Lordmonkus

A very similar subject to this has come up in the past and there are a couple of reasons why this is not a trivial thing. For starters RetroPie being based purely around the Libretro cores, they basically built a UI for it. There is no flexibility to add other emulators and this is one of Launchbox's many advantages. Second, Jason is just a one man programming team and dedicating time to program a UI from the ground up for a Linux port of Launchbox to simply mimic RetroPie is not feasible. Maybe one day he will have an army of monkeys programming for him a Linux port of Launchbox can be made It's not that your idea is bad, and it isn't a bad idea. It's just one that is simply not feasible currently for Launchbox. Edit: Here is the discussion similar to this topic previously, things got a little heated but in the end it was all good.

If you got the CPU to run BSnes I don't see any good reason to use Snes9x but hey it's your system and your choice

You can but requires a little bit of work. The easiest way would be to set up a separate install of Retroarch and just select it from the emulators list for the games you want to use it for.

If you have 2 different emulators just choose Retroarch from the dropdown for the games you want to run it with. Just out of curiosity why not use one of the BSnes cores for all your Snes emulation ? If you have the CPU to run it you may as well use it.

It works, I just tried it out. I use the BSnes Accuracy as my default Snes core. Setting the use custom command-line parameter to -L "cores\snes9x2010_libretro.dll" made the game run with the Snes9x core.

I am fairly certain it overrides, I will double check though.

Yes. If its just a small collection of games just use a custom command line for those games. Right click the game > edit > emulation tab. Check "Use custom command-line parameters" Then put in the command line: -L "cores\bsnes_accuracy_libretro.dll" Do that for each game. If you want to use a totally different emulator just edit each game but instead of the custom command line just select a different emulator from the choose an emulator drop down menu.

Cool. Damn computers and software can be weird at times.

Something weird is going on and I right now I am stumped as to what to check next. Maybe something will pop in my head to check, or maybe someone else has an idea.

Hmm, everything seems to be set up right. Do other systems using Retroarch work fine through Launchbox ? Like Sega Genesis ?

Ok, first question is are your rom files compressed or uncompressed ? I see you have the extract rom archives before running box checked. Second question is do you have the Snes9x2010 core downloaded and in the \Retroarch\cores\ folder ? Third question is do your games load just using Retroarch on its own ? Last thing to check is make sure your platform names in your Associated Platforms list matches the names of your platforms.

Can you post screen shots of your emulator settings window and the associated platforms tab ?

I don't think the price itself is unreasonable considering the overall quality of the games in the collection and current market for NES games. The bigger issue is going to be in finding a person who actually wants all of or most of those games all in one lot. A lot of collectors will already have many of these games in their collections. But if someone is just starting out and has the money to spend on kickstarting a collection from scratch then it seems fairly reasonable.

Do you have it working on it's own ? If no, get it working on it's own first, unfortunately I am unable to help with that because a buddy of mine gave me his all setup with all the necessary files so my knowledge of setting it up is exactly zero. But if you do have it working on its own then the simplest method to getting it working through Launchbox is to create batch files for each game and import those batch files. Here is how to do that. Step 1) Make a batch file for each game, call the batch file whatever you like. I made these batch files right in the directory which contains the daphne.exe Step 2) This step will be repeated for each game. Open your DaphneLoader.exe and for each game you have and want to import into Launchbox click the Configure button and go to the Advanced tab. The bottom drop down menu "Display command line", set this to Enabled, click apply and ok. Now when you start that game it is going to popup with a bunch of text, select it all and copy. The game will launch but just exit back out. Step 3) Open the batch file you created for the game in notepad you just copied the command line information from and paste it in and save. Step 4) Drag the bat file into Launchbox and put into whatever platform you choose. I use the platform Daphne. Step 5) Right click the game and click edit. Go to the emulation tab and uncheck "Use an emulator to play this game". After you click apply it will popup with a message saying you need to specify and emulator do you want to do this now, click no. Now you can go back into each game and reverse Step 2 to disable "Display command line" When you launch a game from Launchbox if you get an error message repeat Step 5 just to double check it.

Yeah for sure, the oddball systems like the 3DO and Jaguar are good examples of emulators that are lacking.

I wouldn't recommend using stand alone versions where possible no more than I would recommend only using Retroarch cores where possible. I would only recommend trying out different emulators to find the best solution to individual emulation problems and cases. There are systems where the stand alone version of an emulator is better than the RA core like PSP and N64. At the same time there are systems where the RA cores are better than the stand alone options like Sega Genesis / CD, TurboGrafx 16 / CD and Snes. And then you get a situation like the Playstation where it depends on your hardware whether or not you should use the RA core vs ePSXe vs Xebra.

Yeah but the people who bought it out from AOL have been promising a new version forever so for now it's still the same software it was under AOL. Aimp and Foobar both sound better and have better functionality (tabbed playlists ftw). And yes they do sound better, I have tested them compared to Winamp and even with my shitty hearing I can hear a distinct difference in sound quality.

Hehe, sorry I just couldn't resist Winamp definitely is an all time great but it became such garbage when it got bought out. Aimp and Foobar kicks its ass all over the place nowadays.

I ignored everything once I noticed Winamp running

I search both US and Canada Ebay.

Yeah I check Ebay every now and again for these items and looking at the Conker manuals I see the same things I am trying to avoid. The first link wants an extra 20$ US for shipping which makes the booklet 50$ US which is like 70$ Canadian and I am not paying that much. The 2nd link says may not ship to Canada And the third one while is 20$ plus 16.50$ shipping plus another 9$ import fees. We are now up to 45$ US again.

Cool, good to know for sure for now. I really wish the RA guys would get to work on the controller support, I asked the week the RA Mednafen Saturn core came out about analog controls and a dev said it should be easy and would be in soon. That was a while ago now though

ahh

lol, yeah I had a sneaking suspicion that the mouse control would be wonky. It works pretty good in the stand alone though, just have to tweak it and not try and move the mouse too quickly.

It just got released a couple of days ago. Yeah RA does have mouse support and works great in systems like the Genesis, but I didn't test it in the Mednafen Saturn core. I know it's an option but so is analog controls Let me know if it works for you though.