thefritz11

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?

LOL, sorry. I still haven't found a way to do this yet. Ie. have wiimote work as light gun in Dolphin for wii games and Mame. Can't justify any other purchases as the moment to improve light gun play so hoping this can get me through for a bit.

Sorry but would you be able post the exact script and how to implement? I have my wii motes working great with dolphin for Wii games but I believe I have to use touchmote before mame to get them to register in mame. I don't want to have to separately run touchmote play mame then quite before running a wii game so it sounds like your solution is exactly what I"m looking for.

No idea why I thought this would screw things up but thank you for this simple solution. LOL perfect.

This is an old one but I'm trying to get my BigBox to display just like you were. When using platform categories as the main view I have to put to the "console" platform category somewhere even though I don't need it since I have all the consoles I need in the root. How did you handle that?

QQ, how did you handle the different screen resolutions on desktop vs cabinet? I am trying to get a true sync with my desktop and HTPC launchbox and games etc. are synced great through goodsync but resolution specific settings--say tweaks to make a game play area fit in bezel/overlay correctly gets messed up with teh different resolutions between machines. I have to manually tweak anything not just set to 4:3.

So wanted to throw another wrench in the works on this and see if you folks much smarter than me have any suggestions. I'm setting up a NO FILLER machine and want to have it mirrored on my desktop in my office and the HTPC upstairs on the big screen. I want everything synched and have that end covered with Goodsync and roms and such sync up great. However, I use "bezels' or more accurately I guess overlays for all the systems and many of them I have to "tweak" the x/y axis of similar to get the playing area to fall in the bezel correctly. However those tweaks are different based on which monitor/resolution I'm using. Any thoughts? Assuming there are a few files I could not sync and solve the issue but unsure which it would be. Thus far I'm only using Retroarch and Dolphin. Thanks in advance.

Tried it again with several things Wii console with just 1 item, steam again, etc. And never did get it work. Guess I'll wait for it it get incorporate what is an extra 3 clicks. Appreciate your help though!

Hah, missed 15.3 (LOL) I shall give it a shot tonight.

Thought you were onto something as I'm an impatient fellow but no luck I let is go for 1 minute and same result. Steam opens. So did all of this several times. Every time it works 100% correctly the first time adding Steam to Platform Launch in the addon. In other words if I click on arcade or whatever it loads arcade games list as expected, I click on Steam launcher and it launches directly to steam as I wanted. Joy---except NOT. Because now after that initial time, every subsequent time I launch any platform from bigbox instead of games list I get steam. BUT the plot thickens. If I exit Bigbox and come back in---same thing all works as expected again for the first time only. Until AFTER I launch steam. Then every platform launches steam directly from wheel instead of entering games list. But if I exitBigbox all is good again until I launch steam. WTH?!?! Hah, crazytown.

So did all of this several times. Every time it works 100% correctly the first time adding Steam to Platform Launch in the addon. In other words if I click on arcade or whatever it loads arcade games list as expected, I click on Steam launcher and it launches directly to steam as I wanted. Joy---except NOT. Because now after that initial time, every subsequent time I launch any platform from bigbox instead of games list I get steam. BUT the plot thickens. If I exit Bigbox and come back in---same thing all works as expected again for the first time only. Until AFTER I launch steam. Then every platform launches steam directly from wheel instead of entering games list. But if I exitBigbox all is good again until I launch steam. WTH?!?! Hah, crazytown.

The old it's not me it's you. Been there before Hah! Thanks again so much for the time--will try this tonight as report back just for giggles. Thanks again.

Yes. Exactly this LOL, very very strange. I could make an excellent "breaker" of software as I always find a way. Did this and only 1 text file in that folder "steam.txt" Wonky.

Grr..the Ghost is in the machine--now the platform steam is launching for everything in the main menu (even those not assigned or with more than 1 game). This is happening in the default-copy theme too. Hmm.... EDIT: Even stranger here is that hte first time I test it it works as expected...steam launches directly from platform---other platforms open game selection...but 2nd time all platforms launch steam directly.

Hahh, many thanks---it actually helps to know I'm not alone in the craziness of the time spent tweaking versus timing playing formula.

Working as intended on default theme which is good enough for me for now. Much appreciated...Launchbox is amazing but surprised this ask wasn't a bigger priority for the team.

LOL, so still no other solution for launch from main menu that you know of? Seems like I spoke too soon as now the steam app is launching for all platforms now lol! Going to try a fresh install of plugin on copy of default theme and see if that works as I was using coverart but I have no real theme allegiance!

When you are right...you are right. So everything looked like it was taking correctly but guess whose folder structure in the plugins directory was Plugins>LaunchPlatform 1.02>Launchplatform>.dll files That is all it took of course. I was careless when extracting as I was so excited to have found a solution. As far as I can tell this functionality has not been added to Bigbox so I'm shocked this plugin isn't getting more attention. It is working GREAT now. Hopefully this helps anyone else who may be going too fast also. I'm finally creating a "mini" Bigbox setup that I'll actually use versus 10k games of garbage. So having it be clean and simple is key--this definitely helps that to happen so thanks to you for that sir.

Really appreciate the quick response. Even the copy of the default theme doesn't work for me. Wonder if a recent update in LB caused the issue? Not a big deal but was excited to have a solution to launch Steam Big Picture mode directly from the main wheel. Tried a couple of platforms that had only 1 game and results are the same.

So this is exactly what I was looking for but going through all these steps with success and when testing I still have to click through platform>select game>Hit launch as I did before plugin. Any thoughts?

Yeah, I feel like for most that may be the best way. I fee like it eliminates more variables and gives you greater control. More $$$ of course but in scheme of things probably worth it. I just upgraded my NUC to something more up to date and those little things are great and reasonable if you have ram and/or SSDs laying around.

Haven't done a proper google search for this yet did anyone figure out how to stop steam from hijacking the controller settings? I think it has to be a setting in retroarch but haven't started digging yet.

So not sure what is going on but trying to get my collection in launchbox down to vertical 4 way games only. I've checked "Allow deleting ROMS" from options but it removed from launchbox gave me the expected warning pop-ups yet the ROMs are still in the arcade folder. Is this a bug or is it operator error somehow? Particularly bummed as I took time to manually delete everything down and when I went to just add one new ROM all the roms are there still. The are in Games/Arcade if that matters not the roms folder under mame. Thanks in advance.

Dumb question but if you've selected that last check box for the cinematix theme videos when importing metadata where exactly are those videos stored? Trying to slim down my portable installation and can't seem to find the videos?