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@lordmonkus Is likely correct on the biggest issue. Something else to consider is if you are downloading from several different sites you may have some severely outdated or just plain old bad roms. I would wager though that lordmonkus advice is your likely culprit.

Man that beach sound version

@HotMommasCowboy In BigBox settings under the keyboard mappings you can set the "switch view" option to whatever key you want. I cannot remember if it is set by default or not. But just head to that setting and set a key of your choice.

I never noticed I was missing metadata until your post. So I played around and was able to get LB to find Wikipedia and GamesDB listing using the following names: Pokémon: FireRed Pokémon: LeafGreen Pokémon: Emerald

@pipes78 Has some good tutorials on RL and LB as well on his youtube channel. I do not use RL but watching his videos has got me to messing around with it and his videos are pretty good. As @bundangdon mentioned Simply Austin's vids are good as well. Pipes78 Youtube Channel

Good to hear you are up and running.

Sorry we cannot be more helpful on where to get the file. I will say try also searching for a file call dl-1425.bin. If you have a qsound.zip already with your 185 pack the update added the dl-1425.bin file to the old qsound.zip. I just did a search of that file name and found a couple sites very helpful.

You will definitely need an updated qsound with 185 roms running in Mame 189. It is against forum rules to advise where to get rom files due to legal concerns. I would say go back to where you got your 185 set and see if they have an updates pack.

Check to make sure you have the qsound.zip file in your roms folder and it has 2 files in it. The qsound needed updating from Mame 0.186 and up.

@lordmonkus I have to say though the pain in the ass that Mame can be is easily tamed thanks to the knowledge you and the others on this particular forum share. I have learned more since I joined in Feb of this year than I had the previous 6 months when I decided to revive my cabinet. The mods and many members on this forum have my utmost respect for how helpful and friendly you all are. @neil9000 You are very welcome. The thing that always sticks out to me is the command line parameters messing up RA. I do not know how many times I saw a post about RA not working and one of you always catch something as simple as 3 "L's" in the ".dll" or someone spelling Mednafen wrong.

@Wheeler Glad it was something relatively simple like the qsound file for your rom issue. I had the same issue you first had when you started the thread and thanks to all of our awesome mods you got it sorted. So I also have to thank you for getting yours fixed and showing me what I needed. It is funny but @neil9000 and @lordmonkus put it best, many times it really is something small.

I don't really think any new emails have gone out about Launchbox in that time frame. I have lifetime membership and the last email in my inbox was back in May.

I believe basic membership only gets access to artwork not videos.

I believe it was in 186 that they updated the qsound.zip and it now has 2 files: qsound.bin and dl-1425.bin.

@Wheeler Look in your roms folder for qsound.zip if that is missing the games like SSF2 Turbo need that file. The qsound file could be one issue as to why some roms are not working.

@wheeler I do not think either of those need a chd. Do you get a files missing error or does it just start to load than crash back to Launchbox? Do you have the correct qsound file for your mame version?

This is a good bulk renamer that has been recommended more than a few times here. I have not used it yet, but several of the more experienced forum members have referred to it in prior posts about bulk renaming roms. Bulk Rename Utility

@zetec-s-joe Glad you got it working.

You can add a custom config command line parameter in the Edit Emulator screen. Go to Toosl/Edit Emulator then go to your Retroarch and click the Associated Platforms tab. Enter the custom config command line in that tab. So say you wanted Game & Watch core to run a custom config you would have something like: -L "cores\gw_libretro.dll" -c "config\instert name of custom config.cfg"

Nice. Glad you got Mame working in Launchbox. Looks like I will try the command line version as well when I return home.

@Wheeler Not sure if there is a full list anywhere. I did a search and only found forum links to people who made a few lists of some, but not all, games that needed CHD. I do know in MameUI version of Mame there is a view option that lists all the games that need a CHD. The list on mine shows about 800 games (though not all of them actually work).

I do not use iPac either but looking at the FAQ on UItimarc's page it looks like Ultimarc has a utility that is used to configure the iPac if needed. Check the downloads section on Ultimarc's page.

@Wheeler Anything in that range version range would work. 0.188 being the newest. Gonna follow this closely since I have a similar issue with you. I have not found a fix other than using a slightly older Mame version. I have the issue on 2 pc's.

No worries. One thing great about this forum is the members will stick with you and try to figure out any issues. I would try a different version of Mame. @Zombeaver earlier linked to some older version of Mame. Try one of those. edited to add: What version MameFX are you using? Maybe I can load it on my system and see if I get the error as well since I no I can recreate it with MameUI.

It could just be that Emumovies API is down. It happens from time to time. Even though you can log into their site the API is different and sometimes goes down for a short bit.