Running Game Boy ROMs from the MAME Software List

[strich]

I've just downloaded many ROMs from the MAME Software List and for some reason Launchbox or standalone Retroarch won't load them at all. I've been trying to do it in retroarch directly and whenever I do it asks which core to load and neither Sameboy or mGBA show up in the list even though I have downloaded the cores. Why is that?

[JoeViking245]

26 minutes ago, strich said:

I've just downloaded many ROMs from the MAME Software List and for some reason Launchbox or standalone Retroarch won't load them at all.

Edit your RetroArch emulator (in LaunchBox). Under Associated Platforms, select you Game Boy platform.  Check the box Extract ROMs.

[strich]

24 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:

Edit your RetroArch emulator (in LaunchBox). Under Associated Platforms, select you Game Boy platform.  Check the box Extract ROMs.

Ah! That fixed it thanks. So will I need to do this for most ROMs?

[JoeViking245]

10 minutes ago, strich said:

Ah! That fixed it thanks. So will I need to do this for most ROMs?

No.  Most of my console ROMs are from MAME's softlists and Game Boy (Advance and Color) is the only one(s) I need to do this with.