darksoul

That is a really good idea and it works perfectly!. Below is a .bat file i wrote that will create a {folder}.zip file for every subfolder. If you create a text file and copy the code below into is and then rename it to buildZips.bat file. Then when you add games through mame-ao it will add the game in a sub folder. Simply rerun the buildZips.bat and it will create a matching .zip If you set that folder as a rom source in launchbox then it will automatically recognize the new game. It is exactly what i was hoping for buildZips.bat I might make a windows service to automate it, but as of now this works great.

Thanks a ton. the ability to integrate with mame-ao would be really awesome. Looks like you might be able to watch the roms directory and create games automatically based on the folders instead of .zips. I might take a crack at updating the arcade.xml file to handle that but i would be doing some reverse engineering.

I don't want to import all mame roms but it seems like the ones I want are the complicated ones (nfl blitz). I have struggled to get those games to work directly through launchbox/mame but they seem to get setup perfectly in mame-ao. I really like the way mame-ao allows me to easily search for and install specific games and the install always seems to work. I can launch them through the mame-ao interface or through the games section of MameAO\0274\Mame.exe. My question is if I can use the mame and games from the mame-ao setup through the launchbox interface. I have tried importing the MameAO\0274\roms folder with little success. One thing i noticed is that each game is a sub-folder in the MameAO\0274\roms folder. I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction in how to get it to work. P.S. Hopefully this is the right forum, feel free to delete this post if it is inappropriate