AOR Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 Hello I have been using Launchbox for about a week now and I am very impressed! I have everything working just fine but I want to do a cleaner install and to move my MAME ROM files from another location on my hard drive to the Launchbox folder. I eventually plan to put all of the data onto a portable hard drive to use on other machines. I would like to move the MAME emulator and ROMS which are probably over 500 GB is there a way to change the paths in Launchbox? Do I need to delete everything through launch box and re import the roms? I do know how to move the files to the correct locations in Launchbox thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 3 minutes ago, AOR said: Hello I have been using Launchbox for about a week now and I am very impressed! I have everything working just fine but I want to do a cleaner install and to move my MAME ROM files from another location on my hard drive to the Launchbox folder. I eventually plan to put all of the data onto a portable hard drive to use on other machines. I would like to move the MAME emulator and ROMS which are probably over 500 GB is there a way to change the paths in Launchbox? Do I need to delete everything through launch box and re import the roms? I do know how to move the files to the correct locations in Launchbox thank you! Just move them where you want them, then re-run the MAME fullset importer, this time specifying the new paths. Uncheck all the media downloads in the wizard as you already have it all, it will just take a couple of minutes. Also you will need to actually tell your MAME emulator the new rompath as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AOR Posted July 4, 2019 Author Share Posted July 4, 2019 Thank you! I moved the Rom folder and I put a fresh install of the most recent 0.211b Mame 64 exe into the emulators folder. I unzipped it there. I ran the MAME full set importer and I see the art work in launch box but the games will not run . I did import the new location of the MAME emulator into lunchbox with the add emulator wizard how exactly do I tell the Mame emulator the path to the rom files? I currently have the roms in the lunchbox games folder and the emulator in the emulator folder. The roms and the Mame program are not in the same folder as they would normally be installed by MAME Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 you have to set the path in the MAME.ini file you can do this either by editing the MAME.ini file with any text editor and adding your path. You can also do so from inside the MAME UI by simply opening the program and then going to configuration options then directories. After setting the directories back out of the menu and go to save configuration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AOR Posted July 4, 2019 Author Share Posted July 4, 2019 Thank you I figured it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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