Retro808

Ah, yeah that could be it. The space between the name and -01. FYI OBS is a free software and is perfect for screen captures to help provide videos for troubleshooting.

LB does not add any strange "characters" when adding images. It does append multiple images with a "-01", "-02" and so on. As well as replacing any game title with ":" in the name to an "_" since Windows does not allow the ":" in file names. If at all possible can you try and capture this occurring on video it might be helpful. I tried to find the post you were referencing but had no luck.

The 2 devs are aware. Please keep in mind they are constantly working on their normal development and looking into the issues reported. They do not always respond to all posts. We understand the importance of things working smoothly and do not discount any issues any user(s) may experience, but please have patience and allow them to dedicate their time to their work.

In LB got to >Tools >Manage >Emulators. When you edit an emulator you can adjust the settings there for emulator specific Pause settings.

That fine, and you should specify that. More often users are downloading the full mame set (which is clearly what this user is doing) and advising them they also need the bios back is giving them bad advice. .

No. You did not mention you did these exact steps in your other post which is why I said it seemed like you did not do what I mentioned. Honestly, I am not sure. I know these steps work on my builds. I have seen a few others post they see the same return to LB/BB before the game finally shows up. However, I do not recall if those users ever found a solution. I still recommend adjusting the Startup delay specifically for Mame. In many instances the first time you launch Mame (from a fresh start of LB/BB) it takes longer than subsequent launches of Mame games.

Reading all this and it seems like you did not test what I advised at all.

We are good in faith as evident by all the help you can see in all the other threads. We understand you are having trouble figuring this out. That is why we are offering help. This is clearly a set-up issue on your end. If the themes simply did not work it would not work for everyone and our forum would be full of your exact issue. It is not. When you are ready to actually listen and do the things others have already advised you to do you can start a new thread. Thread is being locked.

Not sure, but I would say If it was it would affect everyone. Try turning off Startup themes completely and launching a Mame game. Calculate how long it is taking Mame to be launched and show that game on your system. Then adjust the startup delay for Mame in the Manage Platforms setting (not the main LB or BB setting) and see if anything changes. Adjust the time longer than it needs to give it a buffer. Try testing different lengths of time.

Contrary to popular belief no one is "entitled" anything regardless of pay status. Our forum "offers" help and a majority of it comes from users and moderators volunteering their time for free. You have already been warned by one of our devs about your tone and negativity. If you wish to request assistance in figuring things out I would recommend a bit more understanding to the above. Your tone is making it harder and harder to respond with assistance. Take this as your last warning.

Are you talking about downloading media through LB or manually adding images yourself? This has not been a problem to date. There are plenty of games in my LB set-up named with ":" in the title and LB imported it fine. Of course the rom file imported does not have the ":". If you are manually adding the image file you need to replace the ":" with and underscore "_". For example the game below would have an image named 1943_The Battle of Midway.png or you could even name the image after the exact rom name and LB would still see it. Example for NES. rom title: 1943 - The Battle of Midway (USA).zip LB title: 1943: The Battle of Midway

Because that game like gtfore06 and gtfore05 are CHD only games and do not technically require a zip rom. Why the non-merged has it I am not sure. But again, it really is not needed. To run the game you simply need the CHD and the Lindbios.zip (which is already in the full rom set). You are over thinking this and making Mame harder that it needs to be. Download any set you want from PleasureDome and get the CHD set if you want (or just download the CHD for the games that actually work as most CHD are non working).

What we really need to know is do the games run fine directly in Dolphin without using LB? If yes, then your issue is not the emulator or the rom. It is a setting in LB.

If you are downloading the Mame rom set the bios files set is not needed. Those are already contained in the full rom set.

The CHD file is not imported the zipped rom for the CHD is. For example the CHD folder named kinst is the arcade disk image for Killer Instinct. LB will import kinst.zip NOT the chd. LB simply sends a command line to Mame to run kinst.zip. Mame then uses the CHD data. The best thing to do is make sure the CHD folders are either located in the Mame rom folder or be sure you tell Mame where to find the CHD folders. Not sure what ETA guide or LB guide you are watching, but I am sure neither of them tell you LB will import the actual CHD file.

Because the NoNag has nothing to do with what you are seeing. It will not remove what you see. That is how the game boots.

Unsure in Xmen as I have not played it in a while, but I do know that is normal for Galaga. Why not compare on your end. Launch both games using a normal version of .241 Mame and then Launch both games using a version with the NoNag and see what happens.

Yeah that is normal. That's how to original arcade game boots up.

Not sure. Do not know what you mean by "strange video". Can you show us what you mean?

Not sure. I do not use the new stock generated AHK scripts for Mame since I use NoNag Mame builds. Try deleting them and seeing if it helps. I would copy those codes though so you can paste them back if it makes no difference.

What is the exact issue? The only thing you do with MadK9's no-nag is drop his Mame.exe file into the root folder where the original Mame.exe file is to override it. Nothing else needs to be done.

In BigBox make sure you have set your primary and secondary screens and I believe BB needs to see the monitor the same way Windows would recognize it. I am not sure if it will work through a 3rd party program like SpaceDesk. I could be wrong.

They are not, which is why they each have their own setting page. The emulator specific setting will override anything you have set in the LB/BB global setting. That's not what I was thinking at all. The emulator setting is an override. As mentioned earlier, this setting overrides the global Startup setting in both LB and BB. Correct, I do not have this issue as I have individually adjusted Startup delays on any emulator that needed it. For Mame I only have it set for only 1.25 seconds as after trial an error this gives me the cleanest transition from the Startup theme to the game. You need to play with the setting to find the right delay. Also, the delay is how long LB/BB will keep the Startup theme on screen before transitioning to the game. So if your emulator is taking longer you need to increase the time not set it to "0". Keep in mind, from the onset of this feature it has been advised it may not be perfect in all scenarios.

LB does not download images upon launching nor does it rescan on next launch to search for new images. When you import your games you can either manually download and add images from sites or use the LB media downloader. After import you can always run the media downloader again to add new images.

Followed this exactly on a game for the 1997 - TG16 platform I had pics of earlier. After deleting meta and re-downloading it changed it to “NEC- Turbo Grafx 16”. So I then changed that to “1997 - Turbo Grafx 16” and ran media downloader. Again, no issues with EmuMovies finding it. My only thoughts are either your Sony PS platform you provided pics on does not have the correct “Scrape As” name listed, I know your Dreamcast does since you gave pics, or perhaps it is an issue with the translation build LB you are using.