Tombas Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 I downloaded the torrent for a full rom set of 0.254 mame from archive.org. It downloaded 80+G and appears to a full set. I have a fresh install of LB and want to use its wizard to import the roms and setup mame. I installed LB c:\LaunchBox and created a subdir 'Games'. Placed the folder with the rom zips in the c:\LaunchBox\Games directory. When I run the import full mame set selecting the folder a message pops saying "the specified folder does not contain a full mame set". Followed these instructions exactly from a tutorial video. This is the bottom of the rom folder directory listing -- does it look accurate? 04/27/2023 05:07 PM 2,482,101 z80ne_flop.zip 04/27/2023 02:50 PM 554,018 z88_cart.zip 04/27/2023 07:37 PM 8,670,057 zorba.zip 04/27/2023 03:02 PM 8,224 zx80_cass.zip 04/27/2023 03:36 PM 3,605,723 zx81_cass.zip 649 File(s) 87,358,982,806 bytes Please advise and thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-Beats Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 Never ever use torrents from Archive.org. The way their system is built they build the torrent file before all the files have uploaded which means that the torrent typically only contains a very small percentage of all items in the collection. A full MAME set size depends on what type you grab but should have several thousand files in it regardless. If you are downloading something from Archive.org it's best to use the tool Jason developed and put in downloads or using something like JDownloader to grab everything. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knowcontrol Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 Since 254 is brand new, you should grab the set from pleasure dome GitHub io Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tombas Posted April 28, 2023 Author Share Posted April 28, 2023 Thanks! Do i need the dat file as well? It's my first time doing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 11 minutes ago, Tombas said: Thanks! Do i need the dat file as well? It's my first time doing this. No. It is not necessary. You can just download the full from set from Pleasure Dome. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tombas Posted April 30, 2023 Author Share Posted April 30, 2023 Thanks everyone. I got the a full merged set from PD and LB is up and running. There are multiple games that don't work however. Galaga, for example. I hate to ask newbie questions but my search didn't return much. Please advise and Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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