FormulaFox

No plugins. Just set things up and imported the ROMs. Based on your response I'll probably just have to wipe and reinstall Launchbox.

Still haven't been able to solve this.

Hey everyone, having a bit of a weird issue here... I'm setting up Launchbox/BigBox on a new arcade cab, and like the title says, no input controls are mapped when launched from BigBox. So I predominantly use Retroarch for everything, and in Retroarch all the inputs are set up as I prefer. If I launch a game in Retroarch, everything works. If I launch a game through Launchbox, everything works. If I launch a game through BigBox, the only thing I can do is press Escape on the keyboard to exit the game. I can't load the Retroarch menu(even with the default keyboard command), I cannot control the games, nothing. It's as if the only thing hooked up is a big giant CLOSE button. Not even sure where to start looking for a solution to the problem. I was under the impression the Launchbox setups carried over to BigBox, so its weird that all the right settings load in Launchbox but not BigBox. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.

Volume control. It's a simple 3.5mm volume control knob(specifically, this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2KDL3Y1?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details ). There's a hole on the front panel that is still covered by the graphics which this will eventually stick out of for ease of access, but I have to make an extension for the knob first. That is the on/off remote for this: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Defiant-Wireless-Indoor-Outdoor-Remote-Control-YLT-42/301844750 The way I originally planned this is that I had a power button for the PC that would be inside of the control panel to turn things on, but I rain into a bit of a snag when I installed the LED light strip for the marquee backlight - if I plugged it into the USB ports on the PC, it would always be on, even when the PC was powered off. So I needed a pwoer switch for it. Initially I just looked for USB switches, but at some point I figured there was no reason I couldn't just get a switch for the whole system. A simple power strip would do, and while looking for deals I stumbled across that - in stock locally. Only power plugs on the system were for the PC and monitor, so two ports was just fine. Then I got to thinking.... is there a way to make a PC boot up automatically when it gets power? Answer? YES - at least on some motherboards - In the BIOS, go to the Advanced tab, highlight "Restore AC Power Loss" and if it has three options, "Power Off, Power On, Restore Last State" then Power On will make the system boot when you flip your power switch on. So now that remote turns on the monitor and marquee light, AND boots the PC. I had not expected this when I started the project. I still have the power button in the control panel arrangement so I can more easily do a hard shutdown if the system freezes, but this overall arrangement is MUCH better.

Indeed this is the case. And here's a small image gallery of the cabinet: https://imgur.com/a/qSslCxV

Rolling back Launchbox version had no effect. However, I MIGHT have figured out the issue, but there IS an open question mark about it still. I opened up the control panel and took a look, and found my 2P Start button's ground wire was bumping up against the 2P Coin/Select button's main wire. Manipulating the ground connector could trigger uncommanded 2P coin/select inputs. I bent the prong on the ground wire a bit to prevent further interactions and the problem seems to have cleared. HOWEVER, at no point before doing this did any uncommanded inputs ever go off that could be read by Windows, or any games, without me manipulating the ground connector. It only impacted the startup video. What's more, the connectors were both covered by a rubber sheath so they shouldn't have been able to short each other, so I'm not convinced there isn't another issue in play. Can anyone think of anything else I should check?

It's this. But now we have a bigger problem. The peripheral that's doing this is the ONE peripheral that I CAN'T remove from the equation: The Minipac arcade encoder. Thing is, though, I've monitored it in the Windows settings for the controller inputs and it's NOT showing any detected uncommanded inputs. I'm not getting any uncommanded inputs in any games, or on any menus, it is ONLY causing this.

How do I do that?

Yeah, that was the first thing I did. I didn't expect it to go anywhere since the amount of time it played was pretty random(I know I said "About five seconds in" but that was the upper end - sometimes it barely plays for a full second), but I know to always check the video first when you have these types of issues. It plays in VLC just fine with no discernible issue(and yes, Launchbox is set to use VLC for playback). First thing I did after confirming the video was fine was update VLC just to be sure there wasn't an issue there and the problem persisted.

Okay, the way I have BigBox set to boot on startup is just by putting a shortcut to BigBox.exe in the Windows Startup folder. There's no dedicated script to launch it, so it can't be related to it being set to start on boot - which doesn't surprise me since this is an issue EVERY TIME I start BigBox, even when I'm not booting up the PC.

I'll have to dig that up when I have time later, and at this time I can't remember where that batch file gets put to dig it up anyway! I'll get to it as soon as I have time, though.

I also have BigBox configured to load this same way. I have tested by exiting out of BigBox(but not shutting down) and opening it again, and it cuts off the video every time.

Hey, everyone, having a bit of an odd problem here... Nothing destructive to the usability of anything, thankfully, but a bit odd and mildly annoying. Put simply, out of the blue, BigBox started deciding to cancel playback of my startup video about five seconds in. I did just recently update to the latest version of Launchbox, but the problem did not start until I had loaded up BigBox several times without this issue. It acts like I pushed the button to cancel the video after five seconds. It's clear is nothing is triggering random cancel inputs, as no other such behavior indicating such is occurring. I have no idea what setting could have been changed to cause this, or even if it IS a setting, and have no idea where to begin troubleshooting such a weird issue. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

I have it set to Arcade - there is no MAME platform section. When you mean the setup, are you talking about the hardware? Just want to make sure so I don't send you a mess of unnecessary photos. As for the rest, see attached images. I used Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers due to it being one of the games I am having issues with.

Definitely not the issue here - I updated Retroarch about a month ago and it did install to a different place. After I uninstalled the previous RA version I actually wiped and re-imported my MAME library to ensure this wouldn't be a problem, and it wasn't until the new Launchbox version was released that this began. Nonetheless, in order to cover all bases(you never know what doublechecking a definite non-issue can lead you to, after all!), I have attached the requested screenshot - apologies for quality; Easier to take a photo to upload than do a proper screenshot on the arcade cab.