Not Launchbox but I don't know who else to ask :-(

[PRobinson1976]

Hi all!

I got Launchbox and Emumovies as a lifetime supporter and I set everything up for running it all with Retroarch.

It works great but one thing bugs me ... I can't get certain cores to load. Straight from the start they wouldn't load. If you tried to load the libretro it was still "no core". The libretros are there abd I tried updating them. That all works. It downloads, it extracts ... But you can't load them even though they are listed.

All FB Alpha Cores, some MAME Versions (like 2010), Mednafen64 ... They all don't load :-(

Is here someone that can help me?

I am running Retroarch in Win 10.

[Lordmonkus]

Right off the top of my head I am gonna guess that you may be using the 32 bit version of Retroarch and some cores are 64 bit only and incompatible with the 32 bit version.

Are you downloading the cores using the Online Updater in Retroarch or are you downloading directly from their website ?

[PRobinson1976]

Hi! Thanks for your quick reply! I am running the 64bit Retroarch and I used the online updater and I tried it manually. In both cases no luck. What baffles me is the fact that I seem to be the only one having these issues?

[Lordmonkus]

Ok yeah if you are using the 64 bit version of Retroarch then that's not the issue and if you are using the Online Updater it's pulling the correct cores.

Are you using the stable build or a beta build of Retroarch ?

[PRobinson1976]

I'm running the stable build as far as I know of (not sitting at my PC to check). I'm not one for betas and stuff so personality wise I wouldn't get a nightly.

[Lordmonkus]

Ok.

Just so i'm making sure i'm understanding everything correctly here. You are saying if you load Retroarch on it's own and then load core you get "no core" loaded in the bottom left of Retroarch ?

Like this ?

 

[PRobinson1976]

Correct. But only certain Cores, like all FB Alpha cores. I have no issues with MAME 2000, 2003, 2016 and the one without a year (0.198 me thinks). MAME 2010,2014 doen't load either

[Lordmonkus]

Ok, good, just wanted to make sure there wasn't anything being misunderstood on my end.

Man, that is a weird one and never seen it myself. I can only suggest to try a new fresh install of Retroarch to a new folder and see what happens.

[PRobinson1976]

I'll give it a try. It's not hurting too much because I'm mostly running a 0.78 Romset and Mame 2003 works great ... But damn I would like to know what is going on. I'll keep you updated.

[PRobinson1976]

And thank you so much!!!

[Kondorito]

Try going to the cores folder and remove the problematic ones. Then open RA and go to Online Updater > Update Core Info Files. 

Wait for completion and then re-download one of the cores. Wait for it to reach 100% before going to the cores list. See if that helps. 

I had a similar issue some time ago and it was because the info files I had were old and not alligned with the cores versions. 

[Mr.Laor]

Also had a similar problem, deleting the cores worked the first time, second time had to replace/ reinstall the files. Not too difficult with Retroarch

Edited July 11, 2018 by Mr.Laor

[PRobinson1976]

Thank you all for your time and help. Unfortunatly it did not work out. I tried everything … the cores don't load ?