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Hey everyone, Does anyone have this same issue and can help me?

Hey everyone, when I launch an MS-DOS game while Start-up screens are enabled in Launchbox or BigBox, the DosBox screen exits fullscreen mode and is pushed into the background a few seconds after the game launches. If I disable the start-up screens (which I don't want to do) everything works fine. Has anyone an idea what to do about it? All other platforms work fine. PS: I'm using the ExODos version of DOSBox. EDIT: It seems that this only happens in some games. Whenever the game requires an input before it actually starts, this seems to happen. My example is prince of persia. It requires me to type either 1, 2 or 3 after I launch the game. Other games that don't need inputs like this work fine.

Hey there, just wanted to ask again if anyone has ever had a similar error or if someone knows a way I could tackle this problem myself. Thank you!!! ?

Hey everyone, I've recently been getting this error when trying to update the metadata and media for my games. It happens when I try updating multiple games at the same time. I can successfully update 1, 2 and even up to 200 games, but when I try updating more than 1000 games at the same time, Launchbox gets stuck at "Finishing up". I'm not sure, but this problem seems to happen mostly when I get download errors and I choose the option "keep the updated metadata despite these errors". I'm sorry, but the error message is in German. I think the headline translates to "not enough quota available to process this command", but I'm not sure what that means: Nicht genügend Quoten verfügbar, um diesen Befehl zu verarbeiten App: LaunchBox Version: 10.9 Type: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception Site: Void UpdateWindowSettings(Boolean, System.Nullable`1[System.Windows.Media.Composition.DUCE+ChannelSet]) Source: PresentationCore at System.Windows.Interop.HwndTarget.UpdateWindowSettings(Boolean enableRenderTarget, Nullable`1 channelSet) at System.Windows.Interop.HwndTarget.UpdateWindowPos(IntPtr lParam) at System.Windows.Interop.HwndTarget.HandleMessage(WindowMessage msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) at System.Windows.Interop.HwndSource.HwndTargetFilterMessage(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, Boolean& handled) at MS.Win32.HwndWrapper.WndProc(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, Boolean& handled) at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.DispatcherCallbackOperation(Object o) at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs) at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(Object source, Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs, Delegate catchHandler) Recent Log: 08:42:55 Music.NotifyTrackList Invoke WPF 8:43:02 AM Music.Play Start 08:43:02 Music.Kill Start 08:43:02 Music.Kill Finished 08:43:02 Music.Play Empty Music Path 08:43:02 Music.NotifyTrackList Start 08:43:02 Music.NotifyTrackList Invoke WPF 8:45:08 AM Music.Prepare Start 08:45:08 Music.Kill Start 08:45:08 Music.Kill Finished 08:45:08 Music.NotifyTrackList Start 08:45:08 Music.NotifyTrackList Invoke WPF 8:46:57 AM Music.Play Start 08:46:57 Music.Kill Start 08:46:57 Music.Kill Finished 08:46:57 Music.Play Empty Music Path 08:46:57 Music.NotifyTrackList Start 08:46:57 Music.NotifyTrackList Invoke WPF 8:47:05 AM Music.Play Start 08:47:05 Music.Kill Start 08:47:05 Music.Kill Finished 08:47:05 Music.Play Empty Music Path 08:47:05 Music.NotifyTrackList Start 08:47:05 Music.NotifyTrackList Invoke WPF 8:47:06 AM Music.Play Start 08:47:06 Music.Kill Start 08:47:06 Music.Kill Finished 08:47:06 Music.Play Empty Music Path 08:47:06 Music.NotifyTrackList Start 08:47:06 Music.NotifyTrackList Invoke WPF 08:47:06 Imageloader successful: pack://application:,,,/WpfResources/Background.png 08:47:06 Imageloader successful: L:\LaunchBox\Images\Amstrad CPC\Clear Logo\002 Agent Double (Fra)-01.png 8:47:08 AM Music.Play Start 08:47:08 Music.Kill Start 08:47:08 Music.Kill Finished 08:47:08 Music.Play Empty Music Path 08:47:08 Music.NotifyTrackList Start 08:47:08 Music.NotifyTrackList Invoke WPF 08:47:08 Imageloader successful: pack://application:,,,/WpfResources/Background.png 08:47:08 Imageloader successful: L:\LaunchBox\Images\Amstrad CPC\Clear Logo\002 Agent Double (Fra)-01.png 8:48:14 AM Music.Play Start 08:48:14 Music.Kill Start 08:48:14 Music.Kill Finished 08:48:14 Music.Play Empty Music Path 08:48:14 Music.NotifyTrackList Start 08:48:14 Music.NotifyTrackList Invoke WPF 8:48:16 AM Music.Play Start 08:48:16 Music.Kill Start 08:48:16 Music.Kill Finished 08:48:16 Music.Play Empty Music Path 08:48:16 Music.NotifyTrackList Start 08:48:16 Music.NotifyTrackList Invoke WPF 8:48:21 AM Music.Play Start 08:48:21 Music.Kill Start 08:48:21 Music.Kill Finished 08:48:21 Music.Play Create Player 08:48:21 Music.Play Player Play 08:48:22 Music.MediaOnParsedChanged Start 08:48:22 Music.MediaOnParsedChanged Invoke WPF 08:48:22 Music.MediaOnParsedChanged Start 08:48:22 Music.MediaOnParsedChanged End Thread 08:48:22 Music.MediaOnParsedChanged Invoke WPF 08:48:22 Music.MediaOnParsedChanged End Thread 8:48:38 AM Music.Pause Start 08:48:38 Music.Pause Player Pause 08:48:38 Music.Pause PauseAction Invoke 8:48:39 AM Music.Pause Start 8:48:39 AM Music.Pause Start 8:48:39 AM Music.Pause Start 8:48:39 AM Music.Pause Start 8:48:39 AM Music.Pause Start 8:48:48 AM Music.Pause Start 8:48:49 AM Music.Pause Start 9:38:59 AM Exception

All the relevant files go here: "...\RetroArch\saves\Citra Canary\Citra" However, Citra (as well as Dolphin) Core seems to be broken. My games worked fine until I (recently) updated Retroarch to version 1.7.9. Even with 1.8.2, it's not working anymore. There are some discussions about it on the libretro forums. I really liked the Citra core and would like to use it again. I don't know when this problem will be fixed, though. Anyone here have more info on this? EDIT: Just saw that this post is rather old. Ah well, maybe it still helps ?

