Retro808

Glad you found the edit, but themes can matter because a theme developer can choose what metadata is shown. One thing of note is if you try to edit Launchbox's default themes the edits will not stick. It is designed that way to ensure BigBox and Launchbox always have a working theme. You would have to copy the theme and rename it something else. Than any edits you do to it will stick.

What theme are you using?

Thanks. Just checking since that is what @DOS76 tested with and same with me. Test in mame tonight as you said and let us know.

Do you know what version # Mame you are running?

We always recommend when adding new systems and when something stops working. Test directly in the emulator first. This way, as was mentioned, we rule out the emulator. As long as it works in the emulator we can have an easier time of troubleshooting Launchbox.

Good to hear. Glad you are sorted.

You create the manual playlist then you go to the games you want and right click then select "add to playlist". You can also change your Launchbox view to All Game and then bulk select as many games as you want and then right click and add to playlist.

Correct. Auto-populate does just that. In the Auto-Populate tab you choose the criteria you want to set it to. Then anytime you add or remove games it will get added or deleted from the playlist without you doing anything. Say you want only an Arcade Shoot 'em up genre. You set auto to Platform="Arcade" and Genre="Shoot 'Em Up" and it pulls only games in the Arcade platform with genre listed as Shoot em up.

Those games need the Midway Sound file midssio.zip. Make sure you did not delete that.

A playlist on Launchbox is like a playlist on anything else you may use. The playlist can be unique to whatever you want it to be. It is your choice. You can have it auto-populate games or set it to manual where it only updates when you say "add this game to this specific playlist". You can call a playlist whatever you want, have it show up under any Category, Platform, or show up on its own as a main category if you so choose. You can see in the image I set this specific playlists up to only show up under the Category of Playlist. If I wanted I can have a playlist show up under a platform just by changing the tick boxes in the parents tab.

What version of Mame are you running? If you are using an older version of Mame go to >Tools>Manage Emulators and edit your Mame set up. In the first tab under the Default Command-Line Parameters field delete "-keyboardprovider dinput" and try to run them.

You can make pretty much any kind of playlist under a platform. When you create a new platform under the Parents tab you can choose what you want it to show up under. Same for an existing playlist. Just right click the playlist name, edit and look in the Parents tab as well.

You can set an AHK per game if you need. Right click a game and edit then in the Additional Apps tab you can set an AHK to launch before, after or both if you need.

Right click a platform and edit then look in the Folders tab. You can set paths for images there.

Yeah piece mailing like that is probably the issue, plus I believe Rpi typically uses a very old version of Mame roms. I would recommend downloading a more current full romset.

If some roms work all should work. That is if it is a working game per Mame. Are your roms ones you pieced together from sites or did you download a complete romset? If it is a set do you know which version?

If you are talking about errors like the image below that is just the nag screen to let you know emulation is not perfect. If it gives a pop-up an error like certain files are missing that is a bit different. You can find version of Mame someone compiled called NoNag that removes that or you can learn to compile you own. I forgot NJDave posts a NoNag version here.

Yes. Deleting the first ones will not affect the Mame install.

Just deleted and downloaded those same videos (latest version of Launchbox). Got over 95Mbps. I do not recall seeing any network issues reported. I have seen in the past overseas (Non U.S.) users comment on slower speeds.

Not how it is going to work properly. What Mame are you using? regular Mame, MameUI or Arcade64? Which ever version it is you need to open up the user interface and find the option to set a directory path. Then tell Mame the folder path to your Mame roms. Once set you should be able to open Mame click a working game and have it load. Once you confirm it is working directly in Mame than test in Launchbox.

In mame directly (not using Launchbox) do the games play?

Stand alone Mame would probably be easier than using RA for arcade games like Donkey Kong and such. Not that there is anything wrong with using Retroarch. But yes, first figure out Retroarch or even Mame if you choose that route. Get it set up, running, and make sure game work and controls. Then tackle the Launchbox piece.

Looks good. So when you load the core and then go into the core information screen it shows those bios files as "missing"? Can you share a pic of that?

Can you share an image of where you put them. The bios files should go in a folder named system in the Retroarch folder.

Your Arcade (mame) issue is you do not have a core chosen. Like the other platforms listed you need to tell it what core to use for your Arcade platform. Sega CD make sure you have the bios files as was mentioned.