RetroWeirdo Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 Hi y'all, I'm a relatively new user to Lunchbox/BigBox & RetroArch. I'm currently trying to configure various systems for use in a multi-cade setup and the one i'm having trouble with right now is Turbografx CD / PC Engine CD. TG16/PC engine card games play fine in Launch Box but not CD games, they do work separately in RetroArch using the Beetle PCE CD core so I believe the issue is with specifying the correct associated platform in the emulator settings of Launch Box, but I don't know what the right details are to list for TG16/PCE CD. Using the same associated platform as the Hu-card set (PCE Fast) doesn't seem to work. I think I will also end up having this issue with other systems that I don't know the correct associated platform path for. Does anyone have or know where to find a list of associated platform paths? Many thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 If your Platform name and your core dll name is correct it will work. I use the SuperGrafx core but the PCE Fast one will work just fine as well, just not the 5 SuperGrafx games. If you can post a screenshot of your associated platforms we can look at it and see if there are any errors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroWeirdo Posted October 3, 2017 Author Share Posted October 3, 2017 34 minutes ago, lordmonkus said: If your Platform name and your core dll name is correct it will work. I use the SuperGrafx core but the PCE Fast one will work just fine as well, just not the 5 SuperGrafx games. If you can post a screenshot of your associated platforms we can look at it and see if there are any errors. Thanks for the help, I changed my SuperGrafx to the associated platform command line you showed and my supergrafx games are now booting correctly, but the CD still won't run, just shows black screen in LB despite running okay in RetroArch. Sure here's a screenshot of the current list: I copied it exactly the same as the regular Turbografx-16 parameter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 Do your platform names match ? The one in the Associated Platform and the platform name in Launchbox need to be exact. If 't working in Retroarch on its own it will work through Launchbox. You can use the SUperGrafx core for the TG16 / PCE / CD as well if you like, you don't need the PCE Fast core. Also this might be a silly question but you do have the PCE Fast core downloaded into your \cores folder right ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroWeirdo Posted October 3, 2017 Author Share Posted October 3, 2017 Yeah my platform names appear to match exactly. I did try to swapping the TGCD platform dll name to the Supergrafx core but it had the same result of just a black screen. Not sure what you mean by having them downloaded right... thats just a matter of downloading them in RetroArch right? But if the PCE Fast works for regular turbo games and the Supergrafx is working for SGX games then I would assume they are downloaded correctly, no? Could it be because the file is an ISO and not a CUE? Thanks again for the assistance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 1 minute ago, RetroWeirdo said: thats just a matter of downloading them in RetroArch right? Yeah and I just wanted to make sure you had that done even if it is the most simple thing. Ok, my next question is do your CD based games work in Retroarch ? If they do then i'm not sure what it is but if not then you probably don't have the bios for it which is required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroWeirdo Posted October 3, 2017 Author Share Posted October 3, 2017 Right, yeah I can get the game to load in RetroArch but just not through the front end. I added the bios file (syscard3.pce) to the system folder of RetroArch and then even added it to the actual games subfolder just in case but no change. Not sure what else to try besides deleting the system from LB and attempting reinstall... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 Yeah if the game is loading through Retroarch outside of Launchbox it will work through Launchbox when all the Associated Platforms settings are correct. Are you importing the cue files into Launchbox ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroWeirdo Posted October 3, 2017 Author Share Posted October 3, 2017 Yeah the cue file is in with the iso file, but if the iso works in RetroArch, shouldn't it also work in LB? I tried to convert the iso to a cue/bin just to see if that would work, using program called PowerISO but got an error that the file was too large and wasn't able to. Also tried locating an alternate trustworthy cue file but isozone seems pretty sketchy. Tried using Turborip to rip the files from my physical disc but not sure how to translate that to work. Could it be because my PC is treating the cue files as VLC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 If its loading the cue through Retroarch on it's own it will work through Launchbox as well as long as the settings in Launchbox are correct. I've never had any luck with .iso files at all and my disk images are all cue + bin. Check all your CD games as well with in Retroarch on it's own to make sure all of them are working because Retroarch can be picky about disk images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroWeirdo Posted October 10, 2017 Author Share Posted October 10, 2017 Got it working. Watched the video walk-through on YouTube and one point Brad mentions that during the setup you should not copy the game files and instead use them from their current location for ISO files. I deleted my platform, installed with that step and now the CD games work. Figured I would share in case someone else comes across this issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 Yeah moving the files is generally not recommended, especially for Mame and CD based games because they rely on other files aside from the one being imported. Cart based systems is ok to do it but I still don't ever suggest it just for organizational reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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