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  1. I noticed that there is not a single overlay for the Nintendo DS for side-by-side view. Since this is the ideal view for widescreen monitors (and top & bottom view is way too small on a Steam Deck or ROG Ally), this seemed odd to me. Because of this, I created an overlay that copies the style of the Nintendo DS bit fits this configuration. Resolution is 1920x1080. I believe the distance between the screens is set to 50.
  2. My Steam Deck will arrived this week and the FIRST thought I had, was to use it for my arcade cabinet. I could easily 3D print something so I can add a dock on top of the arcade - just drop in the Steam Deck and voila, the screen, iPac, etc. are connected. It seems like a good marriage to me. However ... Valve has said many times it won't give Windows support, probably because they want to push developers to add support for Linux or to make it work properly using Proteus. Frankly I think they WILL add Windows support because they'll find the demand for dual booting will become quite big and they may find that Proteus won't offer enough compatibility compared to Windows. ETA seemed to get Windows to work rather well compared to LTT who basically said it was an incredibly rough experience. So yeah, it's a bit of a gamble - do you develop for Linux and then find out the Steam Deck will get proper Windows support after all? Or do you just develop regardless of the Steam Deck, knowing you'll at least have a Linux alternative? Maybe a poll asking if people would pay for an extra Linux version would shed some light but even then ...
  3. No YOU kept accusing me. This is no way to treat a customer who asked a normal question which Neil9000 confirmed was confusing. The last post I saw on Emumovies stated they were waiting on Launchbox to patch it, you stated something else and I was asking for clarification. You posted an older message than the one I had read and I mentioned my update was more recent. You then proceeded to accuse me of shit stirring. I kept saying "no I'm not shit stirring", you kept pushing and then banned me for defending me against your nasty accusations. Is this how Launchbox moderators work? Insulting a customer and then when they say it's not true you ban them?
  4. Thank you for banning me from Discord however simply for mentioning Emumovies is supposedly waiting on Launchbox to patch the problem whereas a mod said it was Emumovies that had to fix it. Apparently that makes me a shit stirrer ... nice mods you have. For a customer of company that sold Big Box, I'm very disappointed in this attitude.
  5. Yep still not fixed for me either. It takes aaaages to show what media I can download and then just piles up the errors.
  6. Yeah I still can't download either - get tons of errors when I try. Guess it's not fixed yet ...
  7. Thanks - figures I decided to completely start over on my arcade drive and I can't download any of the clips.
  8. I agree - I'm setting up Launchbox on my laptop for lots of PC games but it's difficult to know if a game ideally requires a gamepad or.
  9. Too bad this is a rather niche option because more functionality for a second screen would be great. I'll need to play with the marquee setting to see if I can even get it to use a global controller mapping image without needing to create one for each game.
  10. I have a full size arcade running Big Box and while setting it up, the controls gave me a lot of headaches - controls that were fine for one game, wouldn't work with another game. In the end I used several IPAC profiles to configure the buttons. The problem here is that the user gets on-screen promps but doesn't know which prompt goes with which key. (for example, "press BACKSPACE to close menu"). Since overlays don't work in Windows games, I had to find another solution. So I found that you can hook up a Raspberri Pi screen to a regular PC and use that to display a marquee in Big Box so I ordered one. The idea is to mount it above the main screen between the two speaker holes and have it show the controls for those games that use specific remapping. I believe using the "marquee" system this should be possible? I wonder if that second screen could have more uses though - do certain themes allow for dual screen displays? For example, display high scores or something else on top?
  11. I'd like this inside of Big Box as well. Big Box was designed to be put into Mame arcade cabinets as well I gather and I added a dedicated button on top to either exit a game or exit Big Box. What I want, is for that button to shut down the PC when not playing a game instead of exiting Big Box. AHK is not an option because it can't detect whether you're in a game or not (not without massive coding anyway) so instead of returning to Big Box it would shut down the PC which is obviously not desirable. And to those saying it's "a bad idea": leave that to the people who want it OK? It may be a bad idea for your setup but if you have a dedicated button on top of the arcade no-one is going to press it by accident. On top of this, a single "Are you sure?" confirmation would fix that issue anyway.
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