JoeViking245

Give this a read and see if it helps any. RetroAchievements Support for Nintendo Wii - LaunchBox

And humble.

Looks like this plugin will scrape from there.

DemulShooter Auto-Launcher View File Automatically start DemulShooter when launching a game. When launching a game, this will check for a valid DemulShooter emulator and associated ROM. If found, DemulShooter will be started with the appropriate command line parameters for that emulator/ROM. This reduces the need for customized Additional Apps, batch files or AutoHotkey scripts to run DemulShooter. (See Notes) If you don't have a lightgun or have never setup DemulShooter, there's really nothing more to see here. Requirements: LaunchBox v13.19 or newer DemulShooter installed and setup** The plugin file (RunDemulShooter.dll) "settings.txt" in the plugin's folder and edited/saved (see below) **See DemulShooter documentation for setting it up and its supported emulators & ROMs. https://github.com/argonlefou/DemulShooter/wiki Installing and Using: Extract the contents of the zip file to the /Plugins/ folder e.g. D:\LaunchBox\Plugins\RunDemulShooter\RunDemulShooter.dll In that plugins folder, create a new "settings.txt" file. In the file, add "demulshooter = full/path/to/DemulShooterFolder" (without quotes) e.g. demulshooter = E:\My LightGun Files\DemulShooter The path can be a relative path to LaunchBox. Start LaunchBox (optional: Start QMamehook or MAME Hooker or your alternative Hook flavor of choice) Launch a valid DemulShooter emulator/game. How it works - What it does When a game is launched, the plugin will... Check the game's emulator against a list of supported emulators Check the game's ROM file against a list of supported games for that emulator Check if DemulShooter.exe (or DemulShooterX64.exe) is inadvertently already running and then kill the process Start DemulShooter.exe (or DemulShooterX64.exe) with the corresponding parameters If the game's emulator is TeknoParrotUI, -noinput will be added to the parameters System 357 games will also have -pname=rpcs3.exe added to the parameters Examples: Game: Silent Hill: The Arcade ROM file: SilentHill.xml Emulator: TeknoParrot Launches: DemulShooter.exe -target=ttx -rom=sha -noinput Game: Ninja Assault (US) ROM file: ninjasltu.zip Emulator: Flycast Launches: DemulShooterX64.exe -target=flycast -rom=ninjasltu Game: Manic Panic Ghosts ROM file: manicpnc.zip Emulator: Demul Launches: DemulShooter.exe -target=demul07a -rom=manicpnc Game: Razing Storm ROM file: RazingStorm.xml Emulator: TeknoParrot Launches: DemulShooterX64.exe -target=rpcs3 -rom=razstorm -pname=rpcs3.exe -noinput Support emulators: Demul (Demul 07a or newer) Model2 Emulator emulator.exe emulator_multicpu.exe Flycast TeknoParrot Notes: TeknoParrot games must use TP as the emulator (TeknoParrotUI.exe) and the ROM must point to the game's xml file. The xml file must be named for the games ROM (as TP names them). e.g. for Luigi's Mansion Arcade, "LuigisMansion.xml" Games that are standalone executables are not recognized by this plugin. When launching a game, a check is done to see if DemulShoorter is already running (e.g. if it didn't shut itself down from a previous launch). If it is, it will kill the existing process. This avoids the "Dude! You can't start DemulShoorter because it's already running". As always, all thoughts, views, suggestions, comments are welcome. Submitter JoeViking245 Submitted 04/02/2026 Category Third-party Apps and Plugins  

In the emulators Running Script section, add to the beginning of it WinWaitActive ahk_exe snes9x.exe send !{Enter} As for mgba, I've never used that emulator.

I'm running out of ideas then. One screenshot you didn't show was the emulators Associated Platforms section. (you showed the Details and Running Script, but not that one) Double check the emulator is pointing to the correct exe file. Yours is snes9x.exe. But mine is snes9x-x64.exe. Either could be correct. One way to verify is to right-click the game and select Open Snes9x... If the emulator opens, then it should be fine. (can test again File-Load Game to confirm that one is for sure working outside of LaunchBox.) If you have 2 (or more) different copies of Snes9x installed on your computer, make sure that the one you're testing with outside of LaunchBox is the same one you're running from within LaunchBox. Try removing -fullscreen from the Default Command-line Parameters and see if that changes anything. When you say "it keeps loading but the game won't open", are you seeing the emulator's window and just a black screen? Or the LaunchBox "Loading..." screen?

That all looks good too. Does the game work when you load it directly from the emulator?

That looks good for the emulator. Can you provide some for the game? (follow the red arrow the edit the game) Edit one of the SNES games and show screenshots of - the main Metadata section - the Launching section - the Emulation section

Can you share some screenshots of how you have it setup in LaunchBox: Edit your Snes9X emulator [in LaunchBox] and show screenshots of - the Main Details section - the Associated Platforms section Edit one of the SNES games and show screenshots of - the main Metadata section - the Launching section - the Emulation section

That's pretty vague. When you say "directly", are you saying directly from the emulator? Or is it a Windows games that doesn't use an emulator? Or do you mean when you launch it from LaunchBox? What do you mean by "it loads and doesn't open"? Can you provide a little more details/specifics? What platform? What emulator? Which game?

Again, it's not an incorrect number. It's merely a 'different' number. To help with your endeavors, try this. Hint: use the "incorrect" number. https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/dbid/4538

Nothing to do with being on an older version. Those numbers are indeed different. And will be for all games. But rest assured, they are correct. Respectively. The good news is the metadata pulled for the game is true to the game. And as you found, links you to the corresponding online page for the game.