neil9000

I have the F500, i keep it in dinput mode and Retroarch recognizes it as the mayflash F500 when Retroarch loads.

I dont emulate model 3.

This is a emulator issue and nothing at all to do with Launchbox/Bigbox.

The current set is on "pleasuredome", but if you get a older set from somewhere like the internet archive, just get the MAME emulator version that matches it, then the game that are working will work. Its worth noting that there are thousands of games in the fullset that do not currently work in any version of MAME. If you use the Launchbox fullset importer and leave the filters at there default it will only import working games.

As a example the three files your Captain America says it is missing i have in my rom, i have a 0.208 romset and emulator, so it looks like files have been added to that rom since whenever your version is from so will not work in the current version of MAME. As my rom version and emulator match that game works just fine for me.

This is exactly the reason you need to for the most part keep your roms and emulator versions in sync. The actual game roms change when they get better dumps, or when a specific part is emulated more accurately, or when some encryption is broken etc. so a version of a game may break from one version of the emulator to the next, as both the rom file and the emulator itself have changed, and the MAME emulator knows exactly what files should be present in the rom files for that exact version of the emulator, and obviously looks for and loads those files, if the files you have do not match the game will not work. Also its worth pointing out that picking random games from random places on the internet is a awful idea. Not only do you not know which MAME version it is from, and therefore which emulator version to use for it, but there are three different versions of romsets, merged, non-merged and split, and depending on what version your random rom is from you could be missing a ton of files for that game. This is because MAME works on a Parent and Clone basis, a lot of games ran on very similar hardware so there is no need to have every file needed in every game rom as that is a waste of space, so they make one game the "Parent" which has all the needed files and the other games only include the files that are actually different from the parent, so MAME actually looks for two roms in those cases, the actual game you are loading, and the parent that includes the bulk of the data, if you dont have that parent then that game is going to fail with missing files, like in your images. The only exclusion to this is the non-merged roms, as each game there contains all the files needed for that game to run, but when downloading random game files you have no idea whether its a merged, non-merged or split rom, or from which version it is meant for. Also depending on the rom types you have they may be completely missing bios files which are needed for games to run. These bios files also change over time so you cant just grab any version, you need the versions for your version of the emulator. Recent examples of this are the qsound bios for capcom games and the neogeo bios. If you have a old version of those you cannot use a recent version of the MAME emulator.

The same way as any other file type.

It is in the Launchbox MAME metadata.xml, but it is marked as "imperfect" rather than "working".

OK i do have it in my roms folder and in MAME it says that it is working but with sound issues. However when i try to launch it from MAME it crashes to desktop.

I have a full romset and i do not have that game in Launchbox. Is it possible it went under another name also and that it needs a parent rom?

There would need to be a database of every game ever released and what controls it used, so i dont see that ever happening i'm afraid. You can already do this in Launchbox. These seem more like emulator features, so therefore out of the scope of Launchbox.

This thread is old and your information is obsolete, as STEAM has native support for PS4 controllers.

Well the fact that you say it still happens even after you close Bigbox leads me to believe its something else on your system, if Bigbox is closed, then it's closed and not using any resources.

Also what version of Bigbox/Launchbox are you running?

This image is my PC idling at the desktop and it is using nearly 4GB of ram just doing that, i closed chrome when i took that shot, Windows 10 likes ram.

I would guess because it has run out of ram, and a reboot clears that.

Depending on the retroarch cores you are using some of them can be harder to run than redream or epcsxe, it depends on the emulator how much cpu it needs, not on how old the actual systems they emulate are.

Not to mention, that Windows is also running in the background and likely using more ram than anything else. What sort of storage are you using? as that could also be a bottleneck with all the loading of images and such Bigbox does, then retroarch and its UI, then the actual core as well as windows, there is a lot of reads/writes happening there.

You need to tell the games to use the new emulator now. Click one of the games then CTRL A to highlite them all in that platform, right click one and edit, this will open the bulk edit wizard, in the first dropdown choose emulator, then in the second that appears after the emulator you now want to use, finish out the wizard and start a game.

Yep, that's totally possible. Just as you say name it differently then set it up with associated platforms like usual.

The CHD set is on there,but it is huge, its like 550GB in size.

The CPS3 games NEED the CHD's in order to run, the green you are getting is because your rom's are correct, but they will not run unless you have the CHD also. This is because these are later releases and are larger in size than the older games, so the main data was basically on a CD or HDD, those files are compressed to the CHD format to save some space. I believe one of the Street Fighter 3 games has a nocd version as well, but the others will NEED the CHD and the regular rom file in order to run.

Also please do not link to roms here.

Those are for use with retropi and like systems so are probably very old and need a specific version of MAME/FBA to run.

We would need more information than that if you want any help here im afraid. Like what romset are the roms from, what emulator are you trying to use, do you have the bios files, do they work in just the emulator?