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So glad you got it sorted - felt for you when I read your first post

Yep completely agree. And, for all you know, you might be immortal....

Looks like it would be an amazing project if you succeed with it. Would be a huge difference to be able to play games knowing all the controls etc. and have everything automatically generated.

A bit of Google-foo looking for a Pause theme to display controller mappings brought me to some of your posts about a plugin to handle this. Is this still on the cards? And do you have any rough ideas on a release date? I would be a very willing beta-tester if you needed one. Currently looking at creating images to display on a Pause menu that will show game controls but, reading some of your ideas, it seems you are streets ahead of this?

Great idea - thanks! Thanks for the clarification sundogak. I wasn't 100% sure. It certainly seems like a better way to categorise them though but not to worry. Appreciate the feedback folks cheers

I had a lightgun playlist that auto-populated by the system being Arcade and the genre being "Shooter / Gun". A new game didn't show up and I noticed the genre was just "Shooter" so I went to the LB DB to edit it (thinking it was wrong) and the Shooter/Gun genre doesn't seem to be there anymore?? https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/105186-golgo-13 But this now means that this lightgun game is the same genre as something like "1942" (a traditional 'shooter') ? Is this a mistake somewhere in the system or is there another way of distinguishing between shooters like 1942 and shooters that used physical guns ?

Thanks for the info - I think I'm sorted now but it will definitely help others. Much appreciated

I know this is an old topic. I have the same issue with Pitfall not starting. I don't have a problem with Pitfall II. It's one of my faves so any pointers or help would be very much appreciated. I'm not sure if it's possible to have game-specific cores in RA ? Or some simpler way of just editing the code in the rom or whatever? Thanks

Thanks @JoeViking245 you cracked it! I thought I still had an error but with a bit more experimentation it's now working. You were right with your fix but I also had an issue with quotation marks around the SetWorkingDir variable that I didn't need. So my full script is now: #NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases. ; #Warn ; Enable warnings to assist with detecting common errors. SendMode Input ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability. SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% ; Ensures a consistent starting directory. #SingleInstance force SetWorkingDir, D:\LaunchBox Arcade\Emulators\MAME\MAME Arcade ;where mame is located. Note: No "\" after "Mame". MAMERun = mame.exe GameRDP = D:\LaunchBox Arcade\Games\Arcade\chasehq.zip ;Path and Machine (rom) folder Process,Close,LEDBlinky.exe Run,taskkill /im "LEDBlinky.exe" /F Sleep 2500 Process,Close,mamehook.exe Run,taskkill /im "mamehook.exe" /F Sleep 2500 Run, "D:\LaunchBox Arcade\Emulators\MameHooker\mamehooker5.1\mamehook.exe" Sleep 2500 Run, %MAMERun% "%GameRDP%", , Hide Escape:: Process,Close,mamehook.exe Run,taskkill /im "mamehook.exe" /F Sleep 300 Process,Close,mame.exe Run,taskkill /im "mame.exe" /F WinClose, ahk_exe mame.exe Sleep 300 Run, "D:\LaunchBox Arcade\LEDBlinky\LEDBlinky.exe" return This is working perfectly - thanks very much for your help! Let's go Mr Driver.........

