JoeViking245

I'm thinking just add 5 lines right before parsing list.xml: string listXML = @"D:\Emulators\MAME\ui\list.xml"; XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(listXML); var machineORgame = (string) doc.Element("mame").Element("machine"); //1 Look for "machine" if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(machineORgame)) //2 If it's there.. machineORgame = "machine"; //3 We have a winner else //4 machineORgame = "game"; //5 Otherwise it must be "game" var allRoms = from r in doc.Descendants(machineORgame) // And whatever it was, use it select new { Rom = r.Attribute("name").Value, Title = r.Element("description").Value //..... //.... };

When MAME and MESS became a single emulator (release 0.162 - May, 2015), they changed how they store the data. But only for what they call the rom file. I assume this was to create a better distinction between softlists (MESS) and arcade (MAME). Prior to 0.162, individual [Arcade] rom information/data was stored under "game". Starting with release 0.162 they are stored under "machine". So with 0.159, the Mame.xml would have its data listed under "game", and the importer is looking for "machine". Anything from MAME release 0.162 to current should work with LaunchBox's built in importing tools. As always, be sure your version of the MAME executable and the romeset you are using, match.

v4 is out. (less than 17 days [this time] from re-asking. ) New feature: Import only rom Titles that exist in your Source Folder. When you check the "Import only games that exist in the ROMs Source Folder" box, only those Titles will be imported. This will not remove any existing entries in LaunchBox. Only add new ones or modify existing ones (per MAME changes in the hash file). Did some minor testing with this. But no major 'stress-testing'. Please let me know if you come across any issues.

Change the "Y" (wye) to a "v" and always use lowercase letters. Send, ^!v And make sure the always-running script is using lowercase as well.

I'm assuming when you say 'Virtual Pinball' you're talking about Visual Pinball X. If not, just change the exe filename you're waiting for to close. One possibility.. have your Running AutoHotkey script for your VPX emulator be: [not tested] Run, "d:\arcade\Pixelcade\curl.exe" "http://localhost:8080/quit" , d:\arcade\Pixelcade\, Hide Sleep, 10000 Process, WaitClose, vpinballx.exe Run, d:\arcade\Pixelcade\pixelweb.exe, d:\arcade\Pixelcade\, Hide I put in a 10 second delay (that probably doesn't need to be that long) to give VPX time to fully load before Waiting for it to Close. And I trust if you're playing a table, you be playing at least that long.

Another possible option is to use this plugin. Although the nice thing about JayJay's AHK method, it's easier to change the AHK script then to redo Additional Apps. (Assuming you're comfortable with AutoHotkey.) But always like to (well, try to) give options.

(Bulk) Add Additional Applications View File (Bulk) Add Additional Applications A.K.A. (Bulk) Add Run Before/After Main Application The intent of this plugin to add the same Additional Application to more than one game, all at one time. More specifically, it is to add an Additional Application you want to run Before and/or After the selected games. *Works with LaunchBox versions 10.14 and newer.* Setup: Download and extract "Bulk Run Before-After.dll" from the zip file and place it in your Plugins subfolder of LaunchBox. Right click the dll file, select Properties, and click "Unblock" (if it's there) and click OK. Using the plugin: Select more than one game (or all of them) in your Platform. Right click on one of the selected games and select "Bulk Run Before/After Main Application". Fill in the Application Name, Path to the program, any necessary Command Line Parameters and then check the appropriate box if you want it to run Before or After (or both or none) the Main Application. Click OK You should probably test this on only 2 or 3 games first BEFORE you decide to do your entire Platform. There is no [bulk] undo (See Additional Notes). Additional Notes: Once you click "OK", the Additional Application is added to each game you had selected. There is no Bulk Edit or Bulk Remove**Additional Application(s). (at least by me) It does require that you give it an Application Name and an Application Path. It will verify that your Application Path points to an existing file but it will not check if there's an existing Additional Application with the same Name. **If you clicked OK when you should have clicked Cancel, you can remove them with this plugin: (Bulk) Remove Additional Applications Submitter JoeViking245 Submitted 03/12/2021 Category Third-party Apps and Plugins  

If you created and compiled a script, you can edit the game and create an additional app to Automatically Run Before Main Application. If you'd rather not compile it, you can set it up similar to [the 1st part of] this post. You will (probably) need another script setup to Automatically Run After Main Application to Exit/Close the 1st script.

