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Where do we download/install update from??

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

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

Ok thx

Looks like an empty reply??? ^

thanks

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

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

Thanks, that worked...knew there should be a playlist folder somewhere in there

Can't figure out how to delete playlists

I don't want all those premade playlists to show on wheel such as Atari's Greatest Hits, Capcom, etc Where is the setting to not show those? & How can i have my favorites menu to be selected from wheel, I only seem to see the option to list favorites in LB & not BB & finally genres, is it possible to have a genre menu on wheel & once selected, go into sub menus for each category?? Thanks

All of a sudden it started working again...I tried it again later on & for some reason it let me choose 1 button for a setting, but none of the others would recognize the buttons being pressed. So I restarted it & then it deciced to read my button input & set what I want....IDK weird, but pretty frustrating, hope this doesn't become some regular issue now

Hori RAP4 , and yes it still shows up...the stick still navigates the menu, but button assignments changed on their own & I can't get it to respond to setting new ones...&this is only in Big Box..Launchbox mode works

Don't know what happened, but after I added new rom directory it seems, I can't even navigate the menu the way I had it set up anymore..only the keyboard in Launchbox or MAME alone works Buttons that I had mapped on my joystick to go back or start a game now have other commands set to them such as showing the flyer, and pulling up other parts of menu. When i go into the menu to set joystick buttons & TRY to set them back, it won't even respond to the buttons being pressed, just continues to say "press the button or back key to leave none" nothing happens Anyone??

Ok well thats more like what i was hoping to do, so I can re-import another folder then I guess Sure I could figure it out, just don't have the time right now & that just doesn't seem too user friendly..but if it's as simple as removing the games & re-importing another folder I should be good

Sorry I'm a little confused, didn't I choose a rom folder when I 1st set it up? I selected my old Hyperspin rom folder, but I don't wanna use that anymore..are you saying I can't just delete/remove the old folder & set another? Be pretty counterintuitive to not be able to do something simple as that...I don't have any experience using Notepad ++ or editing .xml files either & don't rly wanna have to take the time to learn new apps & methods just to choose where my games are on my hard drive

Yea if I wanted to just delete the old folder I was using & make a new subfolder folder within Launchbox's folders for my new roms, how would I add it? Last I checked I couln't figure out how to set a directory for roms, think only option I saw was adding individual rom files

What's the easiest way to do this? My old MAME roms, half of them didn't work with current version of MAME I started using in Launchbox...now I have the same set in 0.185 & want to just use a folder in Launchbox to load them from (My old roms were stlll in Hyperspin folders & I originally set up Launchbox to use that location Also, will I lose all playlist info once I do this...being the filenames are same I would think not, but little worried Thanks in advance

Thanks gonna try that soon

Thanks, was thinking I might be able to just find the sounds folder & swap em out with whatever I want..guess I have to rename once I do that too

[UPDATE: Nevermind, Turns out I actually d/led a roms list from the site, not the actual roms, but I THINK I got it now] One more thing & pls forgive me if mentioning this here is discouraged Much to my dismay, turns out only about 1 out of 5 of my old MAME roms from a few years ago (can't even remember the version) are working I know a place to get a set of the current .185, but the file is a "torrentzip" file & not an ordinary torrent file I'm used to. I cannot figure out how to open it, tried the torrentzip program from their official website too & nothing seems to happen when I try to run it Thanks in advance & once again I hope this isn't an inappropriate question. Not asking where to get roms, which I know is frowned upon in certain forums..I already do know where just don't understand the format haha

Loving Big Box for use with MAME so far and appreciate all the time taken to answer my questions. Have a couple more, and sure they won't be the last lol : 1. How can I see my favorites menu in Big Box? I've only figured out how to view it in Launchbox. I set my playlists to show in platform view which I have as default. There is an "arcade" on the wheel to select all my games, which is cool, but be nice to have my favorites show up. 2. Also, not incredibly important but how can I hide the "collections" (from Atari, Sega, etc) that show up? They never did originally on the wheel but now they do, maybe some setting I switched? 3. My high scores aren't saving. Pretty sure this is MAME related & not Launchbox but would really like to have records saved for all games, if someone can shed some light on how to do this would be awesome 4. Better alternatives to default backgrounds for games? Seems like it's pretty much stretching random parts of the flyers & most of em look HORRIBLE as far as resolution, bluriness, jagged edges on fonts, etc...I still have all my Hyperspin themes, which looked decent & was hoping to be able to use them with Launchbox for backgrounds, but then realized they were animated? & are zip files with multiple images in each zip that overlayed with eachother. Anyway I can convert those to static images to use???? 5.Adding my own sound effects for the menu & music to play in backround/ start up? I've asked this already but no one has yet to reply..not the biggest deal but would be cool & have a feeling this might be possible?? Big thanks in advance

Is it possible to choose a certain mp3s to play during the menu & for it's sounds?

Figured it out, They appeared after I went to options &hit refresh all images Now I can't figure out how to use clear logos for the games inside the playlist menus When I click on the playlist names, the wheel comes up with the clear logos, but the 1st menu shows the "box art"/flyers, I would rather have both show the clear logos I chose (arcade marquees)

That isn't working is what I'm saying. I selected one image to be the fanart & it works & shows in the background, but the image I selected for clear logo doesn't...The playlist just has regular text in the wheel, not the logo I chose