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5 hours ago, hyunchris said:
hey so i downloaded and installed 3 different themes, Colorful, city hunter 2, and Unified Refried (and the Queso add on)....but I think I am doing something wrong. i do not see any pictures of the consoles or videos, etc...was I supposed to download those separately or something?
No, you have to add them yourself.
Search for devices, clear logos etc and add them to relevant folders and you will see it look better as you do.
Not everything is supplied for you, you have to go and hunt it down on the forums, or create it yourself.
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13 hours ago, richie steer said:
Changed to mame64 and some are working again
If you have the correct romset and bios file combination and have setup Launchbox/Emulator correctly, 99.9% will work.
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9 hours ago, A Retro guy said:
I want to move my launch box collection to a another drive that im gonna get thats like a usb 8TB or whatevers. BUT. Im wondering one more thing, If all of my launch box games are in the launch box folder. (Which they are.) Then wolud the directorys get messed up therfore i have to reimport all my games because the games wolud be in the same folders kinda but not the same drive?
Worst case scenario, just rename the drive letter to what it currently is.
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42 minutes ago, Electrician_Ken said:
Nice Pro Tip! Hopefully it doesn't come down to that. I'd rather just skip renaming 1000+ roms this week and wait for the new Metadata. ? In my case, it seems LaunchBox already can detect miss labeled Roms and match them to metadata. If I don't clear the Metadata, will LaunchBox recycle the information for the new files?
In my experience it will keep metadata for all the roms you have.
In the end to use the bezels you will need to do some renaming.
Depends on how important it is to you.
2 hours and it would be done.
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2 minutes ago, Electrician_Ken said:
Basically this. I've spent seven days dumping the LB Database and EmuMovies to collect my metadata, Meanwhile, I've also been playing around with The Bezel Project and I've noticed my SNES roms are just defaulting to the generic system bezel and not the individual game bezels when I load then. The bezel is working, but I've heard the roms need to be No intro named. I now have a collection of SNES No Intro labeled Roms, if I delete the old games, will LB reallocate the metadata to the new roms when I import them, or will I need to redownload everything again?
Or, just go to the bezel folders and rename them to what the roms are called.
The bezels can be named anything as long as they are the same as the roms.
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10 minutes ago, *D1sk* said:
Hello Community
How can i undisplayed this information in Lauchbox Settings that i have colored yellow in the attach file?
Thx for help
In Launchbox, go to tools,options,integration,MAME and untick both boxes
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9 hours ago, jajamelony said:
Honestly after spending 48 hours trying to get the automated MAME setup to work in Launchbox I think it is fair to say Launchbox does not support automatic MAME import/setup even though the function is there to do so. It does nothing except to scrape images for the ROMS....
I've tried twice now to import the entire MAME set with no success. The system goes through and scrapes all the images for 12+ hours (on a gigabit FIOS connection) and then when done NONE of the ROMS will launch.
People say a bad workman blames his tools when someone says that something they have done is not of good quality because they did not have the correct things to do it with, to mean that it is really because they did not have enough skill.
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4 hours ago, retroseriestv said:
If it's important to you, just edit the xml and look for the emulator details and delete info between <Emulator>5ddb7a93-ff7c-4f45-a986-082900a63a95</Emulator>
If you want them all deleted so no emulator is used, then just to a bulk edit.
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On 12/27/2020 at 11:58 AM, Koroth said:
I'm not sure what the difference would be between manually copying a perfectly working setup of LaunchBox or syncing a perfectly working setup of LaunchBox. Just be selective when you sync. I personally sync to my NAS. The files that are replaced are moved to the recycle bin. If need be I can always get them from there. But to each his own.
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Just to clarify, maybe you are equating syncing with real-time syncing. But you can do a manual sync too.
Copy and paste files to another drive, or sync as you say then remove some files from recycle bin if required ?
It's a tough decision, but I will stick to my way of doing it, but thanks for the info.
ps,
Yes I thought you meant real time syncing which would defeat the object, but the other manual way sounds like way too much hassle compared to just copy and pasting some files.
Sometimes the simple option is best.
