SentaiBrad

Sorry, edited previous post, I read it way wrong. Anyways, just moving the LB install is just fine. When you ran the installer it should have asked for a location. I know I keep my LB install on a completely separate drive. Having LB installed in one location and the images / music in another location doesn't quite make sense? The way its chosen now is mostly for simplicity.

I am an idiot and read that completely wrong.

Don't worry about your language, I just misunderstood you, it's not your fault. That is a weird problem though. At the top of LaunchBox, Tools -> Refresh Images, does this work? Edit a game entry; What happens if you delete all the images and download them again? Try clicking the red X in the top right and re-link the game to TheGamesDB? If you imported some games in LaunchBox then started moving things around I would say move things around then start importing games and then look. This is the extent at which I can help you though so Jason, the developer, will have to help you in the morning.

The application is portable, but if you tell LaunchBox that the images are on C, then move the install the images change drives. Where ever you put LaunchBox, LB needs to know where the images are. If they are now over a network then the file path is no longer C:/, it is now the network path.

Ah, there is a vote up. There we go then.

In order to do it properly with GOG, we need a GOG API which doesn't exist. We had a Steam importer before we implemented Steam API and it was super buggy, this would probably be no different; and no, there is no poll for features right now.

You can already import GOG games through importing Windows games. Right now there is no easy way to import GOG games, there is no dedicated importer. Also what do you mean by non installed games? If you mean make a scan for uninstalled games, that wont come. How do you scan what you don't have? As far as manually adding them, you can do this. Bottom right there is an Add button, you can do it there. Its also there under Game -> Add, Ctrl + N works and if you right click in your library its at the bottom. If you have 1 or 2 GOG games you can also do the Add method and just manually point to it as well.

Damn.

You don't import or launch chd files usually. You use the parent rom the chd belongs to and the rom loads the chd.

Quite honestly, I don't use AHK, so Jason is gonna have to help you on this one. However, it is becoming more apparent that I need to make a tutorial on AHK. There are also several threads already in the forums that discuss AHK to extent.

I'm not sure, that will have to be an answer for Jason, I do know that its not come up much if at all. If users do use a controller to control LB its with a 360, PS3, PS4 or Xbox One controller which they also use in the emulators. I am unsure of how many people want to control LB with multiple controllers based on what they want to play honestly. It has never come up to me. I'll pass him along this thread though.

As far as the controllers go, it gets complicated when you have more than one. There is no easy way to do what you are suggesting. The closest I have to come to your setup is I have an N64 controller setup in RA and it loads its controller config when I launch any game using that core. Otherwise everything else in RA uses my PS4 controller which is everything but DS and PS2 at this point. I've had controller support disabled for LB for a while since it causes crackling audio for me.

Update and find out. You should always be updated anyways.

Because the names are not formatted properly. The other ones were just lucky. "mslug" is generic enough for LaunchBox to leave it blank. If the rom name was Metal Slug then it would find it during the first import. The first one is a bit more strict so that it doesn't pick wrong games. It still can, but the more loose it is the worse it will be. I am surprised a manual search found something based on "mslug".

When you go to Tools, Manage Emulator, are all of the path settings for the emulator you are trying to use correct? If its RetroArch, are your associated platforms correct? Do you have it using the correct core? When you Ctrl + A the set of games and you select Emulator you can change the emulator the games are using all at once. You can change any other settings that pops up, but in this case I want to make sure they're all set to use the right emulator.

Are your path settings correct under emulator? Also if you've been changing emulators or settings around, Ctrl + A will select all of the items under a platform. If you edit that it will open up Bulk Edit if you need to fix what emulator its using or any of the other settings.

X_X... I am just trying to make sure I make enough money to live... FML.

http://codecguide.com/download_kl.htm This link and website are perfectly fine. I've used them for years with not so much as a fear of malware from them. The Standard pack should work just fine. http://codecguide.com/download_k-lite_codec_pack_standard.htm Just click one of the mirrors. The way I keep my K-Lite updated, as well as most of my applications on my PC is by husing File Hippo App Manager. http://www.filehippo.com/download_app_manager That also makes things super easy, it never installs malware. Keep an eye on the downloads folder, it can get big pretty fast depending on what you're updating as it downloads everything to a folder. So just delete them after so long.

Disabling the Controller options in LaunchBox wont effect your Controller inside of emulators.

