[Batch files and BigBox]

I see a couple of options.

You could create a shortcut to the batch file.  Then right-click the shortcut and select Properties.  In there, set Run: to Minimized.  Then point your game to the shortcut instead of the actual batch file.

Alternately, have a batch file that [only] replaces the ini file and set the game to launch with DEmul as normal.  Next, add an Additional App to the game that will run this batch file Before Main Application and check the box Wait for exit.

[Troubleshooting MAME High Scores]

13 hours ago, Joe35car said:

Hello,

Need some help. I made a copy of my Launchbox setup to someone and he has his own forever license but for some reason it shows my name joe35car but his initials GAB. Look like this in Robotron (joe35car - GAB). How do we fix this? He is also a member here.

 

Thanks

 

Change the LaunchBox Games Database login credentials.

[Mame pixels in lb]

11 hours ago, oilersman said:

Now if I can figure out how to make mame with HLSL stick in lbox as well then I'll be set! 

Do a Google search for something like "LaunchBox MAME hlsl". You should be able to find enough info to give you MAME HLSL sensory overload.   

[Mame pixels in lb]

1 hour ago, oilersman said:

where will I find that?

Tools, Manage, Emulators.  Select your MAME emulator and click Edit.

Looke at where it says Default Command-Line Parameters.

 

1 hour ago, oilersman said:

what do I change it too?

If it is in there, try removing it and click OK (to save the change).  Then start a game and look at what (if any) changes you see.

[Mame pixels in lb]

In LaunchBox, for your MAME emulator, do you have anything like "-nofilter" listed in the Default Command-line Parameters?

[Games only working when ROMs in the wrong folder?]

21 minutes ago, Stretch886 said:

started to get the idea that they didn't need to match exactly and MAME could handle a number of recent ROM versions

It depends on if they updated the [individual] ROM.  If you have a ROM for v0.230 and your mame.exe is 0.249, if they haven't updated the ROM in 19 versions you should be fine.  BTW, there's no easy way to determine which version your ROM set is for.  Most of the time when you find a set, they should say for what version of MAME they are.  If not, you're playing roulette. 

 

29 minutes ago, Stretch886 said:

LB had me download and install MAME version 0.249

If you had LB install it for you, you manually changed the default command-line parameters.  Edit your MAME emulator and add a Space and then this right after "dinput"

-rompath %romlocation%

 

[Can't re-add deleted game]

@12shiko

You can click Tools, Import, Manually Add Game... to import a single game.

[Games only working when ROMs in the wrong folder?]

7 hours ago, Stretch886 said:

do the games all need to be in the emulator's ROM folder?

Short answer, no.  The reason the one game worked in MAME, after moving it into MAME's /rom/ folder, is that's MAME's default location to look for ROMs.  But they don't have to be in there to work.

One of the biggest issues that can happen with MAME is not matching the ROM set version with the MAME (mame.exe) version.  What version is your "custom ROM set" for?  (this info is helpful for troubleshooting)  Did you have LaunchBox install the MAME version to match?  If unsure, what version did you have LB install?

In order to further help troubleshoot issues with MAME, please provide the following Screenshots:

Go to Tools, Manage, Emulators, select the emulator you’re using for MAME and provide a screenshot of the following sections

• Details
• Associated Platforms

Select one of your Arcade (MAME) games and click Edit (or press Ctrl+E). Provide a screenshot of the following sections

• Metadata
• Launching
• Emulation

[Mame not loading under 13.0]

18 minutes ago, mikeyg885 said:

OMG! Thanks, I think that did it.  Experiment#2 it worked on my work PC (test PC) lol.  I let it run for about 20mins or so played a quick game and no crash.  I will attempt on my arcade cabs and let you know. I should have time this afternoon.  Keeping my fingers crossed.

You're welcome!  But to be fair it was @launchretrogirl2562's idea to delete the script (brute force method of commenting out the lines. lol).  

