JoeViking245

I didn't know it was an "issue". I figured it was "just a thing" with those emulators. Hence your asking for an automagical means to toggle it. I don't have HDR available on my setup to know any better. You may want to ask back on the Supermodel Discord if it actually is a known issue. Or if running in HDR should indeed work. And then if they have any suggestions about configuration (be it in emulator or with your video card).

At the time of your writing, "a couple hours ago" was prior to you updating your local database. Did the message appear again after you updated it? LaunchBox is file agnostic. Meaning it doesn't care what file types you import. The message looks like it's saying there was an issue finding metadata (which you can always grab after importing), then continues to ask, 'do you want to import it anyway'. So no 'giving up' is necessary. Just a little patience and understanding.

Try updating your local database file. Tools < Download < Force Update Games Database Metadata... BTW, I have never heard a solution to any issue being "delete LaunchBox and reinstall it entirely".

Someone else recently had an issue with vertical games as well. But re-looking at your initial screenshot, that's pretty obtuse. Like the bezel .lay file is way out of whack. Maybe read-up on the other thread and see if it sparks anything.

In LaunchBox, edit your MAME emulator and look for -artwork_crop in the Default Command-line Parameters. If it's there, remove it and see if that fixes it.

Sounds like you need A command-line argument that will load a specific profile in JoyToKey. Then execute that command when launching a certain Emulator. Platforms don't care what your keys are set to. But an Emulator would. However, there's isn't a built-in means of executing the command before an emulator is launched. (Pretty sure the profile needs to be loaded BEFORE the emulator is running) But you can execute a command prior to launching a game using an Additional App. See here: But when you exit the game, you may want (need?) to close JoyToKey completely. Or at least switch it to a default config. (I don't know. I've never used it.) See here:

Of course not. It's Ctrl+P. (my bad. srry 'bout that. 😊) However, through some research and testing, I found you can't override (remap) Xemus' "Guide Button brings up the built in Pause Menu". aka, you can't make the Guide Button do anything different [in Xemu]. With my wireless Xbox 360 controller, I can put in Xemu's Running Script $vk07::Run notepad.exe and after launching a game, if I press the Guide button, it will [still] open Xemu's Pause Menu, and ALSO start Notepad. So the Guide button is recognized in AHK (well, on this controller it is). Even when Xemu is running. It's just that it doesn't do you much good in Xemu. (though a moot point since you have it already working...) Also what I found... to get to the LaunchBox pause screen (and pause-emulation), map a button (or button-combo) in LaunchBox/BigBox (requires separate mappings for each app) that's NOT the Guide button. Then edit Xemu (in LaunchBox) and under Pause Screen, check all 3 boxes.

Be that the case, you'll need to do it the "hard" way. Which really, isn't hard at all. Since LaunchBox doesn't have a means to Run anything (a command or app) Before and/or After launching an emulator, you'll have to do Before/After launching the game(s). A way to do that is: Create an AutoHotkey script Add it as 2 Additional Apps to your games Play the games (1) Create a new text file. in it put: Send, #!b Nothing more. Nothing less. Save and close the file. Place the file somewhere that's obvious to you and you won't forget. i.e. D:\MyHDRstuff\ Now rename the file to (again) something that's obvious to you and give it the file extension .ahk Something like ToggleHDR.ahk Be sure it doesn't still have the .txt file extension (like ToggleHDR.ahk.txt) You should end up with something like D:\MyHDRstuff\ToggleHDR.ahk (2A) Test on a game 1st: Select an Xbox or Model3 game and edit it. Under Additional Apps, Add a new Additional App. Name it Toggle HDR On (or whatever you want). Browse to and select \LaunchBox\ThirdParty\AutoHotkey\AutoHotkey.exe for the app path. For the App Command-line, put the full path to the file you created above "inside quotes". i.e. "D:\MyHDRstuff\ToggleHDR.ahk" Check Automatically Run Before Main Application. Click OK to save and close. Add another new Additional App. Name it Toggle HDR Off (or whatever you want). Do the same as above but this time check Automatically Run After Main Application. (3) Run the game and see if it works. (2B) Once you're assured it does work, do the exact same "Test on a game 1st:" process for all your Xemu and Supermodel games. Alternately, you can use the Bulk Add Additional Apps plugin to do the games all at once. (Actually, you'll need to do that 4 times. Twice for your Model3 platform [once for On and once for Off] and twice for your Xbox platform).

