neil9000

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.

Just uncheck all of the media download options in the import wizard. It will all re-attach after.

Close retroarch and go to your Retroarch/Configs/Beetle PSX HW folder and open the Beetle PSX HW.cfg and change this line to false. video_shader_enable = "true" Then save the file.

When you change emulators for a platform you have to bulk edit the roms to use the different emulator. Click on a MAME game then ctrl A to highlight them all, then right click one and go to edit, this will open the bulk edit wizard. Click next then in the dropdown choose emulator, then the second dropdown that spawns the emulator you want to change to, finish out the wizard and launch a game.

Well thats good to know. Yeah that was my original suspicion, here. Try the version of MAME for your 0.078 romset from here, it should work, but obviously will not have a lot of the features that have been added in the last 15 years. https://www.mamedev.org/oldrel.html

So just to confirm your emulators look like this, Because that what i have and everything shows just fine.

Then the only thing i can suggest at this point is to re-import. It will only take a couple of minutes, run the importer again, leave the download metadata from the database section checked, but UNCHECK all of the image/video downloads as you already have it all and it will re-attach to your roms. The import should just take a minute or two.

This is a old thread and we now have a section on the website for license retrieval. https://www.launchbox-app.com/premium/lost-license

You should only import the .cue into launchbox that is why you had 2 of everything, as they are different file extensions Launchbox thinks they are different games, all Launchbox needs is the .cue as that has the details for the associated .bin file in it.

Have you set Arcade as a associated platform for your MAME emulator entry in the manage emulator section in the tools menu? Also can you go to the view dropdown at the top and check the box to show broken games.

Hmm im really not sure what is going on there then, the fact that it took so long to import leads me to believe that it imported everything and grabbed all the relevant images/videos, and the fact that you now have a Arcade platform category also leads me to believe everything imported fine. so why it is not showing any games at all is a bit of a mystery, i assume your other platforms show just fine? And if you click on the Arcade platform category does it technically switch to it but just with no images shown.

Also what did you name the platform, did you leave it at the default Arcade? and what are you sorting the left sidebar by? If you change it to platform category for example do you get a Arcade category?

This is possibly down top the romset you have, 0.78 is very old, as it says in the name 2003, so its a 15 year old set. The MAME importer in Launchbox is using the current data (0.201) to get rom names, it is likely that the naming convention gor MAME has changed since 2003. That would be my only guess as to why it would not import anything at all, it simply cant find any of the games. Also to add you shouldnt be using the latest version of the MAME emulator, your romset is 0.078 so you should be using the 0.078 version of the MAME emulator to go with it, this is why MAME is numbered as they are designed to work together. Games in MAME may break or made to work from one version to the next. But as i said my suspicion is the naming scheme changed at some point between 0.078 and the current 0.201.

lol, i have absolutely no idea there, im a total dumbass when it comes to such things. I only originally mentioned it as it doesnt happen in the default theme, so thought there might of been a single line of code in the sidebar .xaml with a typo or something that isnt there in the default theme code.

Sorry to bother you with this @Grila, i just thought that maybe it would be a quick fix, it really doesnt matter. It goes away again when i close the plugin dialogue, so its only there when im actually using the plugin,(so therefore am not needing to get at the other platforms at that time anyway) so it really isn't that big of a deal.

In Launchbox go to tools/manage emulators, double click your MAME entry, and then click on the associated platforms tab, like this. Then go to the empty cell there and double click it, enter the name of your platform, and the command line that was given to you above, so it would look like this.

lol, stupid Neil, always breaking things.

Hi @Grila, im still loving this theme so thanks again. However i have just encountered a strange little issue and it seems to be related to your theme somehow. I am currently testing a as yet unreleased plugin on my system, and i have a strange thing happen with it when using your theme, the plugin pops a white dialogue box in the center of the screen, and when it does this my platform list in the sidebar turns white and i cant see the platform names except for the highlighted platform. If i switch back to the default theme this doesnt happen, just in your plex theme. It's certainly no deal breaker and i will continue to use the theme, but thought i would point it out in case its a nice easy edit to fix it. Here is a shot of what i am seeing, thanks again.