create different mame sets for different versions of mame

[3dlollo]

Hi all,

I have consolidated my mame collection with ,184, and all show under arcade platform.

Although I found a different set on one of my backup, which works with .139. Thsi set also match the android version of mame that run on my android device with retroarch.

Now, since I have 2 different sets, and since I would like to keep both sets because there are different games that works on one version but not on another; how can I do taht in launchbox?

After a search, found some videos that show how to add a new emulator, but I need those 2 sets to be separated; so if I create a new set, when I import the older 139 set, it will go on the Arcade scraper and eventually overwrite the files with the same name, messing up my 184 romset.

Can someone please guide me through the process to get 2 different version of mame to work on 2 different version of the romset, without overwrite roms? Thanks!

[Lordmonkus]

Make 2 separate platforms is the easiest way I can think of, that is what I did. I have my No Filler set and I have a Mame 2003 Plus set, each in their own platform with their own emulator.

[3dlollo]

So I make a platform called mame139 and one called mame184, and create the equivalent emulator, that point to the 139 and 184 mame.exe and then parse each romset, so I get 2 different sets separated from each other?

 

[Lordmonkus]

Yeah, that's the easiest way I can think of.

[3dlollo]

I see, I tried to create a platform for each mame version, I called them mame139 and mame184; but when I try to add an emulator, that platform does not exist in the grid to assign a default platform. Is this a bug?

[Lordmonkus]

No, you just have to add it to the list manually by typing it in.