issue with DosBox/Retroarch > Launchbox

[fotiosmark]

So i am burning the midnight oil to understand how this works.

Launchbox opens Ms Dos games just fine no problem. When I run them I see a small window for DosBox and the game starts. I have configured Launchbox to open these with Retroarch which I have downloaded the DoxBoxPure Core! So far so good.

Now, from retroarch I can open the Quick menu if I want to make any changes for the game (Video/Shaders/Input etc) but from LaunchBox I cannot do the same, so my question is this.

How can I make changes for any game through Launchbox? Ex - I have Command and Conquer which I would love to change a bit the resolution display, but through Launchbox I cannot really edit anything.

Now If I open Retroarch and do the changes there and then exit the game and run it from Launchbox, the changes doesn't really reflect there.

 

Any ideas?

[Drybonz]

When you run RA DosBox it is a completely different version of DosBox than the one that runs natively with LB.  The emulation cores that are in RA are going to have a lot more that you can configure, which is just a benefit of RA.  You can go into LB options > Tools > Manage > DosBox to get to the configuration options for the basic version of DosBox that comes with LB, but the options are pretty limited.

[fotiosmark]

Thank you drybonz.

I figured it out eventually exactly what you said. The issue is that I unzip the games and some of them need mounting and add into LB, so they run through dosbox natively.

To run from RetroArch then I need to zip and add as Rom/MS-DOS/RetroArch.

 

But my issue is that many games do not run as zip...it cannot find an executable which doesn't make sense.

 

Thanks

[Drybonz]

Have you looked into ExoDos?  It takes some extra reading commitment, but you can get a huge Dos collection where most everything is already prepped for you.

[fotiosmark]

I LL check it out