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  1. I have a lifetime sub to BB, and have had it on a pretty powerful gaming PC in an arcade cab for a couple of years, but it doesn't really work the way I want (VERY slow to start BB despite being on M.2 drive, various emulators don't really work well with the controls, picker wheels for categories/games don't work as I'd like etc). So I've been trying different emus and frontends and really like one of the pre-made 256GB Retropie images for the Pi4. However it has a few games missing, and I'd like to take the ones from BB to import onto the Pi before replacing the PC in the cab. Is the media compatible (ROMs/videos/screenshots etc) I have ROMs from lots of consoles and arcades on the Pi image, but not sure what version it uses. Any help appreciated!
  2. edit: just tried it again - that’s the one that just shows a black screen. Pressing select does nothing. Shows zero games. Yep I did try that. I think that’s the one that just switched to a list view of directory paths on the left with box art on the right. I’m going to use the program I wrote to keep the wheel view as I prefer that. Thanks.
  3. No, that's not how it has organised it. When I set the machine up about a year ago (haven't really played it since then) I just let LB organise everything into categories, download videos etc etc. So it's not different arcade platforms, but categories like "Nintendo classics" "CPS2" "Atari" "Shoot-em-ups" etc. Once into the categories menu, random videos play in the background, under the wheel. The only way I can get to categories is to choose "Platform Categories" as the startup, which then starts on a wheel where every option is "Arcade", and after it fades out, it just stays on a black screen until I hit the select button, then it shows the category wheel. I have tried every startup option - some just do nothing - no wheel, nothing happens after hitting select, one of the options just shows an ugly looking list which seems based on the directory structure, or I can show all games in one long list. It took a bit of time to test them all as I have to reboot after every settings change so that BB reads the new settings (I need to plug a mouse in I guess!) I'm probably just looking for it to do something it's not set up to do - I guess most people have more than just Arcade games on their machines. I wrote a Windows app last night to inject a keypress after a process appears, which I haven't transferred to the arcade machine as yet, but should fix the problem - just need to get the timing right after BB launches! I have put in a feature request to skip wheels with only one option, which would fix this issue in BigBox.
  4. Thanks, that wasn't really what I wanted though. That just shows all the games on the machine in one long list, without any of the categories. I'll just set something up to inject a keypress into iBB after it starts up. That should then automatically go to the category view.
  5. I have Bigbox on an arcade cabinet, and only have arcade games on it. The problem with this is that Bigbox initially shows the first slect wheel with Arcade on it in all slots. This then fades out after about 1 second, and the screen stays black. I then have to press the select button to get to the @real@ wheel of categories inside the Arcade section. Is there a mod to automatically press the button after BB launches, to get past the first wheel? If not then I can write an app to do it, from a startup script, but if someone's already done it, it'll save me time :)
  6. I think when you only have one platform it gets repeated multiple times on the wheel. I would love to know if the wheel can show the categories within the platform, as I only have arcade games on BigBox, so the wheel is pretty useless currently! I'd like it to show "shooters", "beat-em-ups","run and gun" etc instead?
  7. That's great, thanks!
  8. Ah thanks, so I'd use LB for the management, and BB for the arcade frontend, yes?
  9. I've seen some videos of LB, and wondered if there's a frontend for it so it can be used in an arcade cabinet, instead of picking games with a mouse and keyboard? Currently using retropie (on a Pi) but want to use a PC in the cab. I'm trying to decide between this and Hyperspin, which can be used in an arcade cab.
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