RetroArch + LaunchBox Integration = 5 Minute Front End Emulation Setup!
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Venerable front-end tool LaunchBox promises to beautify your gaming collection - but nobody likes setting up emulators for these launchers. Thanks to "Built-In" RetroArch support, you can get your emulator files displayed and running inside of five minutes!
I'll also show you some "gotchas"; like dealing with Arcade games that don't run; as well as discuss BIOS requirements for certain systems.
Note: I am aware this video is longer than five minutes - but the time it takes for the viewer to download, install and get the first set of games running should take even less time. See chapter jumps for break down.
Chapter Jumps:
00:00 - Bumper Intro
00:03 - Introduction
00:55 - Downloading (Got Email?)
01:25 - Installation (start of "5 minutes")
02:21 - First Run Wizard (Adding First Set of Images)
06:20 - Ready to Run First Set (end of "5 minutes")
06:50 - Adding Additional Folders of Images
09:35 - First Hiccup: BIOS Requirements (TG16)
10:35 - Second Hiccup: Adding Arcade Games
11:51 - Running Arcade Game Failure and How To Fix Several Issues
15:20 - Old MAME? No Worries! Fix it!
15:50 - Fixing Bad/No Match/No MetaData
17:05 - Closing Discussion 
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Over a year later and this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!!
thank you for the video especially about the issues with Arcade. Your video is the only one that actually shows how to fix it!
Yes I can finally load arcade games through Launchbox thanks to this great tutorial!
Watched a TON of videos and read some threads before finding this. Wish I could have found this first. Thank you!
Glad to help!
Great piece of software. Been using it for years and am a Patreon of libretro. PC master race! :-)
If it makes you feel any better it was a huge help! Trying to tighten down my set up for streaming and this is amazing. I wasnt excepting it to auto import my normal pc games and getting my roms was a breeze
I'm glad to have been of help!
Finally thanks to you I can load Arcade games in Launchbox using RetroArch. Thanks so much even though your video is 2 years old.
Thank you so much for showing how to add arcade and emulators for mame. There is no info I could find and have been pulling out my hair. My savior!
You're welcome!
Nice tips in the vid, thanks!
Thanks, Bro!
I really appreciate all the hard work you did and your COMMITMENT to excellence Shane! i dont care if it was longer than 5 min you really helped me out! i was extremely stumped on what to do....so THANK YOU for that. Now i just need to figure out how to run it from my USB stick.....thoughts??
Alas, not much help I can offer you there ... I am not a regular user of the product ... I was just curious and figured I'd share my adventures with the audience.
@@Darkuni Haha....well you could of fooled me, both you and ETA were the only ones that helped me at least get my foot in the door on emulation on the PC. I have been out of the emulation world not to mention gaming in general for many years now since my accident, so I appreciate your dedicated time it took to show us how to get it set up. Thanks!
@@brandonguindon1056 You may entertain looking at Emulation Station Desktop Edition. ES is available on every platform known to man; Pi, hand held emulators, etc. Once you learn that package? You take it with you ...
@@Darkuni I'm a little familiar with ES, I've used it before I liked it. So you're saying I can install it on my laptop? At no cost? 😄 if that's true then I'll be pretty busy tonight setting that up. Does it come installed with anything? Or it's just a clean platform basically
@@brandonguindon1056 Clean. And yep, installs in Windows. Easy peasy.
great video
easy fix for arcade folder and all emulator associated is to move it inside a "fbneo" folder
Thanks for videy
How can we tune up the graphics settings? I remember being able to do it on RetroArch which was really nice.
What? Who doesn't like Michael Jackson moonwalker? I've played that game to death.
@@shenglongx true.
when I get to the retroarch download it just freezes. can someone help me?
Hi mate, Did you get working BizHawk 2.6.2 emulator? Do you know the default command line parameter please?. I got emulator running but game do not load...
