Lordmonkus

Ahh, gotcha. Well you can still try the settings I mention and some of the stuff in the performance thread, hopefully it helps you out.

Is there any chance you can add a graphics card to your system ? It doesn't need to be anything fancy at all, just a cheap low profile one with 1 gig of gddr5 vram on it, shouldn't cost more than 30-40$. It would help out quite a lot but in the meantime in BigBox try turning off all the transition effects and set your image quality to medium. There are some performance tips which may help you in this thread here if you haven't seen it already. You shouldn't be getting freezes though, @Jason Carr has been testing BigBox on a GPD Win which is pretty low end hardware and aiming to get it running well with certain settings.

Just for starters I do not use the Retroarch Mame core, I prefer the stand alone. Now having said that I just tested out Mame and Street Fighter and changed my buttons to a mapping that works for me using the Mame "tab menu" like I would in stand alone Mame. It saved my controller mappings perfectly fine. Retroarch stores these controller configs along with the default.cfg in: Retroarch\saves\MAME\mame\cfg

If I remember correctly I believe Platform Categories was added after the Playlists (I could be wrong though) and @Jason Carr didn't go back in and add it to the list of options for the Auto Population window. Your tagging of all the Handheld games using the Bulk Edit tool is certainly the best work around for now.

You can't do "Platform Category" but you can do "Platform" and select the different platforms you do want it to pull from. Yeah flagging all the portable games would work as well.

I'm not exactly sure what it is you are trying to do. The auto populating playlists relies on the meta data of the games to help it out and the Platform Categories just organizes the platforms. If you are wanting to just make a playlist for all your "Console" games and none of your "Handheld" ones, just go to each Console platform, select all the games using Control + A and then right click and add to new playlist. You can just rinse and repeat for each platform but after the first one just add to the existing playlist you made from the first one.

Not exactly sure what you are asking. Launchbox has categories to separate your Console and Handheld platforms and you can generate playlists using the platform name.

Set your exit key in Mame back to Escape and if you are using the premium version of Launchbox set your controller button combo in the controller automation section of the options (have to set it in both Launchbox and BigBox) and it will just work by default since the controller automation is set to Escape.

Good stuff.

Secret of Mana got an Official Remaster PCM pack uploaded. http://www.zeldix.net/t798-secret-of-mana

No problem.

As for what is correct for RocketLauncher that I cannot say, I don't use RocketLauncher. For Launchbox itself though we recommend Split or Non-Merged sets for now but on the current poll there is proposed better support for Merged sets. Merged sets do currently work in Launchbox but it does lack the customization and control the end user has over which specific rom gets loaded.

Yes Yes Here is a thread with different AHK scripts for different tasks. If something you need isn't there please feel free to ask in that thread and hopefully someone has one for it. AutoHotkeyScripts can be used for a lot of things that certain emulators lack.

Use an AutoHotkeyScript $Esc:: { Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}} }

https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/35212-lets-talk-atari-5200-emulation/

I would suggest asking over on the Retroarch forums, maybe they got an answer for you. You're the first person I have seen mention this issue so I have no experience with it.

That is strange but myself and many others use RA without any issue you describe and when you say a reboot fixes it for a short period of time that leads me to believe a likely hardware issue.

Yeah that sounds like a hardware issue.

Does Retroarch crash on its own when run outside of RL and / or LB ? Does crash out immediately when loading a game or does it load and play for a while and then crash ?

Yeah that's right for CHDs, they are huge.

N64 and Gamecube will be touch and go with your system specs. I think you would be fine but you really would just have to test them out and see how it goes for you.

Ahh gotcha. Yeah I just imported sets and removed the junk and then if I add something later like a rom hack or a better version of a rom I just add it manually by dragging it into LB like I described above.

1. Correct 2. BigBox just gives a nice and fancy way or organizing, displaying and launching your games using your controller. 3. Well some people like to have gigantic libraries of every game for every system and when you start dealing with games in the multiples of 10s of thousands of games things can bog down due to the sheer size of the xml files Launchbox / BigBox has to deal with. Smaller libraries <10,000 games shouldn't be a problem though.

Well I just meant why remove something you had tagged as a favorite.