Retro808

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.

PGM2-Mame I have never messed with so could not answer that. For Sega Model 2 there is a setting to auto switch in fullscreen. I have that ticked and it works in my setup. If you need to set a custom resolution you have to edit the Ini file. It will be in the Renderer section of the Emulator.ini.

Logos are only supported by image file types.

No worries. Glad it is sorted. However, what was the issue? It would be helpful to know in case someone else has a similar issue.

How old is the Tankstick? Coming out of the back of it does it have a PS/2 connector or USB cables? The older model usually had the P1 directional controls set to the number keys like in your BigBox image. I see BB is recognizing the directional inputs as the Num 8, 6, 4, and 2 directions. Usually a good sign you need the NumLock on with a Tankstick. Did you try the NumLock like I mentioned? In Mame it lists the directional arrows. Did you try remapping the directions controls in Mame to see if it shows the same Number directions like in BigBox?

Make sure you have the 2 boxes checked in the image below in Manage Emulators for your Sega Model 2. Also make sure in the Emulator.ini file in your Sega Model 2 exe folder you set the rom path.

He is talking about the metadata for the actual platform images and information. At the moment you have to edit each manually. There is not a mass metadata update for just the platform data.

Depending on the theme you are using and the view in it that can affect if videos play or not. Each theme has several views and not all views support video play play back. There are also a couple of themes that do not support video play back at all. Make sure in BigBox in the settings you map a control for changing the theme view. A couple things to do: Make sure your videos play in Launchbox than that should confirm they are in the right folder and linked to the games. Then check video settings for play back in BigBox as there are a couple that you may need to check or uncheck depending if you had accidentally changed anything.

Not quite sure. What Windows version are you running? I found on Google several mentions on gaming forums of Xaudio errors such as this and the fix was installing an older DirectX update to fix it. DirectX June 2010 update. If you just google DirectX June 2010 Update the first link will take you to the MS page for the update.

The CHD files for the games are not better versions of the game, it is simply the large chunk of data for certain games. There is not a rom version and a CHD version of a particular game. The CHD works in part with the rom. The rom houses a little data that tells mame it needs to use the larger file of the CHD to actually run the game. So for games that need a CHD you need both the rom and the CHD. Now there are a few exceptions of games that only need a CHD. Not many but I think there are a few. Also not every game needs a CHD. Typically some newer games that housed data on disc media need a CHD. Examples would be Golden Tee games, Street Fighter 3 games. Get the mame rom set, find out which games you want to play that need a CHD file that works and just get the CHD file for those games. For example I have about 900 games in my set-up. Only 21 of them are games that need a CHD. The CHD files for those games only take up 12.9GB of space. No way did I want nor need the full 500+ GB of the full CHD set.

Here is a video of the MGS sound pack from the downloads section. Does this help? 2018-09-17 09-42-53_Trim_Trim.mp4

BigBox/Launchbox do not need the CHDs. Mame needs them. So you just need to make sure they are properly placed in the roms folder per mame. Certain games will not run without CHD associated file and there are some games that are CHD only games I believe.

Do both joysticks not move or just one? If just one try turning the Num Lock on with your keyboard and see if that fixes. The Tankstick should work with Mame pretty much out the box with only a few button map changes. Do you have the switch on the back of the tankstick in the #1 position (the position closest to the cable)? For BigBox just set your controls in the keyboard mapping area of settings. Nothing really needs configuring outside of that.

Not sure how you have your platforms and playlists set up but it sounds like you need to change BigBox default starting view. If you want the playlists to always show up as the default view you have to go into BB settings and in Views set the default startup view to Playlists. You can set it to things like Platform, Platform Category, Playlists, etc.