neil9000

Hi and welcome to the community. Retroarch works just fine in Launchbox, and a lot of us here will recommend it for use with launchbox. All you need to do is add Retroarch as a emulator like any other in Tools/Manage emulators. Then you will see three tabs at the top there, click on the associated platforms tab, this is where you specify the cores for the specific platform. The name of the system here has to match exactly what the platform is called within Launchbox itself for it to work correctly. There are a lot of platforms pre filled there but it is not always the best core to use, so just edit any platform to say the core name you want to use. Any other questions just ask.

Uncheck both those boxes that are checked in your above image. Arcade games always stay zipped. And the other box is only for one or two emulators and is not needed in this case.

Thanks for your post, always nice to see new users enjoying the program.

Those extra platforms you are getting are actually playlists not Platforms, so they pull all there images and videos from the respective Arcade Platform folders, so unless you deleted that they should all re-attach when you import.

Hi and welcome, there is a checkbox on the last screen of the MAME importer on the same screen where you can choose to import clones and such,, its at the bottom and says something like "create playlists for MAME platform" just uncheck it.

Just import the .exe manually, its not difficult.

You can set the game details screen to a button/key and bring it up when you need it, that's what I do.

Just drop a startup folder into your launchbox/videos folder and drop any videos in there, if you add more than one then a random one will be played at startup.

Hi and welcome. You shouldn't run Launchbox as a administrator, it can effect launching programs as they then need elevation. The steam importer is unfortunately currently not working, it is being looked into. The windows game importer scans your windows start menu for games, if they aren't in there they wont be picked up by the importer. It is very easy to add manually though, just drag a .exe or a shortcut onto the Launchbow window, this will start the import wizard, select the "none of the above" option to import standard .exe's that don't require a emulator to run.

You can do by platform, just go to tools/audit sort by box front, highlight all the games with no image right click and hide.

Not that I'm aware of, and if it did it may not work after a reboot as the controller ID's often change when rebooting.

That's down to the individual emulators, there is a option in bigbox to use all controllers so they will all work inside of Bigbox, But once you load a game its down to the emulator in question what controller is used..

Normally I would guess that would be handled like movies, and the year would be appended after the name, but I'm not really positive on that.

Fair point if that's the case.

Combine them into one game entry, and choose the game that you want as the front facing one.

Hi and welcome. No there is no list of supported controllers, if they work on Windows they work with Launchbox/Bigbox.

I never played on the megadrive much, that's what my brother had, I had the snes. I always put medium punch and kick on the shoulders as they were not really used in SFII.

That snes one is awesome though, I have one.

Not as yet..

Try there faces if they see you using these.

And just for reference I have a old dual core Celeron nuc with 4gb of ram and integrated GPU that is set to use the max ram in that. It has to also run windows of course, and I don't use it for bigbox at all. Just saying.

Yeah I would say the dual core is the issue there, I'm assuming its a low clocked/older CPU? And as I said Bigbox will run on most things but it does like to have a dedicated GPU in order to use all the bells and whistles, as I said not essential but a IGP is sharing bandwidth across CPU and IGP, with 4GB of ram which is pretty low these days. You could try upping the ram the IGP can use in the bios and test though.

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To a certain extent yes, what CPU are you currently running? Most MAME and PS1 game use CPU only, and a GPU is only used for buffs like upscaling and shaders. Bigbox itself likes a GPU, although it is in no way essential.

I honestly no very little about the AMD cards, however most emulation relies on the CPU speed mostly especially the earlier systems. Some of the later systems may use a combination of the two but I believe will still be heavily slanted to the CPU side of things. I don't believe having more CPU compute on a graphics card will have any benefit at all, but as I said I'm not that familiar with AMD products. Maybe our resident AMD mod could chime in on this @Lordmonkus?