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I noticed a performance boost putting Launchbox on a solid state, but there isn't much you can do with 30 - 40 gigs. Ultimately, this is going to depend on how much stuff you're intending to put into Launchbox. If you're the type of person who has small lists of games you play and only import a few per system, go the SSD route. If you're full list on everything, definitely use the HDD. I have nothing but LaunchBox and Artwork on a 500 gig SSD and I only have about 100 gigs left. You could attempt to save some space by not downloading videos or manuals, but it sounds like you should probably just use the HDD. The performance isn't bad and there are entire threads on how to speed it up.

Wait, I mean delete your games in launchbox and reimport**** Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Alternately you can delete your roms, then reimport from new locations. Just import with none of the art stuff checked and it'll all be there. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

You didn't have to clarify. I have a lot of video games I'm not a fan of. Haha Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

How do you import the new games? Just reimport the whole set... or manually? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Yeah the only thing I can think of is if they add new games to set, which I don't think happens often, if ever, you might have to import those. Other than that, just make sure you're not changing the path to the roms, update the mame exe and launchbox is hands free. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

I'm using it with no problems. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Space. I don't mean amateur astonomer. I've just been watching and reading everything I can about space for years. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Are you using mame software list roms? If not, try unzipping them. Also make sure you have the bios in your mame roms folder Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Alternately, you could use the bsnes core in retroarch, which will launch fullscreen. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

I haven't used Higan in a long long time but are you sure there isn't an option in the emulator to open fullscreen? This seems like an unnecessary workaround Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Um, in the bigbox settings menu you can exit or switch to launchbox. Just navigate to it. As for launchbox, I don't think so but you could automate it with xpadder or something. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

The article said controller support is kinda limited to games that supported controllers back in the day. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Recommendation is to use no intro where available, then I think tosec for computer systems, and redump or dark water for disc systems. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

There is no "incorrect" naming per say. The people who rip roms, good sets, tosec, no intro etc use their own naming conventions and for different reasons. Most everyone will use a region tag of some kind, to let you know if the language of the rip is japanese, European etc. No intro sets are lauded as the cleanest, because they have a simple naming convention and only include one rom in their set. Tosec includes other information like release year, but also includes multiple rips (versions) of each rom for posterity. Launchbox autosorts by platform, and has an xml lost to store relevant data, like region and year, so launchbox doesn't need any of that info in the title of a game. Hence Launchbox should be using just the game name itself. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

@Crush you're a genius. Worked like a charm. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

This is going to be really dumb, but I don't know anything about GIT and I'm having trouble downloading those files for the "data" folder. Any suggestions? Update: If you're having the same issue, you can go to this website: https://minhaskamal.github.io/DownGit/#/home Input the address for the data folder, should be: https://github.com/libretro/vice-libretro/tree/4ef3e4f6b4b9f52b15444f7e4cd53e93c73c948e/vice/data And click download. This can take a minute, but it will download a zip of the data folder. However, even with this in place, I can't personally get the core to work properly. It'll load up the core, but it give an error Cannot locate Device* and not load the game. May you have better luck.

I get it.. the fresh start thing. Especially if you're not using retroarch... it's a whole lot of emulators to keep track of... what version of this etc. I'd start with RetroArch. Get it running via rl or launchbox, whichever way you want to go, and start importing. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

If I'm right there isn't much you can do except maybe use FatMatch to rename the logos. If they are no intro the art will still work in launchbox Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Rl might be looking according to the no intro rom name, but if you dled from launchbox the name is minus the region tag plus - 01 or something similar. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

I'm thinking it might be because launchbox names it's art differently? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

I went about putting my roms into individual sub folders with a nifty little program it's a snap. Now my saves go into the content directory. I'm not recommending this though. It's good for organization, bad when you lose your rom drive. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

I appreciate the script, and I'm in the process of extracting. I may leave them as is... (iso) as it took almost two hours to compress one game (6 gig madden game mind you) but if I fill up this drive the script will come in handy. I'll just have to not touch my computer for a week, haha.

Do you mean that you're using launchbox for your retro collection, or that you're just picking up this hobby? Heh. Two different scenarios. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Stumbled on this trying to convert PS2 to gz. So I haven't extracted the ps2 set which is going to take forever. I'm just wondering if there isn't a way to convert straight from 7z to gz without extracting? Thanks!