LaunchBox Setup Guide NEO-GEO Using RetroArch
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- In this video, I will show you how to set up NeoGeo In launchbox using Retroarch.
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My PC specs
So this is overkill for older system emulation.
i7 4790K
32gb DDR3 ram
GTX 1060 6GB
128gb M.2 SATA for windows
3.5TB Hard drive for storage
I also have this set up on another PC and everything works great except Dreamcast, other systemGamecube, and CEMUanother system
Specs of
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STock Intel HD4400 gpu
8gb DDR3
500GB Hard drive
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Back into the emu scene after quite a while I just picked up LaunchBox. Looking for a front end I narrowed it down to this or Hyperspin mainly because I read what a chore HS can be to set up. Very impressed with LB, I upgraded to premium and BigBox and couldn't be happier. With this and not to mention Cemu, I am blown away by the strides in emulation now. Good stuff!
Calm and collected walk-through, wish more people would do it like this.
I've been looking for this for a long time, thank you very much. now I can play neogeo. great setup guide
Im feel happy when i know your program, i like all videos about LB, thanks for all.
Every time I have question ETA has a video explaining my answer 😂😂😂 Thank you for all your hard work!!!
Same lol
Awesome video, thanks. I was struggling for the command line parameter to use the correct core. Sorted my problem. Subscribed.
Thanks for this tutorials dude!
I saw the video a ton of times but never from the beginning til the end. I did today and finally got it. I have to be more patient. hahaha
Thanks for the help bro
Liked and Subscribed
ty, your videos are saving me!
You can switch the A/B buttons in RetroArch's to be the none Japanese way /settings/input/ Menu Swap OK & Cancel Buttons to the on position
Thanks for the video man, is this still all current as far as you know? I’m going to make some customized sticks and do this on an Optiplex with an i7 3770 and gtx 1650 for NEO GEO and my Steam fighting games.
I have it all working except a few stubborn games. What rom set should we use for the fba 2012 core?
Nice video! Are you going to do Dreamcast emulation with RetroArch too?
Breakers... I see you're a man of culture.
Final Burn Alpha for pc requires you to map inputs for each game. Does Retroarch running Final Burn Alpha mean you don't have to do that any more?
*updated* confirmed retroarch passes its controls config on to final burn alpha so you dont have to individually setup per game. this is a huge advantage to using retroarch. i hear shaders is another benefit to what seemed like a redundant layer of software. really liking the combo launchbox and retroarch.
thank u so much.... easy!!!!
awesome video thanks..! Do you prefer retroarch over winkawaks for neogeo..?
hi, awesome video very helpful, towards the end of the video what is the name of the theme you are using?
Muchas Gracias me sirvio mucho este tutorial
Hello ETA PRIME, When I'm watching any video about Launchbox concerning retroarch along with installing emulators my retroarch looks totally different then yours. Is it simply because you have BigBox and I don't? So it makes it kind of difficult for me to follow your videos when I don't have the same things in my retroarch as you do.
Do you have to add the command line parameters every time you use retroarch in other systems? And how do you get that path command line parameter?
What settings do I need to get the graphics quality on ETA Prime's video? I have a 1440p monitor and my games are really pixelated. I can make it look better with the different shaders but they all the good looking ones have scan lines. I just want it to look smooth with no scan lines like in Prime's video examples.
Wow thanks for this video. Compering to Raspberry pi3, any slow down's. I hate when my pi3 does that. Are there any shader option for CRT scan lines look? A must for a Metal Slug in my opinion. Thanks.
why is the like button gone ? this guide saved me even though its old now... great thank you...
Might have been temporary at the time of your comment but it's there now.... at least for me.
Can you list the specs of your PC your using to emulate Launchbox please. Great videos!
