SentaiBrad

I've worked with Macros before, and that is essentially all this is just done automatically. If "Send {Alt}{Enter}" doesn't work then try "Send {RAlt Down}{Enter}". The website states that you need to also close out {RAlt Down} with {RAlt Up}, so you may need to include that. I don't have AHK set up to test.

Ah, I missed that on the site. ! might represent a general Alt, does {RAlt} change the result?

Oh no, I don't use AHK, I just know that it should work. Looking at the AHK website though you're missing a button press. Try: Send {Alt}{Enter}

So the same thing we can already do but without the pre-generated script? We should probably do that, but this is the solution I stated to do, use AHK and LB.

Now I'm depressed... I just watched it. I also did a story on Warren too...... sob.

I will say this, we don't have a Kinsey (I spelt her name wrong)

I already saw, I watch him too. It's totally fine that he's got a show similar in name and style, yea. xD Really though it is fine, it's not like he stole that from us. I was also probably not the first person to come up with this show type. This is the internet and YouTube. He's got way more subscribers then the LaunchBox Channel and my channel combined... so I am a bit jealous of that.

No problem, I'm glad the video's are helpful!

I looked in the Options menu... I don't know what the hell I am thinking sometimes. X_X

Huh... mine is autoplaying. I checked through a bunch of the settings to see if I could find an auto-play check box and I didn't find anything. So the video works in LaunchBox, but only after you right click -> play it?

So if you need help with a specific system, we have tutorials on our YouTube channel which you can get to by clicking the link in my signature. When you import games (Tools -> Rom Import) select "Add Files". Navigate to your PS1 games folder. In that root folder at the top right where it says Windows Search type "*.cue" with the quotations. It will search for anything in that folder and any subfolders that ends with .cue. This isn't a workaround, it's left open like this so that it can be as powerful as users need it.

We have had known issues with Kaspersky in the past. Does it work now?

No it is best for permissions reasons to not have LaunchBox installed in your Program Files. Preferably a second hard drive, but it's not required. A potential problem is either your firewall or antivirus is blocking LaunchBox from being able to make outbound connections.

I would say to keep all roms where they are at during the import process but especially MAME Rom's. Everything need's to stay together as Derek said.

Audio and video is using basic Windows functions to be able to ensure most users can run it. To help make sure everything is good though download the K-Lite Codec Pack from http://www.codecguide.com/download_k-lite_codec_pack_standard.htm If it gives you any pop-ups saying it wants to fix something, click Yes. Run this, you might need to restart your PC or LB and see if that fixes it. CriticalCid also created a tutorial on how to update MAME roms: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/emulation/best-practice-for-keeping-mame-roms-up-to-date/page-2#p11536 Give that a read and grab the software. I just did it this morning after getting 400GB of MAME Rom's. I know a lot about Emulation and LaunchBox, it's my job, but I can't dedicate my time every day to something so it is really awesome when someone like Cid, who already did all this, shares with us.

The simplest thing I can tell you is to edit the Series Field how you want it. We're currently not set up for most games to draw a series name. Some do, most don't. You can do them 1 by 1 or use the bulk edit wizard. Ctrl + A will highlight all games in a selected view or Ctrl + Clicking will highlight the ones you want and click on. Once they're highlighted, right click one and choose Edit. From the drop down menu choose Series.

Yes, that should work too.

If you did your download yesterday that is certainly possible.

And LaunchBox recognizes the images based on the rom name? If that's the case that will save tons of time and is really handy to know.

CriticalCid said Unfortunately there isn’t Artwork avaible for every MAME game. But the most complete set in case of MAME artwork should be probably the Progetto packages. You can find them here: http://www.progettosnaps.net/flyers/ Since MAME requires mandatory filenames you only have to move the flyers from Progetto into your folder for the MAME front covers. Then open Launchbox -> Tools -> Refresh All Images and you should have most of the MAME covers. Are they named after the rom's or game names?

If that's the case, you could gave potentially hit the EmuMovies 1GB a day transfer limit. Either go there and make posts with your account (20+ gets you more per day, and 50+ gets you that much more), or donate to lift it as well. An alternative is to wait a day or wait a few hours to see if it was a bug too. To re-scan a library of games, have the system you want to re-scan selected on the left. Ctrl + A to highlight all of the games. Then go to Tools -> Download Images and Metadata. This will re-run the scraping wizard for you. Just make sure to select to only download metadata for games that are missing metadata. This way it will only download what you need and not everything all over again.

So none of the sources we use are perfect, and I am fairly sure in saying EmuMovies isn't close either. We are working on adding in two more major scrapers in the future, MobyGames and GiantBomb, which will hopefully help cover european releases, japanese releases, DOS systems and MAME systems a lot more. Some of the more obscure platforms may not have any good solution ever. If you have an EmuMovies Premium account I believe there are more resources available to you, but I still don't think that covers every MAME game. There is a website or two that have good MAME Metadata, but we are unsure if we can utilize them. So in the future if there is a website that will allow us to use their data and has an API we'd be all over that, but for now what you see is what you get. As for supplanting your own images. Go to your LaunchBox root folder, here is your images folder. Inside that it sorted by System, then inside a system it is sorted by type of image. You can manually supply your images here as long as the name follows the naming convention. You can see images in here should be named the same name as the game. It may work if some images have ( ) or [ ] as these are ignored in LaunchBox. So if you have or find an images pack and the names match the names in LaunchBox, putting them inside should work just fine. Put the images in and restart LB. I am unsure if they can be named after the rom... it might be just the name in LB, but I don't know, I haven't tested that.

No problem! I am sorry if it quite wasn't the answer you were hoping for, but I want to help get everyone able to play their games.

There have been lots of threads about this sort of thing. My joke about MESS is that it is an absolute MESS. It requires very specific BIOS, just like MAME, very specifically placed and it is just outright a mess. The RetroArch core for MESS doesn't really work either. This is coming from someone who knows emulation and LaunchBox extremely well, and doesn't want to bother anymore. At one point I spent like 5 hours trying to figure it out for several days. I wasted like 20 hours on it. My suggestion is to avoid it as much as possible. RetroArch is a fantastic emulator with a few dozen emulators. There are a few cores we suggest not to use and use the standalone emulator, like PPSSPP and Desmume, but otherwise it is fantastic. If you are interested in RetroArch and want help with it, our YouTube channel as Tutorials that I created, and quite a few of them are based around RetroArch. Click the link in my signature.

I didn't even think about that! This is why I asked Jason to come and read this thread. Could be Anti Virus, Firewall or a permissions problem.