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    BigBox + Steam is a total mess. Can I disable the launchbox pause screen when using Steam?

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    On 9/27/2022 at 10:51 AM, Kiinkyfoxx said:

    No idea about Steam Big Picture as don't use it, but Steam and LaunchBox/BigBox do play nicely together with startup/shutdown screens and also pause screens with effort and quite a bit of ahk work

    However to answer your question about disabling pause screen from appearing - yI think you can do it and you can do it in LaunchBox without messing around with files - I'm sure I did in the past but haven't tried recently

    Highlight the game you want to disable the pause screen in

    Go to edit metadata/media

    At the very bottom on left hand panel is Startup/Pause

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    Go onto that page and put a tick in the Override default pause screen settings box, click the Customize button, and make sure none of the check boxes are ticked - that SHOULD stop pause screens working.

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    If you have lots of games you want to do it to and don't want to do them one at a time, then highlight every game you want to change, right click on the last one and then open bulk edit tool and make the changes via that.

    Hopefully that will work for you 

    Good luck

    Ps I haven't tested this as use an ahk to open my steam games so have an "emulator" that I can make changes in, but the theory is correct and should work.

    Sorry to necro this one but can you explain in more detail the steps you took to get steam and bigbox to play nicely?

    Roms on a NAS

    in Noobs

    Posted

    39 minutes ago, The Papaw said:

    Not exactly sure what you're asking here. I still use a NAS for ALL roms, even from Mame/Arcade all the way to PS3 using RPCS3. Most of your emulators will run fine with rom on a mapped drive except for RPCS3, it's a bit trickier.

    If you're referring to SyncThing, you just have to remember to exclude the save data location of each emulator so folks don't start over writing each others saved games

    Yeah with Syncthing I am the only user really so not worried about saves overwriting but wondering what if any settings I should avoid syncing?

    Roms on a NAS

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    Posted

    On 12/17/2021 at 11:23 AM, The Papaw said:

    Not sure if it is of any help, but I run most everything from a NAS. I have a old Dell PC (started with a RPi3 I think), installed OMV5 (it's free) on it. I have a 14TB external HDD attached to it for roms and a 2TB external HDD attached for the media. (I have other drives attached for other things as well, like a MediaSonic Pro Raid that hosts all my video, music and such, another 12TB in raid 5) and I use the internal drives I have installed in the PC for backups.

    I have LB/BB and all my emulators installed a primary desktop PC, then I use Syncthings to send it to all the other devices (I exclude some of the setting files in BB (especially the cache files) and emulator config files. That way no one writes over others game saves and settings. Works great for me. If I want to update LB/BB or an emulator, I just make a copy of the folder before I update it so I can go back if something goes wrong. What's cool about it, when I update LB or an emulator on the main PC, it updates it on all the PCs. 

    I don't use anything wifi on the gaming side and the speeds are as always like any other external drive. Just some other ideas that may be helpful.

     

    This is a zombie thread but do you happen to have handy the files you did NOT sync over from emulator and/or big box settings? Trying to figure out best way to get this all synced up. 

    Best Way to use Launchbox with NAS system

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    Posted

    2 hours ago, Knowcontrol said:

    That would be the idea with the individual installs - each emulator would be able to handle the individual video and controller settings.

    You don't need a license for each machine, LB allows for a single license on multiple machines.

    Yeah I was more hoping to even sync emulators where I could across all installs. So they stay up to date version and install wise (for games that need updates installed like PS3 etc.).

    Best Way to use Launchbox with NAS system

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    Posted

    1 hour ago, Knowcontrol said:

    There may be a more elegant way, but I would suggest having individual LB installs on each machine. Each LB would then be directed to the media and ROM folders on the NAS.

    Thanks. What about emulators. I currently have them on NAS but will need unique settings for some for the different LB installs. Any thoughts there?

    Best Way to use Launchbox with NAS system

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    Posted · Edited by thefritz11

    On 1/7/2019 at 10:59 PM, Aevans0001 said:

    So correctly what I have.

    1 Nas (4x4TB) Total 11TB

    1 Box account (50GB)

    1 Amazon Drive (1 TB)

    Multiple computers and laptops with C and D drives

    Cdrive is for windows and random emulator user profiles (using symbolic links)

    D Drive is for LB/BB, Rocketlauncher, Some emulators, All image files (Boxes, SS, etc), Windows games

    Z drive is NAS and I have All Roms, All Videos, All Manuals, All Music, All Configuration files

    By not using a backup software to backup my settings, I have no need to make sure that the files have been updated,  it is instant.  

     

    Currently I have CEMU, CXBX, Pinball FX2, Xenia, Retroarch, and MAME running from my D drive with the settings being on the Z: drive.

    For frontends I use LB/BB and Rocketlauncher (although shortly I hope to get rid of RL and just use LB/BB from the D Drive

    I have symbolic links from the default folders to my Nas drive.  For instance I have a symbolic link from d:\games\Launchbox\Games\ --------> z:\videogames\Games also one from d:\games\launchbox\manuals ----------> z:\videogames\manuals

     

    This way there is less configuration to do in launchbox, everything is default.  

     

    Since @peterrrjr post I now have my images in a symbolic link from d:\games\launchbox\images ---------------> d:\cloud\amazon drive\Launchbox images.   Which automatically backs up to my amazon drive with unlimited photo storage, and in turn also sync to my nas drive under z:\amazondrive and to my arcade to d:\cloud\amazon drive\launchox images.  Which again means less configuration as all pc machines are the same. If I add images to one pc, it will automatically sync to the other pc within minutes.

