Thank you, worked perfectly on my Star Wars Arcade Trilogy Mod Arcade 1 up, using Big Box to organize my games, kids love it. Really love your videos, very well done, clear and concise.
I have searched on TH-cam for tutorials for setting up MAME successfully, could hardly find anything, until I found this link. What an excellent video, explained clearly every step of the way. This is how it should be done.
Great tutorial. Helped me set my old classics. Lots of tutorials in this channel and all works like a charm. I'm extremely happy revisiting some memories.
Thanks! One of the easiest to follow tutorials I've ever seen. Thanks for explaining it in a way that doesn't assume we know some steps along the way and tells it all.
Thank you! I spent two days trying to add Mame to a different system I already have. I just couldn’t sort it out. Followed this tutorial and had everything importing in less than half an hour. Tomorrow morning I set up the dolphin bar and start with the pew pew. You are a legend! Thank you.
Lots of folks (myself included) waiting to see tutorials from you on how to update their romsts (0.196 to 0.197, etc.), as well as how to take a romset like this 62 gb version you're using and just keep 100-200 games to play & be able to delete the rest from thier computer to save a lot of space...
Thanks ETA PRIME! Your videos always are so helpful. I've built many RetroPie setups for friends and family with your videos! And now looks like I can finally set LaunchBox on my PC. Will be perfect for my arcade build I'm working on! Thank you!
oh, dude that would be to cool. i use 4 versions of mame to play all my games i want to and have chd and bios files loaded in them all. do they transfer over to launchbox automatically when u upload mame??
To anyone having the problem where you see the "Initializing" screen and nothing happens, make sure you put your roms exactly where ETA tells you. inside the "roms" folder inside the mame emulator folder.
My bank account isn't happy, but you continue to provide golden content. My wife doesn't approve me watching your channel anymore...God bless my lunch break at work 👍
🤣🤣🤣 Did she give you an ultimatum? "Either it's me or ETA PRIME!!" So is it considered cheating since your seeing ETA on your break at work? Is your marriage worth it? OH THE DRAMA!!!
Some versions of mame seem to come with various video filtering options. I recently set up mameui 64-bit version of 0.201 and there don't seem to be many options. Games seemed a little blurry or too 'smoothed', well it's because in the direct3d section 'Use Bilinear filtering' was automatically checked. As soon as I unchecked that and started a game again, I got my preferred 'sharp' pixels.
What a lovely video with excellent and clear commentary! I'm only slightly anxious that it won't work or something will be wrong after it imports the games and meta data, but I'll find out in the morning... Thanks so much
Worked great!!!! Thanks for the video. One question though if you want to add a single rom to the already inputted folder how do you go about adding that?
This is great, thanks for the video, so wanted to find an easy to use frontend to make setup easy. Does this work the same for different emulators too, playstation for example?
Great video as always ETA, as it seems recommended to skip some games when setting up Mame, and the Mame games filenames seem well known, would it be possible to have a cleanup feature after setup to delete games that are not being used with launchbox.
So this is something I’m looking into now. A simple bat file might be able to weed out all the unused games but finding one or making one might be a pain
Love the tutorials. Thanks for all the hard work. Will you be doing a tutorial on how to set up Technoparrot on launch box? And what computer specs will be needed to run Technoparrot roms with out issues? I currently have the emulator on a 2 TB external seagate drive with a few roms. A couple of games run good but the games I wanted to play I am having issues with. Aliens Extinction seems to be on fast forward loop.
What I did is to add my Mame emulator to run already tested games working with that version and It worked! As import brings many games my handpicked set does not have or that I will not be playing
I can't seem to add any new games to my mame after coming back to it about 6 months later. All the games i added previously work, now it seems like the roms aren't working anywhere.
Thank you for the amazing video, as usual. One question though: what is the point in using MAME when you can use Retroarch with the MAME core. It seems to be a much better solution as you can then use all the Retroarch features. No?
