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Maybell Hughs

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Jul 27, 2024, 4:44:07 AM7/27/24

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I can build a playlist on my PC and it does recognize these as MAME, and it makes a list with all of these weird machine titles (with no thumbnails recognized). I am in the process now of transferring the actual roms over

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I have maintained a couple of DATs for personal use (with a few additions) in sync with the latest MAME and the upcoming FBA 0.2.97.44 (WIP). The MAME set has 700 games and the FBA one 540. I can share the DATs here if there is any interest.

The MAME set sits at 4.87Gb - 663 games. I would advise against using this set with RetroArch since the current MAME core is behind upstream so the rom set is probably not 100% in sync. The FBA sets sits at 3.18Gb - 537 games. You need the latest core from the Online Updater.

the most important thing for me is to link thumbnail images in Retroarch with the arcade games. this is my ultimate goal. I have figured this out with home console roms but it seems there are some gaps in my own knowledge missing to get mame roms functioning with thumbnails.

DATs describe the ROM contents including filenames, file sizes, and checksums to verify contents are not incorrect or corrupt. DATs are usually maintained either by emulator developers (such as with MAME or Final Burn Alpha) or digital preservation organizations like TOSEC and No-Intro.

I downloaded the no filler rom pack from arcade punks and found the roms and they are 3.4GB !!! this is exactly what I am looking for, they even came bundled with a bunch of different thumbnails. I have managed to figure out how to make playlists with playlist buddy but so far I have not figured out how to attach thumbnails within playlist buddy. this no filler pack came with a single file with a .xml extension. I am guessing this is my magic key.

I feel like I am getting close but I still cannot attach thumbnails to these games. I even have a multitude of different .png games including screen shots, marquees, box art etc. along with the libretro library of covers. I cant them to link to the ROM

I have the full 60 GB set of MAME roms on an external HDD. I'd like to be able to copy just the parents to my LaunchBox folder while skipping the casino games, fruit games, handheld games, etc. so that I'm not wasting a bunch of space on my internal drive. Is this possible in 8.6 premium? I couldn't find an option in the MAME full set import feature to copy to library.

MAME is very complicated in that regard with lots of the files needing other files in the set in order to function. So unfortunately that's not easy to manage, and LaunchBox doesn't offer that option for that reason.

Thank you for the quick response. What about moving the full set into my LaunchBox folder, importing the full set with the non-casino, non-handheld, etc. restrictions, and then running some kind of clean up to delete those files from my LaunchBox folder which are not in my library? Is that possible?

The problem is that the Split and Merged sets have files that aren't actual game roms but are required for certain games to work. Neogeo.zip and Qsound.zip are just 2 examples, these 2 bios files are required for NeoGeo and Capcom CPS2 games to work, there are others as well but that's the main obvious ones.

It is possible to do what you are asking I am sure but it would be an annoying task to do. If you want a pared down set I would suggest getting a Non Merged set and pull individual rom files out of that and build your customized set, I have done this for my No Filler project.

As an alternative, how does LaunchBox handle ROMs on removable media? Would LaunchBox throw a bunch of errors if it opens and the MAME set is missing? And would it welcome the files back into the fold if I reconnected the drive?

I used a few tools as well from the hyperspin days. don's list thing to get all the weird crap out, then some program that looked for the files that matched that xml in my mame directory and copied them out into another folder. Then i could delete everything (minus the bios stuff) that didn't get copied (didn't match the xml) and then re-copy the small set back into the mame directory. It was a merged set too, and haven't run into any troubles in I think 3 years now. But yeah, it definitely is a process. They really should break out all the mahjong, casino, etc., out into it's own set from the beginning.

I've thought they should break out genres in the download for MAME also but then thought the reason they don't do that is because then no one would be downloading them so they make sure that all the files are getting distributed by keeping them all in the same pack.

I know what I am about to say will be growled at by some, but RECOMPRESS THE FILES.
Most roms, are REALLY badly compressed using TorrentZip. I use 7-zip on all my Windows
based emulators that support it, due to compression being a ton better.

This MAY seem like a huge job, but you can download programs and scripts to automate the
process of converting zip to 7z, even some rom-mangers do it nowdays...

Example

HB MAME 235 original download of ROMS zips = 23gig (just under)
HB MAME 235 Recompressed ROMS as 7z's = 12Gig

and this result ain't hard to get...

If an emulator supports compression, use it. The speeds ain't bad either on extracting as most
games are tiny compared to modern filesizes...

If you would like help on this, join the RR Discord, and message me.

ZX81v2

I recompress all zips soon as I download them, using a simple script. And yeah I know they can be SMALLER, I didn't want to mess with decompression time lag, and the results worked good enough for me. Just the fact that people can get them smaller than me, is a proof they are crapply compressed to start with...

As for recompressing a whole romset takes time, yeah, your right, but when you save a TERRABYTES of space , it's not that long a process at all, as you only have to recompress the updates after the main bulk is recompressed. VBA Scripts, even BATCH work for automation of the process,

I knew I'd get some growls... lol, but this is JUST ROMS, CHD's are a waste of time trying to compress more that MAMEDEV

Recompressing saves money on new HDD's (Plus it's smaller to shift around)

Respect

ZX81v2 - Back to original Account :)

Anyway got nearly every emulator working apart from MAME (and Fairchild F but aparently that work through MAME?), a lot of the games work but there are so many many that don't and I can't figure out why. I followed the video tutorial and like I say it does work to an extent but want to make sure its not something im doing wrong. So im using MAME64 (tried both 0.202 and 0.205) standalone as described via the video and not the retroarch core. I also have a MAME romset 0.202.

So what happens is that many games just say something along the lines of "the selected machine is missing one or more required rom or chd files". So for games like the 1940 series,, none of them work they all say the same thing. I found posts regarding QSOUND, but looked in the romset I have and its already in there along with QSOUND HLE. Ive tried different versions of MAME, tried starting it out of LAunchbox and directly from mame and have the same error. MAME has it in its workig category apparently. Could it be that they just don't work or am I actually missing something?.

If you have the 0.202 MAME romset then use 0.202 of the MAME emulator. Also depending on the romset type you have you may be missing the bios files, the non-merged romset contains all the bios files inside each game zip, the other two merged and split may not have those bios files in the romset at all.

Ah I see, thanks so its possibly that I may be missing the BIOs files. So sorry to ask another noob questoin but how can I tell if I have amerged or split romset?, is it literally the roms inside are indiviual or in one big zip file?. Mine are all split in seperate files by the looks of it. Also how can I tell if I have the correct BIOS files if any?, as I have looked online but it seems to relate to older version which im not sure will help me or not.

A split sets and non-merged sets will have the parent and clone game data in separate zip files. i.e. 1941.zip, 1941j.zip, 1941r1.zip, 1941u.zip. In this case "1941.zip" contains 19 files and no folders. Look inside "1942u.zip". If it contains 19 files it part of a non-merged set . If it only contains 4 (or 5?) files, it with a split set.

Hi guys thanks for all you replies and srry for my late one. Im a lot more informed about it now and its a split set I have. It turned it it was a bad romset as I spent the last couple days aquiring another and it works now. Thanks again.

So I have a question on that similar issue for mame. I have the .202 rom set and have the .205 mame64 installed. Is there a simple way to go back to the old mame64 .202 version without overriding anything and having to rescan games?