Retro808

License duh. LOL. Well to me it's like a membership into an awesome community!

@brave apache When you buy the premium membership for Launchbox there is a code/link in your purchase email for the discount to Emumovies.

Yeah this feature really is not supported much if any.

If you are going to use Launchbox to house the images you need a file of some sort so it knows what to download for. You do not need the rom file you can just create a text file and save it as the name of the game. Without something at least like a text file Launchbox will not know what it needs to download. Then import the text file as if it were a rom and LB will search for metadata.

Glad you at least got some things figured out and back towards a working system.

@Einherjar Try a fresh install of the 1.6.7 RA only do not install it in the existing folder. Make a new folder and setup RA there then test. If it works you now know the older folder something went bad. If the new RA in the new folder does not work time for the needle search.

I figured you did already test but thought to ask so it was mentioned. Not sure what it could be. I had a case where MameUI 0.186 and newer would not open any Mame roms from Launchbox but would open fine as standalone. If I used any version before 0.186 LB had no issues. I could never figure it out. It was just MameUI versions. If I used command line version of Mame 0.186 it worked fine. Have you tried and older version of Retroarch? You did mention you are on 1.6.7.

You mentioned a Mame issue you had before and that Mame would only work as a standalone or if Launchbox was run without Steam. But run Steam and Launchbox would not open the Mame roms. Will LB run those cd based games without using steam? Just asking as I did not see it mentioned and from reading your issue with Mame, Steam was the problem back then.

You can also use Amazon Pay. Looks like there is also a bitcoin option on the purchase page as well.

When you change image files make sure you go into settings for BigBox and refresh your image cache. Otherwise it will just keep showing the last image it cached.

Yep. I did several different loads checking and unchecking different things. I would pretty much get different results on the metadata hits.

Yeah, not to consistant is it. My only real issue was it not catching LB Database names. All the roms loaded, so no strange issues like you two had, it found Wiki meta, just would not find LB Database meta. I had to edit each game and delete the wiki ID then rerun search for metatdata again. On a couple I had to delete the name down to just like House or Dead in order for it to pull any LB data.

Strange. Added DOA games on the second machine as well and they imported clean. When you imported where you on Launchbox v 7.11? There were improvements made related to LB DB searches in 7.11. The machine I tested on is on 7.11. Maybe I will test on an older version.

Prior to your post I only had House of the Dead imported. So I went ahead an tested importing HOD again along with 2, 3, and 4. In both instances Launchbox imported them all. The only issue I had was for HOD 3 and 4 it found only the Wikipedia meta. So I deleted the Wikipedia ID on them and searched for metadata and it found the Launchbox Database title as "House of the Dead 3 (Arcade)" and "House of the Dead 4 (Arcade)". So LB did import them but only found the WIki info on the initial import. Are your roms from a full Mame rom set? How is the rom named for your House of the Dead?

No worries. You got it sorted and that's all that counts.

In BigBox settings you have to make sure you have either a key or controller button mapped to "switch view" option. This will allow you to switch views in the theme you are using. Each of the platforms can then have a different style view.

I have seen a few posts in the past with people having issues with multiple PS4 controllers. The issue seemed to be how Windows randomly sets internal IDs for the controllers and that causing bindings to get mixed up. In those posts solutions were not given so I know it is not much. Just wanted to share I remember seeing others have a similar issue. I can not find the post (it was from another forum I think), but someone had mentioned when opening and closing an emulator is when the ID would change, so one time something like Retroarch would see a controller as Joy 1 then when closed and opened again it would be Joy 2. Similar Issue here and here.

Double check in the MameUI where you have it pointed to for roms and then compare it to a game in Launchbox. Right click and choose edit on a game in Launchbox and if the path where that rom is differs from where Mame is pointed than there is your issue. Strange though that you say it used to work. When you imported your roms did you have LB leave it where it was or choose the option to move them into the LB folder structure?

Not possible on a Raspberry Pi, Launchbox/Bigbox is Windows only.

Also double check make sure your roms location is still what is in your ini. When I imported mine I had changed the rom locations and forgot to update it in the emulator. Once I corrected the path it launches fine.

So do any games at all in BigBox show any game play videos? If you go into LaunchBox and click on a game will its video play there? If in Launchbox the videos do play when you click on games (you may need to click on the video to play if you do not have it set to autoplay) then we at least know for sure the videos are in the right folder.

I know, I know. But no matter how hard I press him my 5 year old would rather play games like Bugs Bunny instead of God of War. The nerve.

Hey when you got keiki (little ones) in the house it helps. They do not always want to play Shoot 'em ups, Fighters, and RPGs.

Thanks @CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT I now have Looney Tunes Collection on my machine. It is interesting seeing how many games there are. I must say I would have never thought to add this playlist, but I am happy to see it on the machine. Thanks again and thanks @BlueArrowUK for making the request.

I have controller companion and x-input downloaded. I just started messing with them a couple weeks ago as I am working on installing some steam games and a few of the fighters I want to use my Tankstick so I am going to need to figure out how to set up the software to convert my keys to joystick commands.