[Retroarch 1.7.3 not working on LaunchBox]

5 minutes ago, Zombeaver said:

I didn't do anything, but...

 

...my job here is done.

[Retroarch 1.7.3 not working on LaunchBox]

Wait! Everything seems to be in working order now. I tried to launch yet again the castlevania3.nes rom and it worked. I've tried a couple of different cores and they all seem to be working (nestopia and mesen). I retried the snes9x core and it worked too. I guess reinstalling everything did something after all. What baffles me is that at first after reinstalling the game didn't load and now it does. I didn't do anything different. I would love to know what the culprit to all of this was so that could potentially help other users if they run into a similar issue. Anyway you guys rock! Thank you for your kind help. I'm off to get bigbox mode now. Sweet!

[Retroarch 1.7.3 not working on LaunchBox]

OK. I'm beginning to see a ray of light. To try something else I've imported the SNES game Super Mario World. I did try to run that game before, but it didn't work (using the snes9x core). This time around I tried the snes9x2010 core as I remembered reading somewhere in the forums that someone managed to run their snes roms with that specific core. And lo and behold it worked! I can now load snes games in RA through LB with that particular core. So how could this be? Does that mean I need to try every single NES core until I find one that works? And how come Neil9000 runs his NES games with mesen just fine, but I can't? If the cores run well directly within RA they should work from LB too. Is there anything else I can try to make RA run with all the cores from within LB just as it directly does?

[Retroarch 1.7.3 not working on LaunchBox]

I have completely uninstalled and deleted LB and RA. I reinstalled LB directly to c:\launchbox and reinstalled RA to c:\launchbox\emulators\retroarch. I have setup again RA within LB. Set the mesen core, but it won't run the game. Just to be clear, I downloaded the mesen core within RA and tested it on the game and it ran fine (directly on RA I mean). I also setup standalone Nestopia in LB too and that emulator runs ok. I don't know what else to try. Could it be a setting within RA itself? The only thing that I've modified is setting it to run fullscreen  upon opening. 

[Retroarch 1.7.3 not working on LaunchBox]

6 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

Can you humour me and move your launchbox folder out of downloads to the desktop, then edit the rom path and try again.

OK I moved my launchbox folder to my desktop. The rom path is still c:\nes\castlevania3.nes. It won't run. I even right clicked the launchbox.exe and ran it as the administratior (just in case the issue is a "privileges" one).  Nothing.

[Retroarch 1.7.3 not working on LaunchBox]

OK. I deleted RA from Tools\manage emulators. Re-added it, on the Associated Platforms I changed the core from nestopia to mesen. I made sure the mesen core was downloaded in RA and actually tested it with the c:\nes\castlevania3.nes game and it runs fine. Unfortunately the game won't launch from within LB using retroarch. I tried again the Launch With... and chose Nestopia, to see if anything else could be wrong, but the standalone emulator just works, not RA.

[Retroarch 1.7.3 not working on LaunchBox]

Just now, Zombeaver said:

There's nothing unusual about the path assuming your Launchbox is four levels deep from C:\ It's just a relative path.

No folder listed = Launchbox directory

..\ = Up one folder from Launchbox directory

..\..\ = Up two folders from Launchbox directory etc.

That makes sense. LB is for a fact four levels deep from c:\.  

[Retroarch 1.7.3 not working on LaunchBox]

When I right click on the game and use the "Launch with..." option and chose "Retroarch..." the game won't run (nothing happens), when I choose "Nestopia..." instead the rom runs ok. This gets me thinking I must be doing something wrong with the Retroarch setup, but I, for the love of god, don't know what. Now the rom runs perfectly fine directly from Retroarch using the same core setup within LB. So what gives?

I'll delete retroarch and re-add it through Tools\Manage Emulators... and try with a different core (already downloaded in RA of course) in Associated Platforms. I'll try mesen as that is what Neil9000 is using successfully in his video. And then get back to you guys. Thanks in advance for your help and time.

[Retroarch 1.7.3 not working on LaunchBox]

13 minutes ago, Zombeaver said:

Just out of curiosity, what happens if you rename your rom to Castlevania3.nes and update your path in LB?

The only thing I've ever had any issues out of when it comes to special characters in the filename (brackets, apostrophe, etc.) of games launched through LB is with CCS64, but seeing that filename and nothing else that looks particularly out of place makes me curious.

Hi, I renamed the rom to Castlevania3.nes and updated the path in LB, but still it doesn't run. What looks odd though is that weird path LB assigns when pointing it to the rom. Anyway, I manually rewrote the path correctly to c:\nes\catlevania3.nes, and it's a no go. Tried it again through Nestopia choosing it on the emulation tab and it runs ok. 

[Retroarch 1.7.3 not working on LaunchBox]

7 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

Yeah I'm really confused. OK we are going to delete and re-import the platform, don't worry it will only take a couple of minutes as you will already have all the images.

Right click the platform in the left bar and delete. Then go to tools/import go through the wizard as normal, when you get to the image download window click the "select none" button as you don't need any of it this time, when you get to the option to move or copy your roms click the "use in current location" option and let it import. then try one.

OK, I've deleted the platform. Reimported the rom and chose "use current locaton". The game was imported successfully, unfortunately it's still not running.

[Retroarch 1.7.3 not working on LaunchBox]

Just now, neil9000 said:

If you right click a game using Retroarch and pick the "Open Retroarch" option does retroarch open?

