JoeViking245

I don't use the Demul emulator, but the 1st post says to "add it as an additional application that loads before or after your hikaru game and it will make it go fullscreen on load." So you may try it there instead of the Running Script section. But since all it's essentially doing is pressing Alt+Enter when the window is active, you could try a Running Script like: Loop { ifwinactive, ahk_exe demul.exe { send !{Enter} break } } ; This section closes Demul when pressing Escape $Esc:: { Send !{F4} } ...and not use the HikaruFullscreen.exe program at all. I'd be curious to if this works.

Based on you saying you want to replace them with your images ("my graphics"), you have the images you want to use. But you also said you're "hoping there was a local source", which can be read as you're looking for replacement images to use. I'm going to assume the prior (you have them). As Neil indicated, it is possible. Just remove the existing image and replace it with yours in the /LaunchBox/Images/Playlists/All Games/Clear Logo/ folder and in the /LaunchBox/Images/Playlists/Favorites/Clear Logo/ folder respectively. Option "B" (Do it from within LaunchBox itself) In LaunchBox, Right click on your "Favorites" playlist (on the lefthand side) and click Edit... Drag the image you want to use onto the Images section (right side of the Edit Playlist window). Click the image type and change it to Clear Logo. Click the 'left chevron' to navigate to the "default image", then click the "X" to delete it. (you'll now have 1/1 [one of one] images showing) Click OK to save and close. Do the same for the "All Games" playlist you created. (Not to be confused with the "ALL" playlist, which isn't really a playlist anyway. Besides, it can't be edited.)

There's a Pause Theme floating around that will display the Controls Information image. (Don't recall if it's generic controls, game specific, or both) Similar to CPWizard's MAME pause feature. But not as a 'menu item'. It simple shows the image in with the Theme. I've also seen a modified Startup Theme that does the same thing. I've seen an AutoHotkey script that's used in leu of MAME as the emulator that will show a full screen 'splash' of your game-specific Controls Information image, until you press a key. After the key press, MAME is started, loading your ROM as normal. This one takes a little bit of "creative licensing" to work. But viable none-the-less. Of course, all 3 of these require that you already have all the control images. How far are you willing to go? Well, 2 years, I guess. lol I know one (or several) users have created Console (vs Arcade) specific controller images to go with the Pause Theme above. Are you wanting to create something that will auto generate on-the-fly, images? I think CPW may have done that [for Arcade]. Hmm... maybe not on-the-fly. But the auto generate is (was) cool! I'm intrigued to see where your idea takes you.

It's not so much because your unfamiliar with AutoHotkey, it's because that's as much as you're going to able to do. "close". When an emulator has a built-in Reset feature, the emulator stays active while resetting. As in, it doesn't completely exit then restart. If you were to add AHK code to the Reset Game Script section of your CEMU emulator (or any emulator for that matter) that closes, then restarts then emulator, you'll have a couple issues. When your script goes to restart the emulator, there is no viable way to tell it to restart using the same ROM you originally launched with. This is the big one... When LB/BB sees the emulator close, ALL scripts are abandoned. So even though your script might 'say' WinClose CEMU... Run CEMU..., when executed through LB/BB, it will never see the latter half. And even if those weren't issues, it's probably just as easy to exit and then restart the game, normally.

We're all special in our own way. lol Tested again (a couple times) and my Close Active Window button-combo does indeed close BigBox.

In my 1 quick test this morning, it did close BB for me. But I hadn't finished my 1st cup of coffee yet when I tested. I've been wrong before. and as life has shown, I'll be wrong again. And I will be the 1st to admit it. I'll check again in a bit. If what you're saying is true, then NikoDirkFan shouldn't having an issue unless "Exit" was also bound to the Guide Button.

There is a controller button binding for exiting BigBox, different from the one for exiting the game. However, the one for exiting the game is "Close Active Window". Which does just that. So when you hit it again and BigBox is the active window, it closes. As you've found. There isn't an option for 'long-press'.

LaunchBox/BigBox does not have a built-in feature to automatically start another program when it's loaded. It sounds like you may have your setup open BigBox when you turn the computer. Presumably you have a shortcut to BigBox.exe in your StartUp folder. Just add the Sinden Light Gun executable to that folder too. If you're not booting into BigBox, but rather starting/launching it from within Windows, your easiest option is to create a batch file that will start both executables for you. Then just use the batch file to run BigBox instead of BigBox.exe. The batch file may look something like Start "" "D:\Utilities\Sinden\SindenLightGun.exe" Start "" "D:\LaunchBox\BigBox.exe" Change the path and name of executable on line 1 accordingly. (I don't have one, so I have no idea what the .exe is). Change the path to LaunchBox as necessary.

System menu font/size and controls display Issue resolved. Traced it down to a user created plugin .dll file. Plugin developers take note: The plugin (VPX High Score Viewer) was originally written as an executable WPF, for testing. When changing the output type to a Class Library, the interface got implemented in the windows code behind class. (window.xaml.cs) In fact there were 2 interfaces implemented this way in the one plugin. IGameMenuItemPlugin and ISystemMenuItemPlugin. The plugin worked this way, but what it also did was register a window (2 actually) as a part of the plugin. This unseen, useless and unnecessary window was being seen by the BigBox Default theme and created havoc. The take-away, if converting from an executable, be sure to remove any and all unnecessary windows.

