Let me try and clear a few things up for you, starting with the easiest...
Quote:What the heck is this empty box for? The blue arrow opens it up but nothing's ever been there. Is that My Favorites list?
Yes, that is what your favorites looks like with the PMIII skin. I don't use that skin, but somehow you can add favorites and they will show up there. That's why the instructions say use the 360 skin. Download and use that skin to add the "Launcher" to your programs. Then switch back to whatever skin you want.
Quote:I did this before and was asked to select 1 or 2 options, they were something like standalone program and file launcher
The two types are "Standalone (normal PC executable)" and "File launcher (e.g. game emulator)" For emulators, select the second choice. You should be prompted to "Select the launcher application" so browse for your emulators .exe on Windows or .xbe on Xbox.
You can leave the first question "Application arguments" blank if you have none. Be sure to answer the second question "files path" and point that to the folder you keep your ROMs in.
The third question "set the files extension" is the extension of all the files sitting in your ROMs folder. I use zsnes and all of my ROMs are in .zip archives which contain .smc files so I enter ".zip" for extension.
Give your newly created "Launch Item" a name like "Super Nintendo" in my case. You need to refresh that directory to see it. Upon entering my "Super Nintendo" folder/launch item, I will be asked to import from the file path... answer YES. It should read in all of your ROMs from the ROM folder you specified earlier.
Quote:I wonder, do I have to set up Launcher repeatedly
No. You set up the launcher once so you can run it easily from the programs/favorites menu. Then you run the "Launcher" plugin and from within Launcher you can add multiple launch items (emulators and such). Then whenever you run Launcher you are greeted with a nice list of all of your emulators, which when selected show nice lists of all your ROMs.
Quote:So apparently the LAUNCHER can't handle spaces.
My emulator, zsnexbox is located here
Code:
E:\Emulators\zsnexbox\default.xbe
no spaces, but many of my ROMs do have spaces
Code:
E:\Emulators\zsnexbox\roms\7th Saga.zip
so I'm pretty sure spaces are okay.