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Hah this is too real. Right down to the 1200 baud dialup BBS's. This post was such a trip down memory lane :) With that said... I actually do have a (very high quality, flat screen, from the 90's!) CRT display I use specifically for retro gaming. Its beautiful. I'm sure it was insanely expensive in its day, but I got it for $5 at a garage sale ;). I really wish I saved my old CRT's when I first switched to LCD displays.

A cheat way to remove old files when you just keep putting new versions over the old is to simply move the torrent's folder somewhere else. The torrent client moves all the files belonging to that torrent to the new location, and all is good. For a combined set, just move one torrent to a new location, then move all the others to that same location. That provides those of us who've never bothered dealing with torrent utilities an easy way to get rid of cruft from previous versions

You can help build ratio with the free(doesn't hurt your ratio to download them) MAME packs. They update monthly, on the last Wednesday, so lots of bandwidth is needed regularly. The easiest way to go about it is to download them now, and when the next versions are added just rename the torrent folders to the next version and download the new ones on top of your existing files. I'd recommend the merged sets, and particularly the CHD's if you have the HDD space. Then you're helping the community, and building ratio.

Fantastic! Thanks man, for all your hard work. Looks damned tedious, but it's so appreciated.

The tracker works fine. It IS a private tracker, and you do need to do some wiki reading and understand how to use it and what the requirements are, but it's extremely reliable and well seeded as a result.

No,.torrent clients don't delete the contents of folders they're saving files to, they just add/update the new files

No need. Just download them all to the same folder.

In windows: Mklink /j C:\Launchbox\Games P:\ROMs\eXoDOS\eXoDOS\Games Obviously, adjust folders as to where things actually are, but the command above would make it look like there was a Games folder inside Launchbox, but that would actually point to P:\ROMs\eXoDOS\eXoDOS\Games. To Launchbox, everything would be on drive C:. Thus: P:\ROMs\eXoDOS\eXoDOS\Games\File.zip And C:\Launchbox\Games\File.zip both point to the same file . So, you just move the XML's, then use links to trick Launchbox into thinking those files are local.

I'd recommend making symbolic links if you need Launchbox installed elsewhere. Be the simplest way to have LB think eXoDOS is local while the bulk of the data is actually elsewhere.

Seeding it now. Thanks, eXo, and take care of yourself.

Awesome, so I should just be able to point the new torrent at the current torrents folder to get a huge head start on downloading it, as the games themselves are largely the same? Wonderful

Thanks for the heads up, eXo!

Really excited for a native import. I've considered Syntax's approach above, but honestly I've got so many projects on the go, I'd just as soon wait for the native system rather than monkey with it. I've been following this for ages, and can wait a bit longer =) Always glad to hear it's still on the table and being worked on!

Good to hear it's still being worked on!

I just wanted to toss in a huge THANK YOU right here. Can't wait!