Make Your LaunchBox Portable On an External USB Drive - LaunchBox Tutorials
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- Today's tutorial will cover transferring your LaunchBox build to a portable drive so you can use it on any PC!
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Fantastic video! Cause these past few days, I had already been wondering how to put all these files on my living room PC for retro gaming! Just gotta get me one of these USB 128 GB drives!
And that's why i love this app :), tx for all your hard work
I do love this idea with taking it with you on the go
this would be even better if you could get it to work like this on your smart tv
Great video yes soon as I heard you new it was eta prime.
OMG this is a great video I just bought a 2tb portable hard drive for this same thing kinda like making a back up. :)
Krys Slusher Awesome! That will hold pretty much everything.
Thank you so very much!
Mega Thanks ETA Prime!!! I'm getting a GPD Win just for emulators and Big Box now I can get started on my micro sd and have it ready when the GPD gets here in a few weeks. :)
Awesome to hear!
nice work!
Wow this is a can of kool! so much easier then mucking around with hypernuts!
thats actually pretty sweet option to be able to do.
Hello, great video. Helped a lot. Quick question: if I follow this procedure will I be able to update Launchbox whenever new versions come up?
very nice
Eta Prime you are a Legend
What's the optimal cluster size for a Launchbox Drive? The default 4KB it's suboptimal since there are a lot of files smaller than 4KB, you'll waste a lot of space using that.
Great video I have a question my launchbox is on my C drive how can I transfer it to an external drive? I have tried before but when I open launch box none of the games are there and It wanted me to add everything all over again
Is that ETA Prime i hear?, great tutorial, thanks
SURE IS. :)
and so grateful for his help.
Is there any easy way for launchbox to move rom files to its own folder after i've already set things up? I'd love to put launchbox with all my roms on a USB but i didnt feel like moving hundreds of GB's at the time i installed launchbox so i just left the roms in the folders i already had. removing and adding them again would mean i have to download the boxart and videos again.
Hi, since i've put my folder on an external hard drive (NTFS), when i launch a game i've got the sound but no images (I tried with NES and Genesis so far), any idea please ?
I would buy this memory stick 😂
Thanks for the video but Im confused how do you install retroarch and launchbox and make it all work ?
What is the process when you have your launchbox directory in your c: and your games in D: ?
I have the GPD Win 2 on preorder that should come in mid May. However, I’d like to start messing around with Launchbox on my work pc. My work pc runs windows 7, while the GPD runs Windows 10. Would the transition be easy? Or am I better off just waiting?
Great video again. One question, if i have the rom folder and the artwork folder on another location on my pc, how can i do this? Is there an extra step i must follow?
Yes, that can definitely complicate matters. Just remember that both games and emulators are pointing to a specific file path. If that path changes, then LaunchBox will be unable to find them, causing errors. If you'd want to get specific to your situation, I'd recommend getting help over on our community forums: forums.launchbox-app.com/
Does this license actually cover installing on multiple PC's? (That you own!).
Indeed it does Adam! It's DRM-free and allowed to be installed on as many personal PCs as you wish. :)
There's a higher probability your usb will fail if your gaming straight off the USB with intensive games as the USB will get hot and fry itself... ive experienced this myself in the past. If you can move to an 2.5 ssd or portable ssd then that'd be the best option. If you need more storage than what's available on ssd like 8tb or more then moving to hdd is really your only option.
What is the rationale about formatting in exFAT over NTFS?
I know this is an old video but was wondering if I can use a sd card that I have, its a 256 gig card, thanks in advance
okay now make a portable streaming LB with amazon EC2 servers.
This works but some stuff seems off. Like running ps1 it can’t find the bios on another computer. Like the emulators looking in the wrong path.. tried even changing the drive letter to Match. Still dint work.
I probably need to extend this solution by adding joytokey, gamepad drivers, lightgun drivers, etc. but this video is a great nudge in the right direction. I wonder if there's an easy way to set relative addresses for save files and such in the emulators, or if they require absolute addresses..
mGBA, Higan and FCEUX all let you change their save file directories, and you can place a file named "Portable.txt" in Dolphin's folder, and it'll keep all its user files inside the same folder.
Now when you visit someone, you will have to factor in the time it takes to make a copy of your USB stick 😀
It took me a month to download an extract and now when I click on launch box exe it says initializing and then closes. Anyone else have this problem or can they help
Is a usb stick fast enough to run ps2 emulating games and Wii U?
Hey, im very new to this stuff, if i save my game everything is saved in the external usb drive too?
i have an g2 portable 640 gb with wii games on it that i love and now my wii broke without to fix it and now i want to see what in this.
but when i try to connect it to my pc its says that i need to format this disc. but i dont want to do that because in it there some games that i love.
so am i need to format this disc or not?
I moved Launchbox to my external, but if I plug it in a new computer the hard drive gets a new letter, like in my home pc it's D in the explorer, but once I change to a new pc it gets to J and launchbox tells me it can't find a game if I want to start it
here's a dumb question - how do you set this up to run off two different roots in the Launchbox settings? Originally it was on your C:/, so wouldn't all the aims be pointed toward that? What can I do so I can just put my build on all 3 of my PCs? Cause everyone time I move it - I have to redo EVERYTHING because it the drive root is wrong.
