neil9000

If you only have the one platform you can set Launchbox to open to "all games".

You can safely move launchbox and the emulators, as long as the rom paths are not changing everything should still just work.

Launchbox does not physically pass the file, it simply tells mame the shortname to load and MAME locates the files and loads them.

How did you actually import the games to Launchbox, did you use the MAME fullset importer? As, as of 11.9 you have to have a actual MAME emulator to run that import, it does not work with Retroarch. Also i would not recommend Retraoarch for MAME, just stick to the actual emulator. And finally i see in one of your images you have the 0.193 merged romset, you will HAVE to use the 0.193 version of the standalone MAME emulator if you actually want games to work.

What romset do you have for MAME? Where are you keeping those roms? If not in the mame/roms folder have you told mame where they are?

Interesting, i am at 100% at 1440p, but if i increase my browser (which is Brave) to 175% it goes dark for me too.

Weird, its working fine here, im on the Mario theme.

Yeah, thats unreadable here.

Oh, nice to know, i only set it up again yesterday so had to futz with finding the AHK script. Thanks.

I just use this, Sleep, 5000 SendInput {F11} Of course adjust the sleep number to the number of seconds you need.

Is it just that theme? If so you would be better asking the theme creator.

File type is of no consequence, absolutely any file type you want can be imported. Most likely cause is you do not keep your roms in the Launchbox folder, which is what it scans for roms by default. You will need to go to Tools/Manage Platforms/Folders tab, and change the game path to the correct one, then Launchbox will find any new roms.

No, your romset is fine, its the same as mine, which works. Its your emulator/rom location that is the issue, not the roms themselves.

You have 13700 romsets, not 37955, as do i, that is the correct amount.

Yeah, works fine here, clearly MAME cant find your roms.

yeah, put them loose in the MAME/roms folder.

How big is your merged roms folder?

Also if you right click a game and select "Open Retroarch" does it open?

Those are both correct and you have the core as Launchbox doesnt list it as missing, so the only thing i can think of is that your systems name doesnt match what the system is called in your image.

OK, i see several mistakes here. First, just call the emulator Retroarch, this will give you some extra options, namely the "Associated Platform" tab for it is different and is also somewhat pre-populated. In your first image you have the load core command in the command-line section, that is not needed if the emulator is named Retroarch like i said, and it also means that your second image is different and lacking options, also you have partial core names there, that is likely completely breaking the process. So, with that said, delete that emulator entry, and add a new one, this time call it Retroarch, point to the exe and dont change any other options or add any commands. Once that is done go to the "Associated Platforms" tab, you will now see it looks different to your image, as it is already pre-populated with the most common systems and the our "recommended" cores for them (both system name and the core used can be freely changed). As you can see GBA is a pre-populated system and is set to use the vba_next core, so to change that to mgba core simply double click the core that is listed, this will open a dropdown where you can pick from a list of cores (this list is actually the cores you actually have downloaded as we scan the core folder, so if a core you downloaded isnt showing restarting Launchbox should cause it to populate). OK out of the window and games should now load, just repeat the "Associated Platform" tab part for any other systems using Retroarch. I should also note the system names in that tab, need to exactly match what you called the platform when imported. For example if you called the platform "SNES" then Retroarch wont load the games as it has that system listed as "Super Nintendo Entertainment System", so you would need to edit that name by double clicking the current entry and re-naming it to match. Hope that gets you up and running.

No, that is not something we are interested in, that would just lead to people with cash to throw around to dictate the the future of Launchbox, and thats not a good idea. Best use our bitbucket, and either search for a similar request and upvote it, or if it doesnt exist create it yourself and vote on it, can also post the link here on the forums to try and drum up interest. New features and improvements are dictated by the userbase, either via the bitbucket or via the occasional community polls we run where users get to vote on new features and something like the top twenty most voted are what is worked on, and we are currently still implementing features from the last poll from 2019, which you can look at here.

Correct, the games are "imported" into Launchbox as long as the rom is marked as working, again though Launchbox isnt technically importing anything at all, it doesnt look at the actual files you have in the folder you specified, it does this for all other systems, but MAME is different. As of version 11.9 the MAME importer was updated and Launchbox now gets the working game list directly from the MAME.exe itself (much like you did with the CHD list, you can generate lists from MAME via command line without even opening the emulator, and this is what Launchbox now does). Correct, it will add the rom to your list in Launchbox, it doesnt care if it has a CHD or not, just that the rom works, if a rom does need a CHD MAME itself handles loading of that.

Yes that will certainly stop themes from being read, glad you figured it out.

No, Launchbox is a portable app, it doesnt really install as such it just extracts all its needed files to the location you specified in the installer. Nothing is added to the registry either, and you can freely move it between drives, and even other PC's assuming they have the prerequisites like ,NET core and directx, etc installed.