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That is so cool I'm jelly of y'all I have a bad ass collection IMO but it would just be so cool to have it in a cabinet. Not happening for me though.
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14 minutes ago, kaptainkommando said:
Hello! I experienced the same issue and I was able to get around it by installing Xenia Canary through Xenia Manager. By default the settings in Xenia manager default to fullscreen off and was overriding my --fullscreen=true script AND the TOML setting to True setting. It wasn't until i edited it in the Xenia Manager, was i able to get it to load in as fullscreen from the Launchbox interface. Hope this helps! I attached the settings area where i made that update.
You could also just put "--fullscreen=true" in the default command line in Launchbox as mentioned already in this thread.
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Wait you guys just leave Big Box open all the time? Is that computer solely for gaming it's hard to even use a browser and I have two screens (laptop + TV)
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3 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:
Woops!
Honestly, you'd be better to just add LaunchBox to your taskbar making it one click away rather than having this running and constantly checking. Would eliminate a lot (all?) of these issues.
But if you must.... just add another check inside of "If it is not running" to see if Big Box is running. Then process accordingly.
BTW, the Sleep timer you have, really should be closer to 1 or 2 (or more?) seconds vs. every 5 milliseconds. There's no reason to have it check if LB is running 200 time per second.
I already have it on my taskbar I just want it to stay open and always fullscreen sorta like it's desktop wallpaper. When I minimize my browser for example it's there at all times. But I made it 10000 which is 10 seconds but for some reason it instantly gives me the "Launchbox is already running" msg after choosing switch to desktop mode in Big Box.
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I just realized something the script that forces Launchbox to stay open is causing the issue.
#SingleInstance, Force iTC_EXE = "c:\Launchbox\Launchbox.exe" iTC_Path = "c:\Launchbox\" iTC_imgName = Launchbox.exe loop { Process, Exist, %iTC_imgName% ; check to see if iTeleportConnect is running If (ErrorLevel = 0) ; If it is not running { Run, %iTC_EXE%, %iTC_Path%, hide } Else ; If it is running, ErrorLevel equals the process id for the target program (Printkey). Then do nothing. { sleep 5 } }So it keeps checking if launchbox is open so I guess when Big box is running launchbox.exe can't run so the conflict causes it to stay open in task manager?Is there any adjustment I can do where I can keep using this script and Launchbox will open after closing Big Box? I changed sleep 5 to sleep 8000 but that didn't help.
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I made a thread that I never got an answer that fixed the problem about when I run Big Box and exit Big Box Launchbox.exe will stay stuck in task manager and I get the error that Launchbox is already running until I go into task manager and close it. I was wondering since you're pretty good at scripts could you give me a script that is always running like a loop that is checking for it to be in that state and can make it be full screen again? I have another script that keeps Launchbox open at all times but of course with Big Box it has to close or I should say it's supposed to close but doesn't fully.
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Maybe I'm just dumb does a theme mean the background will change or just the layout of the games?
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I downloaded Coverbox Remastered, put that main folder in the root of themes, I also tried making a copy of default and overwriting the files from Coverbox Remastered, tried selecting both ways in Big Box and nothing changes just black screen behind the games. I also rebooted Big Box. Anything I'm missing?
My folder layout Launchbox/themes/Coverbox Remastered
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8 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:
-b never or --boot never
I know that only because I've looked at enough of the "Usage" options. No idea what it actually does or not (other than its written description) with MelonDS.
When I add either of those exactly lines to default command line the game doesn't work just shows the MelonDS screen. Since it's saying always or never maybe it's only meant to be ran once through command line? But it made no difference in the booting as far as I could tell when I ran it once using a command prompt
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Can someone explain to me how to use this parameter -b --boot <auto, always, never>. I need it to be never, at least I want to try it. Do I use the < >? I tried both ways putting it in the default command line but if I put --boot never the game doesn't boot it just opens MelonDS if I do --boot <never> nothing even comes up at all. Totally confused.
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This will flash for like half a second I'm trying to avoid that but it may not be possible. I have directboot enabled already and I looked in the config file didn't see anything else.
