Headrush69

The one thing I still use RL for is for Teknoparrot/JConfig games. It's window detection for fades is more complex than LB's timed startup screens and provides a cleaner solution for those type games. Most of my emu needs are met using Retroarch so RL isn't needed for bezels and in non Retroarch cases, reshade with bezels fills the void.

Change the letter assigned to the USB drive to H: on his laptop, so it mounts it as such when attached. (Do this in Disk Management)

Are you using MAME directly or one of the many Retroarch cores? If MAME directly, if you go into MAME settings (via the TAB key) and look in the video options sections is it available? Newer MAME versions have upgraded the layout system and possibly a left over config file for smashtv have it not enabled properly.

I'd suggest using this core anyways as many more patches backported and updates and improvements to work better within Retroarch as well.

Are you 100% sure you are using the mame2003 core and not the mame2003-plus core? Retroarch -> system -> mame2003 -> samples should be the right location for that core. Are you also 100% sure the sound sample zip is complete? There are a lot of zips out there that are wrong, or don't match the mame version they say they do. My dkong sample for mame2003-plus (which is very close) contains 5 samples in the zip.

They are both great but you will get fan boys of both telling why one or the other is better. Currently I only use Future Pinball and especially like SlamTilt's tables, but if you want exact replicas that use the original roms, Visual Pinball is the route you'll need. (or use both )

That's what I was trying to tell you. MAME sees all those devices as a mouse, even though it's a trackball. You adjust the sensitivity per game in the analog controls section when you hit tab to bring the MAME menu up.

Forgot you mentioned that. I intercepted LEDBlinky like that as well once when I was implementing my on marquee support. That's definitely a new option. Not sure exactly what additionally functionality that is adding.

That's a really strange issue. I would suggest using the LEDBlinky.exe manually from a command prompt and sending the commands yourself on each CPU and see if the results are the same. This would at least tell you whether the issue is LB related or not. My guess is LB just calls the same LEDBlinky.exe executable and the problem lies elsewhere.

It doesn't matter at all. LB does not manage roms, MAME does that itself according to you having set the rompath in your mame.ini file or but just using the default roms folder. LB just uses the MAME xml file to grab the games that work and match any filters you have set using the Full Set Import feature. I have my set non-merged and just import normally a subset of MAME games. I find there are just too many and it makes for a better experience for users, but that's a personal preference. I don't use MAME with software lists much, so can't help here.

Do you use the same settings for all PCSX2 games or are you using something like the PCSX2 Configurator plugin for PCSX2 games?

Working fine here. What exactly happens when you try to launch from LB?

The issue isn't with LB but in your Dolphin set up itself. Dolphin Triforce requires very specific older builds of Dolphin and various in emulator settings for different games. I'm pretty sure the Dolphin forums have a detailed instructions but I don't have the link handy. Not sure what exactly you mean by this?

Maybe just remove the USB devices in Device Manager and let the system re-enable them on reboot. I remember when I first got my Ultrasticks and configuring and deciding hwo to set them up I had lots of old composite USB devices and a few issues when updating firmware. Clearing out all the entries helped.

Hit enter to set an input, and then hit ESC to clear. Those are all digital inputs, you can't set them to an analog device like a trackball, (which is seen as a mouse) without some third party software that can translate analog to digital. MAME does however allow mapping digital inputs to analog controls natively.

johnnyskullhead, what format are your games images in? Mednefan doesn't support CHD if you are using that for CD based games. Also, you might want to update to the newest Mednafen version 1.27.1.

Viewing your video didn't work, but do you have the following set in your mame.ini file? You can either set that by manually editing the mame.ini or setting it in the configuration options menu when you start MAME without a rom. (Just make sure to pick save configuration after so changes are saved to mame.ini) That's assuming you want to use your trackball for all those type analog inputs. You might also want to use your trackball for lightgun games as well so you can set that to mouse as well.

Under your MAME settings, uncheck the following: Remove quotes Remove space before ROM Remove file extension and folder path

LEDBlinky with LB can do this. (I don't know if RL explicity calls LEDBlinky or if it just follows a configured LEDBLinkeyControls.xml, so could be some more work) I believe RL's fades can do more at this point, so depends on your requirements. Reshade is also available for adding bezels, but if you do game bezels for each game for large collections, I'm sure RL is easier. Again LEDBlinky with LB can do this. (You can also run additional apps before emulation so you can setup what ever you need)

LOL, that's not fixing the problem, that's just avoiding it, but I'm glad you have a solution you are happy with. 🙂

You can see from the sample command line that it is including them, so that begs the question why isn't MAME receiving them. So are you 100% there is nothing in the associated platforms tab and that your roms don't have any override command lines? (Right click game -> Edit -> Emulation section) Also, by chance do you have another MAME entry in emulators, (possibly for software lists) and it's launching using that entry?

It's the space in the file path that causes the issue and why quotations are needed around the filepath/filename. Try: It thinks it's a software list item because the -hard option is supplied with the first part of the name and than it thinks the remaining part of the file name is a software list title. (Since it's not part of an option.)

Yes it's confusing talking about in LB and than using the command line. The issue I was trying to sort is in your output from running at the command line, you were passing only the filename to MAME. (nox.hdv) I want to see the output when you pass the complete file path. (So something like C:/wheremyromsare/apple2gs/nox.hdv) That is why it works in the MAME folder, as no path is specified, it default looks in the running directory. If specifying the file path works from command line (which it should), they we can see were in LB your settings aren't right. (Possibly a conflicting command line entry in the associated platforms tab)

Just to be clear, what files are putting in the MAME main directory? Are you talking the roms files needed to run the Apple2GS or the disk images you want to run? From your output above: it appears your issue isn't the apple2gs machine roms, but finding the hard disk image you are using. We need to see the output again doing this after you corrected the noted options above. (Disabling no quotations option and the filename only option)