Drybonz

I would take another look at the old "lightspeed" app, which nailed the MAME importing and filtering perfectly, and see how he did it.

That looks like a different issue, though.

Yeah, I just checked again on the latest beta... same problem. It looks like it's prioritizing a clone over the parent?

Thanks for the reply. I'm running the latest beta, but I just updated, so most likely this happened before I updated. Good call. I'll re-import my MAME set and see if it all goes smoothly. Thanks again.

Discussion of possible problem with MAME importing.

No... talking about categories that I did not select being downloaded. I just double-checked and it seems like it might be possible that it is downloading from emumovies, even though I'm just showing a blank, grey area on the emumovies tab... as in, no categories available.

I noticed that if I use the edit > images menu to download new images, when checking only one type of image (ex. box - front) it downloads all available images anyway. Is this a bug or intended? If intended, is there a reason it is set up this way, and is there a way to get it to download just one type of image from this menu?

Thanks for the reply. So, this is affecting other roms as well? That's probably something that should be looked at to be fixed for the MAME importing.

I did a full MAME set import today, and as I was checking through it after it was done I noticed that the original 1978 Space Invaders parent (rom name "invaders") did not import. I did a manual import for that single file and then it imported properly. Have not checked any other individual games yet... but is this a glitch, or did I somehow filter it out during the full MAME set import? If so, what would filter it out as it is the parent rom? Thanks for the help.

Is this still what you are using for arcade?

Just found Lordmonkus's HLSL tutorial here: Thanks for that. These look much better. Is this still the best option?

Can anyone that uses shaders in MAME point me to a nice looking scanline shader for arcade? The ones included with MAME didn't look quite right to me. Thanks for the help.

Ah yes... that's better. My button bar is usually hidden so I didn't see it. I would prefer it below the art, instead of over it, but I don't think I can get that without a custom theme, which I can't use because my paid LB subscription expired a long time ago. Thanks for the help.

That's too bad. The new theme looks better, imo, in every other aspect.

Is there a way to get the game title text back under the artwork for the game. It used to be on each game, now I have to highlight the game to see the text over the art. I looked in options, but didn't see anything. Thanks.

Thanks for all the replies... I got this working. Not sure what was causing my initial problems, but luckily they weren't repeating. So, it would be nice if this same feature worked with disc games. It seems like all it would need to work would be to look in subfolders and look for .cue files. Maybe that can be added at some point.

Yeah, I had to move all the roms to a new drive... that was already done before I started this process. I assumed that is how most people would probably go about it.

Probably I'm doing something wrong... but when I run that option, then the roms are removed from the platform because they are in a new location, so I had to do a re-import. So, I'm just asking if there's a better way to do it.

It seems like, when I use this option, it wants me to wipe the platform and re-import everything and start over. Is there a way to change the rom path and LB keep the platform as-is and just launch from the new location?

Was a simple method ever added to LB to change rom paths for every game in a platform... for instance if you put the roms on a different drive?

Looks kind of cool, but doesn't seem to be the same type of software as LB at all.

Good topic... I could probably think of a bunch of them, but the first one that comes to mind is Phantasy Star II for Sega Genesis. I really loved the music in that game when it came out.

I've beaten as many video games as the next guy, I suppose... but I'm also habitually playing games and not finishing them. Maybe this goes back to the days where game rentals started and we would rent a nintendo or genesis game and only have it for a few days and not finish it... dunno. Anyway, I've decided to go back and play through some of the really good ones I didn't finish. So... the topic is... what games did you love, but didn't beat?... maybe this will be some inspiration for what games to play next.

IT'S BEATLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ? lol... jk

I like rail shooters a lot... Panzer Dragoon games are my favorites. For 2d shooters, there's so many good ones, it's hard to pick one or two, but I would have to throw a vote in for Radiant Silvergun, which blows me away each time I play it even if it is too hard for me.