JoeViking245

You say the marquee is [showing] on the main display (the 32"). Is the actual game [somehow?] also showing on the main display? Or is it on the 28"? From the Windows Command Prompt, run mame.exe -v This will spit out a bunch of stuff in the command window and also start MAME. In the command prompt window, look for Video: Monitor There should be (at least) 2 lines. What exactly do those lines say? In your Windows Display Settings, which monitor is set as the main display? Note, the display number being "1" does not necessarily make it the primary display. Select the larger of the 2 rectangles, then scroll down to see if Make this my main display is checked. Also, what Windows says is "1" and "2" may not be the same numbers as the -v output shows.

Glad that [part of it] worked. There really isn't an ideal way to do what you're wanting. It's also the 1st time I've heard someone wanting to do it this way. Not that it's bad. It's just very niche. Maybe someone else will have a better idea. Two non-ideal, but achievable ways of getting what you're wanting are: In LaunchBox, switch to List View (View < List View [or Ctrl+Alt+T]) then click the Application Path header to sort by file path/name. But then you don't get to see the artwork you worked so hard at obtaining. (except for on the right sidebar). Which may be sufficient? Another option is to edit the games and set their Sort Title to those numbers. From the example above, Sonic The Hedgehog's Sort Title would be 04. But like your previous predicament, you'd have to do that for each game, individually.

OK. And what view type are you in?

When importing, the importer ignores everything inside parenthesis. So probably the easiest way to keep your special numbers in the filenames would be to use a bulk file-rename utility and have it add parentheses around the number and then import those files with the 'new' filename. The 'new' filename would be for example: (04.) Sonic The Hedgehog.ext

Hmmm... What View are you in? Playlists?

The Nested Name can be whatever you want and can be the same as other playlists. The Unique Name can also be whatever you want but can't be the same as any other Unique Name. So try giving it a Unique Name of something list "My Favorites".

It's because the game Titles are prefixed with your index numbers. It'll find Sonic The Hedgehog. But not 04. Sonic The Hedgehog.

In short, BigBox is meant for playing your games. LaunchBox is meant for managing your games (as well as being able to play them). Adding 'management' to BigBox to me seems just that much more overhead. They might would have to change the name to something like BigLaunchBox. The views expressed here are that solely of the author and in no way reflect the views of anyone else. Expressed, implied or otherwise.

You probably want to go into the Parents tab and put your "Wii Favorites" playlist under one of the categories. I presume you named it something like "Wii Favorites" and not just "Favorites". Because I'm pretty sure that won't work. If you select one of those Favorites showing on your BB wheel, does your 'Wii Favorites' then show up? If so, then you'll want to change the Parents (just mentioned).

I'm not sure what you mean by "in a circle". But you can create a Playlist of all your games you've marked as "Favorite" for a specific Platform. Example for a Playlist of all your favorite Wii games.

That's a good sign. Try adding a 3 second timer before Process, Wait... Giving the com commands a few moments to settle in. If it still doesn't work, move the 1st 2 com commands into their own script and add that as an Additional App for the games and set them to Run Before Main App. Try it on one or two and if it works, there's a plugin where you can bulk add Additional Apps to all the games [that need it].

I not sure you'll get much help there for this particular situation. You could try this: Run, %COMSPEC% /C echo M3.1 > COM1 Run, %COMSPEC% /C echo M3.1 > COM2 Process, Wait, mame.exe ;Sleep 2000 WinActivate ~ESC:: Run, %COMSPEC% /C echo M3.0 > COM1 Run, %COMSPEC% /C echo M3.0 > COM2 ExitApp return Try it without the sleep timer. If it doesn't work, uncomment that line.

If what I'm thinking is correct, for that you'll need to either start MAME fullscreen or turn off the Startup Screen for the emulator.

In LaunchBox, edit you MAME emulator. Check the box for Attempt to hide console window on startup/shutdown.

My guess is that you're using a ROM(s) that doesn't use MAME's file naming conventions. i.e. "timber (USA).zip". (instead of "timber.zip") I ran a test and "timber.zip" imported without issue. "timber (USA).zip" would not. (both using the Import Wizard) If the filename issue is not the case, verify the platform being imported into is set to Scrape as Arcade. If it's just a single file needing imported, you could also go to Tools - Import -Manually Add Game. That'll bring up the Add Game window (same look as Edit Game). Go to the Launching section and Browse to the games zip file (timber.zip). Then back in the Metadata section, type in the Title (Timber) and press Enter (or click Search for Metadata). You should get a dropdown of choices (just 1 choice in this case). Select the correct one and Save.

Remove -fullscreen from the emulators Default Command-line Parameters (1st screenshot). (It's not an available parameter [anymore?].) Then, open [just] the emulator. Go to Video - Display Configuration - and check Emulate Fullscreen and Fullscreen on ROM Open.

At the top of the page, click View File. Then on the page it takes you to, click Download this file.

Sounds similar to the one I mentioned in my 1st reply. Glad you found it and got it working!

Just a guess, maybe Exit is not mapped to Escape in Dolphin. Regardless, your script looks great. And it lets you use the 'Xbox' button (or whatever it's called) to exit as well. To 'play nice' with the emulator, I suggest changing "Process, Close," to "WinClose, ahk_exe dolphin.exe". It's less of an unnecessary brute-force method. But either way will "work".

From what I can see, your VPX 'emulator' is your above AutoHotkey script. So the Emulators Application Path is "path\to\your\VPXscript.ahk". Why not use a modified version of that script to Run Dolphin.exe with its respective parameters and set that as your Nintendo Wii emulator? Though I'm not sure how you're running that elevated. I believe the AHK script needs to be started elevated to Run the batch files shortcut, elevated. I could be wrong. If it doesn't need to be elevated, that makes things a lot easier. Run, "C:\Users\Arcade\LaunchBox\Tools\Mayflash disabler\Mayflash_enable.bat - Shortcut.lnk" Sleep, 2000 RunWait, "C:\Users\Arcade\LaunchBox\Emulators\Dolphin\Dolphin.exe" -b -e "%1%" Run, "C:\Users\Arcade\LaunchBox\Tools\Mayflash disabler\Mayflash_disable.bat - Shortcut.lnk" WinActivate, ahk_exe LaunchBox.exe WinActivate, ahk_exe BigBox.exe ExitApp I removed the Sleep, While WinExist and Process, WaitClose lines and used "RunWait" instead. Less lines. Same outcome. Just change your paths and batch file names, accordingly.