SentaiBrad

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.

There really isn't much. If they were working on an older version of MAME, then add both versions of MAME to LaunchBox and tell the problem games to use that version instead. MAME is very very finicky.

Ah, good to know. The ini with Desmume can change. It is a bit more annoying having to set up specific sets of emulators for a specific setting, i wish they allowed custom config loading or something like that but this works too in the end.

It is in english, but we do have tutorials on RetroArch, and specifically TurboGrafx 16 and CD. PC-FX is pretty much unplayable and all of the games are in Japanese with no English or otherwise translation patch. So you'll really have no luck there.

Well to really be able to do that would require developing the emulator further or coding part of the emulator or hooking in to it. The simple solution is config or command line arguments. You'd need to set it up per game outside of LB anyways, so setting it up inside of LB would be no different. It is the same logic that I use with RetroArch, except if Desmume has proper per-game command line argument handles (like screen orientation), or has custom config loading as well you can set these per game. Edit a game, and below the box where it shows the target rom is a command line parameters box. Here is where you can set up loading custom configs or loading specific settings through the command line. This is all predicated of course on one of these options existing. If they do, the fix can be very easy.

The license that you purchase only covers you and your use of LaunchBox. If you own two or three machines that you want LaunchBox on, feel free to copy your license to your machine's.

Neither am I, I generally don't have the need for AHK or other automatic solutions because I usually have my keyboard and mouse right in front of me. However, I am certain you can set it up to automatically run Alt + Enter, or get yourself in a situation where you can do a controller combination.

Yea sorry, it is in LB. There are forum posts on this and should be easy to find.

Yes, the program I said: AutoHotKey.

Try a different key combination? I have no clue why it's doing this, but Alt + F4 closes program windows too.

Well there really isn't a 1 size fits all solution, as you've probably already found out. Some emulators will allow you to remap controls and emulator functions to controller buttons, but most don't let you do combinations. Your best bet would be software that takes keyboard or mouse inputs and lets you assign a controller input to that instead. Xpadder is a popular one and I am unsure if Joy to Key is a good one, but I have seen it recommended.

Can we? I don't think so right now. Looking through the custom filters and arrange by lists that doesn't exist. Should we? Yea, that is actually a super good idea, especially to help maintain a database. You should totally put that as a BitBucket ticket.

Yea I meant Console. Is it named Super Nintendo (SNES), or just SNES? What ever you've named it try the import with Super Nintendo (SNES).

What system are you downloading?

There may be errors that we get right now that cab be attributed to the database still building it's self. Jason is still downloading data so if a bunch of errors are still coming in tomorrow then we know something is up, but for now there's no way to know if there is a bug or it is from data still downloading.

The reason I chose Yabause out of the two is not because either has good emulation, but because Yabause is easier to use. In RA there is a swap disc function, at least for PS1. I don't know if it exists or works for Saturn.

That's pretty much it besides that the links to the emulators and roms are correct and if it requires it that the path setting to the RA System folder is correct.

If a game wasn't found before on TGDB then we don't have it either. In the future we will be fixing this.

I knew you could re-map buttons, but that is exactly why I feel stupid.

I feel really bad about my stupidity. I had just looked at the re-mapping function the other day too. I am glad this works for you though. I should probably play around with BigBox more...

However, you can manually add Minecraft if you'd like. However you do choose to launch it you can always use the Add button in the bottom right corner of LB to literally add what ever you want. I still personally suggest the Curse Minecraft Launcher myself, but I don't know why I didn't mention this in my first post to you, I am sorry.

So I'll assume the default is the X button, however there is a specific play button aside from the select button, so yes indeed this exists. Closing the Bit Bucket ticket. Thank you @niglurion https://i.imgur.com/qAX4g4y.png