neil9000

You will just need to experiment with the views, i'm not going to waste my own time looking at views for a theme i dont use or want to use. And again, in the quoted section that has now been quoted SEVERAL times, it says to setup a button for this, then all you have to do is go to a platform and press the button until you see the view you want.

Yeah if it is a GDI its not a proper Sammy rom, sounds like the Dreamcast Sammy conversions that have been done as already pointed out, you could try it in Redream instead.

You just need to switch the view, as already pointed out several times.

Yeah, there is no need at all to have them scanned in Retroarch, and if its a complete romset they will all use one emulator, not several like you mention. If they do have to use several different emultators then it wasnt a MAME fullset, so you should not of used the fullset importer.

No service will be any better, it's just the nature of having thousands of small files. It's your HDD having to locate the files on a disc not the speed of your internet or the service used, just try copying your launchbox folder to another drive on your PC and see how long that takes. Your hardware is the bottleneck.

Yeah, as Launchbox is not passing the file and just giving MAME the filename, any blank zip with the correct name should be all Launchbox needs to tell MAME to start that specific game.

Launchbox itself isnt looking for any file names, it gets its list of games to import from MAME itself. My guess, as there is no rom Launchbox is skipping the game as it's not in the game list extracted from the mame.exe.

Have you tried updating to the latest version? Your error says 11.9 and the current released version is 11.12.

The third image, change it to the right theme.

What do you mean by "nothing happens" you need to be more specific. Does the metadata and images appear to download but the game doesnt show for example?

Yes they need to be in folders, you can put them anywhere as long as you tell MAME the path. Yes, bios files usually come with the romset anyway so no user input needed. If you are using non-merged then the bios and qsound are in the sfiii3 zip, thats the whole point of having a non-merged set and it taking up all that extra space, each game zip contains all the needed files including bios files, hence the size difference as you will for example have hundreds of copies of the qsound file in a non-merged romset, every game that needs it will have it in the rom zip.

I get what you are saying, but something is wrong with your setup then, as Launchbox has no influence over controls. If your settings are not saving that is a Dolphin issue, it's a known bug with dolphin currently. Emulator Issues #12453: When Dolphin-emu is started from the command-line Dolphin bar and connected wiimote(s) are not working, Running from the Dolphin GUI works - Emulator - Dolphin Issue tracker

If things have been added to the database since you last scraped, you can either right click a game and go to Edit/Media to check, or for multiple games or platforms highlight the games and run the metadata and media tool and specify to only download new media.

There is a option in Bigbox settings to launch the desktop UI.

That is what the "reconstructed" or "fanart" tags are for.

Themes dont really need to be "setup" you just add them to the themes folder or install in the UI and switch to the view you want, thats it.

As stated above Launchbox has nothing to do with emulator controls, and you dont save them to Launchbox. Simply set your controls in Dolphin and they will load when you start a game from Launchbox.

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Yes that one.

And if you really cant find something that fits your very specific needs, you can create it yourself with the community theme creator, no coding knowledge needed. Community Theme Creator for BigBox - Third-party Apps and Plugins - LaunchBox Community Forums (launchbox-app.com)

There are no duplicates in a MAME romset, there are version variations and regional versions, but no duplicates. You specify the region you prefer in the import wizard, that version will be the default launched if that game has a rom from that region. Also what is "correct" in your example of Pacman, none of those roms are technically correct, as the actual parent rom is puckman, not pacman, so in your example you would specifically be prioritizing the INCORRECT rom.

I would look at your hotkeys in both MAME and Launchbox to make sure you are not triggering this yourself somehow. Currently active windows dont just lose focus for no reason, and we have thousands and thousands of users here using MAME without these issues you are reporting which makes me think its specific to your system and nothing to do with Launchbox functionality.

OK, two possible issues here. Issue one you say your roms are zipped, but in your first image above you do not have the checkbox to unzip games checked. Two even if that is checked, i'm gonna assume there is more than one file inside the zips, which in that case Launchbox has no idea which file is the file the emulator needs so it just picks one, seemingly correctly sometimes, and incorrectly others. My advice, never keep roms zipped, especially roms that are more than one file, it will cause you more headaches than the minuscule amount of space you are saving by doing so, i'm assuming inside the zip is a bin and a cue file, there is no need to compress them, and you may even find it beneficial to convert them to another format like CHD, which is one file and is also compressed, but Retroarch cores can read it as is, no decompression needed.

I dont know i'm afraid, i'm not a dev, just another user, and that isnt a error i have seen before. So hopefully one of our devs can help you there.