moudrost

This seems like you are running MAME in RetroArch. You can disable it here: https://www.retroarch.com/?page=achievements Settings > Achievements within RetroArch

I have noticed this behavior for some time but thought I should mention it in case this is a known issue and there is a fix. Whenever I upgrade some of my sets, there are usually a few new additions and name changes. I tend to scan for removed roms followed up by scanning for added roms. When doing this with my Nintendo 64 set, it claims there are 4 new items. When I click finish, I get this message. If I scan again, it shows the same 4 files. Thoughts?

Exactly what I needed to know. Thanks!

Will it have to download any of the existing media from launchbox and/or emumovies?

I have v229 imported and been using fine since it came out. I would like to upgrade to v233 and don't see a recommended way to do this. Should I delete the entire Arcade platform and import MAME again fresh (which I had been doing, but normally don't upgrade very often). Or, can I import on top of the existing one and maybe look for removed games? I just want to make sure I'm doing this the smartest way. I can only find tutorials on importing a new set, not dealing with existing sets.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I'll give this a go tomorrow.

I started with eXoDOS and its great. Instructions were clear on how to merge with my existing LaunchBox installation. Next up is eXoWin3x. The instructions were lacking on merging with an existing LaunchBox installation. Folder structure looked pretty clean so I moved what I thought I should and as far as I can tell, it works great. I wanted to give eXoScummVM a try too. Like eXoWin3x, I can't find any instructions on a proper way to merge it with an existing installation with the other previously mentioned versions installed at the same time. SCUMM appears to be used in the eXoDOS installation and I'm worried that If I don't merge folders properly I might screw up some customizations between the two. Does anyone have a link to proper documentation or can help so I don't hose anything? Anyone out there done this before?

Depends on the controller but I'd check here: https://support.8bitdo.com/ Usually you hold X while turning the controller on, but some of them have a physical switch. I believe all mine came in that mode already and didn't have to change a thing.

I have the N30, M30, and SN30 Pro+. All 3 work fine. I was running into some issues with those playing nicely with my Xbox One controller and decided to setup separate installs of Retroarch for each controller type so I could more easily manage customizations. I'm sure there are more correct ways to manage that, however it worked best in my situation.

I was a bit skeptical, however the thing just works. I purchased the additional art pack Pixelcade provides and highly recommend it. Other than checking a couple of boxes and browsing for some files, there isn't much else to do.

I may have this solved. I reached out to Pixelcade and was informed this value is getting set by LEDBlinky. They said they have heard of this before and thought it might be related to the MAME XML. Within the above app I went to the MAME tab and browsed for the XML and saved the configuration file and rebooted. Tested 5 games and all 5 displayed the correct message. To answer your questions, I'm still using 226 and am only using MAME on my arcade cabinet at this time.

I'm hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction or have an answer to an issue with my new Pixelcade LED marquee. For the most part, everything works perfectly. The marquee changes as I scroll through BigBox. Most of the time however, whenever I choose to play a game, a message appears as the game is loading "Now Playing Q Bert". The thing is, I am never playing Qbert. Is this message coming from BigBox? Pixelcade? LEDBlinky? After the message appears, the marquee displays normally. Maybe there is a way to disable this message if it can't be corrected?

If your goal is to stay up to date, split set is the easiest to maintain. You might save a small amount of space with a merged set, however it gets a bit more complicated updating. I have been using MAME since the late 90s and its rare that you will find update sets that aren't split.If your goal is to stay up to date, split set is the easiest to maintain. You might save a small amount of space with a merged set, however it gets a bit more complicated updating. I have been using MAME since the late 90s and its rare that you will find update sets that aren't split.

A fresh import fixed my issue. Thanks for your input neil9000.

I decided to start over once more and deleted LB directory and reinstalled. I am using the MAME Arcade Full Set option again and the directory is looking better already. 10 Yard Fight has a name that matches my working directory so I'm at least hopeful. 720 doesn't have the degree symbol either. This most likely won't finish for quite a few hours, but I'll report back when its done. No clue why it seems to be working this time. Those were some very specific naming issues.