I followed your pass retropie video and made my arcade possible thanks to you. I always wanted a PC version but it seems difficult for me won't even know where to start I don't do any gaming on PC and due to having two kids I have no room for a tower. But I really want to play all Mortal Kombat ,killer instinct and Virtua Fighter's with no issues. Is there a mini computer/ affordable alternative would like to use the same joysticks I have for the retropie USB
Thanks for making all these great tutorials, they have helpen me a lot! I do have a question though about importing mame into launchbox, mame updates every month, games are updated and game are moved from non-working to working. What is the best way/correct way to update your mame set within launchbox? Do I remove all within LB and then do a fresh new import of just re-import over the existing import? And if you do a fresh new import is there a way to keep/backup the list of games you favourited or will you have to find a those games again and add them to favourites all over again? Thanks
Just completed this tutorial and still works great however, I was unable to get any CPS-3 games going... any chance you can walk us through that part? Pretty much any other game I tested works fine though.
Your split rom set is about 62 gigs. Once all the importing is done (including all art and videos) how much space does your mame set and all imported files take up? Just wondering because I'm putting together an emulation pc to stick inside a cabinet and was pricing SSDs. Thanks for your content. It is extremely helpful and entertaining.
I found a MASSIVE MAME set on archive.org, but in the main zip file was all type ".7z" game folders instead of ".zip". I figured these were the same, but found that the games will not load. I had to extract the folders from the .7z. Then ZIP the folders to make them ".zip" . Ordinarily not a big issue, but the archive I downloaded was over 12,000 games. I don't even know where to begin to pair these down. Too many games is a good problem to have though!
Gracias! los subtitulos generados automaticamente funcionan bastante bien y el tutorial es exelente, acabo de hacer todos los pasos y solo falta que termine de descargar las imagenes y por lo que veo va a tardar muchas horas, saludos desde la Localidad de Llavallol, Partido de Lomas de Zamora, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I have a question. I'm watching a hyper spin video to see all of the emulators maybe or types of arcades out there. I'm going to do this tutorial. But does MAME cover all the different arcades company types that are out there. Like does Mame cover the old Capcom games, and mortal combat games, Pacman and the old king of fighter games. Or is there other emulators needed for these certain games?
Thanks for the video. I built my own cabinet and downloaded launch box and loaded MAME. But I am having an issue where my joysticks are switching between player 1 and player 2. Do you know how to assign the joystick and buttons so they don't swap? I have 2 separate encoders.
Great video as always, Because it is so easy to import, is there a way to export roms lists? I'm looking for an easy way to make collection rom lists for mame (i.e. SF Collection) to be used on other frontend platforms
Just about to build my first PC mainly for emulation so my question is how do you figure out or what are some determining factors to make sure your downloading safe files and stuff
I'm so confused, does it default to all those games it has to scrape? When I select a folder with ROMs in it that only have a handful, it shows hundreds on the list..
Yeah I’m not even going to try Hyperspin, seems to complex for a noob like me. I’m a big Midway fan, if I want games like Blitz & MK 4 what pc specs do I need to get these games running good?
I'd really like a tutorial on how to get mame working in launchbox via retroarch, I really like being able to use shaders and overlays, especially for arcade since there's a huge amount of game-specific bezels/overlays out there to make the experience more authentic. However, i've not been able to get any of my arcade games to launch from launch box.. they just freeze before the game boots. And if I use fireburn alpha as a core instead they just flat out won't launch, the window comes up and immediately closes... except for some reason, Gradius Launches with the mame core... just Gradius... not sure why. All the games launch fine in stand-alone retroarch. But not through launchbox. Can't find any helpful info on this anywhere. PS: Great videos btw. You're the reason I got launchbox when I was struggling with getting my retropie to stop freezing so often.
Great video and everything. Followed everything step by step. Only one problem is that the capcom games shut down after selecting them to play. What could be the cause of that?
I've just followed your great tutorial and while waiting for everything to download I have purchased a launchbox premium account. Is there a simple way of creating the playlists after importing everything? The option I wanted to do so was greyed out first time around due to having a free version of launchbox.
