MAME .241 Not showing all games

[Pakled]

This has probably been asked hundreds of times in this forum but I'm a bit of a newb with LaunchBox so please be patient.  I'm using LaunchBox 12.9 and I went through the wizard for adding MAME to LaunchBox. I have a little over 10K games, nothing hidden, and at first LaunchBox saw all 10K games. However, after grabbing all the metadata I noticed my list is now under 3K. I'm sure I've done something wrong or there is a simple setting I need to tweak but, I could really use some help figuring it out. Thanks in advance for any support you can offer.

[Retro808]

1 minute ago, Pakled said:

This has probably been asked hundreds of times in this forum but I'm a bit of a newb with LaunchBox so please be patient.  I'm using LaunchBox 12.9 and I went through the wizard for adding MAME to LaunchBox. I have a little over 10K games, nothing hidden, and at first LaunchBox saw all 10K games. However, after grabbing all the metadata I noticed my list is now under 3K. I'm sure I've done something wrong or there is a simple setting I need to tweak but, I could really use some help figuring it out. Thanks in advance for any support you can offer.

What method did you use to import the roms?

Also the 10K games you mention are those 10K of Mame roms?

If so, and you used the "Mame Full Set" import option in LB that method only imports roms Mame actually lists as "working" which is just under 3K worth of games. So from your post it sounds like you used to fill set importer and the end result is what is expected.

[Pakled]

6 minutes ago, Retro808 said:

What method did you use to import the roms?

Also the 10K games you mention are those 10K of Mame roms?

If so, and you used the "Mame Full Set" import option in LB that method only imports roms Mame actually lists as "working" which is just under 3K worth of games. So from your post it sounds like you used to fill set importer and the end result is what is expected.

1) I honestly just followed the wizard.

2) Yes, they are MAME roms.

3) I did use the MAME Full Set option.

So given that I used the MAME Full Set option. What should I do to see my entire list at this point? Should I do a re-import or something?

[neil9000]

4 minutes ago, Pakled said:

So given that I used the MAME Full Set option. What should I do to see my entire list at this point? Should I do a re-import or something?

That is the entire list of working games, the other 7000 do not work in MAME. You can import them (though not sure why you would want 7000 broken games) by unchecking the "skip non working games" option in the wizard.

[Lordmonkus]

All the other files are clone roms (regional) or they are fruit machine or video poker games, games typically no one wants.

[Pakled]

6 minutes ago, Lordmonkus said:

All the other files are clone roms (regional) or they are fruit machine or video poker games, games typically no one wants.

I'm kinda a fan of the clones. Our YT channel loves to take a look at the crazy history of popular games so playing the clones is a big part of that. So if I want to see those games does that mean I should relaunch the wizard from "Tools/Import/MAME Arcade Full set"? Will running this wizard twice give me any problems I should know about now?

[neil9000]

1 minute ago, Pakled said:

I'm kinda a fan of the clones. Our YT channel loves to take a look at the crazy history of popular games so playing the clones is a big part of that. So if I want to see those games does that mean I should relaunch the wizard from "Tools/Import/MAME Arcade Full set"? Will running this wizard twice give me any problems I should know about now?

They should already be there, right click street fighter 2 for example and it should list all the versions that were imported, you can click any one to start it.