Also, try turning off the Image Cache and Controller Support in the options for LaunchBox. See if this potentially makes a difference.

That's odd... you don't have a giant library. You should certainly be at 10%-20%, if that. Does it ever drop back down? What is the CPU Usage like when you use a new XML? To test that open your LaunchBox folder, create a copy of LaunchBox.xml then delete it after the copy is made. Open LB again and this can test it fresh. If you want to go back to your other XML with all your games you can just rename the copy you made back to LaunchBox.xml. Otherwise I will pass this thread on to Jason to see if he can come up with anything.

If you are going to use RetroArch we have a video on our YouTube channel that explains setting it up and it goes over a lot of stuff. I am currently in the process of expanding the tutorials on there. One is posting today about Updating RA for example. PS1 and PS2 are next. Some LaunchBox specific ones are also coming. www.youtube.com/UnbrokenSoftwareLLC In the RA folder there is a System folder. You tell RA to look there and the cores will load the BIOS as needed. In other emulators, you generally tell the emulator what BIOS to use, so technically they can be anywhere you want them to be, but I keep them either in the emulator folder or in a folder with the emulator called BIOS. Personally I have it set up that on one of my large externals I have an Emulator folder. In there I have folders for each system. In those folders are Emulators and rom folders. You can set it up how ever you want, but that is what I do. Also, Emulators them selves are not illegal. BIOS however are, unless you rip them your self for personal use, and even that is a very grey area. They're developed by the manufactures of the consoles or a tech company was contracted to create them. They were then imaged or "ripped" from the console. Since these are mostly dead consoles, its not that big of a deal but its still technically illegal. So to make sure we cover our asses here we just don't link out to them. When the PS3 was being cracked in to it was a fairly big deal because that was a console that was being sold, was having games developed for it. The guy who developed this stuff got sued hard because he distributed encrypted information. That and a few iPhone cases are now why I can tell you modding your console is not illegal. It is actually deemed legal. Geo, the guy who cracked the PS3, only had charges stick for distributed the encrypted stuff but not for the act of doing it ironically. You bought the hardware and you can do what you want. You might violate your warranty... but that's something different. I have a Softmodded PSP and Wii. Working on PS2, OG Xbox and Dreamcast next. What you do after can be illegal.

BIOS are what make certain emulators work. As a fore warning too, do not post a link to them in the forums. They are 100% illegal to distribute (unless someone reverse engineered and open sourced some BIOS... which I don't think has happened.). Since you are new to them I just wanna point that out. As for PS2, PCSX2, there should be a lot of BIOS for the system. There are Japanese, European and N. American BIOS based on the different regioned consoles. Some can be beneficial in some cases, but for the most part I've only ever used the latest American BIOS with a date of 2006. Unrar the pack of them in your BIOS folder under PCSX2. Go in to your plugin / bios setting menu and select a N. American BIOS. They should be labeled Japanese, Euro, N. American + a version number. As for Dreamcast, the emulators are so wildly bad I've mostly avoided them for so long. It's why I bought my real Dreamcast. There might be BIOS for each region, but there might just be one you need out there. It depends if Sega ever developed regional BIOS. I don't think they did... Anyways, in the Dreamcast emulator settings you just select the BIOS similar to how you did in PCSX2 but it will look different obviously. If you are using RetroArch, the BIOS to the systems will go in your System folder. Under path settings you will tell RA to look in your system folder so it knows where they are, or it will crash. The BIOS also need to be named something very specific. This has been covered on the forums a bunch before and I will be making videos for the LaunchBox YouTube channel regarding this in the future.

44khz wont make a difference. If you got your video from YouTube this is just the setting they choose to use. There is virtually no difference between the two. I do this for a living and I've put one of my one video's in there before. 720p, 8k bit rate, 320kbps at 48khz, 30FPS in an mp4 container and they work. My only suggestion is to run K-Lite Codec Pack if you haven't before. You shouldn't need to change any settings unless you want to change the default media player, which is fine. If any error messages come up, let K-Lite take care of them.

They're not competitors per se, but the features they've been adding recently seems to suggest they donlt want any Front End's help. They've been bolstering their UI and adding front end like features, like a game library. Granted, that is LaunchBox's only job to do is be a front end so I kind of think LB does it better. Who knows in time they may be more full featured. I don't have any evidence to back up and say for sure they don't like LB, it would just be my guess.