Jayinem

I notice a problem with games that have the same name example there is Need For Speed Most Wanted that came out in 2005 and then they did a Need For Speed Most Wanted around 2011. I only use my own images and I have them set with the appropriate image, but I'll start Launchbox and it'll change one of them to match the other one and even remove the one I had set. Here is what I mean Notice the green box highlighting Need For Speed Most Wanted, and to the right of it is the newer Need For Speed Most Wanted appropriately imaged. But I just turned on my computer which boots Launchbox at start and it looked like this It has happened a bunch of times too not just one time. I realize I could just rename one to something like "Need For Speed Most Wanted (2005)" I just like the actual names of the games to be as they are. However I had the same problem with Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 1, but I renamed the first one to "Need For Speed III Hot Pursuit" but I would rather know a solution.

Nope I just load the entire game that way Just the way I've always done it, The reason was at first I only wanted Lightgun games and they required an app called Demulshooter that only works through scripts. I started collecting other types games but I didn't learn until I was doing it for like a year there was a way to load it as an emulator in Launchbox, and I already had a bunch of scripts loaded in LB so no reason to take the time to redo it all. You load the game in Teknoparrot and save your settings first and it makes a UserProfile .xml of the game. So #SingleInstance Force SetWorkingDir, <path><to>\Teknoparrot.exe run TeknoParrotUi.exe --profile=IDZ.xml exit But I don't know any of this is relevant unless you tell me loading the emulator into Launchbox prevents the additional windows from coming up, I'm pretty sure the games always launch with those windows regardless of launch method. Still asking my original question for a way to hide them.

Nah I don't use any startup screens in Launchbox, with Teknoparrot I just make an ahk of the game and compile it to exe, and add it to Launchbox. It made no difference running the exe seperate from Launchbox, so it's not really a Launchbox issue at all. I only have free Launchbox anyway.

I never realized that was an option but I just tried it and still get those windows. Unless there's another setting I checked the box "hide console windows" saved, even restarted Teknoparrot and tried again, and tried through ahk script.

I use an emulator called Teknoparrot it emulates more recent arcade games, but when it launches games even through ahk it launches the teknoparrot gui and a command window called OpenParrotLoader.exe, I want to hide these but haven't been able to. In task manger the windows are called ElfLoader and steamchild. I tried WinHide ahk_exe ElfLoader WinHide ahk_exe SteamChild WinHide ahk_exe "<My><Path><To>\OpenParrotLoader64.exe" I also tried adding SetTitleMatchMode, 2 and with Ifwinexists but nothing seems to work although it's very possible I'm doing it incorrectly.

Nevermind, posted a script to reconnect internet automatically because it worked perfectly until I rebooted then it didn't work at all.

I was able to make a script that constantly checks if Launchbox is open and if it's not, reopens it. This could be helpful to other people for different reasons. Just change the path of my Launchbox to your own, and throw it in startup then you have a guaranteed always running Launchbox. #SingleInstance, force Loop { Sleep 3900 ; Process, Exist, Launchbox.exe If (ErrorLevel = 0) { Run, D:\Jayinem\LaunchBox\Launchbox.exe } Else { Sleep 5 } } Return

Ok so this may not be helpful to everyone, but I kept having Launchbox closed because I had a super escape key that I combined escape and alt+f4, and I would escape games and it would close Launchbox, so this constantly checks if Launchbox is open and if it's not it opens it, but if it's open it does nothing. Change my path to my Launchbox to your own and throw it in startup and you have a guaranteed always running Launchbox the entire time your computer runs, and the first part makes sure all your games show in playlist instead of a different playlist, but if you want you can remove that. #SingleInstance, force Sleep 8000 SetKeyDelay, 0, 50 Run, LaunchBox.exe Sleep, 10000 Send {Tab 4} Send {Home} Loop { Sleep 3900 ; Process, Exist, Launchbox.exe If (ErrorLevel = 0) { Run, D:\Jayinem\LaunchBox\Launchbox.exe } Else { Sleep 5 } } Return

So far from my testing, which is preliminary, !F4::Return does seem to solve the issue. Some of the same games that my super escape key (which again yes also has alt+F4, or did) caused it to escape, doesn't anymore. But I was able to use alt+f4 in at least one other game, but I think it's because that game disables all changing of keyboard keys. So most likely the script does disable alt+f4 in general but I haven't found that to be an issue yet. Do you know of any emulators that will only close with alt+f4 and not escape? I would like to test it on one.

I found where ahk script !F4::Return will prevent it from closing with alt+F4. But I'm not sure yet if it disables it for all apps, probably.

So there's no way to prevent it?

I have a ton of different emulators and PC games and they use different settings for escape some use alt+F4, some use escape I made like a super escape key with autohotkey that makes it where almost every game (that doesn't disable changing keyboard keys) can exit using escape. However what happens a lot is when the game closes it ends up closing Launchbox too. Is it possible to make escape not close Launchbox? So maybe it's not possible because I don't want to disable escape key for all apps, only for Launchbox.

Nevermind it's not necessary, there's an option in chrome "use a specific set of pages on start" so no script needed. Thanks again for all your help.

I don't know what you mean, sorry. I'm wanting it to have a default page for each tab so if I change them it changes it back to the default page.

