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I had the Tekhan rom of Pleiades (pleiads) already & recently tried adding the Centuri version of Pleiades (pleiadce) because I learned that version has different features (an additional warp button, music, different sound effects, etc), but no luck importing it into LB. When doing so keeps telling me "0 roms imported" & it's not there in the menu to select & play like it does for some other games (For example, when I pull up Tapper, it gives me options to play Root Beer Tapper & other variants)
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Recently started everything on my laptop from scratch & re-installed W10....I backed up all my files, including Launchbox folder & subfolders exactly the way I left them, but now none of my playlists (That I spent TONS of time on) are avaliable in LB/BB's menus it appears..
Please tell me there's a way to import them back from some file in one of those folders that I saved
Thanks
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Seem to have got cabinet images to show on the menu instead of flyers (for now)...anyways
I've managed to find hundreds of em for my games over the past couple months, some decent & others not too great on quality...but these I couldn't find whatsoever..Some of these I would think were kinda common games too, but still appears to be nothing out there. By any chance some of u happen to have cabinet images for these games & could hook me up I would really appreciate it:
Alex Kidd Athena Bonk Bonanza Bros Bubble Bobble 2 Bubble Memories Buccaneers Burning Fight Bust A Move Again Champion Wrestler City Connection Cliffhanger Ed Randy Columns '97 Columns 2 Dig Dug 2 Dynamite Duke Dynamite Dux Espial Fantasy Zone Fantasy Zone 2 Gaipolis Golden Tee '97 Green Beret Gunlock Hardhead Hardhead 2 Hatris Hoops '96 Hyper Athlete Hyper Olympics Hypersports Special Insector X Joe & Mac Returns Karnov's Revenge King Of Fighters (ALL) Kyros Liberation Lode Runner 2 Lode Runner 3 Lode Runner 4 Metal Slug 2 Nagano Winter Olympics Ninja/Ninja Princess Ninja Spirit Ordyne Parodius Peter Pepper's Ice Cream Factory Pipe Dream Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Puzzle Bobble Puzzle Bobble 3 Puzzle Bobble 4 Rainbow Islands Rastan Saga Ray Crisis Ray Storm Red Earth Red Hawk Rolling Thunder 2 Samurai Shodown III Samurai Shodown IV Samurai Shodown V Samurai Shodown V Special Solomon's Key Spelunker Spelunker 2 Stinger Street Fighter EX Plus 2 Super Burger Time Super Puzzle Bobble Super Zola Pac Gal Taxi Driver Thunder & Lightning The Tower Of Druaga Ultimate Tennis Wonderboy III Monster Lair Xevious 3DG
*Note ^ Quite a few of these games I've never even tried playing, just happened to see them on YT or somewhere & got em to try some day
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8 minutes ago, neil9000 said:
Just go to tools/options/box front priorities, uncheck flyers then check cabinet and move it up the list.
Yea, I tried that, but not what I want...it's showing marquees now instead of the flyers & the cabinet images as background/fanart, but stretched & cropped like hell..
Before I reset everything I had it to where my marquees were my wheel images (which they still are it appears), the videosnap for each game plays (still works), and a smaller cabinet image for each game appeared above the videosnap when scrolling through games..just can't get it to again for some reason
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Recently reset laptop/reinstalled Windows 10 from scratch...in the process of setting LB back up..but now I can't remember how to set the cabinet images to show within BB instead of the flyers.
Thx in advance
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Sorry I've been away for a while, but turns out alot of the roms weren't working because they didn't have the bios files..I found a complete bios pack, threw it in folder & more than half of them began working....I can tell now that some are most likely due to missing the parent roms, so when I get time going to try to go through them again & see
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19 hours ago, spycat said:
If I understand correctly you grabbed a full MAME 185 romset and then reduced it to the games you want and discarded the rest.
From a quick glance it looks like you may have multiple issues.A number of your listed games use the QSound device (qsound.zip) and maybe this is missing.
The game Astrochase uses the Max-A-Flex Bios (maxaflex.zip) and you may be missing this.
The game Afterburner doesn't use any Bios or Device, but it's a clone of Afterburner II, so maybe the parent is missing.
Killer Instinct uses a CHD so maybe this is missing, or else the parent is missing and you've kept a clone instead.
The game Birdie King 3 is a mystery as this game uses no Bios or Device and has no clones, so this should work ok.