HOW TO IMPORT ROMS FILES INTO LAUNCHBOX AND PLAY IT SUCCESSFULLY ( if your game said missing some files or you cannot insect your roms ) : You should go to archive.org and download two files from your favorite game ( for example my favorite game is Twinkle Star Sprites ) then when u open a game, you will see a list of downloading files on the right, choose ONLY two files to download ( my favorite game has two files called : neogeo and twinkspri ) then download them!After all, u have to copy both of these ones to " roms " folder in "MAMEUi64 " folder, then EXTRACT ONLY file "neogeo" in " roms " folder. Then u just back to MAME emulator or Launchbox emulator to insect the roms of game and play it, it will work by the way! I tried it and successfully! You can contact me more on here if u need to ask more questions, my friend!🙂😃💖💖💖💖
HI i have a question regarding the Mame Wizards "Skip games" setting. Is there a way to add these seperately afterwards through the wizard in case i feel like i shouldnt have chosen to skip them ? For example the prototypes one might actually be good to have as i have noticed over the years that some prototype games for SNES/NES roms are actually very playable and enjoyable. For now though i do want to go with the recommended setting of skipping all of these choices.
I need help please. I'm very new to all this. I follow the instructions and it worked just fine. Accept for some games, I double click them to start but it quickly opens up and closes right away. How can I fix that?
This is an amazing guide, so clear, simple and not rushed! So glad I subscribed to you recently, greatly appreciate your videos. Keep it up! P.s. if you have time to answer, do you know if you can use a Pandora box as just a controller only? As I want to use Launchbox etc for my emulation on windows and the Pandora box as the controller. Just don't want to buy one if you can't use it solely as a controller.
Hey Prime Thanks for the tutorial very easy to follow it’s a great interface. I have an issue with some games that will not start from launch box.All ROMs I down loaded are working in MAME but when I launch some through launch box screen goes to initialising for a couple of seconds then goes back to launch box main screen. I have reinstall MAME and launch box but still same issue any ideas?
great vidoes brother. question...do my chd and bios files automatically transfer into launchbox when i upload my mame emulator. is there a way to load chd/bios directly into launchbox or u have to them in mame??? for example: cal speed and gauntlet legends require chd's and work perfectly in launchbox. then games like cruis'n usa/world don't work now when normally do. any thoughts?
Great video, you even answered my question about where to place CHD's. One quick question about custom themes. I'm running Launchbox on Win10 and many of the theme files are automatically blocked. Is there an easy work around this instead of manually unblocking each file? Thank you for your help and contribution to the scene!
Hi ETA Prime. Thank you for the best videos on the subject. I have a question about how to undo mistakes in Inputting my joystick (a HORI VEWLIX arcade stick). I do your typical tab, General Input, and mapping of my controller buttons. But I made a mistake on the button assigning. I find it impossible to undo the mistake. I try to reassign it but it just wants to add the previous button assigned with the new button. So I try to delete the rom and redeploy the rom in the folder. It keeps insisting on that button that I had mistakenly assigned. Is there a way just to start all over and return the default buttons, so I can do it over again?
so i have a .214 set with 35000+ files but like you, when i filter then i only get 2500+ games, which obviously is what I want, but is there anyway to clean up the unnecessary files? I mean 32500+ unused files takes up alot of space
Thanks for the video ETA PRIME. I have an ASROCK a310 mini PC with an i5-8400 CPU. I installed Launchbox but unfortunately MAME isn’t working. It starts for 2 seconds and then shuts down. Anything you can help with would be appreciated. Thanks!
Its not easy is it...search for 0.209 ROMs on archive. Click on the link that spells out MAME in blue letters and I then click the zip file. I used the merged one since that was the only set I could find. its about 64 gigs and took 2 days to download...longer than it should have taken. Then follow eta's guide here and most of the games should work. I still haven't figured out the stinking CHD's yet...
You should go to archive.org and download two files from your favorite game ( for example my favorite game is Twinkle Star Sprites ) then when u open a game, you will see a list of downloading files on the right, choose ONLY two files to download ( my favorite game has two files called : neogeo and twinkspri ) then download them!After all, u have to copy both of these ones to " roms " folder in "MAMEUi64 " folder, then EXTRACT ONLY file "neogeo" in " roms " folder. Then u just back to MAME emulator or Launchbox emulator to insect the roms of game and play it, it will work by the way! I tried it and successfully! You can contact me more on here if u need to ask more questions, my friend!🙂😃💖💖💖💖
Especially one thing that AFTER OPEN THE GAME INSIDE, WHEN U WANT TO START GAME BY COINS ( I MEAN START GAME ), you have to TURN OFF UNIKEY by click " end " button on it, then u can press the button in game, this is what I found when I couldn't play it before, so turn off the Unikey will START the game.