Ended up needing 1 more but it's not about Launchbox or a game, it's about chrome tabs. I have about 20 pinned tabs that start with windows that way and any time I launch chrome. Sort of similarly to how I wanted all games showing in launchbox, I would like the main page to show when I start chrome or if possible, after a certain amount of time. So like if i had launchbox.com on a tab, but then I go into the forums or whatever other page, I would want it to go back to launchbox.com for example. To make things a bit more complicated I read that chrome uses ctrl+1 through ctrl+8 as tab shortcuts but I already use those for other ahk scripts. I can change them if necessary, but I would prefer to change the chrome hotkeys because I'm so used to them. Appreciate it again I know this might be kind of a doozy. I promise this'll be the last one not going to keep coming up with more and more, but even if you don't or can't help I won't be upset still appreciate the help you already provided.

I got it, I know I didn't probably have to do this, but I don't care about sloppiness when it comes to ahk just want scripts to work. So I made a close chrome script and reopen chrome script and added them both to launchbox and just run the game.exe normally through launchbox. close chrome IfWinExist, ahk_exe chrome.exe WinClose reopen chrome after closing game Process, Wait, game.exe ;Wait for the game to be running Sleep 1000 ;Once running, wait 1 more second to be sure while winExist("ahk_exe game.exe") ;While the game is still running sleep 700 ; Hang out here, but check again Run, chrome.exe Thanks for your help.

Actually I'm running it through the script itself. It's a pc game so no emulator needed. I just add run, game.exe before your script and I thought I had added an additional app to close chrome but I didn't and I wiped out my script and used yours, and I don't remember how I closed chrome exactly so I added this line Winclose ahk_exe chrome.exe, but overall it's not working. Here is my entire script I am running copied exactly. But it's not closing chrome and just opening an additional chrome window that's blank. Well your part is reopening chrome is working, but it's not closing chrome anymore in the first place. #NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases. ; #Warn ; Enable warnings to assist with detecting common errors. SendMode Input ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability. SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% ; Ensures a consistent starting directory. #SingleInstance Force run, game.exe Sleep 10000 Winclose ahk_exe chrome.exe Process, Wait, game.exe ;Wait for the game to be running Sleep 1000 ;Once running, wait 1 more second to be sure while winExist("ahk_exe game.exe") ;While the game is still running sleep 700 ; Hang out here, but check again Run, chrome.exe ;The game's not running anymore, so start Chrome again.

You're good at ahk. It worked, but it kind of has a strange behavior it doesn't go straight to the game the game blinks for a second then minimizes and then it goes to another tab in chrome. But when I close the game it does run chrome. Just wonder if I could have the game maximized when clicking on it. As far as how I launch the game, I just put run, game.exe before this. Is that wrong? And sorry but I get confused like when you post ("ahk_exe PersonaStrikers.exe") is than an example that needs to be changed or do I leave it? If I need to change it, would I change it to ahk_exe game.exe or just game.exe? game.exe is the actual .exe that Persona Strikers is called btw.

Got one more question about a script hope you don't mind. I'm into a game Persona Strikers, but I close my internet browser chrome when I run it because it seems to slow it down (probably because I have like 20 pinned web sites) I got the script down to close chrome when running the game and it does, but I want to reopen chrome when I exit the game. The game let's you close with alt+f4, but I tried scripts to change it to escape but nothing worked. Maybe the game doesn't let you alter keyboard keys not sure. But I would need something that tells chrome to reopen when hitting alt+f4, or when closing game.exe. I tried IfWinNotActive but it didn't work, but maybe I did it incorrectly.

Wait I just tried it again and it did it! I think it has to do with if you have something selected or not. If you just have Launchbox open with nothing selected it won't work, but if you have one of the playlists selected it will do it. It's the same as if you try to hit tab tab tab tab home with or without something selected first, without anything being selected it won't do anything. Not sure if there's a way to force it to select an item in the script but still pretty cool, thanks for the script.

Thanks but it just doesn't seem to do anything. There's this racing game that you have go into settings and disable msaa everytime you launch it, and I was able to make a script and I see it automatically navigate the menus by itself and turn it off for me which is pretty cool. But no matter what I try even your script there's no change. If I hit tab tab tab tab and then home myself it will always go show all, but it seems maybe ahk is disabled for navigating menus? Not sure.

I have different playlists but I want all games to show upon launch but it remembers the last one I was on. So I'm trying to make a script but it's not working. This didn't work Sleep 1000 run, Launchbox.exe Send {Tab Down} {Tab Up} {Tab Down} {Tab Up} {Tab Down} {Tab Up} {Tab Down} {Tab Up} Sleep 100 Send {Home Down} {Home Up} Sleep 100 Send {Tab Down} {Tab Up} But if I launch Launchbox and hit tab 4 times and then home key it will go up to the all category. I just need a script to do the tab tab tab tab home for me. Also tried Sleep 1000 run, Launchbox.exe Send {Tab Down} Sleep 100 Send {Tab Up} Sleep 100 Send {Tab Down} Sleep 100 Send {Tab Up} Sleep 100 Send {Tab Down} Sleep 100 Send {Tab Up} Sleep 100 Send {Tab Down} Sleep 100 Send {Tab Up} Sleep 100 Send {Home Down} Sleep 100 Send {Home Up} And Send {Tab 4} Sleep 100 Send {Home} Either I'm doing it wrong or maybe scripts like that are disabled in Launchbox window? I don't have premium either.

I have Launchbox set to start when I start Windows and I have different playlists and it will remember the last one I viewed before shutting down Windows, but I was wondering if I could make Launchbox always default to showing All games? Also is there a way to just completely customize the dropdown list on the left side? I don't use most categories such as region, rating, star rating. Could I change those to anything I want or delete them somehow?

Thanks, worked.

Sorry didn't mean to duplicate it was an accident. How do you get it to show more than one disc? How do you add more than one? I only see one location for rom file.