Lordmonkus

It is weird, i'm at a total loss.

Yeah I saw the video. Yeah there are properties but the vector section is just how the vector lines are displayed so you can tweak how they look. So weird that it will run full screen but not windowed.

They don't have different paths. I don't know about settings though but they should run in windowed mode just fine.

Here is what is inside my astdelux.7z file. It matches what is missing in your picture. That message usually means it cannot find those rom files so your rom path is wrong or your rom file is wrong. But everything you are saying and showing says your path and rom is correct. I am really stumped but I can almost guarantee at this point once you figure it out it is going to be something really stupid and simple.

Hmm, open your rom file and see what's inside.

Like I said I am completely stumped at the moment. Everything I can think of off the top of my head right now I don't think it is. I thought maybe you had a different emulator set for those games but I can see in your first pic it's set to 0.175. Your second pic is showing the rom is green in MameUI so your roms are correct. My first post I said whenever I have run into this problem it was a rompath issue or I didn't have a parent rom copied over but you only have the one rom folder. Sorry I am stumped, hopefully someone else sees this and can think of what the problem would be. I really don't think this would cause or fix the problem but I don't use MameUI, I use the command line version.

Ok so it's not just Atari games. Man I am really at a loss on this one. If the games are loading though MameUI 0.175 itself they should load through Launchbox unless you somehow got some setting in Launchbox causing a problem. It has to be some weird little thing.

Hmm I didn't have the original Asteroids pulled into Launchbox but just for testing I pulled the rom over into my mame favourites rom folder and imported it into Launchbox. I use Mame 0.174 command line version and my Asteroids is revision 4 just like yours. The game loads just fine so there is something weird going on for you. If the game is loading just fine when going through MameUI itself it should work. Usually when a game isn't loading it is either a missing parent / bios or a rompath issue but it doesn' appear to be the issue since the game is green in MameUI. You mentioned that you have 3 games including Asteroids with this problem, what are the other games ?

Awesome to hear, glad to see that little program still working in Windows 10. I just wish bbLean worked in Windows 8 and 10 like it did for 7 and earlier. Something changed in 8 and using bbLean just doesn't quite work right anymore, it sorta works but there are bugs.

The only time I have run into this issue is when I have 2 different folders for roms. I have a "full" set and a "favourites" set of games I have pulled out. I don't have a full Mame list set up in Launchbox I just import games from my favourites folder to keep things from getting too crazy. Sometimes when I pull a game from the full set into the favourites I forget to pull in a "parent" rom with it.

Just the tip ?

Yeah, no rush on these features especially for Daphne since like you said it is just a small number of games. You get to them when you can, hopefully there is an easy way to implement it like how @Zombeaveris saying.

The user by the name of wyzrd over on the Retroarch forums has made this awesome little program you can use to check for updates and download and install them for you. Here is the link for the forum thread and the download link is over there: http://libretro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6726 As always with something like this, make a backup of your Retroarch folder first just in case.

Lol, so many things that we go through in tinkering that we forget about after the fact.

Yeah this is a simpler way of doing it when you have a lot of games and want to switch out.

Thanks DOS76, I figured my was was probably over thinking it. It was just how I had it setup from a while back and it just worked so I never changed it.

Yeah it depends on what your hardware can run and just how accurate you care to be. For me I have the hardware to run very accurate emulators so why not do it and make sure I am getting the best possible experience. On my PSP and lower powered laptop I obviously have to make sacrifices but I am fine with that too. I also am willing to sacrifice some accuracy for certain features. For example I could use Higan v100 but I would rather use Retroarch and bSnes Accuracy for the shaders. It all comes down to hardware capabilities and features you want / need in your emulators.

So here it is after 4am again and after about an hour and a half of pulling my hair out trying to figure this one out I found out how to have 2 controllers hooked up in Retroarch for the same core. This is mostly due to a tip I found buried on the RA forums but damnit it's after 4am and I am taking a sliver of credit for this one. If like me you have 2 controllers hooked up. I have an Xbox 360 controller for analog stick games like PS2, Dreamcast, Gamecube but most importantly for this discussion PS1 and Saturn. And I have a Hori Fight Commander 4 for digital controller games and consoles like the NES, SNES, Genesis and TurboGrafx. Retroatch will only let you set up one controller per core but if you want to change controllers you need to remap to the other controller which can get annoying. For the consoles that do not use an analog stick this is not a big deal but for the PS1 and Saturn where different games use different controls this is a problem. At first I figured just making a custom config file and appending that config in the custom command parameter with the -c switch would work. But nope that did not work and after digging around on the Retroarch forums I found that this is not possible to do. Then I thought maybe using the per game control remaps would possibly work, nope. This way will let you do remaps on the same controller but not change actual controller. The solution I found digging and is pretty simple. Make a copy of the core dll file and rename it something different. For example I copied the mednafen_psx_libretro.dll and renamed it mednafen_psx_libretro_analog.dll. I have the default one set up to use the digital d-pad controller since the vast majority of my PS1 games use that controller. For the few analog controller games I just edit and set a custom command to load that core -L "cores\mednafen_psx_libretro_analog.dll" With this new core and it's core config generated I now went in and set up my controls for the Xbox controller and it's all good. Anyways it is now 4:37 AM and bed time. If anyone has a better solution to this problem please let me know. I tried like hell to get the custom config solution to work but no way could I get it even though it seems like it should.

