heelsinc Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 (edited) Sigh...need more help. So I imported Gameboy and GBA last night. In Launchbox games won't even open Retroarch. It looks like is about it then doesn't but does list the game as played in the "Play Count" counter. Outside of the Launchbox if I just try to boot up a game file it opens Retroarch brings up the Gameboy title screen for the system NOT the game and then hangs there. Am I missing something? Using the Gambatte core for Gameboy/GBC and VBA-M For GBA. I got GBA games to work in Retroarch OUTSIDE of launchbox. Still nothing on GB or GBC. Edit: Sorry I realize I put this in the wrong "Troubleshooting" forum. If a mod could please move it for me. Thank you Edited November 8, 2016 by heelsinc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 Did you download the core's in RetroArch? Are the default command line parameters completely accurate? Are your games inside of rar's or zip's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heelsinc Posted November 8, 2016 Author Share Posted November 8, 2016 (edited) cores are downloaded command line is good. Games were rar's I unpacked them to see if that would work and that's how I got the GBA games to work outside of Launchbox. Deleted the platforms and tried to upload them again but same issues. Edited November 8, 2016 by heelsinc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heelsinc Posted November 8, 2016 Author Share Posted November 8, 2016 now nothing that I add will open in retroarch. I just added an SNES game and am getting the same issue. I don't understand what happened. The ONLY changes I made from last night to this morning was trying to add a few more systems. All the systems that were perviously added are still working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 I would start fresh. Download the latest nightly, open it up fresh, download your cores, make a completely new entry inside of LaunchBox, set the command lines properly (also, make sure you are only using the -L commands, -C will crash it if you don't have a custom config created), then click on a system, ctrl+a to highlight them all, right click -> edit, choose emulator, then choose the new install of RetroArch that you created and try launching a game then. I know that seems like a lot, but something must be off somewhere down the line. Edit: Oh yea, make sure the associated platform names match as well. The names in that window need to match the names of the consoles in the left pane of LaunchBox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heelsinc Posted November 8, 2016 Author Share Posted November 8, 2016 I just did and the same thing is happening. deleted retroarch completely downloaded it again. got the cores for the systems that are already in launchbox they work. Just added an snes game downloaded that core and same problem. This is insanely frustrating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 9 minutes ago, heelsinc said: I just did and the same thing is happening. deleted retroarch completely downloaded it again. got the cores for the systems that are already in launchbox they work. Just added an snes game downloaded that core and same problem. This is insanely frustrating. A lot of the default commands for RetroArch are wildly out of date. I highly suggest following the respective systems tutorials on our channel for each core, and I am gonna see about getting them updated here shortly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heelsinc Posted November 8, 2016 Author Share Posted November 8, 2016 yea I do every time. I followed the game boy one to a t. I got SNES up and running was just missing the quotation mark at the end of the command line but I SWEAR I have the gameboy one correct -L "gambatte_libretro.dll" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 No you don't, it should be -L "cores/gambatte_libretro.dll" The cores folder should always be right before the full core name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heelsinc Posted November 8, 2016 Author Share Posted November 8, 2016 wow. I've been staring at the associated platforms for about an hour and didn't pick up on that. Tunnel vision from being so frustrated I think. Thanks so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 Yea, it happens to me too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heelsinc Posted November 8, 2016 Author Share Posted November 8, 2016 the sad part is I entered GB, GBC and GBA all using the same format. Then reentered them all more then once. All while in the associated platforms tab and not once did I pick up on the fact that I was doing it wrong every time. Thanks again man between your help here and your videos you make this so easy to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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