Have you tried strikers 1945? I cannot get it to run good on anything for some reason. Maybe I am doing something wrong
My 9 yr old daughter said you're cool. Her sister and I have all been tearing it up on Gauntlet. Waiting for their little brother to grow up so we can have 4 player :)
In case the Text File download ever dies:
Emulator Name= NeoGeo
Associated Platform = NeoGeo
-L "cores\fbalpha2012_neogeo_libretro.dll"
BTW, this works for all cores you wanna use in Retroarch. Follow these same steps to add in other platforms, rename your emulator appropriately and your ensure the Default Command Line Parameters matches the core you're using.
Awesome, now this type of PC focused content is my speed. I would use MAME for NeoGeo emulation tho.
I went with RetroArch because of the easy controller setup for newer users.
Hey :) Just wanted to ask a question, I am using the newest version of RetroArch 1.9.1 and it seems to be having issues scanning the directories for the roms on
SNK Neo Geo AES
SNK Neo Geo Pocket
SNK Neo Geo Pocket Colour (These are the actual Directory names)
but it did scan and correctly import SNK Neo Geo CD
There are roms in those directories I checked lol I thought it might have been me, but its scans and I can see it scanning but it either doesn't complete the scan and comes up empty or if finishes the scan and its still empty
Any ideas as to why this is happening please?
Strange.. No matter what i do, i can't get the games launch in Launchbox. They work just fine in Retroarch. I have done exactly what you showed in your video.. Any suggestions??
Same
Hello, how are you doing? I wonder if you can share frontend because I LOVE layout especially bottom scrolling I am getting tired of right side or left side.
nice, I just got a new htpc setup so very interested in this series, do you still recommend going with retroarch for all the emulators or is it better to download them all separately and have launchbox as the front end for it?
in my opinion, RetroArch is the way to go for everything except Dreamcast, Amiga, CEMU, Gamecube.
Is there a way to set different button configurations for specific games?
Hey Mike, I see it's been over a year since the last comment, but I seem to be having the issue of it no launching in launchbox also. Any ideas? I did the Bios folder, but still no luck. Thanks.
Is there a way to delete a wrong key input or reset it to null within RetroArch without having to edit the .cfg file?
At around 3:15mins, you dragged the unzipped RetroArch folder to Documents\Emulators. Can I just drag it to LaunchBox\Emulators? That way I could make a portable USB 3.0 thumbdrive version and RetroArch would go with it when I drag the LaunchBox folder to the thumbdrve. In a later video that you made for LaunchBox, the one where you make a portable USB 3.0 thumbdrive you dragged the LB folder to the drive and you said RetroArch was there, but didn't say how RetroArch came with it and it didn't show up in your file browser. Thanks great videos.
I have launchbox life version and think it's great and retropie in a megadrive 2 case
ETA PRIME i have a question about the invidia shield my question is can it run dragon ball z budokai tenkaichi 3 at 60fps ? i would love to see a video of that game and The Legend Of Zelda Twilight Princess running on nvidia shoeld with your settings
How to get the corect platform movie for bigbox its only geting the arcade video since we scrape as arcade
??
hey ETA .....could you please tell me where you got that controller? or at the very least please let me know where i can find a good one that works well with this sort of emulation and that you recommend....? Thank you i appreciate it! love the great tutorials
Get a wired xbox 360 controller, it’s my personal favorite
nice tutorial. I was looking for the neogeo platform theme video last night but it wasn't available. Can I ask where did you found yours? I don't know where you find the time to bring us all this stuff ! :-)
Steven Gailey forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/219-nostalgia-169-video-set/
ETA PRIME excellent! I'll get that later. appreciate the reply :-)
What would be the command line parameters for Mame2003-plus core?
is there anyway to change default core for game?
is there a way to use launchbox on the retropie? that would be sexy
@ETA PRIME I added the roms just like you did, & for some reason it created sub folders.
Fba is way better than Retroarch for NeoGeo at least for me, and by the way you didn't talk about the huge size all artwork takes on hdd, but i found a simple solution, you can resize all the image with VSO Image Resizer 4, befor resizing i have 4gb+ of flayers, titles, gamplay screenshots on almost all emulators... the final size is 1.45gb and it's a big win, but it takes so much times cause you need to resize folder by folder :)
awesome video, whats intresting that this is scraping meta data better than retropie, do you think we could integrate the metadata into a retropie format?