Setting those 16 buttons on Mame 0128b with Logitech f310 controller has been nerve wrecking, and I still am sorely in need of help :( Can you please tell me which button is for which under a PS2 controller layout?
Another awesome video. When you setup buttons, are they game specific or they affect MAME as a whole? I only see 2 buttons per player. What about games that use more buttons?
In the video ETA selects "Inputs (This machine)" which only affects the game running at the moment, that is why only 2 buttons showed up. However, just above that option there's one that says "Input (General)" and there you can change universal keybindings. If you scroll down that list you will find tons of buttons like paddles and such. Reallistically you only need to change like Buttons 1 through 6 for each player as well as start, select and coin (I usually bind select and coin together). And then if a particular game needs some other bindings go into "Input (This game)" and make adjustments, these won't affect your universal keys.
thanks for the video.. one question though... what about Software Lists in Mame? I use mameUI, but it only has 72 bios, no snes, no n64, no dc, no vgmplay, and a long etc. Does LB support SL? If so, how? My roms folder has a lot of subfolders (standard, neogeo_bios, dc, n64, taito, etc.). I'd appreciate if You made a more complex video-tutorial, using software lists on mame. Also what about samples&CHDs? Thanks a bunch!
Great video ETA PRIME. I have started building an arcade machine and I was going use Hyperspin for the front end but have run into screen tearing issues on some games. The odd part is the games will run fine directly out of MAME but start to tear in Hyperspin. One game I am having an issue with is Ninja Turtles, I was thinking switching the front end to BigBox but now I see the same screen tear occuring in Ninja Turtles at the 13:08 mark in your video. Do you know of a way to correct this?
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I've had mixed results with MAME over the years, but after watching this I'm going to try again.
So glad I got LaunchBox when I did!
Thank you, worked perfectly on my Star Wars Arcade Trilogy Mod Arcade 1 up, using Big Box to organize my games, kids love it. Really love your videos, very well done, clear and concise.
I have searched on TH-cam for tutorials for setting up MAME successfully, could hardly find anything, until I found this link. What an excellent video, explained clearly every step of the way. This is how it should be done.
Same
Great tutorial. Helped me set my old classics. Lots of tutorials in this channel and all works like a charm. I'm extremely happy revisiting some memories.
Thanks! One of the easiest to follow tutorials I've ever seen. Thanks for explaining it in a way that doesn't assume we know some steps along the way and tells it all.
Thank you! I spent two days trying to add Mame to a different system I already have. I just couldn’t sort it out. Followed this tutorial and had everything importing in less than half an hour. Tomorrow morning I set up the dolphin bar and start with the pew pew. You are a legend! Thank you.
Lots of folks (myself included) waiting to see tutorials from you on how to update their romsts (0.196 to 0.197, etc.), as well as how to take a romset like this 62 gb version you're using and just keep 100-200 games to play & be able to delete the rest from thier computer to save a lot of space...
Clrmamepro or Romlister. Lots of guides out there already.
what about the ROMS :) Nintendo took care of shutting down the big sites.
@@Hrbl. could you link some videos perhaps?
I'm diving into emulation and this was perfect, wasn't aware of launchbox but it seems like the best option for pc emulation. Thank you!
Thanks ETA PRIME! Your videos always are so helpful. I've built many RetroPie setups for friends and family with your videos! And now looks like I can finally set LaunchBox on my PC. Will be perfect for my arcade build I'm working on! Thank you!
Awesome video Mr Prime. Could you please do a guide on how to set up Mame games that require CHD’s?
Corey Winiata I have the same question. Did you find anything Corey?
It would be great if these emulator collections could download all the missing BIOS and ROMs automatically.
oh, dude that would be to cool. i use 4 versions of mame to play all my games i want to and have chd and bios files loaded in them all. do they transfer over to launchbox automatically when u upload mame??
@@leebrandon3842 launchbox is just a frontend, your existing files don't need to be copied
To anyone having the problem where you see the "Initializing" screen and nothing happens, make sure you put your roms exactly where ETA tells you. inside the "roms" folder inside the mame emulator folder.
Ah, the number of quarters I dumped into that teenage mutant ninja turtles arcade game growing up!
Cowabunga dude...
anyway to hide the taskbar? make it look better?
