Flope

Thanks for your dedication and amazing bezels. I think we all hope that you don't get tired.

Awesome work. Regarding the shader files, It has been a while that I wanted to ask about it. I am not an expert but, based on the file, it seems that you don't distort (or tilt) the screen to create the effect of a CRT monitor curvature, right? Any advice regarding distortions? I think for arcades I use some shader call CRT (CRT-Royale, maybe).

Thanks again for taking your time to help me. I will check the documentation. My question regarding the bezels wasn't related to the bezel itself but the game display. I have a 16:9 screen and I see that the bezel is in full display when I turn it on, but then it covers the sides of game. With other bezels, I just adjust manually the position and size of the display. Is that something that we will need to do manually? Doh! Now I am realizing that.....should I display the game in 4:3 format and I will be fine? I think I play all my games full screen stretching to 16:9. EDIT: As @dragon57 suggested, the easy solution was to change the aspect_ratio to "core provided", turn the bezels on, and save core overrides (\config\Snes9x\Snes9x.cfg). In case somebody care, here it is, more or less, the hierarchy of config files and some relevant lines on those files. It is also important to double check rom names (it is case sensitive). \retroarch.cfg \retroarch-core-options.cfg snes9x_aspect = "4:3" \config\snes9x_libretro.cfg input_overlay = ":\overlays\Super-Nintendo-Entertainment-System.cfg" input_overlay_opacity = "1.000000" \config\Snes9x\Snes9x.cfg aspect_ratio_index = "22" input_overlay_enable = "true" \config\Snes9x\Final Fight (USA).cfg input_overlay = ":/overlays/GameBezels/SNES/Final Fight (USA).cfg" \overlays\Super-Nintendo-Entertainment-System.cfg \overlays\GameBezels\SNES\Final Fight (USA).cfg overlays = 1 overlay0_overlay = ":\overlays\GameBezels\SNES\Final Fight (USA).png" overlay0_full_screen = true overlay0_descs = 0

Thanks for your reply. I am using retroarch 1.8.1 (the latest right?) It could be some override. I will keep trying to pin the problem. I need to understand better how the hierarchy of cfg files works in retroarch. Any pointers? To be sure that I understand the project correctly, the bezels should show up in every game automatically, but would the size of the display and position need to be changed manually?

Hi, First of all, thanks for the great work. I love the idea of the project. I am trying to use the bezel project in windows with retroarch. For now, I am trying SNES (snes9x_libretro) but it is not working for me. My games are a "No intro" romset and matches the config file names. I think, at some point in the chain of configs, one of the config files may not do its work. I will use as example "Final Fight (USA).zip" .Here it is how my config files look like: In "\config" I have "snes9x_libretro.cfg" with the following lines regarding overlays among others: menu_show_overlays = "true" overlay_directory = ":\overlays" input_overlay = ":/overlays/Super-Nintendo-Entertainment-System.cfg" In "\config\Snes9x", I have all the cfg for the games including "Final Fight (USA).cfg" with only one line: input_overlay = ":/overlays/GameBezels/SNES/Final Fight (USA).cfg" In "\overlays", I have "Super-Nintendo-Entertainment-System.cfg" with these 4 lines: overlays = 1 overlay0_overlay = Super-Nintendo-Entertainment-System.png overlay0_full_screen = true overlay0_descs = 0 in "\overlays\GameBezels\SNES", I have all the pngs and cfgs for each game including Final Fight (USA).cfg with the following lines: overlays = 1 overlay0_overlay = ":/overlays/GameBezels/SNES/Final Fight (USA).png" overlay0_full_screen = true overlay0_descs = 0 The overlay does not show up in the game. However, if I go to the quick menu, "Onscreen Overlay", I can see the the config file is selected and, If I switch on the overlays (off by default), the correct game overlay shows up on top of the game. The display would need to be adjusted to fit within the overlay. Is that the expected behavior? Will we need to activate the bezels manually and adjust the display size and position? Am I missing something? Initially, I used the web app to do this and later I used the BezelProject-Windows from github. I am not sure if that could have messed something up. Thanks! F

Thanks for all the answer. I "found" the problem and solution. I narrowed it down the issue to the /retroarch/system/dc folder. Literally, the folder itself. I replaced, file by file, the files inside that folder from an older working backup and it did not work. But if I replace the folder with everything, it worked! My first thought was that there was some hidden file messing something. I couldn't see anything. So, I repeat the process again of replacing file by file because it was hard to believe. Nothing. The files within that folder are not the problem. I am not sure if I want to spend more time figure this one out (filenames and folder names looked normal and identical, ....) Since flycast uses the same folder for the bios. Flycast did not work either. Yes. Now, after solving this, I changed Flycast as default DC core.

Thanks for the help. gdi. I checked the checksums of the bios too for sanity check, just in case I did something to them by mistake. I also compared the bios and reicast core from a few months old backup. All the same. With same bios and games, the same reicast core worked a few weeks back. That is why I am thinking it must be some config file. I am quite puzzled cos the only things that I have been changing are bazels. So, replacing the retroarch from the backup solved that specific issue. However, If I go back to that old backup I will be losing a lot of other things. I will try to check the dreamcast config file.

