[Moving specific files from a romset.]

 Sounds good. Ty kindly.

 

[Moving specific files from a romset.]

If I have mame0.217 non-merged, those batch files will not work, correct?

[Moving specific files from a romset.]

1 minute ago, Retro808 said:

No. Non-merged contains everything for a game to run in one zip. 

Ohhh, ok. I got that switched around. So I must have the merged set then. Gonna go find a non-merged set then. Still, gonna be a lot of games to go through on each playlist to get all the ones from the romset that i need.

Thanks all, sorry for my confusion.

[Moving specific files from a romset.]

1 minute ago, Retro808 said:

Dos's answer is pretty much answering what you are asking. There is not an easy way and you cannot use Launchbox playlists to move them. It is not only a rom/parent/clone rom issue it is support file issue as well. CHD files, bios files, or other support files that games in Mame may need but Launchbox does not care about. Non-merged set would be the best to do this with and again there is no feature in LB to do the moves based on those playlists. 

Non-merged? Wouldn't it be better to use a merged set so I do not have to hunt down all the files for any given rom?

[Moving specific files from a romset.]

Thanks for responding DOS,

I do not think that you get what I mean and that is not surprising. I did not word it very well. I am familiar with mame sets and the merged and not merged aspects. That is not my issue here. My issue is that I do not want most of the roms in the mame set, just the ones that fill out certain collections like Taito Collection or Data East Collection. or the CP1, CPS2, CPS3 sets. What I was wondering is if there was a way to move the files from those collections via their playlist to a separate folder or will I have to actually go into the mame rom folder and hunt down each roms in each playlist I want individually. My set is not merged so of course I would need the parent roms and the clones so it would just be easier to download a merged set at that point but I do not want to waste the bandwidth if there is a simpler solution.

[Moving specific files from a romset.]

Hello,

I looked at the FAQs and did not see my issue there so I am hoping someone can help me by pointing me in the right direction.

Here is my issue: I have a full MAME romset and there is no issue there, it all shows up and the playlists work (really love that feature). However, I really do not need a lot of the bloat that comes with MAME. I would be fine with just the collections I.E. Capcom Classics, Taito Classics, Williams Classics, etc etc but for the life of me, I cannot figure out a way to move the roms from those collections while in Launchbox to a separate folder so I can just get rid of the other bulk stuff I have no use for. Is this even possible or do I have to go through the EXCEPTIONALLY tedious job of looking at each file individually within Launchbox to see it's specific filename and then moving it one by one?

Any help is appreciated. Thank you in advance!
 

[Start up video suggestion?]

Hi all,

Not sure if this is the correct place for this but I did not see anywhere else so if it isn't, please feel free to delete the post or move it.

Anywho, I LOVE the opening videos people make. I do not have the talent to make one myself but had an awesome idea for one. I see a lot of retro type videos on here and had the idea to remake a classic opening into a BigBox opening video. It is the opeing for the ABC Sunday Night movie in the early 80's. I have poted a link to one of the better versions of it I have found. Let me know what you think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHDvDXVJ_78

[BigCouch Theme]

Hey there CDBlue,

Your first suggestion did the trick. Thank you kindly. I will work on the meta data issue later, that should be an easy fix. However,I have now noticed anew issue that I cannot seem to fix and I am unsure why. If I use the base theme, WITHOUT the 16x9 fix, it all LOOKS right but I cannot set the video preview for the platforms to "fade". I can switch to it but it does not change it to fade. If I apply the 16x9 fix, the fade DOES work but the alignment of the video is, of course, off. Anyway how to fix it? The fade for the platform video is pretty much a must as it make the whole thing look VERY seamless.

[BigCouch Theme]

Hi Viking,

I hope you are still around and available to give me some help or at least point me in the right direction. Long story slightly shorter, I came across your theme and I find the aesthetic to be AMAZING. It is THE theme I want to be using. However, I cannot, for some reason, get it to look like the images you have on page one. All I have is a white background, some text and the videos (downloaded those of course, no problem). Are there settings I am not using or using improperly? I have been trying to get this to work right for HOURS! I am at my wits end. I will take some pictures real fast to show you what I mean. Thank you for any help in advance!

 

[Background images question.]

Hi Massatomic,

I tried this even though I was almost 100% certain this would have no effect when taking the power of my rig into consideration.

Unfortunately, I was correct. As it stands right now, if I want to use this theme, I cannot have background images at all or it slows down the scroll wheel when i switch between games because the image loading is causing lag for some reason.

[Background images question.]

Hi Brad,

That's the thing though: Is it a bug or is it just by design?

[Background images question.]

Hello,

Sooooo, after tweaking some settings a bit and running different themes in different configurations, I have come to the conclusion that any theme other than "Default Theme" or "Critical Zone Theme" is/was the culprit. For some reason the same settings that run smooth in the default theme are choppy on the RetroFresh theme and other themes as well and I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why.

I can now scroll smoothly through my games list, even with background images, but only in the "Default Theme" and "Critical Zone Theme". Any other theme causes scroll wheel slowdown when there are background images. Anyone have any thoughts on why that would be? I do not have a very large library, only 831 in total across all platforms.

[Background images question.]

Hi JayJay,

 

Thanks for offering help but that did not fix the issue either.

To be perfectly frank, I am about done with this program.  With my system specs, I should not be dealing with this issue and there seems to be no way to fix it. All I see is one of two things:

"Here are my system specs and it works fine for me"
"Read this post "BigBox Performance and How to Make it Better"

 

[Background images question.]

Ok, so, after I finished the last post, I went and changed the following:

In the "Options", under "Images, in "Background Priorities", I unchecked all that ewas checked, in this case "Clear Logos" and "Fan Art". This removed the background images from my consoles inside BigBox so THAT's taken care of, thank you.

Now just one last issue. Is there a way to make a games list use a single background that it does not have to load up when cycling through games? The loading of background images is what was slowing my scrollwheel down. Scrolls great now. Still find it odd that changing background images per game would slow the scroll wheel down like that.

[Background images question.]

29 minutes ago, DOS76 said:

do you use fan art as backgrounds in LB that setting may carry over

It seems like I do for some games, not all, but my settings for "Default Background" in Launchbox is set to "Use Launchbox Default Background".

Kinda weird that nothing seems to change my consoles or any sub category for that matter, from using backgrounds in BigBox. I feel like there is something I am missing just not sure what.

[Background images question.]

Hello Brad,

 

I did read that post first actually and did not find am answer. I tried to do the following, as it states:

"To Sixth, disable the background images. Users have reported that disabling these have helped them out with performance. This is something I have always just done out of personal aesthetic preference so I have never actually tested this"

 

 

I cannot seem to disable any of the background images for games within the any of the platform, seems to just use fan art images or other backgrounds. None of the image settings seem to do anything in this regard. As for forcing cache, did that too, still stutters when scrolling through games. Only universal variable is that scroll wheels on pages with background images are sluggish.

[Background images question.]

Hi all,

I have a question. Is there a way to stop any given game from using a background image? When cycling through games on any platform, the background images cause the scroll wheel to be slow and choppy. I am assuming this is because of the background images anyway because on the platform screen, with no background images, the scroll wheel moves nice and smooth. I have been through all the options and think I have exhausted all of those solutions.

Also, maybe this is a technical issue? My system is as follows:

intel 4790k @ 4ghz
16 gigs ram
GeForce 970

I thought with these kinds of specs that I would never have to worry about image lag in BigBox. Is there a setting I may be missing??

Thanks in advance.

[RetroFresh]

Hi there,

 

Great theme. It ALMOST does everything I am looking for. Two small things I cannot figure out how to do, even after going through what I feel were all the settings and combinations of settings. Both are related to the images I am posting below. My questions are as follows:

1) Is there a way to get the system or game clear logo in that upper right hand corner as opposed to the text details being show. Would prefer the game logo but since that is also used on the left scroll well, it is probably better to be a platform logo.

2). When I scroll through the games, the background image changes, causing lag (naturally). Is there either a way to disable this background image or, better yet, make it so it is a single static image for every game? Perhaps a background image of the platform.

Unrelated to this issue, I had one more question. On the platform screen as shown below, when I have "Arcade" selected, it shows the notes below it. However, if I select any of the others platforms (Console, Handheld, Playlist), the text I have entered through the Launchbox front end does not display at all. Is this a known issue or am I missing a setting? Also, is there a way to give the platform view in image 2 a static background image as well?

All help is appreciated, thank you in advance!

[Retroarch issue]

Awesome. I think I have it working now. Thank you kindly ;-)

[Retroarch issue]

Hi all,

I know this is a  Launchbox forums but I have checked Retroarch based forums and come up empty. Tbh, I bet I am wodring my problem wrong and that is why I am not finding a solution. Anywhere, here it is:

I want to use Retroarch for a majority of my older consoles (NES, SNES, Gensis, etc etc) but everytime I start a game and save a configuration, that configuration is loaded up for each different emulator. I KNOW there was a way to save config settings on a per emulator basis, I have done it before.......I just can't remember, for the life of me, how I did it before. I think it had something to do with saving a config file that is the same name ofd the core I want to use for the emulator but that does not seem to be working or I am doing it wrong. Any and all help would be appreciated, even if it is just pointing me in the right direction to a Retroarch based community.

Thanks in advance!

[I need a recommendation for a hard drive.]

1 minute ago, lordmonkus said:

Nope, you shouldn't see much if any difference at all really. You aren't loading in large environments like in modern PC games.

Nice. Thank you for your help. I have a $20 off certificate at Best Buy. Think I am going to use it on a blue 2tb drive tomorrow.

Cheers!

[I need a recommendation for a hard drive.]

2 minutes ago, lordmonkus said:

Western Digital has sort of become the standard hard drive manufacturer for most everyone.

The "black" models are more expensive but also more robust and reliable, it's what I use as my OS hard drive. The "blue" models are cheaper and reliable enough for storage and general use.

All mechanical drives of course can fail because of moving parts but overall I (and many others) have been using WD drives for years with very few failures.

Hi Lordmonkus, thanks for the quick reply.

You think I would see a severe performance difference for Launchbox if I went with a Blue over a Black? Seems the difference is 5400rpm for Blues while Blacks are 7200rpm.

[I need a recommendation for a hard drive.]

As the title states, I am in need of a hard drive. I want it to be a dedicated Launchbox Drive that will only have launchbox on it or at the very least be a Launchbox majority. Does anyone have some ideas? I am looking for 7200 rpm minimum and 3Tb's is a nice size to start off.

So, whatcha got? Thanks in advance.

[Looking for this fan art collection]

Hi all,

I saw that after downloading some art for Capcom Play System I and II that there is some fan art that is actually really awesome and I would LOVE to use them all as a theme of sorts. Problem is that some of them are missing from the usual art download places and I cannot for the life of me find complete sets for both. I am sure there HAS to be complete sets. Any help would be appreciated. I have attached an example so you know what I am talking about.

Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

 

[Fundamental Theme]

No worries, man. This is a hobby for all of us and your personal life always comes first, as it should. thanks for the update!