid - "Box Front" or some other media type? 2) If I have snap and title files, is that supposed to [normally] have whatever artwork is used for #1? 3) At this point should I just reimport the ROMs and leave the ~ "have LB download art" checked? If so then what's the point of/different from the title and snap images that I already downloaded? Thanks so much in advance!