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Maybe "significant" is too strong a word, but it annoys me when stuff at the edge of the screen is covered (like "life bars" way up at the top edge, etc.). I didn't realize you could just shrink the screen size, that worked perfectly for me. Thanks for the advice!

I've been enjoying MAME bezels for the first time ever, since LaunchBox makes it so easy. The only thing I'm not too keen on: the bezels cover up the corners of the screen, in some cases a significant amount. Is there any way to configure MAME so that the video output is on top of the bezel, instead of the other way around? (so that the emulator output would cut off the bezel, instead of the bezel cutting off the game screen)

I somehow stumbled on this old topic because I was just searching around to learn the proper pronunciation of RetroArch. I've always said "arch" like in "starch", because it's at the end of the word. The "ark" pronunciation is only when "arch" is used as a prefix in any example I could come up with... Turns out there's an old interview where the creators of RetroArch say they got the name from Arch Linux, so it's definitely "arch" as in "starch". 😁

OMG. I'm glad my obsession never really extended beyond cartridge based systems. This should be in a museum 🤣

It's rather typical since the advent of SSDs to see smaller drives (the trade-off being much better speed). If you can justify the extra cost for yourself, an external SSD would be super fast, particularly for the kind of data generated by LaunchBox (thousands of small image files, sound files, etc. can be harder on a drive in some ways than one giant file). Check out the Crucial X8 series for what might be the best price/performance ratio (at the time of this post of course!).

Not sure if this is your issue, but try to hit CTRL+E (or right-click -> Edit Metadata) when you have one of your psx games selected, and then click "Launching" on the left side. Under ROM File, make sure it has the .cue file in the box and not the .bin file. I had this issue with a different platform so I thought it was worth suggesting.

"I do not have many ROMs" is subjective 😉, but for your scenario it sounds like you should just leave them on the external. I think it mostly depends on the systems you're into. If your favorite systems are NES and Gameboy, you could easily store a complete collection on a very small internal drive. The point of LaunchBox is to build a beautiful looking library, so if you don't keep the external drive plugged in, it will be a library of dead links. Another option you might want to consider is installing LaunchBox itself to the external drive, and just make that your "gaming drive" and only play while it's plugged in. e.g. if your external is drive E- you'd just run E:\LaunchBox\Launchbox.exe and put all your games in E:\LaunchBox\Games Everything would be clean and contained in the LaunchBox folder.

Great, thanks!

I went down the LaunchBox rabbit hole during some holiday time off. I was so impressed by the amount of information in the database, the art downloads, etc. that I bought a premium license just to support the project for the content I received with the free version alone. I designed my setup to be self-contained in one LaunchBox folder on a portable SSD. My question: would it violate the terms of the premium license to bring my portable drive to a friend's house and play games on their PC (without giving a copy to them). Thanks!