Retro808

All image are filed in the \LaunchBox\Images folder. In addition to using the Metadata window in each game you can also manually add single files or bulk files there.

Look in your \Launchbox folder and if you see a file named License.xml delete it. The license in there is know to be a shared/pirated license.

What is the platform name of your Mame roms? I see you have an Associated Platform for "Arcade" and one for "Mame". We ask these simple questions as it is not uncommon for what someone thinks is a non-issue to end up actually being the issue. Can you share a few more pics so we can see your full set-up and it how it all links? In the Manage Emulator screen show a pic of the Details page for Retroarch. Edit an arcade/mame game and share 3 pics (1 of the Metadata page, 1 of the Emulation page, and 1 of the Launching page).

First, do you have more than one Retroarch set-up in LB? Just wanting to confirm as we have chased issues before only to find out a user had more than one Retroarch and the games were pointing to the wrong one. I would right click a game and edit it. Then in the Emulation page confirm the game is pointing to Retroarch. In Manage Emulators if you have the core selected for the Associated Platform LB should remember that when you click "OK" to save the change. Can you edit your Retroarch and share a pic of the Associated Platforms tab make sure it shows the Arcade platform name in the pic. It sounds to me like you have a couple of different settings conflicting with each other somewhere in LB.

The way Faeran described the filing is to use the images with that theme and that theme only. So if you file images in the theme's folder structure only that theme will use the images. If you file theme here and the images do not show you may need to refresh the image cache. Which is why he had that specific step also included in his notes. There is an option for it in your BB settings. The way you filed it in your post if the default global image location. Images posted in the LaunchBox\Images folder will be shared by all themes.

Merged your thread as there was already a post about this exact issue. @C-Beats addressed the reason you may be seing in an earlier post.

Do you have the CHD filed correctly? Do you also have the Mame rom for Area 51? It requires the zipped rom and the chd file. What file(s) exactly is it saying you are missing?

Yeah there are a few threads on the forum as well.

What emulator are the games using? If it is Mame are you pointing to Mame.exe or an older version that uses Mame64.exe?

Not at the current time. This integration was only for Bezel Project since it supports Mame and RA. A bit back it was determined LB would not be implementing Bezels itself to use with emulators to do not have native bezel support. LB does not download media from hyperspin-fe so not sure why you mentioned that. We only download from our GamesDB and EmuMovies. The feature is to make it easier to download packs that our users have been posting to the forums. So in theory it would make it useful for those who do not have a sub to EmuMovies as well as be another option to help our users have a more media rich set-up.

Need a little bit more details than that. The actual emulator settings are deeper in the menu than just showing the Manage Emulators screen. Edit the Mame emulator when you go to Manage Emulators. Share a pic of the Details Tab and then a pic of the Associated Platforms tab. I would also right click and edit Mr Do (since that is the game you showed) inside of LaunchBox and share a pic of the Launching Tab and the Emulation Tab.

This typically means a setting wrong in LB. If you are using standalone Mame make sure yous Associated Platform in Manage Emulators lists the platform name exactly as you have it called in LB. Also make sure you are pointing to the correct .exe file. If you are using Retroarch make sure you have the correct Associated Platform name as well, have the correct core selected, and you do not have the box checked on the details tab to unarchive the rom file. That last one gets quite a few users. Pics of your setting always helps.

What particular rom files are you having issues with? There should be 60 rom files based on the Games.xaml from SuperModel 3 emulator. So not sure which file you have the import issue. Typically if you use the option to "Force using Mame metadata" the 2 Sega Rally 2 prototypes (srally2p and srally2pa) do not get imported unless you uncheck the "Skip Prototypes" option on the Mame page in the import wizard. Just tested an import and below are the settings used. All 60 rom files got imported. In the last 2 images you can see one has 4 Sega Rally games the other 2. That is due to me unchecking the "Skip Prototype" so you can see how the import wizard skips over them.

Update just went fine on 2 of my set-ups. If the the update is in your \Updates folder than just run the updater. Make sure it is not embedding into into a second Launchbox folder. Look at the path when it shows where it is installing and make sure it does not show \Launchbox\Launchbox. Many users have made this mistake.

Ah yes, I forgot about Default Plus. I kept thinking it was using a banner image up top.

Well he did specifically state... I was assuming he tried to run them by checking the box for unzipping the archive in the emulator settings. I could be wrong. However, even if he had unzipped the roms if he used to fullset importer it would scrape since LB does not actually import files, it just add the games based on Mame.xaml file.

It is possible. Keep in in mind though if you are trying to edit one of LB's Default themes directly it will never work as the theme will always revert to its stock code to ensure the theme is always working. You would need to copy the Default theme and then Rename it what every you want. Then you can edit it. If you look at a couple of the recent LB custom themes there are some that are using Clear Logos instead of text for game titles. The views are different, but you can at least poke around in the code to see how it was pulled of. Steamy and Big Details are 2 themes that do this.

Mame roms should never be unzipped. Each individual rom must be zipped. Always test the roms directly in the emulator. If they do not run directly in the emulator that is your first issue. If you open Mame directly (not using LB) and select a game to play does it run the game?

LB/BB does not support 3 monitors at this time. You may be able to use JoeViking's plugin. However, I think the plug-in only works with images.

Technically yes. Just to clarify though there should not be any added roms as its a full set. So if you download the latest Mame Full Rom Set to run with the latest version of Mame. All roms are there. Do not use the Full Set import option on a partial set of roms you just add more roms to. Also, typically when Mame promotes a rom to working status the rom itself was already in the rom set. So it is not like they actually added a new rom file.

No, there is no way to tell LB to do what you want if you used the Full Set import option on a partial set. The full set option does not actually import roms like Sundogak advised. It merely lists the working roms labeled as such by mame using the Mame.xml file for the version of Mame you have downloaded. So if you are importing a partial set you should use the File import option or just drag and drop the roms directly into LB. Also Scan for Added roms does exist for Arcade just not if you used the Full Set Import method. You can manually add any rom to any platform by using the File Import method or Drag & Drop as previously mentioned. Games never have to exist in LB. You can add whatever you want. Where it will not add it is if you use the Full Mame Set import option and have not downloaded the latest version of Mame that has the game now listed as working. LB would need the Mame.xml from that version to know to import it. Once you have the latest version you simply run the Full Set importer again. You do not need to delete the existing games.