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I am importing PC games into Launchbox, and it doesn't find much in the form of artwork or videos. How would one add this manually so those games look and feel as good as the ones already scrapped with loads of artwork and video?

I did make it just pokemon in launch box (right click on game and edit) and those options did not populate for me in the dropdown. I will keep playing with it, but in the meantime is there a way to manually ass box art to games if metadata doesn't populate or emumovies doesn't find artwork?

how do you have the game title in yours? I noticed if some are not 100% perfect it doesn't pull up at all in the search, but even if I have it as just Pokémon those games are not in the list.

Ok So I am trying to get boxart and videos and such for the GBA Pokémon Games, it doesn't find FireRed, LeafGreen, Emerald, etc. Any reason this is or any idea how I can get the info for these games so they are not blank?

@lordmonkus@neil9000 again I thank you and the rest of this community.

I cant thank this community enough. I am so glad I switched from HyperSpin

I finally got it working, after some time I did check the ISO files and there was a qsound file I did not copy over and that fixed all my issues.

I got this from a torrent site, and its an ISO format that I will need to mount to get the files. I guess I can add files to the ROM folder until it works, If I cant do that I could just keep the image mounted and direct MAME to the virtual CD Drive. I just don't want all these nonsense games in my BigBox

I have no idea what kind of set I have to be honest. But it might be something I did....so I gave the ISO these ROMs are on and made the path in MAME to the virtual drive path of the roms folder, and SSFII Turbo boots.....so it MIGHT be that I missed a file that is needed the seems to be so many SSF zip files. I only pulled out the Roms I wanted from this set so I wants filling my machine with games I will never touch. how do I find out what files I need to make this run out of this list

ROMS from my MAME 188 set they just will not run. I tried to convert the 184 file I have to 188 and that doesn't work either. This is happening for a few of them Pacman, Super SF2 Turbo, Zookeeper to name a few. The roms will not work in MAME itself, and I get them in the set.

ok at a loss, I guess I need to come to a grip that I'm either not going to get MAME to work at all or I will not get all the ROMs I want to work. this is rather disheartening when I had a full working ROM set with a old MAME, but it will not work with LaunchBox and have to use a newer one and not fine ROMs for version 188.

ok yeah the 188 rom is missing loads of stuff when I explor the zip/7z file. The 182 rom of SSF2 turbo has a qsound in it as well as plenty of other files inside. there is no way to upgrade that rom to work with the 188 version?

@lordmonkus the rom set I have was ment for the mame version I have. I did get a qsound for mame 182 how can I convert it to work for 188?

ok if that is missing where do I find it

MAME will pop up and crash and get a missing files error. I am not sure of a qsound file all I have is the MAME zip file.

@neil9000 The ROM set I have matches the emulator version, the games in question (pac-Man and Super SFII Turbo) do no have CHD files for them.

ok I have run into another issue with MAME. Some of these ROMS do not work, how do I delete them and put in a new ROM of the same title to try that one? Or really go about adding individual roms and getting art work/videos form the new roms (any system)

I have generated the INI file, but there are loads of aspect lines and I am not sure which one to alter or really what should put in as the value on the line I need to edit.

BTW MAME now works with launchbox YIPPIE! I have done that in the DOS looking MAME, however it then changed the INI file completely and gets rid of the port audio info the MAME Noobs post told e to change it to: # OSD SOUND OPTIONS # sound portaudio audio_latency 1 # # PORTAUDIO OPTIONS # pa_api "Windows WASAPI" pa_device default pa_latency 0.003334 so was looking to see if anyone knew how to change it in the INI file so I can keep the port audio options as well?

OK here is my progress. I have installed MAME 188. Using the Command Prompt directions provided and the ROM set I got. It works perfectly as a stand alone emulator. without the UI however I cant seem to figure out how to get the games to run in widescreen format. Once I get home from getting my daughter from school I will try this new version of MAME and its ROMs in Launchbox and report back if this fixed by LB issue with Arcade games. Also I notice that MAMEs sounds on some games are very low.....anyway to fix that on the games that the audio is lower on?

ok I checked my old files from 153 and I only had CDHs for Killer Instinct and Street Fighter 1 to 3. I will copy those into the ROM folder and see how that goes. Thank you again will update ASAP. need to transfer 42 GB of ROMs to the gaming PC.

I am at my wits end here lol. So I just got done downloading a 43GB file and here are over 30K games in there most of which I don't know. How do I know what games need CHD files?

I have those with the set I have now, are the specific to the mame version too?

found a place to get a full rom set for 188. should be done in 17 hours. Then will need to follow the command line version of MAME directions posted above.

ok if that site DOES have a .uk at the end......its not allowing me to set up....so I will have to download them one at a time. Should I be looking for a certain # set? 188, 182 etc?