JoeViking245

I've used that before. It's a little weird at very 1st to figure what you're doing. But then seems ok. The last suggested search I gave, 1st hit shows pretty easily how to have a clickable image. Can even set it up to distinguish between Left, Middle and Right clicks.

"ahk gui click image to run application"

I never tried before in AHK either. This should get you started. "ahk add image to menu gui" When you test the guys script with your own .bmp image, you may need to change line #14. (remove the plus ( + ) symbol) ;before Gui, Show, +Hide, Menu Bitmaps ;after Gui, Show, Hide, Menu Bitmaps

With a batch or ahk, you'll only need ever one (script) file. VS (once compiled) will be only 1 file. As far as files being an exe, you can convert ahk to exe, and .bat to .com (I think. It's been a while), .cmd or even convert it to a PowerShell file. Speaking of which, PowerShell is another language you can look into. But there's really no need to shoot for a specific executable file type. Create a shortcut to your completed file and you're done. Rhetorical question? A batch file can be somewhat generic (Sample here) Or a little more elaborate (Sample here) [can probably add icon/images somehow as well] AHK of course can do this as well. (a very generic "game menu") But it will all depend on your comfort level with either one of these and your ability to research. Visual Studio has a learning curve of its own. But again, if you can do a google search, you can find out how to do what you're wanting. Though you may need a little ingenuity and a lot of patience. But the answers are all out there. 2 versions of LB. Mess emu (ol' school). MAME emu. Also includes links to their respective folders plus 4 others.

Sounds like what you want is a "LaunchBox Menu" of sorts. You run the program, which brings up a 'menu': LaunchBox Arcade LaunchBox Classics LaunchBox Modern Exit You click one of those LB options. Then when you exit LB, the menu reappears. The verdict is out regarding TaskKill. It's definitely bad if you add the /F parameter which will Force Kill the program. But I can't really find anything saying that running without /F is as safe as: painstakingly placing your hand on your mouse, sliding it with all-your-might to move the pointer all-the-way up to the upper right corner where the "X" is, and forcing your index finger to push down the left mouse button to "click the X". I think you'd be best off with a menu type thing. That can be made using a batch file, AHK script or Visual Studio.

Does it change if you switch the view to Platform (instead of Platform category)?

After you do your import, double check that your Scrape As setting for your "FBNEO/finalburnneo" platform is indeed set to Arcade. @cheguewara My test: Imported (drag and drop) 3 games that are known to have achievements Imported to a [new] Platform called "FBNEO" Set Scrape As to Arcade Set the emulator to RetroArch (and the respective core) Checked Search for game info... Checked Force importing Duplicates (because they were already in Arcade) Checked Force using MAME metadata Finish (Badge and Achievements) I changed the Scrape As to SNK Neo Geo AES and no Badges or Achievements appeared. Changed back to Arcade, and there they were again. The Badge(s) and Achievements are going to show in Arcade Platform as well. If seeing the badges and Achievements in Arcade really, really bothers you, you could always; after getting all your metadata and media up-to-date and complete to your liking, change Arcade platforms Scrape As to something different. But you'll want to change it something obscure. Example, if you change it to Nintendo Entertainment System, "Mario Bros." is going to show as having achievements.

"Proper rig", here we come! Great job on a successful 'process of elimination'! (Added to my notes for potential future use. )

Next process of elimination, restart the computer, then from the Windows Command Prompt (ran as Administrator) run sfc /scannow Restart (again, for "good measure"). Attempt the installer again.

A shot in the dark... on the downloads page, scroll down and try their release version 3.1.24. M$ may have doinked something up in the recent 3.1.25 for Windows 11.

Were you selecting the x64 installer? The one "that works" is .NET Core 3.1. Select .NET Desktop Runtime and the x64 installer.

May 14, 2022 New Feature: Information found inside parenthesis in a Games Title will be added to games "Version" (metadata) When downloading metadata and Media, choose Yes, download and replace all existing metadata and media to remove 'version' info from the games Title. To add Version info to an existing console (Platform) using this new feature, run the plugin and DO NOT CHECK Ignore games that only have a Title change (when updating) @Tomkun

