[Gameboy Advance games not launching in RetroArch]

You can save a per core setting for it.

[Gameboy Advance games not launching in RetroArch]

[Gameboy Advance games not launching in RetroArch]

You can set the aspect ratio to 16:9 and stretch it to full screen, it will distort a little but no where nearly as bad as a 4:3 games. Also you can use bezels or a GBA border shader in the handheld folder of the shaders.

[Gameboy Advance games not launching in RetroArch]

[Gameboy Advance games not launching in RetroArch]

Games load perfectly fine using mGBA in RA using LB, you have to have something wrong in LB like a typo in your command line parameter or your platform name doesn't match up with the platform in the Associated Platforms.

Nintendo Game Boy Advance	-L "cores\mgba_libretro.dll"

 

[Arkanoid Joystick Too Fast. How Do I Slow It Down?]

I am assuming you are wanting to use the d-pad so that is what I have toyed around with here. Though if you want to use the analog stick it should still be the same but with the analog stick.

When you load the game press the Tab key on your keyboard and then go to Input (This Machine) and set it like this:
Dial Analog set to none and the Dial Analog Dec and Inc to the directions on your controllers d-pad. If you are using the analog stick you may want to set the Dial Analog to your X Axis as it is by default and adjust the sensitivity.

Then back out one menu level and go into Analog Controls and adjust the Dial Digital Speed to something that feels good for you. 15 is the default which feels a little slow, I set mine to 30 and it felt pretty good but you will want to play around with the numbers to find a setting you like.

[Arkanoid Joystick Too Fast. How Do I Slow It Down?]

Gimme a few minutes and I will toy around with it and see what I can come up with.

[Arkanoid Joystick Too Fast. How Do I Slow It Down?]

Adjust it to your liking in the controller settings in Mame. Though keep in mind it won't ever be perfect.

[Setup CPS 3 with Retroarch]

Try both FBA cores, the one with the year 2012 in its name and the one without. The one that will work best will depend on the rom set you are using.

[Complete noob: Will a shitty standard HP do??]

My honest opinion is to get the best you are willing to spend the money on. The newer the generation and the higher the clock speed the better along with instructions per clock cycle.

I always tell people that more CPU power does not go to waste with emulation. With more CPU power using Retroarch you can tune the settings to reduce input lag by boosting the frame delay setting and this requires more CPU power the higher you push it.

[Update M.A.M.E or no...]

I believe Jason uses an internal database file based on the (i think 174 mame), it does need to be updated though and is planned to be done sometime soon.

[Alpha jump lists]

Yeah, I got no problems with people asking questions in old threads. Sometimes people use Google to try and  find a solution to a problem and the old thread can be the only one that shows up based on their search. So why not answer it for them and the anyone else who may stumble across the thread later on.

[Update M.A.M.E or no...]

Here is a pic of the Mame import filter in Launchbox:

Just using that default it will import approx 2800 games which is still a lot but better than the 10,000+ it would be if you imported every single file.

[Help with Xtension Controller mapping]

You can set your buttons in the main settings input menu but you are setting a global setting which may or may not work the way you want in each core.

I would suggest leaving the main setting one alone all together and then load up each core and a game and setting your controls on a per core basis and save a core over ride for it, that's what I do with my Hori Fight Commander.

1 minute ago, Aesthetic said:

3) ...and in Controls under "User 1 Device Type" I'm assuming I scroll over to "MD Joypad 6 Button" for Sega. Is that correct, or does it matter? Changing that field doesn't seem to change anything relative to the buttons I have to program so I'm not sure I understand what this field is for.

This is for setting your controller to a 3 button or 6 button Genesis, there is a Mode button in the Genesis controller settings which is a toggle between 3 and 6 button, some games won't work if this is set incorrect, it was the same on real hardware as well.

[Help with Xtension Controller mapping]

Is that in the main settings or the quick menu when you have the core and game loaded ?

[Help with Xtension Controller mapping]

Load a game with as well if there isn't one already.

[Help with Xtension Controller mapping]

In the main RA controller setup without any cores loaded up the button labeling represents an SNES controller layout but with shoulder buttons and analog sticks like an Xbox controller.

