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  1. ** Edit ** - found them - for anyone else in the same boat, they're here --> https://www.launchbox-app.com/android-license Hi all, I've just bought an Nvidia Shield and installed LB. I've set anything up yet as I'm still working it all out (read: watching YouTube videos). But I thought I'd buy a license for it (I already have a lifetime license for my cab but would like a separate one for the Shield to support Jason and the team). On the license page it just says "Windows Licensing Options" and doesn't mention Android? Is this just a throwback to the time when there wasn't an Android version or are the Android licenses hiding somewhere else?? Thanks πŸ™‚
    Superb images! These images along with the new 3D box feature has transformed the look of my PS1 platform! Thank you πŸ™‚
    Excellent collection! Thanks for all your hard work putting these together πŸ™‚
  2. Sounds like we're cut from the same cloth mate. I'm the same
  3. Personally, I'm a much more "chill" player. I really love the high scores but in a casual way. Whenever you introduce some sort of scoring/measuring system into anything then there will be people who will either try and fudge the system or will go to extremes in order to be at the top spot. Good luck to them I say. If someone really wants to spend 9 hours playing a single game then they can. I always mentally discount ridiculous scores anyway as I couldn't (and probably wouldn't want to) compete with that. I normally look for the scores around my level and those are my rivals.... I finish a game of Frogger and find that I'm only 300 points off beating "TurktheGreat" then I'm chucking in another virtual coin and going again.... that's where the fun is for me. Scores of 1,343,553 by "NeverhadaFriend" are not going to be of concern to me. If these things *do* bother people then the answer is to introduce an "Ultimate Scores" board that filters out the top 5 or so ? of the global high scores, removes them from the main board and puts them on their own high score board. This would filter cheaters and people with mega-large scores and leave the rest of the board for 'normal' players. It would also please the 'extreme' players to vie for top spot on the Ultimate Board!
  4. Brilliant news! Thanks for letting us know πŸ™‚
  5. Thanks Neil. I didn't even know we had a Discord channel - although, to be honest, I'm not a fan of Discord. It's one long stream of chat and doesn't really suit to archiving information like a forum does.
  6. Wow! I didn't realise you meant 'every' game! That's impressive mate - well done... no wonder you're looking for a place to tell the world I hope you're not in front of me at Toki....? Hopefully one of the mods will be able to take this as a suggestion and see if there's a wider appetite for it. I would certainly love it. And it would encourage many more visits to the forum.
  7. Well done!! What game did you do it in? A separate forum for bragging rights etc was discussed but don't think it's been implemented (I've not seen it yet anyway).
  8. I'm not as sold on this idea. I think it would maybe over-complicate things. The scores then with an asterisk could be from anything - infinite lives or some other tweak. Personally (and, just an opinion) I prefer nice and simple. Non-tweaked official versions of the game are counted and that gives assurance that the other people on the same high score board were playing the same game as you. Nothing to stop people tweaking things to play the game for their own enjoyment and to beat their own personal bests - but I don't think their scores should be recorded on LB/BB.
  9. I really like this idea. It would help tie peoples forum username to their high score username and be able to have a bit of banter and get some tips on how to improve etc. It would also be fuel for ETA Prime or a.n.other to do a YouTube video showing how to play the game of the week (or just featured games - maybe across a few different genres so there's something everyone). If we have a (for instance) Donkey Kong thread within the High Score forum then it could be used to give tips on how to get a high score, a bit of trash-talk/banter, helping if someone had a problem with the game or was stuck at a certain part etc. It would be more 'game focussed' than LB/BB focussed? The only downside I could see with this is whether we would be straying into bad legal territory with this? If someone (heaven forbid) didn't have the necessary rights to play the game but we were all talking about a certain game then (from the outside) it would look like we were sharing the game around and that could transition in legal hot water?? Not sure though... probably not as there seems to be plenty of forums discussing games so I can't see there being issues.....
  10. Definitely. The High Score table is one of my favourite features.
  11. Yep, I was thinking of having 2 platforms in BB. Spectrum - Controller and Spectrum - Keyboard (as there will be quite a lot of games that a controller won't work for). I'm not sure if that's a good idea or not? What do you think? For the Controller one I'll just use Kempston as a base as you advise. As I said, Speccy was my first computer so I would love to get a load of the old games working. Was playing Jet Set Willy earlier and even the music brought a big smile to my face.
