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no the chd's only come merged or at least that is the only format I've seen them come in.

Let us know if it worked in case others ask.

Thanks to @CharcoI just discovered this gem of a video the guy releases them each month and they might make it easier to update your MAME games each month (assuming you bother to update them). I subscribed and asked him if in the future he could include the zip names along with the game names so hopefully that will happen if you are interested in keeping your set updated in LB check it out. He has video going back to 0.169 but LB uses 0.174 or 0.175

yeah cover flow is insanely smooth now

damn son good eye

I turned it on for Gangster Town for SMS and the cross hairs aren't lined up with where it shoots so pretty unplayable with a mouse

or just do what Monkus said

Open RA without an game loaded and go to info and go to the core it will tell you the name of the bios and if it is present

I don't I even run some of my ROMs from my server over the network

nice I played PS! the other day and I had to change the device index to get my controller to work thought it was something I did

Windows 10 is actually said to be the best platform to run LB/BB on to back up your LB install you really just need your images , manuals, music, videos backups and data folder (or all your folders to be safe).

Are you using version 7.1 like the title says and if so why aren't you using 7.10

I don't know what would make it auto generate now that you removed them I don't think it will come back. I do know that when you import your arcade games now there is a checkbox to turn off the auto generation so have you added any new games to MAME lately.

email support@unbrokensoftware.com and tell them your issue there you can get official support from the dev if no one answered your question its because no one know how to fix your issue maybe if you explain it to the support people they can get you up and running.

you can uncheck the include in platform checkbox when you edit them and you will only see them when you switch from platform to playlist but no sub folders categories yet

Those should just be auto generated playlist all you games should still be in your Arcade platform and all those playlist just use your existing media and roms so the only extra disk space is the xml that says they are in there to get rid of them right click one and edit it.

I don't know if this effects anyone else but when I download these they come in read only mode and that throws an error message from LB simply right clicking and unchecking the read only box fixes it but if its the case for everyone it should probably be stated in the info about the download for less savy users.

yeah this sort of sounds like a solicitation and should probably be removed

I don't think LB will behave in any different manner depending upon which set you get.

merged will have puckman 1 rom inside of that will be every clone version split will have the parent rom puckman along with a separate archive for every clone but it will only contain the necessary files of the clone the rest will be used from the parent non merge will have the same thing as the split except that every clone will also contain all the files from the parent that it needs to work.

that's actually the other way around non-merged is a 125GB and merged is the smallest set the full set has all the bios and roms it doesn't include the chd package that is separate. The nonmerged is the best if you want a curated set as its safe to remove roms since everything is self-contained if you are going to have the whole set though anyway then split is the better choice since it will all still work but take up less space on disk if you were just using MAME alone with no front end I would say just get the merged set as from the built in UI it is totally accessible but due to its limitations in LB split is currently the best option.

Okay let me try to help with a few things Getting the matching rom set while not 100% necessary is the best thing you can do especially if you ROM set is more than a few revisions back. I prefer the MAME stand alone for a few reasons but they depend on some of my setups like in my room I have both a landscape and portrait monitor and the MAME stand alone emulator handles portrait natively where RA requires you to set the parameter of your screen on portrait it displays in a small rectangle across very little of the screen by default also I use MAME to emulate a few consoles like Atari 5200 Colecovision and a few others and the stand alone version is much more friendly than the RA version when it comes to the MESS side of MAME. http://docs.mamedev.org/usingmame/aboutromsets.html This link should explain a lot about the different ROM sets better than I can explain it but I find for myself that the split set is the best one for my needs. That being said the merged set is limited in LB due to LB only having access to the parent zip and not being able to import any clones contained inside an issue that doesn't exist with split and non merged sets.

have you tried the tutorials section in the header of this site there are a lot and I believe a few beginner ones you should watch 1st.

as long as you have your image videos and such folders in tact and your xmls in the data folder you really can't lose all your work. I suggest backing this stuff up somewhere in case your drive ever fails. Go into the update folder in LB and sort it by date modified and run the last update you installed it will overwrite your LB and BB .exe but it won't do anything to any of your folders.

yeah it the extension it is looking for is different in the path that would break it and if unzipping it worked it must have been looking for the extension inside of the zip