     

    If you would like any of y other batch files, let me know.

     

     

     

    Sorry this one is old but I'm trying to figure out which config files I can share/sync across installs and which I can't. For instance have a gaming PC with  LB/BB that has different controller options than my arcade cabinet and different than my Living Room PC. Having a tough time getting roms, settings and images etc. syncing but still allowing me to have unique controller and/or graphic settings in BB or more importantly emulators.

    Can you add a new platform called Streaming?

    in Android

    Posted

    On 2/1/2022 at 12:11 PM, Emulatorlover said:

    Do I have to do this on the PC? Can't find how to do it within Android

    TTT very interested in doing this on android LB. Ideally I could have moonlight launch right from that initial platfrom screen but would settle for a custom streaming platform. Any howtos out there?

    Game Controls FS (Full Screen - Beta)

    in Pause Themes

    Posted

    Quick thanks for the replies guys. I downloaded the only list of mame controls I could find from EMUMOVIES but it is far from complete so I have some custom work ahead of me. I ended up frankensteining a solution where I exported LB ID and LB Title to an excel and then cross referenced with rom name and wrote a batch file to rename--wasn't too bad but still a bunch of random titles with no controls. All in all really happy though definitely getting there. Thanks again

    Game Controls FS (Full Screen - Beta)

    in Pause Themes

    Posted

    On 2/4/2022 at 10:54 PM, CodaBroda said:

    Apologies for bumping, but sharing the exact scenario here with wanting LB Arcade Controls larger on pause screen. If/when you have a chance @Retro808, can you please share the tweak that was made?

     

    On 6/21/2020 at 5:32 PM, Banditt said:

    @leech_hunter I think I wrote something that will do it - it is running on my local machine. Before I upload it and announce it, can you help me test it? Can you send me (via message or here) your Arcade.xml (In the Launchbox/Data/Platforms folder) This will help me test it.

    So far it gets almost everything on mine (working on 720 degrees), but I don't have too many mame games.

    Thanks

    Any chace of updates here?

    Game Controls (Beta)

    in Pause Themes

    Posted · Edited by thefritz11

    Question. Looks like if I use the title of the rom from mame  it doesn't work. The title from launchbox works if it does not have any symbols in it. But as we know, a lot of mame games have symbols in them? Any options? Or am I missing something?

     

    Wasn't sure where to post--bulk renaming...

    in Game Media

    Posted · Edited by thefritz11

    I have a ton of mame controls art files I'm using for a pause screen theme however the files I have are named with the  "standard" mame game name. I need to rename them to ideally the launchbox ID. I did a file manually--- xmen.png and renamed to the launchbox ID and the controls show on my pause screen as expected. It is awesome. But what is not awesome is the prospect of renaming ~3k files by hand. Any ideas? I feel like it should be doable but not sure where to start looking.

    Thank you so much in advance!

    Searched but such a specific issue no luck

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    OK I should delete my first post with tail between my legs but just in case me being an idiot helps anyone else in future I'll weigh in here. I had show favorites first selected (Options>Views in Bigbox) so of course the game I favorited would not show in alphabetical order in the all games list since I was quite literallying telling big box to put it first. Ooops! Carry on. 

    Searched but such a specific issue no luck

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    Posted · Edited by thefritz11

    Ok, let me explain my scenario/use case because this is a hard question to formulate. Thanks in advance.

    Basically, I have Bigbox/Launchbox setup with playlists so most things are all in root directory. Ie. NES is in root on main page and then I have playlists under that favorites, all games, best of games. In launchbox all is well if I favorite a game it gets added to the favorites playlist and stays in the all games playlist as well. HOWEVER, in bigbox if I mark a game as favorite it adds it to favorites playlist but removes it from the all games section. I am thinking there is a checkbox somewhere i have to change but it happens on both launch/big box installs I have so I don't think it is an xml file issue. Any thoughts?

     

    Sample

    NES

       > All Games 

      > Favorites 

      > Best of

     

     

    Launch AHK script before launching MAME

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    Posted

    22 minutes ago, pina said:

    So here’s what I found out, this comes in handy whenever I need to reinstall everything again one day… :D

    1. I created anothe mame instance in my file explorer, mame lightgun (a copy of my existing mame folder)
    2. I created an ahk script, then compiled it as an exe file, see below
    3. In Launchbox, I created an new emulator, called Mame lightguns. It points to the the exe file of the compiled ahk script we just created for lightgun games
    4. All the games in the playlist of Launchbox, called Lightgun Games, will be launched by my newly created Mame lightgun-emulator

    And finally, the script was this: 

    #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 C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey  ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.
SetWorkingDir D:\retro\emulators\mame light\mame64.exe

Run, C:\Program Files\Touchmote\Touchmote.exe,  C:\Program Files\Touchmote
Sleep, 3000
RunWait, D:\retro\emulators\mame light\mame64.exe -keyboardprovider dinput %1%
;Sleep, 2000

Loop, 2
{
;MsgBox, Iteration number is %A_Index%.  ; A_Index will be 1, 2, then 3
WinClose, ahk_exe Touchmote.exe
}

    the script runs touchmote first, then wait 3 seconds before launching mame. When quitting the game, it closes touchmote too.

    I hope it solves your problem

    So---I have done a few basic scripts for pause screens etc. but compiling as an .exe file is close to another language to me. That is not something you can share is it?

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