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I would look at a small form factor Windows PC personally they maybe more expensive then a RaspPi but to me Windows is a must I don't feel anything else measures up. https://www.amazon.com/MeeGOPad-T09-Licensed-x5-Z8300-1000Mbps/dp/B01JLM750U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495899769&sr=8-1&keywords=meegopad+t09 This little guy is what I would buy if I needed a small form factor PC to run simple systems on it has 4GB of RAM and the x5-Z8300 is a capable chip to run a low power arcade machine with BB/LB capabilities.

1 There isn't any need to do so you just have to add your chd path to the MAME.ini file and MAME will recognize your CHD files as being there. 2 Well yeah I'm sorry about that I assumed you had premium because you were asking about video. Video snaps are a premium feature. 3 LB should download all available media from the scrapping sources (LaunchBox Games DB and EmuMovies if you have a premium account there also) When you bulk import games it should offer you options on which media types you want to download during the import. I believe you can redirect your folders to the MAME folders by going to tools>Manage Platforms and the going to the folders tab and changing the paths to your paths in MAME. 4 I've asked for software list naming support in the past and it seems as if there is very little interest in adding them to LB. You can use MAME to play MESS systems but if you import with the software list roms it won't name any with short names correctly and you won't attach to any ids or media from the database.

got a specific rom I can try

Merged sets are harder to work with especially if you want to use clones you can either actually change the name of the archive to the clone name to use it or now that LB handles MAME games without extensions if the checkbox is marked you can enter a clone name without an extension as a game or additional app and it should launch the only issue with that is you have to have a level of understanding of MAME to be able to know which ROM names you would need it would all be manual tedious work in other words.

there are both game and platform specific cinematic videos for the game specific ones yes it will replace the standard game snap video for the platform specific one they are intros to the system and feature footage from multiple games and won't replace anything. These are used in BB but you have to adjust some of the views in some themes to show videos. For the second question I'm a little unclear on what you mean. If you imported the snes games already you can try using ctrl+a to select all games in the platform and go to tools and download platform/playlist theme videos

by going into the LB folder you can simply rename the Images\NES to images\Nintendo Entertainment System and it would fix your image paths right up then you would need to do the same for Music Manuals and Video also if you have those you can also go to tools manage platforms edit the new Nintendo Entertainment System platform and point it to your NES folders but that would be more work than the 1st method.

I just tested and I can load them in RA no issues from multiple file paths I had to go into LB and add an Arcade associated platform under RA to get them to work in LB but they are working from there now too.

not in my experience

That shouldn't be right the RA version should be less picky about where the files are kept then the actual stand alone version.

Did a little searching and there were PS2 fight sticks made. So yeah while most PS2 games wouldn't per say go into an arcade cab there are others that would be right at home in it.

Yeah my Arcade machine doesn't have any controllers connected to it and I only play systems that are workable on the Arcade controls. That being said aren't there PS2 fighters and all that you can use with the Arcade controls and wouldn't utilize the full gamepad anyway (I'm not sure if there is but I've seen arcade sticks sold for many different consoles over the years.

Yeah this can get a little confusing basically MAME has three different rom types you can have you can have Merged which where all the clones and parents have all the files in one archive Split where the parents and any clones are all represented by their own separate archive Non-Merged which is where all parents and clones contain all the necessary files in every archive (This is a huge waste of space in my opinion) To get more in depth basically if you have a non-merged casino game that has 50 version (because I swear some of them do) all 50 versions will contain all of the parent files plus what ever files the clone needs to run so say each clone variation is only 1 file that actually makes it different from the parent but the parent is 25 files then you would end up with 50 archives containing 26 files while with a split set you would have 50 archives only the parent would have 25 files in it and clones would have only the 1 file in it so in total you would get 1300 files in the 50 non-merged archives but only 74 in the split version and the merged version would only have 1 archive with 74 files in it as only the parent archive gets an actual archive. Whew I hope that didn't confuse you more actually but my point is I would try the split set 1st as I've never had to use non-merged and don't see me ever being okay with having all of those useless redundant files taking up disk space on my machine.

@Retro808 thank you for helping out and contributing to the community.

Okay lets see here 1 is mostly correct except that while it is recommended to have the matching ROM set for your version it isn't necessarily if you say have MAME 185 emulator and a MAME 181 ROM set there would be only a few games that didn't work due to the emulator and ROMs being mismatched. Now if you had a 0.160 ROM set and a 0.185 emulator the number of games that wouldn't work due to changes would grow pretty large especially since your entire CPS2 library wouldn't work anymore due to the missing key files that weren't a thing then. 3. This can be done as explained as above but you also have the option of going to tools>manage platforms then choose your Arcade platform and edit it go to the folders tab and change your Arcades Video folder to your MAME's snap folder path. 5. If they aren't in the default MAME ROMs folder that MAME is looking for you will also have to adjust the MAME.ini to reflect the actual ROM path that you have for your games so basically if you chose to import your games into LB and you moved the ROMs there then MAME needs to know where they are because it is looking in the ROMs folder in the MAME root folder as the game location.

unfortunately it only give the game name though and not the rom name.

http://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/Previous_MAME_Versions If you click on any version in there it will open to a page that tells you all the new ROMs and clones promoted to working from each version.

lol have fun

From what I read you aren't stuck using this just for GPU either as it supports any PCIe cards

Yeah that is what it is its an egpu what else would be in there?

https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=349289 Check the 2nd post

Actually hmm I use this to play vertical games on my portrait monitor and horizontal games on my landscape monitor I'm not sure on how to do dual screen games.

OSD PER-WINDOW VIDEO OPTIONS Screen = auto edit this to be Screen = \\.\Display2 if that doesn't work try it with 1 instead.

\\.\DISPLAY2 This is what you set the display to but with you monitor number I think my dual monitor used 0 and 1 not 1 and 2 though but I'm not upstairs to check and can't recall

http://docs.mamedev.org/ This doc is great

I like using stand alone MAME personally and by researching the settings in the ini file it gave me a ton of insight into how MAME settings work on multiple monitor setting inis up by screen orientation by drivers all things that the UI version does for you except you don't get to understand how it works. I recommend reading through this document here to learn a ton of stuff about MAME http://docs.mamedev.org/