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Some zip files just have the files in a folder already when extracting and some don't. I'd suggest you just create a folder MAME inside Launchbox\Emulators and unzip your mame 0.196 there. Then follow the tutorial above. MAME will look at it's mame.ini file to see the location of your mame roms and bios. I think by default it looks in the "rom" folder that is created from unzipping your mame zip, but you can change that location in mame.ini if you want.

Close and reopen LB and try again?

No idea here really, but what if you try using an older backup copy of BigBoxSettings.xml from you Launchbox\Backups folder and replace the one in your Launchbox\Data folder? Then try to start BB. If you install a totally clean LB into a brand new folder and not drag in any of your other files, does BB launch ok? I guess @Jason Carr would have a much better idea based on your crash data.

There is an option to play your PC games on your TV if that's what you're trying to do. Steam often sells their Steamlink for like $10. Then you can stream Bigbox and games from your PC to that Steamlink box which is connected to your TV.

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you could try opening a cmd.exe as admin and delete it with command line, making sure you have no apps of any kind open when you try it. in the cmd window run this (change to where your folder is that you want to delete as this is just an example below): rmdir /S /Q r:\launchbox\images\cache

my normal setting for ram cache is 1024 (1GB) and I do not see this problem with 1024 set. so, you might try using 1024 @We1Dont7Die

i would say there is a problem here =)

I'm now at 9GB !!!!

yeah it's pretty simple to reproduce this. i can see that as well. i just set 2GB for the cache. then i went to the All platform and just started scrolling. I'm well over 2Gb and climbing as I scroll. i assume the cache should be limited to 2GB and then LB itself gets to have some memory too. so, i kept scrolling in All and got past 3GB but only half way through scrolling. i have 12k games

I'd suggest you reboot first and then reinstall.

i'd rather you not slow anything down . slower=bad, haha the forum gods/mods can tell people the reason it might be happening and can fix that in xml, unless you don't want to encourage people manually hacking the xml.

ok found it. my arcade.xml has 13 .mp4 in video paths. that must be it. i might have copied my arcade.xml from my main LB to this portable since i brought all the same games into this one. no videos, but the xml thinks so i guess. all good edit: still it seems odd because my main LB setup has videos for every mame game. not really sure why 13 are set to a video in this setup xml but i'll find replace so there aren't any set.

Nope, my videos folder is empty and i created this LB from scratch with no videos as my portable LB. I just checked my theme folder and nothing in those video folders also. I don;t have any platform videos either as I set this up with 0 videos.

i posted a comment early on about hide games with missing videos coming up with the wrong result on my test setup. My earlier comment about it: "i'm not sure what hide games missing videos should do since out of my 4471 games, checking that feature shows 13 games in the ALL platform, yet i have ZERO videos for any games."

geebus, lb.next and old lb beta 9 opened up in about 1 second with my smaller portable setup! i'll take it!!

My Platforms were sorted right, but not by Publisher or Developer. Turning off ALL fixed the sorting for Publisher and Developer, but I'd like to keep All.

Hey, is there is setting in BB to hold off on showing the platform stuff on the right when scrolling through the platform wheel, until maybe you have stopped on a platform for a moment and then show the video and other stuff on the right? If there is such a setting I'd like to try it on my HTPC to help with the wheel stutters. I use vertical wheels that scroll up and down on screen. Thanks!

i can say my platform view is sorted properly in old LB and .next. The problem reported before was in old LB but now you seem to be having it in lb.next which i don't think has been reported yet, at least not for the Platform view. for me, Publisher and Developer are not sorted properly in lb.next

it's all good and working now Jason. just tried the new beta. also, i don't know if it's just me or not, but any time i launch .next the loading screen comes up very briefly then disappears for the rest of the load, where you can see launchbox in the taskbar but nothing else appears to be going on for a few seconds and then lb.next comes up. also, btw, old LB comes up almost twice as fast as lb.next on my somewhat small videoless test/portable setup. Edit: so weird, now the longer startup of .next has gone away and the few seconds of no loading screen has also gone away. Edit2: ok happens a few startups after each reboot then goes back to normal

i'm not sure what hide games missing videos should do since out of my 4471 games, checking that feature shows 13 games in the ALL platform, yet i have ZERO videos for any games.

beta 6 still comes up with the game tile pane empty until you click another platform.

here is the sorting not alphabetical

I can screenshot the sorting tonight if you want. I'll try the latest Beta too.