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Pepperami

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hey guys

just after a little help

I want to try using Retroarch instead of the Mame 260 executable for running games to see if it fixes an audio issue

I used the full set importer a while back now several versions of mame ago

would someone like to spare a few mins to explain how i can do this and if it doesn't work how to revert it lol

would be very appreciated!!!

 

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Just have retroarch added in your LB. Then edit Retroarch and in the Associated Platforms tab make sure you add the name of your Arcade platform and select the correct core. 

You can either bulk edit all games for Arcade and change the default emulator to Retroarch or select specific games and change only those to retroarch. 

Best thing though would be to find out why you are having audio issues as RA's Mame core is not better than Mame stand alone. What game is having audio issues and what is the exact issue. 

 

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Thanks for the info, not sure how to change the one game as I’m still trying to learn this stuff

The game is Bank Panic, one of my favourite games to play

it seems to work fine outside of Launchbox, if I just run the Mame exe file and then run it that way, plays fine and no juddering  stuttering audio (not all the time but enough to be dammed annoying!)

yet running it via Launchbox and the sounds sputter again and I can’t for the life of me understand why, LB is a front end and just simplifies launching games with a really nice interface

i love LB but this is really nagging me lol and I cannot see a way to sort it

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Yeah I can try that as soon as I get home, I’m using a pc monitor and I got sooooo hooked up on that one game I didn’t test others, it’s doing it across the board 😞
 

I can’t think it would be any of these but in the last week I’ve changed MoBo and CPU upgraded from a 4790k to a 9900k and it also has more ram now 32GB compared to 16GB on the last hardware

Also I changed out the normal 8TB hard drive to an 8TB SSD

I just can’t see how any of that would affect it 

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1 hour ago, Pepperami said:

Yeah I can try that as soon as I get home, I’m using a pc monitor and I got sooooo hooked up on that one game I didn’t test others, it’s doing it across the board 😞
 

I can’t think it would be any of these but in the last week I’ve changed MoBo and CPU upgraded from a 4790k to a 9900k and it also has more ram now 32GB compared to 16GB on the last hardware

Also I changed out the normal 8TB hard drive to an 8TB SSD

I just can’t see how any of that would affect it 

None of those would cause the issue. I suspect it is what I mentioned to try. I asked about a TV because sometimes the TV is set to 30hz and not 60hz. That -waitvsync messes up one of my cabinets with LB/Mame. 

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