kennyrovers Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 hi quick question for a noob i was watching a tutorial on naomi and noticed that the video advised not to get split or merged roms but that was for 0184. Which ones should I use for the latest build of MAME 0193 for use within launchbox? Any help would be appreciated Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harryoke Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 i personally use the non merged, but if your not bothered about having clones merged set is fine and saves disk space, you will have exactly the same games. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyrovers Posted January 18, 2018 Author Share Posted January 18, 2018 Will it work fine as on the video they were saying there’s issues or has that now been resolved as it was over a year ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 That tutorial is outdated and I definitely suggest getting the split set non merged is just so much redundant files over and over again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 We actually recommend either non-merged or split sets, the merged can mess with the importer and you may find a lot of missing games with that set. I personally have a non-merged set, it takes up more space but every game has all the files needed in it's own zip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 Okay let me explain the sets a little 1st nonmerged include both parents and clones except every clone contains the file parts of the parents thus the large file size 2nd Split sets contain both parents and clones but the clones only contain the file parts that it needs to be the clone and it will be dependent on the parent for the rest of the files 3rd merged is where there are no separate files for the clones as they are all contained in the parent rom this is troublesome to LB as it can't import any clones due to them not having files for LB to see to import. Basically Split and Non-Merged will work identically in LB but just take up extra space on disk and the whole time that it was being suggested to not use split sets it was because how the new split DC bios was effecting Demul and really didn't have much to do with MAME at all it was a point that really bothered me when those tutorials where coming out and split sets weren't being suggested for no good reason. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyrovers Posted January 18, 2018 Author Share Posted January 18, 2018 Thanks for your help guys bloody loving launchbox!!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeChiffre Posted June 15, 2018 Share Posted June 15, 2018 (edited) Hi, Maybe this already exists, but I couldn't find any info on it. I read something today regarding having a right click popup over a game image that would allow you to select the parent or clone(s) you'd like to launch. Programatically sounds doable. On mame import, you select merged and based off of a parent/clone domain list file, generate a new file/hash that allows LB to use to determine what the popup list should look like. If I then right click on Puckman image, I'd see Puckman/ Pacman in my list. If I select Pacman, create the appropriate mame call and launch. That way we only have one image per game and the ability to launch parents or clones from it. Or Based off of a domain list, automatically generate the clone entries on import to compensate for the missing files. Edited June 15, 2018 by LeChiffre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted June 15, 2018 Share Posted June 15, 2018 If you add MAME games to LB it should combine clones with parents in the right click menu. Don't know how well it works in all cases at the present moment but when MAME is updated hopefully when Next gets finished (depending how it is updated) hopefully it will be able to easily use that data to do so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeChiffre Posted June 16, 2018 Share Posted June 16, 2018 Cool. That's what makes LB the goto launcher++ for me. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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