Jayinem

I'm fine with not being able to multitask, but it's going back to Big Box during games on it's own and when I press buttons in the games it's being read in Big Box. There's no way I'm the first person this has happened to right? I didn't even change anything yesterday was my first day having Big Box. I can disable controller if I need to I guess. I just launched a Super Nintendo rom through Retroarch using Big Box, the game booted fine then within one minute it automatically went back to Big Box, and keeps doing that every few seconds on it's own. And some games launch minimized and it goes back to Big Box yet the game is working. All of my games in Launchbox launch fullscreen.

Yeah this is weird behavior and I looked through all of the settings there was nothing that I found about preventing the controller from working if Big Box is not focused. In fact I'll have Big Box open and be typing something in notepad and it'll just switch focus to Big Box and even in a game it switches focus even though I pressed nothing, and also buttons I'm hitting in the game are being read in Big Box. I am on a Launchbox that's 4 or 5 years old I tried to update today I copied all the info from the data folder but about 500 of my games were missing and many covers that I personally made it just won't work for me to update with these issues.

Thanks for the info, reading your guide it's likely because I have 1300 games and way more images than that due to mismanagement of them probably like 5000 images. I will try to clean it up. In the meantime I created a autohotkey script to at least taskkill Launchbox with Ctrl + Shift + B so I don't have to go into task manager and close it, it works okay. One more issue I have the controller set to work in Big Box and it works but too well, it keeps working in Big Box when I'm playing a game so it interrupts the game and goes back to Big Box. Is there a setting to fix this?

I just paid today for premium for the first time so still learning but I'm thinking what's normally supposed to happen is you go to Big Box then when you exit Big Box Launchbox is supposed to reopen? But my Launchbox is stuck in task manager but not opening. So when I go to launch Launchbox it says it's already open meaning I have to close it in task manager. Once I close launchbox.exe then it will allow me to reopen Launchbox by clicking on the exe. Any way to fix this? Even if I don't use Big Box launchbox is still getting stuck in task manager it appears it's not open but stuck there.

I figured out when I change the Platform Launchbox expects the images to be in the Platform name's folder, so it's taking awhile but I'm getting it sorted. I would just manually add games and not put a platform or anything now I've got 1300 games to sort through.

I've used Launchbox for about 5 years but never purchased a license until just now. I'm having some issues. Why don't my images in Launchbox show in Big Box? I tried refreshing all images caches but it didn't help. These are images that I uploaded myself and edited and made overall it took a long time. In some cases there is an image showing but it's not even the one I had in Launchbox. Also Big Box seems to be sort of hard to navigate around while it's open I have a laptop that's hooked up to my TV and I use both the laptop and TV screen. I wouldn't mind having Big Box open on the laptop screen at all times once I get it how I want it but I was typing just now and it took away focus and it made me stop typing plus it kept opening when I tried to minimize it. Is there any themes I can just use for Launchbox and not Big Box? I may just stick to that.

The easiest way to load the games in Launchbox is just make a shortcut of the game using the Launcher by right clicking on the game, then simply select the shortcut in Launchbox as your game. You don't even need to add an emulator or any settings just play.

If you pay for a Launchbox subscription does it require that you update? I think I mention to you before I don't want to update because I have over 1,300 games on my Launchbox and I made all the covers myself by getting them off google many I had to edit to my liking took a lot of time unfortunately when I update many of them get removed and it's just too much of a hassle.

I feel stupid attempting to hide console window does work. I never had any luck with it with attempting to hide GUIs. But as far as startup screens I'm stuck on a 5 year old Launchbox so no premium for me so no startup screens.

Well it appears if a game has issues it will still tell you but if there's no issues it will skip the screen about the rom. Not sure if there's a way around this, maybe you could use nonag MAME to avoid this. But I mostly hate annoying command prompts. I'm going to try to use nircmd for other emulators that boot with one and will report back. Edit: Nircmd + nonag MAME = direct boot MAME roms. It will work for any emulator that opens a command prompt.

I just started looking into nonag MAME but it was only half of what I was looking for. I wanted to boot directly into MAME roms like they were PC games. Well I just figured out how and wanted to share. (if there was already another way I apologize I couldn't find one) First download Nircmd (scroll to bottom) https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html You will get 3 files including NirCMD.exe put all of them into your MAME directory where you have MAME.exe. Now go to Launchbox > emulators and open your MAME emulator. You're going to change emulation path to NirCMD.exe instead of MAME.exe. Right below that you will enter these for Default Command-Line Parameters execmd mame.exe -keyboardprovider dinput. That will remove the command prompt. Now in your MAME folder open MAME.ini text document. Under Core MISC Options change skip_gameinfo from 0 to 1. Done, your MAME roms should now boot directly without any command prompt and no warning about games working/not working. (if you like to use this to know if a MAME rom is working or not just boot it outside of Launchbox)

When I boot a game through Launchbox it shows the menu above is there any way to prevent that? Edit: resolved by updating Xemu.

I've had this problem off and on for 5 years I'm still having Demul Hikaru not going fullscreen (other roms such as Naomi Atomiswaves boot fullscreen just fine) but this one will not I've tried everything including the script in this thread. All it does when I hit alt+enter is remove the title bar yet remains a small window. (with or without the script)

Most Teknoparrot games I am able to escape with the escape key or Alt+F4 but neither work with this game. I also can't hit windows and right click on the icon and close it either. The only way to close it has been to use task manager. I have tried adding this script to no success. $Esc:: { Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}} } Edit: Solved it by using Alt + E

Weird I got it to boot with no gui but only by adding ALL FOUR of these commands -nogui -fullscreen -batch -bigpicture Exiting is working properly also.