[Moving my LB/BB and all games and media to a new hard drive. New paths/directories?]

See if this helps

 

[Can't figure out how to make playlists from other playlists or platform categories]

As a 'work-around', you could select your "Best Arcade Games" platform category, then using the Filter feature , Filter for... say... Max Players - 4.  Then select all those filtered games, Right-Click and Add to Playlist?  Create a new playlist and set the Parent (check the box for) your "Best Arcade Games" platform category.

 

The downside with this is that it creates a fixed, non-auto-populated Playlist.  So if you add more "Best Games", they won't automatically get added.  But how often do you add "Best Games"?   But if you do 'add', simply do the above process again except add them to your existing playlist.  The nice thing is, it won't create duplicate entries when you select and add all.

The upside(?) to having a 'fixed' playlist(s) is when loading, it's relatively faster.  Though probably only noticeable with large playlists. If even then.

["Failed to save retroarch config file" whenrver trying to update settings when launching retroarch from LB]

Check that you're not running either RetroArch or LaunchBox as admin.  (Neither of them should be running as admin)

[MAME New sets]

The MAME Arcade Full Set Importer gets which ROMs to import directly from your mame.exe file. 

To see/import Nebula, you need to have the MAME executable v0.251.  (verified)

Same for Mega Man 3 (except mame.exe v0.250 [or newer]).  (verified)

 

Even if you try to fool LaunchBox by selecting 0.251 as your Full Set Version 

 

..your executable's version is what determines the games are available to import.

 

Edit:

If there are just one or two [new] games you'd like to add, you can also drag and drop those ROMs onto LaunchBox and import them that way.

[Import list empty upon selecting folder (No-Intro or regular , plain text naming)]

You're welcome.  Glad it's all working as intended.  

 

8 minutes ago, Gryzor1363 said:

you , sir, seem to have a lot of machines up your sleeve

lol  Those are only there because of testing for my Software List Importer plugin.  I've only ever played any one of those just long enough to say "Yup. It works.".  

[Import list empty upon selecting folder (No-Intro or regular , plain text naming)]

2 hours ago, Gryzor1363 said:

Is there any way to set different emulator profiles per platform for one and the same emulator, by any chance ?

Yes.  Looking at soft-lists for stand-alone MAME (as an example), edit your MAME emulator and add them accordingly in the Associated Platforms section.

To make these work (as shown), you'll need to add your software lists folder to your mame.ini "rompath = " line.  Or, in each of the Default Command-line Parameters for each Platform, add "-rompath %romlocation%" (without quotes).

i.e.

-rompath %romlocation% nes -cart
-rompath %romlocation% snes -cart
-rompath %romlocation% cpc6128 -floppydisk1

I've never done it this way (via the command-line for soft-lists), but I assume the parameters are OK in this order.

[MAME - Always loads same game!]

Change the Default Command-Line Parameters (ref: "Screen 1") to:

-keyboardprovider dinput -rompath %romlocation%

..and un-check the box for Extract ROM archives before running. 

 

In "Screen 2", un-check the box for Extract ROMs.

Click OK to save these changes.  Play games. 

 

1 hour ago, RetroGoat said:

I guess I'll need to do this for all the various emulators.

Only if the games for those various emulators don't run.  

[Technosys Aamber Pegasus roms wont launch on LB]

I think what you're seeing is actually the 'software parts selection menu'.  You can turn it off in MAME under Miscellaneous Options (change "Skip software parts...." to On).  Remember to select Save Configuration before exiting MAME's Configuration Options menu.

Then for the Command Line Parameters in LB under Associated Platforms (of your MAME emulator) I have:

pegasus %romfile%

I just tested Invaders v1.2 and it started up.  

[How do I disable this feature?]

49 minutes ago, Boomerps2 said:

Yep, a third party plugin called Multi Monitor 2022. Deleted that and the problem is gone. Now it's time to pick all my hair up off the floor and glue it back on my head. Appreciate it.

lol  Glad you got it fixed.   I hear it's a pretty good plugin, but tends to work best when you actually have multiple monitors.  

[How do I disable this feature?]

36 minutes ago, Boomerps2 said:

Here is a video of my problem:

Looks like you might have some Multi Monitor plugin loading images that would normally go on a second monitor, but are displaying on your primary monitor.  That's how I was able to replicate it, at least.

[MAME 2.5X romsets don't work or turn on]

Cruis'n USA also needs the Device file tms32031.zip.  It should be in with your MAME full romset.

[Best way to front-end existing MAME installation...]

Googling "LaunchBox import MAME" will bring up a YT video describing how to use the MAME Arcade Full Set Importer tool.  The link will be something like this.

If you don't already have your MAME emulator added to LaunchBox, when you get to the 'choose emulator' part, click add.  From there (and for the entire process), it's just a matter of following the prompts.

[LaunchBox Multi Monitor and BigBox +3rd monitor plugin]

v1.1.2  

New Feature - Added option to set custom game image per platform.

