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The man himself, and exactly what I needed to know. Thanks Jason! As I knew enough not to write a single thing to it, I'm going to try the data recovery. It's hours into a 12 hour scan haha. More importantly, I read an article about crashplan, with people complaining about how slow it was. Not that that seems a concern at all in my current predicament. Im not streaming from it. Just to know it's recoverable is enough. Thanks again, brother. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Skip to end of rant for questions* What happened? The short version is I let windows reformat my 4 gigabye external drive housing all my games. How did it happen? The short version is, I'm an idiot. The longer version is, I decided this morning to take apart my entire entertainment center. I mean I got in there with twisty ties on all the wires, dusted and cleaned and organized etc. My main PC (Gaming PC) is attached to the living room tv along with consoles etc. Now after purchasing the Nintendo Switch, (and spending the last week in a zelda haze), I decided to decommission the Wii U for now until I can find a use for it, and also to take the 2 terabyte external I had hooked up to it, and since the only thing on it was Mario Kart, put the drive on my PC for extra space. So I finish cleaning, get all the drives together, plug in and I'm ready to go. I figured windows would need me to reformat the former Wii U external Drive (Western Digital just like all my drives), so I went into Disk Management, and formatted what I THOUGHT was that drive. I thought it was that drive because Disk Manager prompted me to reformat it.* The rest is history. I'm not necessary worried about rebuilding the sets. It'll be a little timely, but I mean its nothing I can't replace (minus some save files). My questions should be evident, and I'd appreciate any advice: Question 1: I download a trial version of EaseUS Data Recovery and it looks like I can probably retore a lot of the data. I'm concerned though that if I restore in bulk, it may corrupt files which then will just sit in launchbox broken as I'm not going to go about testing every single game. Anyone have any experience with this process? I mean, my drive probably had about 70k games on it. Should I bite the bullet, pay the 70 bucks and try to recover, or just rebuild? Is there any better way? Question 2: I have hard drives from a decade ago that still work. I have an external from 2008 that still works. I've never actually had a hard drive crash. So I never really gave much thought to backing data up. In fact, I'm a complete newb about it. Between games and media I'd be looking to backup about 6 terabytes plus, so any suggestions on the best way to do this? (As I'm reading via google, I'm understanding that buying a few more externals and just copying the stuff there and storing it might be the best solution, but I wanted to ask here). And lastly, if you read above.... my game drive is like a year old at most, western digital 4 terabytes, but when I opened up disk manager, I was fooled because for some reason windows wasn't recognizing it. Having formatted, it seems to be working just fine, just like a new empty drive (I haven't actually tried to store anything on it yet in case I go the recovery route) but.... I mean is that a signal that drive is failing? I'd really hate to go either the replace all or recover all route only to find the hard drive fails. I have absolutely no idea why windows wasn't seeing it correctly in the first place. I was really careful when I cleaned the area etc. So... thanks for reading haha. Any and all advice is appreciated.

Well I should say you configure that in whatever emulator you are using. In RA options menu, I think it's directories to set the path, and note any directory thar says "content" will save to your rom path. This can be a good thing if you have your roms in individual folders. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

You don't configure it in launchbox. You configure it in RA, both the paths and the hotkeys. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

DOS that mean some people actually have the DOS core in ra working? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

I can almost guarantee its the bios, in terms of RA. It's a mednefen core, remember. Very picky. If I were you, I'd put my energy into getting RA to work. Load the psx core, then go to information, and ra will tell you if the bios files are present. If not, first make sure you haven't messed with the paths. Then try another bios set Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

It supports isos, and bin, and disc image. As I understand it, you may have to mount cue files? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

I think it was on simply Austin videos... but I don't want to spread heresay. I actually recommend decompressing everything, as like Brad said a while ago, space isn't the same issue it used to be and decompressed roms are a helluva lot easier to work with. But, before you go that route, check into RA supporting zips. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Didn't I hear that most retroarch cores are now supporting zips? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

If it runs in the emulator, it should run in the emulator via launchbox. What exactly isn't working about it? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Have you set the path to your rom folder in rocketlauncher? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Under global emulators make sure the extension of your games is set under the emulator. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Ok so you're using rocketlauncher, but when you import mame... name it MAME, scrape as Arcade and set up mame as the emulator (you'll change this later). If you import like that, launchbox should give you a list of all kinds of mame games you can choose not to import... region... clones.. etc. The only way I know to thin this lost further is to do it manually by hand or find a 3rd party app that'll do it.. not sure of any good ones. Once imported press control a in launchbox to select all the games, choose edit, and then set the emulator back to rocketlauncher. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Shut up and take my money. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

I think these are both really good points. I think LB handles the naming of games in a wonderful way, and I'm always impressed by how well it performs at locating my games considering literally NONE of them are named that way. I also think being able to add "alternate" names to accommodate the set names is a great idea, if the community wants to put in the work. Especially No-Intro, as it's pretty much the go-to sets for many of the most popular systems. So, my personal final ruling: non-urgent goal for the future.

You also need to download a compatibility program to make ps4 controller recognizable by windows. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Uhh, for that you should head over to the RL forums. I don't use bezels at all. Secondly, I'm guessing it's a hard system to get that working since you're essentially launching individual programs. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Hedonist for sure. No regrets. And you don't even know the half of it. Incidentally @angelobodetti, I just set up and launched a mugen game through launchbox through rocketlauncher. Just make sure your exe is set to use an emulator in Launchbox, then set it up in RocketLauncher like you would any other PC game / exe using PC Launcher and edting the system module settings to point to the exe. If you need more explicit instructions just let me know. You will have to do this for each individual game, so unless you're really married to the fade and pause features, I'd almost say just let LB launch them.

I myself am not satisfied with only two love affairs, so I take on a second mistress. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

I only imported the one game to test, but this evening I'll try and set it up to launch through rocketlauncher. I'm sure you just use the pc game emulator, and then point it to th exe in the game menu. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

I think the cue is really only important for multi disc games. But like I said, it's just good practice. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

So as I understand it, adding the cue is instead of the iso is just good practice. However, I seem to recall that some cores in RetroArch don't play well with cues. This is a while ago, it could be fixed. So basically if you can launch the cue in standalone ra, import the cue files for that system. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

No problem at all. Does it actually pull mugen artwork? I have a bunch of games but have only imported one as a test, and it brought up nothing in terms of art and metadata. Some of the other games have that stuff? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Well if you're doing a bulk import like that, go ahead and select any emu. Then once they are imported, go to the system in LB, Control A to select all the games at once, and then click edit. This will bring up the bulk edit menu, where you should be able to tell all the games not to use an emu. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

Add the exe like a rom. Then in launchbox right click and edit it, and under the emulator tab tell it not to use an emulator. (Basically telling lb to launch it like an exe) Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk