neil9000

Drive was probably sleeping, and by the second launch it had woke up from the first launch try.

That is the Bigbox part of Launchbox, and yes that requires a license to use. Hard to tell as you bought this (you should never pay for roms as that is hugely illegal, as well as it all being available online for free). It could be that you didnt have a fullset but used the fullset importer. Or that you are using a much older romset and your version of the emulator is not compatible with the roms.

Ill happily test it if you want to PM it to me.

Looks like you are using rocketlauncher, so its a setting there, if not then Retroarch. Launchbox has no control over window size/posistion. Also its that size because you are using the bezel, the game without the bezel will be 4:3.

You can put your MAME roms wherever you like as long as you tell MAME itself where to look for them. As for importing i use the fullset importer, left at default settings that will only import known working games into Launchbox, which is currently around 2700 or so.

Hmm, i wouldnt of thought that would be to highly requested. I use save states all the time, but only ever one, i just constantly overwrite it, i never choose a slot or have more than one.

It is, high lite the games in a platform by clicking on one then CTRL A to high lite them all. Then just go to tools/Download Metadata and Media, choose your media and pick the middle option to not overwrite existing media.

You have been able to do that for a long long time.

Turn off startup/shutdown screens in Launchbox, or fades in RocketLauncher, they are conflicting as they are doing essentially the same thing.

Well the problem is a franchise is different than a series, they are games licensed individually from the license holder, so are not part of a continuing series as such. They are based off books/films and each stand by themselves, its not a linear series of games from one developer. These are games from multiple different publishers, developed by many different developers, and vary hugely in genre. The rule of the database is that the name on the box is how it should be titled on the database.

You dont have Retroarch set to extract roms do you?

The MAME retroarch core works just fine from Launchbox. My suspicion is a typo, or you named it differently in Launchbox and the associated platform tab.

They are updated at the same time.

Launchbox will download the highest quality one available only. Most videos are the "High" quality ones as the consoles were not HD. The HD videos are mostly for PC games that are actually HD.

MAME only, and they are in the game details sidebar if the game supports them and there is a actual score present.

It should also work with emulation station, if on the correct view. All themes, have several views, they all show different things.

Sorry for the late reply. Right click night trap, edit, then change the platform its associated with.

Also i dont recall if mega cd is a default associated platform or not. So i would in Launchbox go to Tools/Manage Emulators/Retroarch, click the associated platform tab and look if that system is there and is using the core you want. Im assuming you have that as a separate platform? So a Sega Genesis/MegaDrive platform, as well as a Sega CD/Mega CD platform, you shouldnt mix them if not.

I noticed that in your image, open retroarch by itself and hit F on the keyboard to go fullscreen, it should remember that next time its opened. If it doesnt remember it post back and ill explain why. A xbox controller will be automatically setup so no need to worry there. As for keyboard controls you will need to open Retroarch and go to settings/input/user 1 binds and set what you want there. Night Trap is a Mega CD game so that will require Mega CD bios files, which go in the Retroarch/Systems folder. In the retroarch UI you can "Load Core" when a core is loaded you then have access to a "information" screen for that core, then inside that "core information". That screen will say if a core needs a bios file, and whether or not it actually see's that file or not. Like in this image, i have the European and USA bios, but im missing the Japanese one. So i can run European and USA roms but not Japanese. I should add the only reason it says those are "Optional" is because they are not needed for master system, megadrive or game gear. They are ABSOLUTELY needed for mega cd though. Any other queries, feel free.

Genesis Plus GX, as it supports master system, game gear, megadrive/genesis, and mega/sega cd.

What theme are you using? Not all themes or views within themes use videos.

Its the house icon next to the search bar.

Well that image is showing Kega still. Have you added retroarch to the Tools/Manage Emulators section? Also have you downloaded a core in Retroarch? Retroarch doesnt come with any cores (emulators) they are downloaded from within the UI, online updater/cores, i recommend the Genesis GX core.

Thats the exact reason i dont use Retroarch MAME, i always had control issues with it.

No standalone MAME is the recommendation there still, but for the early consoles i would use retroarch. You only need to set your settings and controls once in its UI and they will work across multiple systems. As for Retroarch get the zip version that matches your OS, either 32 or 64 from here. https://retroarch.com/?page=platforms, thats the ones called download, not the installer ones.