I followed your steps and everything works great. Thank you Prime!!!
What are the best video settings for this version of MAME?
Cheers!!!!
Thank you for providing this. Really great information and tutorial.
Great video. How does it work if there are more than two action buttons. For instance Defender? Appreciate your work
My bank account isn't happy, but you continue to provide golden content. My wife doesn't approve me watching your channel anymore...God bless my lunch break at work 👍
🤣🤣🤣
Did she give you an ultimatum?
"Either it's me or ETA PRIME!!"
So is it considered cheating since your seeing ETA on your break at work? Is your marriage worth it?
OH THE DRAMA!!!
Great video. Easy to follow and well done.
The ROM set was 62GB, what is the total space taken up after the screenshot, etc. download?
This is perfect for my new Arcade Stick!
Downloading this! Free for now, but I'll be getting the paid version soon!
Great video as always, thanks Prime!😎🤙
Awesome
I will follow the instructions!!!
Some versions of mame seem to come with various video filtering options. I recently set up mameui 64-bit version of 0.201 and there don't seem to be many options. Games seemed a little blurry or too 'smoothed', well it's because in the direct3d section 'Use Bilinear filtering' was automatically checked. As soon as I unchecked that and started a game again, I got my preferred 'sharp' pixels.
I hope you do or create a feature
easy syouryuuken (ryu/ken)
easy hadouken
in other games like The King of Fighters - games
What a lovely video with excellent and clear commentary! I'm only slightly anxious that it won't work or something will be wrong after it imports the games and meta data, but I'll find out in the morning... Thanks so much
What is better for an arcade cab, retropie or launchbox
Worked great!!!! Thanks for the video. One question though if you want to add a single rom to the already inputted folder how do you go about adding that?
This is great, thanks for the video, so wanted to find an easy to use frontend to make setup easy. Does this work the same for different emulators too, playstation for example?
pretty much
Great video as always ETA, as it seems recommended to skip some games when setting up Mame, and the Mame games filenames seem well known, would it be possible to have a cleanup feature after setup to delete games that are not being used with launchbox.
So this is something I’m looking into now. A simple bat file might be able to weed out all the unused games but finding one or making one might be a pain
@@ETAPRIME a feature like this would be highly appriciated to save disk space. A option to delete al roms from disks which aren't used in launchbox.
Love the tutorials. Thanks for all the hard work.
Will you be doing a tutorial on how to set up Technoparrot on launch box? And what computer specs will be needed to run Technoparrot roms with out issues? I currently have the emulator on a 2 TB external seagate drive with a few roms. A couple of games run good but the games I wanted to play I am having issues with. Aliens Extinction seems to be on fast forward loop.
Great video been thinking about finally building a full arcade but not sure if I should go with launch box or hyperspin!
What I did is to add my Mame emulator to run already tested games working with that version and It worked! As import brings many games my handpicked set does not have or that I will not be playing
Thank you for the vid and guide.
vous êtes le Best dans votre domaine,j'adore vos vidéos instructives.god bless you
I can't seem to add any new games to my mame after coming back to it about 6 months later. All the games i added previously work, now it seems like the roms aren't working anywhere.
yeah I am having the same issue
Scan for added roms 😊
Can you please review the Athlon 200GE when it comes out later this month?
Your videos are the best!
Do you have to have a contoller for these games ?? can you use mouse or configure something else ? do not have any but love this .
You can use mouse and keyboard
Love your tutorials! Thanks!
Thank you for the amazing video, as usual. One question though: what is the point in using MAME when you can use Retroarch with the MAME core. It seems to be a much better solution as you can then use all the Retroarch features. No?
Not all cores are as good as the standalone emulators and that's the case here
I wish you would have described what 'Non-arcade games', 'Region to prioritize', and a few other selections in that box mean.
Can you do a MAME Advance setup guide. Modifying the mame.config file to change things like using port audio, using hlsl, bfgx, mame bezels, etc.
Thank you very helpful
You are the best hands down
I followed your pass retropie video and made my arcade possible thanks to you. I always wanted a PC version but it seems difficult for me won't even know where to start I don't do any gaming on PC and due to having two kids I have no room for a tower. But I really want to play all Mortal Kombat ,killer instinct and Virtua Fighter's with no issues. Is there a mini computer/ affordable alternative would like to use the same joysticks I have for the retropie USB
what is the total memory of the MAME setup you are demonstrating? just so i know ahead of time how much space I need
@ETA PRIME
Thanks for the tutorial, I can finally play Arcade games on my laptop. How do I get rid of unused games to save some hard disk space?
