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As @Retro808 mentioned you can link your collection to the cloud and the games db (it would only let you view it not play it) to do so go to the hamburger menu in LB choose cloud and select the sync to the cloud option then you can use your phones browser to see your collection from the gamesDB website

do you have all of the latest Windows updates installed if not try updating that. Also you can try running this https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30135 and this just to make sure you have all components installed https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

There is an example of mine just make sure you separate different paths with a semi colon

Also images can be named after the rom or the title in LB and they will work correctly.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35 Try installing that on your PC

The official ROM set is put out on PleasureDome.uk.org every month the latest version of MAME is 0.219 (or at least for the next 13 days). Sorry I can't answer your other questions.

Zero Delay encoders will always be easier as they are seen as individual game pads and not as a keyboard. Now I'm not saying they are better just that it would definitely simplify things. Of course ipacs have other features that zero delay does not. I personally have 2 Zero Delay encoders and they work perfectly fine for my setup.

instead of deleting the games you can also click on one then press ctrl+a to select them all then ctl+e to start the bulk edit wizard then choose emulator from the 1st drop down and Retroarch in the 2nd drop down and that will edit the emulator for your already existing games. Also it is always a smart idea to make sure your games work in the emulator without LB before adding them to LB. If you can't get them to run through the emulator itself they will never start in LB and it narrows down where you have to start troubleshooting.

@C-Beats or @Jason Carr

If this happens again try deleting the BigBoxsettings file before wiping out the whole install.

MAME is pretty dead simple to use basically download and unpack emulator. Download ROMs. Move ROMs to MAME Roms folder. Double click .exe. Viola you are playing MAME with no issues, Now while its that simple to setup it is extremely nuanced and requires all different types of knowledge levels depending on how far you want to go with it. As to the software list thing basically there were a bunch of guys working on those consoles and computer to get them to work in MESS so by merging the projects the guys that were just working on arcade stuff for MAME were still working on that stuff so it not distracting from the MAME side of things there are just new people contributing their code towards the console side of thing. I personally like that the project has been merged and I only have to download one program instead of two. I use MAME for Atari 5200, Colecovision Matell Intelivision and Neo Geo CD in my set up. So having it all be able to run through the same program is a plus to me but you can still do that without SWL games from the MAME set through LB. It Just requires a few different checkboxes to work properly. https://docs.mamedev.org/ Really can't recommend that enough as a learning tool if you are interested in learning how the program works.

jinx

I believe that it has been updated as recent as yesterday so you just need to update the theme @Mr. RetroLustalso created a badges image pack that match his theme much better than the default images I suggest checking that out as well.

Right click the rom and choose edit then go to the emulation tab check the box for custom command and then type in the command to the core that you want to use.

no merged should be fine

None of those pertain to devices its all the ports them selves and controllers for the ports. as for the HID devices I'm not sure what one of those would pertain to it. The Logitech ones if you have a Logitech controller

did you pay $50 or $20? Also as a heads up there was a price increase recently and life time is now $75

What type of license did you purchase? If it was a year license then you would need to download the last version your license is entitled to if it was a life time license then you should contact support@unbrokensoftware.com and tell them your lifetime license is saying its expired.

Do you guys have multiple controllers hooked up?

yeah it will probably be the 0.219 version at this point but it should work fine with 0.218 set.

What are your PC specs?

You take care. Hopefully everything will be back to normal quickly

MAME some time ago incorporated MESS into it merging the projects the Software List and Software List CHDs are for those console systems where the SWL covers cart tape and flpppy based games ie NES, C64 the SWL CHD's are disc based systems ie Playstation, Sega CD.

As an alternative to using CMP I really would suggest TorrentCheck http://wiki.pleasuredome.org.uk/index.php/TorrentCheck I run this every month with the same boxes in the image except I also do delete wrong size files (it doesn't actually delete anything moves it to backup folder) then I simply download the new version of the MAME torrent to the same folder my ROMs are in. It checks the torrent finds all the data that is already present and then downloads the rest then I run TorrentCheck again when its over and verify that everything is present and correct. As a caveat though because I'm also doing this for CHD Software Lists and Software Lists CHDs I have a little different work flow for those. If you don't update anything except the arcade ROMs you don't have to continue reading from this point. If you do CHDs this is my work flow for them. Due to the nature of CHD updates it usually only a few files so I download them to a path like Updates\CHD and when I start the torrent I only download the missing and wrong size files not the rest of the torrent if you use QBittorrent to download its important not to down load it to your existing folder because it will move the files you don't want to download into a unwanted folder which is not what you want to happen. After the download is finished I copy the files into my CHD folder. For SWL and SWL CHDs my workflow is similar to the CHDs except instead of going through all the files in the torrent and only downloading the files I need I get the whole system folder for any systems that come up in the check document due to how long it would take to do it the other way but the rest of the process is the same using Updates\SWL and Updates\SWLCHDs. I find this to be much more simple than CMP and just want to offer it as an alternative to the other method.

yeah if he has the BigBox for android he must be from the future. Not that it hasn't become common for me to give PC advice to Android users