Actually, a person would only need the dll file. The image is already embedded into the dll (when it was compiled). Then LaunchBox will extract the image and place it appropriately when the dll is loaded (LB is started). Then later, if a user wants to use a different looking badge, they can go to View < Badges < Change Badge Images... and open the folder where the image will go. Add the image 'there' and renaming it to the same name as the plugin (replacing the existing image). The System.Drawing.Common warnings can be ignored. The plugin was made when that version (4.7.0) wasn't 'vulnerable'. Besides, after being compiled, the dll actually then uses LaunchBox's 'updated' System.Drawing.Common making it a non-issue. As you've found, the resulting plugin works. As promised. 😎 Well done. The Community will appreciate you.

It is definitely its own language. lol But it is straight forward, in its own rights (once you get used to it. ) Not really sur what exactly you're attempting to do here. With AHK, you can't "Send" an Xinput button. You can only read them (detect they were pressed). For this... $vk07:: { Send {F12} Return } But I think for Xemu, the default for Pause is Alt+P. I could be totally off base too. 😊 $vk07:: { Send !p Return }

I think your mind's been tainted by the unfortunate 'breaking' of Archive Cache Manager. Which has (had) a strong UI presence. I stand by my promise for the resulting plugin. The IGameBadge Interface (what's makes this plugin possible via the LaunchBox API) I'm pretty sure hasn't been touched since it was 1st implemented in LaunchBox v10.11. But mainly, the resulting plugin doesn't have any UI Framework dependencies to break in updates. It'll be like the Energizer Bunny.

Quite a bit of work? @jayjay already took care of the hard part. With his app, my guess is 5 minutes tops. The app to create the Custom Badges was created almost 5 years ago. That was when LaunchBox was still on .NET Framework 4.8 (even before "upgrading" to .NET Core 3.1, .NET 6 and now .NET 9). I, JoeViking245 promise you it still works. And the resulting Badge plugins will continue to work. Then once when you create the resulting .dll file, you can become a hero and share it with the Community for others to revel in your hard work. Plan "B": Request a Feature. Feedback - LaunchBox

I think your best (only?) option in this scenario is to create a Custom Badge.

If, when you launch a game in Xemu or Supermodel and you get the black screen, at that point, can you hit "the hotkey(s?)" to disable HDR and it fixes it? Or.... do you have to hit the hotkey to disable it BEFORE the emulator is loaded? What exactly is (are?) the hotkey(s) used to disable/enable the HDR? These will determine where and how to best accomplish this.

Yeah, that is just crazy. As a "standard of the industry", for keyboard input, P1 - 2 and 3 should be Alt and Space. At least that's I-Pac default as well as MAME. Making it pretty much plug-and-play. Heck, I bet even by default, that's what RetroArch would expect. But none of this helps you. Unless that's some sort of XInput thing (my I-Pac doesn't have XInput capabilities, so I wouldn't know). I'd be incline to call the cab manufacturer (I assume they pre-setup the encoder and emulators etc.) and ask them what they think. Maybe even tell them to fix it. Because I'm sort of doubting you're going to be able to get the [brackets] to work in Supermodel. Play B would be to reset the I-Pac to default and remap the emulators 'properly'. (just my opinion)

My guess is that it's not freezing. It's just [ (bracket) is not a valid input [for Supermodel]. Curious, which buttons are assigned to the brackets? Like Player 3 - Button 7 and Player 3 - Button 8?

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An issue with incompatible plugins was fixed in release v13.20. May try updating to that version.

It doesn't help [me] since I don't own one. When you say "mapped as 1 & 5", I assume you mean 'keyboard' 1 and 5 (vs a 'controller button' 1 and 5). It's been a while since I did much scripting and forgot MAME needs a key delay. SetKeyDelay, 0, 50 1 & 5:: Send {Esc} Return 1::1

Here, you'll need to press [and hold] "1" FIRST, then press "5". 1 & 5:: Send {Esc} Return 1::1

As just a guess, I suspect this 'alphanumeric ID' is in the format of a GUID number and that this GUID is the same GUID as the game in question. The filename (GUID) may also end with -01 (or similar). I further speculate that at some point between clicking OK to save the changes you made for that game and closing LaunchBox (allowing it to finalize saving any remaining changes in the background) that the 'placeholder' file will be removed. But it's just a guess.

What you're seeing is actually an empty 3D Model (vs a 3D Image). The Models get composed from Box-Front, Box-Back and Spine (or Clear Logo) images. They actually look quite nice if you have those images available. You can disable the "hideous" 3D Model image under Tools < Options < Visuals < Game Details - Show 3D Model.

In LaunchBox, edit your MAME emulator. In the Default Command-line Parameters, remove -nofilter. Edit: Apologies. It's -artwork_crop that needs removed.

As a workaround (though not ideal), you can edit the individual Additional Apps and manually set them to do what you want. Uncheck Use Emulator then add the path to MAME and the appropriate parameters (including the ROM name).