SentaiBrad

RetroArch is daunting at first, but easy once you get the hang of it. The BIOS need to go in to your system folder, and you need to tell RetroArch where your system folder is in the Path Settings. In the latest RA go to your Settings Tab (second from the left) and go down near the bottom to Directory. In there the first line should say System/BIOS directory, change that to your system folder. Once that is done the BIOS need to be named something specific for every console that requires them, and in the PS1 case there are 3 1000 serie BIOS that get renamed to the 5000 series. It's just a name change though, this part confused me for a while. I found 2 of the 3 BIOS and no one said anything about renaming it. I renamed a 1000 series BIOS to 5501. I dont remember which 1k BIOS though. http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Using_RetroArch#BIOS This site helps a lot with Emulation in general, hence the name. Right below it talks about CUE sheets but the way I did it was... different. A lot of games have CUE sheets with them, and as long as they do just open it up in Notepad++ and make sure the name is correct to the name of the image wether it be an ISO or BIN file. If there is a file path included you can remove it and just leave the name of the image. When a game didn't have a cue sheet I used IsoBuster. It is not a free program, but you can find it. In IsoBuster load up an ISO, BIN or MDF image file. Once the image is loaded (for any system that requires cue sheets) the left pane will load it up. You should see the name of the image at the top of that tree in bold, right click it, select Extract CD . In that sub menu select RAW (.bin .iso) option. It will then ask you where to save it and the name. I suggest leaving it as "CD" because after it does its thing it will ask you to create a CUE sheet and will default to the name of CD in its file name. When you edit these CUE sheets it will also say CD.iso or CD.bin in there too. So if you rename the image file you need to rename the CUE sheet and what the sheet says internally. This isn't a problem since LaunchBox has an option to use the folder name as the name of the game, so for PS1, Saturn, Sega CD etc I use this option for that reason. The reason why cue sheets exist is because it can tell the emulator information that the image can not tell it. Like where a song starts and stops, etc. If there is anything else we can help you with just ask.

Try renaming a rom, import it so that it creates the Genesis section again and make sure that it is named the same thing as before. Let it import then restart LB see if that repopulates the section with the games. The alternative is to create a new platform on the left and Ctrl + F the old platform name then Find All and Replace with the new platform name.

Except this will leave duplicates in the XML. The XML might be a tad broken, hence it thinks there are games so it wont import them again. If you are comfortable with XML editing it might be worth taking a look inside of it and see if any of your Genesis games are in there. Notepad++ works wonders with Ctrl + F. I've also had importing issues and oddities with LB, there might be a bug going around. Are you on the latest Beta or Stable release?

My PS3 controller was what was plugged in when I figured this out with motionjoy, just wired. The system thinks they are 360 Pad's anyways. Now I use my PS4 controller with InputMapper. Controller is still disabled but i still get these crackles in certain menu's. Jason and I had gone over and over this a while back.

Well the video converter can batch convert them all to specified settings, however it can not make a 360p or 480p video file 720p etc. So if they're also offering a higher resolution in an MP4 container then getting those video's again could be worth while. My problem of crackling audio has nothing to do with FLV files though. When I would have the controller options enabled my system output crackling. Now, opening my settings menu returns this crackling and so does opening up Big Box.

Generic in terms of being Platform Agnostic? I think it probably already achieves this fairly well. :P Swapping discs / disks is still a struggle sometimes. It is hard to deal with the way a ton of emulator's handle multiple discs.

Ok, I just tested an FLV file downloaded from YouTube (240p for ease) and it ran just fine. Blazing Lasers (U) was the game name and I just renamed the Video that in the proper folder under LB. Video -> TurboGrafx 16 -> File. I went over to it and it worked. My problem never got fixed of crackling audio so I never bothered to try to use this, but I tested it, it does work. My suggestion is test another FLV file you downloaded, test a converted FLV to MP4 or completely uninstall K-Lite and remaining files (I suggest IOBit Uninstaller for that), restart your PC and run the latest install of K-Lite Standard Pack or the pack from CCP, Standrad equivilent. Edit: And I just tested a 1080p MP4, same video. Both working.

K-Lite is the suggested codec because it works with everything and FLV is a basic container. The incompatability we're theorizing has to do with LaunchBox being incompatible with FLV files. If I recall jason is running K-Lite. CCP Is also a doable codec pack, but I prefer the settings, options and codec error fixing K-Lite provides. Can someone else with an FLV test this?

I use a program for general renaming, not neceserilly for this specific task, but it is fantastic. http://file-folder-ren.sourceforge.net/ If you were asking for TV Shows / Movie / Anime naming, I'd point you towards FileBot. :P

If they're purchased from EmuMovies, lets not share them at all. We do not want them to get angry at us and try to get the site taken down. Not that they would or someone over there is a jerk enough to do it, but if they're offering a paid service they might be able to take action against users circumventing that. Like I said, Any Video Converter (you shouldn't have to pay for) will convert your videos easily. The settings might take a bit of tweaking, and I can certainly walk you through it. It's not too daunting, just the process might take a while if there are a lot of files, so leave it on over night.