If you load a core however and go into the controller settings for the core the inputs will be labeled as if they are the controller of the console being emulated. Here is a screenshot of the Genesis controller window with the Genesis core loaded.As you see, the left hand side is the Genesis buttons, the right hand side has the buttons on my actual controller which is a PS3 controller so it has PS button labels and then in the brackets its the keyboard buttons that do the same function.

[Complete noob: Will a shitty standard HP do??]

Without any first hand experience with that CPU my guess is that it isn't quite fast enough for PS2 emulation but you should be fine up to the N64. You would also run into issues with Saturn and SNES with the more accurate emulators for those systems (Higan/BSnes and Mednafen), Snes9x will be perfectly fine with it and maybe you could get away with SSF for Saturn. Playstation with Mednafen or Retroarch may run ok on it but if it doesn't ePSXe would be fine.

A video card and rom upgrade unfortunately won't help you with emulator performance because it is far more CPU dependent. Graphics cards do help when you start getting into things like shaders and upping the internal resolution of the 3D systems like N64.

[How tf do i use this. I have cds but it keeps asking for a rom file, and explains this nowhere. how do we turn cds to rom files ? and if not how tf is everyone else doing it]

360 is also barely able to be considered "emulated" anyways, it technically loads and plays a couple of games but extremely glitchy.

[How tf do i use this. I have cds but it keeps asking for a rom file, and explains this nowhere. how do we turn cds to rom files ? and if not how tf is everyone else doing it]

If you use Google there is lots of info out there on dumping your own disks to emulator compatible disk images and some emulators do support actual CDs. The Saturn emulator SSF supports actual CDs. I have dumped my own Saturn games using ImgBurn, just put the disk in the drive and ImageBurn will recognize it, from there just create a cue + bin image.

You will have to look up instructions though on how to rip your own disks. Most people just download them from various sites on the internet.

[Update M.A.M.E or no...]

18 minutes ago, thegreatiandi said:

Are there really many more changes in the new set that you notice?

There are some really good games that have been added recently like Akai Katana, also the shaders have been improved dramatically if that is something you care about and the Cave emulation has gotten a really nice boost in performance.

20 minutes ago, thegreatiandi said:

Since I'm new to Launchbox, i do believe that LB uses MESS.

Launchbox will use whatever you like but Mess has been rolled into Mame now, it's all in one.

21 minutes ago, thegreatiandi said:

Now that im building a new one with Launchbox Bigbox, im wondering if there is any real reason to take on the tremendous undertaking of finding, downloading, weeding out bad roms, trying so desperately to get the CHD roms to work ( lol )....and perhaps...trying to find a No-intro set?

Finding and downloading isn't so bad, you can get all the Mame stuff from pleasuredome without any share ratio requirement and No-Intro sets can be found on the internet archive. The sorting though will be some manual work if you don't want everything imported.

[Importing roms for Lynx emulated by Mame skips most of my games]

By the way, if you expect to use Mame as your emulator and have them detected by Mame maybe you should get your games from the Mame Software lists since that is what Mame checks your roms against instead of Smokemonster rom sets.

[Importing roms for Lynx emulated by Mame skips most of my games]

I gave you helpful advice to work around your issue but I guess you didn't get the answer you wanted and you gave bad information about "Mame being on par with or better than most emulators"

So I suggest you not be so confrontational when you don't get the exact answer you want.

Locking this thread now and if you don't like it take it up with Jason.

[Importing roms for Lynx emulated by Mame skips most of my games]

You missed the part where I said "main stream 8,16 and 32 bit systems" and I also said in many cases it is the "only choice for oddball systems".

Most everything you just listed falls under the "oddball systems" category. Perhaps you should go back to the link you provided earlier in the thread where even they list other emulators as better since the Mame driver for it is listed as either preliminary.

9 minutes ago, Wolf_ said:

Also you seem to think the disclaimer they put before most systems means mame is bad for them.

Don't presume what I think. I am fully aware of the Mame devs OCD perfection nature and need to flag even an extremely minor problem audio glitch.

Anyways, I am not going to get into a further debate with you on this because you certainly seem to be stirring for a fight complaining about not receiving a warning/prompt because the Mame importer did not detect your console games, it is there for Arcade games since the vast majority of users don't use Mame for the "popular" consoles because there are better emulators.

 

[FM Towns Computer in Lauchbox with Mess]

It may be a bad disk dump which can be a common problem with CD based game dumps.