C64Crazy

Sounds like the plan. Thanks. Haven't owned a Windows computer in years. All my experience has been Android as of late, and far as retro gaming setup it's only been on the pi 3 using Retropie, so relearning windows and also sorting thru lb setup is going to be a project. I thank all of you for the help.

Great thanks. One more piece of the puzzle sorted out.

But how to delete Roms from say 1995 and newer so it's not taking up storage? Can mame ui do that? Also ran into another snag for Commodore 64 setup. For some reason import on launchbox isn't offering me the little dark blue link that I can click on to search elsewhere on the web for the emulator I want. I'm guessing I can just manually use chrome to go get ccs64 and stick it in the right folder, and then go thru the import steps?

Just figured out Mame 2000 won't run on my 64 bit windows 10 even in compatibility mode. That means my rom collection is useless. Might as well use latest Mame then and put together the appropriate ROMs for it. Now to figure out how to limit those ROMs to 1980s and 1990s.

Yes, that's the only drawback I'm thinking of, but I think you can convert and old romset to a modern version that the latest mame will recognize, right? Might be something for me to consider if so.

Because I have a complete romset and it was hassle enough obtaining a complete one with proper bioses intact. I really don't want to go thru that journey again. Plus I'm mainly interested in 1980s arcade games and some into early 90s. I have no desire to play anything newer in terms of Mame stuff. It's weird, but the more elaborate and "movie like" a game gets the less interested I am in it. That's why my main targets are older arcade, Commodore 64, and Amiga...all stuff I grew up on. Those were the days when you'd marvel at the little extra bit of good looking graphics and game play they fought to squeeze out of the existing hardware. Plus I like the retro "shoot em up" "stick figure" type stuff, where you could clearly see if you were getting shot or not, etc. The movie like graphics of modern games seems to "generalized" and undefined to me in that respect.

Your the man! Thanks!

Yeah, makes sense. I'm mainly into old arcade games from early 1990s and older so this romset suits me to narrow down to that era more or less. A question I have about the lb rom path setup for anybody out there...I hand made two folders in windows for some Commodore 64 games, one for all ROMs and one for hand picked ROMs that mainly are new better versions of games recently made of older C64 originals. I have yet to import either folder into Launchbox. What I'm wondering is how do I setup launch box to see both folders and yet keep them separate entities on the lb interface? I don't want to dump them both into one folder to direct CCS64 to.

Thanks again for the advice. Now what may be an even more stupid question...if xinput is supported by most modern emulators I'm wondering if MAME 2000, which I want to use with an old name romset I have, will not recognize xinput and require me to set it up using direct mode?

That makes sense, thanks. And the mode switch still will allow you to flip between dpad and left joystick in xinput I hope? I loved that feature when playing games on retropie. Certain games just are meant for one or the other in ease of play, and I prefer to use my left thumb for directional movements vs the right stick.

Thanks. My main concern with using Mame 2000 to run my 0.37b5 rooms that were meant for it is will I lose certain "ease of use" features Launchbox may do better in providing by using the version of mame they recommend? Meaning, am I going to lack controller pass thru configurations or some other potential features? Not even sure of what I'm asking exactly yet, as I have yet to delve that deep into just what LB offers in handshaking with emulators. I'm at the very superficial surface just starting now. Only thing I've done is import some ROMs and game art. Have to sort out the f310 controller setup before proceeding.

Update: At least I think I've found the answer to one question so far... After searching thru threads it appears CCS64 is a really good emulator for the C64, and that automatic fast loading feature sounds way better than Vice's in many ways, both in compatibility and auto turning it's self on and off by auto detecting game loading. Really slick. Now I just need to pin down the rest of my questions and searching hasn't produced any real answers yet, so I could use any advice. Thanks...

Sorry originally posted this in noobs forum until I realized it would be better suited here, and I don't see a way to delete that original post... Which Commodore 64 emulator is considered best/easiest to use/most compatible with Launchbox/Bigbox? Also, I have a bunch of 0.37b5 ROMs for Mame 2000 that I had on my retropie that I want to use on Launchbox. Are there issues with compatibility or ease of use I'll run into by not using the mame emulator Launchbox recommends? I haven't tried it yet since I have to figure out how to setup my f310 Logitech controller with Windows 10 and launchbox first, but I have imported my ROMs and scrapped art. Launchbox/Bigbox made it super easy!

Don't you lose the ability of the mode switch back and fourth between left joystick and d pad for various games in xinput mode? I thought I read that on Logitechs website. Or is that just in Windows based games and would be regained in LB? From what little info I've dug up so far on this controller, I was getting the impression you would only want to use xinput in newer native windows games and for all other applications it's best to use Direct input? What advantage would there be to xinput? At least on the retropie you were supposed to use direct input, but that's obviously not a window based computer.

Thanks! Will try that. I think I have the f310 setup properly in Windows 10 so that should be next step. Question though: On the controller I have it's mode switch set to direct input. Is this correct if I'm only planning to play C64, Amiga, and Mame games from early 1990's and older? From what I think I understand the other "x" mode is for modern PC games? Or, should I be using x mode to be more compatible with Windows 10 hardware and possibly Launchbox interfacing? Confused on that. If so, what are the advantages?

Hello. New to all this and just bought bigbox to setup. Don't know what to do to setup the Logitech f310 game controller in Windows 10 and then of course in Launchbox/Bigbox. Any info appreciated. Love the easy import ROMs and scrapping aspect of Launchbox btw!!! My retro gaming setup experience has been limited to Retropie thus far so anxious to set up a PC but haven't used a PC in several years until I just bought a new one.