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  1. Johnny T
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    Wow!! You've been really busy!! Great work matey and thanks for letting me know your "method". Not sure how you would use Powerpoint for them but I'm rubbish at PP. They look fantastic
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    Yes!!! @faeran does it again!!! Superb matey! Thank you so much. That worked a treat!! I've also just got my head around Big Box Theme Creator this morning for making marquees etc so can adjust the images to make them suit my marquee screen too! This is going to make a big difference thanks to @philbobaggins for the videos and you for getting them to look awesome on my marquee screen. I'm one happy fella
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    @philbobaggins I tried your video marquees at the weekend. Unfortunately, due to the my marquee screen being a stretched LCD they don't sit quite right. It's such a shame as I absolutely love them! My stretched LCD has a 16:3 ratio (I think it's 1366x256 pixels). On the 'image' marquees they can be 'stretched' to fill the screen via the xaml file in the Views folder (GameMarqueeView.xaml) but, I don't think this can be done with video. So, I thought about maybe tackling a project like this myself but creating the videos in 16:3 aspect ratio. I wondered if it was possible to understand how you are going about it and then I could maybe use your technique but 'tweak it' for different types of screen? Are you using software to do it? Or are you curating each video yourself somehow? It might be beyond my ability to do what you're doing but I thought that if I could find out "how" you were doing it, and manage myself I could have a go then maybe upload them to your GDrive to go as a torrent for a different marquee screen? Any help/advice would be great. (Even if it doesn't fit, I still like looking at the waves on the 1943 one in between credits!!!) 🙂
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    That's great Neil. Thanks for letting me know. I'll just have to hope that the Gods shine on me again during my next Fighting Hawk session after the fix.... get myself up to my rightful place near the top of the table..... 🙂
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    Yep, that must be it!! Well spotted Neil 🙂 I just went in to my MAME emulator folder and saw a new "hiscore" folder... And sure enough... within there is my Fighting Hawk high score from the weekend..... So, Big Box must still be looking in the "hi" folder I'm guessing? Is this something I can fix at the MAME end in the config or is it just a case of wait for a fix from the Big Box end? Thanks for your great help 🙂
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    Hi Neil Thanks for the info. I am using the official mame from the mamedev website. I tend to update most months so I'm using the 0.237 version. I've got my LB "connected" to the cloud. And I've got Mame integration chosen in my options. Anything else I'm missing?? It used to work (my old 126,000 score is still there for Fighting Hawk) but has stopped working recently. Thanks 🙂
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    Hi all, After a blistering effort on Fighting Hawk (Mame) at the weekend (148,000) I noticed that my high score hadn't recorded on the Weekly / Monthly / Global high score table. I've just been Googling it to try and find the issue and someone posted on Reddit that you needed to be using mame64.exe for high scores to work? I'm only using mame.exe as I found that when I download the latest version of mame there isn't a "mame64.exe" that comes with it?? The last update I have to mame64.exe was 26th Jan 2021. Is this correct? Or am I missing something here? Is there a way of downloading the latest mame64.exe? Or am I just supposed to rename mame to mame64 to get the high scores to work in Big Box? Or am I completely on the wrong tracks here?? Any help greatly appreciated... it won't get my Fighting Hawk high score back but it will help for next time 🙂
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    This is a great idea though! An extra 'tab' on the High Score board for "Friends" that just shows you and the usernames that you add in to LB (basically it would just filter the boards for your chosen usernames i.e. friends). That would be a very basic 'quick fix' implementation. Alternatively, if you wanted to go the full monty then it would be a "friend request" system with people accepting your friend request and having a management list of 'friends' etc.... I think even the first implementation would be a great addition. @Mock if you do request it as a feature please post the link in here and then I can vote on it please. 🙂
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    No problem Retro mate. It's a great addition as it is. Thanks for getting back to me matey. And thanks for all your efforts 👍👍👍
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    @Mr. RetroLust This is awesome. Thanks for all your hard work. Is there any way of making it work with the new 'video' marquees? Many thanks 🙂
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    Thanks for that Retro... I didn't realise I could just drop in other Theme's "views" and they would be honoured by the host theme. That's great info. In answer to your question, I've got a cabinet that has a stretched LCD as a marquee... It's a strange ratio and 'standard' marquee's are only half on the screen (the bottom half is clipped). I really want to get some videos on the marquee if possible (since the update in v12) but I also really love the Pulse theme so would like to keep that if I can. Here's an older photo of the cab but you get the idea... I'll try and drop in the "views" I edited in the last theme and see if that works. Thanks again for all your help matey. 🙂
