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thank you! really useful!!! Well, now in Final Burn Alpha I only have this files without video/box cover. https://i.postimg.cc/Lsk9fV6V/Immagine.png But i suppose they are bios or some other stuff...not real game. So, if I delete from LB these files, do the games which need these bios will continue to run correctly when launched with LB? I think they they still continue to work because they are present in the roms folder, even if i delete them in LB (Note: I don't duplicate the games imported in LB, i use the original copy of every game in my roms folder). thanks!

thank you! well, today I updated LB to 10.15 version and the official MAME official 0.221 has been releases. I have already updated my romset with clrmame so, now, i I will import again the full set, it should add the additional roms included in the MAME 0.221 update, am I right?

hi I'm checking, for every platform, the missing box cover and the missing video. I have almost finished but with MAME and FBA it is really boring...to many games to check. Is it possible to quickly retrieve, for each platform, only games with missing cover (and missing video)? in this way I can directly review them without sliding all the fullset... thanks!

yes sure, but i discovered that my plugin.ini file is empty. This is the problem! But here in the forum sundogak helped me

yeat, thanks! It works now!!! Do you have this emulator too? The PGM2MAME v0.193? If so, are you able to add scanlines? I dind't find any option many thanks!

thank you

yes sure I tried, ma same error.... the plugin.ini file is an empty file...I don't know why...do you think that it appears the error message for this reason? thank you

yes, I followed this guide: I use spectabis also with LB because with this frontend, i can use every game with its specific settings. For example, I set PCSX2 with some setting for 3Dgames and with diffrent settings for 2D games. In this way, with Spectabis, every game automatically starts with the right setting Unfortunately there isn't in Spectabis a specific command in order to exit from a game. Donìt worry, it isn't a problem

hi, please, can anyone help me with this little issue related to a hacked MAME version? https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/54924-pgm2-mame-and-error-loading-pluginini/ the plugin.ini file is present and saved in the "ini" folder (\PGM2MAME v0.193\ini), so I don't know why, when I run the .exe file from LB, it appears this error message.. thank you

yes sure, I have a lifetime subscription! I can download the themes in that page, many thanks! I have a little question, about Spectabis, the frontend for PCSX2 emulator: I mapped the EXIT command in Launch Box with L2+R2 button on my Logitech pad. It works perfectly with all emulators, but if I run Spectabis it doesn't work. I can't exit from a running game. Do you know if it is possible, only for a specific emulator, to configure specific command in order to do some actions? thank you

thank you guys for all these info! ok, I think that I will use the platform themes from Unified Refried's. But in any case, if I want to download additional Platform thems (with the Launchbox option Tools --> Download Video/Themes), I see that LB chooses, for every platfom/playlist, a theme (1), from a list: Probably LB chooses the best theme for every platform. But for example if I want for all the platfom the same theme (for example Big Box cinematic), i can choose to Prioritize (2) this theme and LB will probably download these theme for each platfom. I think that I can save the additional platform themes in this path \video\platfom\not used. In this way, if I want to change a platform theme, I simply take the theme saved in "not used" and copy it in \video\platform Perfect, sure. I will download every platfom theme available fro Unified, but for the missing themes for Playlist (for MAME and FBA) I will use the themes available with the LB download section. I hope that they will work correctly with the Unified Refrie's theme

wow! it absolutely fantastic! I will try it! So I can download this BB theme and it will be possible in addition to download platform/playlist themes thar perfectly fit with this theme, very good. In addition, I can download the default theme for platform/playlist with Tools--> Download Theme... So, I will have 2 different themes for each platfomr (one downloaded from LB and one with Unified Refried): it means that I can choose which theme I prefer to load in BB? I mean: i can download and save more than one theme for each platfom. Really good!

don't worry, thanks. I'm using CAPTURA, it is really easy to use, I'm recording by myself the missing video, it is really quick As soon as I finished to download all the missing media files in all my platforms in LB, I will start to configure themes in BB, that is fun I would like to add games themes like these I suppose that they are available for every console/game, more or less. Currently in BB I still have the default theme, with no games themes, no system themes, and so on... And I would like to use a theme with wheels: I want every Platform/Playlist in a wheel and then all the games of each platfom in wheel

ah! I usually update the MAMEUI fullset, not the MAME. FOr this reason I have already updated the fullset: i found the upgrade pack from 0.200 to 0.221 but probably it isn't official because MAME 0.221 isn't released yet. So, starting from next month, I will update my MAMEUI only when MAME too will be updated. After that, I will wait a new LB release in order to be quite sure that it will consider the new MAME version, am I right? But I still have a questioN: there is no way to understanrd if the new LB version can consider the new MAME version, am I right? Or is it displayed in MAME.xml file? thank you

