neil9000

Yeah Launchbox is designed to be easy to use, and the newish MAME full set importer is a part of that ehos. Of course though programs like crlmamepro are out there for people who need that sort of advanced configuration.

OK now I understand better. unfortunately that is not possible, MAME is a very different beast to normal roms, and works very differently. The MAME full set importer isn't actually importing any of your games per se, it just knows what games actually work and adds them to your library. Depending on the MAME romset type you have it is very likely that games will actually rely on files that are not imported into launchbox, so if we were to just copy the imported games it would break a ton of them as other game zips may be needed for the games to work.

I'm a little confused here are you talking about the media that is downloaded is taking up to much space? The reason I ask is because the tools/import/full Mame Romset does not move your files at all. If you are talking media then do not download any at import, then once you have the Platform imported you can change the media paths and the initiate a metadata/image download.

Yeah, rocket launcher will be the emulator for all your systems, so you will need to add all the emulators you need via tools/manage emulators. Then set it for the specific systems by highlighting all the games in a system and doing a bulk edit on them to change emulator.

Go to options/image cache and refresh platform logos.

Yeah, if you can only get 4K 30 then stick to 1080p 60. The vast majority of systems you are emulating are 60 so running them at 30 is a no go. Also i would check your HDMI cable and the port on your PC you are connecting it to, you can not use any bog standard HDMI cable for 4K 60, and the display output from the PC/GPU also has to support HDMI 2.0 for 4K 60. So you may only be seeing the 30 option as you dont have the correct HDMI cable.

lol, OK then. I didn't realise that it was also in BigBox.

You dont switch to it in BigBox, you put it in the StartupThemes folder and switch to it in Launchbox.

You can keep your roms where ever you like, just tell MAME were they are and of course Launchbox during the import wizard. Just re run the same importer and uncheck all the media downloads. That will just take a few minutes to import and all your media will re attatch after.

Also if you do get the 0.197 set i recommend you use the same version of the MAME emulator to match it.

Yes you want roms either Non-Merged, Merged or split will work fine in Launchbox. You do not want anything that has Software list in the name as thats not for arcade games its computers and consoles that work in MAME.

The software list pack is for old computers and consoles that work in MAME, they used to work in MESS but MESS and MAME were combined into one emulator. What you have will work if you care to set them up, but software lists are not currently supported for importing into launchbox, so getting them in is a pain, and each platform will need different specific commands to work correctly. The Neo Geo roms may work OK, but you would also need the neogeo.zip bios file, so maybe thats missing as i cant recall if its included there or not, i want to say it isnt but im not 100% on that.

Yeah as i thought, those are not Arcade games they are software list like you said. As i said in my first reply those are for old computer and console games, if you look you have folders for NES, Orion_cass etc. MAME Arcade roms are not named like that and are always zipped also, like this.

If you used the Tools/Import/MAME fullset importer then that actually doesnt check your roms, it assumes you have a fullset and adds the known working games to the platform. So it would grab images and such regardless, it may even work on a empty folder (although i havent tested that). Can you share a image of your MAME roms folder please.

Software list for MAME is not Arcade games, its old computer and console games. If you were expecting arcade games i'm afraid you got the wrong set.

Lol, well i never got a NES until around 88-89 i would say so i only had the spectrum to go by. You are right though the music has nothing to do with Robocop really, i just really liked it.

Robocop on the spectrum for me, loved this game and soundtrack as a kid in the 80's.

Go to your Launchbox/Data folder and open BigBoxSettings.xml in a text editor, find the line "LockPin" and delete the whole line, save the edit. It should look like this. Just delete the whole line so that there is no space between the lines above and below it.

There is a difference in philosophy though, Launchbox aims to be easy to use for everyone out of the box, while RocketLauncher aims for wide configuration so therefore complexity. The two don't go well together unfortunately.

Actually the name in the game details is wrong also, it is showing airattack which is the file name, it should obviously be Air Attack. It shows and scrapes fine for me on my system. Are you scraping the platform as Arcade? If you right click the game and go to edit does it have a database ID?

So no not a complete replacement for RocketLauncher, some of its features will, or have already been implemented but its not going to be a replacement. If you want all that extra configuration and complexity you will be better off sticking with RocketLauncher. And no i dont believe there is going to be a module system like in RocketLauncher, the idea is to make it simple to use for everyone and keeping up to date with emulator updates with modules defeats the point of this. If that is what you want then of course RocketLauncher is still there for those people.

Is the platform in the sidebar in Launchbox named Neo Geo also? What it is named in Launchbox and what you have in the associated platform tab must match exactly.

Click a game in a platform then ctrl A to highlite them all in the platform, then tools/download metadata and images, just walk through the wizard and check/uncheck any image types you want.

Tools/options/updates turn on betas uncheck background downloads and close and re-open Launchbox, you will be prompted on launch.