Thanks for making all these great tutorials, they have helpen me a lot!
I do have a question though about importing mame into launchbox, mame updates every month, games are updated and game are moved from non-working to working. What is the best way/correct way to update your mame set within launchbox? Do I remove all within LB and then do a fresh new import of just re-import over the existing import? And if you do a fresh new import is there a way to keep/backup the list of games you favourited or will you have to find a those games again and add them to favourites all over again? Thanks
It's the less satisfying answers.
Just completed this tutorial and still works great however, I was unable to get any CPS-3 games going... any chance you can walk us through that part? Pretty much any other game I tested works fine though.
Your split rom set is about 62 gigs. Once all the importing is done (including all art and videos) how much space does your mame set and all imported files take up? Just wondering because I'm putting together an emulation pc to stick inside a cabinet and was pricing SSDs. Thanks for your content. It is extremely helpful and entertaining.
How new are the games in this room set?? Are there any late 90's games in there?
I found a MASSIVE MAME set on archive.org, but in the main zip file was all type ".7z" game folders instead of ".zip". I figured these were the same, but found that the games will not load. I had to extract the folders from the .7z. Then ZIP the folders to make them ".zip" . Ordinarily not a big issue, but the archive I downloaded was over 12,000 games. I don't even know where to begin to pair these down. Too many games is a good problem to have though!
Great and easy explanations! Thank you so much! Will buy the premium box as soon as I have my cab finished...
Awesome video!!!! Thanks
Gracias! los subtitulos generados automaticamente funcionan bastante bien y el tutorial es exelente, acabo de hacer todos los pasos y solo falta que termine de descargar las imagenes y por lo que veo va a tardar muchas horas, saludos desde la Localidad de Llavallol, Partido de Lomas de Zamora, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I have a question. I'm watching a hyper spin video to see all of the emulators maybe or types of arcades out there. I'm going to do this tutorial. But does MAME cover all the different arcades company types that are out there. Like does Mame cover the old Capcom games, and mortal combat games, Pacman and the old king of fighter games. Or is there other emulators needed for these certain games?
Thanks for the video. I built my own cabinet and downloaded launch box and loaded MAME. But I am having an issue where my joysticks are switching between player 1 and player 2. Do you know how to assign the joystick and buttons so they don't swap? I have 2 separate encoders.
Great video as always, Because it is so easy to import, is there a way to export roms lists? I'm looking for an easy way to make collection rom lists for mame (i.e. SF Collection) to be used on other frontend platforms
What kind of pc is going to run the emulators the best?
Just about to build my first PC mainly for emulation so my question is how do you figure out or what are some determining factors to make sure your downloading safe files and stuff
I'm so confused, does it default to all those games it has to scrape? When I select a folder with ROMs in it that only have a handful, it shows hundreds on the list..
mame arcade games are not launching, please guide sir...
Great video, thanks.
Your videos are the best, Can i get a heart
(heart! heart!) :D
Ayyyyy you got a heart 😀
Yeah I’m not even going to try Hyperspin, seems to complex for a noob like me. I’m a big Midway fan, if I want games like Blitz & MK 4 what pc specs do I need to get these games running good?
Thank you! Seriously
This is my next project
Goner have to buy new sdd for this i think
The only thing theres some much filler with the games
I'd really like a tutorial on how to get mame working in launchbox via retroarch, I really like being able to use shaders and overlays, especially for arcade since there's a huge amount of game-specific bezels/overlays out there to make the experience more authentic. However, i've not been able to get any of my arcade games to launch from launch box.. they just freeze before the game boots. And if I use fireburn alpha as a core instead they just flat out won't launch, the window comes up and immediately closes... except for some reason, Gradius Launches with the mame core... just Gradius... not sure why. All the games launch fine in stand-alone retroarch. But not through launchbox. Can't find any helpful info on this anywhere.
PS: Great videos btw. You're the reason I got launchbox when I was struggling with getting my retropie to stop freezing so often.
