neil9000

Hi and welcome. It depends which ones you want, MAME has a load built in, or do you want @Lordmonkus's ones?

LOL, there are a ton of systems I don't have, but I just stick to the ones I will actually play. I don't have C64, Amiga etc for example, but I have no nostalgia for them as I was a console guy growing up.

Yeah I have those as well as the handhelds, all my Windows/Steam games and the Spectrum.

Oh its worth it, I have all the games I used to put 10p's into in the arcade when I was a kid, all available to me with unlimited credits, and I recently got a arcade stick to go with them, it's heaven.

You will also find with the CHD CPS III games that they will actually ask to install on first launch, you will have to wait for that to finish, as its how you loaded new games to the Arcade cabinet, you only have to do it the first time you launch it, but it can take a while. Street Fighter 3 Third Strike took about 20 minutes to install on my system.

Yeah the chds should just be a folder, not a zip, and yes just drop the folder in the same location you have your roms, nothing needed your end if the chd is there MAME will just load it like any other game, as you need both the zipped rom and the chd. Yeah 6 games is correct, I only actually have 4 in my launchbox so ill have to troubleshoot that. Here is a list of CHD's http://www.mameaddicts.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=605

There are a lot of CHD's in the full set, a lot for games that don't even work in MAME yet, so it is a bit of a waste of space. Your best bet would just be to google the specific CHD's you want and grab them one by one. There are also other games that need them, like Killer Instinct for one.

@WuTangDan you can also get Arcade flyers from here. http://www.progettosnaps.net/flyers/

CPS III games require .chd's to play in MAME. CHD's are basically CD images as the CPS III was a relatively new system the games came on CD, so in order to play those you will need to track them down, bear in mind that they can be quite large files due to them being CD's. Pleasuredome has the full set of .CHD's but that is around 650GB in total, so that's up to you if you want the full set, I personally do have them, just so I can play the likes of Street Fighter 3 Third Strike. As for the scraping that's just the way it is with arcade games, all the well known games should have artwork though, as long as you scraped the games as Arcade you will have everything that is currently available. If you want to remove games with no artwork you can use the audit feature. Just select Arcade on the left then Tools/Audit Arcade, then once the window loads you can sort by various ways, like Front images and such, it will put all the games missing images to the top of the list, you can then highlight all the ones you don't want, right click and hide or delete.

@wallmachine that is a plugin error for the Ao.bigbox.controls in whatever theme you are using, it's not a Bigbox error, I suggest you contact @eatkinola and let him know.

Cause we were helping @WuTangDan above.

No probs, any other questions just ask.

"This Machine" will obviously only set them for that game though, the way I do it is set the general as a general layout, then just do the "This Machine" on games that need a different layout.

Wireless xbox one controller works just fine, but you will need a keyboard to set it up at first. As you said hit tab/input general/player one, just use arrow keys and enter to select buttons then press the button on your controller.

They are the same these days. So personal preference there.

If you get the current set it doesn't matter, all the working games will work in the current version of MAME, so just the one emulator.

Wow, I guessed it was old but damn its even worse than I dared imagine.

All themes are installed the same way, unzip and drop into Launchbox/Themes folder. Then in Bigbox just go to options/views/Theme and cycle through them.

I don't believe there is a way to ID the roms you have. So your best bet would be a new set. Pleasuredome will be able to assist you there, you will need to register for free and carefully read there rules as they are ratio based. They use torrents and if you don't share back they will ban you in a heartbeat, just read the instructions carefully and you will be fine. Also get either the "split", or "non-merged" set. The merged set will not import to Launchbox correctly due to the way it is structured.

Go to your Launchbox/Data folder and delete the BigBoxsettings.xml while Bigbox and Launchbox are closed, that will revert Bigbox to default settings and a new settings.xml will be created when you launch Bigbox.

Hi and welcome. If the roms were originally for the pi they are probably a really old version, as that is what the pi has to use due to its low horsepower. Your best bet would be to get the version of MAME that matches the version of the roms you have. MAME is very picky with this as the game dumps change all the time as better dumps are made or the emulation is improved and if you don't update them they will stop working in the newer versions of MAME. Or the other option is to download the latest set and version of mame, its currently 0.194, but is updated every month.

Version 1.7.1 released yesterday and that lets you choose from d3d9, d3d11, d3d12 now, there is no d3d in the newer versions so you will need to change that again if/when you update Retroarch.

Or you can use this program, which is how I update personally.

Correct, if you install the new version to a different location just go to tools/manage emulators and point it to the .exe in the new folder. You will of course have to copy any folders you want to the new install otherwise it will be a fresh install with none of your settings. Alternatively download just the executables from the buildbot here, just pick 32 or 64 bit depending on your system, you want the small _retroarch.7z its around 10-11mb depending on 32 or 64 bit, just copy the 2 .exe to your current Retroarch folder and overwrite the existing .exe.