Jayinem

After reading, the reason you're able to get it working and I'm not is because you're using a Virtual Box which is essentially a different app. If you tried Parsec as a standalone you'd have the same issues. The installer version does not work with AHK, I'm having a little bit of success with the portable version but still having a few issues.

Can you try to run any ahk script on the Parsec GUI? I can't get any to work. I have F12 to change monitors because I have a gaming laptop that hooks up to my TV and I use extended desktop, it works on every app but Parsec and I use DisplayFusion and there's a little button on just about every app I can click with a mouse to change apps, not on Parsec. I'm sort of wondering if they found a way to disable all outside scripting? Unless it's just a problem on my end. I tried reinstalling Parsec it did not help. I just tried a portable version the opposite of what you said earlier because I do have it installed to C:\username\Program Files and it does work to change screens, but not the installed version? weird. It says there's no hosting on portable version though.

I recommend downloading JoytoKey it makes gaming live (especially emulators) easier because you can map keys to controller combinations. I am using Wii U Pro through Mayflash and I didn't think the home button ever worked but just found out it did. I just mapped every button on my controller to do something in combination with my home button, including one to WinActivate Launchbox from a minimized state. So first you map an ahk script to a key or combo of keys, I have alt + L !l:: WinActivate ahk_exe Launchbox.exe. Then go into JoytoKey map a combination of buttons to be those combinations of keys. I mapped Select + Home to WinActivating Launchbox. And here are some my others. Since different emulators have different keys to go fullscreen I mapped 3 different button combos to fullscreen. Having all of these functions in combination of Launchbox allowing you to use your controller on the Launchbox menu makes it almost like having a game console. Home + L2 = Escape Game Home + R1 = Fullscreen (F11) Home + L1 = Fullscreen (Alt+Enter) Home + R2 = Fullscreen (F) Home + Y = Save Home + X = Load Home + B = Save (Retroarch) Home + A = Load (Retroarch) Home + Left d-pad = Chiaki GUI 2nd screen Home + Right d-pad = Chiaki Stream 2nd screen Home + Down d-pad = Chiaki Touchpad (for PS4 or PS5) Home + Up d-pad = Citra swap screen Home + Select = Launch Launchbox If anyone needs any help using JoytoKey because it's a little difficult understand mapping combination of buttons at first just ask on this thread. It is possible to even map your mouse to your gamepad to where you can use it at any time on your computer, but I'm not much of a fan of that a mouse is just easier most of the time. https://joytokey.net/en/download p.s. it is totally also possible to do all of these functions with AutoHotkey if you prefer, I just prefer JoytoKey when it comes to controller.

I don't even remember what I did but it works now thanks.

Does anyone use Parsec? i am trying everything to get it to either start minimized or start as tray icon. I've tried adding -min to the shortcut I've tried ahk scripts WinMinimize etc... nothing works. Also there's no documentation on their website talking about command prompts to do it. Every other app I've tried I can figure out something but not this one.

I was going to make a video to really do it justice but had trouble with Microsoft's recording lasting longer than 5 seconds, but essentially my Launchbox is desktop wallpaper now. With an AHK script I can't change Launchbox to anything but Windowed fullscreen, however I can put apps like Firefox over it or minimize it if I want. I also have a script running with a loop that if Launchbox gets closed it reopens automatically in seconds and it's in startup shortcuts so it starts at launch.

Just discovered they made SSF easier where you can just load the ISO directly from the emulator. I dealt with all that image mounting with Daemon Tools for years with tons of frustration. Now it's easy to emulate Saturn with SSF. I never had much luck with the other Saturn emulators.

