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Thank you guys for your help, I thought delete would only remove the entry and not the game however I didn't want to take that chance without asking first; I wanted to be safe than sorry. Your right, I did have automatic rom import on, I did not want it on so I turned it off. I turned it off after I deleted the game so I ended up having to delete the game a second time. The plateform was "ScummVM" I only have one game on that platform, "Sam and Max Hit the Road." Everything is as it should be, thank you.

How do I remove a game from my library without deleting the files? I see the delete feature but I don't want to delete the files. The reason I want this is I have a game that I want, and it's in Launchbox but Launchbox decided, out of the blue, to go looking in that game folder and choose some random file in that folder and import it as a ROM without my choice. So now I have two entries in Launchbox for the same game, one I want, and the other I don't. I don't want to delete the extra entry because I don't want to loose the game; according to "launching" it chose the whole folder as a ROM.

If you guys say it's important then I will trust you and update it. I was worried it was a bad thing.

What is this "Dolphin" plugin launchbox keeps asking me to install when I open it?

Is there a reason important messages that need to be closed hide behind loading screen (first picture)? I have to click on the narrow part of the message that isn't hidden and make it larger so I can remove the message, I can't even move it (second picture).

Oh COMMODORE amiga, I never would have guessed. Thank you.

I'm trying to load a game called "Lemmings" 1994 for Amigacd32 and I don't see an Amiga platform in LaunchBox. Certainly Amiga was important enough to warrant a platform category. Is there an Amiga category and I'm missing something? If not and I have to make my own platform category is ms-dos close enough to scrape the game as?

I just did more research after writing my post and found this I haven't finished the video yet but it sounds like "scrape as" is for finding metadata. I would select my custom platform and launchbox would search the platform I "scraped as" for metadata. EDIT: Sorry for bothering you guys, I thought I did enough research before I posted but turns out I just needed to research more. I never know when enough work is enough work.

I tried importing a windows 98 game. Since I am emulating a windows 98 game through Retroarch I imported it as a ROM and chose it's platform as "windows 98." When I did that I got an option to "Scrape As." I was wondering what it meant and what I was supposed to do. I searched for this term in the forum and I get the impression it arises when you "create" a new platform. I did do this for "windows 98" as that wasn't a platform and it seemed the only way to assign a windows 98 emulator to a windows 98 game.

I don't know if I'm professional enough to make a video (maybe suggest that to ETA Prime) but I do know there is a video (I'm currently looking for it and if I find it I will post it) about managing emulators with associated platforms. My problem was I set Retroarch as the emulator for an old windows 9x game without assigning it in associated platforms (because there wasn't one for windows 98). I just 1. Right click on the game 2. Selected edit/edit metadata 3. Went to platform and changed [Windows] to [Windows 98] 4. Then went to the menu at the top of the Launchbox screen and went to Tools/Manage/Emulators 5. Clicked on Retroarch 6. Went down to [edit] at the bottom of the window 7. Clicked on Associated Platforms 8. At the bottom was [Windows 98] and I selected the core Dosbox Pure I had already installed Windows 98 in dosbox pure and installed the game in Windows 98. The game file needed to be the game file I use in Retroarch, meaning the zip file (not 7zip). Since I had already loaded the game in dosbox pure as Windows 98 the operating system automatically comes up and the game automatically comes up as well. This was my ordeal in setting up Windows 98 and the game through Windows 98 https://forums.libretro.com/t/need-help-posting/43221. I hope this helps.

Nevermind, the people at Retroarch were able to help me. This is how they helped me https://forums.libretro.com/t/windows-98-launchbox-compatability/43637.

I want to play old windows games and recently I installed windows 98 in Retroarch using their dosbox pure core. I can now play windows 98 games through Retroarch but I was hoping I can play those games in LaunchBox through Retroarch. I took the .zip file that Retroarch uses for the game and assigned it as the game file in LaunchBox under "Launching", then I assigned Retroarch as the emulator under "Emulation" but clicking play or double clicking on the game does nothing to start it. I would have thought at least it would start Retroarch and it would ask what core to use (which I would choose dosbox pure, then windows 98). Any ideas on how to get this to work?

OK, thank you guys. When I import games I usually put them where I want them to be and select "use files where they are" as opposed to "copy files to directory". Your right I do keep my games in folders because they usually have lots of files and sub folders. This issue is solved.

My "Manage Platforms" is setup weird and I don't know how I did it or how to undo it. Under "Manage Platforms" I get a list of what platforms I have games in launchbox such as windows, arcade, Nintendo Entertainment System, etc; and I have a list of what folders correspond to the games to those platforms for example dos games are "Games/MS-DOS." However my Playstation 1 games instead of the folder being the folder with my playstation games its the folder of a specific game. Windows games are the same, it's a specific game folder instead of the folder with all windows games. So far I don't see anything wrong happening in Launchbox but I am worried this might complicate things later on. How do I fix it? I think the option is to edit the platform, go to folders, change folder path but I'm worried I might screw it up if I try anything. I was hoping someone would tell me if that will work or if I would make it worse.

Is Virtual Box compatible with Launch-Box? I think I considered Virtual Box a long time ago and it didn't look like it was but I was hoping it could be selected like any emulator to play old window's games. I'm mostly interested in the Save States, I hear Virtual Box has that.