I have clicked on and refreshed just about everything I can think of that is related to images. That symbol had to have come from one of the imports (LaunchBox Game DB or EmuMovies). I have touched nothing in any of the directories or renamed anything manually. In my original install, the file name looks exactly as yours does. I had upgraded my original install to the latest version, but the gap between when I last managed my games was pretty large so I wanted to start fresh. If I had to guess, 30% of the images appear to be missing. 10 yard fight is another one where the flyer seems to be there, but not appearing. The images from my working install have slightly different names.

I am using the official MAME exe and used 100% stock settings from LaunchBox. My right click menu looks like this. If I open the image folder and filter for 720, this is the result I get.

I have reinstalled LaunchBox a few times over the years and never had this issue before. I started with the latest version of MAME 221 with all ROMs fully scanned and showing perfect. I have a EmuMovies membership. Installed 10.15 of LaunchBox. I have my original install of LaunchBox in another directory and things look fine there. In my original install, if I right click on 720 for example, I am given a bunch of variations I can launch. The new install doesn't show the other variations so maybe that is the problem? If I download images and media from the edit game window, it acts like it downloads dozens of files but nothing ever shows up. Any idea what i'm missing here? The image directory is about 1GB larger on the new install than on the original with more files so it would seem the data should be there. I have flipped through the various image groups and have the same problem in all of them.

I believe I solved my own problem. I tried deleting the playlists XML from the directory and closed the application. I noticed that all the XML came back when I closed LaunchBox. This gave me the idea to delete the playlists from within the application, close the application, open again, THEN create the playlists. Bingo. Things seem back to normal. I have no idea if this will help anyone else, but since it worked for me, maybe someone else will stumble across this in the future and it might solve their problem.

I had an issue where I needed to delete my TurboGrafx CD import and start over. I deleted the category beforehand and imported like I did the first time. I noticed that my original playlists appeared with root as the parent. I deleted the playlists by hand and created again. Once again these appeared at the bottom of the list tied to root. I tried to edit the playlist and removed root and associate it back to the NEC category and it create a duplicate of regions as you can see in the screen capture. I'm not sure what to do here. No matter what I do I can't clean this up. Has anyone seen this issue?

http://redump.org/downloads/ might be what you are after. 9,771 as of now from all regions and counting multiple discs for games that have them.

I appreciate the batch file and it worked like a champ. I went from 426 sets at 147GB to 417 at 94.6GB. Is there anyway to scan these CHDs to validate the sets? I typically use CLRMame and DATs from redump. CLRMame doesn't seem capable of scanning the sets in this format. I lost some along the way and would like to see what happened.

All my TurboGrafx CDs are zipped and I have been attempting to use Retroarch to emulate these games. The only thing that seems to happen is i get a .cue file extracted automatically in the same directory as the other zips when I try to launch. Can I assume using zip files is not supported? I would like confirmation before I eat up a bunch of disk space extracting them. If zip is not supported, are there any other compressed formats such as CHD that are? Thanks in advance.

Yeah I have been there but man, it wasn't clear that I could even interact with the data on the form. Logged in and I see the pencil icon so great, I can do some updates. I also don't see a way to insert a new record. Is that only possible once your account has been upgraded? I can assume that until that time I can't see if whatever update I'm doing has already been done but hasn't been approved yet? Just making sure I'm not wasting my time on work already done. Update. I did manage to find the "Add a Game" option. For what it is worth, that is invisible. Coming from the main LB website there is no sub menu, just the "Games DB" link. When you go to the games database link the menu position moves and then there is a sub menu. Kept expecting that option to be on the page and not buried in a menu that is disconnected form the content. With that said, I'll spend some time submitting changes until I can get more useful access. Thanks.

Could someone give me a 101 level on what someone has to do to help? I see a reply saying I need 25 accepted submissions before you are allowed to validate submissions. Submissions where? Are these changes you make to your own local database that get pushed back that someone has to approve or am I totally missing something here? It would be helpful maybe if there was a sticky that outlined how the community can help in this regard. I bought a license about a year ago and use the software daily while also poking around the forums from time to time. I wouldn't count myself as a new user, but I didn't even know this was a thing until I stumbled on this post. Maybe I'm just missing something obvious.