JoeViking245

If I'm reading this correctly, the simplest fix might be to set up a new ("2nd") RPCS3 emulator in LaunchBox, pointing to your same rpcs3.exe but with a different Running Script. In the new script, add a Sleep timer right after the WinMaximize line. Set it to however long you think it takes to select one of the 3 games have it start running. Then add another Send and WinMaximize lines after the sleep. Then set "The Sky Collection to use this new emulator. WinWaitActive, ahk_exe rpcs3.exe Send #+{Left} ;Send Win+Shift+Left WinMaximize, ahk_exe rpcs3.exe Sleep, 10000 ;10 seconds Send #+{Left} ;Send Win+Shift+Left WinMaximize, ahk_exe rpcs3.exe $Esc:: { ;Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}} WinClose, {{{StartupEXE}}} ;better method to exit a program ;WinClose, ahk_exe rpcs3.exe ;alternate, direct method to exit a program } Adjust the Sleep timer accordingly.

That was going to be my next suggestion if indeed the above worked.

Not sure what you mean by Kodi integration, but what you did to start (launch) Kodi will work. I might suggest turning off Startup screens.

Try this: Create a text file that contains the following, save it, and rename it to a .ahk file extension. Something like "ClosePhoenixEmu.ahk" Be sure it doesn't get saved with a .txt on the end. Like "ClosePhoenixEmu.ahk.txt" $Esc:: WinClose, ahk_exe PhoenixEmuProject.exe ExitApp Edit one of your games, go to Additional Apps and click Add Application For the Application Path, Browse to ..LaunchBox\ThirdParty\AutoHotkey\ and select AutoHotkey.exe In the Application Command-Line Parameters field, enter the full path to where you saved the file you created, in "quotes". Check the box Automatically Run Before Main Application. Click OK Play the game and see if it works.

Sorry. I don't clrmamepro that often. Yes, you're right. Use the dat file. You can open and search it the same way with a text editor to verify against your ROM.

A shot in the dark, when you downloaded the MAME xml, did you set the version there? Or just in the search? Next I'd say, open the xml, look for "puckman" and compare the ROMs it lists with what's in your zip file and make sure those match up. Above is the 0.78 set.

Since it's a Windows game and you're not using an emulator, how exactly are you setting up the command? I assume an AutoHotkey script launched via an Additional App. What does your script look like? Are you trying to set it to a key on the keyboard (i.e. ESC)? Or a button on a controller? Both?

If you have the Steam version and are using the Steam ID# to launch the game, it's not going to work this way. If you use the Steam game.exe to launch it, it may work. But either way, you really should be exiting it through the games' menu (for Steam games). If you have a console version, which emulator are you using for your game?

There are Mega Drive versions available. What you might try doing is in your Sega Mega Drive platform, select all the games then click Edit (or press Ctrl+E) to open the Bulk Edit Wizard. Then when it asks which Field you want to change, select Region. For the Value, select Europe. Once that's completed, when you download/update metadata and media for those games, I believe it should grab the "(Europe)" versions of the images.

To be honest, I'm not sure how I got the System metadata in there for Sega Naomi 2. (It was done quite a while ago) I tried to reproduce it and the only way I could get it to work was to import the ROMs directly in LaunchBox into a new platform and setting the Scrape As value there. The plugin was set to assign the Scrape As value to Arcade for all 9 systems. I have updated the plugin (v1.01) so it will now set the Scrape As value according to the system. I figured this way it'll get the appropriate System metadata in there. Then if later, anyone wanted to change to Arcade it'd be a lot easier as Arcade doesn't really have any metadata. It goes something like this: System Scrape As --------------------- ----------------- Atomiswave Sammy Atomiswave Cave3rd Arcade Gaelco PVR2 Arcade Hikaru Sega Hikaru Naomi Cart Sega Naomi Naomi GDROM Sega Naomi System SP Sega Naomi Naomi Cart 2 Sega Naomi 2 Naomi GDROM 2 Sega Naomi 2

As MAME (mame.exe version 0.xxx) updates, they've updated ROM dumps as well. Not every ROM gets updated with every MAME update. This is why if you update MAME and not the ROMs, most of the games will still work. In your case, Thunder Hoop is not one of them. The rule of thumb is you always want to have a ROM set (version) that matches you MAME version. The reason your Thunder Hoop works in v0.222 is because you ROM (zip file) is from version 0.225 or earlier (i.e., 0.222). If you look inside thook.zip, you will see that it only has 7 files. c09 c10 c11 c12 sound th18dea1.040 th161eb4.020 When the ROM was updated along with MAME version 0.226, it now has 11 files. Those previous 7, plus thunderhoop_gal16v8.f2 thunderhoop_gal16v8.j16 thunderhoop_gal20v8.d21 thunderhoop_gal20v8.h11 (see the resemblance of the 4 yours says is missing?) So, MAME versions 0.226 and later (i.e., 0.236) are looking for all 11 files. Sometimes you will get "lucky" when you update MAME but not the ROMs, and the ROMs will still work. But it is NOT advisable to it that way "hoping for the best".

If you select the ".38" game, and then press F5, does that fix it? Of the 8 images you have, are they all unique? "Box - Front", "Box - Back", "Clear Logo"... etc..

When you place subsequent "blank" hotkeys, they'll all get assigned to command(s) that follow. Hotkey assignments should also be 'terminated' with a Return. j:: K:: l:: Soundbeep return b:: n:: m:: send joe was here return Here, j, k and l are all assigned to "Soundbeep". b, n and m will all type out "joe was here". j:: K:: l::Return Soundbeep return Here, j, k and l are all assigned to Return. Soundbeep and the last return will never do anything. SetTitleMatchMode, 2 #IfWinExist Notepad { j::Return K:: l:: Soundbeep Send joe was here return } Here, ONLY if Notepad is running, j does nothing. k and l will both sound a beep and also type out "joe was here. Hopefully that helps makes the mud more clear.

I didn't test with EmuMovies setup for videos, but setting the platform (not to be confused with the term 'category') to Scrape-As Sega Naomi (aka, Naomi cartridges) I was able to get metadata (which you didn't have issues with) and (I only checked) Arcade Cabinet, Clear Logo and Advertisement Front. For my test, I selected the 1st 6 games, then Tools, Download, Update Metadata and Media for selected games, went through the prompts checking the 3 mentioned images and all was good. Same as above except setting the Scrape-As to Sega Naomi 2. The Title of the Platform doesn't matter. As long as Scrape As is set.

You might be able to, in between those "blocks", assign some do-nothing hotkeys for the joy buttons. I don't know how you set the 'blocks', probably something along the lines of while game_not_started_yet, BlockInput, On..... then add your joy buttons... Joy1::Return Joy2::Return.... etc. Then [hopefully] those hotkey assignments only do-nothing 'while loading'.

(1) PC, (1) laptop and (1) cab [PC]. All say the same thing. lol