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Is this still a thing? If there is an emumovies discount is it only with the LaunchBox lifetime subscription? Or does it come with the yearly one as well? Thanks.

I understand. I’m just glad the internal vlc was updated. Having to convert all the videos wouldn’t be fun. Though I may get an emumovies subscription for platforms other than mame eventually.

That’s great then! I read a few threads on this forum from late last year that the vlc version was old. Those threads should probably be closed or updated.

I think the problem is with my video snaps. When I load them in the standalone WMP, the video doesn’t play. These are the progretto mame video snaps available online. I read they use a strange codec that wmp doesn’t support. When I get a premium membership, I could switch to vlc but I read it has its own issues since the version in LaunchBox is an old version. Seems I need to convert these videos or use emumovies or the like. If I change the video directory for mame, will emumovies download to that directory? I would hate to use the space on my sad drive for videos.

I have it set up on my main PC (not my target device) and it seems to be working fine. But how do you view the gameplay videos in the normal LaunchBox interface? I see the auto-play option but what triggers it? Thanks! Also in BigBox mode, can you view the videos as you scroll through the games?

Oh I have an additional question. Will “add full romset” still work if some roms are removed? I took out some of the non-working CHD games to save disk space.

Thanks for the help. I have to try setting it all up now. I tried once, before the enhanced mame support, but it was lacking the features that you have stated are now included. I’m hoping all is cool now. MAME is the main platform I want to use and it has its idiosyncrasies because there are so many games.

One final question for now. Is that sub-genre feature like Sports/Wrestling games available if I purchase BigBox mode? I want to be able to select it with a joystick. Thanks in advance for all your help.

Should I import things like boxes since I don’t have those? We’re those custom made by people? Arcade games didn’t come in software boxs in general. Maybe neo-geo is an exception.

Thanks! I’ve been waiting for this forever. One more question if I may put it here. If I already have directories full of videosnaps, snapshots, cabinets, etc., where can I set those paths for mame within launch box? I watched the full set import demo video and it seemed to want to download everything from emumovies and the like. Thanks!

The lightspeed utility provided filters that were in catver.ini. I know it is no longer supported. Does the new full romset support have detailed filters? For example I don’t want to see all Sports games but just Wrestling games. In catver.ini this would be Sports/Wrestling. Is this possible?

Okay one last question. catver is basically a file containing the category and rom file names in that category. Can I search by the rom file name in LaunchBox, click on the game and add it to a playlist? Or do I have to cross-reference the rom file name to the game name from an external source and then search for the game in LaunchBox? I'm trying to figure out how much effort it would be if I wanted to create a playlist of say baseball arcade games if I have the rom file names. Thanks.

There was actually a post here that had a program that did what I wanted. But the binary is gone. Did it not work anymore?

There is a file, I think it is called catver for mame games that has very specific genre tags for games. Such as all the wrestling games or all the baseball games. Is there a way to use this to create playlists or filters so I can see all my wrestling games, for example? Or would I have to create the playlists manually? Thanks and sorry for creating two topics in one night.

That reminds me. So what you do in LaunchBox doesn't edit the mame.ini file at all? So everything has to be set up correctly to run mame in the ini file to begin with? It's been a long time but I dealt with some mame frontends that assisted in setting up mame and it's ini. LaunchBox seems to separate the tasks if I am not mistaken.

I am confused. In the tutorial it showed a helper tool called lightspeed where I could set the various extra and video paths if I already have the media. That no longer seems to exist I guess. I am importing roms now and scraping against launchpad' servers. Will I be able to somehow later use my mame extras by pointing to the specific drive paths? Will these collide with what was already scraped by LaunchBox? So do I have to delete the LaunchBox ones? The things I have are like the snapshots, marquis, manuals, video snapshots, etc.. Thanks in advance for your help.