But since that worked, this leads me to believe that when pressing the Space bar while in-game (Experiment #3), it will close MAME.  (Which ain't good. )  Especially if Button-3 on your cabs are mapped to Space.  If that's the case, SOMEWHERE you have the Space bar mapped to Exit MAME.  Most likely in MAME itself.

[Mame not loading under 13.0]

10 hours ago, mikeyg885 said:

do you think a windows update may be an issue since there was on last week? idk running out of ideas.

I don't think so.  That fact that, via LaunchBox, the games DO load indicates MAME and your ROMs are fine.  If there was an issue with either of those 2, you wouldn't even see the game. Couple that with the fact that when you run them directly in MAME itself and they run fine.

The issue is that when you launch a MAME game from LB, after it IS loaded, something is telling MAME to close after a few seconds.  Watching the video, it's 'coincidentally' about 10 seconds after you launch the game.  Also note that when it does exit, your selected game jumps to the 1st game in your view.

Experiment #1:  Click (don't launch) on a game lower down on the list.  Say... "1942".  The right sidebar will populate with 1942's details.  Now press the Space bar.  (see "Also note.... jumps to the 1st game..." above).  [this is more of a rhetorical experiment]

Experiment #2:  Edit your MAME emulator.  Go to the Running script section.  Comment out the last 3 lines using a ; (semi-colon) at the beginning of the line(s).  Just like the 1st line is.  Click OK to save and close.  Launch a game.  Is it still exiting the game approximately 10 seconds after being launched? 

[conditional] Experiment #3:  If the game is now NOT exiting itself, does anything happen if you press the Space bar while in-game?

[Newbie here: Question about Mame]

You won't find any of MAME's key assignments in any ini file.  MAME's default for the On Screen Display is the ` (tick) key (top left corner of the keyboard, left of "1").  The simplest way to reset that is to delete "default.cfg" in MAME's /cfg/ folder. 

If you have made other custom Input Assignments that you want to keep, instead of deleting the file:

• open standalone MAME
• open General Settings
• Input Assignments
• User Interface
• it'll be the 1st one on the list
  • press Delete
• press Esc twice
• click Save Settings

To confirm that it saved, exit MAME and then restart it. Navigate to User Interface and see if it still says None.

If it didn't save, you probably have default.cfg set to Read Only or you're having MAME load a custom controller configuration file. 

If it's set to Read-only, right-click the file and select properties. Uncheck "Read-only" and click OK.  Open MAME and go through the steps outlined above and then exit MAME. Set the file back to Read-only.

If you're loading a custom controller configuration file, open that file (located in MAME's /ctrlr/ folder) with a text editor, and search for "UI_ON_SCREEN_DISPLAY".  Change whatever it's assigned to (sounds like KEYCODE_DOWN), to NONE.

<port type="UI_ON_SCREEN_DISPLAY">
   <newseq type="standard">
        NONE
   </newseq>
</port>

 

[Mame not loading under 13.0]

1 hour ago, JoeViking245 said:

In Edit Emulator ("MAME" emulator), is there anything inside Running Script?  If so, what?

 

[For mame 0249 how to set vertical.ini to 270 ?]

Try ror (rotate right) 270 or rol (rotate left) 90.  If neither of those work, try one of the auto rotates (autoror/autorol).  But make sure you put the others back to 0 (zero) before changing.  

[For mame 0249 how to set vertical.ini to 270 ?]

21 minutes ago, ericg384 said:

how to set vertical.ini to 270

In your vertical.ini, what are your current settings listed under #CORE ROTATION OPTIONS#?

[Mame not loading under 13.0]

1st, your game is in your "MAME" platform.  Missing the Edit Game - Emulation screenshot, but I assume it's pointing to your "MAME" emulator.

Next, your "MAME" emulator has the Associated Platform "Arcade" assigned, but not the "MAME" platform (which is the platform that the game is in).

But don't think those have anything to do with your issue as the game actually does start (for a few seconds).  But do check that the game (under Emulation) is pointing to your "MAME" emulator.  