You can. But your games' title would be something like "lordmon" instead of "Lord Monarch". Which really, is the whole reason this plugin was created. But then ya, the command line thing you'd need to do also.

What would make that nice is if there were categorized ini files like MAME does for Arcade Machines. Like genre, controls, number of players etc.. But I just haven't seen anything like that for softlists.

To be honest, no. And to add some brutality to that, I haven't even put any thought into the importing of a curated set. Have you tried LaunchBox's built-in Scan for Removed ROMs? I'm thinking that's going to be your golden ticket for what you're wanting to do. It's a little less direct, but makes good use of existing tools. So use this Importer (setting the Destination Folder to your update folder), then Scan for Removed ROMs. For "updating", that was done in release 3.0. 17 days after my quote about "beyond the intent of the plugin". Where it scans your existing Platform [during the Import process] against the 'new' MAME updated xml and renames titles and roms as necessary (and of course, adding new roms).

Do you have it turned? Tools, Options

Try looking for and deleting the hi file in your MAME folder... ../MAME/hi/frontlin.hi and the nvram/frontlin folder... ../MAME/nvram/frontlin/ This will reset any local high scores you have for that game. Which in your case you can't even see them (it), so no-harm, no-foul. Though frontlin.zip is, frontlina.zip is not supported by hi2txt. So it won't (can't) show up on the leaderboard.

"Control.ini" (not to be confused with "controls.ini [lowercase "c" and an "s"]) has the available inputs you can filter by. This particular ini file is in the the set from mameinfo linked above (and does include luckywld within the Lightgun section).

When you Edit the game (right-click, Edit), what does the Launching tab (section) look like? Is the Rom File pointing to "tmnt.zip"? tmnt is the Parent rom and is the "World 4 Players, version X". And then it has 13 clones (which is [part of] what you're seeing in the zip file).

That's odd that it worked before, but not when adding ",,Min". Briefly looking at the reWASD site, it looks like you can associate a game (or in your case an emulator?) to a specific configuration. Then with reWASD running in the background (sitting 'idle'), when you load a game (emulator) it then loads the corresponding configuration. I would assume with it setup like that, that when you close the game (emulator), it unloads the configuration and goes back idle. Or goes back to a "default" configuration if setup that way (which is what you don't want). Ahhhh... there it is. Or pretty close. Item #4 in their FAQ's. https://forum.rewasd.com/forum/rewasd/technical-questions-aa/30703-need-some-help-start-from-this-faq

@TinyTsuruta Is it safe to assume that the "/m" is a command line parameter for reWASD [itself] to open (run) minimized? It sounds like it might be holding focus. Maybe try AHK's "Min" option. The $Esc:: hotkey may be conflicting with the exit routine of the emulator. Try including WinClose for the emulator as well. Run, C:\Users\brent\Desktop\reWASD\reWASD.exe,,Min $Esc:: { WinClose, ahk_exe reWASD.exe WinClose, ahk_exe mame64.exe ExitApp }

That's obviously where my testing stopped. lol

Is it unplayable in-game, or does it not load at all for you? If the latter, did you try directly in stand alone MAME? If it's not loading, which method in LaunchBox are you using to point to the rom? If you have MAME setup for soft lists, you can simply launch "cdimono1 -cdrm zeldgam". Unless you have the US version, then use "zeldgamu". Or do you just have LB pointing to the "FULL\PATH\TO\ROM\FILE.chd"? Either way, just tested and both do work. Again, if using the 1st method, make sure you're telling the correct version of the rom you have.

Go to Tools and select Clean Up Media.... and select what you want removed.