SentaiBrad

Right Click -> Edit, then in the top right "Search for Metadata." If there is a blue link there instead, then that means it was attached to a LBGDB entry. You can manually search up the database to see if the game exists, you can also edit a games name and click on search to see if there are any different results without fully changing the name of a game.

You'll want to click on a Platform on the left, click on a game, Ctrl + A, then go to Tools -> Download Metadata and Images so that way you only update a platform at a time, so that way you know you're only updating a specific platform. Edit: Make sure to select the second option when it asks you how you want to download everything.

Manuals should be free from EmuMovies, but video is not. You need LaunchBox and EmuMovies Premium to download video.

That's exactly why your media is disappearing. Every time you change a system name, then all the media is still in a folder labeled for the old platform. You'll need to go in to Music, Manuals, Video and Images to rename the old platform name to the new platform name, restart LB and all should be good.

It's very alpha and not something that is supposed to be daily use or even consistent use. Hell, Wii U emulation is much much farther than this currently and still considered Alpha, so this is even technically worse off. To get it fully up and running is very hard currently and most games don't work.

I recall this being an issue too... but I don't recall what fixed it. Your romset will still work on a later version of MAME, have you tried updating MAME by chance? I also want to say restarting had something to do with this, but I honestly do not remember.

Did you change the name of the platform?

Well it depends, if you got the merged version of a MAME Rom set, then that is the case, and that would be exactly why LaunchBox wont give you the proper region. In a split set, that is exactly how that works. A single game can have up to a dozen separate files, and all be completely valid. There's the parent rom, then the child roms, and a child rom may depend on just the parent rom, or an entire line of child roms, and the differences may only be regional differences. In MAME .182, split seems to be broken in a couple of areas, so a non-merged set is preferred as you have your full range of import options, but it has near perfect compatibility. So generally, when you want a different variant on a MAME rom, you can either re-run the import process again and choose the region you want for a second import (you'll import all the non-duplciated games), or you can simply change the path to the rom file when you edit a game. If you only want to change 1 game, and aren't interested in other regions, then editing a single game and choosing the rom file that reflects the region you do want is probably simpler and less cluttered.

Nope. Where it says Rom File, click Browse and choose the other rom file you need, if the importer is not importing properly. If it's not, obviously we need to update the MAME Data files or it was a fluke bug.

You can make LaunchBox look like that fairly easily with some tweaks, which requires Premium, but nothing for Big Box. XAML is totally capable of doing something like that, almost anything is possible. There may need to be some tweaks or additions that Jason needs to make in order for it to work properly, but that'll be something you'd figure out after you try making it sadly.

You might need to tweak some of the settings a bit, output with the right codec in the right container (not FLV), and up the bit rate as well. These are my settings, and some things may be a bit different (like your list of encoders and recording path), but this is what I use to record all the tutorials with.

Technically, sure, but we can not go back. Our Database was originally built on theirs and has since become much much more filled with games and information. We've tweaked it to what we need it to be. There is still more that needs to be done, but it's ours and we can control what we need. To that same point, we couldn't control if their database was up 100% of the time, hell we can't even promise that EmuMovies is, but with our Database, the buck stops with us and we can fully control it. So, we can obviously add in other scrapers where we see a fit, but going backwards I don't think is the answer.

Yes, P4 and Vic-20 are separate computers. The other formats except PP can be merged if you'd want them to be.

Make sure to grab OBS Studio and not OBS Classic.

They're just different file formatted for the most part, or some games were only released on one format and not the other. If the list is the same on one, then choose one or the other. Edit: I did it this way in the tutorial to show what can happen with custom platforms, not so much that it HAS to be that way.

I don't record Big Box with DXTory. I record my entire desktop with OBS, DXTory is left for capturing just games. DXTory hooks in to specific graphic calls (like DirectX and OpenGL), and since Big Box doesn't use these, it doesn't see it.

MEAGRE was never updated to account for LaunchBox's changes, so that XML doesn't exist anymore. eXo is working on a method for his set to be integrated, but it's going to take some time yet. I personally just imported all the games like normal, and if a game really needs a conf file to run, you can manually set it. Obviously, that's not the intended way that set is supposed to work, but the alternative is to find an old enough version of LaunchBox, update it so that the XML split happens, then you transfer the DOS XML to your current LB install. The split can cause some issues, but if you're doing it just once, for one system, there may not be too much of an issue.

You don't need to edit the actual files. Right Click -> Edit the game entry, and change the rom path to the one you want.

When you imported your MAME games, did you select world from the region selection or US? You can go back and edit the game, and change what rom file it's loading to the one you want, if you know what the name of the US rom.

Well LaunchBox internalizes the names and converts them to a full name and imports everything based on the filters. So long as you have a MAME rom set, you're good to go. Otherwise, I don't know of anything like that off hand.

*sigh* It seems like an uphill battle with AV software.

Going back to 5.7 and then updating is not suggested as it can cause some issues. You could probably minimize the issues if all you do is get the core stuff imported (the games and information). The XML split, while it obviously worked, did cause issues that were never fixed because the process should not happen much if at all anymore.

Certain emulators like RetroArch will automatically assign controls for systems, but most emulators that isn't the case and you'll need to set that up. It's usually fairly easy though.