neil9000

Yep, i am seeing that too. EDIT: although it doesnt seem to be everytime i close and re-open.

To be honest i havent tested what im saying. any mame would work, in fact any .exe would probably work also, but i havent tested. Yeah just name it something random and simply delete it once you are done with it. All you are doing is tricking the wizard into downloading images,so as long as you give it a rom folder and a .exe for the emu the wizard should complete as normal.

I personally use the hyperspin pack from here on the forums as the unified is based off of that.

I would say most people tend to pick a romset and stick to it for some time, years sometimes. I personally update every month when the new update hits, but a lot of people get a set working and just stay there, as long as you dont update the emu and the romset matches it the games will always work. Its the using roms with the emu version they are not for which causes issues.

This is different, it would give you access to features like the game manual and such while the game is running, its not just a standard pause the game thing.

Yeah, personally i dont notice a difference between windowed or full-screen myself, but i know others do. Its a personal choice one has to make.

Im not sure what you are talking about here, the launchbox youtube tutorials do not recommend Higan as a emulator. It is very good and i use the retroarch core for it, but its not what we have in our tutorials. As for saving that is done in game like any snes game would be. If you are referring to save states then those are emulator dependant and i have never used Higan so cant help you there. Our youtube tutorial is not "wrong" as we have never produced one telling you to use higan.

You should be able to actually use the new mame importer, you would just need the latest mame emu. Launchbox doesnt actually scan your mame roms for what you have it just imports all known working games. So you could use the mame importer wizard point it at a random/empty folder and point it to the mame.exe as the emu and it should work. obviously the games wont actually run, but it should allow you to download the media you need.

If they work in Launchbox then they work in Bigbox, there is no difference there. And yes if a games is not marked playable it simply wont load, and mostly yes it will just not get past the shader caching as that is the game loading. As i said in my previous reply, RPCS3 is simply not ready yet as only a handful of games actually work at this point in time.

PS3 is a newly emulated system, that to be honest isnt ready for the mainstream yet. So that will be why there is a lack of media for it, not enough people care enough as yet to create the said media for it.

Well unfortunately i think you will find that people just wont use your work if it is watermarked. Your choice of course though.

That is now a dropdown, just double click in it and pick the core from the list.

Yeah that looks more like a windows incompatibility, as its microsoft.windows.themes.ClassicBorderDecorator. are you using a non default shell or theme in Windows?

If you just edited the default theme then that wont work as it will revert to default on next launch. This is a safety issue so that there is always a working theme present. To edit it simply copy/paste the default theme and name what you like, and then edit that. Then simply switch to that theme in the UI.

Most themes do this with a fullscreen video rather than a static image. For example the image below is a Platform video created by retrohumanoid for his Unified Refried theme.

Launchbox has images for nearly all working MAME games, i would suggest running the image and metadata wizard to check, click a MAME game and then ctrl a to highlight them all, then go to tools/download metadata and images and go through the wizard. As for game video snaps you wont get any from Launchbox, we only have Platform/Playlist videos, game videos only come from emumovies and you need a paid subscription in order to get them from inside Launchbox.

Yeah i concur with @DOS76 here, if you are unsure on your romset number then it's probably best to get a new set that you know the version number of and to use the matching version number version of the MAME emulator. As you asked in your OP as to weather MAME is picky with roms, yes it is, VERY. Roms can and do change regulary as better dumps or emulation improvements are made, and this means they wont work with other versions of the emulator. This is why the MAME emulator and the romsets are numbered like they are, your MAME emu version and romset version should always match, there may be 100's if not 1000's of games that will work in many versions of the emulator, but that is in no way guaranteed and the qsound zip dos referenced is a good example, any cps rom from before MAME 0.182 will not work with any version of the emulator since then as it was re-written and improved.

Unfortuanely no this isnt possible, the name of the folders will change if you change the name as the images will need to be in the correct folders. You can do it manually by browsing to the folders you want to use per your bottom image, but you will have to do it per image type and per platform.

If you want to continue to use two different frontends then yes i would recommend copying the images to Launchbox, or just downloading fresh ones from our database as they will all automatically be downloaded to the correct folders with minimal effort from your self.