Johnny T

Hi all, I'm going through and trying to tidy my platforms up. I've noticed that in each Image/Atari 2600/xxxx folder there are sub-folders labelled "World", "Japan" etc. I'm guessing that these hold alternative versions of the images that were only released in those countries? (is that correct??) If so, can I just delete those folders and have all the media I want to keep in the main folder? It would keep things a lot tidier and really help with my OCD? Thanks ?

Hi all, I run my LB/BB on a cabinet but keep a back up of the whole launchbox folder on an external hard drive (well... an "internal" hard drive that's in a caddy attached to my main PC). If there's not many 'tweaks' I use SyncThing to sync the two folders up over the wifi. However, at the moment, I'm making big changes so I backup the hard drive locally as there's too much data for the wifi. After a bit of Googling I found out about "Robocopy" which is built into Windows (W10 anyway - not sure about earlier versions) which is a multi-threaded command line copy program. So I made a little .bat script and I'm pleased to report that it works an absolute treat!! Loads quicker than just copying the whole folder and pasting on to the other folder (which is the other alternative). You can read about it here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy Here's my batch script (obviously you will have to change the paths to match your system - oh... and it goes without saying... use at your own risk!! If you mess something up then don't say I didn't warn ya!!!) @echo off title Arcade Backup Script echo Press a key to back up F:/LaunchBox to G:/LaunchBox pause robocopy F:\LaunchBox G:\LaunchBox *.* /mt /z /purge /e echo Job done mucker! pause Hope it helps someone. ?

Thanks for that Neil. I suspected it would be a Global setting. It's obviously not a major problem but thought I'd ask. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly matey ?

Hi all, I have one platform that I'm using to launch a jukebox program. It only has one "rom" (which is the jukebox.exe file). Currently I select Jukebox platform, then select the Jukebox 'rom', then I have to select Play on the game details page (which doesn't contain anything as it's not a game). I know you can turn on "skip game details" somewhere (although I've not managed to find it yet - just read about it on the forum) which stops all game details. But is there a way to skip game details per platform? Thanks ?

I'll post this on an LEDBlinky forum if needs be but thought I'd ask here first as we're all a friendly bunch here.... ? I have set up LEDblinky to speak controls on 'pause'. However, when playing games she only speaks for a second and gets cut off or she doesn't speak the full controls? For instance - on Gauntlet - she says "Gauntlet" when it starts up but when I pause she just flashes the fire button and says "Fire" (no mention of Spell) ? I thought she was getting her text to speak from the LEDBlinky controls.ini file so I changed "fire" to "firetits" (yes - I'm childish) in the controls.ini file but she still just said "Fire".?? On Tekken and Tekken 3 she just says "Punch" for the first button and doesn't mention the other buttons. However, it's worth noting that all the buttons light up correctly. There's 4 buttons lit on Tekken and 2 buttons lit on Gauntlet. Anyone any ideas? :-)

@jayjay this looks awesome!! Great work mate! Thanks @JaysArcade not sure if you could use this for your Jukebox you were asking about? ?

Oooooh!!! That's brilliant news!!! I'll have look for it. Thanks for the heads up Dos! You're a star! ?

Wow!! That's a fair size!!! ?

I'm going to set up a jukebox on my cabinet that I can play when I'm not playing a game. It suddenly occurred to me that, ages ago, I bought a license for Music Box (not because I needed the program - I just wanted to support development of it). I wondered if it was possible to switch from Big Box to Music Box and (importantly) back again easily? Has anyone done this? or know how it could be done? Thanks ?

Hi Alan I got one by just trawling eBay. They do come up from time to time. You can also buy them from places like Alibaba (I think that's the name of it) but they'll be new ones and are quite expensive (obviously depending on your budget etc). My one was £120 delivered I think. Or around that? Maybe £100 with £20 delivery. Can't quite remember now. New ones are about £600 - £1,000 I think. All the best with your search mate.

Yep, that was what I was going to do. i was also going to look into if I could help making 'snaps' - especially now the new LB is coming out with the ability to make snaps for any game.

Thanks for that. I actually watched a YouTube vid last night about it and the guy on there was using the 3 in 1 images and they looked brilliant (he was using RetroPie). Will check it out. Really like the idea of the project too so will probably support it. Thanks

Yep please do

Ahhhh... right. Thanks, I thought I was missing something there! I've just downloaded Skraper and it's busy "downloading resources" at the moment. I'll carry on with it on Friday hopefully when I get chance and see what it's all about. Thanks again Dragon

I think you'll be fine with that build bunman. Should give you a great experience. You'll be rocking by the weekend if you're getting it tomorrow! Good stuff, start knocking those high scores out

Thanks dragon. I'll probably check it out at the weekend if I get time. What's your "attract mode"? Is that not just flashing lights? Or does it do something else as well?

Hi all, I recently heard about "Skraper" for getting game media. On their website it mentions Launchbox. Assuming it is just a media scraper - is it better than LB's own media scraper? Anyone used it and can comment on whether it's any good or not? Or does it just use the same repository as LB? Thanks

I'm sure someone more knowledegable will chime in but I think the answer will depend on what games you are running. Obviously, BigBox is just a front end that will launch anything so, if all you're playing is MAME games I would say that your specs are more than enough. However, if you are planning on using BigBox to launch some of the latest PC titles then maybe the specs need beefing up a bit? At a guess, those specs would run the majority of retro games without an issue I would think (decent price too).

Thanks ninja! Yep, 32" CRT is going to be massive and very heavy!! Make sure your dimensions will fit through doors etc. Quite a few people make removable control panels just so that the cab is moveable around the house. I think mine would *just* fit through the back door into the house if I took off the T-molding but I'm hoping to not have to move it for many years as it lives inside a summerhouse I put in the garden. Good luck with your project. Would be nice to post some photos when you get started. I've enjoyed building this cabinet so far. It's a lot of stress trying to get everything right but it's a nice feeling when you finally get to a stage where you can play something. ?

Some superb additions there. Love the idea of making our own snaps. Will be brilliant for MFME too (fruit machine emulator) as I use laumchbox for that and you can't find snaps for the fruit machines online most of the time. Great work as always Jason. Well done ?

Superb!! I was just scratching my head around the Github site with what to do. I've got that program now so I'll have a mess around with it. You're a star Neil! Thanks! PS. Sorted it now. Thanks again

Wow!! There's some work gone into that!!!! Hats off to CoinJunkie and the rest of the team!!

That's great Neil. Thanks for the heads up. I'll have a look and see what I can find. Worst comes to worst I'll just remove bezels altogether. It would be nice to have them though as I do like the look of them. Thanks (as always) for the great help matey. Much appreciated