Lordmonkus

$500 is a pretty tight budget and some sacrifices have to be made in certain places to get in around that budget but here is something I slapped together quickly using pcpartpicker.com https://pcpartpicker.com/list/vV92x6 Normally Intel CPUs are better at emulation than AMD but the Ryzen chip has closed that gap immensely and is more than adequate for the stuff you mentioned plus it will do PS2 if you choose to give that stuff a try at a later day. PS3, Wii U and Xbox stuff will be very much touch and go with it though it may be fine with it but it will be on the edge. I run a 2700X Ryzen in my system and it handles it all just fine. Also normally I would not recommend AMD graphics cards because their OpenGL video drivers are a mess and a lot of emulation uses OpenGL but there is no way to get a new Nvidia card to fit in the budget. If you can find a used Nvidia 9xx or 10xx series cards for a good price (<100$) then I would certainly go with that. I didn't include a hard drive in the build because that will come down to how much you need in your build so I left that up to you to decide. I also left the OS out because you can figure that one out for yourself as well If you were willing and able to up your budget to something closer to say 800$ then you can do much better and not cut too many corners at all. You could get a better CPU and Nvidia graphics card. You could even upgrade the ram to 16 gigs if you choose but that isn't really necessary.

Odd thread for this post ?

Probably cause he's one of the few people who actually has experience with a NUC. I'd love to be able to give you advice on it but I have zero experience with small form factor PCs, I prefer full blown PC builds. I'm a firm believer of you can never have too much CPU power for emulation since you can always funnel the excess CPU power into reducing input latency.

You can always find your previous posts by hovering over your avatar and clicking Find Content.

@Jfortin since you made a 2nd thread about this which I locked I will answer you here. No, there is no CRT-Royale or better for Mame. You have the BGFX options that exist already or you can use HLSL and tweak to your liking if you want to get your hands dirty. Also, the term "better" is very subjective when it comes to shaders which is all discussed in other threads. If you want to use CRT-Royale then you will have to use the Mame core in Retroarch but be prepared for some funky results especially with vertical oriented games.

Please don't make a 2nd post about the same thing.

Edit the game then go to the Emulation tab and check the box Use Custom Command Line Parameter and enter the following as an example but switch out the mesen dll for the core you want to use. -L "cores\mesen_libretro.dll"

Yeah, this is a Wiki error, not Launchbox. No idea if Jason can do anything about it or not but it's not a big deal in any case since the Wiki scraping was always wonky at best, stick to the LBDB for game info and images and EmuMovies if you want videos.

It will all work, just drop your license file in your LB install folder and startup LB/BB and all your stuff is there but you now have access to the premium features.

Well you downloaded someone elses prebuilt setup so we have no clue what was included in it and it could be any number of things, especially if the build has some other 3rd party software included. Now if I had to take a guess I would think that maybe it's caching which can take some time.

Yeah, we cannot offer you any support for any pre configured download from 3rd party sites.

The first place I would start is make sure you have CPU Overclocking set to x1, anything higher can and will cause issues. After that I would extract the games and make sure they are in cue + bin. They don't necessarily have to be cue + bin but that is the best place to start.

I've never tried, never had a need to for anything I do.

Yes, you can install on a PC and transfer it all over. The best way to do this is to just install everything including emulators in your LB folder.

I moved this to a more suited forum section, please post in the appropriate section of the forums with questions, this has nothing to do with Launchbox itself. I can't help you with Age of Mythology but I do have Diablo installed in Windows 10 Long Term Service Edition using the Belzebub mod and it works great and makes the game look better https://diablo-hd-belzebub.en.uptodown.com/windows

Your games are still on your hard drive unless you specifically went into the Launchbox settings to tell it to delete your game files when deleting games from LB.

Oh, you were having issues with ePSXe, I was thinking the other way around. I rarely ever use ePSXe (never use) any more but it was always the faster but slightly less accurate emulator so I did use it on a trashy old PC I had. Might be just a setting or something for those specific games. In any case glad you got it sorted with the RA Beetle / Mednafen core.

Just the Launcher from what I remember, I no longer have my Amiga emulation going through LB. The Arcade.exe is its own built in front end. No special settings in LB from what I remember either. Check out @Zombeavers guide here:

There is an Amiga core but not worth the effort, I tried to get it working once and had to give up in frustration. I just use FS-UAE personally, so easy to get working.

Ok, yeah you are using the C64 core for Amiga games, that won't work at all. IPF is an Amiga format and that is not a support image for the C64 core.

Oh wait, im an idiot, I just assumed C64 and missed the Amiga part. My suggestion is to not use RA for Amiga, it's terrible at it and a major pain in the ass to setup, use either UAE or FS-UAE.

Yeah Beetle is Mednafen, for whatever reason the Mednafen devs asked that the RA guys rename the core and they obliged. Emulator devs can be a quirky bunch at times.

It should just autoload, does for me using .d64 format disk images.

You can get either core from the Core Updater screen, the ones labeled Beetle is what you want.

Use the HW one if you want all the graphical bells and whistles like resolution upscaling and PGXP (texture and polygon stabalization. Otherwise use the non HW one, it's the slightly more accurate core. Either one should run perfectly fine on your system.