Games Rom Paths

[johnnyskullhead]

Hi

Sorry to post again

I thought i had almost everything running sweet with the forums and tutorials help

hit a major problem

main drive failed so ive replaced and i thought i had cloned it and swapped all drives back to original allocation etc

most games now dont work

can i check for each system where its emulators looking for the roms or isos ?

thanks for any help

if i need to start from scratch so be it but its been 30 + hours

Thanks

[SentaiBrad]

Well, you can edit a game to see where the path goes, or go in to the LaunchBox/Data/Platform folder, and open up each of the XML's. That will also tell you the paths, and if you load it up with Notepad++, you can even find and replace the path. Make sure to do enough of the path so it doesn't grab random letters. So like, D:/ to F:/. If the paths look like this when you edit a game or look in your emulators list, "../../", instead of a drive letter, it shouldn't matter what drive letters it's on. For the rest, checking the path and then changing the drive letter of the drive (since it's new it's not too big of a deal yet), or editing the XML's, is the two easiest ways I can think of to fix this.

[johnnyskullhead]

ok Thanks i will have a go

 

[fromlostdays]

Alternately you can delete your roms, then reimport from new locations. Just import with none of the art stuff checked and it'll all be there.

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[fromlostdays]

Wait, I mean delete your games in launchbox and reimport****

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[SentaiBrad]

Sure, but emulators need to be changed too, changing the drive letter back to the old one or using Notepad++ to replace the path letters is still much faster than re-importing everything, even when not downloading anything.

[johnnyskullhead]

hopefully done it , just changed drive letters will report back later

 

at work at moment

 

unrelated so I probably need to re post but imported ms dos and none seem to work ?

[SentaiBrad]

DOS is a bit more complicated then regular roms. If you have an eXoDOS collection, and everything is extracted, and you ran the MS-DOS specific importer (in the import menu, there is a special DOS Item), then you may need to run the configuration / setups, and or pick a new exe, bat or com to load the game from. Sometimes it takes a bit of trial and error. With the eXoDOS too, there are special conf files for some games that will help immensely. I think LB was finding them for me automatically, but if not, you need to edit the game and go to the conf tab to select the games custom conf file. If you found random DOS games online, you wont have the special conf files, but the rest still stands.

[johnnyskullhead]

Thanks Brad

I know this is off topic

how will I know which is the correct exe ?

do I need to run outside launchbox  to test each game individually ?

if so how do I do that they wont run in windows?

the answer is probably obvious, but as we have discussed before I am stupid !

[SentaiBrad]

No, you don't need to test them outside of LaunchBox. There is no easy answer. You just try launching a game, and if it doesn't then there's a few things you can do. Edit the game, change the "setup" path or the main path (temporarily) to the configuration exe, bat or com (they change names between config, setup, or other random things). You run that, set up your options the way you need them (you generally pick the graphical and audio options). From there, re-edit the game, and try choosing the obvious exe's, bat's or com files and try launching the game. Generally speaking, I go for bat's first, but it depends. Usually the exe is shorthand for the game, the first letters of the games name, or sometimes really obvious like start or play. It just really depends. Remember, PC's have very little standards, and then we're talking about mid 80's to 90's PC's with even less standards. So to an extent, it's trial and error. It's really not that daunting, changing the exe's is really fast. You just hit browse then change them. I only worry about it when I actually want to play the game too.

[johnnyskullhead]

ok matey will have a go

 

[johnnyskullhead]

19 hours ago, fromlostdays said:

Wait, I mean delete your games in launchbox and reimport****

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so will it pick up on the fact the images are already stored in launchbox and will disply the pics ?or will they be just game name

[johnnyskullhead]

Just now, johnnyskullhead said:

so will it pick up on the fact the images are already stored in launchbox and will disply the pics ?or will they be just game name

and will I have to add the images manually

[fromlostdays]

Yes, the images will still be there and will display.

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[SentaiBrad]

Yea, the images will automatically pop back in for your games. As long as media is in the proper folder, and named after the rom file or the name of the game in LB, it will automatically be attached.

[johnnyskullhead]

sorted mate sweet

many thanks

 

quick question

now the games run but window is tiny

how do i make full screen

its running in retroarch

Thanks Again

 

[SentaiBrad]

I would skip RetroArch for DOS too, and instead use the built in DOSBox. I swapped mine out with DOSBox Daum too, which is a possibility. There are several systems RetroArch isn't great at, DOS I would consider one of them. DOS games don't ever need to be assigned an emulator. They need to be imported as MS-DOS games (there's a specific importer for them), and they get flagged as DOS games and use the included DOSBox.

Edit: Otherwise, Ctrl + F turns RetroArch in to fullscreen mode, but you should set it in the options, with the core overrides or in your custom configs. You can also make the window bigger in the settings to instead if you'd like.

[johnnyskullhead]

Sorry mate was not clear, it's my cps 2 games when i changed drive letters , they all display a small window about half of screen to the left

Cps1 is fine ? Not sure why they different transferred same time 

They are both running in fba in retroarch could it be a shader ??

Thanks again

[SentaiBrad]

Shaders don't generally change the resolution. The only thing that does is internal resolution and the scaling options. I would be lost as to why the same core is giving you two different sizes.

[johnnyskullhead]

think it would help if I posted a picture , hopefully somebody out has had same problem