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That is the correct place. I'll get it started tonight (hotel Dl is only 200-300kb) and have to finish it up tomorrow at Starbucks. I'll keep y'all posted on the outcome tomorrow when I complete the download. Thanks again @DOS76 and @spycat for all the assistance.

10-4. Thanks @DOS76. I'll go back to that site where I got them to see if there's one I can download. Thanks again.

Hi @DOS76 When I check the properties of the whole folder, it shows 54.7 GB, 91704 files and 443 folders.

Hi @spycat I do show some of the files, 1944 shows in the system folder for nes.zip and avsp.zip show in these system folders: jaguar, gameboy, lynx, snes.

@DOS76, To be honest with you, I'm not sure. The place I went to said it was the full rom set versions for merged, non merged and split.

@spycat, I think I may be doing something wrong. So I've directed MAME 0.188B to my split directory, but when I click on available, all it appears to show me are the different platforms. If I click on unavailable, then it shows me the actual roms. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks again @spycat I will try this when I get off work tonight to see what happens. I don't mind trying to download split again. It's just a PITA because I'm traveling and the hotel wifi is horrible for download. So I'll spend a little time at Starbucks tomorrow if your suggestion doesn't work. One last question for you. When I open mameui64 in a small screen, I can see all the columns on the left side, but as soon as I open it to full screen, I 2 columns on the left and I've been unable to figure out how to get the columns back. Any idea what I need to do? Trying to pull the columns open don't work.

Thanks @spycat, I just put my split roms into mame64 to test it and it appears it may be a corrupt file. I'm getting the error "The selected machine is missing one or more required ROM or CHD images...". It does it for every game I tried. If I understand your comment correctly, it's best to have split or non-merged for LB, is that correct? Thanks.

Thanks Spycat, that explains why it wouldn't open. DOS76 was wanting to know if I could open games in mame64 as opposed to mameui64. Which I was able to with DK US and I'm sure I could probably open more games. I assumed if it had a colored block (as opposed to greyed out) next to the game that it would work. Any ideas on how I can get mame to work in LB? I can load games with mame, but as soon as I put them in LB, I can no longer get them to work...unless I right click on the game and then open mame. When I open mame that way, I can get the games to play. Thanks.

So it appears I actually did figure it out at one point because I had it looking at my split mame folder, but I constantly got the error you see in the picture. It didn't matter which game I opened. So i changed the directory to my merged folder and the Donkey Kong error you see is the one I tried to open. So I went to the US version and that one actually opened up just fine for me. I did try this emulator version in LB, but it would do the same...A screen would pop up real quick saying Initializing and then close just as fast.

I tried mame64.exe (0.188) and mame64.exe (0,188B), but I was unable to figure out how to point the emulators to the correct folder to the roms. Then I saw in another post someone stated that the UI version was an easier one to work with. So I downloaded MAMEUI64 and I was able to get the games to work then.

DOS76, I do have MAMEUI64 set to use that directory. If I open the mameui64.exe, I can then scroll to any game inside the UI and open it with the emulator without any problems. But, as soon as I get it into LB, I get similar error screens to the one pictured for any of the games I try to open.

I have them here: C:\Users\seins\Documents\RETROPIE\LaunchBox\ROMs\MAME

Hey everyone. I appear to be having the same issue Wheeler was having, but I can't seem to get mine working in LB and for some reason, Retroarch is definitely out of the question. I've downloaded the rom set 0.188 for both split and merged. When I tried setting everything up with the split roms and trying to use retroarch, my screen would open a window stating Initializing, but then crash about as fast as it opened. All cores I tried did the exact same thing. I tried: mame_libretro.dll, mame2014, mame2010 and mame2000. I've downloaded the most recent version of MAMEUI64. If I use the merged roms, I can get them to work in MAMEUI64, but as soon as I try to open them in LB, I'm getting a similar screen to what Wheeler was getting. I've gone through this post twice now, but I can't seem to figure out what to do...possibly because my frustration level is up. Any help would be greatly appreciated...especially the MAME for Dummies version about now. Thanks.