[YUZY Esc]

Yuzy. Yuzu. Yuku. Try the middle one.

[LaunchBox Multi Monitor and BigBox +3rd monitor plugin]

6 minutes ago, Retrofrogg said:

platform-specific settings

Coming soon to a plugin near you

[Do I need a AHK for this.]

7 hours ago, TopGunBass said:

Can some script make this happen.

 

You can create an AutoHotkey script and then set it as an Additional App for the game.  The script will look something like:

Sleep, 10000
Send {Enter}

..where "10000" = 10 seconds.  You can increase or decrease this amount of 'delay' time before it 'presses Enter', depending on how long it takes for the game to load.

See here on how to add the script as an Additional App. 

 

[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Re-Revenge (Hack) SEGA Genesis - not possible to import in LB]

Click Add in the lower right corner of LaunchBox.  Or Tools, Import, Manually Add Game....

Add the Title, make sure the Platform is set to the one you want. In the Launching section, Browse... to the ROM file location.  In the Emulation section, make sure the correct emulator is selected.  Click OK.  Play games.

[LaunchBox Multi Monitor and BigBox +3rd monitor plugin]

Thanks @Fry!  This does give me some ideas.  

[LaunchBox Multi Monitor and BigBox +3rd monitor plugin]

16 minutes ago, Retrofrogg said:

a feature request; could we set which images display on the monitors per platform? For example, for MAME I might want the arcade controls to appear, but for NES I might want the box art.

Duley Noted.  But I think this would be a logistical nightmare.  Namely in making it user friendly to setup via the GUI.  Since this works with Platform Categories and Playlists, as well as Platforms, it would probably need to somehow accommodate those as well. 

I'm not envisioning how to make the Setup Menu simple to follow and understand without having a myriad of checkboxes, option lists, dropdowns etc. to accommodate the users every Platform.  Coding it's the easy part.  Making it be end-user friendly is what I'm not seeing.  At this point, it's not going to happen. 

 

If someone can come up with pictural layout for the plugin's Setup Menu that's not all convoluted and overwhelming or confusing for the average user to navigate that will accomplish what you're after, I may entertain looking at this again in the future.  

[Game & Watch not opening in LB and BB when using Mame.]

1 hour ago, Vippy_man said:

Game & Watch set the associated platform as well

Try adding the command-line for your associated platform...

-rompath %romlocation%

 

[PCSX2 AHK Help]

3 hours ago, atalec said:

Hi,

Sorry to respawn this old message but I want to do that too and it doesn't work with an ahk script

How did you do to make an exe ?

Please

If it doesn't work with a script, it probably won't work with a compiled exe.  I've never used save states in PCSX2, but I have created and setup an AutoHotkey script or 2.  My guess it's how you setup the script to run.

To directly answer your question, to compile an AHK script to an exe, you need to download and install AutoHotkey.  Once that's done, you simply right-click your script file (in Windows Explorer) and choose Compile.   But this really isn't necessary.

 

If you want to have it 'press F3' after launching any game with PCSX2, copy the above script**, edit your PCSX2 emulator [in LaunchBox] and paste in into the Running Script section.

** a 4-year later update: Change the last part of the script to (which actually should already be in that section)

; This section closes PCSX2 when pressing Escape
$Esc::
{
    WinClose, ahk_exe {{{StartupEXE}}}
}

 

If you wanting to do it on a per game basis using Additional Apps, follow these instructions:

If you do it this way, remove the last part of the script.

 

 

[LaunchBox Multi Monitor and BigBox +3rd monitor plugin]

Thanks to @garrett521 for volunteering to help with testing.  Version 1.1.1 is out with an added option that will stretch marquee images to fill the screen.

This option is intended for marquee monitors and only works on "LaunchBox 2nd Monitor".  You could turn it on and use it with a regular (2nd) monitor, but it'll look funny.  

[Tried everything Yuzu won't launch fullscreen]

56 minutes ago, Jan Olvier said:

Ive tried the -f-g Command

If you tried it like that, it simply won't work.  (or were you just typing too fast?)  There needs to be a space between the "f" and the "-" after the "f".

[Question regarding Retroachievements for ROM Hacks]

3 minutes ago, CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT said:

its the platform then. i keep all of my hack/fan-made games in a platform called Hacks & Fan-Made in Launchbox and still doesn't work there, but does if i move them to SNES, NES, etc. ah well, i'll just have to live with it since I prefer keeping them separated out.

thanks for the reply though.

Might try (if it's not already) setting your Hack platform to Scrape As Super Nintendo Entertainment System and see if that works.  

[Question regarding Retroachievements for ROM Hacks]

3 hours ago, CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT said:

However, there are some ROM hacks that also have achievements, like Super Metroid: Subversion or Hyper Metroid.

Either it was fixed, or it had already been working.  Both of course, in Super Nintendo Entertainment System.