Great video and everything. Followed everything step by step. Only one problem is that the capcom games shut down after selecting them to play. What could be the cause of that?
That means it's the game is using the wrong core. Have to find another core to play that specific game
I've just followed your great tutorial and while waiting for everything to download I have purchased a launchbox premium account. Is there a simple way of creating the playlists after importing everything? The option I wanted to do so was greyed out first time around due to having a free version of launchbox.
HOW TO IMPORT ROMS FILES INTO LAUNCHBOX AND PLAY IT SUCCESSFULLY ( if your game said missing some files or you cannot insect your roms ) :
You should go to archive.org and download two files from your favorite game ( for example my favorite game is Twinkle Star Sprites ) then when u open a game, you will see a list of downloading files on the right, choose ONLY two files to download ( my favorite game has two files called : neogeo and twinkspri ) then download them!After all, u have to copy both of these ones to " roms " folder in "MAMEUi64 " folder, then EXTRACT ONLY file "neogeo" in " roms " folder. Then u just back to MAME emulator or Launchbox emulator to insect the roms of game and play it, it will work by the way! I tried it and successfully! You can contact me more on here if u need to ask more questions, my friend!🙂😃💖💖💖💖
HI i have a question regarding the Mame Wizards "Skip games" setting. Is there a way to add these seperately afterwards through the wizard in case i feel like i shouldnt have chosen to skip them ?
For example the prototypes one might actually be good to have as i have noticed over the years that some prototype games for SNES/NES roms are actually very playable and enjoyable. For now though i do want to go with the recommended setting of skipping all of these choices.
MAME settings in Launchbox vid please :)
This is pretty awesome! One day I will buy the lifetime license.
I need help please. I'm very new to all this. I follow the instructions and it worked just fine. Accept for some games, I double click them to start but it quickly opens up and closes right away. How can I fix that?
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This is an amazing guide, so clear, simple and not rushed! So glad I subscribed to you recently, greatly appreciate your videos. Keep it up!
P.s. if you have time to answer, do you know if you can use a Pandora box as just a controller only? As I want to use Launchbox etc for my emulation on windows and the Pandora box as the controller. Just don't want to buy one if you can't use it solely as a controller.
Hey Prime
Thanks for the tutorial very easy to follow it’s a great interface.
I have an issue with some games that will not start from launch box.All ROMs I down loaded are working in MAME but when I launch some through launch box screen goes to initialising for a couple of seconds then goes back to launch box main screen.
I have reinstall MAME and launch box but still same issue any ideas?
also got a few roms in and when i try starting them, loading reaches about 90% and then stops.
@@peppercock wouldn't waste your time with it
Which Mame you guys using? Mame 0.218 can't play most of the roms
Please bring back the what's new / change log for new Launchbox releases!!
Is there a launchbox addon so it can be used with an arcade cabinet? I don't want to add a mouse and keyboard to pick games etc.
great vidoes brother. question...do my chd and bios files automatically transfer into launchbox when i upload my mame emulator. is there a way to load chd/bios directly into launchbox or u have to them in mame??? for example: cal speed and gauntlet legends require chd's and work perfectly in launchbox. then games like cruis'n usa/world don't work now when normally do. any thoughts?
please can you make a tutorial for how to set CRT mask emulation and what is it the best on variuos lcd display and resolution ;)
Great video, you even answered my question about where to place CHD's.
One quick question about custom themes. I'm running Launchbox on Win10 and many of the theme files are automatically blocked.
Is there an easy work around this instead of manually unblocking each file?
Thank you for your help and contribution to the scene!
Can It Run The Lost World Jurassic Park Game? Been Having Issues With Mame Hopefully This Is The Fix Ive Been Looking For ~Thanks In Advance
does this allow me to erase unwanted games?
Hi ETA Prime. Thank you for the best videos on the subject. I have a question about how to undo mistakes in Inputting my joystick (a HORI VEWLIX arcade stick). I do your typical tab, General Input, and mapping of my controller buttons. But I made a mistake on the button assigning. I find it impossible to undo the mistake. I try to reassign it but it just wants to add the previous button assigned with the new button. So I try to delete the rom and redeploy the rom in the folder. It keeps insisting on that button that I had mistakenly assigned. Is there a way just to start all over and return the default buttons, so I can do it over again?
