New PC setup

[Bashyman]

Morning,

I setup my existing PC with Launchbox about 4 years ago.

Currently setting up a games room in the loft with a new PC and moved across all the files, gained an up to date licence from support and installed new version.

Did the same on my existing PC as hadn't played it for a couple of years and everything works exactly as it used to downstairs.

However, the machine in the games room looks the same, but any game I try to play it says emulator doesn't exist.

Might seem a silly question, but do I have to install each emulator separately on the new machine? The downstairs PC looks like it doesn't have them installed via windows as they're not showing in programs list under control panel, so thought copying emulator folder alongside the rest of the folders in Launchbox would work

 

Cheers

[Kefka2b]

1 hour ago, Bashyman said:

Morning,

I setup my existing PC with Launchbox about 4 years ago.

Currently setting up a games room in the loft with a new PC and moved across all the files, gained an up to date licence from support and installed new version.

Did the same on my existing PC as hadn't played it for a couple of years and everything works exactly as it used to downstairs.

However, the machine in the games room looks the same, but any game I try to play it says emulator doesn't exist.

Might seem a silly question, but do I have to install each emulator separately on the new machine? The downstairs PC looks like it doesn't have them installed via windows as they're not showing in programs list under control panel, so thought copying emulator folder alongside the rest of the folders in Launchbox would work

 

Cheers

Emulators are executables and not installed. Just make sure you go to options-> manage emulators -> put the the right path where the exe is stored on your new machine.

Also try to start the emulators outside of Launchbox to make sure they work properly on their own if not.

Edited May 13 by Kefka2b

[Bashyman]

Thanks for the reply. Sorted it in launchbox and added emulators (completely forgot I had to do that)

Is there a quick way I can copy over my settings for Retorarch? Do I just copy cores folder and retorarch.cfg file.

At work atm so can't trial

[Kefka2b]

1 minute ago, Bashyman said:

Thanks for the reply. Sorted it in launchbox and added emulators (completely forgot I had to do that)

Is there a quick way I can copy over my settings for Retorarch? Do I just copy cores folder and retorarch.cfg file.

At work atm so can't trial

If you still have access to your previous storage, just copy and paste the whole folder. I've only used the portable version of RA so I'm not sure what it's like on the installed version.