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I get an error saying I can't open it as an archive. Any ideas?

I majored in BigBox in college and minored in creative writing. But no one in my life speaks Bigbox so I've forgotten most of what I learned.

I'll bite. Not because I think its practical, but because I think its cool. I'll let you know how it goes. This is the guy who spent like weeks trying to teach Windows Vista to recognize my southern drawl. Errr... Nevermind. Solution file? I can follow instructions but I'm leery of installing stuff I don't understand.

I can't open the link at work, but is this legit? I remember a while ago someone said this exact thing and it turned out to be some college kids final project. He redid I think the intro, and that's it.

In other words, yes, share away. There will be official channels for it soon as well within LaunchBox, and its going to be amazing.

Try the rocketlauncher forums. You'll be surprised.

I agree with the general point you're making but its not only affecting emulators. LaunchBox is not an emulator. I shouldn't have to choose between controllers my OS supposedly supports and the programs I use. If it was as simple as the second controller didn't function in non-game non-MS programs, I could see them putting it off. But having a second controller is blocking me from opening my own programs. This is using the not exactly cheap official microsoft wireless dongle, mind you. They should fix it. It isn't a problem with 360 controllers, so it shouldn't take much revenue to clear up whatever issue they implemented. Sorry, I'm a bit bitter. SentiBrad would probably be happy to know I'm going to give the DS4s another go this weekend. I sincerely hope they work, as I'm ready to move on from the issue of controllers.

This would explain it. I'm using a probably super old mess bios pack, and MAME 171 doesn't seem to want to have much to do with it. I'll work on getting a 171 set, which should prove a pain as I'm shitlisted on PD. I don't keep my MAME roms in my MAME directory, any confirmation that this isn't problematic for the bios files?

Without context, I'm not sure whether to blame you, the dog, or the owner. :D Glad its not worse, though.

That is cool, but I'll never forgive myself for the 6 or so months I tried to learn C+ and build a game in both unity and unreal. I never even came close, but the process of learning it took some of the magic out of video games for me. I don't think everyone would have that reaction, but seeing a little bit about how its done made me more critical about the games I play. True story. :(

In this mess folder I made subfolders for each system I wanted to add. These subfolders match the system shortnames. Will MAME default to these locations? My problem was that inside the MAME 171 UI, there's an option to set Rompath, but not path to bios. So is folders named after the bios the default? Or do you have to manually set the path in the ini under this: "Core Search Path Options" I really appreciate the input.

Thanks for trying, lordmonkus, and reaffirming that I'm not crazy. Seems like this would be big news. I have an old version of RA specifically for the MESS core, and tonight I'll see if it'll run the Sharp. If I recall, the limiting factor was always odd file extensions on the older/comp systems and the core itself being suprisingly not versatile in that regard, but I think my X68000 are bin. If it does, I'll try to figure out why. At any rate, I'll hit you up later with the results.

I am with you on the skipping MESS part, but this MAME/MESS integration, I think, is worth looking into. There just doesn't seem to be any documentation on how to set it up. The same can be said about the newest MAME RA core which I understand should also support Mess systems now.

I'm not exactly sure when it happened, but I recently learned that MAME absorbed MESS. Tonight I wanted to sit down and get MAME 171 running, and maybe also the latest RA MAME core which I also hear will emulate MESS systems. The problem: I can't find any documentation on how to set this up. So my questions Does the new MAME require a set of MESS Bios? If so where to put them? If not... what? (I tried putting them into the roms folder in the mame directory, doesn't see them there) Same question for the RA MAME core. Any other tweaks needed to get these working? Thanks! PS, my final question: What is the plural form of Bios?

Even after the update, connecting 2 Xbox One controllers wirelessly to windows freezes up LaunchBox. I wasn't going to post about it here, because LaunchBox isn't the only thing that's affected. Has to be a windows issue, or something. If I have two controllers plugged in and try and open LaunchBox, nothing happens. Then, If I take the batteries out of one of the controllers, LaunchBox immediately pops open. Anyone able to connect 2 Wireless Xbox One controllers with no problems?

Thanks for pooling all this info, man.

Not necessary, niche really. But I extract to a flash drive, for instance, to save the rewrites (I leave the games I play the most extracted). I also was reading that you can turn extra RAM into temporary storage and extract there. Personally, I don't think I'd go that far. Still, the feature is a good one to have, thanks for that!

Dude awesome! So does it extract the rom to a directory we can choose? does it leave there, or can we have LB autodelete the extracted version?

That's awesome! I want to ask a bunch of questions, but I'll test it later as well.

You need to also make sure you're using the same version of MAME as your roms. I had an old set of NEO GEOS that didn't work at all. Updated ones work fine. (I'm not sure if this is true for the RA cores)

Rocketlauncher will automatically unzip your roms for you and launch them through LaunchBox. There's a quick setup guide on this forum and plenty of other guides on the official forums.

Official HyperSpin xmls don't include any file extensions. If you created your own xmls based on your rom path, they'll include the extensions but if you're using the official hyperspin stuff, you shouldn't have any problem. Don't quote me though, I'd manually rename one and test. The HS artwork shouldn't be affected either.

My older sister had the nes, so mario/duck hunt was the first video game I ever played. As far as I know or remember, my parents never bought a single other game for it. The first console I had was the amazing.... VTECH SOCRATES https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTech_Socrates#/media/File:Vtech_socrates.jpg Just last year I was finally able to emulate a game from it, and the memories. In the early 90s they bought me the SNES. In 1994ish my cousin and I took first and second place in the Donkey Kong Country contest at the local blockbuster, and we were able to rent 2 games for free every 2 weeks for the next year. It was this period that I became a fanatic. In case youre wondering, I took first place on that first day, but my parents wouldn't take me back on day 2, and his parents took HIM, and he beat my score. So he took the gold, me the silver. My first computer, maybe one of you can help me out, cause I can't even find it on google. It was a screen with a keyboard attached, like all in one. I THINK it ran DOS... as I think there was a command prompt, but there was also some kind of rudimentary operating system... My Uncle had bought it to use for work, he was an Accountant. It had... like a rudimentary Rolodex and calculator. There was no mouse or anything, you had to do everything on that keyboard. In retrospect, my uncle tossed the awful thing and my day snatched it and gave it to me as a gift. He acted like it was my fault I couldn't have any fun with it. Much later my dad bought another computer and AOL, and my first PC game was either Lands of Lore, or Redneck Rampage. I can't remember which came first. I had played a few other DOS games, Oregon Trail, Leisure Suit Larry, and Commander Keen, at friends or at school by that time.

but LB did not re-add the platform in the platform list on the left I've noticed this happens if you add a platform without adding any games. If you add just one game with the platform it'll show up. I didn't report it as I wasn't sure if this was intentional, although now that I think about it, because LaunchBox is Drag and Drop, you should be able to add a platform with zero games.

This may be obvious, but its actually really easy in LaunchBox to have just those three games Launch with Mame. I understand the desire for unification and symmetry on the back end though (as in only using 1 emulator). Keeps things more clean. Just in case you didn't know, you can right click those games in Launchbox, click edit, and change the emulator they launch with. I have over 100 emulators installed because its been my experience that no single emulator offers 100 percent compatibility. Having said that, I still use RetroArch for MAME and just ignore the quirks. If I ever hit a wall that makes a game I want to play unplayable, I'll just switch that game over to Mame.exe. Unfortunately, you seem to have tried all the ideas I know about in terms of how to fix the audio within RA.