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    Hi all, I was using the CriticalZone theme for ages and had managed to set up the marquee image sizes by altering the PlatformMarqueeView.xml and GameMarqueeView.xml in the Theme/Views folder. I'm using a stretched LCD display so need them to be quite squished. I've now transitioned to the excellent Pulse theme. And would like to use 'video' marquees. However, there isn't those PlatformMarqueeView.xml and GameMarqueeView.xml files in this theme. The creator kindly shared the BB Theme Creator original files with me so I've loaded BB Theme Creator tonight and I've been to the Game Marquee screen but it's blank with no elements on it. So I wondered if there was a way (either through the software or via altering an xml or whatever) to adjust the height/width of the marquee video/image in a theme? I couldn't see anything for that in the Big Box menus but maybe I'm missing something? Or maybe I can just drop an xml in a certain folder and any theme will read that? Many thanks for all your help 🙂
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    Okay, thanks for that. I'm planning on spending a bit of time to learn CTC anyway so will look through them and see if I can work it all out. I have a Fruit Machine cab and want a vertical theme so was going to use CTC for that. Seems like an amazing piece of software. Thanks for all your help and, of course, the superb theme. It's brilliant. 🙂
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    I installed Pulse last night. Wow! It's an awesome theme!! My one issue is that my stretched LCD display has an unusual resolution. In the past I've overcome this by changing the GameMarqueeView.xaml and PlatformMarqueeView.xaml in the Theme/Views/ folder but I noticed that Pulse doesn't have one? Does anyone know how I could alter the position/size of the marquees from Pulse? Many thanks for all your help 🙂
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    That's brilliant! Thanks for all your hark work 🙂
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    Thanks for the link! Much appreciated. Downloading now 🙂
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    It's showing that the archive is corrupt for me? Anyone else getting that?
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    These are awesome!! And are now supported with the advent of v12 I think.... thanks for putting them together and sharing. You sir, are a god among men! 🙂
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    I've not got one. I only have fruities on my cab so only have the one platform. However, if you do find one then please post it as it would be good to have one 🙂
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    Hi Faeran, Apologies for the late reply. Unfortunately I've got a million and one RL things going on at the moment and I'm struggling to find any time to do anything else.... However, I *did* do a bit more investigation yesterday and found that on one particular game the monitor changes. However, when I go into the BB settings the monitors are still set correctly. At least now I can replicate the issue and know what game (at least one game - there may be a few others in the "Quiz Machine" playlist) is causing the issue. I know that some of these quiz machines are only Win XP compatible so I'm assuming it's something to do with that. I'll experiment (hopefully this weekend all being well) with running in different compatibility modes etc and just see if I can get any further.... Just wanted to give you an update. Thanks ?
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    Hi Faeran (congrats on your recent appointment - well deserved mate ) Thanks for getting back to me. It's only the Quiz Machines and it's only certain ones. The "I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here" is a definite culprit and there's a couple of others. I *think* it's repeatable but won't know until I fire up the cabinet again which should be this weekend but I'll definitely check the Primary Screen setting hasn't changed. I might be able to get up to my cabinet tomorrow evening and, if I do, I'll post back my findings then. Thanks again for your suggestions. Cheers ?
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    Hi all, I've just started setting up SWP (Skill With Prizes) Quiz Machines as a platform in my Launchbox/BigBox build. These are quiz games like Who Wants to be Millionaire and 100 vs 1 etc. They are exe files and just run directly (without an emulator). However they quite often open at a different resolution to my monitor - for instance 800 x 600 - due to their age. On my cabinet I have two monitors - a marquee and a main monitor. I'm running the latest Win 10 and the latest BigBox. All the quiz machine games launch fine but I've noticed on quite a few of them, when I exit the game and go back to the main monitor, Big Box has moved on to my marquee monitor? Anyone know why this would happen and how to prevent it? These quiz games are just like running old DOS games so I'm assuming it's maybe a problem that others have come across before?
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    Did you get an answer to this? I was looking into the same thing? Thanks ** EDIT ** it's okay, I've sussed it. Cheers
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    I have used Skraper briefly a loooong time ago so it *could* be that. I'll just set up a quick file check for *backup* files in my tool and alert me if they come back. Thanks again
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    I don't know unfortunately? I've been doing a lot of work on making a script that easily shows me which games I'm missing (and various other things ...) maybe it was a file I created many moons ago?? Can't say for sure
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