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    Explain ROM Naming

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    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.

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    Retroarch and Commoroe 64 : 3 new cores! 3rd one - VICE 3.0 (Commodore 64 emulator)

    in Emulation

    Posted · Edited by fromlostdays

    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. :D 

    Where to start

    in Noobs

    Posted

    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.

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    Retroarch Folder Game Saves

    in Emulation

    Posted

    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. :D

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    Where to start

    in Noobs

    Posted

    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.

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    Retroarch Folder Game Saves

    in Emulation

    Posted

    I think this has less to do with RetroArch and more to do with the RL module. This is just a guess, but you'd probably have to edit the module. You can try checking the module settings in RL to see if something you can just set. 

    Fairchild Channel F (MAME) running in RetroArch?

    in Noobs

    Posted

    Hey Jesse. Welcome to the fray. :D Firstly, what you're trying t o do isn't easy. I'm not totally sure the mame core supports all the systems that mame currently does. If it does, it will require some setup that I don't personally know how to do. However, new mame has controller support, and you can use launchbox to exit the emulator etc. so using mame proper is by far easier. I do have this system running in RA, but using an old 2015 Mess core and a launcher program called Rocketlauncher. Even Rocketlauncher doesn't support it out the box and I had to mod that a little bit too. No matter which way you slice it, it's going to be a bit of a time investment to run those systems through RA.

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    New to launchbox

    in Noobs

    Posted

    To simplify that, emulators Retroarch and Mame. Put the games wherever you want. Best practice is what makes sense to you.

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    Transition from Hyperspin

    in Noobs

    Posted

    Also consider this may not work 100 percent with every system. Launchbox has its own database so if your art is named exactly like the rom, as in hyperspin, it might not always match up perfectly with the LB database. But this will be few and far between I think. LB is good about recognizing art.

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    Series of Unfortunate Events; Massive Data Loss Advice

    in Monkeys

    Posted · Edited by fromlostdays

    1 hour ago, Zombeaver said:
    What, you don't have a bunker and a generator to play all your old video games when the post apocalypse comes? Pffsh...
     


    This has been my exact argument to the SO as to why I put so much time into this. I'm like just wait until we go broke and cant afford the Internet, or are living in a bunker. You gonna be glad I did this.

    To further that, when we got that flooding last year and the water was coming up to the house and we had to evacuate, during that moment of panic of what to grab, I grabbed ... ironically the hard drive that started this thread, now that I think about it... my nvidia sheild tablet plus controller, 3ds, some pop tarts, water and a change of cloths. I didn't have to think twice about what I needed hahahaha

    Edit, that's not actually ironic, I'm aware of that, but I'm not changing it. :D

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    Retroarch Shaders

    in Noobs

    Posted

    Not dumb. It's a little odd that you can't make those changes, and others, unless a game is open, but I think they do it so you can save certain things per core and per game as opposed to just one setting for everything.

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    Matching the database with No-Intro names

    in Contributions

    Posted

    Depending on how awful the names in the zips are... launchbox itself might be able to recognize them. Maybe not all of them. There are two other ways to match that I know of. The official hyperspin xml, you can use Dons Hyperspin tools to rename. Or you can try to find a dat file and use Clrmamepro to rename. Either way, you need to rename the files, not the zips.

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