OK thx for the link, I installed MAMEUI64 (setting the audit option in MAME64 still didn't cause audit game to come up as a right click option)..and it is a confusing mess. It appears to list every emulated console & computer imaginable EXCEPT MAME/Arcade....If I open the interface up in full screen, it completely blocks the fucking game lists & there's no way to drag/resize the window...the only thing I managed to figure out was to go to avaliable, which shows EVERY MAME rom out there, and doing the only visible "audit" option scans EVERY single MAME rom in existence, the majority which I'm reminded are "not found" (NO SHIT!)
Still not getting anywhere
Also, going to try the qsound & some of the bios files that I know are missing....and yep a few are most likely CHD issues too..I have the CHDs for all games that need them, but they are OLD versions from couple years back
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Looks like they are split
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Don't see any option when right clicking in MAME64 to audit games....do I need MAMEUI64 for that? Trying to find a .185 version of that now, but keep seeing .187 only.....I never understood why MAME seems to get updated so freaking often either..I swear it feels like there's a new version & new roms to get every month or 2
Can't remember if it said merged or split either but will try to find out
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10 minutes ago, lordmonkus said:
Yeah if using the UI version of Mame open it up and find the game you are having troubles with. Right click and there should be an "audit" option in the menu, click that and it should say if the rom is ok or if there is a problem with a missing file and what file it is expecting to find that file in.
Bios files for Mame go right in the folder with all your Mame roms.
I should ask though, did you download a full set or an update pack ?
If it was an update pack and you just copied them into your Mame roms folder then I got some bad news for you. Update packs only contain updated rom files within the actual rom zip file.
For example if you looked inside game.zip you would see a bunch of files such as
1.rom
2.rom
3.rom
4.romThen an update for game.zip came out with an updated 2.rom file they don't put all 4 .rom files in it with the new 2.rom. The update game.zip file would only contain the updated 2.zip. You would need to use a tool like clrmamepro to combine the update rom pack into your old rom set.
This is done for overall file size and bandwidth reasons.
OK thanks I'll have to try auditing them when I have time
Positive it was a full set of roms, not updates...I deleted all my old roms too
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5 minutes ago, lordmonkus said:
More often than not if you are having troubles with certain games not working in Mame it is a missing parent or bios file. It only becomes a Launchbox configuration issue if no games are loading at all.
But since you mentioned Capcom games like Street Fighter there was a change in Mame 186 where you need an updated Qsound.zip bios file. You didn't say which version of Mame you are using.
If you want to check what could be causing the issue of a game not loading you can audit the rom if using the UI version of Mame. If using the command line version open up a command window and go to your Mame folder and type in:
mame64.exe sf2
as an example, just replace sf2 to the name of the zip file for the rom you are having trouble with. If there is a problem it will tell you in the command prompt window what it is looking for and cannot find.
Using .185, same as the romset I mentioned
& it was MAME64 I'm pretty sure, so running an audit in that should tell me reasons for roms not working?
&was there just a folder to put bios files in & it would be a matter of me finding ones I need & placing them in there to get certain games to work? Sorry I used to know this stuff a LONG time ago, but bad memory haha
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More a MAME problem then LB specifically I suppose, but..I downloaded a .185 set that was on archive.org, kept the 600 or so games I had last from my old set..tested them all to see if they played & turns out over a whopping 100 of them don't work. I believe some might be a matter of me needing bios files, espec since TONS of Street Fighter/ 1-on-1 Fighting games from Capcom won't start up..but if anyone can shed some light on things for me I'd really appreciate it...Super frustrating having THIS many games not able to play
Here they are, after I press play game, nothing happens, right back to the menu:
