JoeViking245

With Steam not running in the background, do you experience the same thing? e.g. with MAME If so, disable Steam Input. It's known to cause "controller confusion" (for lack of better words).

The 2nd and 3rd line in the error message tells you what's wrong. It can't find that file. Are you running Big Box as admin? Is your D drive formatted as NTFS? Those are the 2 primary reasons that, if the file does actually exist, it can't be read from the symlink folder under /Core/, Another possibility is that the path to the image is hard coded in the theme and you put the theme in a folder other than /LaunchBox/Themes/Neon Deluxe Arcade/. e.g. /Neon Deluxe Arcade - Custom/

In the Default theme, PlatformHybrid4View.xml should be disabled in ThemeSettings.xml. Though the View file does physically exist, there's nothing in it. Well, except a TextBlock that that says "HybridView4" (as you can see). It's meant as a placeholder**. That said, in the Themes Demo, that may be a bug... showing a view that's set not to show [per the ThemeSettings.xml]. Or it's by design to show "everything" existing. So, as far as that specific View is concerned, as they say.... "Move along. Nothing to see here." **Feel free to edit and customize to your specific needs. You can find more information about doing that here: Hybrid Views - LaunchBox

The "problem" is, Configure shouldn't appear there. That is (I'm pretty sure) just for MS-DOS/DOSBox games. Edit the SNES game and look in the Launching section. Is there something listed next to Configuration Application Path:? Is whatever's in there, part of the game? My shoot-from-the-hip guess is, No. Remove it and click OK to save and close.

What version of LaunchBox/Big Box are you using? VLC was depreciated in version 13.21. Note that setting the video playback engine (WMP or ffmpeg [v13.23 or newer]) is separated between the 2 UI's. LaunchBox - Tools < Options < General < Video Playback Big Box - System Menu < Options < Videos < Video Playback Engine In Big Box, try going in there and selecting "the other" playback engine. (Since LaunchBox is working, DON'T TOUCH IT in its options! )

That version must double up the slashes. I double checked mine (MAME 0.283) and it showed: Video: Monitor 65537 = "\\.\DISPLAY1" (primary) (I only have one monitor hooked right now) But hey, can't argue with the verbose readout. Glad you got it working!

Change this to 2.

Looks like too many backslashes. Try \\.\DISPLAY2 And should only need to set it on the 1st screen [vs. also on screen0, screen1, screen2, screen3]. Everything else should be left auto. Yes. A resounding No.

That all depends on the emulators used for each platform. And if they do have an accessible in-game menu system, you might/should be able to remap the key(s) similar to what you did with MAME.

Per the temporary Workarounds outlined in the link above by @AstroBob, ("scanning" is equivalent to "importing")

You never mentioned that was the specific button you wanted to use. But my Note (above) did cover that. Or get creative (now that I know that's the specific button you want to use). (In LaunchBox) Edit your MAME emulator In the Running Script section, add SetKeyDelay, 125, 50 $vk07::Send {Tab} If there's something in there already, add it to the bottom Click OK to save & close Play games and cheat to your hearts content

I tested it before posting (that's how I knew the steps to write ) and it worked then. Make sure your controller is on before starting MAME. With Show/Hide Menu highlighted, press Enter then press "the button". Note: The Guide button won't work for this. MAME doesn't "see" it.

Well, (2) is the "bundle" which includes both licenses (Windows and Android). So you would only need (1), the Windows [only] Lifetime Premium plan.

This is a known issue, under investigation. Read here for more information: LaunchBox Error When Attempting To Download Video Media From Steam - LaunchBox

When you deleted the file, did you do it while LB was not running/open?

If you look under Tools < Manage < Storefronts..., you notice you have the option to import Steam games you have installed on your computer. It continues with... (paraphrasing) to import all your Steam games, you need to be logged in [to your Steam account]. When you remove a Steam game from your LaunchBox collection, it gets added to a "blacklist" so it doesn't auto reimport the one(s)-you-don't-want to see. Look in your /LaunchBox/Data/ folder for the file "ImportBlacklist.xml". (With LaunchBox closed...,) you can carefully edit that file and remove games you don't want blacklisted. Or just delete the file to "un-blacklist" them all.

It has nothing to do with LaunchBox. It's all via MAME. If you're referring to the menu that you get to when in-game, you press Tab... Open MAME (In LaunchBox, right-click an Arcade game and select Open MAME) Go to General Settings - Input Assignments - User Interface Set whatever button to the 1st item Show/Hide Menu When done, press Escape - Escape (and then I think you need to...) select Save Settings

Since you already have the Android Premium license, you only need the Windows one. If you get it within just under 15 hours (as of this writing), you can get the Windows Premium Lifetime license for $45 USD.

This is unrelated to your OP and really, should be brought up in a new thread. Reason being, when future users/readers are trying to resolve a similar issue, the tendency is to glance at the threads title. Help us organize to keep you (and others) organized.

The intention on the auto-import feature is great! Eliminating one-or-more steps of adding new games to you LaunchBox collection. Myself, I have it disabled. But my collection is fairly well established and I'm not a "collector". So adding new games rarely happens. And if I do, I'm comfortable doing it "the old-fashioned way." The auto-import process is generally pretty straight forward. If there's new files in the platforms established Games folder, add them. ("Games folder" as seen when you edit the platform and look in the Folders tab.) They do have some general checks and balances [possibly?] based on the platform name?, the default assigned emulator? (if there is one). But for sure, the Scrape-As value (see link below). Certain emulators are "blacklisted" from looking in "the folder". Instead, LB looks at what games have been installed in the emulator. RPCS3 is an example of this. To scan for physical ROM files for its associated platform is a pretty crazy-stupid feat because of folder/file structure and naming conventions. Some information provided here: Non Auto-Import (platforms) As for Switch auto-importing an exe file (and Windows games, I believe you referenced?)? No idea. That platform is not in my arsenal. Does sound like a bug. Probably worth reporting. It's not an exact science as not all emulators' ROMs fit into one "Box" (pun intended. ). So it's definitely an ongoing work-in-progress.

I can't say why whatever's happening is happening the way it is. But I can say Big Box, as an exclusive fullscreen application is not designed to be used as a multitasking app. As you've noticed, you can to a degree, multitask. But it can have potential (and obvious) side effects. If you really do need to do multitasking with Big Box running, I heard (never bothered to try it myself) you can create a virtual machine and run it in that. (You'd have to research how set that up, as I have no idea.) But it really does defeat the purpose of running BB in the 1st place.

TBH, I think you need to post the question on one of the guides you found. What [I think] you're asking to do is unzip/extract/uncompress the contents of wldkicks.zip [re]compress the extracted files into a chd (short for Compressed Hunks of Data) file which you might be able to use chdman that comes with the MAME binaries then extract the "models" that are in the chd that you just created (which is possibly redundant to the 1st step) which might be [some of] the files you extracted earlier But that's all just a guess.

Do you have a game controller hooked up? Did you try unchecking Tools-Options-Game Controllers Enable Game Controllers?

I don't know anything about extracting "models" from a ROM. But if you were open/expand the compressed chd or gdi file, my guess is you'll find the 43 some-odd files you're seeing in your zip. But the game is a Namco (Sega Naomi) cart. Not a disc. So not sure why "they" would mention chd or gdi.