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@lordmonkus Thanks, didn't even see that option in there. The only problem I have with it is the arcade-type games that are all emulated under Retroarch all get copied into the same folder. I suppose what I can do for now is make a copy of the master mess and import the copy with the option to play them from their current location. Then use the auto-playlist option to create using the rom folder path, clean everything up, remove it all, and then re-import from the cleaned folders, and set it to copy over to the LB computer. That will work for now. Not pretty, but it gets those duplicates and nonsense roms out of there.

Hi all. I've started using LB for a new Windows arcade I want to build and I'm attempting to cleanup a pretty large rom collection. In my RPi3 arcade, there are thousands of games and to be honest, it's a mess. I'm finding that importing one directory at a time into LB and then cleaning out the junk is working well, long process, but working well. The issue is that I have roms for Arcade, CPS1, CPS2, CPS3, FBA, MAME, and so on. There are duplicates in there and there are roms that are in the wrong folder (as I've been finding out). As I clean up a folder, I'd like to have it as a playlist. Sort of a "Cleaned_Arcade" or "MAME_To_Be_Cleaned" type of setup. I've been creating different playlists for different roms (i.e. Arcade, To_Be_Deleted, Trackball, Light_Gun_Needed, etc.). One thing I've been trying to figure out is whether I can add the rom folder path into the List View (to allow for sorting) or even create a playlist based on the folder path from the import. This would make it easier to get to a stopping point, to be able to easily pick up where I left off and I can easily just move a rom into another playlist based on what I want to do with it. Just looking to make this a little easier. Suggestions are much appreciated.

@dita Thanks, that actually answers my question. I didn't realize that the rom sets are not backward compatible. I'll try something like CLRMame to see where my set is at and create some different versions. I guess it pays to keep a tighter watch on all those files.

@lordmonkus Yes, there are several ways you can run advmame and depending on how you have your LB and roms setup, will depend on how you use advmame. In the example I showed above, I had my roms in the "rom" sub-folder of the advmame folder (i.e. C:\Users\Gamer\LaunchBox\Emulators\advancemame\rom) so nothing else is needed. Advmame seems to use just the game name when launching the game, so the path thrown at it from LB seems to confuse things. It looks to the advmame.rc file for its parameters, including the roms folder path. Since most of us use LB to organize our games as well, the better thing to do is update the advmame.rc file to point to your Arcade roms folder. In my case, I updated the line dir_rom rom to dir_rom C:\Users\Gamer\LaunchBox\Games\Arcade. Now, I can launch the games from the default path I use in LB. No more issues with the failing MAME games and I get to use them in BigBox.

I've been struggling with this exact same issue for the past several hours. I have a rom set that works just fine on the RP3 using RetroPie. I've moved on to Windows and Bigbox, but could not get many games to load from the same rom set. I had tried using MAME for Windows from the command line, no good. I tried Retroarch for Windows, no love there either. MameUI64 showed that I had missing files when I audited the roms (it varied from rom to rom). I went back to RetroPie and looked over the configs and emulators it was using. It turns out it I was using Advanced MAME instead. I downloaded this onto my Windows machine and tried one of the roms that was failing everywhere else. Low and behold, it worked without issue. Now, I'm hunting for the reason why the rom will only work in Advanced MAME. In Launchbox, I added a new emulator, pointed it to the advmame EXE and added the necessary arguments. Bam, loads the game in Bigbox without issue. **HINT** Use the "-misc_quiet" parameter to skip the copyright warning that advmame displays for using roms with emulators. Here's a screenshot of what I setup.