I'm having trouble getting Saturn emulator SSF to start fullscreen it's just a badly programmed emulator. I even googled where someone said add fullscreen="1" to SSF.ini and it didn't help. So next thing I tried was adding Alt enter to Launchbox I put a sleep of 9000 because it takes a few seconds to load the game and then send !{enter} and I tried send !Enter neither did anything? I even tried Send {Alt down}{Enter}{Alt Up} but nothing. If I hit Alt Enter on the keyboard together it works. Is it possible an app won't respond to autohotkey scripts? There's even an option to change what makes the emulator full screen I tried a number I tried a letter I put those in the script SSF will not do anything. Nevermind found this on this forum from a few years ago, only thing that worked. Sleep, 2500 SetKeyDelay, -1, 110 Send !{Enter} Return

I had to make a modification to the script I posted on the last page because it kept forcing Launchbox to be fullscreen even when I would try to minimize it. Now with this script it doesn't do that. #SingleInstance force #Persistent Loop { WinWaitActive, ("ahk_exe LaunchBox.exe") Sleep 5500 WinMaximize } Also here's two more scripts you can add to Additional Apps for perhaps a game that is intense for your PC thus you need to close your browser which takes additional ram/resources away from your game. If you already have the best PC that can play the newest game at 4K 120 fps while having 20 browser windows open this won't apply to you. I use Firefox but if you use another browser just change it to the browser and the location of the browser. Add this one to close Firefox upon launch of game Sleep 3500 run, taskkill /F /IM firefox.exe /T Name it whatever you want I call it Kill Firefox, and check the box that says "run before main application" And then add this one I call it restart firefox and check the box that says "run after main application" This will automatically start Firefox again once the game closes as long as you close the game with escape key. #NoTrayIcon Run, "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" WinActivate ahk_class MozillaWindowClass startProgram(winTitle, filePath) { If !WinExist(winTitle) Run % filePath WinWait % winTitle,, 5 If ErrorLevel MsgBox 48, Error, An error occurred while waiting for the window. Else WinActivate }

I have a question is there any script or any way to hide the loading screen that says loading games etc...? I have tried WinHide even by using WindowSpy and using the ahk_class in a script but it doesn't seem to work, but I'm hardly a AHK expert. Now with running the script I posted on the previous post making Launchbox Windowed fullscreen, it's making the loading screen Windowed fullscreen as well and it looks terrible.

Pretty simple script I use because Launchbox kept going fullscreen over my taskbar after I changed monitors to extended desktop or sometimes after playing a game. You can put a shortcut in your startup folder (C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup) and if you choose Launchbox from the taskbar it will always be windowed fullscreen. I don't know if other people have this problem but it sure helps me. Make the script in the Launchbox folder (or add the path to Launchbox folder to your script if you prefer) #SingleInstance force #Persistent Loop { if WinActive("ahk_exe LaunchBox.exe") WinMaximize } Just note if you use this script, you will not be able to make Launchbox a small window you can either minimize it or have it Windowed fullscreen.

This is why I'm not crazy about updating everything it seems to cause more problems than it fixes. But it seems to show all of my emualted games, but none of my PC games. Is there a setting or something to change this? I probably haven't updated in a good 3 years did something change as far as PC games?

Is there a way to do NoGUI with Yuzu? I am trying to close firefox when I open Yuzu and reopen firefox when I close Yuzu because my computer can't handle both at the same time. Using AutoHotKey Firefox closes fine when I run Yuzu, but when I close it with escape using scripts the game closes and the GUI closes, but for some reason I cannot understand the GUI reopens! Then I have to close it again and then Firefox reopens it will not come back up until I close the GUI that reopens. There is nothing in my script telling it to reopen either. While it's not the end of the world to close a GUI part of why I use Launchbox is I want my emulated games to be like real PC games where there's no emulator involved.

I have launchbox at startup on Windows 10 but how do you start it minimized? I have tried WinMinimize, WinHide and adding Min and Hide after run launchbox.exe nothing works.

I only have free Launchbox.