perfect, many thanks, understood. So, every month, at the beginning of the month, I update my fullset with clrmame. After that, it is better to wait a new LB version before to update the fullset in LB too, am I right? Unfortunately it is not possible to see in LB which MAME version is currently supported. in the MAME.xml file I don't find the mame version currently updated...I see only this: <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> In LB I have loaded the 0.220 fullset. And some days ago I updated it with your steps the fullset to 0.221. thank you!

aaaah ok! thanks, it's clear! So,every month, when i update my MAME fullset, in order to update it also in LB, I only need to run again the full set import, unckecking ALL the media files. In this way, it automaticaly verify the new/deleted roms. After that, in order to update media files for new roms, I choose ALL the mame games, and Tools --> Download MEdia and Metadata, without overwriting the existing ones. At the end, in order to remove the unnecessary media, Tools --> Delete Media. Am I right? thanks!

thanks, I solved the issue following this topic: and this video , see the last 10 minutes. , It works perfectly now! thanks!

exactly, LB/BB are absolutly awesome! Now I'm adding missing extrafiles for some games: I have to check for every platfom/playlist, all the games without media and manually check again if they are available. For some games, video aren't available and I would like to record them by my self from the emulator. Do you know a quick method in order to record a video from the pc, when an emulator is running? thanks!

absolutely clear, thanks! I have created all the playlist for MAME too and I dediced to have only he MAME's playlist available in BB too Currently in BB I still have the default theme: I plan to download a new theme, in order to see the games on a wheel, with their video/box and description. I think that more than one theme like this is available for download. And I want that every Platform/Playlist in BB has each own image/intro: is it possible, am I right? In Tools --> Download Video Theme for each Platform/Category. It is really useful

Well, I followed what you said, and after my MAME update, i import again all the fullset without media. Then I noticed a strange behaviour... I tried to use the option Tool --> Check Deleted rom for MAME --> it detected 55 roms not present in my MAME roms folder. But it isn't true. For example, Ray Crisis is one of these roms. In my roms mame folder this game has only a chd file: but LB detect a .zip file that I don't have in my roms folder, as you see in my previous screenshot. If I use the "Check Deleted rom for MAME" and I delete them, Ray Crisis disappears from LB, but of course it is available in MAME because it use the chd file. I don't understand how can LB detect a .zip file that currently I don't have in the MAME roms folder... If i import again the fullset, LB reload the 55 deleted romd and Ray Crisis is staill available, of course. Can you help me? thanks!

ah! Thansk, perfect! I changed as you said and it automatically moved the Playlist "Neo Geo MVS" under MAME and it look for games in my MAME roms folder, perfect I noticed that I can't have the same playlist both Under Final Burn Alpha and MAME: if I choose both Platform, i have the same playlist in both Platform, but every game obviously is double: It's strange...LB should be allow to have same playlist in more than one Platform. If I want same playlist in both Platform, I have to create manually each Playlist, i have no other way I think..

thanks! It's strange, I only have these playlist under MAME platform, with Platform Category view, and you can see how I imported the fullset (i tried to reimport it, without media, several times, but nothing changed): But if I changed the view for "PLAYLIST" i see a lot of playlist, and here is for example the Arcade SNK Neo GEo MVS, but this playlist is from Final Burn Alpha. As a lot of the other playlist.... for MAME I have only the 19 playlist in the picture above...I'm sure that a lot of playlist for MAME are missing...it is not possible that for Final Burn Alpha I have more playlist than MAME...but I don't know how to make available the missing playlist for MAME too

thanks!

thank you very much! 1) the 2nd option could be good, but also the 1st one. But the problem is that I don't have a NEO GEO Playlist...during the Full MAME import, LB didn't create it... 2) With this playlist, is it possible to view it in BB this playlist as a Platform, with its own "system theme" and so on? thanks!

Hi, I imported in LB with normal import roms files tool, the PGM2 MAME (it is a special hacked MAME version): it has only 7 different games (with some clones/different region). I imported them correctly, but when I run a game, it appears a pop up error: "MAME - Error loading plugin.ini". I have this error ONLY if i run games with LB. If I run them using the PGM2MAME v0193+.exe file the pop up doesn't appear. It's really strange... do you know how can I solve it? thanks!