Lordmonkus

https://ark.intel.com/products/97539/Intel-Core-i5-7260U-Processor-4M-Cache-up-to-3_40-GHz Looking at the CPU specs the base speed of the CPU Is pretty low for what I would call the more higher end emulation like PS2 and Gamecube / Wii but everything else should be fine. With the turbo speeds if it can maintain them consistently then it should be fine for the most part outside of PCSX2s funky behaviour which is there for any system as it is.

If you know what version your rom set is you can get the corresponding version of Mame, all the old versions are available on the Mame website. If your rom set and Mame works outside of Launchbox it all likely hood will work in Launchbox as well. Do you know which version you have ?

The most important thing in emulation performance will be single thread performance and clock speed. Also keep in mind that more than enough power to run an emulator is not necessarily going to waste when using an emulator that has a "frame delay" feature such as Retroarch. What this does is it allows you you raise the frame delay which in turn reduces input latency and this is something that the more powerful the CPU is the higher you can bump that frame delay.

I started up a new thread with a link to your post here in hopes of addressing complaints like yours and others, both here on the forums and on the discord channel.

Alex Edit: See Issue #179

As most of you may or may not have noticed I generally keep my nose out of database related stuff, it is outside of my area of skills and knowledge. However I have not been blind to the regular complaints from people about how it is being moderated and people contributing to it. So keeping in line with my "Small Things" thread idea that was a relative success I figured I would do the same thing here for you database people. What I would like is for those of you who contribute to and moderate the database to post your issues and complaints in this thread. This way we can have all the issues in one place instead of spread out across separate forum posts and on discord. After enough feedback has been given I will hand this thread over to @Jason Carr to figure what can be done to address any issues.

Ok just to address the first big thing here. You should never ever buy Mame and most importantly roms. Buying Mame and roms outside of legally licensed products is illegal and we will neither tell you where to do such things and in fact we highly suggest you never do this. We suggest this for a couple of reasons, reason one is it is illegal. Reason two, you have no idea what version of it is. Reason 3, you have no guarantees of it working and you have no idea what kind of shitware they have bundled with it. Reason 4, something will go wrong and you won't know how to fix it, building your own is not too difficult and you will learn how to fix things when they do go wrong. There are some complete rom sets on the internet and while I cannot (for legal reasons) provide direct links to where to get them I will give you search terms that you can Google and you should find what you are looking for quickly. "organization of archives" "paradise of emus" "dome of pleasure" The first too will have somewhat older sets but will still have most likely 99.9% of everything you would ever want to play. The last one will have the most up to date sets but you will have to register and be ok with using torrent. If you are new to Mame I would suggest taking a look at my guide I wrote for beginners to it.

To start out PS1 is by no means higher end emulation nowadays I would say it is more middle of the road at the most, even a Pi 3 can handle it just fine. Gamecube / Wii is probably next in terms of power needed to run the emulator (Dolphin) mainly because of the quality of the emulator itself and its optimization, those devs did an amazing job. I don't know where the bottom line needed to enjoy it would sit but I would say something in the 3 GHz neighborhood is safe. You could probably do lower end running the Ishiruuka builds which have a few extra speed hacks. Again I do say 3 GHz to be safe only because I do not know where the lower limits of the emulator are. Dreamcast is in weird state because none of the emulators for it are what I personally would consider "good". That isn't to say that Demul and NullDC are bad emulators, they just aren't polished and still need a lot of work to get on par with the likes of Dolphin, PPSSPP and everything else of its generation and prior. Demul requires fairly beefy CPU power but is the better emulator while NullDC runs better on lower end hardware just with more emulation issues. PS2 however is whole other beast. While it does the job and admirably well it is an absolute mess in terms of its design and as such requires a fairly good CPU to do it enjoyably. At the end of the day you can call me cynical or whatever but SOCs just aren't powerful enough for "enjoyable emulation" of anything beyond PS1 or N64. I put enjoyable emulation in quotes because that can be subjective depending on the person playing and exactly what games they want to play.

As far as I know right now no you cannot do that.

I guess if you want to be real technical about it sure but nothing is preventing you from installing and using Launchbox on as many systems you want. You just cannot widely share the license with your friends.

Jason has to do something to dissuade rampant license sharing and piracy and he found a great balance. You get to put Launchbox on as many machines as you like and you don't need to have an internet connection for it to work. Yes, the license can be deactivated but that is only done when a license has been found to be shared widely. I call that a fair way of doing it.

This might be a question best asked over on the Retroarch forums. Maybe someone here has an answer for you though.

You can email support@unbrokensoftware.com and ask about it but generally in the past Jason has only done this for people doing Youtube videos or streaming.

Arrangement settings such as what ? Order can be set using the "Sort Title" entry, it will be alphabetical but use the name in the sort title box.

You can, right click and edit the playlist. You will see at the bottom of the window a check box to "Include this Playlist in Platforms Lists". Once that is checked you will have a drop down menu to pick the platform category it will show in. However you cannot have it show as a sub playlist of a specific Platform. This is something I have been bugging Jason to implement for a while, hopefully he gets to it soon.

Platform or playlist ? For platform you would have to import the game to the platform. But for playlist you can right click a game and add it to a playlist but I believe it won't work with an auto generated playlist since those are generated using metadata tags.

No problem.

It's probably just not showing until you tell a playlist to show in that category. Right click a playlist and edit it, you will see an option in there to show it in a specific platform category. Launchbox does this for normal platforms as well, it hides the platforms that have no games imported for it. If you remove all the games from a platform that platform will disappear.

Yup, you can create your own categories and put playlists in them to organize further.

Well you could have started by not importing them or you can use the consolidate tool found in the Tools menu. It will merge all the duplicate roms into a single entry and then you can choose which rom to load when you launch a game.

Those are playlists which you can easily remove by either right clicking and deleting it or close Launchbox and then go to the \Launchbox\Data\Playlists\ folder and deleting the .xml files in there. Load up Launchbox and those playlists should be gone.

I haven't tried that so I don't know.

If you are getting a black screen and shutting down when using .dim files it could be that you do not have the correct bios or your rom path is set incorrectly. That would the 2 main causes of problems.

During the import process they were most likely considered a clone rom and therefore not imported. You could force import the single rom on its own. during the import process you will get to a screen where there is a checkbox to force import duplicate.\ Hopefully that works for you.

Demume for NDS is your only real choice as of right now but there are other up and coming DS emulators so keep your eye on those. For GBA mGBA is considered the best emulator for it. Both have stand alone versions and Retroarch cores so you can pick either. Edit: The author of mGBA is working on a DS emulator that will be included along with mGBA and is going under the name Medusa. The DS emulator is in early stages however.