Arcade1993
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Hello all! I just did a big update to all my MAME files for the first time in a while and I am unsure of how I go about getting "new" games to show up in LaunchBox. There have been a few new games added to MAME since I first imported everything, and I was wondering how to get LaunchBox to show them. Do I just import everything again like it's the first time ever? Also is there a way to make LaunchBox auto-sync so it automatically adds new games it finds in my C:\MAME\ROMS folder? I also for the first time downloaded the Software List set which is for console games like NES, SNES, Sega Master System, etc. These will all be running in MAME but I do not want any of those ROMs to show up in the "Arcade" menu. I would like them to be separated by individual consoles, even though they are all being played through MAME. Is there any way to do that? Finally I am seeing a lot mentioned in regards to a mame.xml file and how it gets updated, and I just downloaded the newest version of groovyMAME and there is no mame.xml file in there. From what I understand, LaunchBox requires an updated MAME.XML in order to import properly. Where do I obtain this normally? Like I said there was no mame.xml in the mame download zip I just got. Thanks so much in advance!
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Ah, that was the issue! I didn't check "import duplicate" because it's not really a duplicate, it's a completely different game. I do realize how specific this situation is though and totally understand why LaunchBox wouldn't import it otherwise. By the way I got the images for Power-Up Baseball to show up by manually going into the edit screen and downloading them. For whatever reason even though I did a huge database update yesterday, it didn't include the Power-Up Baseball images for whatever reason. Oh well. It's working great now! You are all the best, thank you so much! Sorry about my stupidity!
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None of you are going to believe how stupid I am. I am glad I was so stubborn on getting this game to work, because I figured out I've been using a 2 year old version of MAME for the past 2 years. When I first built and set up my cab, I was using regular MAME. A short while later, someone told me about GroovyMAME, which is a fork of MAME for people using genuine arcade CRTs. So I downloaded it, and used that ever since. Or so I thought. Somehow I never realized the original version of MAME I was using was named mame64.exe, and groovymame was named mame.exe. So this entire time, for the past 2 years, LaunchBox has been using C:\MAME\mame64.exe for my arcade games! Every single time I updated my ROMset and MAME version (as well as the MAME.INI) it was a complete waste of time! I can't believe what a moron I am! Still, the fact of why Power-Up Baseball won't import properly is in fact an interesting one. I wonder what the reason is behind that? Also, I would still like to solve the mystery of getting both Judge Dredd games to show up in LaunchBox/Big Box. They are two entirely different games; not clones or version differences. Is there any easy way to do this? Thanks again for everyone's help getting Power-Up Baseball imported because I would have never figured this out otherwise! What a blessing in disguise!
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Sorry, a lot of this stuff is really hard to do because I am using a genuine arcade CRT that runs at 640x480, and it's almost impossible to use LaunchBox with that screen resolution. It's very frustrating. I have to remote desktop into it and change the res to 800x600 (which is the max the hacked video card supports) and even then a lot of LaunchBox settings get cut off; and I am doing this all while my arcade monitor is making horrible squealing noises because it's running at a resolution it doesn't support due to it being a standard res arcade CRT. This is what the settings look like for the game: Do these settings look OK? I also apologize that the top is cut off on them; this is all I can view with the low res monitor. The game launches just fine in MAME by itself without using LaunchBox for those that asked.
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The images show up just fine on the Launchbox database website, so my guess it has something to do with the convoluted way I had to import the game, first choosing it as a RetroArch game and then changing it later. Also the images aren't really that important. Why does the game refuse to launch when I select it? It just has a loading symbol for a second and then stops. I have MAME set for the emulator, but I suspect it has something to do with the way I imported the game. Also I'd like to know if I have to do this ridiculous import method for every new MAME game, or is it just Power-up Baseball for some odd reason?
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Anyone? I am trying to have friends over again today to play it.
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Also metadata like info on the game shows up but images won't.
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Geez, that somehow worked. Why did I have to do it like that? Do I have to do that every time I add a game to MAME? Also the game won't launch. I have it set to launch with MAME but when I choose it, nothing happens.
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This is what I keep getting: It refuses to import pubball.zip and I cannot figure out why.
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I don't recall because it was like 2 years ago but I think it's a moot point anyway because Power-up Baseball was only dumped like 6 months ago so it wouldn't have been part of my original import anyway.
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I am on 0.234 for MAME, and the ROMset is the same (0.234). The problem with Dredd is I only see the crummy Acclaim game, not the Midway one. Power-Up Baseball won't show up at all. I did have "Skip game unplayable" unchecked, and I also unchecked "skip prototype", but LaunchBox always says "imported 0 games".
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Hello! I am on the latest Launchbox on my MAME cabinet, on a Windows 10 machine. I just learned about two prototype arcade games that never came out. Judge Dredd (Midway brawler; NOT the Acclaim shooter) and Power-Up Baseball, which is an NBA Jam-style game but with MLB. I have the roms for both (jdreddp.zip and pubball.zip) in the mame/roms folder like all my other ROMs. I tried to manually add each ROM into Launchbox, first by dragging the roms, and second my clicking on tools->add ROMs and neither option works. It goes through all the motions like asking me if I want to download manuals and stuff like that, and when I finish it always says "0 games added". Does anyone know what's going on? A friend and I are desperately trying to play these but are getting nowhere. Thanks!
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Anyone?
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Thanks for the reply. I am guessing I probably told it not to import clones because I don't want Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles UK showing up instead of the American one. Is there a way to override that on a game-by-game basis?
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Yeah I don't have that option.
