DerHof2007

Heh, after all these years of using MAME I just learned that update packs are not full roms but just the changes or additions. Knowing this and knowing that the site I go to has a long line of update packs would have saved me some time hunting down these things individually. Unfortunately after getting update packs from 184 to 197 still nothing for Mousetrap :-( AFAIK the sites roms are current to 188 so getting update packs further back will be no help.

Yeah, that was a typo. 24s10n.1c is what it should have been.

I did a MAME upgrade from 147 to 195. I only have about 200 roms in my collection. But this upgrade killed a good 10% of those. Spent quite a few hours between last night and this morning acquiring the proper updates. Way more effort than it should have been as it wasn't as simple as downloading the latest rom for quite a few of them... had to combine bins from various different versions and other headaches. I manged to get 99.9% working. My only non working rom at this time is Mousetrap (mtrap.zip) I've searched all over and this seems to be an issue for most... unless running an older version. The culprits are 3 bin files missing 74s288.6c 74s10n.1c 74s288.3d I know no one can post links to roms here so I'm not asking that. But if someone can tell me if these aren't even available then I could just abandon this mission for now. So, just wondering if anyone has this rom with these 3 bin files? I'm thinking worse case scenario I can have 2 versions of MAME in my cabinet until this issue is resolved.

Simple enough... I looked in there but must have overlooked that option. Thank you!

For certain reasons I may want to relocate my emulator/roms folder. I currently have an emulator folder in my LB folder. Inside each emulator folder is a roms folder. I want to move this folder out of the Launchbox folder into the root of my emulation folder. Now redirecting LB to a handful of emulators is no problem but can I easily redirect it to all the new rom locations without rescanning? Had I known I'd want to change this I would have done it from the beginning but.... well, I didn't :-( So currently for example. Emulation\Launchbox\Emulators\MAME\roms the new directory would be Emulation\Emulators\MAME\roms

Actually, the problem may have been that I am using PinballFX3. In order to launch into a specific game directly you have to have a 'unlock pincab features' code I had to email them a request... answer a question or two. Then they replied and I had to send them a picture of my cabinet before they sent the code. They said they want to be sure it is not being used for public use which sounds logical. I just got this code an hour ago... I did open a specific table with a command line in dos but didn't get a chance to try with LB yet to try the quick exit. So far so good though. Since the first part worked I'm assuming this will as well... I'll try it out after work.

When you hit escape how are you getting it directly back into LB/BB instead of the PinballFX menu?

That's a damn good question buddy!!! Because I was mixing up my software! LOL.... Sorry, SyncToy is what is giving me troubles... Freefilesync was on my radar of options to try so I guess that is what mixed me up. I will give that a shot later today.

Freesync never worked for me. Tried it a few years ago and actually just a few hours ago before I saw this post. Does did a clean install of windows 7 and thought I'd try it again but same issue. When running in 'Echo' mode... which is what I would use 99% of the time... It does not sync deletes. It will copy new files from my left to right folder but wont replicate deletions. Some searching reveals that this has been a very common issue since day one but MS never seemed to care. Why is works for some and not others is a mystery.

As the topic says.... Need to be able to sync and update from PC to NAS and occasionally external drives.

Great, that got her... and at the same time for whatever reason pressing my select button now allows me to skip the intro. Thank you!

I need to head out so I'll have to mess with this more later. But not having luck with the whole intro video thing. I stuck a 2 minute video in there. Tried every key on the keyboard. It played the whole video.... 10x + what it needs to launch BB. The random video thing isn't working for me either. I tried multiple videos in the original videos folder... wont play anything except a file named exactly 'startup' created a folder called 'Startup'.... moved the files from the default folder to this new folder.... plays nothing.

Ahhh, gotcha on the sound. I foresee me substituting custom sounds for the startup/navigation :-) As for skipping the intro... perhaps the computer I'm testing this out on isn't launching BB faster than the length of the video. I'll swap it out for a longer one later and see what happens. Thanks again.

Well, nothing working for me except the audit page so far... I just had to do a 'ctrl-c' for the copy.... no option when I right click. As for skipping the intro... not working. I hit my main select button as well as return... then basically every key there is... no stopping it. As for eliminating the 'Welcome to Big Box' sound byte... I renamed the 'Startup' sound file and it regenerated a fresh one with the original name.... There is also nothing for this in tools>options.... actually don't see the word 'sound' anywhere in options.

3. Cool thanks... I think I simply tried the joystick. 3.1 Ok, I was assuming it had to be called 'startup'' and would only use that one. 3.2 Simple enough.... I'll also check for the option like neil9000 said. 5. Sounds good. Thanks guys! I'll some more research on the mame.xml thing and post if I have any luck. Only other thing left is finding that favorites icon....

For some reason the copy and paste wasn't working for me before. 4. I'll have to give that another shot. 6. As for the default theme image folder I don't see it in there. I literally looked in every folder before this post.,,,

I thought about that when I posted it, lol.... Maybe I'll split it into separate posts later!! It doesn't look so bad on a computer where I typed it... if you are reading a phone though... I'd have probable skipped it myself!... but forums aren't for phones!!!