You could also try this one: retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5291/soft-universal-xml-scraper-v2-easy-scrape-with-high-quality-picture/268
It's gotten pretty good results and has a great image merge option.
thanks, i already tried it , its great for artwork download, but i am more interested in game description and player information for each game
what roms i should use to match the core of retroarch :((
Hi its working but with no sound on the games. How can I turn the sound on?
Thanks
Now that you've ran with both Launchbox and RetroPie on that x86 computer, which do you prefer? Would you recommend going Windows 10/Launchbox or Ubuntu/Retropie?
jeck11 I have been using both for awhile now. Launchbox is the way to go.
When using launchbox on PC in a arcade cabinet is there a way to make the PC always boot up directly into launchbox? I dont want Windows showing up in my arcade, lol
it didnt left my bios as it did in your case even thow i followed this tutorial exactly as it is?? its not even launch the game i dont know what im doing wrong the game is at zip with multiple files in it
I tried researching this, and nothing coming up. Hopefully someone here can help me? Games are not launching for me (NeoGeo AES). I've confirmed I have a working BIOS. I did notice that my roms folder doesn't have a dir.txt. Is that the culprit? Is that fixable or do I need to download another romset?
I followed these ages ago and they worked, but now they don't seem to. Do you have any idea why? Launchbox will recognize roms but it will not communicate to retroarch no matter what I do.
Great Videos on EMUs and LaunchBox but after following all the steps in this video(and the Redream video) i'm still having no luck and think it maybe due to chnages made in LaunchBox (IDK?) with Redream it just launches Redream Menu and with the NeoGeo it kinda comes apart at externsions and step 4. -L "cores\fbalpha2012_neogeo_libretro.dll"
having not messed with EMUs(or PCs) for 8yrs i'd forgotten the Joys and erm .. Headaches
If your Neo-Geo games don't launch here is a tip that worked for me:
Go in tools -> manage emulators -> select NeoGeo -> "edit" -> in associated platforms, cut the command line -> in emulator details, paste the commande line
If no work, it does not add the bios as a file or game... so copy the neogeo.zip in the added folder of games in the /Users/Name/LaunchBox/NeoGeo/Games -> for me worked. Tutorial really great bro! now youtube friends!
Does the roms have to be in CHD I tried using the .zip roms but it doesn't launch.
This is nice I've seen this will this run on Rasberry Pi being that it's a small computer?
Oscar Torres no it doesn't as it's windows only.
shanzo85
Ah I see thanks
I keep trying to unzip it but its there's no archives found in selected files and folders for retro Ark That's as far as I could get unzip never works for me :(
Hey ETA!! Enjoying the vids buddy!! Having tons of fun with Lauchbox but I had a question. I found a disc with all of my old roms I mean lots but I can’t get the neogeo rom to run... They are all zipped and the bios is there with them. I’m using RetroArch on Windows 10 and I’ve tried Alpha from you vid and also Wakan I think is the name. RetroArch keeps telling me that it failed to load. Any help would be appreciated!!
Doesn't work for me - where do you put the Bios ? I created a bios folder in Retroarch but still no luck. The games run in Retroarch but wont run thru LaunchBox. P.s I've installed many emulators and roms befrore and do know what I'm doing. Its something to do with that commands line -L "cores\fbalpha2012_neogeo_libretro.dll"
sirgonads leave the bios in the neogeo rom folder
device index is disabled what should i do
Same here as for many others: It just doesn't work. Games just don't start in launchbox. I've exactly followed the instruction and I also tried to put the bios file (you mean neogeo.zip, right?) in the Retroarch\Bios folder and into the rom folder, but it doesn't work. But I also can't start them from RetrArch. How do you do that? First load the core in RetroArch and then go to "Load Content" and just select one rom (zip) file, right? Nothing happens when I do that. The rom files work fine on the Neo-Geo Emulator on my PSP.
