Retro808

Can you post some pics. 1: Edit Mame in Manage Emulators and share a pic of the Details Tab and the Associated Platforms tab. 2: Right click and edit a Tiger game and share a pic of the Launcher tab and the Emulation tab. You did also point Mame's directory listing to the folder you have the Tiger roms in and the bios file is in that folder?

Based on what it says RomCenter does I think he is wanting to use it to confirm his roms are supported by Retroarch/Cores.

In Launchbox under >Tools>Options there is a section for mapping Game Controls. You can move around in Launchbox with a gamepad, but it is more useful with a keyboard.

I am on the same page as you and understand what you are wanting to do. The way I explained it is exactly how I have it working on my machine. With Game Details Screen activated "Select" button will only play a game if you are in the Game Details and choose the "play" option. Anywhere else in BigBox and on any other menu item besides "play" the "Select" Button only selects that menu item. To be honest though most people use insert coin when in the game itself. Launch a mame game and you are at the game screen that shows insert coin as if you were in a real arcade. I have not seen many people on our forum post that they want BigBox to only start a game if someone inserts a coin. If the steps I outlined are not working on your machine we would need to troubleshoot what specifically in your set-up is messing with BigBox controls.

Correct. I will try to explain it in elaborated details. "Select" is a menu select command. So when you have "Skip Game Details" option in the BigBox menu unchecked "Select" has a certain effect. When you are on the list of games when you hit "Select" is takes you to the game details screen. On that screen you will see an option to "Play" a game. If you highlight that and hit "Select" it plays the game. That is because it is “selecting” the play option. However, if you are on any other option in the game detail screen it will not "play" a game and the "select" button will only select the menu item you are on. When you have an option other than play highlighted if you do hit your mapped "Play" button it plays the game. So in this scenario the mapped "Select" button and mapped "Play" button behave how you want it to. If you have the "Skip Game Details" option checked then your mapped "Select" button will have a different effect. When you are on a list of games if you hit the "Select" button now it will directly play the game since you are bypassing the games details screen. So this means in this setting both the "Select" and the "Play" buttons will play a game. To have it how you want you need to have the "Skip Game Details" option unchecked in the BigBox settings. (Go to Options > General > make sure Skip Game Detials is NOT checked.)

Yeah it should be. I have a couple less powerful machines with 7K or more games and get maybe a slight hiccup but nothing like what you described. So I would not think it was game volume related. Have you tried what I mentioned about the Dynamic Box sizing? This feature was a new one added that caused some performance issues and Jason refined it some. So that is also partially why I was thinking it could be something for you to test.

Edited my post as I just realized you said RomCenter. I do not use RomCenter to audit my roms so I cannot provide an answer.

What are your machines specs? LB should be able to move well with only 3K games. On one of my low end machines with 5K LB has no issue. Do you have Dynamic Box Sizing turned on? Try turning it off and see if it affects anything. Reason I ask specifically that, is you mentioned the scroll bar moving and that does happen with dynamic box on. The box sizing can cause some lag since LB has to resize the box images if you add games. Not saying that is your actual issue, but something to try.

The correct command line is "gamecom -cart1" (minus the quotes) There is no "-" before gamecom. Also make sure you have the bios file called gamecom.zip. Inside that zip should be two files "internal.bin" and "external.bin". I have not seen any Mame bezel artwork for this platform.

Point to the game's .cue file not the .bin file.

BigBox is optimized for cabinets with a coin system. My cabs have real coin doors and BB works perfect with it. What @DOS76 was explaining is that Select and Play work as they are designed. If you have "Show Game Details" option set to show in BigBox when you hit "Select" when on a game it opens the Game Details Screen. However, if you hit "Play" when on the game it goes directly to playing the game and skips the game details. So if you map "Play" to the coin trigger it will do what you want. This is how I have it set up.

You are right clicking and showing the wrong image. Right click and choose edit. It will bring you into a new window showing the games details. Show a pic of the Launcher tab selected and then one with the Emulation tab selected.

I need you to post the exact pictures I asked. Please look back at my post and show those images. Each of those tabs will show if something might be missing or checked wrong.

Can you share pics. 1: Edit Retroarch in Manage Emualtors and share a pic of the Details Tab and the Associated Platforms tab. 2: Right click and edit a Dreamcast game and share a pic of the Launcher tab and the Emulation tab.

Just bulk edit games then choose >Tools>Download Metadata and Media. In the wizard if you just want to see if manuals are available tick only the checkbox for manuals in the EmuMovies tab and run the search.

Check your Associated Platforms tab when you choose Manage Emulators and edit Retroarch to make sure you have your Dreamcast platform name listed and the correct core chosen for it.

That would depend on how you have it setup on the current one. If everything is contained withing the Launchbox folder structure (media, roms, emulators) it is usually as simple as copy and pasting the Launchbox folder to the new pc. If you have things stored on different drives or stored outside of Launchbox it would take a bit more work to make sure everything is linked since drive letters/names and folder paths could be different on the new pc..

And an FYI per my prior post there is not a Game Specific setting in Launchbox that controls video settings per game. What he did was set a command line which is not the same thing. Also, that only can work because the emulator allows it.

Cool. Thanks for sharing what you found.

Launchbox does not control anything that happens in game in an emulator. It has no settings to affect aspect ratio or really any other in game setting. Those are always set and controlled by the emulator. If doing the command line option like @neil9000 mentioned is not possible with redream you could set up a second version of Redream and have it set to 4:3 and then any games you want to run in that aspect point it to that version of Redream.

It would be helpful to know what the error is. Not many people reporting this issue. Just tested a few games myself and was able to delete using edit game options and deleting from the image window. What exact steps are you taking?

Are you talking about importing rom files or importing media files?

You are still not letting us know if the games work when launched directly from the emulator. With Mame. Can you launch and play a game directly from Mame (without using Launchbox)?

LB/BB Startups will not work perfectly with all windows games. It is something Jason has mentioned since the implementation of this option. So there are going to be hits and misses.

As @Mr. RetroLust already mentioned LB does not need the bios so it will never import any support files an emulator may need to run games. It is up to the user to set-up the emulator correctly and make sure the games work in the emulator first. Then when you add the games to LB you should have little to no issues. LB only imports game files.