Lordmonkus

It's not a cheap option but in my opinion it is the best option and that is a high end G-Sync or Freesync monitor if you got a video card that supports it. I use an Asus ROG 27" 1440p G-Sync monitor and it is absolutely awesome for both normal PC gaming and emulation. For starters, because it is a high end gaming monitor the input lag on it is extremely low which is really good for old school games. Then because it is a G-Sync (and Freesync) you can turn off V-Sync which is an added source of input lag and you won't get any screen tearing which can be very distracting. Mame benefits greatly from G-Sync because many games run at odd ball refresh rates. If you use V-Sync with Mame many times you will be running games faster than they were intended to but G-Sync matches the monitor to the games speed making for a much more accurate experience. Going for a higher resolution and 27" is beneficial for a couple of reasons. The first is that 240p is an even fit to 1440 so you can use integer scaling without any black bars at the top and bottom and CRT shaders will space the scanlines properly. The second benefit is the higher pixel density makes CRT shaders look much better than 1080. G-Sync comes at a pretty steep price though but in my opinion it is worth it if you are willing to spend the money on it but is an Nvidia only technology. Freesync is a good alternative option and not quite as expensive if you have an AMD video card. My monitor was 1000$ Canadian after taxes and that was on sale, definitely not a cheap investment but I have no plans on replacing this monitor for a very long time, nor do I regret the money spent on it. If you don't want to commit to such a costly investment or lock yourself into a specific brand of video card then the BenQ series of gaming monitors are very good. They have very low latency which is really good for retro gaming. The previous statements about resolution and size still apply to these monitors as well but you will still have to use V-Sync to avoid screen tearing. The input latency is most definitely noticeable when compared to a TV. But in the end though it will come down to your budget and what you are willing to spend

They are from an FBA set.

I never got the CHDs and they just worked

CPS3 games work fine for me using Retroarch and the FBAlpha core and I don't use CHDs at all.

It's not that the request is valid or invalid. Resolution changes are all within the emulator itself and Launchbox has nothing to do with it. If the emulator has a command line to change resolution then in theory it should be possible to pass that command line through within Launchbox. More details are needed to help but right now all we got is a vague question.

Sometimes certain rom hacks use hacks within an emulator itself to make the rom hack work. This is more common in SNES games where certain rom hacks require ZSnes to emulate because of funky shit that emulator does.

That's what it looked like to me.

If there was no rom in the link then please feel free to re-add the link. It just looked to me like there was a rom download there.

If the rom is already patched I know of no way to extract the "patch" content out to make a patch for a fresh rom. That being said though most rock hacks that work for PJ64 should in theory work for the Retroarch cores since they are are sort of loosely based on the same code depending on how far back you want to look. But of course there are always exceptions when a hack relies on some hack used in a specific emulator.

It would depend on the emulator and how it works that will determine the actual bat file would look. I am no bat file expert so hopefully someone much better at them will pop in and see this but here is the bat file I used for mounting Saturn games for SSF: @echo off set game=%1% set daemon="C:\Program Files (x86)\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" set emu="H:\Emulation\Emulators\SSF\SSF.exe" %daemon% -mount 0, %game% start /wait "" %emu% %daemon% -unmount 0

Not sure if it would work in this specific case or not but in the past when using a batch file to launch games like for example using SSF for the Saturn and mounting CDs you would set the batch file itself as an emulator and have your games use that "batch file emulator". Like I said though I am not sure if this will work in your specific case or not but it is worth a try.

If you are talking about the gameplay resolution that is all in the emulator and not the frontend.

If the file paths are identical except the drive letter in the "Find what" box put K:\ and then in the "Replace with" box put L:\ If the folder structure is actually different though you will want to replace the path with the new path so for example if your old roms was in something like: E:\Downloaded Games\Emulation\Roms\Mame\ and your new location is: H:\Emulation\Roms\Mame\ All you would need to do is put E:\Downloaded Games\ in the "Find what" box, and then in the "Replace with" box you would put: H:\ I hope this all makes more sense now.

You want the replace tab.

the xml for the platform of games you want to edit

Press Control + F to bring up the find tool, then go to the replace tab. In the "Find what" box put the text you want to replace and in the "Replace with" box the full path you want it to change.

Bulk edit the xml file with Notepad++ to find and replace the rom paths. And good god that is one messed up folder path naming system you have going there.

Don't make me ban you for forum spam

Take a look at this post in regards to setting up RA to do Atari 5200

Oh shit, you wanna do it though the Retroarch Mame core ? It's doable if you want to jump through flaming hoops like a circus animal but I really recommend using Altirra or the stand alone version of Mame / Mess.

Ah ok, I tried it in "Platforms" view and got nothing but now going back to look at it again the right clicking works when in "Playlists" view. A "Manage Playlists" menu item in the "Options" along side "Manage Emulators" and "Manage Platforms" would be nice for consistency though

I don't use RocketLauncher so hopefully someone who does will pop into this thread and be able help with that.

I finally got around to getting a beta version installed to check in on the playlists feature and really like it so far. I do have one question / request for it though. Is there a way to manage playlists and settings for playlists in the Launchbox UI ? When I first made a playlist it asked if I wanted to have it show up in the platforms list and I picked yes, but then decided I didn't want that and found no easy way of changing that without editing the xml file for the playlist file itself. It would be really handy to have a "Manage Playlists" entry in the "Options" menu where the "Manage Emulators" and "Manage Platforms" is. Hopefully this is part of the "to-do" list and if it isn't please add it

The emulator you choose to use and importing have nothing to do with each other. I would suggest getting away from Kawaks though and use either FBA or Mame.