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26 minutes ago, Koroth said:
You could use something like FreeFileSync for this and set it up to only copy (sync) altered or new files. This should massively reduce the amount being copied.
Thanks, but I prefer to just manually copy over the files, as I know that the exact setup I am copying worked perfectly.
If I leave it to sync, it will sync the files I currently have, which may not work.
I just want a complete copy of my setup as a backup that I know worked perfectly.
For me this is the best solution.
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16 hours ago, d2produce said:
O jeez.
Use the cdimono1.zip from the latest MAME bios files as that has all the files required.
I have it setup using Mess with this bios file and all work and play fine.
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4 hours ago, GraftedOne said:
Same thing happened to me, lost everything on this last update. Cannot start up launchbox or bigbox. I only have one drive so it wasn't a drive letter problem. The application will not even open. Any suggestions on how to recover all of my set up data. I would hate to start from scratch.
As with anything on a computer, the best thing to do is backup all the main files, except for the large images, videos, music, games and manual folders.
Just copy them to another drive on a regular basis and if there are any issues you can simply copy them back from your backed up folder and replace existing folders.
I do this on a daily basis and it's approx 10gb for me and I have 150,000+ games (takes 10 minutes to copy files)
Very useful if I start messing with settings etc and any issue arises.
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4 hours ago, DrewThatGamer said:
I have no startup video and i only have about 1.3k games. about the same amount i had on my old system.
For all the positive's Launchbox has, the one thing it does not have is speed.
It's slow everywhere when it is dealing with a process like loading , updating media etc due to the way it is working in the background.
I have 150,000+ games and it's taking approx 2 minutes to open Bigbox and about 30 seconds to open Launchbox.
No idea if that's the norm, but that's what I get and everyone will be different.
Coming from Hyperspin where it loads instantly no matter how much is on it takes a bit of getting used to, but then Hyperspin does not do so much behind the scenes as Launchbox.
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14 minutes ago, SiriusVI said:
I have never read about chd, cso or rvz causing problems. But on the Dolphin forums people talk about the problems of gcz. I'm no expert, I just know what I've read somewhere online, haha.
I have learnt from experience on both.
I would not take what you see online as gospel all of the time (though it's a good guide), it's usual just trial and error for most things.
Out of 100 games you will get 1 or 2 that won't load correctly, or will load and then crash after conversion.
Once put back to the original file it will play fine.
gcz files for Gamecube, I have yet to come across one that has had an issue, but I have not played them all.
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10 hours ago, SiriusVI said:
That's right but I read that gcz format can cause errors in a few games. Besides, I've already converted the whole library to rvz, so I don't want to spend time converting everything to gcz again. Eventually retroarch will support rvz, I think. I'll just have to wait.
Not in my experience, but same could be said for converting to chd,pbp etc
I find many games won't load after conversion, especially if the compression is too high.
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On 12/23/2020 at 10:39 AM, SiriusVI said:
Absolutely. I also converted to CHD. It's great, but it does take a while indeed. Also converted Wii and Gamecube games to RVZ. Unfortunately the dolphin retroarch core does not support RVZ files, yet. It's not too much of an issue, since I use dolphin standalone for wii games anyway, however I would like to use the retroarch core for gamecube games, because it would allow me to use bezels.
For Gamecube you can use Dolphin emulator to convert them all to gcz format.
They are all compatible with Dolphin and RetroArch.
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43 minutes ago, triggerthehorizon said:
SEGA PICO USA 3D Boxes... Enjoy!
Thanks for all your boxart that you share, but it would be better if you zipped them up and posted them in downloads.
Also naming them would be useful ?
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1 hour ago, SabreAnt said:
I followed the instructions in this official video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqJg5XH80pw very carefully after trying to follow the instructions I found in this more specific non-official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Ifhb0KYIM
It occurred to me that my CD may have some form of copy protection when I watched the official video, as I repeatedly came across problems including a failed CUE file creation error and stalling/freezing of LaunchBox when trying to copy CD contents to my C drive. After some searching, I realised this CUE file was critical to getting my BIN file to work. As suggested in the official video I opted not to copy the CD contents to my hard drive and instead use the CD each time I play, circumventing the BIN and CUE file problems.