In the video, did you press any keys right before it closed MAME and jumped back to LB?  One odd thing is that when it does jump back to LB, it goes back to the top of your "All Games" list.?.?.  (Instead of back to 1942.)

 

In Edit Emulator ("MAME" emulator), is there anything inside Running Script?  If so, what?

[Mame not loading under 13.0]

In order to help troubleshoot issues with MAME, please provide the following Screenshots

Go to Tools, Manage, Emulators, select the emulator you’re using for MAME and provide a screenshot of the following sections

• Details
• Associated Platforms

Select one of your Arcade (MAME) games and click Edit (or press Ctrl+E). Provide a screenshot of the following sections

• Metadata
• Launching
• Emulation

[OpenMSX fullscreen]

Found in the manual for the emulator...  

https://openmsx.org/manual/commands.html#fullscreen

-command "set fullscreen on"

[Really basic platform filter stuck on]

4 minutes ago, SandGrug said:

Launchbox used to have a thing on the left

Try pressing Ctrl+S (or navigate the View Menu).

[Help Creating a batch file to convert multiple folder format Xiso's to xiso.iso's]

Adding the quotes will fix the error with files that have spaces in their names.

[Help Creating a batch file to convert multiple folder format Xiso's to xiso.iso's]

13 minutes ago, marcosgaming said:

Don't works.

Right click the 2nd file (Convert All Folder XISO's to XISO.ISO's Bat.bat) and select Edit.  Add a double quote ( " )  [not 2 single quotes] around the last part.  "%%d"

Also, on the next line add "pause" (without quotes).

FOR /D %%d in (*) DO extract-xiso -c "%%d"
pause

Save and close the file and double click it again.  Adding "pause" will keep the black window open when it's done so you can see if it errors or is successful. 

[Help Creating a batch file to convert multiple folder format Xiso's to xiso.iso's]

3 minutes ago, marcosgaming said:

Wow!!! So easy ? And now that i have folders ? I put other file inside and double click on it ?

  

On 1/15/2022 at 5:20 PM, darreldearth said:

Just put the .bat files and the extract-xiso.exe in the same folder with your games.

Ya, looks like they both would go in the same folder.  So now just double-click on the other one.

[Help Creating a batch file to convert multiple folder format Xiso's to xiso.iso's]

12 minutes ago, marcosgaming said:

What i write in promt command ??

Double click (or select it and press Enter) the .bat file.

[Help Creating a batch file to convert multiple folder format Xiso's to xiso.iso's]

26 minutes ago, marcosgaming said:

How to do now for convert all together in XISO directly? 

I'm not really familiar with all the XISO, ISO, XISO Folder stuff as I don't emulate Xbox.  So I don't know what you start with and are supposed to end up with.  I am however somewhat familiar with batch files.  

You say you have a bunch of ISO files in your C:\games\ folder.  And that you need to convert from "ISO into Folder".  It looks like that's what Darrel's 1st attached batch file will do.

"Just put the .bat files and the extract-xiso.exe in the same folder with your games."

"Don't work" is pretty vague.  Can you maybe give more details on exactly what's not working?  

Maybe @darreldearthcan see something in your questions that I'm not understanding and can help out.

[Help Creating a batch file to convert multiple folder format Xiso's to xiso.iso's]

11 hours ago, marcosgaming said:

Hi guys i have a lot of games for XBOX classic and i would use them on XEMU emulator so i'm searching a fast method for convert them all together from ISO into Folders and finally into XISO.

And at last i would import all together on LaunchBox and scan snap on emumovies. There is a fast way by batch script ????

Please help me, i'm not so good in code and commands line.

 

Thanks, Mark.

Did you try using the batch files from a couple posts back?

 

[Guessing No, but figure I'd ask / LaunchBox - Grabbing GFX's needed via command line/batch script?]

13 hours ago, peejaygee said:

run the core of Launchbox but with command lines

I imagine a search for "command line" got ugly real fast. lol

LaunchBox.exe does not have any command line options available.