Hazuki

Pioneer LaserActive, NEC LD-ROM², Sega Mega LD View File Hi The Pioneer LaserActive can now be emulated using Ares. LaserActive comes in two flavors, the NEC LD-ROM² and the Sega Mega LD. As you may have guessed the games where stored on laser discs, giving them excellent video for the time. I was hopping that this would have been added to the database by now, but that hasn’t happened, so I'll upload this here for anyone wanting to add this games. There are ow files, Pioneer LaserActive and Pioneer LaserActive (OBI). Both of the contain images (Box front and back, disc) and some manuals. The OBI has the boxart with the OBI where possible, and the other one without the OBI, where possible. Every game has a Front box art, even games not yet ripped. :-) I added platform clear logos. And in the roms folder there is a _Fix.bat file. Now you should never run a bat file without knowing what it dose. So please open it in a text editor and have a look. Adding all your .mmi file in the roms folder and running the .bat will rename them and sort them into folders. Giving you 1G1R, and moving the rest to a remove folder, so you can delete them if you like. Anyway, I am going to start making some .bat files to sort MAME/FBNeo roms into platform folders. So if anyone is interested in that, let me know an I'll upload them here too Submitter Hazuki Submitted 01/14/2026 Category Platform Media  

Pioneer LaserActive with its two PACs, the Sega Mega LD and the NEC LD-ROM². Both can be emulated with Ares. So I for one would like to see them added to the database.

Thank you for taking the time to check. Much appreciated. I get the same results. So yeah, 7z isn't working anymore.

Thank for the tips, I tried it all, but still the same. Lilcheeks, could you try adding a rom that is 7z? Just to see if it works for you, or if this a launchbox/7z problem

An update in my troubleshooting too. So I also uninstalled and install again. I tried removing and re importing platforms. I updated the RAHasher.exe and 7-Zip in the third-party folder. After that I uninstalled again and reinstalled so I'm on the same versions of everything. I run RAHasher.exe and it spits out the correct checksum, but still nothing in Lunchbox. I moved some of my roms from my folder, removed the platform and reimported it, then I added back 2 games, unzipped. Scanning now gave me cheevos on two non 7z games only. I then added back one more rom, this time .zip and it also worked. So I added back the rest in 7z and nothing. I'm guessing here, but it seams that launchbox isn't uncompressing as expected. This has actual a problem with some specific platforms long before this. GameCube in rvz if 7z will not work and FBNeo/flycast arcade roms if 7z instead of zip will not work (arcade in 7z works with RAHasher). But lilcheeks, your roms are in .zip aren't they? that's odd, because for me .zip worked just now, but not 7z I'm actually a little at a loss. Don't really know what more to try

I used Final Fantasy for the GBA in my example, as i'm playing it at the moment at the cheevos are working just fine in the game. Just like lilcheeks, I have all my games on a NAS. And i use 7z for all my games

I have launchbox on a computer in my livingroom, and then one on my main PC. The livingroom updated to 13.24 and I added the GBA games. Scanning for the Cheevos didnt work. I started launchbox on my main PC and said no to the update. Added the games and scanned for Cheevos and it workt fine. I removed the platform, updated launchbox and tryed again, but after the update it didnt work.

Hi, just updated to 13.24 a couple of days ago and it seams that scan can for RetroAchievements isn't working anymore? Not sure if the process has changed, but scanning a platform gives me nothing. In the xml every games get, <RetroAchievementsHash>COULDNTFILEHASH</RetroAchievementsHash> All my roms are 7z It checks the platform really fast, so I'm guess Launchbox isn't unpacking them before checking, but I'm not sure. Any ideas what to do? Thanks

Let me know what you think and if you want me to upload more 🙂

Hi all, I'm a little late to the party here, but I have just started using BannerBox. Excellent theme. So my setup is a little different. I have a platform and then within it sub platforms with hack or prototypes and so on. So i have started setting up to make Banners for what I need, and if anyone is interested I'll share theme here.

Hi again. So I have uninstalled Launchbox and installed it again, but it still happens. What I can du is just delete the plantorm and inort it again and it works. Its very random, and I still consider this a bug. But I now just import platforms, one at a time. Only have Clearlogos down load and iff it dosnt work, delet an do it again. Once I have a handfull of platforms I let launchbox download the art that I want. Its a little bit of a hassle, but then again, its not that will be importing new platforms al the time 🙂 Anyway faeran, thank you for taking the time to helping me.

Thank you for the the tips. I hade to travel to a family member, so I won't be back home for a couple of days. The launchbox on a new drive is installed from the launchbox setup. So I haven't just moved it so to say. The file names on the files are all run through clrmame with the no-intro, redumo dats. All using 7zip, so the game always get moved to the computer when playing it. I don't use any OneDrive dopebox. But I'll have a look at the file permissions once I'm back home. i have been moving a big number of files from the nas to the computer, just to see that the network speed doesn't drop. And as far as I can tell, the network is working just fine. The folder is mapped to z: and its always available when Windows starts. the hdd vill spin down. Disabled this so the HDDs never spin down, doesn't make any differences

Thank you for your reply. I have imported them using the Tools > Import > ROM files > single platform. I have all the rooms on a NAS. All emulators, lunchbox and art/videos and on the computer itself. All located on a SATA SSD. The NAS has a shared folder, and it in turn contains sub folders. A Roms folder. In it is a folder for consoles, handhelds and so on. Then in the console folder is a Nintendo 64 and in it a folder for Japanese games, one for English games, one for hacks and so on What is making this so hard for me to troubleshoot is that I don't get the same result every time. If I import say N64 and it's doesn't really work. If I delete it and try again it sometimes works, but not always. The computer as I Intel i7 8800k, running at 5GHZ, with 16gb ram and windows 11. I was using launchbox on it before, but never really had this problem. I've had it up and running from before the start/pause themes where a things. It's just been formatted and a fresh install of windows. The only things that have changed is that I moved launchbox from my C drive (m.2) to my D drive (SATA SSD) and that i am using a new nas. Any tips, ideas or help is much appreciated Thank you for your time

Importing Nintendo 64 and Sega Saturn, using the standard names. The same setting all the way. Nintendo 64 is all good, but Saturn has imported all the games, but the game folder isn't the one I selected during the import process. Its the default Launchbox folder instead. So adding a game or two later will not be imported automatically, without changing this. At seams random what launchbox actually saves from the import process. Anyone had any of this problems? Anyone know what I should try next?