Got it, thank you!

So just to summarize: I point the Launchbox importer tool to the mame rom folder, which does NOT include the CHDs. And I do not separately import the CHDs, correct? Where do I put my CHDs. Do I leave them zipped? unzipped? in the folder named after the rom? I'm still confused =(

Yeah, I've tinkered with these settings, but for some reason, windows switches up which of my displays is labeled as 1, 2 & 3. So whenever I restart, these numbers might be switched and then if I set mame to launche on display 2, this could be whichever. So, I'd like to stick to retroarch. But I've just realized that the retroarch core in mame doesn't seem to use an ini file for it's arcade games... Besides, mame doesn't allow me to set the chd path in it's ini even in the standalone version...

I use Retroarch, because it works just fine. I have multiple displays and I can't seem to get Mame standalone working with my setup. It's a weird issue where mame seems to launch on whichever of my three displays it wants to. There is no consistency. Since I've switched to retroarch, there hasn't been any issue whatsoever.

Ah, so Launchobx does not import CHD files, got it. But aren't there some games that are only available as chd and not as roms? Does Launchbox importer just skip these titles? I should also have said that I don't use Mame standalone, but mame core in retroarch. I guess I just have to edit the mame.ini files to point the core to the correct chd folder, right?

Hey everyone, I know there are many topics in this forum dealing with how to proberly import a complete mame set. However, even though I have read many of these threads, I still haven't found a definitive answer. I have one merged mame rom set and one corresponding set of CHDs. Now, If I wan to import the complete set into launchbox, where would I put the CHD files? I have never dealt with mame CHDs before, so I'm really unsure about this. Here are some of my questions: 1. Do I create a different folder for the CHD files within the mame rom folder? That would put the CHD folder next to all the zipped roms. 2. Or do I create a paret folder called "mame" and then within that folder, one folder for the "roms" and one folder for the "CHDs"? 3. Or do the zipped CHD files go into the same folder as the zipped rom files? 4. Do I have to unzip the CHDs or should I leave them in their 7zip format? 5. If I unzip them, should I put them all in the same folder or should I leave the CHDs in a folder which has the same name as the zip file? 6. Should I import the roms first and the CHDs second or do I just point the launchbox importer to the complete folder and let it do its magic? As you can see, I am confused. It would be reallly helpful if someone told me a simple way to import the complete set (roms and CHDs). Thank you so much for your help!!!

I've since found this plugin: No more manually renaming Mame Softlist roms =).

Another question: How would I go about emulating apple 2 cassette games? I cannot even get them to run in standalone Mame. Mame's GUI only shows the floppy files.

Quick update: I've just added Apple 2GS to Launchbox and it worked fine with just the regular method using mame core in retroarch. No additional "no quotes version" of retroarch needed, no command lines needed. It's really weird that apple 2 needed all that extra stuff when apple2gs works fine with just the hash files and correct folder naming.

This works perfectly. Thank you so much! You just have to avoid pressing escape when the ui is active, because that will bring up the mame system GUI and I don't know how to retrun to the game once I see that. Now I just need to know the command line for a custom retroarch config so I can use the latest mame core with apple2.

Ah ok... what would that custom command line look like? Do you have any idea?

Works like a charm, thank you so much!!! Now, is there a way to map the "{Scrl Lock}" button to a button on my controller, so I can just press say the left trigger to enable the emulated keyboard?

Also, I found a game that uses 2 floppies and requires me to switch the floppy disk to "side 1" right at the start of the game. Does anyone know how to do that? I've tried unzipping the game and specifically launching side a (from the filename) but the game still wants me to switch to "side 1" at the start. Don't know hat to make of that. The game is called "The Abyssal Zone".

Looks like I finally got it working. I added a new emulator to retroarch called "retroarch no quotes". I ticked the don't use quotes box, as the other tutorial in the other thread mentioned. I added the folowing command line to mame: "apple2ep -rp \"L:\LaunchBox\Games\Apple II\apple2\" -flop1 \"%romfile%\"" There is a critical option in the mame core that needs to be enabled "Boot to CLI". Without this it doesn't work. That's also the reason why I use the mame2016 core instead of the mame core without year tags, because Philips CDi needs Boot to CLI disabled. (I cannot figure out how to tell mame core without year tags to enable CLI only for apple2 games. I though I could do this by selecting "coontent directory override", but apparently the core options aren't saved like that. Does anyone know how to do this?) Now, it SEEMS like I don't need the .ini file. I had a "apple2ep.ini" in may mame\ini folder, however I didn't have it in my mame2016\ini folder. So make of that what you will. I don't think it's required. I also don't know if you need tha hash file using this method. Anyway, thank you sooooo much for all your help. This is a solution I'm happy with ?

There's an explanation how to do it in the other thread. i need to investigate this further. I have to go now, but I'll try again tomorrow. It seems like I'm close =D

I cannot complete the guide since there are no .ini files in my "RetroArch\system\mame\ini" other than "ui.ini"

Uhhhh progress: I now get this using : "apple2ep -flop1 \"%romfile%\""