AmiGamer Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Just starting out. I added a few platforms ( 2600, 7800, SNES, NES, Colecovision, Amiga, Arcade) and find that 2600, Amiga and NES work fine but the others do not work at all. Other than Amiga the others all use Retroarch. They all loaded fine, with no errors, but when I click on the game's icon the mouse will show busy (spinning) then return and nothing happens. How do I go about correcting this ? Where do I start ? I followed to same procedure I did for the ones that do work. I'm running LB ver 6.11 on a Win7 64 bit PC. Thanks..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Make sure that the command line parameters are using the same cores that you have downloaded and are in your \Retroarch\cores\ folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmiGamer Posted October 10, 2016 Author Share Posted October 10, 2016 1 hour ago, lordmonkus said: Make sure that the command line parameters are using the same cores that you have downloaded and are in your \Retroarch\cores\ folder. Thanks for the reply Lordmonkus ! Could you elaborate further as I'm new and not familiar with 'command line parameters'. Where would I find them, and what would I need to match them up with ? I followed along with a video I saw about downloading 'cores' (i believe I did that correctly). Strangely I thought a video mentioned the 2600 and 7800 used the same setup (Stella core) though the 2600 works and the 7800 doesn't (?) Thanks again.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Here's a couple of screen shots, one is of my actual cores I have in my \Retroarch\cores folder and the other is of the command line parameters in the edit emulators window of Launchbox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 7800 uses the ProSystems core but LB may have MESS as the default emulator so you would have to change it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Yeah certain platforms default to other emulators which needs a major update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmiGamer Posted October 10, 2016 Author Share Posted October 10, 2016 Here's a few screen shots of what I have so far. Maybe they will help. Though I'm still not clear on what you meant earlier. Quote " Make sure that the command line parameters are using the same cores that you have downloaded" What exactly should I be matching the command parameters with to know if they are the same ? Is there a wiki or list that would show how they should be arranged ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Just change the dll file name in the command line parameter to match the systems you want to emulate and if you don't have the core for a system you want to emulate you need to get the core. So for example for the Atari 7800 change the command line parameter to: -L "cores\prosystem_libretro.dll" And if you want to use Retroarch to emulate the Sega Genesis you need to download the genesis_plus_gx_libretro.dll core. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 See where is says Atari 7800 and it says -L "cores\MESS_libretro.dll" you have to change that to say _L "cores\prosystems_libretro.dll" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmiGamer Posted October 10, 2016 Author Share Posted October 10, 2016 Perfect ! Thank you... As for the others that aren't working is there a list somewhere that will show what I need to change their command line parameters to ? SNES, Arcade and a few others still aren't working... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Well like I said above, if you are using Retroarch you need to match the dll name with the one you have downloaded or download a core and make sure the name matches up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowfire36 Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 the other options is separate retroarch, like i did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Why did you make separate Retroarch installs ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowfire36 Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 (edited) because of iso ...it cant tell the differences between sega cd tg16 saturn or psx from cue sheets\bin plus i have custom resolutions so they fit properly on my tv Edited October 10, 2016 by shadowfire36 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Huh, i'm confused. Are you actually bothering to have Retroarch scan your roms for use within the RA UI ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowfire36 Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 (edited) no i dont have retroarch do anything i run everything through LB . i separated them because i was having the same problem , i would try and run a sega cd iso , then a psx , retroarch would launch whatever the last core i used was ,that was iso based , so i put them in separate folders and just left it core dependent ,then the other issue was resolution , 2540x1440 , only works on some system that fill the screen properly so i was getting mad how it stretched some games differently so i felt it was better to split it up Edited October 10, 2016 by shadowfire36 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmiGamer Posted October 10, 2016 Author Share Posted October 10, 2016 20 minutes ago, lordmonkus said: Well like I said above, if you are using Retroarch you need to match the dll name with the one you have downloaded or download a core and make sure the name matches up. I see, you mean in the retroarch download ? Such as the 7800 was labeled Atari 7800 'prosystem'. OK I think I got that, but I just looked and there are 11 SNES cores and 5 Arcade cores. Will they all work, or is there one specific one you need to choose ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Ahh ok. Well you don't need to have separate installs to begin with. If you are having troubles with certain systems, first make sure you have the cores downloaded. Second, make sure you have the correct bios files for those systems in the \Retroarch\system\ folder. You will have to find bios yourself, we cannot help you get those unfortunately. Third make sure your command line parameters are setup properly in the emulator settings window. Stretched video is taken care of by settings in the video section, if you want stretched the aspect ratio will be set to 16:9, if you want the proper aspect ratio set it to 4:3 or core provided. For Snes cores which one you use will depend a bit upon your system and what it can handle but I would recommend either Snes9x or BSnes Balanced Mercury to start with. For arcade stuff I recommend sticking to a stand alone version of Mame and not using the Retroarch Mame core. FBA is fine if you want to use it for NeoGeo but it's no better or worse than Mame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmiGamer Posted October 11, 2016 Author Share Posted October 11, 2016 I see... thank you for your help. I'll have to work on this for awhile. I did just try to get colecovision running, I put the one core labeled Coleco.... 'bluemsx_libretro' but it still didn't run. I'll have to look further. Thanks again.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 The simplest systems to start with is the Snes, Genesis and Turbo Grafx 16 because they don't use bios files. For Colecovision I use a stand alone version of Mess, I never tried it with Retroarch, RA my want bios files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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