neil9000

Hi and welcome to the community. I exclusively use 3D boxes on my system and haven't seen the issue you are describing. It could just be that the images are still caching, if you click on a platform and look at the very top of the window do you see a very thin bar filling? If so thats the images for that platform caching, just let it finish, then they should be stored permanently and you shouldnt see no images.

Retroarch often needs the files named a specific way, and is VERY picky about its bios files. The best way is to load a core in Retroarch without a game and go to the information and see what bios it wants and weather or not it even see's yours. This info is also in the Retroarch/Info/name of core.info files.

Just some bug fixes, no new features.

Go to your Launchbox/Updates folder and install the newest .exe you have there over the top of your current install, that should fix it up.

No it doesnt, videos are limited to game snaps/platform/playlist videos.

Did you download the core for retroarch? did you add the system to the associated platform tab for retroarch, did you bulk edit the roms to use it? All things i have told you that you need to do elsewhere in this thread.

Im going to be carefull what i say here, but you are wrong. You clearly have set up something wrong or else it would work. This says that it does work, check your emulator settings.

Then they will play fine in Launchbox, you just need to set it up correctly.

Correct.

Launchbox doesnt care what the emulator is, it works with everything. Bulk edit your roms by clicking a game then ctrl A to highlight them all, then right click one and go to edit, click next then in the dropdown choose emulator, then in the second dropdown prosystem, finish out the wizard and launch a game.

Thats the associated platform tab, you need to tell Launchbox what system the emulator is for, and it must match exactly what you called the system in Launchbox.

I recommend just having one emulator named Retroarch for all the platforms that use it, it will be much easier if Launchbox knows the emu is retroarch, it currently doesnt as you named it NES. Once you have that you can run all those systems through the one emulator entry by choosing the specific core from the dropdown which you currently dont have access to due to your naming of the emulator.

If you name the emulator Retroarch then you only need one entry for it, you just go to the associated platforms tab and specify the core you want for the particular system. If the system is not listed there you can simply enter it at the bottom of the list. Also the system names used in the associated platform list must exactly match what the system is called in the left sidebar in Launchbox in order to work. Also if you have changed the emulator for a platform you need to bulk edit the roms to use the new emulator. Click on a game in that platform and use ctrl A to highlight all the games, right click one and go to edit, this will open the bulk edit wizard. Click next,then in the dropdown pick emulator, then in the second dropdown that spawns choose the emulator to use and finish out the wizard and launch a game. EDIT: The reason you only have the one entry in the associated platform tab in your image above is because Launchbox doesnt know that it is Retroarch, so i suggest naming it that and that associated platform list will be pre-populated, like this.

Remove everything from the command-line section in your first image, click the associated platform tab in that same image, scroll to nintendo and use the dropdown to pick the core.

Same here, but i see the issue. It is looking in Launchbox/Themes/Retrotastic Lite/Images/Loading/Loading.png. The theme is named Retrotastic, not Retrotastic Lite, so the path is wrong. Renaming the theme to that breaks everything else so the .xaml will need to be edited to the correct theme name @faeran

Hi and welcome to the community. Well to be honest with you the clue is in the name of the wizard, "import MAME Arcade fullset" so yes this is expected behavior. That new wizard is specifically for use with a full romset and will filter based on the options you choose, but will import the fullset of working games. It doesnt copy your roms anymore as it doesnt really matter where they are anymore, it just wants to know your filter options then imports all the metadata for those games to launchbox, as long as mame knows where your games are that is all that matters. If you want to copy the files to the Launchbox folder then just continue to use the old method, which is still there. You will still get all the new MAME metadata that we have now.

Go to your Launchbox/updates folder and manually install the latest beta over the top of your current install.

You need to unzip mame, it doesnt work as a zip file thats why its trying to extract when you use it.

To be honest 2Gb of ram is really nowhere near enough, Windows itself will probably use more than that. Also it could be a specs issue, you say its a old laptop, so im assuming a low powered cpu and crappy intergrated graphics on a slow laptop HDD. Post your specs here and ill have a look, but im thinking your laptop simply isnt up to snuff at this point.

Yes, in the options is a option for "remember different views for different platforms" just turn that on and go to the platform you want to change and switch it.

Usually when a game has a North American Name and a Japanese name they are combined, so if you right click on the game you should have a choice of which version to run.

If you had read any of the posts above yours before posting you would of seen that it doesnt work in the new launchbox interface and that a new version is in the works. So just sit tight for a while and there will be a new version.

Yup.