It fails too. So, I am assuming it must be something in some config file causing the problem. Both load the Dreamcast home screen instead of the game.

Just FYI, I found an old backup. I did not update the reicast core, it is the same. Copying the core over did not work. However, replacing the whole retroarch worked. So, some other file got modified. Some config file? I guess I need to figure out which one.

I don't know what I did but my dreamcast games stop working in retroarch with reicast. I guess I updated the cores. I never touched any file. When I try to load a game, it goes to the home screen of the dreamcast. My games are in gdi. Now, I updated retroarch to v1.7.7 and Reicast don’t appear in the list of cores anymore. I think it has been replaced by flycast. So, now I have the following cores reicast (0.1 bd64deb) and flycast (0.1 d60140f) and none work. Is any of you encountering the same problem? I need to do more backups.

Thanks, guys. I have done what you recommended to me. Now, I can play smoothly in the arcade cabinet 2-players games when one of them is required to use a 360 controller. FYI, for whatever reason, my UCR looks for the pluggin subfolder in the working directory (directory in which I am executing UCR from). it would give me an error about not finding the pluggin folder if it wasn't executed from the UCR folder. Not sure if that was the intended behavior. So, I had to use something like this in ahk to execute it. Run, C:\Users\flope\LaunchBox\UCR\UCR.exe, C:\Users\flope\LaunchBox\UCR The 2nd parameter indicates the working directory. Thanks F

thanks for the info. That is the reason I asked. I sounded familiar that something like that existed (based on some video I watched, I think) I will give it a try over the weekend and I will report back.

Hi, Setup: I have an arcade cabinet with bigbox. Controls: Ipac2. To be able to play some windows games with 2 players. I need to emulate a 360 controller with the keyboard (Ipac2) for the 2nd player. I managed to do that using UCR - Interception - ViGem. Now, I need to load UCR (with a specific parameter) before launching the game. Is AHK the best way? I noticed that Launchbox comes with AHK. So, I should create an AHK script and make launchbox to launch the AHK script? So, something like: ... run, c:/UCR/UCR.exe -p "profile" run, c:/Games/game.exe .... I take a similar approach (AHK script) when I need to remap keys for a game that does not allow remapping. Thanks, Flope

This is another example for "Guns, Gore, and Cannoli". Changing controls within the game does not work. It resets to defaults when starting the game. Do I need to exit the app (last lines of code below)? #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. run, steam://rungameid/322210 #IfWinActive AHK_exe ggc.exe ; ; Player2 with keyboard1 d::a g::d r::Space ; Jump a::Space ; Jump2 s::k ; Kick j::m ; next weapon w::j ; shoot i::r ; reload k::u ; grenade q::i ; molotov f::s ; crouch ; Player1 with keyboard 2 LControl::Up ; jump 2 LAlt::Numpad1 ; Kick c::NumpadAdd ; next weapon v::NumpadSub ; prev weapon LShift::Numpad0 ; shoot z::Numpad2 ; reload x::Numpad4 ; grenade Space::Numpad5 ; molotov #IfWinNotExist AHK_exe ggc.exe ; ExitApp

This is how I solve it. I am not sure if it is the best way. So, I am happy to take suggestions. This for a silly game called chompy chomp chomp or something like that. 1. I installed AutoHotKey 2. I wrote the following script to run the game and to remap some of the keys. I saved it as "chompy.ahk" #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. run, steam://rungameid/292570 #IfWinActive AHK_exe ChompyChompChomp.exe ; LControl::. g::d d::a r::w f::s a::v 3. I stored the script in launchbox\Games\Windows. 4. I edited the launcher for that game in LaunchBox changing the Application Path to "Games\Windows\chompy.ahk Thus, LaunchBox will lunch the script instead of the game. The script will launch the game and it will remap the keys while the game is active. It seems it works fine.

Hi, My setup is an arcade cabinet with ipac-2 (like a keyboard) running LB 9.0 in win 10. I have a couple of simple steam games that I am not able to configure the keyboard controls. I was thinking to use AutoHotkey to remap the keys only for each of those games. I noticed that LB has the option to use AutoHotKey for all the games in the same platform. Can I use AutoHotkey for a specific game? Any pointers on how to start with this will be really helpful. Thanks,

I found the issue. It was a problem with ipac-2. It was sending the signal of key "Return" as if it was constantly pressed (more or less). I unplugged and plugged the cable for Return and it seems it stopped doing that. I hope it doesn't happen again.

Hi all, First post and the first installation of bigbox/launchbox 8.9. I built an arcade cabinet with win 10. For now, I am using steam games and retroarch 1.7.5 with Mame 2010. Everything seems to work fine in Launchbox. When I try to run the games in bigbox, I get the message that the game is loading but nothing else happens. When I exit bigbox then I see the game or games running. I can even have several games running, one on top of each other. So, they have been running in the background cos they have been taking the button inputs. What am I missing? Thanks for great work and the tutorials. I have been following some of them like the one to launch bigbox at startup. F