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So I'm trying to make as many of my emulators be direct boot where it doesn't show any GUI and just boots directly in the game. I've had a lot of trouble with that on Dolphin and I can use startup screen where it says loading but I not only want to skip the loading screen the GUI flashes briefly over the loading screen (yes I'm being overly picky I'm sorry) I'd rather it just boot directly in the game with no gui no waiting like I've been able to do on most emulators. There was a DolphinGUI that they used to use a long time ago and I just happened to get ahold of it a Dolphin built for Teknoparrot but it doesn't seem to work right it still shows the GUI when the game is launching. Has anyone solved this if they're like me picky about GUIs running when a game launches?
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I have a lot of games and it seems it's not straight forward in how to make it to where some have a startup screen yet do not have a screen that says game over when you exit. If you are using an emulator game you can easily just go into your emulator settings under edit turn off the game over screen and that will take care of all games for that emulator. Very easy, very straight forward.
The issue comes in with PC games that don't give you the same options. I have around 400 PC games and there's no setting that I know of that would allow all of them to have it where there's a startup screen but no game over screen, or is there? In options there's a Startup Screen option but you can only check the box if you want a startup screen with no option for game over. I have discovered you can highlight all the games you want choose edit and drop field the only one that would seem to apply would be "Startup Screen Shutdown Enabled" but it's confusing to me it doesn't give you the option to disable game over screen only to enable it I think. So I don't know how to have one without the other. But to be fair I'm on an old Launchbox from 4 or 5 years ago and can't update for my own reasons so maybe it's different with an updated Launchbox.
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22 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:
As an option, you can detect the controller combo without the need for joytokey.
1Joy7:: { If GetKeyState("Joy8") { WinActivate, ahk_exe Launchbox.exe MouseMove, 586, 657, 0 Click } }Here, you need to press and hold Joy8 1st, then press Joy7 to have it run. Change the buttons accordingly.
Regarding the SystemCursor method, is your script calling that from somewhere else? Because what you provided doesn't even use it.
It's updated pretty much every time someone posts a question.
That's what I mean nobody's really asking anything I was the first post since October. But I think that 90%+ of Launchbox users don't use autohotkey or at least they don't use it with Launchbox.
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It's a shame this thread doesn't get updated very much anymore, it's very helpful to Launchbox. But anyway I was hoping for a script what I want to do is press a keyboard key and have Launchbox come up fullscreen which I've accomplished that part, but the part I haven't is I want that key to include activating it to where I can start navigating it without having to take my mouse and click on it. I have tried ControlClick but it's not working very well. (although I'm not an ahk expert maybe it's my script IDK)
HotKey, F8, LaunchUpdate return LaunchUpdate: WinMinimize ahk_exe launchbox.exe WinMaximize ahk_exe launchbox.exe Controlclick, x500 y700, Left, launchbox WinActivate ahk_exe launchbox ;...any code you need... returnEdit: lol didn't read the thread someone was having that problem of the mouse moving and clicking on this page.
Edit 2: Found a script from a few years ago that works! I used F8 and then used Joytokey to map it to a controller combo so I can pull up Launchbox at any time and have it activated.
CoordMode, Mouse MouseGetPos, x, y WinActivate, ahk_exe Launchbox.exe MouseMove, 586, 657 sleep 500 MouseClick Left SystemCursor(OnOff := 1) { ; INIT = "I","Init"; OFF = 0,"Off"; TOGGLE = -1,"T","Toggle"; ON = others ; https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=6167 Static AndMask, XorMask, $, h_cursor , b1,b2,b3,b4,b5,b6,b7,b8,b9,b10,b11,b12,b13 ; Blank cursors , h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,h7,h8,h9,h10,h11,h12,h13 ; Handles of default cursors , c := StrSplit("32512,32513,32514,32515,32516,32642,32643,32644,32645,32646,32648,32649,32650", ",") If (OnOff = "Init" || OnOff = "I" || $ = "") { ; Init when requested or at first call $ = h ; Active default cursors VarSetCapacity(h_cursor,4444, 1), VarSetCapacity(AndMask, 32*4, 0xFF), VarSetCapacity(XorMask, 32*4, 0) For each, cursor in c { h_cursor := DllCall("LoadCursor", "Ptr",0, "Ptr", cursor) h%each% := DllCall("CopyImage", "Ptr", h_cursor, "UInt", 2, "Int", 0, "Int", 0, "UInt", 0) b%each% := DllCall("CreateCursor", "Ptr", 0, "Int", 0, "Int", 0 , "Int", 32, "Int", 32, "Ptr", &AndMask, "Ptr", &XorMask) } } $ := OnOff = 0 || OnOff = "Off" || $ = "h" && (OnOff < 0 || OnOff = "Toggle" || OnOff = "T") ? "b" : "h" For each, cursor in c { h_cursor := DllCall("CopyImage", "Ptr", %$%%each%, "UInt", 2, "Int", 0, "Int", 0, "UInt", 0) DllCall("SetSystemCursor", "Ptr", h_cursor, "UInt", cursor) } } -
Don't know the answer to your questions unfortunately but just curious does that game require a subscription to Teknoparrot? I tried Golden Tee Fore! in MAME but can't get the trackball emulated with my controller correctly.
