Lordmonkus

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.

This is how I do things. I use File Manager and navigate to where my roms for a system are and select all the roms I want and just drag them into LB to start the import wizard. I never use the tools>import. I then go through the imported collection and remove any junk I don't want. Then when I add new games to my collection I import them the same way. I never use the "Scan for added roms, it's problematic in LB and other frontends for the exact same reason you describe, it re-imports junk files you don't want. If you have a game tagged as a favorite why would you remove it ? I'm not sure why this would be a problem that LB forgets that you had a rom removed from your library and if it did remember it, this would only serve to bloat the xml files with useless data. I too keep my roms outside of the Launchbox folder.

Yeah Launchbox will run on your system but performance may or may not be what you expect depending on certain things like how much other stuff is running on your system at the same time, what theme you use and how many games you have. I run BigBox on a very old PC hooked up to my TV but I keep my game selection limited, use a lightweight theme and turn off all the fancy effects in BigBox but still looks great. For reference my system specs are the following: Windows 7 AMD Athlon 3800+ @ 2.4 GHz 2 gigs ram Radeon 7850 (1 gig DDR5 vram) Some generic 160 gig hard drive 2500+ games A dedicated graphics card does help with BigBox and I would suggest if you were looking to build a more powerful dedicated PC for emulation that would be a good thing some point later. I always tell people you can never have too much hardware for emulation even though you can get away with lower specced hardware for the basics. Mame mainly emulates arcade games but it does emulate other stuff like consoles and home PCs as well but that is a more advanced subject. Oh and welcome to the forums, feel free to ask any questions you may have and we will do our best to help you with anything. Since you seem to be new to emulation allow me to point you to a guide I recently write up just for people such as yourself.