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    MAME roms changing platform on their own?

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    Posted · Edited by edugr10

    I've always had all my MAME roms tight in a single platform called "Arcade", but I just noticed they're now each in their own publisher "platform". This happened all of a sudden and I have no idea what caused it. All I did was try a few roms. Any idea what may have caused this and how to avoid it in the future?

    Also, the best/fastest way to fix this is to go to every one of those "X Classics" platforms and editing the platform in bulk back to Arcade, correct?

    These files are not duplicates btw, they were simply moved from "Arcade" into these Classics platforms.

    Thanks in advance

    Edit- Forgot to add a screenshot, here it is:

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    Games running slower than full speed ONLY on TV

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    Hello guys,

    As I mentioned in another thread I recently had to do a fresh Windows installation, and I've been running into a few issues with LaunchBox. I still have my old HDD with the LaunchBox folder so I'm using that, and while some things worked out of the gate, stuff like rom paths were a problem that I managed to solve thanks to lordmunkus. However now I've ran into another issue, and I think this is actually RetroArch related since it happens even when I don't use LaunchBox, but I figured I'd ask here because I can't make any threads on the libretro forums yet due to being a brand new member.

    The issue is simple, every game I try runs slightly below full speed when I'm using my Plasma TV to play. Some bullet points: 

    - Games run fine if I'm using my PC monitor.

    - This happened with every platform I tested: Snes, Arcade/MAME, CPS1 and 2, and Neo-Geo. Figured this was a large enough sample.

    - I have updated all my cores fairly recently, not long before I had to reinstall Windows. The core files are still in their folder so I guess that's not the issue. 

    - All games run just below their full speed, with audio stuttering/lagging. This is consistent accross every game I tried.

    - I've always used this TV to play RetroArch via LaunchBox before I reinstalled Windows and everything always ran beautifully.

    - This TV still uses the same HDMI channel with Game Mode activated, nothing has changed on that end.

    - My PC still has the same specs, nothing has changed on the hardware front.

    - My RetroArch folder is untouched other than being moved to a new directory, same for the LaunchBox folder (except for some rompaths I edited).

    I've seen some threads on libretro forums of some people that ran into similar issues, but no real solutions. Some mentioned something about v-sync, but I don't even know where that setting is supposed to be. I think this is PC/Windows related as it happened right after I reinstalled Windows. Any ideas?

    Thanks in advance.

    Need help fixing ROM paths with Notepad++

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    Posted · Edited by edugr10

    100% sure the path of the actual location of the ROMs is typed correctly. 100% sure the xml file is saved. The change simply doesn't reflect on the actual path of the games in LaunchBox. When I go into Edit mode with an individual Snes ROM this is what I see:

    ..\..\..\Prime\E\Emuladores\SNES\ROMs\Super Bonk (U).smc

    And the one game I fixed manually appears like this: 

    ..\SNES\ROMs\Super Castlevania IV (U) [!].smc

    It's the only one that's different. And I don't know why it still shows ".." instead of F:/.

    Just to be 1000% sure, the xml file in question is LaunchBox.xml that sits in the root of the main LaunchBox folder, right?

    I just don't know what else to do. :(

     

    Need help fixing ROM paths with Notepad++

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    Yes, I was about to update here to say that I unchecked "whole word" and it worked, everything is replaced. However I still get a "the ROM file you specified does not exist" when I try to open any of them. If I go to "Edit", the path still shows the ../../../. The XML file is saved and it showing the correct F: path for each ROM. Also tried re-launching LaunchBox multiple times.

    Need help fixing ROM paths with Notepad++

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    3 minutes ago, lordmonkus said:

    Yeah I did and what's in that guide still applies.

    Fill in the Find What box with:
    ..\..\..\Prime\E\Emuladores\SNES\ROMs\

    and in the Replace With box put the full path of the folder where the roms for that specific platform are.
    example:
    F:\path\to\Roms\Snes\

    Thank you for clarifying that, I'm gonna give it a try.  Still wondering why it's all "..." in the first place, even after I changed the path for one of the roms.

