Retro808

Roms can be pretty much anywhere you like as long as you go into MameUI > Directories and point to that folder. Not sure where you got that set (please do not post where per the rules) but you definitley got Mame set up and running at least 10 yard fight. Why so many are not showing available is odd to me. I would lean towards bad roms as well.

File > Refresh Roms Well if 10 Yard Fight ran then your set-up is good. Refresh the roms and see what available looks like. A lot of those games in the one pic should be green if you have a full rom set and it is not junk.

Go back to available. I see 10-yard fight is green in one of your pics. Try and run that game.

Yes, just go back to Mame. Download it. Set the rom path to that newly named folder. Run the audit. Then share a few pics. 1. The folder you have MameUI in. 2. The folder you have the roms in with the new name. 3. In the MameUI after you set the rom path snap of pic of that screen in the MameUI showing the new rom path.

Try changing that folder name of yours to something shorter and simply. Like Mame193. Since it is a subfolder of your roms folder you already know they are roms. I am not saying that is causing and issue, but I have had long or odd named folders cause issues before. Can you share a pic of the folder you have MameUI in. Like you did with the roms just a snap of files inside. Change that rom folder name and then go back into MameUI and set the rom path to that new name. Share a pic of the directories menu in Mame showing the new folder path.

Do you have a full rom set or just a small collection of certain games you chose? Can you share a pic of the folder the roms are in? Just a snap of some of the rom files in the folder. Just grasping at straws here. Mame itself is pretty easy to get working if you have good roms and do a few things to setup Mame. Retroarch is pretty easy as well, but might take maybe a couple extra steps. Xarcade stick right? Get it to work in what Retroarch or Mame?

Nice. Glad it wasn't all the CTRL+Clicking that needed to be done.

Did the crash give you any errors? In the menu did you double check the rom folder location is set properly?

Something similar happened in another post with the import images looking good. The user was at a loss for the issue. After lots of troubleshooting what ended up fixing for him was deleting the line with the platform name and core than going to the bottom of the list an entering the data again from scratch. In this thread look on the second page a post from InsideSmoke. Now keep in mind another user tried this in a different post and it did not work for him. So give it a shot and let us know.

Just right click an empty space in the folder and choose “create new” and then “zip”. Or just create a text file named like I said and when done change .txt to .zip and there you go. The 0kb zip file is to give you something to properly import into Launchbox. That was the whole original issue in this thread. Launchbox does not like the .chd file and you cannot point it to the folder. So import the fake zip file, Launchbox will scrape it and it will trick it into launching the chd file so to speak.

I agree with DOS and Monkus. I would watch a few YT videos. Mame is pretty easy to set up. First set Mame up and get the CHD for gtfore running in Mame. Then once that is all done it is easy enough to import into Launhbox. Golden Tee Fore 5 and 6 are CHD only games. So you really only need the CHD and the iteagle.zip bios. Where you are going to store your roms do the following inside that particular folder. This needs to be the folder you have directed mame to look for roms in. 1. Place the iteagle.zip (the bios) file in that main roms folder (do not rename it, do not put it anywhere else) 2. In that main roms folder create a subfolder called gtfore05 3. In that gtfore05 folder place the Golden Tee Fore 5 chd file (it must be unzipped). 4. In the main roms folder create a 0KB zip file called gtfore05.zip (nothing needs to be inside it). This is what will make it eay to import into Launchbox and have it scrape the correct arcade data. Of course none of this will matter if you do not have Mame properly set-up.

No. You have to import them into a platform first.

Yeah that's a good bit. I do not know any faster way to bulk edit a metadata field.

Mass editing is not that hard you just need to know which games you need to edit. How long ago did you import the roms? Mine has been in this set-up since early 2017. Odd that your play mode listing is only multiplayer. I really do not edit metadata at all. So I know it was not something I added. If you know all the games the meet 4-player simultaneous you can just CTRL-Click those games then choose edit. It will bring up the bulk editor. Choose the Play Mode field and then add "4-Player Simultaneous" to the edit. Then save. The playlist would then pick them up.

Easy to do. Just open BigBig and go to your settings screen. Options > Views > Default Startup View (Change this setting to Playlists)

Monkus definitely has greater depth of knowledge than me. Just to compare though here is a snap of my platform xaml and it looks pretty much the same as yours. I have never done anything fancy when importing roms and creating platforms. Standard process and then just do a normal scrape for data. He may have been talking about the platforms game metadata. If the metadata for the games does not contain the "4-Player Simultaneous" data then the playlist will not populate. The games that I have in the pic earlier if you have them imported right click on each of them and make sure it has the metadata in that field populated.

That is all you should see in the xaml since it is only the relevant data to build the playlist. It will not show game data. You should be able to just drop this in the Launchbox\Data\Playlists folder (make sure LB is closed first) and then open Launchbox. I just dropped it in and it populated 14 games.

I would first try launching a GameCube game from Retroarch directly on this new setup to make sure it works there. If it does double check the rom file path to make sure where Launchbox says it is matches the drive letter and folder where the roms actually are. Is the whole setup kept portable by having everything (roms and emulators as well) kept in the Launchbox folder structure? You likely already tried this but it was not mentioned.

Just an FYI, but the text behind the ; is just informational. You do not need to change it or have it all. You can just copy and paste everything from the $Esc:: and down.

Yes .bins work fine. I just tested. Did you install Stella in your pc through the installer option or the zipped file download? Reason I ask is the zipped version has 2 Stella exe files. One for 64bit and for 32. Do you only have 1 exe? Just want to make sure you are pointed to the correct one or to only one. @AgoustBolchz

I tried both zipped and .bin files on mine and it works. Also the zipped version did not need the unzip check box ticked. I was thinking the same as Dos so tested. I am not sure. Stella was a breeze to set up. Just a few clicks and the import is pretty straight forward. If you right click a game and choose "Open Stella" does it at least open the Stella menu? Or right click and choose launch with Stella?

@neil9000 Thanks! ? @AgoustBolchz I do not see anything glaring in your images. The setup looks good and none of those boxes in the 3rd pic need to be checked. You did say the games will launch in Stella directly correct? And you did not move the rom location when you imported them into Launchbox right? When I set Stella up for the first time it asked for the rom path. I would open Stella exe and make sure the rom path listed matches the rom path showing in your Launchbox.

Can you share a few pics. 1. Right click a game and choose edit. Share an image of the Launcher and Emulation tabs 2. Go to tools>manage emulators and choose to edit your Stella set-up. Share a pic of the Emulator Details and the Associated Platforms tabs. I do not have systems for stella loaded but I just did a couple games and installed stella with no issues.

In the associated platform tab of the emulator (in Launchbox) does the platform name match exactly as the platform name you have listed in Launchbox? If it is not there or not spelled/called the same thing you have listed as a platform in Launchbox it will not launch.

@eatkinola that would be great if you could take a crack. I just noticed that in the default theme what I am looking for can be done at least. So there is some hope. In the pic the arrow is pointing to the custom field I set. My hopes is the same can show up in the Unified or Unified Redux in the area in the pic from my other post. If spacing is an issue in the Unified Redux theme I would not mind seeing about editing the xaml to remove the publisher info. Or at best just seeing if it can show up in the game details screen if that would be easier.