[How to organize and what to import? Looking for the best way to go about...]

7 hours ago, DOS76 said:

just to point out when your talking wasted space and systems like NES, SNES Genesis/MD the whole libraries are in the MB range. For example I have 792 snes files in a folder its 661MB total so with 8TB HDD's starting to become the norm (and there are even larger drives looming on the horizon) saving such a minuscule amount of disk space  isn't really worth the effort.

Yes, using nes and snes were bad examples  . Unfortunately I didn't have the budget for 8TB, 2TB will have to do for now... all the 8/16bit stuff I could just import all but the closer I get to the more recent stuff, hard choices will have to be made  I have MAME plus CHD set, which is good for  500GB alone.

But free space aside, I was just wondering how most of you have set it up. I could import all which will also means I have to scroll through 2500+ games for one console alone in some cases probably even more. And I get it, at the end of the day it is about personal preference. But good advise is always welcemed.

But, I do like what @neil9000 said, sounds like a very good option. I Also hadn't even thought about the USA games being 60fps... so it makes a lot of sense!

[How to organize and what to import? Looking for the best way to go about...]

Hi Guys,

First of all I'm just starting out, so still a lot to learn, but love bigbox, it's amazing and the tutorials help immensely! 

 

Was wondering how you all go about organizing roms and deciding what to import?

Since I'm just getting into things I like to have a good setup from the get-go. Right now I have all roms in the appropriate folders like Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Genesis and so on. But within these folders I have rom versions from usa, europe, japan. Some games are region specific single games but a lot of games are just the same game only different region.

So what do you guys do? Split these sets into regions separate the roms? Keep preferred region get rid of the others? Or just import all since launchbox combines the roms with the same name, but then you're wasting a lot of space on the same game multiple times. Or do you just add your preferred region and add region specific games on top?

 

Like to hear your thoughts before I get to far in, now i'm still able to make changes without having to do too much work

 

Many thanks,

 

[Performance and OS choice?]

39 minutes ago, DOS76 said:

Hello and welcome to the community! Its been said by the dev that Windows 10 is the best OS for LB supposedly some of the .net code is optimized for it (or something like that) but with that said there are plenty of folks here still using Windows 7 without any issues.

When BB is freezing it is probably actually just losing focus and a mouse click or alt tab will refocus it

Okay thx!

Still have a lot to learn about the community, some of the things are really confusing but all the tutorials help a lot! Gonna look into upgrading to Win10, want things to be as optimal as they can be!

About the freezing, you're probably right. Now I still have the keyb and mouse connected because I am still working on it. Hopefully once I am done it won't happen anymore. I also read about changing the shell from explorer to BigBox, that would definitely fix any focussing issues I am guessing!

[Performance and OS choice?]

Hi,

I'm fairly new to the whole arcade/emu scene but I was wondering what the best windows version is for running launchbox and emu's? Windows 7 or 10?

I'm currently running win7 on:

Asus H81M-K motherboard

Intel Pentium G3258 - 3.2 GHz

8GB ram

Palit GeForce GTX 750Ti StormX OC (2GB GDDR5)

22'' Ilyama lcd Monitor

128gb ssd (windows) and 2TB hdd for roms/emu/bigbox/...

 

Also had some BigBox performance issues but turned out it was the BigCouch Theme that was causing troubles for me. Now using the new CityHunter Theme which mostly runs real smooth. Although sometimes it totally freezes at least thats what it looks like, when I hit the windows key on the keyboard and then back into to BigBox it works again.

 

Maybe the following question is for this forum although all of you must have a ton of experience . MAME runs fine with most games but when playing Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat or even Final Fight it performs poorly. It runs around 70%  and audio stutters. I'm only getting it to run around 100% by enabling "auto skip frames", audio improves but still not great.

 

Does anybody has any advise for me?

 

Many Thanks,

newbie Kevin