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MAME has a new way around this in the last two versions or so talked about in the link. I haven't played around with this and its not the easiest to understand but they seem to be aware of the issue and working on a solution from within the program https://docs.mamedev.org/advanced/devicemap.html

Probably because BB uses Fullscreen and LB doesn't.

Think you have to use the platform category view it doesn't do that in the platform view itself.

You can run a reset right from inside Windows 10 now in the update section of the settings app you can even have it keep all of your files you will just have to reinstall your programs again

Okay did a little looking in MAME and it looks like LB creates a reference to gtfore06.zip during the import but it doesn't actually create the empty text file any longer as I don't have that file in my MAME location that LB points to. Its the same for 04 05 and 06 which are all CHD. All three launch fine for me through LB. here is a image of how LB set up 04 with the full set importer.

you shouldn't need to make an empty text file any more MAME LB should be able to directly launch standalone CHD's now if I'm remembering correctly.

there is a Demul pack for the latest version of Demul available on PleasureDome

if you have a game in LB that imported but its not the right version you don't have to delete anything you can just go and edit the game and then in the path portion direct it to the correct file.

Depends on what you want to emulate really so without knowing your goals its hard to say. If you have a $1500 budget you should be able to get a pretty nice PC but if you don't really want to emulate say Wii U PS 3 3DS and the newer stuff that is out there you really won't need to spend all of that money. I personally would buy the best PC I could if that was my budget and just plan on having it for the next few years.

unfortunately there is not.

During the setup there is an option to put it anywhere you like (except the program file folder)

there is no locking down LB.

MAME/MESS is tricky with files you should be able to launch games through the command line that aren't chd but to use the UI and launch anything it has to use the actual software list chd's. I know that for cart based software systems MAME will launch almost any type of file. I just tested with some Saturn cue bins I have and the cue loads fine in MAME

unfortunately that error means that you are using a pirated license. The easiest way to fix it would be to buy a legitimate license from the developer. Click the Premium header at the top of the site to purchase.

If you are sourcing images from both EmuMovies and LB then it will get redundant images. Since LB allows for multiple cover images in order to cover multiple regions it unfortunately allows for duplicate files also as it has no way of knowing if the images are the same unless they are the same exact file down to the hash check.

I agree 100% that it should get that data from where your files are at and not just default but that isn't how the program works so you have to change the path 1st if you don't use the LB folder structure.

try running an admin level command prompt and type in sfc /scannow and look for Windows corruption.

in Windows click win + r to open a run box then type winver in there and then report back what your build is. I don't know if you keep your system up to date or not but if you don't and you have an older version of Windows 10 that predates .Net 4.7 it would be at the point that it will never see the update to 4.7 and you need to update your Windows. If that is all good and you do keep it up to date you can try running an administrative level command prompt and run sfc /scannow and look for any corruption with your Windows install.

yeah you can type in .z64 in the one line and then leave the replace line blank and run the tool and it will remove all of the .z64's from the name

LB doesn't know what anything is you can import an empty text file if you please.

Yes you can go up to the Games DB link on this site join the Games DB and start submitting the media to the DB.

once you move everything to the laptop you would either go to Tools and find the option to change the roms folder path and just pointed to the new location or you can go into the Data folder and then the platform folder and use the find and replace feature of NP++ to change all of the paths from there if you go the data folder route make sure to create a backup of anything you edit 1st in case you make a mistake you can easily revert back.

you have to have a EM account and use the password and user id from their site. If you already have an id and that isn't working then I have no clue what the issue is.