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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

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

Thanks...Yea I copied all the marquee images into clear art folder which were all titled the same as corresponding rom, hit refresh all & they're all there it looks like...SO relieved all that time I spent wasn't put to waste & I didn't have to individually edit every wheel image. Does having alot of large images hang the wheel up? Its seems alot smoother than Hyperspin, but thinking if I resize all the marquee images I'm now using it could help...Was scrolling quicker with the original clear logos

Thanks alot...started making some, set the background..how do I add the art for the logo on the wheel? Looks like I set an image as a "clear logo" but my playlist is just plain text on the wheel

Brand new to Launchbox/Big Box, only planning to use it for MAME at this point From what i understand this is a feature now? I would like to create custom playlists based on old arcades I went to when young, and only add the games I remember them having there to select from within them...and custom background images/logos for them if possible. If someone can elaborate on this for me I'd really appreciate it Thanks [UPDATE]: Figured it out now & got the images to show after I went to options &hit refresh Now I can't figure out how to use clear logos for the games inside the playlist menus though 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)

Hello Just bought Big Box, as of now only intend it for MAME...I put a painful amount of time into setting up Hyperspin a couple years ago, but never really wound up using it..One thing I did was download & use marquee images for all my games for the wheel..Guessing this is possible in Launchbox? Can someone tell me the easiest way to do this? From what I remember I named them all the same filename as the roms..if that's the case, would there be an easy way to have Launchbox recognize them all instead of adding each individual one to folders?, which I imagine would be a way to do so. Also how would I choose custom background images when scrolling through games? I notice alot are just zoomed in parts of flyers & whatnot with real blocky text/low res (even after selecting the higher res option I believe I saw) Thanks in advance