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Have you looked at your Windows platform's 'Scrape As' value just to confirm it's set to 'Windows' and not something else? If all is ok, can you check that the III part of your 'Assassin's Creed III' title uses the upper-case of i (I) letter and not the lower-case of L (l) one - depending on the font these can look the same on screen but the latter will throw the scraper.

You need one of the 3 bios sets lynx48k lynx96k lynx128k You also need the softlist folder camplynx_cass Default Command Line Parameters are just the bios set name. Once you launch a game you arrive at the Lynx prompt where you need to enter either MLOAD (for binary format games) or LOAD (for BASIC ones). You also need to add the game name as per the camplynx.xml - see MAME's hash folder. Examples (note the required use of case) MLOAD "INVADERS" LOAD "ZombiePanic" The tape plays automatically and once done, MLOADed games auto run. LOADed ones need you to enter RUN at the prompt. If you want to automate things a bit with the autoboot stuff, then you need to give each game it's own custom parameters like lynx48k -ab MLOAD\"INVADERS\"\n -autoboot_delay 2 lynx48k -ab LOAD\"ZombiePanic\"\n -autoboot_delay 2

Are you saying that you want LaunchBox to completely fill the screen like BigBox does? I may be wrong, but I don't think LaunchBox as it comes can do that. A quick workaround is to set your Windows Taskbar to Autohide.

I'm relieved to learn that it's not an error at my end, and I know now how to handle those iffy softlist clashes. @sundogak Thanks for all your help, much appreciated.

I'm still in a bit of a muddle. I've tried out several game snapshots with the LaunchBox Launching ROM File entry pointing to the game in the vz_snap folder, and I'm seeing something odd when I use the parameters vz300 -mem laser310_16k If a snapshot does not have a game of the same name in the vz_cass folder, then the snapshot loads fine. But if the game also exists in the vz_cass folder, then the snapshot doesn't load and TABing into MAME's File Manager shows the snapshot empty and the cassette present and ready for loading. Adding -dump to the parameters get's rid of this anomaly. I've noticed the same thing with other systems that have more than one softlist. With the Sord M5 the game zacbanic.zip exists in both the m5_cart and m5_cass folders. With LaunchBox pointed to the game in the m5_cass folder, the parameters m5 loads the cart version. Adding the -cass parameter loads the wanted cassette version. I may be barking up the wrong tree but it seems to me that MAME is searching the relevant softlist folders alphabetically and picking the first match - cass is before snap, cart is before cass, cass is before flop and so on. Any one else seeing this or is it something not setup correctly at my end?

@GIKAS1 For the snapshots try the parameters vz300 -mem laser310_16k -dump You can omit the full mem parameter if you wish, but then some games may return an invalid image error on snapshot loading. Binary (M) snapshots should auto-run once loaded. BASIC (B) snapshots once loaded need you to then enter the RUN command at the READY prompt.

As the Apple II GS is a computer, try enabling MAME's ui controls before using TAB.

For, say, Asteroids Deluxe you can select the Colour Overlay from the Video Options in-game, but all this appears to do is change the game to black and cyan. You could get the astdelux.lay and invaders.lay files from the MAME source code (src/mame/layout folder) and maybe rework them to include your bezel image. Also see here for something a bit different. Open the link and scroll down to the astdelux and invaders artwork zip downloads - clickable previews are available. https://mrdo.mameworld.info/mame_artwork_ingame.php

Yes, your bezel seems to be 16:9 whereas as you say your screen is 16:10 so that may explain the top and bottom black areas. Glad that you're sorted.

The deprecated element warning and the black bands are two separate and unrelated issues. To get rid of the warning message, in your lay file change line 6 from <bezel element="bezel"> to <element ref="bezel"> and change line 8 from </bezel> to </element>

As of MAME 0.225 lay file background element instances such as for bezels are considered deprecated and that's what's triggering the warning. Things will still work ok with MAME 0.225 to the latest 0.259 but possibly not forever, and the lay file can be updated to get rid of the warning.

By MAME I assume you mean the arcade games. These didn't have artworked boxes like home computer and console games did. They did have advertisement flyers/posters that folk use for front and back coverart, but spines had no meaning as such and any out there are custom made.

You can always source better images yourself should you wish and submit them as replacements to the games database.

If you're on MAME 0.229 and have the 0.229 full romset then you shouldn't have issues unless a particular game uses a CHD and you don't have the CHD set. I assume that KI is Killer Instinct. As well as kinst.zip this game also needs a CHD (kinst.chd) and won't work without it.

You're more than welcome.

@mikejoe The Radio-86RK and Apogee software lists (radio86_cass and apogee) work fine in MAME, but I could not get the Mikrosha software list (mikrosha_cass) to work properly. I'm on latest MAME 0.258, so maybe the softlist I sourced is outdated or just bad. I was able to get non software list Mikrosha games to work using the I and G keys method, see pics for the game Alien Ambush (USSR).rkm

@mikejoe That's odd, unless the Mikrosha clones are different. I have the parent Radio-86RK and the clone Apogee BK-01 installed and they both work fine in LaunchBox. Mind you there are some games that fail, but overall they're ok. It's late here now, after midnight, so tomorrow I'll source the Mikrosha stuff and test it out and get back to you.

Whether you launch a Mikrosha-86RK game directly from MAME or through LaunchBox you will arrive at a screen with a Russian prompt. At the prompt type I and press Return. Enable the MAME UI controls. Press F2 to play the tape. Disable the MAME UI Controls. When the tape has finished playing, type G at the Russian prompt and press Return to open and play the game.

I remember playing around with the P2000T and it's clone P2000M some time ago in MAME. Unfortunately, with only the two bios sets available and without any games to hand (softlist or otherwise) all I was able to do was interact with the system's BASIC screen.

I might be wrong but I've always assumed that you couldn't mix different media formats in the command line for MAME, unless a software system actually required it - for example orion128 -cart romdisk -cass

I can't believe it's been 10 years. Not sure what my initial build was, but the earliest installer backup I have is LaunchBox-3.2-Setup.exe, download dated 19/07/2014. It was only 11.6 MB! Congratulations @Jason Carr and your team and here's looking forward to the next decade.

I just updated from 13.5 official to 13.6 beta 6 with no issues. However, in the LaunchBox Themes Manager I can only see the Default and Old Default themes, and not Default, Old Default and Old Default (Legacy) as mentioned in the update splash window.

I believe that the various NTSC regions are all top aligned, whereas the PAL regions are centred.

I'm not certain on this but I think that only MEMU, a dedicated Memotech emulator, can handle the mtx format properly. I use MAME with the software list folder mtx_cass which has the files in the game zips in wav format and I use the LaunchBox Parameters below and things work ok.

@link182 The majority of the Lviv PC-01 games are coded in Binary with a lesser amount in BASIC, and the LaunchBox parameters for each type will be different. As Binary games are in the majority I would use the following Associated Platforms Default Command-Line Parameters in LaunchBox: lviv -ab bload\"\",r\n -autoboot_delay 6 -cass For the fewer amount of BASIC games I would give each one the following Custom Command-Line Parameters which will override the default. lviv -ab cload\"\"\n -autoboot_delay 6 -cass Your lviv.xml file in MAME's hash folder will show you which games are Binary and which are BASIC as well as showing you which games require multi-part loading and also which games are not supported.