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I gotta get light guns working too...any suggestion on the ones to get for ease of set up and quality? Any PC display compatible ones you recommend?

Should I be concerned after importing every MAME 0.192 game (imported originals only, no clones), prioritizing North America) and I stll had to COMBINE roms on my arcade collection x4 +times to get all the duplicates removed... Am I hurting things somehow by doing this?

and include all clones, are the clones imported under additional, or does it DUPLICATE the game itself in my collection?

I'm importing 0.192 (cause my previous 0.185 is all ganked...I'm assuming launchbox arcade/mame importer is not up to date with this, but what version IS is updated to and any way to make this a cleaner import? (want to omit non-working games, or even better would be cool if LB could import the game, but tag it as "Broken"

Anyone successful in doing this well? Would you be willing to help a bit? Which MAME is the best one to install in Retoarch, there are several...plain MAME, and 2003, 2010, 2014, 2016... I have the latest rom set (0.192) Any tutorials on getting this looking amazing like I've seen in some MAME Retroarch Youtube videos?...blew my mind. Thanks,

Using a 0.192 SPLIT rom set...I have many chds that will hopefully work fine with it too from older sets... It's been a while since I imported to launchbox the arcade platform, but many of my roms are broken and I end up having to replace them places online for some unknown reason, then they work...so I'm sick of checking and manually fixing 4,200+ plus games this way...anyways, I'll delete the older roms and import the new roms, but using the LB wizard, what is pros and cons of each (skip this or that) method offered, just wondering if anyone has advice or a explanation in detail of what I'm omitting when I chose to not import clones for example..I know some full games must be lost (puckman.pac-man) comes to mind from what I've read... Also is there an up to date working IMPORT add-on I can use to get more detailed control of this IMPORT PROCESS vs. the default LB method? Thanks.

I'm updating from 0.185 to 0.192, I know there isn't a ton of changes based on some youtube videos I see with new games supported, BUT....I've always been confused if NEW CHD's are needed or not when changing versions, or will my existing ones I'm using with 0.185 work fine? @DOS76 - if you don't mind...thanks!

Here you go!...this is the one with the latest pack installed into my launchbox (I did no editing to it)...sorry I don't have the older one, it overwrote that one I believe, but this should be the final one... MS-DOS.xml

I ran it on the separated downloaded files I had in another folder, then just copied the data over to LB, namely the MS-DOS.XML into DATA\platforms, and the images and manual folder into Launchbox folder, and the EXODOS folder itself (the one with games in it) into the launchbox folder. Haven't been able to try it yet, but it all looks correct, file wise...we'll see soon...

Would appreciate all of those, thanks a lot!!

Since updating the video driver and updating to 7.16 (not sure which did it), the crashing stopped, thankfully!

Installing 388.71 now, thanks...hopefully helps.

I installed framework 4.7.1 in case that would help...it did not...

It's now doing it....again...7.15 is crashing every few minutes....was working fine for a couple days after upgrade...NOT AGAIN!!!

I may have fixed it by adding iRotate to my external drive in the main Taito Type X games folder (it's own folder), and setting it as additional app, to launch AFTER the game, with these command lines: /2:rotate=90 The /2 is optional and specifies my monitor being rotated on exit...I hope that works with single monitor set up, supposed to default to primary monitor if the /2 is invalid....seems to work although sometimes the game crashes on exit instead... Any better solution is welcome!

I tried to click FOCUS first too...that fails, it ignores the other one...I tried installing irotate, but all it does is require me to torture myself with a 90 degree screen to click an icon in tray and rotate it, defeating the purpose...I hope someone can help, I wish I knew how...these games are really cool...

Any chance you can help with me with making the BAT? I've tried the arrow combo to no avail, it merely rotates me second monitor, not the one being played on, and I need it to be seamless, giving this to someone who can't do this... :-\ Thanks man.

Question, I'm able to get the games launching with the new Launchbox 7.15 by setting them up (no emulator) with the main EXE, for example Raider III.exe; it opens and plays fine, but when exiting, it rotates my monitor 90 degrees...I'm using the Simply Austin version of this game...what do I need to do? I've tried a bunch of stuff and nothing seems to work....if this has been covered, I'm sorry, just confused here...thanks!

Using DEMUL 0.7! Help!

Absolutely!

That did nothing...I should have checked to update metadata on missing fields lol...silly me. Do I also need to have it checked at the start to also 'search Launchbox' database for game info? I'd prefer not to, as I have some fixed/custom written stuff I don't want overwritten.

Nevermind, I just did it for the entire collection, choosing to uncheck everything and answered NO to the final question of replacing metadata....I'll see if that breaks anything, I hope not...

I don't want to download metadata for everything, even if I uncheck it all...I have over 50k....is there a way to just have it update the community metadata only for my entire library? Thanks guys.

for Symlinks I recommend this tool: https://sourceforge.net/projects/symlink-creator/ no command line needed.

Exactly...I have all my images/cache on my SSD drive with symbolic links, it does help with the performance for sure.