Rookie Question on Launchbox with C64 Dreams?

[jorodas]

Hello everyone, just wanted to ask a hopefully quick question regarding C64Dreams. I believe I covered the basic troubleshooting, but it is clear I am missing something, hope it is something easy/quick.

- Issue:

• I am unable to load any games in launchbox. I can see all the folder structure (favorite games/best of/), game covers, etc. Then I select a game, I get a black screen, and after a few seconds, it comes back to the same menu. Nothing happened.

- Steps taken

• I downloaded C64 Dreams from archive.org (https://archive.org/details/c64-dreams-v0.60)
• followed the instructions from the youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ_hVPqUDqg)
• extracted that "as is" in on a d:\folder of an old laptop running windows 11 21h2 (yes it is not the latest but i just want to try this out, and i do not plan to keep the computer online)
• double click launchbox.exe and see (as expected) folders/game covers/ etc
• (HERE IS WHERE I HAVE THE ISSUE) when i double click on a game get a black screen and nothing happens (the youtube video shows that it loads the game pretty quickly)

- Questions:

• what am i missing? any extra configuration i need to do in launchbox (i.e. point to an emulator path, or modify any files, anything else)? do i have a way to test the game outside launchbox to see if the game actually works? any other config i may need?

hopefully this is a quick fix! any feedback will be appreciated!