SentaiBrad

Did you set the associated command line parameters properly? Make sure the name and command line are correct? Are your games using RetroArch in LB? I ask because you said you were using another emulator, so they do need to be switched over with the Bulk Edit Wizard.

Your library size is unique, and Is probably the reason why it's performing this bad. You're probably of literally a few people with over 50k game entries. By chance, did you allow LaunchBox to merge all the games possible that it would merge? Like multi-disc or disk games? Curiosity, because that reduced my library by a significant amount and did help in point to point performance. Overall though, at a certain point, performance depredation is to be expected.

Ok, yep, those are out. In that case, I would go for a nicer i7 to make up for the integrated graphics difference.

No, I haven't seen a NUC in person. I just know about Low Profile cards because Christina used to have a tiny eMachine.

I believe it wasn't on the poll because it's a join effort of @Jason Carr and @eXo, something they've been working on for quite a while now. Things are progressing, slowly, is all I will say.

I'm not much up on mednafen standalone, but RetroArch and Mednafen use a similar BIOS set up. Doesn't it need to be specifically named in a specific sub folder, not the root folder? What the folder should be named, I don't know. For RetroArch it's the system folder, but it's different for mednafen Standalone.

You'd also need to grab it from the same source (well, less same source and rather same download configuration), and then single file downloads are out too. I don't have the original contents of my torrents anymore though.

Well like I said in my first post, USB3 is just fine and respectable. If you have the choice, always go internal, I don't think that's ever a debate to be honest. There are other reasons you'd want an external, moving your install from PC to PC for example. Back to prices though, the Western Digital Book series is fantastic, and I'm looking at 4TB, USB3 for $115, which isn't bad. 6TB, the next step up is also fairly affordable. The Blue drives seem to be hit and miss on stock for some sizes, but a WD Blue 4TB at $118 for internal is about right in line for that external. The second you're jumping up to 6 and 8TB's, we're talking a bigger price jump, so then it comes back to budget. It's like 128GB to 200GB, then 256GB Sandisk SD Cards. The 128 to 200 seems reasonable, but 200 to 256 is outrageous. The only reason I went for an HGST drive, was because of their very low failure rates, so that's my production drive. I only paid $5 more than this price, on this exact page in July of last year. I also bought a 5TB Toshiba, because they're also on that list of really good drives, and it was on sale last year. My 8TB is actually a WD Book drive that I pulled out of the enclosure and stuck it in internally. I found it for $250 at the time, but it's younger brother is about $220 on NewEgg now. The 8TB WD Book isn't available on Amazon. At the time, there wasn't even a page for it, the 8TB's were fairly new in single drive form last year. The page exists now, but they're out of stock and the other sellers there are selling them for higher than NewEgg. Amazon usually wins out when it's sold and shipped by Amazon them selves, with Prime.

GTX aren't out, we'd just be looking at the low profile cards. It doesn't need to be this exact card, but a low profile card like this would be extremely helpful. Even if you're just using the GPU and Vram to help with the OS and filters.

There's several clear logo toggles in the options menu, but I'm not sure what you're specifically asking for is possible in the current default set up. The theme you're using could set that up with a quick edit, if one of it's views doesn't already. That would be a question for the theme creator, or someone with the know how to edit the theme files to allow for that. If you'd like to request that, feel free to click Issues/Requests at the top and make a ticket for it.

Keeping it up and seeded was an issue I didn't think of. I wonder what a decent way to update would be. Kowing myself, I'll just download the whole thing all over again.

Ah, then your spec can be much lower, or just enough to be able to serve Windows (preferably 10), Big Box and your games. You don't want to get minimum spec for just Windows, because everything requires overhead. 8GB of RAM, a moderate i5, with a GTX graphics card (or an i7 if you have to go integrated), should be fine.

Unless @eXo changes a lot of games up, then there might not be too much need, but that depends on what he would say. If all the games, for the most part, stay the same and you can take them and insert them in place, then I don't see why you should need to. Now, some games will certainly be updated or added, but if you're grabbing them from a torrent that isn't a single zip, you should be able to pick out the new and updated ones based on a changelog (if one is kept). I hope that that there is a version of the collection that essentially comes with no games, for people with old sets updating. I don't want to speak for eXo at all, but I would be willing to bet he's considered that.

1-3 years is when my Seagate drives would fail. Some sizes have known extreme failure rates, while some are not so bad, but I can't take that chance. The externals may be cheaper for a variety of reasons, speeds are generally one of them. Unless you're looking at the same internal drive as the same external drive, external drives can be very different, generally stuck at 5400RPM. Has no bearing on once the drive is loaded in to, but I do notice that my drive sometimes takes a little bit to spin up. I guess it all depends on your budget, but I think spending the extra $10-40 on a Western Digital or HGST drive is much more worth it.

If BizHawk has the same quality control as Mednafen or RetroArch, then I would be more than willing to bet a setting is off, or a BIOS and game is corrupted. I never got in to BizHawk, to be honest, it's not recommended as one of the emulators to use, so even I never bothered, but that's me. There is a general list of well regarded emulators for one reason or another, and usually emulation quality is the top reason.

If it's in your C drive you could try moving your install to another location. Disabling UAC all together would be your best bet.

If we're talking about renaming files, there's nothing we can do about that, any name is up to the uploaders. That said, if there is a download you'd like to see packaged, you can also try contacting the uploader.

Of course, no problem!

It's worth noting on the above post that PSP should only ever be ran with it's standalone emulator. The RetroArch core is 2 years out of date. With some tweaking, and your expectations (similar to that above, but it ends up depending on your spec), I think you might be surprised. Big Box can use some tweaking too, but it's mostly going to be your OS and hardware.

In most situations, sure, the cue or ccd sheet is prefered for emulation, but this is for DOS it looks like.

It looks like it's file extension is missing. First, in that "browse for CD window", in the bottom right is a drop down menu, change that to all. If the file appears, try to load that up. If it gives you an error or does nothing, it might be because the file extension is missing. You can re-add it back by renaming the file and adding .bin to the end of it.

Of course, no problem!

I haven't, but thank you for letting us know! @Jason Carr should be working on the Database here shortly after our Public Poll, so he'll take a look at it when he does. We don't have a bug subforum for the Database part of our Forums, so I'm gonna move this to Troubleshooting for now. We also have a BitBucket just for the Database if you do find anymore bugs and want to report them that way. https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/issues/new

Sweet! Glad it was fixed up.

Unzipped almost always, especially since some systems don't run games that way. If the core wont launch, I would be willing to bet the command line parameter or the name is off. The name on that list also needs to match exactly to what you called it. I haven't had much time with the C64 in RetroArch either, but that wouldn't be my first place to for for C64 actually. I should look in to that a bit more.