FishMonkey

I wouldn't recommend Linux ironically. I only used it originally because I didn't want to buy a licence and I got fed up with the "Activate Windows" watermark, now it seems there's some sort of anti windows vodoo on my system.

Thanks but every program that works on my win 11 gaming laptop is having problems on this win 10 install and I have installed every runtime/web package that I can think of... While I'm no IT god I'm pretty IT litterate. I'm not even a Linux guy but I got fed up of the ball ache for a rig that only plays media and retroarch and jumped ship.

Thanks guys. The plugin will not load on my system. Does anyone have any ideas why? I think it's something windows related. I'm running an i5 4699k at 4gHz with Intel HD 4600 onboard graphics with 1GB allocated memory on an 8GB system which isn't that outdated but I'm having problems everywhere. I'm a couple of hours away from going back to Linux and the ugly retroarch xmb interface as I'm having problems there on windows as well (nestopia) will not load, I built my romset myself using clrmamepro so the ROMs are definitely not the issue.

Thank you for testing this before I got chance. I'll probably rebuild my FBneo set weekend and reinstall launchbox then (just done a fresh windows install). Did it still add 1 game entry per game with the clones listed for each game just like launchbox normally would and did the arcade hacks also get added to the correct playlist, CPS1, CPS2, etc?

I don't actually import as a MAME set I just select use MAME metadata for emulators other than MAME that use MAME files towards the end of importing ROMs process. Does this only use the latest MAME file names?

When I said 20-50 missing ROMs what I meant was 550 ROMs didn't get imported. Redearthn.zip a no CD version of Red Earth for example was included in MAME 0.116 - 0.141 (2007-2011) but is not importing when scanning as MAME ROMs. Thank you this is exactly when I need! I am hoping the liberato XML is the same format? https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libretro/FBNeo/master/dats/FinalBurn Neo (ClrMame Pro XML%2C Arcade only).dat

A portion of MAME is still MAME, not a mix of outsourced arcade ROMs + MAME, just a smaller percentage of the MAME/HBMAME collection. FBNeo is pure MAME/HBMAME ROMs, no exceptions. Sometimes they are from nightly/Dev builds, rarely they beat HBMAME by a few hours to a hack but again still MAME/HBMAME ROMs. That was just gobbledygook with .zip on the end as I don't have my system to hand right now but there was a good 20-50 ROMs missed. Is there any way I can use an XML or DAT-FILE to import ROMs and clones manually?

This is not true. FBNeo uses a portion of the MAME/HBMAME arcade set. FBNeo syncs with MAME/HBMAME changes, so if a ROM gets renamed or redumped on MAME/HBMAME, it will be renamed or redumped on FBNeo. Basically FBNeo is a collection of the best 2D systems on MAME and an amazing selection of HBMAME. Here's a quote from the Devs replying to someone stating FB Neo is just an older/more glitchy arcade set for less powerful systems. Those glitches are quite rare and usually quickly fixed when reported. But yeah we are not devoted to accuracy, if we consider something will enhance a game, we'll just do it. Last week one of our developpers decided to implement a filter to improve sound from the zx spectrum 1-bit beeper, now it sounds even better than fuse's band-limiting resynthesis, and that's indeed totally inaccurate emulation, zx spectrum can't do that. There are also cases where FBNeo is more accurate than MAME. Fun fact, sometimes people report bugs because something is different from MAME and they just assume MAME is always right, but after checking against video of the actual pcb we learn that MAME is actually the one in the wrong. Anyway, there is no definitive answer for MAME vs FBNeo, it all depends on what you want to play (MAME has far wider game compatibility, especially it supports 3D systems even if most of the time it doesn't work very well), what RA features you like (if you like runahead or retroachievements, FBNeo is definitely the way to go), and if you are a MAME OSD fanboy (you would be surprised by the number of people that complain because that menu doesn't open when pressing tab, even if literally everything is accessible through the RA menu instead)."

The skip features has no effect whatsoever. I will try import as non mame metadata but surely then the files are just going to have weird names like ehbdjd.zip and no correct information. It would be really nice to import via dat-files as this has most the information needed already.

I'm having trouble importing the latest FBNeo set into launchbox. Most the ROMs import without issue but some get left out even with all filters turned off, I assume these are hacks & homebrews not found in MAME and missing from the launchbox database. Is there a way I can import these either using the liberato FBNeo dat-file or force importing the files and entering the info manually?

1) CPS 1/2/3 games have been added but are not in th capcom play system playlists. (Sounds like a bug) 2) I'm selecting force import all ROMs/clones yet it's importing a 1G1R set. (Sounds like I'm doing something wrong) 3) When I tried to import the games that had been import to the games folder for a second time "4 more games were added" I don't understand how this is possible when I chose it to copy games from another location, this means that it's copying files across without adding them. (Sounds like I'm doing something wrong) 4) I'm using a split set and bios files are not being added. (Sounds like I need to rebuild as a non merged set?)

I might have a look first and see how much is missing, I know rebuilding can take quite some time. MAME should tell me what is missing right? I was planning on using both the launchbox and arcade controls batch file. Hopefully there is a few with overlapping requirements, I know from doing this before you have quite different picks which is really nice but I'm guessing that won't work in my favour here.

Oh god I forgot about parent ROMs too.. looks like I'll be rebuilding ?

I just re-downloaded mame and realised I downloaded the wrong set for this... I guess I'm out of luck for a list of the required bios files?