#INSTAL THE NEW FOR APPLE LAUNCHBOX FULL#
#INSTAL THE NEW FOR APPLE LAUNCHBOX SOFTWARE#

Plus, even if try to get fancy you are limited to two 3.5' virtual drives (can do four 5' drives but not useful for IIGS native software).

Other than for user disks, I returned back to that because don't have to mess with per game commands. MAME will auto load the first two disks into flop3 and 4. You just have to make sure in that case you do NOT use -flop commands anywhere (just point to the MAME zip). No messy custom command line parameters needed then. With all that said, leaving things 'zipped' and letting MAME do its thing is the far easiest way to go. So you could do something like -flop4 %rompath2% -flop3 %rompath% to make it a global change vs having to do per game. On LB side, it would be a lot easier if LB had rompath variables for additional apps. Note that when using custom command-line it over-rides everything that is in your normal MAME entry for that platform hence why you have to put in apple2gs flag again or MAME won't know to use IIGS routines.

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You must use the proper drive flags: flop4 is the full path to 3.5' disk 2 and flop3 is path 3.5' disk one but LB will substitute whatever is in the ROM File entry under 'Launching' so you don't have to put in the full path like you do for flop4.Įxample for the Custom Command-line Parameters :Īpple2gs -flop4 'FULLPATH TO 2MG FILE DISK 2' -flop3 If you scroll up to top on my earlier post where I have the header 'Multi-Discs games' it shows screen shots and lots of detail on this with the example of Bards Tale. But to recap, you have to put a custom command in where unzipped multi discs are used. That isn't any different than described back in 2019. Once you unzip, you must explicitly tell MAME what to do with each file (and correspo ndingly LB so it can relay to MAME on launch).

You should get to the 'ready to import' screen and should look something like this: Make sure the check box for combining single games is checked. Select something other than MAME as emulator initially (due to import issue noted prior) I keep unzipped files (particularly player/user disks) outside the MAME directory to keep things from getting confusing. Should be the case if used MAME set and unzipped. Make sure the 2MG files are named in format that LB knows they are all part of a set. Somewhat round-a-bout but you have to go in anyway to edit the custom command line for the game anyway.ĭrag drop the multi-disk 2MG file and select ROM for import. So try an emulator besides MAME on import for the problem you noted above. You can then go back and edit back to MAME as emulator. If I toggled the emulator to something else non-MAME, they would show up which then allows you to import. The thing that I did see that don't recall being the case in 2019 (maybe due to the Full Import MAME tool feature add) is that now with version 11.13 if I dragged/dropped or imported unzipped 2MG files and selected MAME as the emulator it wouldn't show the entries for import (even with force dupe on). Outside of LB, MAME will run 2MG files directly (among others noted above) but you then have to use the proper flags and full paths for MAME to know what to do because the XML assumptions are no longer valid.

Like you saw, LB is then happy as well in that scenario.

#INSTAL THE NEW FOR APPLE LAUNCHBOX SOFTWARE#

If you are going the zip route then MAME knows via the MAME software list the checksums of individual 2MG files in the zip and knows which one to load into the appropriate virtual drive (up to two 3.5' drives, no slot option to add more). On the LB import side, in most cases it will import anything but suspect you are running into issue with the LB MAME importer portion making some assumptions. Has changed with MAME, but you have to be careful in moving from zip to non-zip methods that you use the appropriate MAME commands.

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