I'm having the same issue using the ['new'] Default theme. 12.14-betas Here's what the System Menu looks like (screenshot is just the top, left quarter of the monitor) When I go into say Options, View, Theme and hit enter to select a different theme, the screen fades but I can't see the control showing the list of themes to select from. Though I can (blindly) move up or down and press enter and a different theme is then selected. Scaling is set to 100% and resolution is set to 'recommended'. Which on the cab is 1680x1050. The same issue happens when I open BB on the connected TV (via HDMI cable). Its scale is also 100% and recommended resolution. 1920x1080 To help test, I deleted BigBoxSettings.xml and Settings.xml from the Data folder and also deleted the ../Themes/Default/ folder to have all 3 get recreated. This was done after 1st checking with beta-6. No change, same issue. The Old Default theme (still) works great.

First off, I never knew about "Browser_Home" before. That's pretty cool! Not practical for my use, but cool to know none-the-less. I ran a simple test using Browser_Home::MsgBox hello and I'll be daw-gone, it worked. lol Thanks! The 'problem' is that it worked when in BigBox as well. (Latest beta) I tested using my Logitech keyboard which requires the function (FN) key. So my "Home" is FN+F1. (not sure that matters) To clarify, are any of the buttons/keys on the remote still working when BB is focused? Like Select (Enter ["OK"? ]) and Back (Esc ["Back"? ])? Vol +/-?

The game 'description' is what you have listed in Notes. And like you said, it's part of the Game Details. The view you want to look into (and edit) is the GameDetailsView. ../LaunchBox/Themes/your_theme_to_edit/Views/GameDetailsView.xaml In that xaml, search for Text="{Binding Path=Notes}" Using the Default theme as an example, you'll find the first (of 2) hits on line 92 On that same line, scroll over until you see FontSize="{Binding Converter={StaticResource ScaleConverter}, ConverterParameter='30'}". Chances are in the custom theme you're editing it's not using the converters. So it may simply be FontSize="30". Either way, 30 is the value that you want to adjust. Do the same on other lines that have Text="{Binding Path=Notes}" (if applicable). Each Theme you look at may (or may not) look the same as my example. But the key points to take away from this are in bold and underlined above.

Make sure the input configurations didn't get changed. It should be the same for both versions. Open [standalone] MAME. Click either Configure Options or General Settings (depending on the MAME version) Then Click either General Inputs or Input Assignments (depending on the MAME version) Next click User Interface Scroll until you see Save State and Load State Make sure (reassign as necessary) Shift+F7 and F7. Respectively. If you're running the games through LaunchBox and have high scores enabled, save states are probably disabled.

Arcade machines/games are popular among users of LB/BB. But I'm not sure about the popularity of using console game controllers for Arcade. I'm not saying it's not uncommon. But I'm sure some have come across the 2-controller snafu and quickly discovered Custom Controller Bindings. Regardless, controllers are definitely used by many/most/all for consoles. I don't have 2 controllers setup on my system, but without even thinking about the situation you brought up, I wanted a game exit button combo that I couldn't somehow 'accidentally' press during gameplay or otherwise. My over-thinking-it way of doing things convinced myself that I could somehow accidentally do a 'rapid fire' Select then Start and exit the game at an inopportune time. I ended up configuring exit game to Right-Button + Back (Xbox360 controller) hoping "how am I ever going to accidentally do that". It's not really intuitive, but neither is Select + Start (until you get used to them). And, because I could, I set "Coin" (in MAME and in Visual Pinball) to Right-Joy click. Even though I don't typically use the controller for them.

Well, they're not because otherwise they'd show. Maybe "on" was not the right word. "Selected" may be better. "Cab" is short for "Arcade Cabinet". My Arcade Cabinet is where I have LaunchBox and MAME installed. Since I didn't have access to at the time, I stated something like Display 0. As it turns out (now that I'm near my cab) it's actually "Screen 0". I was hoping you might have caught the assimilation. Since you have the ktmnt.zip file (that one holds the .jpg and.lay files. Not the game ROM) in your ../artwork/ folder, it should just work. When you start the game and then press Tab to bring up the in-game menu, then select Video Options, you'll see different options for how the game is displayed on your monitor. By default it looks something like (note "Screen 0"): If your ../artwork/ktmnt.zip loaded with the game, you should see more than just the 3 options (or completely different options) on top. Use the arrow keys to change and Enter to "select". If none of the options that come up show your games background image (bg.jpg), then most likely the .lay file format is incorrect and/or was written for a later version of MAME. MAME updated some of the formatting for lay files sometime after January 2019 (v.0206). Don't know exactly when. Did you by chance change anything in the ktmnt.zip file? Add/remove any image files? Change the image format (i.e. .png to .jpg)? I ask because the one I have looks like this

You may need to turn them on then. I'm not near my cab right now but start TMNT, press Tab, then select (something like) display, select (something like) Display 0, then you should have different view options to choose from.