I found a solution for this issue of retroarch not launching neogeo games. Go and remove your neogeo plataform from launchbox to start from scratch. Now, place your neogeo roms in a folder that is not inside the launch box directory. I put mine on c:users/username/downloads/neogeo. Leave the neogeo bios inside too, don;t unzip it. The bios has to have around 1.6mb. Now, import your roms in launch box but when it asks you if you want to move your games into another directory, Don't move it! Keep your roms in the same place (any where as long is not inside the launch box folder). This should do the trick. Go ahead and try launching the neogeo games from launch now. Note: I'm using the core fbalpha2012_neogeo_libretro and -L "cores\fbalpha2012_neogeo_libretro.dll" parameter
@@arlokkkk In the meantime I found another solution. I have my Neo-Geo games normally in the Retroarch folder and it works fine. Also I did not add an additional emulator as shown in the video but just used Retroarch normally as the emulator. My mistake was: I used -L "fbalpha2012_neogeo_libretro.dll" (without cores in front) which works perfectly for other emulators. For some reason here the path including the cores folder name is needed. I simply added -L "cores\fbalpha2012_neogeo_libretro.dll" as extra command line parameter for this emulator and that does the trick.
If anybody is having issue getting this to work I found that for myself it was the ROM set I had that was the issue. I had to download the AES version of them and then it worked perfectly fine. Hope this helps anybody out.
How do I do it JUST with RetroArch?
I've tried everything but my launchbox will not load to retroarch when clicking on my SNK Nam-75. I set up a psx game and that launched in my separate emulator. Please help?
I couldn't get any of the Retroarch cores to work for Neogeo.
I switched to MAME and they all work fine now.
I suppose I can achieve the same just with the RetroArch and neogeo.zip
nice video. I just stumbled on this now. While going through the links i noticed the retroarch site is no longer valid.
I've got more than a dozen platforms running on launchbox on my PC, but I've tried may times and I can't get Neogeo to run.
The same roms run perfectly on my Android tablet .
I changed the emulator to MAME and all of my roms work perfectly now.
None of the Retroarch cores I tried would work.
I use WinkaWaks, on its own, but if i use Launchbox .... it opens up the WinKawaks GUI....and then I have to scroll down to find the game I want........... Final Burn doesn't work for me..... maybe I should download Final Burn separately....
I downloaded the same emu core and for some reason it won't launch in launchbox. Edit: I followed your guide several times and I cannot get it to launch from launchbox. I can get all of these arcade games to launch separately with retroarch and the right core, but it wont boot through the front end.
I had the same trouble.
In the end, I used Mame as the emulator.
man replay pls nothing works omg help i did what you did in the video pls reply
Dont know why but the core that he used didnt work with the text doc command line entry but worked with fbneo core.
Did it along side by side with the youtube vid and nothing loads up
bullshit, right?
@@njdevilchild nope. I keep redoing every step of the video. I have the box cover and everything , copied the text file and downloaded the core. Same outcome
@@wicked18769 Makes no sense
I am at my wits end with setting up Neo Geo emulators for PC. I've tried every tutorial out there known to man -- and I follow you and watch your videos regularly, so I thought this would do the trick. I literally followed every step you said, with one exception. I wasn't able to find the .7z version of retroarch, so I just downloaded the executable installer. Anyway, this was my 20th attempt to get Neo Geo working, and despite your tutorial being very patient and well thought out, for the life of me I cannot figure out why this will not work for me.
edit: i found the 7z version, so I uninstalled the executable installer and did everything you instructed from scratch. when I click the cover boxes for the neogeo roms that I have imported, it does nothing. when i manually go into retroarch and try to run them, i get "cannot load content" error.
I'm in the same boat. I have All my classic systems running from their Ems, but when I try Neo Geo running from RetroArch, I can't get it to load from LB. Also, i can't get them to load from RetroArch directly. I was able to get the Neo Geo roms to launch directly from Kawaks, but I can't get them to launch from LB, using the Kawaks emulator. It's frustrating. I sat here for hours trying different things.
