Please help, I can't play NES or TG16 games anymore

[stevaside]

Posted about this a few days ago & no one responded so trying again

Any NES or TurboGrafx game I try to play within LB now brings up a "The rom file you specified does not exist" message. After my original post I went back, tried right clicking the platform name & reset the folder for the the NES games. That seemed to work for a day or 2, now all of a sudden I get the error again no matter what game I select...even though it is showing the correct folder for the roms.

I went so far as making another platform name for TG-16 just now to try reimporting those...Well for some strange reason now it insists on only installing EIGHT out of the 45 or so .PCE files in the folder, when before all showed in LB menu. So instead of not being able to play any TG-16 games, I'm able to play only 8 out of 45. This has been getting SO frustating & I've spent an incredible amount of time organizing everything for multiple consoles, searching around for the massive amount of artwork missing that the scraper didn't pick up, adding missing game details & customizing thing.... I do not want to have to do this all over again after reimporting roms for these 2 consoles & God knows how many more platforms I'm going to wind up having the same problem with further down the road...

If someone can please offer some advice, I'd really like to be able to launch games again

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 27, 2020 by stevaside

[Retro808]

4 minutes ago, stevaside said:

Posted about this a few days ago & no one responded so trying again

Any NES or TurboGrafx game I try to play within LB now brings up a "The rom file you specified does not exist" message. After my original post I went back, tried right clicking the platform name & reset the folder for the the NES games. That seemed to work for a day or 2, now all of a sudden I get the error again no matter what game I select...even though it is showing the correct folder for the roms.

When you right clicked one of the games that gave you the error and edited it, did the game path show the correct rom file path?

Did the games that gave you the error still run directly in the emulator (For NES and TG16 what emulator were you using)?

Is this a local build or are you sharing data in some way with a cloud service/shared network for multiple machines?

7 minutes ago, stevaside said:

I went so far as making another platform name for TG-16 just now to try reimporting those...Well for some strange reason now it insists on only installing EIGHT out of the 45 or so .PCE files in the folder, when before all showed in LB menu. So instead of not being able to play any TG-16 games, I'm able to play only 8 out of 45.

What steps are you taking to import the game files?

[stevaside]

12 minutes ago, Retro808 said:

When you right clicked one of the games that gave you the error and edited it, did the game path show the correct rom file path?

Did the games that gave you the error still run directly in the emulator (For NES and TG16 what emulator were you using)?

Is this a local build or are you sharing data in some way with a cloud service/shared network for multiple machines?

What steps are you taking to import the game files?

RIght clicking individual games & going to edit shows an old folder name that I deleted a while ago, yet right clicking the platform & going to the folders menu shows the correct.

The games have always worked fine within the emulators themself, just not in LB

Just local build, playing games at home on 1 device : my laptop. No sharing or anything else like that

The same steps I've been using for the 3-4 years I've had LB that have always seemed to work. The import roms/choose platform/choose emulator. And it originally worked for my NES/TG-16  games until now. This seemed to all happen when I imported a Famicom rom, looks like just adding that one game screwed everything up somehow

I've mainly used it for MAME up until the past few months, but due to the quarantine decided to step it up & add alot more...

[Retro808]

9 minutes ago, stevaside said:

RIght clicking individual games & going to edit shows an old folder name that I deleted a while ago, yet right clicking the platform & going to the folders menu shows the correct.

 

That would be the issue then. Since the game itself if pointing to an old folder that is why you would get the error. The folder the game is linked to is where LB would look to find the game. Even though on the platform level you have the correct folder, on the game level you do not. You need to select all games and use the "Change Rom Path" option under LB tools to make sure all games are pointed to the correct folder. Just changing the rom folder when you edit the platform does not actually change it for all the games you have already imported.

Adding a new game and a new platform would not affect existing games/platforms. Something else had to have happened.

If you used the import wizard did you use the Add Folder or Add Files option.

[stevaside]

11 minutes ago, Retro808 said:

That would be the issue then. Since the game itself if pointing to an old folder that is why you would get the error. The folder the game is linked to is where LB would look to find the game. Even though on the platform level you have the correct folder, on the game level you do not. You need to select all games and use the "Change Rom Path" option under LB tools to make sure all games are pointed to the correct folder. Just changing the rom folder when you edit the platform does not actually change it for all the games you have already imported.

Adding a new game and a new platform would not affect existing games/platforms. Something else had to have happened.

If you used the import wizard did you use the Add Folder or Add Files option.

I actually JUST figured that out a couple minutes ago. It isn't a straightforward way to do things, highlighting all games and then going to to the tools menu instead of just right clicking, but I noticed that "Change Rom Path" in there & gave it a shot. Seems to work so far & I can still keep all the custom images & data I set. Wanna apologize to everyone if I might have been coming across as overdramatic, but I've honestly spent a HUGE portion of this pandemic setting up consoles & games for Launchobox to pass the time &, have just been scared at the thought of wasting all that effort haha

Yea, it doesn't make sense to me either, but that's exactly when it happened. LB won't let me import Famicom roms from my NES folder even though my emulator (Nestopia) plays both regions. I wanted to try the Japanese version of Bayou Billy (titled Mad CIty) since I've heard it's much easier than the brutal US one. So I imported the file under the Famicom platform, played it, then went back to my NES & immediately after no games were playable. Went to TG16 & same thing, but other platforms still worked

I have tried both add folder & files with TG16 now & none made a difference, it's only recognizing 8 games. I generally try to use add folder first

Edited May 27, 2020 by stevaside

[Retro808]

7 minutes ago, stevaside said:

I have tried both add folder & files with TG16 now & none made a difference, it's only recognizing 8 games. I generally try to use add folder first

Check the box for Force Importing Duplicates when you add the Famicom rom versions. Since NES and Famicom are under one platform LB is likely not importing Mad City since it would technically be a duplicate of the Adv of Bayou Billy.

[stevaside]

59 minutes ago, Retro808 said:

Check the box for Force Importing Duplicates when you add the Famicom rom versions. Since NES and Famicom are under one platform LB is likely not importing Mad City since it would technically be a duplicate of the Adv of Bayou Billy.

Hmmm I'm eventually planning to add some more Famicom games & I will try that. Thanks. I couldn't get the Super Pitfall:30th Anniversary hack (USA) to install either & guess that might be the same case