Retro808

Just to be clear @Lordmonkus is talking about the input lag experienced by the controller when scrolling through game titles. Not lag you would experience in your system loading images or video files or transitioning from one platform to the next. See the video posted in this thread to understand what it is specifically targeting.

Uncheck that extract rom check box. You do not need that.

The mame.ini thing is typically an issue with offshoots of mame like MameUI and Arcade64. Since command line mame generates the ini where is it supposed to be you should not have to do the ini thing mentioned. That being said since you seem to be using command line mame you likely have something disconnected in your Launchbox set-up. Go to tools>Edit Emulators and click on the Mame emulator you set up and edit it. Make sure it is pointing to the correct .exe file, make sure you do not have any of the check boxes in the middle of the screen on the first tab checked and then go to Associated Platforms and make sure you have the name of the Arcade platform you imported your roms into listed there and the name matches how you have it named in Launchbox.

Yes. It may also work if it is named as the Rom is named. I know images work either way. I just do not remember if videos do also.

Game videos go in \Launchbox\Vidoes\[Platform Name]. So for example NES game videos it would be \Launchbox\Videos\Nintendo Entertainment System Platform videos go in \Launchbox\Videos\Platforms. Videos should be named exactly as you have the platform named in Launchbox and same goes for game videos.

The GUI is not actually that bad. Just spend a few minutes moving around in it and see where everything is.

Input remaps per core or per game are usually saved as a .rmp file and you are correct you can edit it. However, they can only be edited once one is created. So he would have to use the GUI to edit on a per game basis his controls. Also the remap file will only contain the data that differs from the .cfg file. For example if you set a core config control as one set of controls and for a certain game you only changed the "A" button to a different control the remap file will only show that field and not the rest of the controls since that is the only one that differs.

I do not believe you can hide platforms at this time. What you can do is in Launchbox change the view type to Playlist and only Playlists will show. The drop down box above your list of platforms is where you can change. Also if you use BigBox you can set the default startup view to Playlists and each time you open BigBox only Playlists will show.

Just an FYI there are actually numerous platform videos available through direct download in Launchbox. We welcome new content of course. So thank you for sharing.

Probably because Launchbox is more of a keyboard/mouse user interface even though it has some controller support.

There is a setting in BigBox's video options to "Prioritize Game Theme Videos". It does it for all so you do not get a per platform/playlist option. It is at least already present in some form. You would need to submit a BitBucket to request feature updates.

When you create playlists or platforms you can specify where you want them to display. So you could have say an Arcade Platform Category and under it have Arcade which shows all games and then either create playlists (Launchbox can actually create many of these with the import wizard) or platforms for all the other systems or game manufacturers you want. The new Beta has nested filters being tested so with that you could get an even greater layer of division for your games.

You can make a Sonic Playlist adding all Sonic games from all the platform and then set Playlist as the default view on startup. If Sonic Playlist is the only one you made then that is all it will show.

Yes. You can only have a platform name once. You can have the same emulator for more than one platform but a platform name can only be used once in Launchbox. Nested folders will hopefully be soon. It is on the list of things Jason is/will add from the last poll.

So you cannot even just open the mame.exe and get to the interface? It just crashes? Or if you try to run one for your roms in a newer version of mame it crashes?

I noticed earlier you said your Mame is 0.78 and that is the only one that runs for you. If your mame is that old and your roms are as well that may be the issue why other versions of Mame will not run those roms. Mame is currently up to .201 and there have been quite a few changes to mame and roms since that set from 2003 you have. Most notably updated bios files and qsound file needed for some games. If you plan on running updated mame you will need a far newer set of roms.

It is known this still exisits in someway. Please see this thread. Jason did work on it. I am not sure it was completely fixed as a couple said it was better but still laggy.

You should be able to drop this in your mame roms folder and just double click it. All it does is copy the games related to Cave to a folder called Cave so you do not have to hunt manually. Keep in mind it is all versions of the rom and there are a couple of games that do not work. You can right click and edit it to see what is in it. I did not make it. I think I got it off an Rpi forum. Cave.bat

If you do not do the process @neil9000 is mentioning then I think I have a batch file you can use. You just drop it in the mame roms folder and it will copy out the Cave games into a separate folder. It will not delete them from the main romset but copy them so you can move those to import. I will check later when home.

Thank @neil9000 for better clarifying. Yeah, I meant to say in Quick menu look for the user 1 and user 2 settings in Controls.

Retroarch simply is a frontend. Even they call it that on their main page. To set per game controls in RA simply load the game with the core you want. Hit F1 to go to settings. Find the input user 1 and input user 2 settings and bind your controls. Back out in the Quick Menu and go into Configuration Override then choose the Save Per Game option.

Agreed. Not sure where you got unzipped files for Mame roms from but I would just find a full Mame set and download it. I would not even try to mess with zipping those into the correct rom builds.

Did you import unzipped files? All those odd names are file contents for roms. For example a04802w046 is a file contained in the espgal.zip file for Espgaluda game.

No worries. If you have any issues let us know.

Bad rom or just missing bios or CHD file could be the issue. Another thing to take into consideration is if you pulled them out of a rom set depending on if it was a split/merged/non-merged set you could be missing the parent rom needed for the game you are trying to run.