194419xxAfterburnerAVPArkanoidArkanoid:Revenge Of DohAstrochaseBirdie King 3BlasteroidsBump & JumpBust A Move AgainChelnovCliffhangerColums 97Continental CircusCruisin USACruisin WorldCube QuestDark StalkersDie HardDiscs Of TronDomino ManElevator ActionEmpire CityEspialExterminationFrontlineGauntlet Dark LegacyGhosts & GoblinsGorfGradiusHatrisHyper AthleticsHyper Sports SpecialIndiana JonesJourneyJudge DredKickmanKillier InstinctMach 3Marvel SuperheroesMarvel vs Street FighterMarvel vs CapcomMortal Kombat 4Nagano Winter OlympicsNastar WarriorNBA Jam ExtremeNinjaPeter PackratPeter Pepper's Ice Cream FactoryPretty Sailor MoonPooyanPrimal RagePunisherPuzzle Bobble 3Puzzle Bobble 4QbertQbert QubesRaiden FightersRaiden Fighters JetRay CrisisRay StormRed HawkRenegadeRing KingRoadblastersRoadrunnerSamurai ShowdownSamurai Showdown SpecialSatan's HollowSaturday Night Slam MastersSimpsons BowlingSly SpySolar FoxSoul EdgeSplatterhouseStreet Fighter AlphaStreet Fighter Alpha 2Street Fighter Alpha 3Street Fighter EXStreet Fighter EX PlusStreet Fighter EX 2Street Fighter EX 2 PlusStreet Fighter II:Hyper FightingSuper Puzzle BobbleSuper Puzzle Fighter II TurboSuper Street Fighter IISuper Zola Pac GalTapperTecmo KnightTeenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesTekkenTekken 2Thunder & LightingTiger HeliTimberTwo CrudeUFO Robo DangarWargodsWizard Of WorXeviousXevious 3DGXmen vs Street FighterXmen:Children Of The AtomZookeeeperZwackery -
13 hours ago, neil9000 said:
In launchbox go to tools/options/images/background priorities and put a check in any images you would like to see, and uncheck ones you don't, then use the up/down buttons at the side to reorder them. launchbox/bigbox will try and use the top image, if that doesn't exist for a game it will move on to the next image in your ordered list,and so on and so on.
Thanks I did that but hardly any games in my collection show fan art at all...Isn't there a resource out there LB can scrape for more arcade fanart?
I've wanted to be able to set arcade cabinet images instead of box art/flyers too & although I see this option is there & I checked it, it appears none of my games are showing them..Im positive I ran into sites out there with cabinet images for many arcade games, why isn't LB set to use the data from them ?
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Only using BB for MAME now & all it's doing for background images is taking portions of the arcade flyers, zooming in on them & stretching them, and they look like absolute CRAP on my 50" TV.
Shouldn't there be some good quality fanart it scans for & uses from some database instead?
I have all mine leftover from Hyperspin, but they were in zip files & almost all were animated images, with multiple files in them to move & overlay...Is there some way to convert these to still images anyone knows of either ?
Thanks
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On 6/15/2017 at 6:16 PM, SentaiBrad said:
Which one did you change it to, VLC? If you were on WMP before then chances are you'll need to install the K-Lite Codec Pack in order to properly use WMP again if you need to switch back.
http://www.codecguide.com/download_k-lite_codec_pack_standard.htm
Yea VLC...I rarely if ever use WMP for anything so it's all good & believe I already have that pack installed too
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On 6/10/2017 at 7:55 PM, SentaiBrad said:
Because you said wheel, I assume we're talking Big Box? Have you tried changing the video engine in the options menu? Change it to which ever one you're not using and check again.
That worked...TY!!
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Where do we download/install update from??
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I'm guessing it's happening when I hit refresh all images after I add some new games. I spent quite a while finding marquees for my arcade games to use on the wheel instead of clear logos...but LB keeps littering my clear art folder with it's own clear art on top of my already existing arcade marquee images I wanted to use...Now when I go down the wheel to select games it's a mixup of marquee images & standard clear logos that I DON'T WANT but keep coming back
Any way to avoid this? It seemed at 1st when I added multiple new games & hit refresh it would keep the ones I originally chose...No i have to waste an hour or 2 going around & deleting again
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Collected most snaps I needed, put em all in the video directory..when I scroll down wheel tho, just empty black screens for all games, videos not visible
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Ok thx
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13 hours ago, lordmonkus said:
Looks like an empty reply??? ^
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9 hours ago, jayjay said:
In bigbox goto options/sound, turn video volume to 0%.
thanks
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Using MAME64
None of my scores save...can someone please instruct me how to do this? Vaguely remember it doing so in past with just MAME or MAMEFX, MAME32 or whatever I used years back & something about needing a highscore.dat file
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Starting to d/l snaps for my MAME games...well for some weird reason a couple games show a video snap in Bigbox when scrolling thru the list, even tho I havent unpacked the rars of snaps I found yet or set them up in LB's folders..but since I have background music playing, it clashes with the music & sound effects from snaps...Is there option to have sound off on snaps?
Thanks
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Ok didn't exactly know that...I mean you are one of the ppl that have helped me out so much as well as others I just assumed you were part of a LB staff...You are def appreciated, so don't get me wrong..playlists showed up again BTW..what a relief! thanks again