Are your artwork zip files named the same as the ROMs? What files are in the zips you have? Can you give a screenshot of both?

It's probably the same as Game & Watch. Put the respective games' zipped background image files in the ../MAME/artwork/ folder. The files in the zip (I imagine) are setup just like a regular bezel is. It'll have a "default.lay" and several other files.

Oh, those Tiger handhelds. 😊 My bad. Thanks sundogak! @Spottedfeather Based on the "incorrect file length" error you received, your rom set is probably MAME v0.214 or older. You best option is to get a romset that is made for the version of mame.exe you have. 0.236 But if you're doing that you may as well, as sundogak suggested, update your romset and MAME executable. (current is v0.245. At least until Wednesday) You may be able to, instead, use mame.exe v0.228 or older in which it doesn't have "artwork required". requiresartwork="yes" started in v0.229. With your current romset though, v0.214 back through v0.211 would probably match them better. But you will miss out on some improvements, emulation-wise that had been made since that release.

I just looked at my MAME ROMs for Game.Com (Tiger handheld) and they all have just a single .bin file in the zips. So I'm not really sure what the .svg file it's asking for is. Example "frogger.zip" has "frogger (1999)(hasbro - tiger electronics).bin" in it. If it helps any, the file size (for this bin) is 1024KB. Do you also have the required "gamecom.zip" system file? Maybe share a screenshot of the error so we can see what the "other such nonsense" is.

Assuming it's MAME software list ROMs, are they the same versions your mame.exe?

Is Show Videos checked?

If you want it for just a single game and you can't adjust it in the game itself, you'd need to create an Additional Application to run before "Main Application" (aka, the game). "Running Scripts" are for emulators only and they'll run for every game that uses that emulator. Create a text file and in it put SoundSet, 50 This will set your volume to 50%. Then to add the additional app (the above script) to a game, see here: You'll probably want a 2nd script to set it back to 100% (or whatever). Create a 2nd text file and change the "50" to "100" and set it up the same as above but check the box "Automatically Run After Main Application".

I had always wanted to add a hyperlink in LaunchBox to the Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) for each of my Visual Pinball tables. (i.e. https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=760). I had thought about putting them in the Wiki or YouTube fields, but that was an ugly work around. Playing around recently, I figured out that a simple-ish change to GameDetailsView.xaml will add right-click options to Custom Field(s). With the changes below, right clicking on a custom field and selecting "Go to webpage" will open your default web browser to whatever hyperlink page you have in that particular custom field. In my VPX setup, I also added a custom field for "Table" that would hold a link to the tables’ download webpage. (to see if there are any updates or for whatever reason) Obviously you can put in any valid hyperlink you want. The only pain is you have to enter the hyperlink(s) for each table/game individually. Pict of Right-Click on the IPDB link. Custom Field - Right-Click I'll use @faeran's Default Plus theme as an example. Create a copy of the themes folder and open the xaml in Notepad++ (easiest for this demo, but you can use any editor you want) D:\LaunchBox\LBThemes\Default Plus - Copy\Views\GameDetailsView.xaml Below the last "xmlns" entry (line 10) insert a new line. (here, we're adding a new Reference and calling it "web") xmlns:web="clr-namespace:Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Desktop.Commands;assembly=LaunchBox" Just before the closing of "UserControl.Resources" (line 34 [after inserting the above]), inset a new line. <web:WebLinkCommand x:Key="WebCommand" /> (Here we're creating a static resource which we're calling "WebCommand".) So far, it should look like this: Now search for and go to CustomFields (or scroll to line 1334 [after inserting the above 2 lines]). A few lines down, click once on the 2nd "<TextBlock..." line. (line 1345) This is the line that will contain Text="{Binding Value}" Press Ctrl+K to comment out that line. (That may only work because of a plugin I installed. Don't recall. If it doesn't work, add <!-- to the beginning of the line, and --> to the end). <!-- This line is a comment --> Below this [now] commented line, inset the following <TextBlock Grid.Column="2" Text="{Binding Value}" Foreground="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource FindAncestor, AncestorType={x:Type UserControl}}, Path=DataContext.ForegroundBrush}" TextWrapping="Wrap" TextAlignment="Right"> <TextBlock.ContextMenu> <ContextMenu> <MenuItem Header="Go to webpage" Padding="0,5,60,5" Command="{StaticResource WebCommand}" CommandParameter="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Mode=FindAncestor, AncestorType=TextBlock}, Path=Text}" /> </ContextMenu> </TextBlock.ContextMenu> </TextBlock> Here we're replacing the original TextBlock with a new one that gives right-click options. If you want it to say something different when you right-click, just replace the Header text ("Go to webpage"). Here's what the whole CustomFields section will look like (well, left half of it) Save and close. Start LaunchBox and tell it to use this theme. If you have a custom field that's not a hyperlink or is an invalid link, if you right-click and select "Go", you'll get a message box telling you it's an invalid URL. Enjoy.

I'm not sure about Platform artwork but you should be able to set scape-as to Arcade to get the artwork for the games in the CP Systems.