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1 hour ago, launchretrogirl2562 said:

No worries. I am positive I can get them to work. I think I got a handle on most of this by now šŸ˜„

Back with questions! Bally Astrocade resets all retroarch settings, even language. Why does it happen? I haven't seen any big different between Apple II and Astrocade opt or ini, but Apple doesn't reset settings. What may be the reason?

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as you say, there really is not much difference between any of those platforms when it comes to implementation to get them working.
I have never experienced that. So no idea really what is causing this on your system.
Are you running the latest Retroarch version? (v1.13)
If so, my advice would be to test it with a lower version of Retroarch (v1.12) or if not, with a higher version (v1.13)
And then see if you still encounter it.

Edit: i've seen rocketlauncher doing what you describe. But never launchbox.

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17 hours ago, launchretrogirl2562 said:

as you say, there really is not much difference between any of those platforms when it comes to implementation to get them working.
I have never experienced that. So no idea really what is causing this on your system.
Are you running the latest Retroarch version? (v1.13)
If so, my advice would be to test it with a lower version of Retroarch (v1.12) or if not, with a higher version (v1.13)
And then see if you still encounter it.

Edit: i've seen rocketlauncher doing what you describe. But never launchbox.

I have updated Retroarch from 1.12 to 1.13 and now Apple II stoped working again and astrocade keeps reseting settings... Oof! Will try to fix now

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40 minutes ago, Scarletic said:

Update on problem!
Astrocade trying to load "art" (even with no .cfg in the name), that doesn't exist. It used to think "-cart" is "-c art", so I made it "-f astrocde -cart -c retroarch.cfg" and it work fine! Weird stuff

I don't understand?
The settings in launchbox clearly says 'astrocde -cart -fullscreen'
How can your setup think it is '-c art'???
That must be something on your side cause the settings I posted are generic and should work for pretty much everyone.

Also.
I am running retroarch 1.13.0, and the files I posted for apple are fully working.
So if they worked with 1.12.0, they also should work with version 1.13.0

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6 hours ago, Scarletic said:

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I have no idea why, but retroarch reads "-cart" as "-cart" and "-c art" in the same time. I will now look through my launch box now (just updated to latest version too). I don't think it is Retroarch issue, because it loads defaults when trying to load "art", lol

this explains exactly the problem you are having.

and an alternative solution.

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10 hours ago, launchretrogirl2562 said:

that isnt weird. i sorted my dir at last modified to get the biospack.

that made me miss the a2diskiing.zip

it should have been included in the biospack.

a2diskii.zip 371 BĀ Ā·Ā 0 downloads a2diskiing.zip 371 BĀ Ā·Ā 0 downloads

Oh, thanks!

Was trying to figure out FM Towns Marty yesterday with no result, unfortunatly...

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I've further looked into your issue.
It was a similar issue I was encountering with the APPLE2GS.
Not APPLE2E, but APPLE2GS.
But it had a similar underlying cause.
Namely, passing arguments to the mame libreto core OR retroarch is...to say...a little bit fickly in Launchbox.
For apple2gs I wanted joy support. But with the standard approach, it is impossible to add the '-gameio joy' command and getting retroarch to boot.
Similar issue you encountered when passing the -cart command.

My guess is that it is some option or config in the retroarch config or other.
Cause the -cart issue...I do not experience the same as you.
But I do experience LB and retroarch not understanding any additional mame commands I pass (-gameio joy)

So I decided to test the CLI (command line interface) option for any platform that requires extra commands, or commands which 'shorthand command strings' match the commands you pass onto mame_libreto (like the -cart)

And I found out, the CLI option does not have these issues.

I suggest you read the link I posted earlier (

Ā And check out the solution on the second page.
And try to implement it with your Bally astrocade.
And still using just astrocde -cart, but then with the settings as they describe in that post.

You will find out it works alot better.

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Hi Scarletic,

try this with your Bally Astrocade.

Backup your astrocde.opt file in your ':\RetroArch\config\MAME' folder.

Replace it with the attached astrocde.opt file.

CLI enabled
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Then add a new emulator, you can call it RetroarchSL.
Configure it as following.
RetroarchSL.thumb.PNG.2c778d1103c777b624c5c027b076ef00.PNG

And add your bally astrocade platform as following :

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"astrocde -cart \"%romfile%\""

I am sure with this way, retroarch will not interpret it as -c art
And it will work with passing the correct arguments without fiddling with the command parameters. (as you did)

I am going to use CLI for all platforms which either require extra command parameters or which have some sort of common ground with already known retroarch commands. (like the -c -> which messes up the -cart option)

astrocde.opt

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