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I have successfully been able to get MAME,NES,SNES,ATARI 2600 working on Lunchbox 13.7

I imported my Sega Genesis roms the same way by moving them into the Games/Sega genesis folder inside of Launchbox. Launchbox automatically found them and imported the artwork. When I try to start any SG game I get an error message that reads. "7-Zip returned an error when trying to extract the archive."

I went to tools/emulators and it is set to use Retroarch. What am I doing wrong? Thank you!

 

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In my experience, it has been best to not use .zip structures for console games. I have a folder with all the .md files together. This seems to have less issues and saves the step and time of having to extract a game every time you want to play anything. Most these files are less then 2mb so its not like your saving much space having it zipped.  

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9 hours ago, zombob said:

In my experience, it has been best to not use .zip structures for console games. I have a folder with all the .md files together. This seems to have less issues and saves the step and time of having to extract a game every time you want to play anything. Most these files are less then 2mb so its not like your saving much space having it zipped.  

zip files, and 7-zip files are fine and you don't need to extract them

 

14 hours ago, AOR said:

I have successfully been able to get MAME,NES,SNES,ATARI 2600 working on Lunchbox 13.7

I imported my Sega Genesis roms the same way by moving them into the Games/Sega genesis folder inside of Launchbox. Launchbox automatically found them and imported the artwork. When I try to start any SG game I get an error message that reads. "7-Zip returned an error when trying to extract the archive."

I went to tools/emulators and it is set to use Retroarch. What am I doing wrong? Thank you!

 

I would make sure the .7z file even works if you load it directly from within Retroarch's UI. If it works, then we know you have a wrong setting in LB. If you have the checkbox enabled to extract archives for Retroarch then can try unchecking that

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thank you I will try those things both of you suggested. I am not really a windows user. I only use it for Lunchbox.  Is there a way to unzip every folder inside of a folder or would I need to manually do them? Skizzosjt are your SG roms in zip format or unzipped?

 

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