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I've been a long time LB user and retro fan. I've had a lifetime BB license for as long as I can remember now. I've always been able to get things up and running easily enough with systems that are my main interests: 80's arcade games and 8-bit and 16-bit consoles. But over the years I see these gorgeous builds on youtube. Lately I have decided to finally get around to finding one and just sticking with it. The system for this is an MSI gaming laptop that has become my TV pc as I purchased a newer one recently. The TV PC has 32 GB of RAM, 1.5 TB of SATA SSD, and a GTX 980M. Certainly capable of emulating the platforms that interest me the most. Right now it is running a Retrobat build (VLC) that is actually really good. Kodi integration is awesome and it looks pretty good, but my true love is LB, not Retrobat. I am drooling over some of the videos for CP78 builds, but dang they are huge! I did recently get an invite for site name removed so I should be able to download one soon. I was hoping to get some advice here maybe on if going the CP78 route will work for me--would I have enough disk space for one? Also, if someone has different suggestions, I am all ears. I don't care much about more modern consoles---I'd rather just play the pc version via GOG or something. I don't have much interest in arcade games beyond the late 80's . Most of these prebuilds come with hundreds of GB of stuff that is super cool to look at, but probably wouldn't play all that often. The key points for me are: working MAME roms (or mostly anway) easily swap from Kodi back to the games front end. stability modular (if it gets too big I can strip off stuff that I don't use)

It does not launch Kodi, though. Nothing happens at all. I guess by integration I meant sort of like how Retrobat does it. You simply install Kodi and then enable it from the system settings and voila, you have a Kodi platform and it always launches and always responds to the gamepad for exiting and going back to Retrobat. Hasn't bugged out even once. I'd like to try Launchbox on that PC (it's my previous gaming laptop: MSI Dragon, 32 GB of RAM, 1.5 TB of SSD, GTX 980M GPU) for comparison, etc. Reliable Kodi usage is pretty key to this build, though. If I can't get that, I'd have to stick with Retrobat.

I created a Windows platform and then manually added a game and pointed it to my kodi.exe This should work, no? The process seems pretty straight forward, but I must be missing something. Do I need an add-on or anything like that for Kodi integration?

Thank you.

Since I was just kind of doing trial and error, I am not sure which option for image is the one shown in the wheel in BB platform view. Is it Banner or Clear Logo?

That worked! Thank you. Been bugging me for a long time

Hi all, I like to create playlists like Genesis - RPG, SNES - RPG, 80's Arcade Classics, etc, etc. They show up fine under the platform view, but have text only. How do I set an icon or a graphic? I downloaded a cool looking jpeg to use for the 80's Arcade Classics, but I have tried setting it as Banner and also as Clear Logo in LB, but when in BB it still just shows as text on the wheel. Am I missing something simple? Thank you.

Figured it out. For some reason I needed to redownload my retroarch cores. I did point the emu path to the new location, but it wasnt loading a game due to no cores. So I just redownloaded them. Not sure why that was necessary, but easy enough to fix. There must be a path set for each core when you download it and that path must contain a fixed volume letter I suppose.

I copied my LB installation to a faster ssd drive, but now am wondering what I need to tweak to be able to use it in its new location. The app launches fine and I can browse and see all the metadata, etc but games won't launch. When I try to launch a game, nothing happens. No error, no nothing. I think I may even have done this once years ago, but I've forgotten how to make this work. Thanks

So far I like this sync tool..doesn't seem to do movies, but I don't care so much about that. Still not sure what to do with the data after it is downloaded..is there a way to import this into LB?

Thank you, I am trying the sync tool. I pointed it to a rom folder and it's downloading. What do I do with the what it downloads? Is there somewhere I should copy this to....?

Is there a way I could just somehow start from scratch and make this a bit faster? Is there somewhere else I should scrape movies from other than emumovies? I'd be fine doing a re-install, but if I am going to just end up in the same situation, then there is no point in that.

Thank you for the reply. I was hoping it would re-use existing media. I'm honestly not sure if it did, as it still said it had like 65K things to download. It's now crawling its way through some box - 3D stuff. This is taking forever. Not sure it will finish before Christmas.

I had been using old romsets for genesis, nes, snes and tgx16. I recently finally got around to getting the most recent no-intro sets and spent a fair bit of time with Ultrasearch (great tool for Windows btw) curating those sets down to just USA (and Europe in some cases), and weeding out all proto, beta, rev, etc... So I then went into LB and removed all of those roms and platforms and then re-imported each one. After importing was completed, I then imported another one. Now my LB seems to be kind of stuck on doing the movies and stuff. I got the basic cover art and details for most games, but the other stuff is either stalled, broken or taking days and days ( and days and days it looks like based on progress bar) to finish off the other stuff. Did I break it? Is the process I described not a good way to "refresh" a romset?

