Lordmonkus

Now we're in court and you said earlier you didn't need a lawyer.

Mames license strictly prohibits it being packaged with a commercial product, it's right in the license for it, much like most other emulators.

Like I said as long as you cover all your bases.

The difference is in that is what the license that Mame falls under does not allow it to be packaged in with a commercial product. I also hope that since you are planning on having Launchbox with it that you have a deal worked out with @Jason Carrif you are packaging in the premium BigBox mode. You also need to consider the operating system as well since you are talking about a Windows only program like Launchbox.

Legally your best bet is to do it the way RetroPie does things. Make your hardware to sell. Have a disk image that has all the software (minus the roms) to download for free like the RetroPie. Put a USB stick in the hardware and it will then generate all the rom folders then put the USB stick back in your main PC and the user copies their roms to the appropriate folders on the USB stick. Then plug the USB stick back into the cabinet and it will copy the roms over to the drive in the cabinet.

Yeah, it was a bios file for the V64 that allowed the unit to make backups. Like I said, I actually owned one of these units along with friends of mine. I even owned one of these for SNES and Genesis. But this has nothing to do with your original question at all. Making backups for personal use is not the issue at all but re-selling the roms in any format is.

By default with an XBox controller the A button takes you to the 2nd screen but the X button will load the rom directly. This does for me at least without any extra configuring.

Yeah, I owned one. You didn't connect it to the internet to download roms. You downloaded a bios file to actually make the system work because out of the box it did not do anything. You still had to source your own roms. Nintendo went after Bung because Nintendo had way more money and put them out of business by burying them financially.

Do you know the exact license deal that X-Arcade has or what they have done in the background ? If you are really serious about this you should still hire a lawyer to cover your own ass and not go based on assumptions about what X-Arcade has done. Who knows what the original license agreement was between Namco or Atari and the people who made the PS2 anthology disks. I would doubt that agreement covers someone else re-releasing years later on some other format. It's much like the NES Classic and it's licenses, back in the day when Konami and Nintendo agreed to have Contra on the original NES it was just for that system. To put it on the NES Classic a new license agreement would have to be re-negotiated. You would also need to make sure that the latest Mame builds are allowed to be sold in a commercial product. I don't believe it is but I really don't know, the whole GPL and reselling thing is a legal nightmare. As far as the original question about how to rip the roms out of a PS2 disk for use with Mame I have never heard of a way to do this.

Do the anthology disks license even apply to a direct arcade rom ? Is Mame even legally allowed to be sold with this ? This is all stuff best left to a lawyer. As far as ripping the roms out of the anthology disks themselves I don't know if that's possible because how it's packaged together in the binary for the PS2 to read.

But my question was are you trying to package up the roms with some sort of hardware and sell it yourself but done in a legal way ? If you are then you need to look into getting a lawyer to answer these questions. If you are not and you are only doing this for your own personal Mame cabinet don't even worry about it. No one is gonna be knocking on your door and checking your roms to see if you legally own them.

Ok so you want to re sell these roms with some sort of hardware and be legal ?

Why would you even want to do this ?

I will add this tip to the main post. This is something I have always done right away just out of pure personal aesthetic reasons so I had never given any thought to this as a possible culprit of performance issues.

Sounds like it could be some sort of bug, maybe @Jason Carrwill have an answer for you.

You might be able to use the "Additional Apps" tool in Launchbox to pass a command to load the profile on game load and then another one to load a default or unload Joy2Key on close. Depending on how many games you have to do this with though it could be very time consuming to do all of them. I am not an expert with the additional apps and joy2key though so maybe someone else more knowledgeable on these things might be able to give a better answer.

You could always take things a bit slower and just import one game at a time with individual cue files.

You can have Launchbox unzip your games if you wanted, though this is not the way I do it but either way works. I'd suggest checking out Brads tutorial videos for each system. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSIht6UXIEXIgz4eXAEShxA/videos

That's what I do but you do what works for you.

I don't.

Nah, it's not to use but I have hardly ever used it at all, only a couple of times.

You should be able to and have LB extract them before loading them. I say "should" because this is not something I do, I have all my PS1 games extracted into their own folders which contains their cue + bin files or pbp.

No problem.

Are you using ePSXe ? If you are you will probably want to check your video settings and set your desktop resolution to match your monitors resolution. This is my first guess at the cause of this issue.

Yeah, Retroarch requires extra command lines for each core and which core you use will change the command line. As for the theme you will need to enable that theme in the Options > View settings in BigBox mode.