LaunchBox Refuses to Import a Rom File

[GaryBryan33]

I am pretty green when it comes to the retrogaming arena. With that out of the way, here is my issue. My mame0.270 full-set is in the games folder (not sure if it should be in the emulator roms folder) within the set are various galaga zip files all imported except the galaga3 roms. When I try to add it manually it goes through all the steps at the end it says the following files are ready to be imported, but there are no files listed.  Any suggestions/directions  are greatly appreciated

[JoeViking245]

49 minutes ago, GaryBryan33 said:

I am pretty green when it comes to the retrogaming arena. With that out of the way, here is my issue. My mame0.270 full-set is in the games folder (not sure if it should be in the emulator roms folder) within the set are various galaga zip files all imported except the galaga3 roms. When I try to add it manually it goes through all the steps at the end it says the following files are ready to be imported, but there are no files listed.  Any suggestions/directions  are greatly appreciated

Do you have an imported game titled "Gaplus"?  If so, check the Additional Apps of that game and see if you have "Galaga 3" in there.

Galaga 3 is a clone of Gaplus and if you had LaunchBox combine the clones with the parent games, it would have put it in there. 

Later, when you went to add it using the Wizard, it didn't show because it was "already imported".

[GaryBryan33]

9 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:

Do you have an imported game titled "Gaplus"?  If so, check the Additional Apps of that game and see if you have "Galaga 3" in there.

Galaga 3 is a clone of Gaplus and if you had LaunchBox combine the clones with the parent games, it would have put it in there. 

Later, when you went to add it using the Wizard, it didn't show because it was "already imported".

Well, I'll be! Just like that I learned something new and am now playing galaga3. Thank you for your time. Any thoughts on where to keep the mame0.270 rom-set? launchbox/games folder or mame/emulator/rom folder.  Perhaps why I would choose one over the other. Again Thank you

[JoeViking245]

4 hours ago, GaryBryan33 said:

Any thoughts on where to keep the mame0.270 rom-set? launchbox/games folder or mame/emulator/rom folder.  Perhaps why I would choose one over the other.

Honestly, it really doesn't matter.  They won't work any better or worse in one location or another.

Being 'green', if they're working for you where they are now, stick with... "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."  

Keeping games in /LaunchBox/Games/[name_of_platform]/ does keep things tidy.