JoeViking245

Glad to hear you're having fun with LaunchBox! In short: To import manuals, just place the pdf files into \LaunchBox\Manuals\name-of-your-platform\. However, the files will need to be named the same as the game's Title. As for making them look amazing, they'll only look as good as they do in your pdf's. Not sure what you mean by artwork for them, but EmuMovies does have manuals for some (not all) games. That will vary by platform and what's been submitted to them.

A CHD is not a "cart". It's a cdrom. Try "-cdrom" (or it may be "-cdrm"? Depends on where you look.). Tip: As with a lot of the MAME softlists, you may be able to get away with using just the System and not having to add the Media Option at all. In this case, the Command-line Parameter would simply be "hyperscan". (Not test [by me] with Mattel's HyperScan)

Well that don't help me, help you. Presumably, if you press Alt and the arrow buttons etc. on the keyboard (on the Cab), Keyboard Splitter receives the inputs. Maybe on your cab (for some reason), you need to send it a more literal keypress. Try using SetKeyDelay, 100, 50 This will hold the key down for 50 milliseconds and have the delay of 100 milliseconds between presses. The only other thing might [remotely] cause an issue is, for your Alt command use "LAlt" instead of "Alt". Beyond this, I'm at a loss as to why it's not receiving key inputs from AHK on your cab only. Out of curiosity, (assuming your I-Pac is in keyboard mode and not Xinput mode) instead of using the keyboard, are you able to press Player1-Button2 and then Player1 joystick in lieu of Alt, arrow keys?

Remove "-artwork_crop" from the Default Command-line Parameters.

To clarify, you got the script to work on one computer, but it doesn't work on a different computer? In your 2nd video here, it looks like when you double-click the script, KeyboardSplitter takes focus. But not 6 seconds later. Which tells me, after you start the script, you click on KS to set focus. So we don't know if the 2nd line of the script is even working. Granted, KS has focus and after 6 seconds the key presses should be sent. Speaking of lines in the script, try adding back-in the SetKeyDelay line. Some apps can't handle a rapid succession of key inputs so they need that slight delay. If that line bothers you, you can go back to what the AI told you and put a Sleep after each keypress. These 2 do the exact same thing, it's just the 2nd way gives your brain more of a visual of what's going on (and is fugly ).

The advantage (for me) of having them in their own platform is setting the associated emulator. If they were all in Arcade, I'd have to determine which games I need to change their respective emulators for. There may be a way to filter, then just do a bulk edit. But [for me] this is way easier. With multiple associated emulators, you're able to right click a game and select one-or-the-other of them. Say you had the Atari 7800 platform using RetroArch and you wanted to test the A7800 emulator. You add A7800 and associate it to Atari 7800 (not making it Default) then can right click various game to test it. ...as one example.

You had it highlighted right at the end of the video. To verify the script is doing something, add in some message boxes at key points. Like right before the 1st "Send", add "MsgBox, About to send keys". Then after those sends', "MsgBox, Keys sent Waiting for tmnt to exit". And maybe some others if you feel like it. The window is in-focus (you can see it), but does it have-focus (it's the active window)? To be sure, after your 3 second pause, you could add in "WinActivate ahk_exe whateverGKS.exe". (replacing the last part with your Gaming Keyboard Splitter executable)

You beat me to it. Glad you got it working. I adjusted the script [above] to reflect the proper WinWaitActive line.

Try giving tmnt more time to [fully] close. (1 [FULL] second? 2 seconds?) Is it safe to assume that 'Send {Tab}' is to set focus on "OK" (then 'Send {Enter}' to select it)? SetKeyDelay, 100 Sleep, 3000 Send {Alt} Send {Right 4} Send {Down} Send {Right} Send {Down} Send {Enter} Sleep, 3000 Send, {Tab} Send {Enter} ; Wait for the "tmnt.exe" window to become active WinWaitActive, ahk_exe tmnt.exe ; Wait until the process closes Process, WaitClose, tmnt.exe ; give it a sec to completely close Sleep 1000 Send {Tab} ; Send Enter key Send {Enter} Sleep 2000 ; Send Alt + F4 to close the Keyboard Splitter Program Send !{F4} ;not required ;ExitApp

This should help with that. Run, "UCR.exe" -p "Steam",,Min

Line 1 in the script is missing some quotation marks. Because the path to UCR.exe has spaces in it, that whole part needs to be encapsulated. Run, "C:\Program Files (x86)\UCR_v0.9.0\UCR.exe" -p "Steam"

Ya, the latter part of the method I showed (changing the W image) is an all-or-nothing deal. Which I agree, doesn't help too much. Another [interim] workaround is to add a Custom Field that has the Value set to your ROM Hack site URL. And again, with some creative xaml manipulation, make the Custom Field clickable to take you to the site.

[Not to stray too much from the OP...] For the interim, you can put whatever hyperlink/web-URL you want in the Wikipedia field. And with some creative xaml manipulation, you could even change the <Path Data= line to change the icon that's shown. Edit: Something like this

Yes it does. I don't emulate DC much either. In fact, I think I only have 1 game for testing purposes. lol Curious... with the ROM File (screenshot) not actually pointing to the physical file, is LB able to launch the game through emulator? 💡 Is it safe to assume that your emulator settings in LaunchBox has the checkbox: Use Filename Only without extension, checked? If so, then the emulator knows to look for the folder named after the ROM name (minus extension). Thanks again for digging into this!

Thanks for following through. I was getting ready to have the plugin create a massive debug log to (hopefully) help pinpoint the issue. If you haven't changed them all already, can you please share a screenshot of the Launching section (edit game) for one of your games that are still in their own folder?

Really not sure what to say then. Is the full path to, and including the ROM name by chance super long? i.e. D:\This\is\a\super\long\path\to\way\deep\into\the\harddrive\where\no\man\has\gone\before\Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness (USA).gdi Is the ROM located on a server of sorts making the path different than normal? Had one use during beta testing say theirs was on a server, but it had worked as expected. I know nothing about servers so don't know hot that all works. But supposedly it did. Beyond that, I'm at a loss.

The plugin gets the games ROM location from its Application Path. Can you edit the game "Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness", go to the Launching section and confirm that ROM File is pointing to either the Full\Path\To\ or Relative\Path\To\ the .gdi file?

Copy Metadata (plugin): Apply metadata from someone else's XML file to your own. View File Scenario: "I have a build where I'm manually changing every game genre to a single genre/subgenre value and would love to share it, but without a tool to apply my metadata to their own it's kinda pointless." Solution: Copy Metadata plugin. Purpose: Import selected metadata from someone else's platform_name.xml file into one of your existing Platforms. This will scan a LaunchBox platform_name.xml file and compare it your existing platform. For all matching games*, it will update the metadata you chose to have imported. (*See Finding Matching Games for how games are matched up.) Metadata fields to import (can select one or more): Genre Series Developer Publisher Notes ReleaseDate DatabaseID VideoUrl WikipediaURL CustomField (up to 3) Warning: This will REPLACE any existing metadata for the fields you've selected. There is no un-do button. The exception is Custom Field(s). This will add new Custom Fields. If an existing Custom Field with the same Name as one be imported is found, you have the option to Overwrite your existing Custom Field Add a new Custom Field (creating 2 with the same Name but different Values) How to: Requires LaunchBox 13.3 or newer Download, unblock the zip file, copy the contents of the zip to ..\LaunchBox\Plugins\ i.e. D:\LaunchBox\Plugins\CopyMetadata\CopyMetadata.dll Start LaunchBox Click Tools Select "Copy Metadata" Click Browse to locate and select the xml file you want to import from (optional) Drag & Drop the file onto the TextBlock (directly above the Browse button) Select your platform you want the metadata imported to (The plugin will attempt to 'select' the appropriate one for you) Check the metadata items you want imported To import a Custom Field Click "Include Custom Field(s)" Click the dropdown box and select the one you want imported Check the box next to it to have it imported (optional: you can select up to 2 others to be imported) Click Import Finding Matching Games: Every effort is made to properly match games in your existing platform to an external platform_name.xml. It will first use the games LBDatabaseID # to ensure an exact match. If there are no matching database ID #'s, it will compare the games file_name.ext. If there are still no matches, it will look for a matching game Title. Concept for this plugin was inspired by @C-Beats who caught me when I was bored and looking for a plugin idea. Submitter JoeViking245 Submitted 06/15/2023 Category Third-party Apps and Plugins  

Screenshots are worth a thousand words! The plugin you're using is the [older] Bulk Convert .cue/.bin files which will only look for .cue files. At the top of this page, click the blue View File. This will open a new page. The top of the new page will show Bulk Convert cue/gdi/iso files to CHD. On the right, click the red Download this file. Follow Installing the plugin as outlined on the 'new page'. Before starting LaunchBox, Open Window Explorer and delete the old plugin folder. ..\LaunchBox\Plugins\cue2chd\ Not to be confused with the new one ..\LaunchBox\Plugins\BulkConvert2CHD\

Are you getting any kind of error (or otherwise) messages? Such as "Converting", "Please Wait", ""Converting Complete", "Error Converting".... Any details you can provide will greatly help to determine what is or is-not going on. Does your batch file use the same "createcd" command line parameter for chdman? It's possible you have different versions of chdman.exe on your system. Copy the one your batch file uses (the one that works for you) into your ../LaunchBox/Plugins/BulkConvert2CHD/ folder and run the plugin again. Please let me know what you find. Thanks.