Yes it does! And that's what it seems so odd to me. Retroarch launches through the "Open Retroarch" option, the rom path is fine (as it launches through Nestopia), but the game won't run when clicking directly on it.

[Retroarch 1.7.3 not working on LaunchBox]

Again, to make sure there is nothing wrong with the rom path or rom file I clicked edit on the game and on the Emulation tab switched the emulator from Retroarch to Nestopia and the rom launched ok.

[Retroarch 1.7.3 not working on LaunchBox]

8 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

Something is not right there, you moved the rom into C:\Nes but if you look at your 3rd image above it says the rom path is ..\..\..\..\Nes\castlevania, so its many folders deep which it shouldn't be if its on the root of C:

Yes that rom path looks wrong, but that is what LaunBox did automatically. OK, I've clicked edit on the game and changed it manually. I also double checked the rom is indeed in c:\nes. And still not running.

[Retroarch 1.7.3 not working on LaunchBox]

4 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

And here is a quick video of me launching a nes game from bigbox using retroarch 1.7.3, as you can see I even go into the retroarch menu which says 1.7.3.

NES Retroarch.mp4

Wow! Bigbox looks niiiiiice. I really hope I can solve this issue and jump into to the bigbox bandwagon.

[Retroarch 1.7.3 not working on LaunchBox]

13 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

Yes I am running 1.7.3 just fine myself.

Can you click a nes game then ctrl A to highlight the all, then go to tools/change roms folder path and point it at your roms folder. Then see if that works.

I think its a path issue somewhere as your games work in Retroarch, the retroarch emulator looks setup correctly and I can personally confirm that 1.7.3 works just fine as that is what I am running.

Great! That gets my hopes up. If it where a path problem for the rom wouldn't the Nestopia emulator (through LaunchBox) fail to load the game? It is not. Anyway I followed your suggestion. First I copied the rom (through windows explorer) "Castlevania III - Dracula's Curse (U) [!].nes" to c:\nes to keep things simple. Then I clicked the game went to tools/change roms folder path and pointed to the new folder. Still not running.

[Retroarch 1.7.3 not working on LaunchBox]

Can any one confirm RetroArch 1.7.3 is running through LaunchBox? The tutorials I've found online to setup RetroArch inside of LaunchBox use RetroArch 1.7.0 as the newest iteration. 

[Retroarch 1.7.3 not working on LaunchBox]

17 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

Is your retroarch still in the launchbox/emulators folder like the image shows? Because looking at your images everything seems correct, and you say that they work directly in Retroarch so they should also work through Launchbox, unless your emulator or rom paths have been changed since you imported your roms. Did you have Launchbox move the roms on import?

Yes it is still in there. When I right click on a game and choose the "Open RetroArch..." option RetroArch opens just fine. Regarding the roms upon importing them I've tried the three options LaunchBox gives you trying to fix this issue. I've also right clicked on the games, chose Edit and made sure the path for the ROM was correct. When I change the emulator to Nestopia instead they run fine.

Edit: I've tried to run the games from different locations, i.e the games folder from within LaunchBox, the Desktop, and others. I've double checked the path to the rom files is correct.

Edit2: I've reinstalled everything from scratch (LaunchBox and RetroArch) and still nothing.

 

 

[Retroarch 1.7.3 not working on LaunchBox]

2 minutes ago, Vampireslug said:

I don't know if this applies to you or not but I have a full NES romset which has multiple versions of individual games which, in my Launchbox, merges them all into a single entry.  For example, I have 14 versions of Contra and to run it in Launchbox (Using the Nestopia core), I have to right-click on the game which brings up this menu:

And then I have to choose which of the versions I want to play.  This isn't the case for all of my games but I now right-click to run all NES games just to save time... at least until I go through and remove a TON of the redundant ROMs.

Only one version per ROM. I did think maybe there is something wrong with my ROM files, but I can run them using Nestopia through LaunchBox just fine.

[Retroarch 1.7.3 not working on LaunchBox]

No. When I installed LaunchBox I went directly to set up RetroArch to work with it, but nothing. I tried the standalone emulators (Nestopia and Snes9x) next just to make sure I could run some games through LaunchBox at all.

Edit: Outside of LaunchBox I've been using RetroArch all along.

[Retroarch 1.7.3 not working on LaunchBox]

Hi, first off thanks for all the hard work,  love LaunchBox! I've been trying to set Retroarch (newest 1.7.3) to work through LaunchBox (8.2) to no avail.  I've followed several video guides and scoured the forums for an answer and nothing. I don't know what I'm missing or doing wrong. I'm concentrating on running NES games. They are running fine directly on Retroarch with the nestopia core (and other cores). On LaunchBox I've made sure I have the correct core on the Associated Platforms (pointing to the one downloaded on RetroArch) as well as the same name for the platform on the left side in LaunchBox, but when I click on the imported ROMS nothing happens. I've tried with other cores such as bnes, FCEUmm, Mesen, and still nothing. I've tried with some SNES cores too for SNES games, and the same. All of these cores are running the ROMS fine directly on RetroArch. On LaunchBox I've been able to run the ROMS using standalone emulators (Nestopia and SNES9X), but I can't get Retroarch to work. I guess I could stick to the standalones, but personally I've found Retroarch much more convenient. And the LaunchBox + Retroarch combo is just perfect. Any help is truly appreciated. Thank you!