-Is the Star Wars Trilogy Arcade game in there?- Any chance of showing how to get Star Wars Trilogy to work?
does still apply today ?
so i have a .214 set with 35000+ files but like you, when i filter then i only get 2500+ games, which obviously is what I want, but is there anyway to clean up the unnecessary files? I mean 32500+ unused files takes up alot of space
Thanks for the video ETA PRIME. I have an ASROCK a310 mini PC with an i5-8400 CPU. I installed Launchbox but unfortunately MAME isn’t working. It starts for 2 seconds and then shuts down. Anything you can help with would be appreciated. Thanks!
Well I cannot find a ROM set at all. No idea where you get 0.201ROMs. Even on Archive.org.
Its not easy is it...search for 0.209 ROMs on archive. Click on the link that spells out MAME in blue letters and I then click the zip file. I used the merged one since that was the only set I could find. its about 64 gigs and took 2 days to download...longer than it should have taken. Then follow eta's guide here and most of the games should work. I still haven't figured out the stinking CHD's yet...
You should go to archive.org and download two files from your favorite game ( for example my favorite game is Twinkle Star Sprites ) then when u open a game, you will see a list of downloading files on the right, choose ONLY two files to download ( my favorite game has two files called : neogeo and twinkspri ) then download them!After all, u have to copy both of these ones to " roms " folder in "MAMEUi64 " folder, then EXTRACT ONLY file "neogeo" in " roms " folder. Then u just back to MAME emulator or Launchbox emulator to insect the roms of game and play it, it will work by the way! I tried it and successfully! You can contact me more on here if u need to ask more questions, my friend!🙂😃💖💖💖💖
chrisnam98 can you please help me???
@@loukaskokkinis8809 sure, do u have Skype or Whatsapp?😃
Especially one thing that AFTER OPEN THE GAME INSIDE, WHEN U WANT TO START GAME BY COINS ( I MEAN START GAME ), you have to TURN OFF UNIKEY by click " end " button on it, then u can press the button in game, this is what I found when I couldn't play it before, so turn off the Unikey will START the game.
Setting those 16 buttons on Mame 0128b with Logitech f310 controller has been nerve wrecking, and I still am sorely in need of help :(
Can you please tell me which button is for which under a PS2 controller layout?
Tab button isn’t working in launch ox or bigbox for some reason. Any ideas?
Hi ETA Prime, I set it up exactly as you said, and imported a few games, have RetroArch as the emulator SNES. The game appears, but it does not play??
What about Software Lists?
I can't get it to work, by mistake i installed 0.201 ROMs with 212, i tried to find 0.212 ROMs and i can't find em anywhere.
Can I run MAME with RetroArch alone, without Launch Box?
Another awesome video. When you setup buttons, are they game specific or they affect MAME as a whole? I only see 2 buttons per player. What about games that use more buttons?
In the video ETA selects "Inputs (This machine)" which only affects the game running at the moment, that is why only 2 buttons showed up.
However, just above that option there's one that says "Input (General)" and there you can change universal keybindings. If you scroll down that list you will find tons of buttons like paddles and such.
Reallistically you only need to change like Buttons 1 through 6 for each player as well as start, select and coin (I usually bind select and coin together). And then if a particular game needs some other bindings go into "Input (This game)" and make adjustments, these won't affect your universal keys.
Thanks for the clarification. I've been playing with MAME a bit, but never got to deep in it. :)
thanks for the video.. one question though... what about Software Lists in Mame? I use mameUI, but it only has 72 bios, no snes, no n64, no dc, no vgmplay, and a long etc. Does LB support SL? If so, how? My roms folder has a lot of subfolders (standard, neogeo_bios, dc, n64, taito, etc.). I'd appreciate if You made a more complex video-tutorial, using software lists on mame. Also what about samples&CHDs? Thanks a bunch!
Great video ETA PRIME.
I have started building an arcade machine and I was going use Hyperspin for the front end but have run into screen tearing issues on some games. The odd part is the games will run fine directly out of MAME but start to tear in Hyperspin. One game I am having an issue with is Ninja Turtles, I was thinking switching the front end to BigBox but now I see the same screen tear occuring in Ninja Turtles at the 13:08 mark in your video. Do you know of a way to correct this?