When you launch a game through LaunchBox using this emulator ("MAME 0.243"), %romlocation% will be replaced with the full_path of where that rom [game] is located. So if the game/rom you're launching is "c:\users\<me>\LaunchBox\Games\Arcade\1942.zip", that segment of the command line that will be sent will look like -rompath "C:\users\<me>\LaunchBox\Games\Arcade\" In other words, LaunchBox will set the "rompath" for you each time you launch a game. This [video] part is beyond me. But it sounds like from the Windows command prompt you were able to launch a game using: "c:\users\<me>\LaunchBox\Emulators\MAME 0.243\mame.exe" -video bgfx -bgfx_backend d3d12 -rompath "c:\users\<me>\LaunchBox\Games\Arcade\" 1942 (this assumes your roms are in "c:\users\<me>\LaunchBox\Games\Arcade\" and the game/rom you are launching is "1942". Also I changed "Emulatores" (from your previous post) to "Emulators", based on the Application Path in your screenshot) So for your Default Command-Line Parameters:, (where your red arrow is pointing to) you could change it to -video bgfx -bgfx_backend d3d12 -rompath %romlocation% ...and it will work. But you probably should keep [at least] some of the other parameters in there and have it be: -skip_gameinfo -keyboardprovider dinput -video bgfx -bgfx_backend d3d12 -rompath %romlocation%

Short reply: You're right. This can be improved. I will try to talk my team into implementing this feature request for the next update. My plan is to copy the additional information to the Version field, ignoring Region. (more details below) Long reply: I ran a test on my MSX1 cartridges Platform. After importing, I have this: Verifying the Platform was set to Scrape As Microsoft MSX, I ran Tools, Download, Update Metadata and Media for Selected Games. I got this: Beautifil, ain't it? All games are now properly titled. But this will only happen if you select the 1st option (download and replace). If you select option 2 (do not replace any existing fields), the [existing] field Title doesn't get updated. The caveat of selecting 'download and replace' is when you have something like: it becomes this: From what I can see, users haven't added to the LB database any distinguishing characteristics for different possible versions/regions. At least not for all consoles. MSX doesn't. Sega Saturn does. So (as you tried to tell me in the 1st place ) it would make sense to copy the (additional) (information) to the Version field. I say "copy" because the titles get 'fixed' when downloading metadata. Selecting option #1 will only replace this [copied] Version info if there's actually information in the LB database for that game, in the Version field. Which in my several tests on a few different Platforms, that won't be an issue. I also say, copy them to [only] the Version field because determining/deciphering whether the additional information is meant to be Region(s), a Version, a combination or something completely different would be a pain. "(Jpn)" is pretty straight forward. Looking at ST-V, "Batman Forever (JUE 960507 V1.000)"... I'm guessing it's Japan, US, Europe, ?somthing?, Version 1.000 I will try to talk my team into implementing this feature request for the next update.

Thank you! I'm glad you find it useful. The game titles that get added come directly from MAME's hash files. I don't recall seeing any titles having 'brackets' (which I agree, are ugly) but many do have extra information in parenthesis. Though I could be wrong about the [brackets] part. This "extra" information is actually quite useful, especially if you import clones. Otherwise there is no distinction between games that have the exact same name (aside from what you might be able to see in the game details [unless it's an Additional App, in which you'd see no additional information]). As for being ugly to see, you can turn off seeing the game versions (the information found inside the parenthesis) on your games images/list by un-selecting View, Show / Hide, Versions. Just uncheck Versions (or press Ctrl+R) and anything in parenthesis (and brackets) won't show in the games list. Though it will still show in the game details. Regarding searching the LaunchBox database for games, I believe LB will 1st ignore anything in ( ) and [ ] when searching. And then if there're duplicate game titles in that given Platform, use the "extra" info to detect region. (but again, I could be wrong) Generally when an imported game can't be detected by the database, there's a discrepancy between the main part of the title that MAME has listed, and the title listed in the [user supported] database. An off-the-wall example may be "Aero the Acro-Bat" vs "Aero the AcroBat". Though if it's a commonly known game, I imagine the latter would be listed in the database as an alternate name, which would (should?) get picked up when scanning for metadata. Long answer, short... No. It would do more 'damage' than it would do good to remove the extra information.

Ok, so you're using a non-standard version of MAME. However loading/running a game should be the same as it is for regular MAME. Can you show a screenshot of your MAME4Rage emulator settings you have in LaunchBox. (Tools, Manage, Emulators, select your MAME4Rage emulator you have setup in LaunchBox). Show the Details section and also the Associated Platforms section. Also share a screenshot of your Primal Rage 1 games Launching section. (Edit the game and go to 'Launching')

Do you have it working in stand-alone MAME?

Sorry. I must have misread what you were trying to accomplish. I thought you were wanting to press the semicolon key, and have it type [have the output be] a colon. For me at least, @Kiinkyfoxx's code does the same as both of mine. That is, all 3 (when testing in notepad) on my US Keyboard output a : when I press ;