Hi all I'm trying to launch ChaseHQ from an AHK file so that I can have MameHooker running instead of LEDBlinky. I've tried lots of different variants but I'm getting nowhere and wondered if someone could help? Here's where I'm up to... #NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases. ; #Warn ; Enable warnings to assist with detecting common errors. SendMode Input ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability. SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% ; Ensures a consistent starting directory. #SingleInstance force SetWorkingDir, "D:\LaunchBox Arcade\Emulators\MAME\MAME Arcade" ;where mame is located. Note: No "\" after "Mame". MAMERun = mame.exe GameRDP = "D:\LaunchBox Arcade\Games\Arcade\chasehq.zip" ;Path and Machine (rom) folder Process,Close,LEDBlinky.exe Run,taskkill /im "LEDBlinky.exe" /F Sleep 2500 Process,Close,mamehook.exe Run,taskkill /im "mamehook.exe" /F Sleep 2500 Run, "D:\LaunchBox Arcade\Emulators\MameHooker\mamehooker5.1\mamehook.exe" Sleep 2500 Run, %MAMERun% -"D:\LaunchBox Arcade\Games\Arcade\chasehq.zip", , Hide Escape:: Process,Close,mamehook.exe Run,taskkill /im "mamehook.exe" /F Sleep 300 Process,Close,mame.exe Run,taskkill /im "mame.exe" /F WinClose, ahk_exe mame.exe Sleep 300 Run, "D:\LaunchBox Arcade\LEDBlinky\LEDBlinky.exe" return I just get an error when it comes to launching MAME ?

Strange that it works if you just launch it natively from VPX? My LB set up for Visual Pinball is this just in case it helps? Also double check you're launching the correct version of 24 (i.e. just in case there's another file in your tables folder or it's located somewhere else - as a self-confessed hoarder I've accidentally linked to files from backup areas before)

You might be better just going with FX3 now rather than FX2 ? When I looked into it a while ago all the FX2 tables (or certainly all the ones I checked) have an FX3 version so it's just like a direct upgrade? (unless you're wanting both FX2 and FX3?)

Great work Sundogak, as always, thanks

That's great Sundogak - thanks for sharing. It's a much cleaner way to set it up. Cheers

Thanks Dragon - great work!

@sundogak this is an amazing piece of work - thank you for clearly taking everyone through how to get this set up. It's really appreciated. And adding the media too is just the icing on the cake. You're an absolute diamond! Does anyone know how to Escape back to BigBox ? I'm in the same boat as @ennahh76 in that the Escape mode mod posted by @TekkamanBlade isn't working for me? Esc:: Process,Close,steam.exe Run,taskkill /im "steam.exe" /F ExitApp I think the Pinball FX app is stealing the use of the Escape key and just overriding whatever BB tells it? I've tried using F5 as well but that didn't work? Anyone any ideas? Thanks

I think Triad Stone was called Chantze's Stone in my pack? Not good images though I'm afraid. I've just had a look but don't have anything that I can see for Astro Boy or Arcade Xperience sorry

Thanks Dragon. That's great

I would certainly be interested in that and I wouldn't be that bothered about the size of the graphics. I only have a 27" 1920/1080 monitor anyway and the Clear Logos are quite small. I think having a collection of them is really handy as (apart from keeping a uniform clear logo template on your cab) it also gives you ideas for collections / playlists etc as well as systems that you've not heard of. It would be great if you could add to the download section - assuming it's not a major headache or a load of work for you. Thanks.

** After some investigation I found that my LB pause screen was working - that led me to a ETA Prime video and it was my Keyboard Automations hadn't been enabled and I'd not set the "P" key in there. Problem solved. Thanks Hi all I'm using the YART theme (which is one that my mate created) and it has a Pause Screen that is supposed to show up an image in the Arcade Controls folder. For some reason this isn't working for me? I've spoken to him and he's been helping me with it but he's stumped as well so thought I'd reach out to the community for help? I have set up the Pause screen in Big Box / LB and the CTC editor... I've set up the "P" key for Pause in MAME: The Pause screen in the CTC creator is showing that it will look in the Arcade Controls folder when paused... But, when I Pause - all that happens is that the game dims and pauses ? I'm not getting a display of the controls image ? (all the images are correctly in the folder - my mate sent me through his folder to double-check it last night). I wondered if anyone had any ideas that I could try ? OR... failing that, does anyone know another way of having a graphical pause screen that I can quickly see the controls/instructions etc for a game ? Many thanks for all your help.

Thank you - much appreciated

Some of these are superb! Is there an updated pack somewhere with these in? Or a way of searching for the ones that are needed? There's 73 pages of amazing clear logos here so would be good if there was either - a way of searching for required ones or just a download of 'every' one in the thread?