neil9000

Like i said here, so if you dont edit anything metadata wise very often you wont create backups, as obviously there is no need for a new backup if nothing has changed since the last one.

Thats just you, i have many backups of my systems in the backup folder. I believe a backup is created anytime you edit something in a platform.

I would also backup your data folder first, in case those are not the files you want and make things worse.

I would copy all the backups you need elsewhere first, then you need to rename them all by deleting the dates on them so they look normal then drop them in the platform folder overwriting the others when prompted.

Just open one up and have a look at a game you know you changed and see what the data is.

Also its good practice to simply backup your whole data folder.

All the ones with dates before you changed things will have that data still, thats kind of the point of Launchbox saving those backups.

Click one then use CTRL A on the keyboard to highlite all.

Also to add i have two SSD's in my system a seven months old NVME boot drive that has 15.4TB of write usage on it that is still classed as "Good" condition, just as it was when it was new. I also have a 5 year old SSD that i keep Launchbox on, that has had 62.7TB of writes to it and it also is still classed with being in "Good" status just like it was when new. So i think you are really over exaggerating how much writing SSD's are rated for, for example my NVME boot drive comes with a 5 year guarantee, or 600TB written.

Every single program on your PC will write data to the disk, Launchbox is not a special use case in that regard. I'm betting if you have a SSD in your system you are running Windows from it right? That will be writing and reading from your precious SSD every second of every day that your PC is on, but i don't expect you have been to the Microsoft support site asking them to release a build of Windows that never writes to your drives, right? That would be a ridiculous thing to ask for right? Why should Launchbox be any different? Then maybe you should just be loading your games from the desktop and not using a frontend at all. The point of a frontend is to organise and display your games in a attractive and organised way, to enable you to quickly choose a game and launch it. Having screenshots and videos of the games in your collection is a good and attractive way to organise and see what a game is about before loading it, this is EXACTLY the use case for a frontend. This would mean a complete redesign and re-code of the program in order to support your frankly weird phobia of programs making use of the SSD you have. The only way you are going to be able to save your precious SSD is to not use a frontend at all and to simply load a game from the desktop, while the whole time Windows is reading a writing thousands of files every minute.

Just goes to show i think that people who use Launchbox on Windows like the flexibility/power that a Windows PC provides, especially as there are emulators that are not available on Android.

I made mine portable by putting this in the folder, so all files/folders that are created stay in the same folder. Its simply a empty text file renamed to portable.ini. portable.ini

Ah, thinking about it i have mine in portable mode, so its likely that by default it saves files elsewhere, possibly documents or your %appdata% folder.

It looks like you are in the wrong folder. In my image below i have those same files in that folder as you do (on the left) the correct folder path is on the right.

I am using 3.0.0 and i have those files, are you looking in the correct location?

If you created it as a batch file you could run it as a additional app i think.

Correct, the only way to be able to import non installed games is if Epic provide a API and that is integrated into Launchbox. There is simply no other way of knowing what games you own if they are not physically on your system.

You just launch Launchbox from within steam, then load a ps2 game like you would normally.

What romset are you using? I ask because those "games" in your image are not MAME games. Can you click on one so the details are in the sidebar and take a pic?

It will of course need configuring, you will need to supply your rom and emulator paths, but Launchbox will aquire the art for you. If you are coming from hyperspin i assume you are using rocketlauncher, you can continue to use that if you want, its fully compatible. You will just need to tell rocketlauncher UI to use Launchbox instead of Hyperspin.

Why? options and competition are good, i personally couldnt give a toss that i have to launch a game from the Epic client and not the Steam one, and ill take there free weekly game all day long.

Then you have a mis-configration somewhere, i dont keep my roms in the MAME folder, in fact i do not even keep them on the same hard drive and they work just fine.

I have deleted your other thread there is no need to post the same question twice. As for your question sounds like you are using a very old version of MAME. So you will need to go to Tools/Manage Emulators/MAME and remove the commandline there. You will however not be able to use the new pause screens with MAME if you remove this.

Just add Launchbox as a "non steam game", like you would with any other game.

Yeah thats not true at all, but MAME does need to know your rom location as well for Launchbox to launch them.