JoeViking245

You're welcome and Welcome to LaunchBox! That's a pretty loaded question. lol Most softlist Consoles should work 'out of the box' after using this plugin. However several of them will take some 'finessing'. And each finesse tactic is slightly (or drastically) different from one another. But none of that will help if your MAME emulator isn't setup 'correctly' in LB. Edit you MAME emulator (in LB) and verify you have these 2 boxes checked [Details tab]. This will be for just 'regular' roms. For chd's... that's where some 'finessing' comes into play. Double check that in the Associated Platforms tab you see your Platforms, Custom Command Line Parameters and Default Emulator check-box(s) checked. If that doesn't fix it, show me a pict of your MAME emulator Settings Details tab and the Associated Platforms tab.

Srry. Didn't read back to the original post. What this is saying is that "mame64.exe" is not in the folder you're currently in (at the command prompt). The easiest way (for me at least) to get there is to... in Windows Explorer, get to the directory your mame64.exe (mame.exe in my case) and click once on the address bar (so it will highlight blue) and then type "cmd" (without quotes) and hit Enter. This will open the Command Prompt at that location. Now type mame64.exe sf2 and you should be good to go. Provided the rompath in the mame.ini file was set up. If this: C:\Users\username\Desktop\Mameui64\Roms is actually where your roms are at (more than likely), that's what you put for the rompath. And to be safe, put in quotes like Lordmonkus shows. I know you said you were about done with regular MAME, but here it is anyway. As for Alt-Tab(bing) in and out of MAME, if you set it Windowed Mode (via the MAME UI.. Configure Options, Video Options, Window Mode = ON) it should work fine.

The 'problem' is your "Desktop" is on your C drive. Regardless, the path to your Desktop is C:\Users\your_user_name\Desktop

@zeznic For a temporary fix, try moving the program into a folder/subfolder(s) without spaces. i.e. D:\LaunchBoxCustomBagdes\

Did you select 2 or more games then right click one of them? It should show and the bottom of the menu that pops up.

I have no idea which version of LaunchBox I originally designed this under. Based on when I released it, it "should" work in LB 11.8 and newer. If it's now loading (Not showing up in the Tools Menu? Not popping up when you click it in the Tools Menu?) please check your Debug log (located in the "Logs" folder under LaunchBox). You can turn on debugging under Tools, Options if it's not already on. If it looks like gibberish to you, drag-and-drop your most recent Debug file into a Reply message here (v.s. copy and pasting the text inside) and I'll attempt to decipher it. Another thought... 11.8 was several versions ago. If you've [just] updated manually, make sure you're in the correct LaunchBox folder. (A common, easy mistake to do [look for a "LaunchBox" folder under your regular "LaunchBox" folder]). Also verify the plugin file is still in the Plugins folder. (or ../Plugins/ImportMAMExml/ folder) I have uploaded a new version beta-0.02 (bottom of above the original post) which is now supported in LaunchBox version 11.3 and higher (so now I know for sure. lol). Tested in LaunchBox version 11.13-beta-1. Though there shouldn't be any reason the previous beta doesn't work for you. Let me know what you find or if you need any more assistance.

I should probably remove those old ones. ? I really don't recall how I had it in the 1st release, but you can (now?) browse to where you 'actually' have your MAME /hash/ folder located. Also, next time you run the plugin it'll remember that folder location. Well, it's supposed to at least. lol Glad it's working now!

Having that 2nd emulator is probably a lot cleaner and also easier to make adjustments (if needed) than each game having additional apps. But (in the future) if ever you need...

This rom was last update in MAME release 0.188 and has (had) been replaced with wwfsstaru7.zip

Yes, it works on the latest release. I'm not really sure what the "advanced import wizard" is. If all was set up correctly, you should see "Import MAME Software Lists" at the bottom of the Tools menu. Is that not showing there? If it is showing, you click it and nothing happens, can you attach your debug log?

That, or edit the individual games and just type in the 'short name' [only]. Regardless, glad it's working now!!

@WraithTDK Since you can get it to run from the command prompt, that's good! Getting it to run in LaunchBox depends on how you point the ROM File to in the Launching 'tab'. If your pointing directly to the chd file, you need the full path: (LB is using a Relative path [ ..\ ] in the image) And then you need to have your MAME emulator use quotes and the full path: (no boxes checked) If you prefer to use MAME's 'short name', in LB you need only to put that in: (Alternatively you can create a .txt or .zip file (doesn't matter the file extension, and can be blank/empty [i.e. 0 bytes]) and point the ROM File to that [physical] file. i.e. D:\MAME\roms\zeldgamu.txt) And then tell MAME to NOT use quotes AND use the file name only:

Here I am 2 years later... went to pause a game and this doesn't seem to be working anymore. The Pause Theme works fine. It's just the 'Device' image isn't showing anymore. I double checked that the image is still there, and it is. With LB running, I also checked in the ../Core/Images/Platforms/ [platform] /Device/ (linked/shortcut) folder, and it's 'there' too. I then made a copy of the ../PauseThemes/Default/ folder, edited Default.xaml and changed the Source on one of the <Image> lines as noted above. Still no joy. Did by chance something change with: ? Source="{Binding Platform.DeviceImagePath}" I did do another test to prove to myself the image is good/readable by using Source="{}pack://siteoforigin:,,,/PauseThemes/Default - Copy/NES.png" ..and that worked. But obviously not ideal. Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated.

@mgtroyas I've posted an update on the plugins main download page to (hopefully) fix the list sorting and (for sure) the popup message(s). Please let me if the "Select a Computer/Console to Import" list still isn't sorting correctly for you. As always, to you and everyone else, thank you for your feedback and suggestions!

Thanks!! Ya, this has definitely been looked into. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to exist any filters nor categories for softlists like there are for Arcade Machines. But if you do happen to come across something like this for softlsits, please let me know. And you right, it would round out the plugin quite nicely.

That message box was put there for testing purposes and never got removed. Click OK (Aceptar) and the process will finish. (I'll fix that too.?) For what it's worth, that message is saying you're updating that particular softlist (FM-7) and MAME has renamed an existing games' Title. Same rom file_name.zip, revised Title.

Thank you so much for the kind words!! The odd thing about this request is that I've never seen the list NOT be sorted. Guess I just got lucky. I will get that resolved for the next update. Ya, definitely out of my hands. If you haven't already, try using the 2nd option when Downloading. Selecting this won't replace the games Title. Then as far as which game ID it associates to, I've no idea how close the Title has to match to the database to get selected.

If those are the commands you want to send when MAME starts (4:3) and when MAME exits (16:9), In the Running AutoHotkey tab of your MAME emulator, put: Run, SerialSend.exe /baudrate 9600 /devnum 5 \"M3x1\" $esc:: { Run, SerialSend.exe /baudrate 9600 /devnum 5 \"E\" WinClose, ahk_exe mame.exe } The \ (slash) in front of the quotes are needed to make them literal. If SerialSend.exe is not in your PATH and you need to point directly to the file location, put that full path in quotes. i.e. Run, "F:\My\Extra Programs\SerialSend.exe" /baudrate 9600 /devnum 5 \"M3x1\" Do that on both "Run" lines. Lastly, if your using an older release of MAME, change mame.exe to mame64.exe. (or to whatever variant of the MAME executable you're using).

The only way to do that (both Free and Premium versions) is to start LaunchBox/BigBox using a batch file (or other similar script type language). Something like: start "" "F:\MyProgram Folder\MyProgram.exe" start /w "" "D:\LaunchBox\LaunchBox.exe" taskkill /F /IM MyProgram.exe The line beginning with "start /w" will start LaunchBox (or you can change it to BigBox.exe) and WAIT ("/w") for it to exit before executing the next command. In this case, exit the program you started on the 1st line.

You can try getting medieval on joytokey and instead of WinClose, use: Process, Close, joytotkey.exe It's not a desirable way to do it as it uses a 'brute force' approach to KILL the application. Kind of like pressing and holding the power button on your PC to shut down Windows.

Add an Escape hotkey to the Running AutoHotkey Script and have it close the emulator and joytokey. ;================================== ; Running AutoHotkey Script ;================================== run, joytokey.exe $esc:: { WinClose, ahk_exe joytokey.exe WinClose, ahk_exe myEmulator.exe }

You might be able to start that 'pre app' in the Running AutoHotkey Script tab for the emulator. I mean, you can. But I'm not sure if it'll kick off "before" the emulator starts. Or if they'll launch simultaneously. So if the pre app has to be fully running before the emulator starts, I guess you have a 50/50 chance with this. But again, I'm not sure exactly the order they load. If the pre app loads fast, you should be good.

Not sure the key press is possible in a batch file, but since you're asking in the AutoHotkey thread, how about an AHK script instead? SetTimer, Quit, % 14520000 ; (4hr * 60min * 60sec * 1000) + 2min = 14,520,000 = 4 hours + the 2 minute wait Sleep, 120000 ; 2min * 60sec * 1000 Loop { Send, {Down} Sleep, 17000 ; 17sec * 1000 } Quit: ExitApp Though I suppose you could create a batch file that launches the AHK script.