Using relative paths for Launchbox and emulators

[Nocta]

Hi there,

I just moved my launchbox folder and now both launchbox and some of my emulators (I have cemu, demul, dolphin, mame, mupen64plus, pcsx2 and retroarch) are having problems which I'm pretty sure are connected with the change in path.

Is there a way to make everything totally portable with some relative paths and how to set it?

 

Thanks a lot!

[DOS76]

The only way really to insure the paths to things like your emulators is correct is to move LB to a drive with the same letter as it previously had, However editing your emulators and changing their paths is relatively easy (and monotonous)

[JoeViking245]

Thinking out loud (as I really don't know for sure..), I think the Games directory under Launchbox is (can be)  for the actual games roms/files.  If there was a directory... say... "Emus" where you install your emulators in, that would (could? should?) make it portable with LB.  My thinking being LB uses ..\..\ (relative) location syntax.  

Though I suppose the bust in my bubble may be the emus themselves use direct/actual path locations.  i.e. d:\Launchbox\Emus\Project64\Project64.exe  (.ini, .xml...) references.

[Nocta]

On 12/28/2018 at 12:21 AM, JoeViking245 said:

Though I suppose the bust in my bubble may be the emus themselves use direct/actual path locations.  i.e. d:\Launchbox\Emus\Project64\Project64.exe  (.ini, .xml...) references.

 

That's it, the problem is mostly with the emus themselves.

I guess I'll just follow your advice DOS76, just always use the same drive letter.

[DOS76]

If you moved it to a drive with a different letter name you can easily right click your little windows symbol in the bottom left corner and go to disk management and there you can edit drives.

[Suhrvivor]

As long as your games and emulators are inside your LaunchBox folder, everything should work no matter the drive letter. Just make sure that the emulators are set up as portable. Some of them need a few easy tweaks to make them so.