Lordmonkus

I always recommend the Snes9x core because of it's ease of use and no special chip requirements. While bsnes / higan is technically more accurate the different is really negligible.

Not that I am aware of with the stand alone emulators, you can however setup custom controller mapping on a per game level with Retroarch.

Or you can edit the mame.ini file and look for the following section and set window to 0 instead of 1. # # OSD VIDEO OPTIONS # video auto numscreens 1 window 0

What do you mean exactly ? Do you mean Mame is opening in windowed mode or do you mean that the gameplay screen is not filling in all the black space ?

View > Show Versions and uncheck it or press Control + R on the keyboard.

FBA/FBN has it's own rom set and versioning just like with Mame but the roms while extremely similar to Mame they are not 100% compatible. There is some crossover in roms and there is some compatibility though.

Amiga tends to be very tough to scrape due to the fact that the disk images and whdloads found online have very funky naming that is not friendly to the scraper.

Of course it could have changed and likely has.

Make sure your bios are correct and make sure you are loading the cue file from your disk image. Loading the bin or incorrect bios can give you black screens. You can use the GL driver without issue, it will work.

Yup, and you don't need to use the suggested emulators in LB, those are just some basic examples. You can use pretty much any emulator you choose.

Of course it is, Launchbox doesn't control the settings of any emulator, it merely tells what emulator what game to load. All emulator settings such as video or control are set in the emulators themselves.

It should unless something changed with MameUI. Make sure your mame.ini file is located in the main folder along side the executable and not in a sub folder.

Try putting your roms in C:\users\username\roms and then edit the mame.ini file to point to that location: rompath "C:\users\username\roms" Wrap the path in quotes as a precaution just in case you have a space in your user name.

If your rom set is a proper full Mame rom set then you have no need to have RA to scan them for use with Launchbox.

If you keep your roms in the \roms sub folder of your Mame install then you don't need to change anything in the mame.ini file. The default setting should be: rompath roms rompath roms

I would suggest getting images from the LBDB and videos from EmuMovies. After importing and scraping if you find games have no media available from the LBDB then you can try EmuMovies for media for those games.

No worries.

We don't need multiple threads about this so I merged the two.

When it comes to CPU you also want to look at the IPC (Instructions Per Clock Cycle), it's arguably more important than raw speed but they both play off each other. A slower 5th gen Intel would be far better for emulation than a faster 1st or 2nd gen Intel.

New Feature: Media downloads are now saved and resumed when exiting and restarting LaunchBox From the 11.12 change log: https://www.launchbox-app.com/about/changelog

AMD has the new 5000 series Ryzen APUs coming out soon. From what I can see lately here in Canada is that things are slowly returning to normal hardware availability wise though GPUs are still tough to get. Unfortunately if you need a complete system then buying a prebuilt is the only real option currently outside of paying scalper prices for GPUs.

Every so often this question pops up and it's never a super simple straight forward answer of "buy X product". I'll just repeat what I always say, buy the best modern CPU you can afford / willing to spend on. It doesn't matter right now if you buy Intel or AMD but if you are going older generation like pre Ryzen series AMD then you want Intel. You can never have too much CPU power with emulation, you can always push the extra CPU power into settings (frame delay) in Retroarch and Mame to reduce input latency. Don't stress too much over the graphics card, they aren't a major factor in emulation unless you start talking about the newer systems emulators like RPCS3 and Cemu for example. Even a newer AMD Ryzen APU would be enough. Hard drives are cheap, get as much as you think will need for your collection. If you are going for full sets (especially CD and DVD based systems) then you will want A LOT of drive space. But if you are only going to have hand picked sets then you can get away with much less space. Don't bother with having your rom collection on an SSD drive, an old fashioned mechanical drive is perfectly fine. Though I would highly suggest an SSD for the OS and maybe even Launchbox but keep in mind if you have a large collection and get all the media available then you may run into space issues on an SSD unless you are willing to splurge on a larger one like 2TB - 4TB.

This is precisely the reason that all this talk about changing the DB platform naming is pointless.