1st use of launchbox, failing to import mame romset

[cad121]

Good morning, 

I've tried several times to import a mame romset into launchbox. 

I've got launchbox 11.1 installed, mame 0.23, mame romset 0.228.

Windows 10 is my OS. 

I've tried a couple of roms outside launchbox and they boot ok. 

I've added mame as an emulator in launchbox. 

I go through the process of importing a full romset all looks ok, all relevant tick boxes ticked. It pops up with a list it says it will import, I hit ok. It starts doing its thing blue progress bar moving constantly etc leave it for ages over night and not 1 game is there just an empty screen no matter what filter is selected. 

Completely confused ? 

Please help

[neil9000]

3 hours ago, cad121 said:

Good morning, 

I've tried several times to import a mame romset into launchbox. 

I've got launchbox 11.1 installed, mame 0.23, mame romset 0.228.

Windows 10 is my OS. 

I've tried a couple of roms outside launchbox and they boot ok. 

I've added mame as an emulator in launchbox. 

I go through the process of importing a full romset all looks ok, all relevant tick boxes ticked. It pops up with a list it says it will import, I hit ok. It starts doing its thing blue progress bar moving constantly etc leave it for ages over night and not 1 game is there just an empty screen no matter what filter is selected. 

Completely confused ? 

Please help

OK several issues here.

!. You are using a old version of Launchbox, the MAME importer was updated in version 11.9 to be MAME version agnostic.

2. You have a MAME 0.228 romset but version 0.023 of the emulator? THats a error, always match versions of the romset and emulator, that is why they are versioned in the first place.

Some further details to add, if the romset itself is not in the MAME emulators roms folder then you need to tell MAME itself where they are, and the fact that you are using such a old version of the emulator (that version is from 1997). You are mixing a non current Launchbox, with a 2 month old romset, and a 24 year old emulator, im not surprised with that sort of combination you are getting errors.

[cad121]

Hi thanks for the reply and help. 

My bad I typed the launchbox version wrong it must be 11.10 as I got it from launchbox website 2 days ago from their link. 

And I got mame from the link within launchbox and its version 0.23 which is the current release. 

I'll download the version from January this year and try that 0.228.

Sorry if my original post wasn't clear 

[neil9000]

13 minutes ago, cad121 said:

Hi thanks for the reply and help. 

My bad I typed the launchbox version wrong it must be 11.10 as I got it from launchbox website 2 days ago from their link. 

And I got mame from the link within launchbox and its version 0.23 which is the current release. 

I'll download the version from January this year and try that 0.228.

Sorry if my original post wasn't clear 

0.230 is the current MAME release, but yes use 0.228 with a 0.228 romset, versioning is very important with MAME. Also when you import are you calling and scraping the platform as Arcade?

[cad121]

Yes I think so, I'll check when I try again. It just took so long and there was nothing at the end and I was so patient lol 

[neil9000]

9 minutes ago, cad121 said:

Yes I think so, I'll check when I try again. It just took so long and there was nothing at the end and I was so patient lol 

Well if it took a long time then it was clearly importing, if the import didnt work it would of literally taken 30 seconds, so it was certainly doing something. Id run it again and uncheck all the media downloads, as you either already have them from your first import, or you can aquire them after the import once everything is working correcly there.

Once you run the import again, please take images of what is happening, that is so much easier to troubleshoot than someone who doesnt quite understand the process yet explaining it to someone who does.  

[cad121]

Thanks, I will do just that ?

[EMUDL082]

Hey I am new to Launchbox too, it did take over a full day to import my full MAME .219.  In review, I think there were some problems at EmuMovies as well which didn't help.  I had to re-start the process a couple times, but the last time worked, though as I mentioned, it still took over a full day, I think it was closer to two days.