Okay, O I read a comment below that says not every game works from LB. I just went through and started clicking different games from LB and found that some of them are working. I don't know if there I a rhyme or reason as to which games work or not.
@@justinarnellwest i did some even deeper digging on the topic. apparently, there's a hierarchy of roms with neo geo, where there are primary roms (main roms) and then there are children of the main rom that are not compatible with every emulator. there's a program called MAMEUI, and if you type in the name of the rom you want to play, it tells you the exact version of the rom you need to download in order to get it working. i loaded metal slug 5 for the first time, and it felt like i cracked the code to a safe that had been closed for so long, lol.
@@justinarnellwest basically, once you have the associated model/id# for the rom you're looking for, you can just google "rom title + [model#]" and that should bring you right to the correct version of the rom you've been looking for all along that will finally load!
Sadly the tutorial is somewhat simplified, I spent hours on this & could not get any results. Finally I struck gold with more luck than management. What is fundamental but not mentioned is the RomSet (Games) & the Bios (neogeo.zip) need to match. A bit like Mame & it's RomSets.
What I ended up doing was pulling the roms from my latest Mame set, using the Universal NeoGeo bios & FBNeo. Nothing like this video but finally I struck gold & I can confirm it works with Big Box/Launch Box.
thanks alot for this awesome video , but i have an issue whenever i try to load any game its works but its laggy and the sound not clear i tried to change the video driver but no luck :(
+Khalifa Al-Mahaiza what hardware are you using?
thanks for your quick response
here is my spec
cpu :i7-6700HQ
gpu :970 gtx
ram:16GB
i figured out that if the video driver set to null in Retroarch.exe all the games works from launchbox without any issue but when i try to open Retroarch.exe it's not showing up ,i have to delete the Retroarch.cfg to open the .exe file again
I also followed step by step but when i import the games they just show the image of the game but dont load.
I found a solution for this issue of retroarch not launching neogeo games. Go and remove your neogeo plataform from launchbox to start from scratch. Now, place your neogeo roms in a folder that is not inside the launch box directory. I put mine on c:users/username/downloads/neogeo. Leave the neogeo bios inside too, don;t unzip it. The bios has to have around 1.6mb. Now, import your roms in launch box but when it asks you if you want to move your games into another directory, Don't move it! Keep your roms in the same place (any where as long is not inside the launch box folder). This should do the trick. Go ahead and try launching the neogeo games from launch now. Note: I'm using the core fbalpha2012_neogeo_libretro and -L "cores\fbalpha2012_neogeo_libretro.dll" parameter
Neo rage emulator is better than mame for neo geo games, you have tons of options that mame doesn't offer like autofire language switch and altercation between arcade and console mode of the game
Did everything. STILL DOESN'T OPEN
Some roms don't want to load up at all when trying to play games through launchbox with retroarch
Do you think it is better than retropie
yes, it is. retropie is fun but if you want to seriously emulate old school games PC is where its at
what is the idea of launchbox versus retroarch? why both? where did you get the controller what is a good price for a controller? cab i contact you through email with my questions ? thanks
Hey I need some help. Every time I try to run any game nothing happed. RetroArch doesn’t even open.
I had the same issue.
In the end, I used Mame as the emulator rather than Retroarch.
@@apemoon1731 yes I figured out a lots of games are not compatible with RetroArch. I had to fight the right rom. But I’m running lots of them in mame other in FBNeo
@ETA PRIME please show us a video tutorial HOW to play Neo Geo games using RetroArch (playing Neo Geo games on a USB stick , not on the internal HDD) I know its possible , but no one have showed the tutorial to do this ....would be totally awesome ! please.
Doing this as we speak! I'll let you know if it works...
Guess it didn't work.
@@DungarooTV yeah, I tried it..... click on the icon for the game, but it never launches..... it will just open up RetroArch..."failed to launch"....
please make a video on c6 error i have followed all protocols to no avail thanks
+Verlyn Treangen I one coming up later tonight
many thanks
I know this is an old thread, but my fix was to enter -L "cores\fbalpha2012_neogeo_libretro.dll" on the Emulator Details tab too.
