Hi,
I have tried LaunchBox with wine. it can be installed, but doesn't work very well.
In fact, it is useless. It randomly craches, and there is a lot of glitches in some menus.
But there is a lot of things that work very well, so it is not hopeless.
Here is the method, tested with Linux Mint 17.3, Ubuntu 15.10 and Wine 1.8 :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
Install Wine wine1.8:i386 and Winetricks.
sudo apt-get install wine1.8:i386
Configure Wine : Windows version 7 or above.
Do not install mono, it's useless.
Install Framework 4.5.2 (as explained here : https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=31023 ):
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
bash winetricks dotnet452 corefonts
Finally download LaunchBox and install it.
What works?
You can launch LaunchBox, import ROMS and import datas from TheGamesDB. A lot of other things work.
What does not?
As I said, it crasches randomly. Menus for import games are hard to read. Besides, it's impossible to launch games... Too bad, but I would say it is not so far to work. The two big problems are: some menus and to launch games.