Can't load or play SNES games through Launchbox but works if loaded through Snes9x solo application

[Batapotamus]

I'm pulling what's left out of my hair over this!

When trying to play a SNES game through launchbox I get a brief checksum error and then an eternal black screen but if I open the snes9x application outside of launchbox File>Open>Game it works perfectly. I can't see where I'm going wrong.

My SNES games are in zipped format and I've tried manually unzipping the zipped files.. I thought launchbox was supposed to unzip them when importing as roms but that didn't work either. The only thing I manually did was add - fullscreen to the command line so I haven't tinkered with anything that I can see.

I don't want to give up on the snes as it's for an arcade cabinet I'm building from scratch and really would like this to be launched through launchbox / bigbox.

[neil9000]

3 minutes ago, Batapotamus said:

I'm pulling what's left out of my hair over this!

When trying to play a SNES game through launchbox I get a brief checksum error and then an eternal black screen but if I open the snes9x application outside of launchbox File>Open>Game it works perfectly. I can't see where I'm going wrong.

My SNES games are in zipped format and I've tried manually unzipping the zipped files.. I thought launchbox was supposed to unzip them when importing as roms but that didn't work either. The only thing I manually did was add - fullscreen to the command line so I haven't tinkered with anything that I can see.

I don't want to give up on the snes as it's for an arcade cabinet I'm building from scratch and really would like this to be launched through launchbox / bigbox.

There is a checkbox in the manage emulators screen for unzipping files, did you check that box for snes9x?

[Batapotamus]

^^^ I did... that's why I thought when they aren't being unzipped when checked that it's causing the problem. That's when I unzipped them myself and I now have zipped and manually unzipped files sitting in my games directory.

[neil9000]

Launchbox doesnt unzip roms at import, but it can unzip when launched via that checkbox, however they are not unzipped into your roms folder they are unzipped into a temp folder in the Launchbox folder structure and are deleted after. It does sound like you have something else going on though, but i can't say that i have ever used the standalone version of snes9x, could be it needs a specific commandline?

[Batapotamus]

Unbelievable... I just got it working!! I manually unzipped the files but this time deleted the original zip files instead of leaving them in the folder ( I can't see how this affected it ) but it works. Thanks for the replies peoples!!!!