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15 hours ago, Zephyr2025 said:
Thanks for the reply C-Beats. I think there’s a little confusion about my post regarding the folders. I wasn’t saying that there is a folder named North America & United States, I was saying that there are 2 folders; one named North America and one named United States. Secondly the folders don’t have quotations on them, I was just emphasizing the locations. Could you clarify about the abnormal region string for the game; I’m not sure how this would affect the image not showing in Launchbox.
Just go to Tools > Manage Platforms and select the platform you selected for N64 and you go to the second page and click on Box-Front you can tell it where the images should go, you have a conflict.
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Having said that I'm having issues with mine as well it was freezing when I hit edit on a game but that stopped but even after I ran scannow and DISM my launchbox stays open in task manager when I close it. I have to go into task manager and manually close it.
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You could try sfc scannow and DISM, it's a computer problem.
First run
DISMwith/Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealthto ensure the system image is healthy, and then runsfc /scannowto fix any system files. -
2 hours ago, MaineBear said:
I checked them, they are large .iso almost 7gb. When you say file format is that all the separate files like .wav, .sfd, .dat files in one folder? I have those as well as the .iso.
The main file a folder format Xbox game will have is default.xbe and it might have those others not sure. Those 7 gb Xbox games were meant to be played on an Xbox 360 that's been RGH'd and won't work. You might be able to convert them using XDVDMulleter by extracting the ISO then remaking the ISO with the option of "make as small as possible". But if that doesn't work just search google for some other ISOs.
In this video the guy actually has 7 gb ISOs that he converts to work for Xemu just watch the video and grab XDVDMulleter should work for you.
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There are some that were converted to .iso in a way that won't run on Xemu, and there are some games that just don't work on Xemu yet. I would first check the compatibility for each game
https://xemu.app/#compatibility
If it says it's playable then pretty much it's not a good ISO for Xemu. You would then need to find either one that's already converted for Xemu or find a folder format and use XDVDMulleter to convert it to a proper ISO for Xemu. If a game is 6 or 7 gb you could tell by the size it's not meant for Xemu. XDVDMulleter reduces it's size dramatically so that's good news you'll save space. Xemu can't read an ISO larger than 4 gb.
I checked for you and both of those games show playable on the compatibility list so it's an issue with the ISO for sure.
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Since there doesn't seem to be a solution to launchbox staying in task manager I made an Autohotkey script that taskkills it then made a keyboard shortcut and then used JoytoKey to map the keyboard shortcut to my controller so that it gets removed from task manager (but sometimes takes several times to work) it'll have to do I guess seems to a computer problem on my end so I can't really expect a fix from someone here
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44 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:
This is unrelated to your OP and really, should be brought up in a new thread. Reason being, when future users/readers are trying to resolve a similar issue, the tendency is to glance at the threads title. Help us organize to keep you (and others) organized.
Some forums would not want someone making multiple threads it's hard to know. But I played with some settings and it seems that issue with it going back to Big Box during games has stopped (can't remember what I changed exactly).
I tried installing a fresh Launchbox and then added the image and data folders but it still gets stuck in task manager.
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23 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:
I can't say why whatever's happening is happening the way it is. But I can say Big Box, as an exclusive fullscreen application is not designed to be used as a multitasking app. As you've noticed, you can to a degree, multitask. But it can have potential (and obvious) side effects.
If you really do need to do multitasking with Big Box running, I heard (never bothered to try it myself) you can create a virtual machine and run it in that. (You'd have to research how set that up, as I have no idea.) But it really does defeat the purpose of running BB in the 1st place.
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.
Import Roms issue - not working some arcade roms
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"It seems manual addition is possible using that method now. "
Not a new feature that's pretty much how I always add mine for over 6 years now.