JoeViking245

Because it's a MAME softList console, you need to add supracan to the default command-line parameter for that [Associated] platform. (It will work without having to also add -cart.) To test Monopoly from the command prompt, you'd simply type: mame.exe supracan monopoly And since you now know it works there, it'll work when launched from LaunchBox. But of the 11 games available, only 5 are noted as working. So make sure to test with one of those 5.

Nice find. Nice solution. Very creative! But can you elaborate on why you would even want to launch an emulator if the ROM file doesn't even exist? (Future readers want to know ) Side note: Since the emulators Title only needs to contain "mame" to skip the 'does ROM file exist' check, I might suggest just checking for that. This would save on some unnecessary operations. i.e., if the emulators Title is "Mame" or "MameUI" or "Test emu MAME", there's no need to rename it. It's a minor thing and the way it's written, realistically has very little impact behind-the-scenes. But in the grand scheme of things, every little bit helps. public void OnBeforeGameLaunching(IGame game, IAdditionalApplication app, IEmulator emulator) { if (!File.Exists(game.ApplicationPath) && !emulator.Title.Contains("mame", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase)) { emulator.Title = $"MAMEFAKE-{emulator.Title}"; } //return; }

The permission dialog would have been for DirectX. Just re-run the installer for 13.5. Just make sure you select the root folder of where your current installation is in. i.e. If it's on the D drive, select D:\. The installer will add the "LaunchBox" subfolder to the location. Check that you don't accidentally install it into D:\LaunchBox\LaunchBox\.

Do you have -g in the Default Command-line Parameters?

As @spycat suggested, check "Remove quotes" and "Remove file extension and folder path". Then in your Default Command-line Parameters under Associated Platforms, add -rompath %romlocation% at the beginning. -rompath %romlocation% vic10 -cart You may need to do this to the other associated platforms as well. Or, instead of adding -rompath %romlocation%, add the path to your softlists [root] folder to "rompath" in mame.ini. "F:\Roms\mame0253sl_64bit\roms" in your case. Also, add the double-quotes at the beginning and end.

I'm not sure if it's 'right' or even a 'fix', but I recall something about setting the 2 monitors [in Windows Settings] side-by-side. With the primary monitor on the left and the marquee on the right, and then both lined up across the top. --------------------------- ----------------- | | | 2 | | 1 | ----------------- | | ---------------------------

You can't do it on a per-emulator basis. But you can add an Additional App to multiple games all at once. (vs. one game at a time)

It looks like maybe an applied filter or the bezel has an innate filter over its transparent area. Looks like a vertical running-bond (like a sideways brick wall) pattern. But that's more than I know about using filters. If "filter" is even the correct word here.

It's working with the Default Theme and v13.4-beta-4. Are you using a different theme? (I don't know if it's theme dependent or not) Do you at least get the option to View Fullscreen when you right click on an image?

Ya. Don't do that. Use PCSX2. In PCSX2, make sure you have Confirm Shutdown un-checked (Settings - Interface). In LaunchBox, edit your PCSX2 emulator (Tools, Manage, Emulators) and have "-nogui" (without quotes) in the Default Command-line Parameters.

I swear NES was working for me yesterday. But it's not working today. However, I did find an apparent 'fix'. (at least it's working for me, today) Edit your emulator and change the Emulator Name: to "Get-Game MAME". Or "MAME Get-Game". Or "Get-MAME-Game". Or some variant that has the word "MAME" in it. "ThisIsNotTheMAMEemulator" will also work.

Just look at mine. I guess I have something similar in my running script. To 'play nice' with PCSX2, you may want to change out that Process, Close $Esc:: { WinClose, ahk_exe {{{StartupEXE}}} } Also, unless you always exit from the pause menu (uses the Exit Script), you'll want to put this in the Running Script section.

Here's what I found... It works in some Platforms and not others. Why? I have no idea. For me it works in Arcade and in NES. But it didn't work in SNES or Wii. So you may want to test in a different platform, until you find one that doesn't express concern that the ROM file doesn't exist. Then in that platform, do your full-blown testing with the proper batch file to see if it'll even work as you'd expect. Once that all for-sure works, you can jump back to resolving the ROM file doesn't exist issue.

Do you have "-nogui" (without quotes and a single dash) for your command line parameters?

If you can find MAME category ini files for those playlists you want, you can create the playlists with this plugin. In the plugin description, it describes where you can find some and also create-and-download them (read this comment) for importing. You could also create them long-hand if you follow the ini formatting (though may be tedious).

You can add/set-up both emulators in LaunchBox and assign their Associated Platform to Xbox. But only one of those can be the Default Emulator. Then in LaunchBox, you can right-click a game, select Launch With and choose one or the other of those 2. If say you set xemu as the Default Emulator and you have a specific game that you want to always launch with cxbx, you can edit that game and in the Emulation section, change the emulator to cxbx. Likewise, you can select multiple games and use the bulk edit wizard to change them to use cxbx.

When you open Dolphin by itself and start a game from there, does it do the same thing? Is the game "playing" such that you hear sound from it and just the game screen is black? Or does it just show a black screen, until you exit the game?

2 possible options for adding individual games are: Drag and drop the ROM files onto the LaunchBox UI (follow the prompts) Click Tools, Import, Manually Add Game (you'll need to do this for each game)

Correct. LaunchBox does not innately support marquee monitors. aka, a second or even a 3rd monitor. And requires aa 3rd party app or plugin to do so.

Try having LaunchBox change the paths for you. Select all games in your Arcade Platform (click on one, then press Ctrl+A). Then click Tools, File Management, Change ROMs Folder Path for Selected Games and follow the prompts.

Any chance you have Steam running in the background?

If you're using a recent version of PCSX2, specifically QT (recommended), in your Default Command-line parameters (when you edit the emulator in LaunchBox) put -nogui "Old" PCSX2 would have you put "--batch" (I believe that's what it was). Also, to have it start in full screen, you can either open PCSX2 emulator and check the box for fullscreen, or add "-fullscreen" (old way was "--fullscreen" (2 dashes) [both without quotes]) to the command-line parameters. (sorry. I had forgot about the -nogui part)

Better than using a script.... verify that you don't have Confirm Shutdown checked.

It's recommended to always use the Exit selection from within the PC games menu for exiting these types of games. This is to ensure a proper shutdown of the game. That said, if the games executable starts the game directly (vs being a 'launcher' app that then loads the game), it may be possible to save your above script to an .ahk file (MyScript.ahk) and then set that as an Additional Application for the PC game and have it Automatically Run Before Main Application. No. The only way to dedicate a single image type (i.e. Box-Front) to a game is to remove the other images of that type for that game. Otherwise, you get to cool effect of having that image type alternate through the other images [of that type].