    Need help fixing ROM paths with Notepad++

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    Posted · Edited by edugr10

    Hey guys,

    I recently got a new PC with a new Windows installation, but I still have my old HDD with the LaunchBox folder. For reasons I can't really control my ROMs are now in a different drive, so I read around these forums that using Search and Replace in Notepad++ can fix this. The problem is, my LaunchBox.xml file doesn't really make it apparent what path the ROMs are at. Using SNES as an example, this is what I see:

        <ApplicationPath>..\..\..\Prime\E\Emuladores\SNES\ROMs\Super Castlevania IV (U) [!].smc</ApplicationPath>

    What happened with my PC is that the ROMs moved from the C: drive to the F: drive. But I can't edit the letters because they don't show up in the .xml. 

    I tried fixing Super Castlevania manually by searching for the correct file again in LaunchBox itself, and the game now works, but the path stayed the same as above. So what I'm looking at now are these two examples, where one game works and the other doesn't, even though their paths are identical in the .xml file:

     <ApplicationPath>..\..\..\Prime\E\Emuladores\SNES\ROMs\Super Castlevania IV (U) [!].smc</ApplicationPath>

     <ApplicationPath>..\..\..\Prime\E\Emuladores\SNES\ROMs\Super Mario World (U) [!].smc</ApplicationPath>

    SMW is just an example of a game that doesn't work, every SNES game has the same path, and the only one that works is SCIV because I edited it manually.

    So how do I go about fixing this in a way that I don't need to individually search again for every ROM file in LaunchBox?

    Thanks

    "BigBox has stopped working" crash on boot

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    Hello all

    I recently finally installed Win10 Creator's Update and now can't launch BigBox anymore. I do see the initial logo flash but during the "Initializing BigBox" speech it crashes with with the typical Windows "[App] has stopped working" error. I'm pretty sure this is Creator's Update related because it's the only thing that has changed on my PC really. Is there anything I can do? BigBox is too important to me, without it I might as well have no front end at all.

    I tried downloading the latest Nvidia drive and it did not solve the problem.

    Saturn emulation - is it just crap

    in Emulation

    Posted · Edited by edugr10

    35 minutes ago, lordmonkus said:

    I dumped my copy using ImgBurn and it worked just fine.

    The "Uncorrectable sector 0" error is repairable though. You can use CD Mage to fix it .

     

    Gave CDMage a try. Both cue files I have show no errors. I'm loading the .cue and selecting "scan for corruption". Is there something else I need to do?

    Saturn emulation - is it just crap

    in Emulation

    Posted · Edited by edugr10

    Since Guardian Heroes was brought up here I would like to ask which version are you using? I recently set up Mednafen through RetroArch and LaunchBox and Guardian Heroes is the only game that doesn't work. I keep getting the "Uncorrectable sector 0" error. I tried every USA version out there, including the more recent one by Darkwater. I checked the cue files, the names match. Tried renaming them to something simpler, didn't help. I have no idea what could be causing this problem. 

    I could rip my own copy but I have no idea how to do that, don't even have a CD drive anymore. And I also doubt it's a bad dump issue so I think it would be for nothing anyway.

    Laggy performance in Big Box with under 4000 games, is it normal?

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    Posted · Edited by edugr10

    7.0 seems faster, but it's still far from great for me. I switched to the most simple view mode and changed every transition to "fade" and it has become usable at least. It still stutters sometimes when I browse through the lists quickly but at least I can use it now.

     

    Thanks guys. All I really need now is a solution to opening Big Box with the guide button and I'm set. Hopefully we'll get something like that in the future.

    Laggy performance in Big Box with under 4000 games, is it normal?

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    Posted · Edited by edugr10

    I figured it could be a image cache issue, already tested that. Loaded an entire platform then went back to it, and it was still laggy. I'll try turning off all transitions and get back to you, but I have to say this is really frustrating. Anything else I can do to improve performance other than turning transitions off?

     

    Btw I also don't use any videos.

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