The installation went well, and exactly as pictured in the non-official video, but when trying to launch The Need for Speed SE (1996) with LaunchBox following a successful installation, DOS Box would open and rapidly close without launching the game. This is where my experience differed from the non-official video, as he could play, and I cannot. I am unsure where to go from here. I have spent a number of hours on this now and have uninstalled and reinstalled LaunchBox itself, as well as removing, editing, deleted and reinstalled NFS:SE numerous times with lots of little changes (launcher exe etc). I even tried right click copying the CD's contents into the Games --> MS-DOS folder in an attempt to not need to have a BIN file reliance, but I don't really know enough about what I'm doing, and it all ended in similar problems and failures.
I'm looking for help and suggestions on people successfully running this game on WIindows 10, and similar issues they solved. Please help if you can. Thank you.
Just tested on latest Windows version 20H2 build on Windows 10 Home and works and plays perfectly here.
used game from eXoDos 4.0
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23 minutes ago, Tackskull said:
Hi there,
I am using launchbox/bigbox to play my playstation games. Thte point is that I installed many playstation cores on retroarch, but it seems that when I launch a playstation game the system automatically run beetle-psx, instead I would like to use duckstation as default core.
I tried some stuff, I went on the retroarch program, I run duskstation to play a game and than I went to overrayd configuration saving the duckstation emulator to be the main ps emulator, but once I go back to launchbox it automatically run beetle-psx. In the case I delete the beeetle-psx core, the games just don't start.
In the case I use bigbox, I go to a game and select "launch with", so I select retroarch and then I just have the option "mednaffen-psx", and can't select other cores.
So, how can I use a specific core to run games on launchbox bigbox?
Make sure you have actually installed the core in RetroArch first or it will not show up in list of cores.
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20 hours ago, Psynaptik said:
Mame is a nightmare and there's no getting round that.
The best way to avoid problems is to download the exact romset for the version of MAME you're running. e.g. if you're running MAME 0.226 then you need the 0.226 romset (and CHDS if that's a thing for you).
If you start to mix mame versions and romsets you're creating a whole heap of pain for yourself.
To save space use a merged set. This is one where if games are clones the set will not duplicate the common files between them. This saves a lot of space, but means that your collection has to stay together. i.e. you can't just copy a file across one at a time and expect it to work, since a file it needs might be in ANOTHER file that you didn't bring across. If you just put your MAME roms somewhere and then add them to Launchbox without copying them across then that's the best way to do it hard drive wise.
Other emulators should be a lot easier to get up and running. Retroarch is also a complete PITA, which for me has always gone beyond just getting things to load. Controls, displays...the very UI it uses. uuurgggh... BUT it does forgo the need to have a dozen emulators all over the shop, and once you have your settings sorted then it's nice. Depends what you're using it for.
MAME a nightmare ?
A monkey could get it working in 5 minutes.
Just download it , drop the roms and bios files into the roms folder and thats it.
What's a nightmare about that ?
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Check also that you have the bios files in with your romset for the specific version it is, e.g. MAME 0.226
If the bios files are not in with the rom's they will not load also.
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47 minutes ago, Mr Smith said:
Yes, I mean when using big box normally, vs desktop mode. I'll check the settings in RL. Appreciate the quick response. Game launches in desktop mode but not when big box is launched directly. Only the bezel shows up.
Check that you have skip checks set to roms only in RL if you are using split MAME romset and rom extension if you are using merged set or the won't load.
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3 hours ago, patatas said:
Sega genesis works with retroarch. I didnt do something different, the same procedure, only different platform. I notice that underscores _ are included in this one genesis_plus_gx_libretro but in nestopia_libretro there isnt an _ when you expand the list launch with ... is this important?
Try and use mesen_libretro core instead and see if that works.
Also make sure you have actually downloaded the cores in RetroArch or it won't work.
You need to set RA up as well as just configuring Launchbox.
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7 minutes ago, Amrith1507 said:
Good day
How do I exit a game back to big box using a ps3 controller
Go into the controller settings in Bigbox and set an exit button or 2 button combination.
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Use a different cores for same platform ?♂️
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Why are you using cores ?
Just use the MAME emulator for these systems and they will all play fine.