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Jason I think you're doing a great job. I have to say I've never come into contact with any application that gets updated as quickly as this one. It's obvious there is constant work going into this from you and the other contributors, I really appreciate that. Every once in a while I get an idea of something that could make this better and before I even have a chance to suggest it you've already added it. Thanks for the hard work.

I strongly agree, especially for anyone doing any overclocking. I clean mine once a month normally and more often in the summer, but then again I have old school boiler heat in my apt and no air filtering system at all.

Thanks for all your help on this bd000 I just went ahead and started over with your updated script and things seem to be working now. I don't get the first time running message anymore and nothing is writing to the individual directories with the game bat files either. There are 2 files being written to the root of the directory containing the game bat files folders: WinKawaks.ini and WinKawaks.rom This is a huge improvement and maybe I can actually play some games now.

I feel better knowing I'm not totally crazy lol. I will give this a try tonight after work and report back.

Well maybe I'm full of it. I wish I could retract that post. I just finished dinner and now I have pretty much the same issue again. I'm using version 163. I discovered some strange behavior that I'm a little confused about. I deleted my winKawaks directory and pasted the roms back to the roms folder. I get different results per game I guess. Some give me the default splash when I run them while others error out without the flash and just need the roms file path specified then run correctly. I just realized that when I run a game winkawaks is writing 2 files in the directory that has the bat file for the game. This is what is confusing me because I've never told it about that directory yet it is writing to it. The 2 files are WinKawaks.ini and WinKawaks.rom This is what is in the bat file: cd /d "C:\Users\something\Desktop\LaunchBox\Emulators\Neo Geo\winkawaks163\WinKawaks.exe" start "Emulator" "C:\Users\something\Desktop\LaunchBox\Emulators\Neo Geo\winkawaks163\WinKawaks.exe\" %~n0 Does that look correct?

I figured it out. If you are playing a game and you use the save settings to .ini now option it creates an individual ini for that game in the folder named ini. If any of those individual game ini files are present the program expects one for every game you run otherwise it loads default settings expecting you to want to set up individual setting for that game. The solution is to delete the individual game ini files from the ini folder and then winKawaks will use the general settings saved in the WinKawaks.ini in the root directory. Wow what a pain...

I'm pretty sure my issue is with the way winKawaks saves to the ini files. Right now it makes a new save ini for each game. I will try some things from the included faq to see if I can work it out. Thanks for your help bd

No problem. After some time filling in the blanks trying to follow the post about using the script I can start NeoGeo games from LB. That post needs clear step by steps directions for a noob like me. I figured it out though. Each time I launch a game winKawaks tells me it can see its my first time running it and all the settings are at defaults. The settings seem to save per game. Is this just the way it is or can I use the same settings for every game without going through and changing settings for each game?

Really I am only using it because it works well on it's own. All the games seem to launch fine and they have picture previews which I like, I am open to suggestions though. I haven't had any luck with neogeo or arcade using mame. I saw mention of using MAME for neogeo and when I set MAME as the default emulator I get the spinning windows cursor for a few seconds then it goes away and nothing happens. I am open to suggestions at this point after spending a couple of weeks messing around with this. I spent just a few minutes getting all the 8 and 16 bit consoles working, but many hours later no luck on arcade or neogeo. I am going to try a different MAME rom set tonight because I can only get a few of my arcade games to work out of hundreds and that's only when I put them in the roms folder in the MAME directory.

Are there any commands to get neoragex to launch directly into the game? Right now when I launch a game from LB it opens the Neorage program and then I have to choose a rom from the list within the program. Sorry if this already been asked and answered, I spent a lot of time searching the forum.