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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!

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.

I know that if mame does support those systems, it will require the bios files found in a recent mame rom set... but I don't know, and I've also asked before and no one seems to, exactly how to set it up. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Hey Jesse. Welcome to the fray. 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. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

To simplify that, emulators Retroarch and Mame. Put the games wherever you want. Best practice is what makes sense to you. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

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. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Which core? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

As always, you da man Circo!

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. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

The paranoia here makes me feel right at home hahahaha. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

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. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

No intro, if you can. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

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. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

You shouldn't have to reboot. It's not an OS, just a a program. Where did you get the install from? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

I just decommissioned my wii u yesterday and though I've never done it before, thinking about trying to hack it. Would be awesome, watched vids, it looks easy. My question though is does it have to stay offline if I install the home brew channel? Tangentially related Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Oh and DOS I appreciate the heads up on the free version. I didn't write it off... I just literally don't want to start the scan over at this point haha Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

That's not a slight against the recovery software mind you. That's just a nod to the massive amount of files you have to support for this hobby. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Patham, I'm glad my woe has inspired action. It's the right thing to do. Here's why, I started the scan of the drive last night, it said 12 hour deep scan, I just checked a little while ago... the bar moved some but it still says 12 hours. It's going to take days. My point being if it's going to take days either way, and you have to pay either way, might as well count on a backup plan that's going to cover you 100 percent. This is days until I know what if anything is actually recoverable. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Yeah I think I didn't articulate my concern correctly in terms of the data recovery part. I'm okay with having to replace corrupted files.... as long as it let's me know which ones are corrupted haha. If it doesnt... I may as well restock. No preview on these programs either, so it's sort of a leap of faith. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

It hurts like a lost love for sure haha. But nah, I don't need it to be fast. Just done right. Seems like I may take a three pronged approach. I mean some sets are harder to come by etc, some I even renamed by hand, and I think I'll try to recover those, but start fresh for the easier sets. I'll probably pay more now since I decided to replace the drive (would have to anyway since I can't recover to it) plus recovery software plus new sub to the cloud = paying more than Jason did for 5 years of safety haha. So yeah, lesson learned. But, I love tinkering with this stuff. I'm actually sort of excited by the prospect of starting over. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk