JoeViking245

Playing off Retro808's script, here's another one. This assumes the script is in the same folder as the (games) exe file. WinWaitActive 'knows' to wait for the prior lines Run executable. The Sleep timer seems to need to be there before send "f". Also added an Escape sequence to exit the game (and the script). SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% Run, Z2TAOL_P03.exe WinWaitActive Sleep, 1000 Send, f $Esc:: Send, !{F4} ExitApp Instead of compiling the script to an exe, you could add an emulator to LB. Just point it to \LaunchBox\ThirdParty\AutoHotkey\AutoHotkey.exe and add an Associated Platform of any platform. Just don't check the default box. Then import the .ahk script as a ROM and use the "AutoHotkey" emulator.

Not easily. No matter how you go about it, your command line, at minimum is going to need electron AND either -flop, disc, or cart1. Akin creating an elaborate script that will check the ROM then sending the correct parameters to MAME, the easiest way would be to have separate platforms for each media type (flop, disc, cart). Then just set the correct parameters for the corresponding Associated Platform. Easy peasy. If you are adamant about not having them separated like that, 2 possible options are: Create a category Acorn Electron and put the 3 platforms into it. Then set your view to Categories. The other option (of many others, I'm sure) is to have all 3 media-type platforms moved into a single platform. ...After a little finagling... Import the 3 into separate platforms. (i.e. electron_cart, electron_cass, electron_flop) Install the Bulk Custom Command-Line Editor plugin Restart LaunchBox after installing the plugin select one of the three platforms (say... "electron_cart") then select all the games in that platform (select one, then press Ctrl+A) Right-click one of them and select (at the bottom of the menu) Bulk Command Line Editor Type in, or copy-and-paste electron -exp plus1 -cart1 and click Finish Repeat steps #4 #5 #6 for the other 2 platforms, changing the command line, accordingly Test a game or 2 in each of the 3 to confirm all-is-[still]-good Do step #4 Now press Ctrl+E to start LaunchBox's Bulk Edit Wizard On the 2nd page, for Field:, select Platform For the Value: type in the name of the platform you want all 3 to be in (i.e. Acorn Electron) Repeat steps 9, 10, 11 and 12 for the other 2 platforms

The Themes folder you referenced is for BigBox Themes. Your 2nd image appears to be LaunchBox. LaunchBox platform images that you're attempting to show on the left sidebar go in: \LaunchBox\Images\Platform Icons\Platforms\

It should, without any command-line parameters, just work. Make sure you don't have anything in the Associated Platforms command-line parameters also. If you want to load it full screen, add "--windowed-fullscreen" (without quotes) to the command-line parameters.

Thanks for the appreciation! It [still] seems to me like a duplicative effort to add systems that have the built-in feature that does the same thing. (and probably better than I could) It'd be like creating a plugin to reset your games' Play Count to zero when LaunchBox can natively do that. Oh wait. I did that. Or creating a plugin that shows badges on games that have RetroAchievements when LaunchBox does that too. Oh ya, I also did that. Anyway, in the works is adding bezel support for games using LaunchBox's DOSBox and ScummVM. It's a little tricky because of how they're launched, but should be coming soon to a download near you.

Good point. I guess when I was grasping at straws, I grabbed the short one.

When I did my test, the Platform was "Windows". Similar to your last Edit-Game Metadata screenshot. So another workaround might could be, temporarily change the Platform to 'Windows' (or variant), link the ID, then change it back.

Add (2023) to the title, then search

Burger Time (DECO Cassette) and Burger Time (Data East set 1) are technically 2 separate machines (as classified by MAME). Both ROMs are parent systems (vs 1 being a clone of the other). Since neither is a clone and both are working machines, both get imported. There really isn't a way to filter those out on import beyond adding, yet another checkbox for 'skip DECO Cassettes'. (Feature requests are available at the top of this page) The easiest way to get rid of all (33ish) Arcade DECO Cassette games might be to create a playlist filtered on Version Contains "deco cassette" and Platform is Equal To "Arcade." Save. Then select that playlist, select all games in the playlist and Delete.

You're welcome. I've never looked to see if someone made a plugin to scrape book/magazine/comic books. That would need to be scraped from different sites than for movies. Box - Back and Box - Spine: If TMDB or FanArt.TV has those available, that's something that could be looked into adding. If you see that either of them has those, let me know.

After downloading, the images will typically appear after clicking a different 'game' (movie) then clicking back on the one you just downloaded for. A poor man's alternative to automagically refreshing the images on the fly. Alternately, with 'that movie' selected, press F5. Since the log says images were downloaded (and even some were skipped because they 'already existed'), look inside your Images folder. /LaunchBox/Images/[name_of_your_movie_platform]/Box - Front/[name_of_movie].png

In the plugins folder, there's a subfolder called \Logs\. Sometimes the most recent log file (when the error occurred) may shed some light. Can you share that file? (drag and drop the file rather than copy and paste)