Thank for the suggestions. I think I am going to put my Android Launchbox efforts on hold for now. I got a feel for it, which was nice, but have decided to focus on Windows for my Launchbox/Bigbox fun for now. I have two options connected to my Sony Bravia X90J: 1) Nvidia Shield TV (2017) 2) Windows 10 PC with 32 GB of RAM, Core i7-6820HK, 1.25 TB of SSD (2x Nvme and 1x 2.5 "), and an Nvidia GTX 980. Also, Bigbox is a fantastic front end. Obviously, option 2 has way more horsepower than option 1. But for me, I'm only usually interested in emulating classic 80's arcade game and 8bit and 16-bit systems. So I don't really need a lot of power for those activities. I was really wanting an all in one kind of experience, and was always longing for a functional version of Launchbox on Android TV. But I then realized that I prefer playing on the Win 10 machine. I have an Xbox controller connected and a Logitech keyboard/mouse combo with backlight (K830). I also recently moved away from stand alone emulators and installed Retroarch on the Windows 10 PC. I am a total RA convert now! Loving it! A common set of button mappings, save folder, everything launches full screen, etc, etc. So, so, so happy with Retroarch right now. The Windows 10 solution is easier to tinker with (via RDP), a more familiar OS environment for me, and I can import my GOG and Steam games as well. So for now, going to just focus on gaming on that device vs the Shield. I might as well keep all my gaming under one roof and my Kodi/Plex,Netflix, etc under a different one.

It's the one with no date. I think there are only about 4 that come with Retroarch Plus, and I have not added any others.

I have the default mame core loaded...android.so or something..

I'm leaving shortly for a long weekend, so if someone responds and I don't reply, I am not ignoring your response, just gone away for a few days.

I've always avoided Retroarch in the past due it's reputation for complex setup. I don't really find the setup to be all that complicated. However, it is not working for me. My two main issues are: Black screen: whenever I load a rom, I just get a black screen that needs to be backed out of. Input: it auto detects my Nvidia Shield gamepad, but I also have a Logitech K830 that I would like to use. It will not recognize that and mentions something about fallback and then I have no input and I have to force my way back to android tv home screen. I've tried, but I can't see how to setup my Logitech keyboard. This is mame 235 with a mame 0235 roms. The roms work fine if loaded from within Retroarch, but not Launchbox.

That's awesome! Thank you.

It worked when I was able to long press with a gamepad (I work from home, so I just needed a 5 min window to walk from my home office room to my TV room). That worked perfectly. Though if there are any Nvidia Shield TV users with no gamepad, it would be tough to get to that menu option, or perhaps there is a button on a keyboard to long press. Thank you.

Hmmm, I was going to try this just now, but I can't figure out how to do this remotely with a keyboard (I use Vysor for remote desktop on Android). I will try again when I am in front of my TV with a gamepad. But with a keyboard and mouse, I tried right clicking on a platform, but there was no delete option.

I will try that. Thank you.

I would like to remove all of my arcade roms and then copy over some newer roms, then re-import. But I am not sure how to do this and I can't seem to find any menu option(s) that would seem likely to achieve this. I did try this previously with my Genesis platform. I had copied over a dozen or so games after initial install just to see if I had the process properly and that everything worked as expected. Then later I removed all of those roms from the folder and added the same ones, plus some others. After importing, I had some duplicates. I would like to remove all arcade roms and then copy over the roms (and more) from a different romset, but I don't want duplicates like from before. What is the best method to do this? Thank you.

I did a ctrl-f and copied any entry with "save" in the description from the list here: https://www.file-extensions.org/filetype/extension/name/emulator-files I think i got them all: file extension srm Super Nintendo ROM saved game file extension dgz Dega saved state file extension zs2 ZSNES slot 2 saved state file extension dst DeSmuME saved state file extension gs0 Sega Genesis (Megadrive) emulator quick slot 0 saved game extension vms Dreamcast VMU save file file extension dsv DeSmuME saved game file extension dess Microsoft Device Emulator saved state file extension pj1 Project64 saved game file extension gsx Gens Sega emulator saved state file extension frz Snes9x saved state file file extension zs4 ZSNES slot 4 save state file extension gs4 Genecyst saved state slot 4 file extension sta MAME saved state file extension uss WinUAE saved state mcd file icon file extension mcd Bleem! memory card save file extension svs gpSP Game Boy Advance emulator saved state file extension sa1 Nintendo Game Boy emulator saved state file extension gci Nintendo GameCube saved game psx file icon file extension psx Sony PlayStation saved game file extension zs1 ZSNES slot 1 saved state file extension ds1 DeSmuME saved state file extension vgs Virtual Game Station memory card save file extension mc PlaySaver and PSEmuPro memory card save and single game save file file extension gme Interact DexDrive memory card saved state file extension dif MAME CHD diff saved data file extension zs7 ZSNES slot 7 saved state file extension zs9 ZSNES slot 9 saved state file extension zs6 ZSNES slot 6 saved state file extension 001 Snes9x slot 2 saved game file extension zs5 ZSNES slot 5 saved state file extension ds4 DeSmuME saved state file extension zs3 ZSNES slot 3 saved state file extension pcsxstate PCSX emulator saved game file extension zs8 ZSNES slot 8 saved state file file extension gs6 Genecyst save state 6 file file extension zs0 ZSNES slot 0 saved state file