Retro808

Along with the games you download you need to download the emulators as well. Set it up first and test your games then add them to LB. To keep it simple Retroarch is great for your console systems and Mame is great for arcade. You can of course use Retorarch’s mame cores for arcade but using good old standalone Mame is always a better choice.

First thing to do is determine did you set up the emulator you are using and test the games directly inside the emulator first? Forget about LB for now. Do your games work directly in the emulator you are using to run the games? If the answer is no, or you never setup the emulator and tested the games that is your biggest issue.

Horse has been beat its now time to move on. Anything further on the prior debate just becomes someone pressing the subject to the point of temporary bans.

CHDs go in individual folders named after the rom file. Mame default then wants the individual CHD folders all in the same folder you have the zipped from files. You can put them anywhere you want as long as you tell Mame where you put them. The most complete working rom pgk would be any full rom set (split, merged, or nonmerged - this does not matter as it is all the same files just compiled differently) and all the CHD files for those games that work in Mame. Not really much to it.

You need them for the games that need them that actually run in Mame. Keep in mind not all of the games in Mame that require a CHD actually run in Mame. So you do not need the full CHD mame set. The progettoemma site is a good one to use to run a filter to see all the current games that require a CHD and actually run in Mame. I think the site is down for maintenance though.

This will not work because the Marquee image folders are for game level images not platform level images. Platforms will only pull a marquee style image from Banners folder. @Amauri What do you mean by "proper marquee" image? You can use any image you want just put it in the banners folder. That is the simplest thing to do. BigBox will only show one image per platform as a marquee when you are on the platform selection level. LB really does not refresh the platform level banner image unless you manually do it so there is rarely and instance where the image you put there will get overridden by a metadata update. There is no marquee folder structure for platform level images other than the banner folder. You can create a custom folder and a code for it, but it is not just a simple changing of the selected binding path. You would kind of have to trick BB to show what you want because by default BB will pull from the banners folder even if no code exists in a PlatformMarqueeView.xaml file. Even in the absence of that xml file BB will pull only from that folder. Until LB goes through some marquee image updates the easiest workaround is just putting the images you want to use in the banners folder.

Can you share a pic to show specifically what it is you want to change?

If “Arcade” is your platform category and inside that you have all your specific arcade platforms then set BigBox startup view to be “platforms” and not set to “category”. At least thats how I am reading how you have things set up.

@slizzap All feature request are done in our bitbucket site. Top of the forum site click on "Help & Support" then click "Request a Feature". Please do a search on the bitbucket site first to see if a similar feature has already been submitted. If so comment on that one and vote.

You can eliminate the need to specify the launching. exe by using {{{StartupEXE}}} $Esc:: { WinClose, ahk_exe {{{StartupEXE}}} }

What do you mean "I have several users..."? Are you providing LB in a build for users? LB does not contain any viruses. It is a false positive. As long the users has downloaded it directly from the LB website the warning can be ignored.

Its in Launchbox. Go to >Tools>Manage Emulators. Choose Cemu and edit it.

The badges are new, but that's not what you are needing to deal with. What you want are the images used specifically by that theme for those categories. You can change these easily. Just go into the theme's folder. There will likely be an images folder and find the one that contains the .jpg or .png for favorites, broken, etc.. Then just add the ones you want to use and name them exactly as the ones you are replacing.

Depending on the view you are using you should be able to go into the theme's \Views folder and edit the xml for that view. Search for "rating" and there should be at least 2 Text Blocks coded for the rating. You can delete those text block lines of code. I would back up the xml first before doing this in case any gets messed up.

LB does not actually standardize any box images at all. You likely with the other platforms just have good images that are the same size. Unfortunately there is no way to keep them all the same size from within the LB UI.

Glad you are sorted. Yeah I doubted a bios since you said it was working. Going forward I recommend always setting up the emulator first. Set your controls and test your roms in the emulator first and make sure everything works there. Then import them into LB. This way, if after you import into LB the games do not run, we know it is a LB setting and not an emulator/rom/or bios issue.

In LB if you go to the game and edit it you can then select which of the roms you want as default. When you edit go to the "Additional Apps" page and click on the rom he wants as default. Than click the "Make Default" button in the bottom right.

@Jodisa Your first post says you had it working in Retroarch which means you already have the correct bios. So it is not a bios issue. You then said you messed with settings and now it does not work. Messed with settings where? In Launchbox or Retroarch?

That's likely the Game Details screen. If you want to bypass that go to BB Options > General and check the box for Skip Game Details.

May I ask why you chose to run as admin? It is recommended not to do run LaunchBox or BigBox as admin. Can you change that and see what happens when you run it.

You can set a "Per Platform" theme, however It will not take into account the screen rotated. So it will not change the theme from landscape view to a portrait view. If you are using software the will do the rotation for you then it should work using the "Remember Separate View Per Platform" setting in >Views page of BB settings.

No confusion. You posted the same question in the thread here. It is not a big issue to worry over. We are not overt sticklers to rules here, we do like to keep posts for same questions to a minimum though.

1: Do the games run directly in Retroarch without using LB? If yes, see # 2. If No, then the issue is either your roms or you do not have the right core downloaded in RA. Could be some other things as well. 2: If yes to #1. In your emulator setup for Retroarch within LB (>Tools>Manage Emulators) do you have to correct core selected for the platform name you added you Mame games to and does the platform name that is listed in the Associated Platforms tab matching exactly as you have the platform named within LaunchBox? Example: If you imported the mame roms into a platform called "Arcade" then the Associated Platform name in Retroarch should be called "Arcade". the names must match.

@CtinD Please refrain from posting the same question in multiple threads. It is best practice to either find the most appropriate ongoing thread or if none exists start a new one. This thread would have been more appropriate versus the other thread you posted it in.

If each version of a single game is zipped inside one rom LB cannot see them. Each game would have to be its own zipped rom file. LB can only send the command line to run the game you selected. It cannot tell the emulator to run this rom but choose this game inside it.