Ahhh, I had a headache. I did step by step like you but finally, the games don not work. I tried Hyperspin but I did not get anything. I moved to this program
but I did not get anything also ... please, I need help :(
same problem
same problem
everything is ok now I found my problem, I entered a wrong (default command) by missing the first (dash -)
Still don't work when I click to play.
My retroarch is 1.5.0 stable.
I have neogeo bios on my rom files and everything is .zip file format
I also have the -L "cores\fbalpha2012_neogeo_libretro.dll"
I also tried with retroarch 1.4.1 stable but still don't play at all.
Any help?
are you sure the roms it for neogeo not for mame?
what is the error message?
I wonder if there's anything big and new with retropie.
+Thy Programmer what's up?
ETA PRIME Nothin much at the moment. Although, it seemed like almost every week there was something new to retropie, like 2 weeks ago, I learned about there being a retropie manager, I'm just expecting somethin big again to change again lol, an example would be like a new DS emulator that game at full speed at 1080p resolution. I've gotten into retropie really quick, for some it took months, it took me a month, almost 2 now. I'm still learning a little here and there but it's a neat device that's sure to impress guests. Brings me back to my childhood too. 😏
Thy Programmer lol ok cool . I thought you heard about something. As soon as I got your message a ran over to the retropie forums trying to find some announcement. If you ever hear or see anything interesting and new let me know.
ETA PRIME Oh lol. Will do. One question: I've tried to play 2 Legend of Zelda games with Drastic and they kept crashing but I played metroid and other DS games and they all played at full speed. Would you bet the problem is the ROM? I got both of em from emuparadise.
ETA PRIME Also, sorry about not being very clear on my statement I made above, I didn't mean to confuse.
Can someone please help me, Everything is screw up now SMH
💖💖💖If you guys cannot START GAME when you open a game and play inside, I know the problem. The problem is UNIKEY. So if you want to start game, you have to out and find on your desktop " Unikey " to turn it off, then you can press the buttons in game amd play easily. This was what I found when I couldn't play game in Neo Geo on my PC.
Hi, I followed the video exatly, but when I click to play a game a box comes up saying "Retrarch has stopped working" Close the programme???
Any ideas people??
Cheers
Neil Gray Get fucked idiot
This is prolly old news....if neo geo doesnt work even tho u think you have the bios zip...check the size. You want the bios zip for FinalBurn Alpha which is around 1.6mb in size. If your bios is around 300k or so...its the MAME neogeo bios and its the wrong one.
Why did he have to host a damn text file on Mega?!
that not going to to work is erro
this is ridiculously complex, i've sent a whole goddamm week trying to get neogeo to run off launchbox using retroarch fbalpha libretto,
retroarch plays neogeo fine by itself, but it refuses to launch using launchbox, im really really frustrated and do not know how to proceed.
I work, and simply do not have time to watch these unnecessarily long videos and read through heaps of posts & threads in forums,
I paid for a premium launchbox license and would really like some direct info on how to fix this please. dont give me links for ridiculously long reads, please, no time,
I found a solution for this issue of retroarch not launching neogeo games. Go and remove your neogeo plataform from launchbox to start from scratch. Now, place your neogeo roms in a folder that is not inside the launch box directory. I put mine on c:users/username/downloads/neogeo. Leave the neogeo bios inside too, don;t unzip it. The bios has to have around 1.6mb. Now, import your roms in launch box but when it asks you if you want to move your games into another directory, Don't move it! Keep your roms in the same place (any where as long is not inside the launch box folder). This should do the trick. Go ahead and try launching the neogeo games from launch now. Note: I'm using the core fbalpha2012_neogeo_libretro and -L "cores\fbalpha2012_neogeo_libretro.dll" parameter
I have done EXACTLY that and it is NOT working. Waste of time. Thx
king of fighter and metal slug wont work
This is whats on the note pad lmao
Emulator Name= NeoGeo
Associated Platform = NeoGeo
-L "cores\fbalpha2012_neogeo_libretro.dll"