Got another question I want to change the DPI scaling of Launchbox only. I have a script that changes the DPI but it does it for the entire computer screen. I want -1 DPI from what I have set in Windows. I tried changing all the per application options Windows gives when right clicking and choosing it didn't help. For reference here is the script that changes DPI but it does it for the entire computer not just Launchbox. I had to get my TVs reg keys out of regedit. SetDpi(-1) SetDpi(dpi) { RegWrite, REG_DWORD, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\PerMonitorSettings\VIZ10390_01_07E4_30^30BB376176AE7BF6A3A1FE1F935346BE, DpiValue, % dpi RegWrite, REG_DWORD, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\GraphicsDrivers\ScaleFactors\VIZ10390_01_07E4_30^30BB376176AE7BF6A3A1FE1F935346BE, DpiValue, % dpi ChangeResolution() } return ChangeResolution(Screen_Width := 1920, Screen_Height := 1080, Color_Depth := 32) ; change these values for your screen resolution { VarSetCapacity(Device_Mode,156,0) NumPut(156,Device_Mode,36) DllCall( "EnumDisplaySettingsA", UInt,0, UInt,-1, UInt,&Device_Mode ) NumPut(0x5c0000,Device_Mode,40) NumPut(Color_Depth,Device_Mode,104) NumPut(Screen_Width,Device_Mode,108) NumPut(Screen_Height,Device_Mode,112) Return DllCall( "ChangeDisplaySettingsA", UInt,&Device_Mode, UInt,0 ) } return And yes I'm aware that there's a scale on the button bar of Launchbox but it doesn't do what I want. I want 5 games to show on a row and the icons are too small when I do that. The correct DPI does what I want but it also doesn't work for the rest of my computer unfortunately.

Got home tried it seemed to work until I did a reboot, now it doesn't work. I made the script #persistent but it didn't help. This is my entire TV when it happens. There should be a taskbar on the bottom I didn't crop it or anything. Edit: Weirdly it's doing the opposite of what I want. If I hit the little square on Launchbox in the top right next to close that says Maximize or Restore, it automatically makes it go fullscreen as if the script it saying "keep it fullscreen with no taskbar" And so I changed it instead of WinRestore I changed it WinMaximize in the script and sure enough it won't allow it to cover the taskbar and stays Windowed Fullscreen. 🤣

I believe it happens if there's a resolution change. I don't do anything to cause it other than that. I'll try that script out when I get home later.

Sometimes my Launchbox goes fullscreen where it covers the taskbar and I don't ever want it to. Could I have a script that checks periodically if it's covering the taskbar and if it does make it where it isn't? I've tried WinActivate, Launchbox.exe WinRestore, Launchbox.exe but it's not working. Edit: I was able to do it with a hotkey I just needed to make WinRestore be WinRestore, A to work on any app but I want there to be a timer or loop that checks if it's fullscreen and do it automatically. I just don't know how to write that script.

Launchbox has always been blue for me but suddenly in the last couple of days it turned black? I tried going through settings and changing it back but haven't been successful. I tried changing it to old theme and I actually like the old theme but it's still black. However with old theme I don't like that there's game details below the image and title of the game. Is there any way turn off the details where it just says game name, and turn it back to blue background? Probably obvious but I have free version.

I like my roms to just be the name of the game and nothing else and that was always but I haven't messed with Launchbox much lately and I go to look and now my roms are renamed with something in parenthesis after it. Here are a few examples. Banjo-Tooie (U) (!) Baseball Stars (NGM-002) Beast Busters (World) When I hit edit and go to title it only shows the name game i.e. Banjo-Tooie, Baseball Stars, Beast Busters. How do I fix this? I didn't make any changes so I don't know how this happened.

According to this But that was five years ago. No changes? But

Windows has a horrible setup for controller numbers but Windows doesn't actually change it, It's MAME that does. And it does work to use read only I've done it for a year and I have a steering wheel, arcade stick and regular controller and all still work.

I figured out on my own a way easier way. Just make default.cfg read only, or if you have specific cfgs for each game make each one of them read only. If you ever need to make changes just uncheck read only make the changes and then make it read only again. Works very well.

I'm only going to update Windows 10 every 18 months. That's when they pretty much force you to or you don't get any virus protection or anything. It just happened to me I went from 1903 to 20H2, and I won't be updating again until the end of 2022. This is just another of many examples of how Windows updates breaks things instead of fixes them. https://www.maketecheasier.com/stop-windows10-forced-updates/