Why are they in flv? They really shouldn't be. They should be in mp4 or avi ideally. There is software out there that can convert the video, it might be a good idea to test out converting a video and see if that helps your situation. I use a piece of software that sounds and looks generic and like it wont work, but it surprisingly does. Any Video Converter. http://www.any-video-converter.com/ I don't remember if this installs things silently when you install it, so you may want to keep an eye out. If you have Malwarebytes Antimalware by chance then it should block it from doing so. The crap it can install is easy to get rid of either with the default windows uninstall or something like IOBit Uninstaller; I like the IOBit Uninstaller in AdvancedSystemCare because it scans afterwards and deletes left over files, but its not required by any means just my preference. If that sounds like too much (though if you do a test, have your settings the way you want then you can just batch convert all of them quickly) then download an mp4 or avi to test and see if one of these works. If so, then its the flv file. By the way, flv is a Flash Video standard. It's honestly outdated... even for flash. I can get YouTube videos in mp4.

Not to mention Diablo 1 and 2 are 32bit applications.

Oh, I totally missed that. I am tired... Either the settings are not correct, the volume is down in the Windows Audio Mixer (either the specific app or your entire sound?), the rip of the disc could be bad or the cue sheet is not correct.

What emulator are you using?

If I need to edit the XML I use Notepad++. Actually I use that for pretty much everything because its super light weight.

They're afraid of a massive lawsuit. I kind of dont blame them, but at the same time they don't have time for some commonsense. Even if someone had some over there, all it takes is a boss to say "I don't care shut them down."

I'm trying to get graphics, music and scripts out of the way so that I can move full speed towards creating the world. It is super hard doing it alone. I mean hell you get that Jason. :P

Big Update! Mostly internal. Music has changed, some graphics have changed and scripts are jumbled around and RTP data should no longer be needed. A lot of house keeping, making sure everything I have is for comercial use to the best of my ability and documented. I am working on the game past where the Prologue takes you, you just can't go there yet. I am also working on proper links and pages for Indie Game sites so that you guys can follow progress there if you'd like. Thanks to all who have played it thus far.

Some of the data on the disc may be written oddly, copy protected or written in such a way that loading just the image might give some odd errors. The cue sheet just provides exact information. Almost all error's I find related to cue sheets, assuming the file path / name's are correct, is music related. I wish there was an easier way. xD

I don't rename the files for the cue sheet reason, instead I'll just rename the folders which is why I am ok with using IsoBuster and it renaming all of my discs. ePSXe doesn't require cue sheets, but cue sheets can be superior as it can point towards multiple pieces of data. A Japanese rip of one of the DDR games will best illustrate this. So will some older TurboGrafx CD and Sega CD / Saturn games where there are music files in the folder as well. There can be compatibility issues if you loaded the image and not the cue sheet. RetroArch has a seriously steep learning curve, but once you're in and know what you're doing (like most anything) it's great personally.

You can edit a .cue sheet with Notepad++. In the case of one image file, there will be one directory listing. In the case of a game with multiple files (like music files) there will be several. You just need to make sure that it is set up correctly and pointing to the proper location. Most of my cue sheets say "FILE "CD.iso" BINARY". It says CD because I went through and created cue sheets for all of my games that were missing them using IsoBuster and it renames the disc during conversion. There doesn't necessarily need to be a full path inserted, but if there is it is probably wrong as its more than likely from someone else. Also, I didn't see you mention it, but all of the BIOS are named correctly too right? It needs to be specific versions, but also named properly.

Where did that statistic come from? Also, LaunchBox if I recall is already using the large address aware flag? Jason will have to correct me, but I am fairly certain we've had this conversation before.

I think there is something to be said about the user too. All too many times (even here, yes) a user will just say "your shits broke fix it." Or "Great update, here is how you fucked up." Sometimes just as brash. It happens everywhere because people have an over inflated sense of self importance. So part of it is on Jason, he's an amazing person but also users like you and I who take the time to figure out what we did and is going on so that someone can fix the issue. I found things no one ever found and vice versa. We all do something a little differently and especially a one man team let alone a companies team can't always create and find these issues. The applause go to both sides.

Cursory glance at the recent Beta's and performance seems to be very much improved. Editing goes way more smoothly. So far far so good.

They're the same platform but because of the name change it is probably throwing it off. GamesDB has it as Sega Genesis not Sega Mega Drive. So if you input it as Sega Mega Drive it will throw it off. This would most likely be the issue.