Good to know. It really is too bad there is no RA core for it. I saw it's accuracy rating on the TAS chart and its extremely impressive at over 98%.

It is a more accurate emulator than Nestopia and that accuracy usually comes at the cost of processing power needed to run it. I did find a game earlier though that the Nestopia core in Retroarch and puNES couldn't play though, the game Crisis Force. It does however run in the RA core FCEUMM and may run in Mednafens NES emulator or BizHawks NES core, sadly there is no RA core for Mednafen NES.

You are welcome. Like I said in theory it should work but if it goes tits up just bring up the task manager and run bsetshell to go back to explorer default. I used to use bbLean as my Windows shell and used this tool a lot. Over the course of tinkering with bbLean I managed to screw it all up so bad I would have to reset back to explorer to fix it, lol.

I have used a program called bsetshell.exe to change shells in the past. Here is the page you can download it from. http://bb4win.sourceforge.net/bblean/ On the left hand side under tools you will see a link that downloads it. It is just a simple zip file with and single exe file inside it. Run the exe select other and point it to BigBox.exe, and click set & logout. Log back in and you should have BigBox as your shell. I have used it on Win XP, 7 and 8 but I have not tested in on Windows 10 so I cannot say it will work on 10 or not. If you set a shell and it doesn't work all you do is bring up the task manager with ctrl+shift+escape, click file, run new task and browse your hard drive to bsetshell.exe and set it back to explorer.exe, then click set & logout then log back in and you should be back to normal. Disclaimer: I have used this many times in WinXP, 7 and 8 but I will not take responsibility for any problems you may encounter as I have not used this in Windows 10.

No but I just finished typing up a full text tutorial.

Since the topic of NeoGeo CD emulation has come up twice in the last 2 days I figured I would write up a tutorial on how I got it up and running. I got it up and running on 2 emulators, Mess and the stand alone version of Final Burn Alpha. The FBA emulation quality seemed to be just fine but the lack of fast forward functionality which is something you really will want with NeoGeo CD. The NeoGeo CD was notoriously slow being a 1x speed cd drive. NeoRaine apparently emulates this system as well but I do not like Raine so I didn't try to get it working there. Anyways, enough of the rambling lets get started on this. For starters I am using Mess version 0.174 for this and the bios files I have work with this. For obvious reasons I cannot supply the bios or tell you directly where to get them but I will tell you that a google search for "mess bios" should yield results in the first couple of hits. The FBA neocd bios come in the big FBA roms pack but do not work in Mess. There are 2 zip files you will need: neocd.zip neocdz.zip In these files you will see: front-sp1.bin top-sp1.bin neocd.bin 000-lo.lo Put these 2 zip files in the /roms folder in your Mess folder /Mess/roms Now open your mess.ini file and add your rom location folder to the rompath. Below is what I have in mine. rompath "H:\Emulation\Roms\NeoGeo CD\" If there is no mess.ini file then open up your command prompt window and go to your mess install folder where the mess64.exe is located and type the following command: mess64.exe -cc This will generate a mess.ini file in that folder. Now add Mess as an emulator to Launchbox like any other emulator and in the "Edit Emulator" window, "Associated Platforms" tab, "Default Command-Line Parameters" add the command switch "neocdz -cdrm" to your NeoGeo CD platform. Image below. Disk images that work for me are in cue + bin. Some downloaded images I noticed were in cue + iso + mp3 / wav which on their own didn't work but after converting the audio and mounting the image in daemon tools lite and regenerating a cue + bin with ImgBurn they worked fine. I only tried a couple of games since there is very few games for it that weren't released on MVS / AES like Crossed Swords 2 I didn't go out of my way to get more games to try out. Once you are up and running pressing the tab key in game will bring up the menu where you can set up all your controls and settings. Mess also supports GLSL and HLSL shaders so if you have settings from Mame you like they are relatively easily ported over. Here is an EmuCR link to a 0.176 version of Mess which I have tested and does work. http://www.emucr.com/2016/08/mess-git-20160821.html

Awesome, this same principle applies to X68000 emulation through Mess. Putting this in the custom command-line box loads up Castlevania which is a 2 disk game. x68000 -flop1 %romfile% -flop2 "H:\Emulation\Roms\X68000\Akumajou Dracula (1993)(Konami)(Disk 2 of 2).dim" Now if we can refine this further that would be even more awesome. If we could have the ability in the emulators associated platform windows default command-line parameters to have something like: x68000 -flop1 %romfile1% -flop2 %romfile2% Just using Mess and X68000 as an example. But since we now have multidisk import support and now the %romfile% feature it should be doable but I have no clue how difficult it would be.