spycat

I'm on Microsoft Edge, so it seems that theme retention may be browser based.

I'm aware of the options at the screen bottom. However, changing the theme is temporary, as exiting and reopening the site defaults the theme. Hopefully Jason will extend solid backgrounds to the text in the All Activity main screen (and post previews) in line with the other views.

The forums default theme has now been set to Invaders and it's not too distracting for most views. However, the All Activity view is now see-through and confusing, especially as this view is text based and needs a solid background. Is there any chance that this can be addressed, or else the original Dark theme can once again be made the default? By the way, when previewing this post, I've encountered the new theme background which makes reading text difficult.

If you've deleted your 3D boxes and added your new ones and the new ones show in LaunchBox but BigBox is still showing the old, now deleted ones, then BigBox has the old ones cached. In BigBox go to Options, Images Cache and refresh all images. If the old images still show, then close and restart BigBox and see if the new ones now show.

If you've managed to download avsp.zip from the mame-0205-full/ folder then you should be able to scroll down to the qsound and qsound_hle zips.

Retroroms is always up to date usually within a day or so of a new MAME build. It's currently on MAME 205 and allows single rom downloads. Registration is required.

Psikyo Arcade Games 3D Boxes View File A collection of 26 3D boxes for games developed by Psikyo. Two sets are included; one with the Arcade Classics badge and the other without. Submitter spycat Submitted 11/30/2018 Category Game Box Art  

Konami Arcade Games 3D Boxes View File A collection of 3D boxes in UGC format for arcade games made by Konami. These are just sourced flyers with homemade spines. This is not a full collection by any means as some titles are absent due to no suitable flyers found. As well as that, I've omitted the Casino, Endeavour and Dance/Rhythm/Music stuff. The boxes are mainly parent, although clones are included where either a suitable parent flyer couldn't be sourced or a clone flyer differed from it's parent and appealed to me. Submitter spycat Submitted 11/04/2018 Category Game Box Art  

I don't remember the Blues Brothers or that McCartney one on the BBC, but Rik the Roadie sounds as if it might fit the bill. It was out on the C64 and BBC Micro.

I don't even have 1600 games in LB.

As of the 0.201 build, MAME has changed how it implements QSound and the device qsound_hle.zip is now required. If you fail to source qsound_hle.zip you can just copy qsound.zip (make sure it contains the file dl-1425.bin and not the obsolete qsound.bin) and rename the copy as qsound_hle.zip I don't know if qsound.zip is now obsolete under MAME 0.201/202, but all my CPS2 games audit and work without it as long as qsound_hle.zip is present.

I didn't do Bang 2 Busters (b2b.zip) as I was working off of the official released MVS listings and it only came up as an unreleased proto. But now I see that it was released later for the AES by NCI. So I did a box for it.

Yes you need the sample file congo.zip which will go in MAME's samples folder. You can get that sample file or the full samples pack from progettosnaps.

I have only one install of MAME, currently MAME 0.202 build. Perhaps someone on MAME 0.201 who has updated to 0.202 might do a test using both the MAME GUI launcher and the LaunchBox launcher before installing the latest neogeo.zip just to confirm or refute what I got?

I updated from MAME 0.201 to 0.202 and all my Neo Geo games failed audit and refused to launch via MAME's GUI reporting that the file sp1-u4.bin was missing, but LaunchBox still launched them. When I grabbed the latest neogeo.zip with the file sp1-u4.bin included, then all the games passed audit and launched via MAME's GUI. What else can I say?

The MAME 0.202 build has added the US MVS (U4) bios (sp1-u4.bin) to it's Neo Geo bios requirements. If you've updated to the MAME 0.202 build and your neogeo.zip is missing this file, then your Neo Geo games will fail audit and won't launch via MAME's own GUI. However, they will still play in LaunchBox. It seems that LaunchBox can be very accommodating at times.

Unfortunately no. Once I've made the 3d boxes I delete all my working box fronts/spines bitmaps as I have no further use for them. In future I'll save these images. I live and learn.

Cave Arcade Games 3D Boxes View File A collection of 3D box fronts for games developed by Cave. These are just flyers, posters etc with basic spines added and are in UGC case format. I took the liberty of badging the spines with the Cave logo rather than the individual publishers such as AMI, Atlus, Capcom and so on, as this appealed to me. Two games, Omatsuri Yasan: Kingyo Sukui and Omatsuri Yasan: Ganso Takoyaki are missing as I couldn't find any images of them. Submitter spycat Submitted 09/28/2018 Category Game Box Art  

In LaunchBox go to Tools, Options and untick the Show splash screen during load box.

If a game has a chd associated with it, then it will not work without the chd. You can't have both a chd and a non chd version of the same game. As far as I know, these games need both chds. Put them into folders named after the game roms. So the 2 chds for Jojos Bizarre Adventure go in a folder named jojoba and the 2 chds for Soul Calibur II go in a folder named soulclb2 Do not zip these folders. By the way, Soul Calibur II also needs the bios sys246.zip

SNK Neo Geo MVS 3D Boxes View File A collection of 3D boxes (in UGC case format) for the 148 official SNK Neo Geo MVS games. Most are flyers with basic spines, but I did use the odd AES cover where a flyer was unavailable or unsuitable or just because I preferred the AES. Submitter spycat Submitted 09/21/2018 Category Game Box Art