Skirmy

So this is pretty neat! Guy uses NFC tap to start games on his Mister. I wonder if something like this is possible with BigBox?

So, using CLRMamePro with the correct dat file to bring the clone out of the romset, then manually adding it into LB is what did the trick for anyone else wanting to know. If you've never used CLRMamePro, here is a great tutorial video!

So I tried using the correct name for the clone in the rom path inside the edited game in LB and that didn't work. I used CLRMamePro and the correct romset dat file and rebuilt the merged rom so it would separate the two out into a parent.zip and clone.zip. I can run mame via command line and simply using mame clone.zip, it will launch the clone and play. But LB will not import the clone.zip file. I have tried leaving all options default, I have checked force dupes, use folder name instead of rom name, skip clones import clones import all clones unchecked all skip boxes rechecked all skip boxes every combination that I can think of... But LB never wants to import it. The games to import just stays blank. Yet I can run this thing via mame, ui or cmd. I'm going to try to manually add it and see what happens lol.

That's the thing, I left the options default except I unchecked "Skip clones"... which by my understanding should import the clones separately. But, it didn't.

Correct, it's a clone inside the zip. So it's merged. I think using the "name" of the clone as the file name may do the trick. Like I said it doesn't show up as additional apps. Had not used the MAME Arcade Full Set Import Wizard yet, will check that out too! Thanks for the help!

Right, but I don't want to run the parent, I want to run the clone lol.

So I've got Mame. I've got "game.zip" When I import "game.zip" into Launchbox, it shows up as 1 game. When I look up that game directly inside of Mame, I see a couple. 1. Parent Game 2. Clone of Parent Game. Launchbox starts the parent game when double clicked. I want to start the 2nd, cloned one only from Launchbox when it's double clicked. Things to note: Right clicking the game in LaunchBox and expanding it produced no other game Additional Apps in editing the game shows nothing there. But like I said, if you look at it in mame, there's more than 1 flavor there. And the clone runs fine via mame. I assume there is a command parameter needed in the launching area but I don't know what that is, or if that is even how do you do that?

Man if you could do a 16:9 / 1080p version of this that would work with the EmuMovies videos etc that would be awsome!!! (This is what it looks like on my widescreen LCD) Great job!!!!