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fromlostdays said In this mess folder I made subfolders for each system I wanted to add. These subfolders match the system shortnames. Will MAME default to these locations? My problem was that inside the MAME 171 UI, there's an option to set Rompath, but not path to bios. So is folders named after the bios the default? Or do you have to manually set the path in the ini under this: "Core Search Path Options" I really appreciate the input. The BIOS would go in the Rompath just like in MAME, at least this is what I remember reading. I tried getting MESS set up previously too and it just didn't seem worth the hassle.

This is news to me, thank you!

RetroArch automatically knows that you have a 360 pad plugged in based on drivers. The PS4 controller is the same way too. If you need to select a different controller you can change that by going to the second tab in RetroArch, going down to Input, then down to Input User 1 Binds. In here is a line User 1 Device Index. That is the line you change when you need to change controllers or if the 360 pad gets un-selected. You can also do custom configs for each individual core where you can set custom controllers up for cores. If you need help with RetroArch more, I cover it extensively in our Tutorial series which you can get to by clicking the link in my signature.

DOS76 said I had it opening PS1 games that are .cue/.bin inside of the archive no problem. Right but @Drybonz is asking if it will work if you zipped a folder and not the two files. That I am unsure of, but it is a simple test.

... Jason I think we've got it easy.

Well sadly I am unsure if there is going to be anything Jason is going to be able to do to fix that one, it is a drivers issue more than likely because they've been having a lot of them recently. I am sorry this was happening, but now we at least know a culprit.

There have been a lot of issues related to the Xbox One controller driver's and games, LaunchBox and Emulators so I am not surprised. PS4 and Xbox 360 controllers are working just fine I believe. At least my PS4 controller is which the PC thinks (stupidly) that it's a 360 pad, but it's just how the drivers work.

I use Nvidia Experience and Java myself too, so those are less likely. I am also on Windows 10 with the latest Beta Drivers for my GTX 970.

Bedwyr said Ok, so tried beta 6 and had the same problem. Uninstalled and reverted back to 5.8 and discovered I have the same issue. This happened right after rebooting windows so I know it's not a parallel program like Kodi causing anything. Could be a memory resident program like controller companion or anydvd. Clarified steps to replicate: - Reboot Windows - Start BigBox - Start a game in BigBox - Close BigBox - Open LaunchBox - Select Options I tried a few different variants on the steps and I didn't get a lock up once.

I quite honestly would skip dealing with MESS and just deal with RetroArch, for the 1 or 2 systems that you may want to try though: http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/MESS

We're good now.

Yea, it's corrupted. Cmon Jason! ;)

If Esc doesn't exit out of the emulator (a generally accepted shortcut) then you can always try Ctrl + F4. This is a universal Windows command that will close any open program that has focus.

We still need the ScummVM overhaul anyways, but I'll see if Jason can't get it in the next release.

ScummVM is probably next on the list in terms of the systems we cover getting an overhaul. I wouldn't expect something in the next release unless there is a small bug that can get fixed in time, otherwise an overhaul will be down the line.

No LaunchBox isn't set up for this per se. You can have a manual attached to a game, put them in the proper folder with the right name, but there is no way to do how you asked except for the additional app's. We've also never had someone make a big update like that, so if you see any problems let us know, but if anyone else read's this, I wouldn't suggest it. The D-Fend importer was really broken which is why It was taken out and replaced with just a DOS importer.

So you're approaching this wrong, slightly. It is all emulator based, not an external system. So for the example of RetroArch you get that set up then when you load a core and a game you can edit Shader options in RA. Desmume and PPSSPP have them too for example but they also have scaling options mostly which is not necessarily the same as internal resolution scaling, but close. RetroArch does Internal Resolution scaling based on the core you have loaded, so the DS Core does this. Then there is shader's for various set up's based on the system you are emulating (the Pixellate shader doesn't work great with 3D games for example), and then there really isn't scaling options except for the resolution of the window. So if you are trying to get Shaders for SNES, etc, watch our Tutorial series on YouTube. The link is in my signature. Most tutorials deal with RetroArch but not at all do I talk about shaders, only some.

Because an Adventure game is not the same as an Action Adventure game. An adventure game would be something more like Monkey Island, and Action Adventure would be Uncharted. Point and Click Adventure is certainly more descriptive though, as is Text Adventure. There is also Puzzle Adventure like The Witness though too. So modifiers on the genre's can help, certainly it's not easy and is very complicated so I think GamesDB went for more simplified terms.

They're all valid and as time goes on and genre's get mixed and obscured it changes what we call older games too. There's no AP Style Writing guide for game names or genre's. We'll probably come up with something more concrete so there isn't 80 different genre fields and half of them mean the same, but it's all a matter of opinion so what we choose someone else might think it should be different.

Shades2585 said I would like to contribute as well. I have a few suggestions: I think it would be good to have suggested and supported emulators. This way your tool could recommend the suggested first. Since you have a Dos and Windows division I think you should remove the PC division or you could merge them and call it PC: MS-DOS, PC: Windows 3.1, etc. Yea, PC will be divided so that DOS isn't in PC. We've talked about that a lot actually. Also, LaunchBox already suggests emulators we recommend, but I do think that this needs to get modified and refreshed a bit. Not only are some newer emulators out and better, some systems don't have them and now need them, and also it's a bit strict in what it suggests so I think it needs revamping a bit.

im4potato said I am also interested in helping out with moderation of content. I contributed quite a bit to thegamesdb and I'd like to help out here as well. I love the website, definitely a lot more modern and clean than the thegamesdb. I'd also like to talk about the idea of submission guidelines and consistency, which has generally been lacking on similar sites. We'll address all of that when we are ready to start the testing.

It's a workaround for users who don't want multiple entries, it's not official it just works. Jason will figure out a way to handle everything everyone has questions for.

Bedwyr said Likewise. BB hangs after exiting the emulator (Retroarch) on the "loading game" screen. I'm going to revert to non-beta for the moment. Edit: Oh dear. And now LB hangs every time I select "Options" Edit edit: Rebooted and everything worked well the first couple of times I tried them. Then after loading a game from BB a third time the freeze repeated itself including the LB behavior. I'll uninstall LB and re-load only the stable version. You can try an XML backup first to see if that fixes the problem otherwise there should be an updates folder that you can use.. Install the second to last update to a new directory, copy over your images folder, LaunchBox XML and the Premium License XML. Should boot up normally after that.

Yea RA wants it very specifically. Glad you fixed it. Everything goes in that PPSSPP folder. I was going to say to watch our Tutorial for PPSSPP... but, you can watch the others if you have issues getting things to run.

Even at version 2 of LaunchBox when I downloaded it the very first time, I said screw this and went back to D-Fend, which is admittedly horrible.