I heard you say you had RetroArch, but I never saw a folder named that in your video. I have seen in some video where retroarch is actually one of the emulator choices within LaunchBox. I'm thinking you did that with this install - am I right? I saw one LB video where they installed RA first and then LB,, but then RA wouldn't be in the LB folder that you dragged over. Which should we do; install RA first or install LB and then choose it within LB? The problem is, I can't find a FAQ anywhere. Watching all these videos, I can't even tell what step A, step B etc. is anymore because this has evolved over two years.
You just copy the retro arch folder into launch box I think I'll go look lol
@@thecroeffect I posted that four years ago. Now you just go Tools / Manage / RetroArch / Install BTW, Update is easier as well because it's right there also.
so, if i have my launchbox folder in my usb drive can i delete the one in my computer? also can i still add new games later?
What big box theme is that?
how do I install when the install process uses 6 disc file images?
Can you boot launchbox when windows boots up to hide windows with it being on a ssd external drive? Not sure how.
would this work on fat 32 usb stick
Hey ETA or Unbroken... I have an 8TB WD BLACK external drive that i would like to use for my launch box build, What should system do you recommend I use to format? exFAT or NTSC? Thanks.
exFat is more compatible - doesn't have the annoying MS security on it... exFat allows files larger than 4GB as well... NTFS is just annoying and poorly implemented as a file system... it constantly has to "touch" every file to apply security to it... just use exFat, a lot of USB sticks come preformmated anyways with exFat... unless they are smaller then FAT32 but exFat these days is better...
Can I do the same thing on a hard drive , I mean copy to another hard drive
Yes.
are you telling me it can all be stored on a stick ? if so how can i get one from you as i keep failing to get this going its been 3 weeks now
hows it failing?
I've been trying to open LaunchBox for a few days now, but can't. The loading window appears and goes until "loading interface" appears, then it disappears and nothing happens. Can anyone help me?
You'd still have to set up Retroarch or whatever emulator you're using in order to do what you're talking about.
While other emulators could pose an issue, RetroArch is self-contained and portable. Just have to make sure you have it located in a relative path to your LaunchBox folder. Even better if it was located somewhere inside of your LaunchBox folder.
Please make LaunchBox available for Mac
the games of gamecube or ps2 work well?
Very well for me. Any issue that was on mobile becomes almost non existent on pc. Gamecube, wii, ps2, psp all run great. Been wondering if pcsx2 runs psx games since the system being emulated was backwards compatable. Drastic ds works great for ds games when using a controller. Once im finshed with those 4 which will probably be a very long time ill move on to dreamcast. Sometimes they all arnt needed it drives me nuts to wonder if i play resident evil 4 on ps2 will it look better than gamecube or code veronica look better on ps2, dreamcast, or gamecube. Besides all that i just wonder how do you use a portable memory device and bring your actual pc games because alot of those need to be installed unless your a pirate and they all run from a folder with a no cd crack
Does it work from Windows 10 to a Windows 7 Pc?
I am the ROM hoarder that you are speaking of. Because of that, my computer is quite full. Am I able to transfer everything in my LaunchBox over to that USB Drive to clear up space on my personal computer and still be able to run Launchbox on that same computer with no issues?
Yes
Do you need to purchase an emumovies account as well to get the vids and artwork?
no, you can get videos and images free from Emumovies but there a limit per day to how much can be downloaded.
What if I already have most video snaps and images from setting up hyperspin? Will launchbox find them automatically on my pc and just download the missing ones
Daniel Welsh, In opinions you can set the paths for videos and images to any directory, as far it finding and downloading missing videos I'm no help..
Doesn't LaunchBox install DirectX during installation? 2022
Yes, during installation LaunchBox will attempt to install both DirectX and the version of .NET required. However, this video is showing how to make LaunchBox portable so it can run on other machines without the need to run through the installer.
The program is great. Just sucks I am too poor this month for a forever-updates license and don't use it as much as i would like. I do still use LaunchBox when I do use it. When I am finally able to get a forever-updates license I will probably use it more.
for those that wanted to know how long it take him to copy about 25gb - it was about 40mins
WHY do you prefer exFat over ntfs?
The only reason i can think of is if you're using the drive with both mac and windows pc's
what system specs do you need to be able to emulate wii wii u and ps2 and ps3?
Is there a way to get Launchbox to transfer all the ROMs from other folders into the Launchbox folder so I don't have to transfer all the roms into my Launchbox folder one by one?
SI CUANDO agregas la rom te dice, quieres que la movamos a la carpeta de launcher box games? y la seleccionas para que haga eso y wuala.
So do I need windows for this ? Or can I just take my launch box on a USB and plug it into a TV ?
I'm confused. How did Launchbox work ! Why isn't it looking for files under c Drive since that is where your files were originally? What am I missing? Is your usb stick labled c?
All of his files are inside the launchbox folder. So when he copied the folder to the usb drive all of the files moved with it.
Question. I want to put my collection on my best friends portable HD and let him have it for free because he is such a noob, but I DON"T want him to have my licence to Big Box and Emumovies. I want him to pay for that feture himself and buy his own Bigbox. How do I send it to him without my lifetime licence info?