Adding CHD's

[Joe35car]

Ok I'm a noob here. I have always for the most part used Hyperspin and Rlauncher. I figure I give this another try. My question is I have my roms in a different folder then MAME. I also have my CHD's in a separate folder. My MAME ini points to these folders and works no problem. When I set up lunchbox it only gives me one options to choose the directory of my roms but I need to have an option to point to two folders. How do I do this? One to MAME roms folder and another to CHD folder.

 

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[fromlostdays]

You don't have to point Launchbox to both places. You don't import CHDs into launchbox, just the zips. I didn't know MAME could handle what you just described (I thought the CHDs had to be in the rom folder) but if you're right about that, just import the zips and play. Launchbox only sends the game to the emulator (in this case, the zip file to the mame.exe), if the emulator is handling it outside of launchbox, it will work the same if you're launching from within launchbox.

In other words, mame handles CHDs internally. LB doesn't have anything to do with it.

To answer your question though, about how to point it two folders, you could just import one folder and then the other to the same system. (Again, you don't need to do this for Arcade as CHDs are extra info tied to a parent rom/zip/game, they are not actual games themselves. Think of them as something that MAME needs to run certain games better.)

 

 

Edited April 15, 2020 by fromlostdays

[neil9000]

Actually neither the roms or the CHD's are actually imported into Launchbox. As long as MAME itself knows the locations they will work.

[Joe35car]

18 hours ago, fromlostdays said:

You don't have to point Launchbox to both places. You don't import CHDs into launchbox, just the zips. I didn't know MAME could handle what you just described (I thought the CHDs had to be in the rom folder) but if you're right about that, just import the zips and play. Launchbox only sends the game to the emulator (in this case, the zip file to the mame.exe), if the emulator is handling it outside of launchbox, it will work the same if you're launching from within launchbox.

In other words, mame handles CHDs internally. LB doesn't have anything to do with it.

To answer your question though, about how to point it two folders, you could just import one folder and then the other to the same system. (Again, you don't need to do this for Arcade as CHDs are extra info tied to a parent rom/zip/game, they are not actual games themselves. Think of them as something that MAME needs to run certain games better.)

 

 

My fault the CHd games were in my database. Yes in MAME you can have your roms, CHDs anywhere you want. They don't need to be in the MAME directory. As long as you configure the MAMEini (screenshot below). Also why are my clones not showing up? I made sure they were checked when I created the database. games like donkey kong foundry etc not showing.

 

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Edited April 16, 2020 by Joe35car

[Joe35car]

OK I think I found out why some clone roms were missing. I had to uncheck bootleg hacks etc for them to show.

 

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