Hola como estas , te quería preguntar porque el menú de mi launchbox no es igual al tu yo
i have launchbox on my computer and uh i find it complicated i am looking for a way to add educational games to launchbox
how do i get my controllers to work?
Will this work for older pc games? I'm trying to download global operations that I used to play as a kid and I can't figure it out 😭
I really only messed around with it for a bit and only with the confines of Retroarch - not an old PC game.
Hi, so when i try to run ANY rom from launchbox it just gives me a dark, but not black, screen and just sits there. All emulators are using libretro.
Only emulator that works for me is the n64 I can't get any other ones working
I've got version 12.8 on windows 11 and all my roms are playing slow. Any advice?
Did you change versions of both the package AND Windows?
While in the middle of a game how do you access things like shaders? I know ots from retro A but how do I get to it from within a game?
Try R3+L3?
@@Darkuni I did still nothing... I forgot I'm in windows I finally figured out had to pull up the keyboards and use alt and F1 ...crazy... Just not use to it
Maybe I missed it but what are the comparable front ends that are offline?
I actually use Emulation Station personally. I did this video by request.
Thanks for the great video!
Don’t know if you’ll reply but I was playing Pokémon Platinum DS version on Retroarch for a while, then I tried it after installing Launchbox and it’s playing as a new save
Why wouldn't you expect that to happen? Saves are per emulator ....
@@Darkuni Makes sense now, I was too busy stressing out. Thank you for replying
Can I do this like a portable
Version like plug and play? On a ssd
I'm not sure...
3:20 what happens if I already have retroarch?
Can you make it show screenshots too when you single click a game?
What is the space it takes up for say, 5000 games?
I was wondering too. I just got Retroarch set up with all the controls and box art to my liking for my retro consoles. I already use Launchbox for DOS/Windows 3.1 games and I plan on using MAME with it but if I can easily get all the Retroarch stuff to transfer over with all the settings intact, I'd rather have one launcher but don't want to redo all the controls, shaders, box art, etc.
Hello
How do you change shaders in launchbox ?
I'm really not a launch box user. I wish I could help you more. This was sort of a one-off video.
I assume the GB/C/A are your favourite machines?
Not really. I just had that stuff handy.
@@Darkuni Okay, what is your fave?
@@9ElevenGamer I'm an old 8/16-bit computer guy. Mostly Commodore. Vic-20, C64, Amiga. For handhelds I dig on Atari Lynx, Nintendo DS. Consoles? Not in MAD love with any of them - Colecovision, 2600, PS1, Dreamcast ...
@@Darkuni I like my AMIGA and handhelds mainly.
Maybe I'm just unlucky but the auto download and install retroarch shown in the video always get stuck and hangs for me. Waited 30 mins plus and just stays about 10% done.
They sucks ... Let us know if you figure it out?
@@Darkuni going through manually adding retroarch but that seems to hanging up downloading missing cores. Went to retroarch itself and downloaded every single core as someone on reddit seemed to think that would help.
No joy so far
@@Darkuni this is after I spent all weekend trying to get hyperspin loaded on my shield pro with no luck.
Might just have to give up
@@madduey6155 I can say a friend of mine had it all working on his Shield TV Pro. Used an external 1TB drive. Pretty slick. I've never done it personally though.
@@Darkuni I bought a 5tb drive downloaded 100's of gigs of content only to find hyperspin from the play store is not compatible with the new shield pro and won't install
Can I do this on Android or ps4?? Same steps?
I honestly have no idea. Never set it up on either of those platforms.
I have a very important question I need answered!!! Are you using a virtual machine? LOL! Just joking around :)
Why not just use launchbox?
The RetroArch integration was a big sales feature. Just wanted to see how it worked :)
Five minute front end and video lasts for 18 minutes, oh boy lol
Five ACTUAL minutes of work. The rest is background ...
5 minute setup...video length 18:12...lmfao
Yeah I know. The process itself takes about 5 minutes but I always like to discuss and highlight things that you might run into, or alternative situations and that adds more timw than the "happy path" version.