Drybonz

Sorry, by tweaking I just meant that, because I already had the files and didn't download them through Daphne that I had to "standardize" everything following your tutorial. After I did that it launched perfectly through Launchbox. I still can't get the aspect ratio working. I tried editing the bat like you suggested, above, but it's still 4:3. It has to be something else in the Daphne settings but I can't seem to figure it.

Thanks for the reply. I was able, with just a bit of tweaking, to get the games launching from Launchbox, following your tutorial... which is great! Thanks. I just can't seem to get the screen stretching to work though... even using your advice to change the .bat resolution to 1024... it still plays in 4:3. I wish I knew what happened because these games did used to play in 16:9 in Daphne for me.

Ah, I see it... thank you.

Along these lines, it would also be useful to have a "back" button on each screen of the importing new rom files wizard. It's frustrating to make a mistake almost at the end and have to cancel and re-do.

Great tutorial... nice work! I have been having a problem with Daphne's last couple versions that I can't get the "ignore aspect ratio" option to work (to stretch full screen). It used to work fine, but now it won't. I started a conversation about this on the Daphne forums, but their forum disabled my account for spam??? No idea... lol. Anyway, just wondered if anyone else had encountered that problem recently. Thanks.

I tried to play some San Francisco Rush in MAME earlier and the controls were really messed up using my xbox controller. I will have to spend some time trying to figure out good control schemes for these games.

I just looked that up... would probably be an awkward spinner, but looks like a really nice racing game wheel.

I read somewhere that you can convert the old Jaguar system driving controllers into a spinner for the PC but I'm sure that's more electronic fidgeting than I want to get into. :)

I guess this wasn't a very good question... what I'm trying to do is play some of the old trackball games... Tempest specifically (which was a spinner actually, I suppose) and some other ones. I used to have it set up properly years ago as far as I can remember, but I'm using an xbox controller for most emulated games now, and the analog stick makes you jump all over the place in Tempest and some of the trackball games and even driving games. So, really I was just wondering what other people use for those games. I tried the mouse and it didn't really give me that retro-authentic feeling. :)

Does anyone have good analog stick settings for trackball games in MAME that they would like to share? Thanks.

Ok, found a working file and I'm back in business. Thanks again for your help, I appreciate it. In the process, I found that I had a couple other bad or outdated bios files as well, and I've got them fixed now too.

Thanks for the info... that gets me headed in the right direction. I had an update neogeo.zip... when I looked in it, it only had the v2.bin file you mentioned but none of the old files, so I tried merging it with an old version but that didn't work... so, I think I just need to look around for that new bios... I seem to be finding a lot of bad ones though.

As I'm getting back into emulation recently and updating my roms, I just updated my MAME roms to a .169 set (or so I thought). Now all my NeoGeo games are showing as "missing" in MAME. I'm trying to find out if there is a new NeoGeo.zip parent, as this would explain why they are all missing. Can anyone tell me if this file changed in recent versions and what I should be looking for? Thanks for the help.

If you have a ton of files that you have individually edited through gamesDB because the file names of the roms were not recognized you know that it takes some time... and if you lose or have to re-import these and they are again not recognized by gamesDB then you have to do them all over again. It can be frustrating. One solution I can think of is to have a file renamer function in LaunchBox. Meaning that after you set them up in Launchbox it could bulk rename your rom files after the naming convention of gamesDB... so that gamesDB would always recognize them.

Posts 17-21 here: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/emulation/daemon-tools-and-ssf-how-to-auto-mount-and-auto-unmount Would be very useful to be able to add additional apps in bulk.

That would be a good one for the feature requests.

One other question... is there a way to bulk add the additional app as SSF to all your games?

Thanks everyone... I finally got this working. Absolutely could not get it to work with Alcohol 120, so I finally switched to that older version of DT that someone linked to, above. Post 17 cleared up the last of the problems I was having. Thanks again... nice to be able to open SSF with a game mounted this easily.

Oh ok... got it. Thanks.

I agree with you, I think I'm going to go back to the standalone desmume... I'm noticing little graphical glitches in the Retroarch version that aren't in the standalone as well. The only thing I miss is the start in fullscreen, but that's pretty minor. *edit* Actually, I think I'm going to try out the X432R version you mentioned if I can find the latest version.

Hi Jason... if you have need for any more testers, I would like to join in. Thanks.

Cannot save games in Retroarch Desmume. I think there is something about setting the saves from auto to manual that might fix this, but for the life of me cannot find this setting anywhere in the core options. If anyone knows the fix for this, I appreciate it. Thanks.

Hi Jason, thanks for reading and the reply... I probably won't register for bitbucket, but since I'm already registered here I like to brainstorm for ideas for new features... feel free to use them or disregard. Thanks again.

I would like to see some further customization options for details view. It would be great if it supported more of the picture types, such as a blown up version of the cover and platform pictures (kind of like big box mode). Also, would be great if cover and screenshot, or some other picture could be displayed vertically, using more of the details view side bar space. Possibly also to choose the text fields that are shown, ratings stars, etc... Also, would really like to see the "size" of the details view sidebar stickied, or remembered, each time you start Launchbox, so that you don't have to continually re-size it each time. *edit* Might also be cool if it displayed the platform picture if no game was selected.

Are there any screenshots available, or can someone post a screenshot of the "list view" in the full version? Any other screenshots of the premium features that aren't available on the website are appreciated. Thanks.