roms Unable to add roms in Launchbox!

[JoeViking245]

1 hour ago, ServiceMode said:

Here it is:

Try.. in the emulator Details window, on the Default Command-Line Parameters line, add to the end -rompath %romlocation%

So it'll look like -keyboardprovider dinput -rompath %romlocation%

[ServiceMode]

Amazing, it works now. You are an arcade gem, man. Thank you!

 

Now, how can i have this? Only for arcades.

 

 

Instead of this

 

 

Edited February 4 by ServiceMode

[JoeViking245]

Where/how (what are you doing different) are you seeing those 2 different [expanded] lists?

I assume when you're in Platform Category view, and you expand the Arcade Category icon , you see the 'shorter' (last image) list of Playlists. And the (middle image) 'longer' list you're seeing is on someone else's, or a different LaunchBox build you have?

To get the "missing Playlists, you can right-click the [other] Arcade Platform icon  and select Create Missing Arcade/MAME Playlists and follow the prompts.   

[ServiceMode]

Another issue: I imported 115 NES games, but only 86 are showing. The same applies to SNES; for arcade games, there are fewer as well. Why is that, and how can I fix it?

Edited February 5 by ServiceMode

[JoeViking245]

1 hour ago, ServiceMode said:

I imported 115 NES games, but only 86 are showing. The same applies to SNES; for arcade games, there are fewer as well. Why is that, and how can I fix it?

Go to and check View < Badges < Game Attributes < Enable Multiple Versions

Do any of your games show the Multiple Versions badge?

Right click one of those games that do and select Play Version. There you'll see some of the "missing games".

[ServiceMode]

Yes, some games show that badge, which means I have all 115 games that showed before importing them?

 

In Launchbox for Arcade, it shows 889, but in the folder, it shows 961

 

Edited February 5 by ServiceMode

[JoeViking245]

53 minutes ago, ServiceMode said:

some games show that badge, which means I have all 115 games that showed before importing them?

I can't answer that.  It's not that I won't. It's that I can't.

 

58 minutes ago, ServiceMode said:

In Launchbox for Arcade, it shows 889, but in the folder, it shows 961

Ok.  Arcade has a lot of clones. And those get added as Additional Apps. Which is what you see when you select Play Version

 

 

If you really want to check your counts, from the Tools menu, Audit the platform. Look in the Additional Apps column and count up all the numbers of apps it shows.  Add those to the number of games the platform shows.

[ServiceMode]

Could you please explain whether I can update MAME from 0.284 to 0.285? Do i have to replace also the roms games?

Also, is there a setting to remove the screen tearing?

Edited February 6 by ServiceMode

[JoeViking245]

52 minutes ago, ServiceMode said:

Could you please explain whether I can update MAME from 0.284 to 0.285? Do i have to replace also the roms games?

Also, is there a setting to remove the screen tearing?

You're getting a bit too off topic from your original post.  This makes it harder for other community members to be able search if they have the same/similar questions.

Please keep your posts on topic (or at least close to it). Otherwise, if after you've done your due diligence in researching and are still unable to find an answer, feel free to start a new topic/post.

[ServiceMode]

Can you provide some of the best settings for LaunchBox to have everything properly set up for games? 

For example, how can I delete games directly from LaunchBox, not just from the LaunchBox list? from storage, to save even more space.

[JoeViking245]

1 hour ago, ServiceMode said:

Can you provide some of the best settings for LaunchBox to have everything properly set up for games? 

No.  Too subjective.  Also, each platform can have one or more emulators and each emulator needs to be setup individually.  When adding an emulator, many of them will have their settings [in LaunchBox] auto populated. Though many emulators can work out-of-the-box with just these settings, some may require extra steps to be taken.

Aside from that, LaunchBox can do nearly everything for you.

See Getting Started here: LaunchBox for Windows - LaunchBox

See LaunchBox Tutorials here: Unbroken Software, LLC - YouTube

 

1 hour ago, ServiceMode said:

For example, how can I delete games directly from LaunchBox, not just from the LaunchBox list? from storage, to save even more space.

Kind of an inverse "example" of proper game settings. Don't you think?   And now that you've learned how to add games, you want to delete them?  

 

To delete the games' ROM file when removing a game from your LaunchBox collection, go to Tools - Options. In the General section, check the box Allow deleting ROMs when deleting games.

[ServiceMode]

Appreciate the response, but I think you misunderstood what I was asking.

I’m not looking for a universal “one size fits all” preset. I’m fully aware that LaunchBox is just the frontend and that emulator configuration is platform-dependent.

What I was referring to are global best practices inside LaunchBox itself. Things that apply regardless of emulator choice. For example:

• Default emulator assignment per platform (manual vs auto)

• Recommended import settings (scrape priorities, metadata overwrite rules)

• Media storage structure for large libraries

• Performance tweaks for Big Box (video playback, transitions, caching)

• ROM management options like deleting files vs removing entries

• Handling multi-disc games and CHDs cleanly

Those are the kinds of baseline settings that help people avoid messy libraries in the long term.

Same with the deletion example I gave. It wasn’t about “proper game settings,” it was about storage management and how LaunchBox handles file operations versus database entries.

Your tip about enabling Allow deleting ROMs when deleting games is correct, but it’s exactly the type of global option I was talking about from the start.

So yeah, I agree there’s no universal emulator config. But there are universal LaunchBox practices that make a setup cleaner, faster, and easier to maintain, especially once you reach 10k+ games.