  12. Ahhh... okay so I managed to pick the one game with problems Yep, sounds like me. Thanks for all your help
  13. @neil9000 not really on-topic but I just tried your method tonight - I set up a new install of RetroArch - I entered the Quick Menu and changed controls for Player 1 to a Kempston joystick. I then started Atic Atac and chose the Kempston joystick and my little knight just runs to the top right of the room and constantly fires without any keys on my controller being pressed? I am using a cheap 'wired' X-box 360 controller and, in the main controls for Player 1 (i.e. NOT the quick menu but the global menu) it shows up fine? Do I need a different type of physical controller? Or am I missing a setting somewhere? I only ask as the Spectrum is my favourite platform and the reason for my misspent youth. I would love to be able to quickly get 95% of the games working with a controller if it was possible. Thanks for your help
  14. Thanks @faeran that's handy to know I'm not sure if I'll be able to achieve what I want in this instance. My game has a 'fixed' key of "P" for Pickup. I can turn on Game Focus but I think LB/BB will still pick up on "P" being pressed and show the Pause screen. I can turn off Pause in LB/BB but then that applies to every game on every system which I don't want. I'm not sure there's a solution for this particular problem at the moment? Really appreciate you adding your advice though
  15. Okay, thanks. That's a generic setting unfortunately. But, not to worry, I'll try messing around with the settings in Retroarch and see if there's some way of doing it for that game specifically. Thanks for all your help
  16. I'll be definitely trying your Kempston tip!! Thanks!!! I've previously been trying to map keys individually on each game. I've done about 10 of my favourites but it's really laborious. Didn't realise there was a quick way!! Soooo glad I spoke to you before I embarked on doing a lot more. I checked Tools/Options/Controller Mappings in LB and I don't have anything mapped to the Pause button?? Am I supposed to have Enable Game Controller ticked? And then put something in the Pause mapping?? Also, is it definitely Launchbox I should be in? I use Big Box on my machine? Just want to make sure I'm tinkering with the right bit? Thanks for your help (and patience!)
  17. Thanks for getting back to me Neil. Which controller mapping section? Within Retroarch? Or within Big Box? Or somewhere else? Good point about Q,A,O,P. I suppose I've just always assumed the Speccy would need a keyboard so never really looked into using a controller with it. I do use my cab controls for a few games (Atic Atac, Bruce Lee and a few other favourites) but I've not really started setting it up in earnest yet. I just had a hankering for Rebelstar yesterday. There's probably too many keys for a controller anyway for Rebelstar as you have Info / Pickup / Drop / Fire / Snapshot / Aimed shot etc etc...
  18. Hi all, For the first time since the 1980's, I had a game of Rebelstar yesterday. I played it using the Spectrum emulator through Retroarch. It was a great bit of gaming nostalgia - the only problem was that "Pickup object" uses the "P" key. But pressing "P" takes me to the Big Box Pause screen. Is there a way to disable Pause for certain games? Or, at least, change the key used (you would never need to 'pause' Rebelstar anyway as it just a turned based strategy game). Thanks (PS. I lost - in case you were wondering). πŸ™‚
  19. @patientFool this is what I do. I have a "Arcade" platform that contains all the games. And then I have a "Classics" playlist based on the All Killer No Filler games (along with some of my own faves). 90% of the time I'm playing games from the Classics playlist but, now and again I like to just dip into the Arcade platform and find other games to play. I've found some brilliant games this way that I would never have experienced. It's also good to have it this way in case you have any friends over who might have some nostalgic games of their own that you haven't heard of before
  20. I've managed to glean some more information about this. The Retroarch same_cdi emulator doesn't (currently) support Digital Video Cartridge games. So the following games won't work (thanks to a Reddit user called ZadocPaet for putting this list together) A full list of CD-i games that use the Digital Video Card Required Atlantis - The Last Resort Brain Dead 13 Caesar’s World of Boxing Chaos Control Chistmas Country Chistmas Crisis Cluedo Cluedo The Mysteries Continue Creature Shock Crime Patrol Crime Patrol 2: Drug Wars De Zaak Van Sam Do you remember the 60s Dragon's Lair Dragon's Lair II - Time Warp Invasion from the Planet Skyron Kingdom - The Far Reaches Kingdom II - Shadoan Litil Divil Lost Eden Lucky Luke - The Video Game Mad Dog II - The lost Gold Mad Dog McCree Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam Solar Crusade Space Ace Strip Poker Pro Tetsuo Gaiden The 7th Guest 1 The Last Bounty Hunter The Lost Ride Thunder in Paradise Ultra CD-i Soccer Uncover Featuring Tatjana Voetbal Who Shot Johnny Rock? World Cup Golf Optional A Great Day at the Races Great American Golf 2 Master Labyrinth Rise of the Robots Space Ranger - Alpha (prototype) The Apprentice I'm sure support for these will come in the future but not available for now. So, as per the great help on this forum I'm left with the conclusion that we need to click "Play CD-i" as a second step when running the game and also bear in mind that 'some' games will not yet run. Hope this helps others in the same boat πŸ™‚ (thanks again to everyone for their help)
  21. Thanks for that Sundogak. In the recent ETA Prime video he seems to just be able to launch straight into a game It's not a major problem to click the button but just wondered how he'd managed to make his boot straight into the game. Thanks for all your help. I'll have a play around but, if I can't suss it, as I say - it's not a problem
  22. Hi all, This isn't an LB problem but thought I'd post here as someone may still be able to help me. I was trying to follow ETA Prime's recent video on setting up Philips CD-i. However, when I try and run a game (even directly from Retroarch) I just get to the menu screen. If I click (i.e. press the "z" key) on Play CD-i then the game runs fine. However, it's not autolaunching the game? Does anyone have any ideas? I'm getting lost in myriads of old posts/threads about getting Philips CD-i to work in MESS / MAME etc and can't seem to find an answer to this specific problem? Many thanks πŸ™‚
  23. Just as an alternative, here's a couple I made for my system. I've called them Daphne and Daphne Classics (Singe 2 and Singe 1). I prefer @sundogak logos and will probably change my own to Singe and Singe 2 as they look better but just thought I'd post these here in case anyone wants to use them. PS. I'm just fiddling my way through Photoshop but was really proud of the fact that I got Dirk's legs looking like he's walking 'through' the "N"
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