No answers on this? I can understand if no one has an answer for the 1st question but the rest? I assume that the answer is probably no for the rest except maybe #5 but a confirmation would be cool so I wont worry about figuring it out if it can't even be done....

While I appreciate the guys effort I'd prefer to have the original boxart artwork for my C64 collection... and clear logos based on the original work. He basically made a template and is filling in the names. I know there is an insane amount of games for the C64... even more than MAME I think. There was time where I would obsess about having complete collections but now I just focus on have a complete set of what I will actually play. I have about 200 MAME roms and 60-70 or so C64. These smaller numbers makes the task of acquiring top quality art for everything doable. I've made some scans like I said from my personal collection and have uploaded some here.... and will do upload more in the very near future. Others I've acquired through Google and such and have touched up (to the best of my limited ability with GIMP). Hopefully I'll be able to get it 100% soon.

Yeah Arzoo is great for tech support. Also make sure you download the PDF manual. I've downloaded countless pieces of software over the years and he has one of best, easiest to follow, up to date manuals I've ever seen. Also check out this guys 5 part series on setup for it. Very informative. Wish it existed 6-7 years ago when I first used it! https://youtu.be/opu6NofnyWg

Good Morning.... a few questions here... #1 I updated from mame 147 to 195. LEDBlinky requires a mame.xml ...when I generate it, it's 212 meg... previous one for 147 was still 133meg. I know these will get smaller the further back you go but I need a more current version of mame for certain games. Can I generate a file based on the roms I actually have? I only have a little under 200 The big problem is since it's so big if I have LEDBlinky preload it then it throws my light timing off for the initial LB launch. If I don't preload it the first time I select the MAME platform it must wait until then to load because my lighting is thrown off for a good 30 seconds at that point. If I had an xml for only what I need it would probably be under 5 meg. #2 I'd like to compare artwork on many of my games as I also use a lot of custom artwork that I either modified myself or stuff that is not going to be scraped. So when I go to a folder like 'Box 3D' for example in image view, and want to compare what is there. Its a PIA when LB has files in the root folder, North America, United States, World, Etc. Is there a way to prevent it from using these folders? While on the subject of the image folder scheme... is there a way to eliminate folders and keep them gone? For example for console systems there is no use for any of the 'Arcade' folders and ...with Arcade there is no use for many of the 'Box' and 'Cart' folders. This is just added clutter that gets in the way us OCD people!! I've deleted these folders but they are just regenerated by LB. #3 Is there a way to stop the intro video if desired? In Hyperspin simply hitting any control would cut the intro short and go straight into launch. I plan on using various intros maybe as long as a minute and sometimes I just want the thing to boot up instead of watching the intro... #3.1 Any way to have multiple intro videos used randomly? #3.2 Is there a way to eliminate the "Initializing Big Box" speech? Using LEDBlinky I insert my own speech upon start up... kind of interfere with each other. #4 Is there any way to print or save a game audit screen? #5 Is there any way to combine platforms? What I'm thinking is specifically Daphne/Arcade(MAME) since Daphne games are actually arcade games. I'll probably only use 2 or 3 Daphne games and it would actually be more convenient to just have them listed under arcade with my MAME games. So... possible to have games in the same platform use different emulators? #6 Is there any way to change the 'favorites' icon? It looks like a deck of Bicycle playing cards. I think I can definitely come up with something better to put in its place. I think that is it for the moment... thanks for any help.

That is awesome!! People like you are a great credit to this hobby. Any chance Commodore 64 is on the radar? After MAME this will be the 2nd most used system in my cab... maybe around 60 games. I may be able to help with a little bit of artwork. I had a pretty decent collection at one point of Bally and C64 games. Did some box art, manual and cart scans before I sold most of it... Most of my collection was NIB quality.

Just seeing these for the first time. These are FREAKING SWEET! Just got them for my whole set. The Bally was my first system growing up! Incredible games back then. Thank you!

Thanks, that got it. My problem I was changing the command line on the main 'Emulator Details' tab instead of for the individual platform on the 'Associated Platforms' tab. And for whatever reason after getting that all set up I scanned for additional roms and it picked everything up... not sure why it only scanned a handful on the initial rom import.

Sooooooooo, I'm a little confused here. Real quick on what I did. Put the Astrodace bios files in my MAME roms folder Subfolder in that folder called Astrocade with my Astrocade roms... named like software list sets. Imported my Astrocade roms folder to LB... it only actually recognized about 8 of 50 for some reason. So.... nothing worked. So I did what I quoted below as well as Uncheck "Don't use quotes" and "Use the file name only..." This made it work but then when I go to 'Arcade' platform it launches Astrocade instead of MAME. Do I need two versions of MAME installed? How would I set up separate command lines in MAME for MAME and Bally?