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I didn’t realize there were no wheels downloaded for the 2 games I had and had hide games with no clear logo filter on.

Hi. I’ve gotten most wheels set up no problem but can’t get Xbox 360 to show on the platform list. It’s showing and launching in Launchbox but the wheel isn’t appearing in Bigbox. I feel like I’m missing something dumb. Also the wheel is in the images/platforms/clear logo and named correctly??

That’s what I’m currently running. Bigbox with an iPac. Definitely worth it. I just programmed my buttons with the WinPac software to what keyboard keys I want each button to represent on my control panel. I use Mame as my emulator for arcade games and Dolphin for game cube. The rest I use Retroarch because I like how I can use my control panel in Retroarch or use my Xbox controllers and don’t have to change any settings. I can literally start playing a game with my control panel then during the game pick up the controller and continue the game without doing anything. Anyway as easy as Bigbox is to set up doing it yourself would be well worth it so you can trouble shoot on your own. Although I don’t think I’ve had to change anything or had anything break once I’m set up unlike Hyperspin which I was constantly battling. Good luck!

I’ve done the update wheel images and force populate wheel images already but sometimes if I change letters in a wheel like go from A in arcade to P quickly the wheel images take some time to show sometimes. If I scroll it will scroll with no wheel images so you don’t know what game you’re on. Is there any recommended settings to make wheel images load faster? This is in Bigbox btw

I will try this thanks! I personally think it looks cleaner with 1 version of game and not confuse people playing the arcade. Thanks again!

Thanks so I did leave everything checked. What I’m finding now is the games that have 2 showing like Burger Time and Bump and Jump have a cassette version also which is causing them to show twice. I can manually delete them but would be nice to have an option to exclude those also so there’s not 2 showing on my Bigbox wheel.

I finally updated my Mame emulator and rom set from 220 to 261. I used the Mame import from Launchbox and left everything checked. On my wheel I noticed quite a few of the same wheels showing. They are slightly different rom names but the same game. I guess I’m just curious if there is a xml file like hyperspin that filters out more of the fluff like these and the mega touch games etc… I know people would share theirs on Hyperspin just curious if it can be done in Launchbox/Bigbox or could I use a hyperspin xml instead?

Sounds like you got a mess. Most people won’t help knowing you bought a preconfigured drive. My guess is it would take to long to try and explain what to do for every problem you’re probably going to run into like not knowing where your roms/games are. I use an iPac for my cabinet but also use Xbox controllers for some other systems like PlayStation and GameCube. I don’t need any other software this way. If I was you I would honestly start over. Your Launchbox license might not be legit so I would purchase your own. Worse case if it is legit, supporting these guys again is definitely a good thing. Launchbox is so easy to set up now you would be learning the basics starting over. I also use Retroarch a lot to be able to use my Arcade buttons or controllers if I feel like kicking back. Good luck

Ok so I changed the sort title to 1 Arcade and that seems to have done the trick.

I appreciate the help still. I’m wondering if I could edit an xml and make it read only or if changing my platform name for 3D0 to Panasonic would put it down further on the list? I think there’s a couple options but would be nice to have it as an option to start on whatever platform you want. Thanks again for the help!

On a side note if I am on Arcade and go into the settings, when I exit settings I’m back on 3DO as well

This only works if I have remember last platform checked but then I have to make sure I exit on Arcade everytime. Once I uncheck remember last platform it goes back to 3DO

I’ve wanted to do this as well because 3d0 is first on my wheel it shows first when I launch. I’d have to change the name to Panasonic or in settings check the remember last platform and exit on Arcade everytime or make the file read only. Would be nice to be able to make Arcade the default platform to start on.

Thank you! I’ll give it a try! Seems like if a plug in can support bezels that Bigbox could too? But I know nothing about coding so I leave it to the experts to know best.

I use retroarch now with bezels and everything is good. I saw a post earlier talking about N64 in retroarch playing Mario Kart with graphic issues so I loaded mine up and there are some minor glitches. I then used Ares and it looked better but there isn’t bezel support. Will Launchbox ever support bezels or do I need Rocketlauncher? I’m trying to stay away from that since I left hyperspin. Are my options use retroarch with bezel support but with graphic errors or use a standalone emulator without bezels? On a side note Retroarch is nice using a cab so I can use controllers and my control panel at the same time or change to either one when I want.

I’m having an issue recently where Bigbox freezes. This doesn’t happen a lot but I only had my machine on for about an hour and came back to it and everything was froze. I couldn’t do anything. I was able to unfreeze it by clicking my mouse???

Are you using this theme in a cabinet? I’m using the refried theme for Bigbox in a cabinet and it feels like hyperspin. For me it was all the time spent on renaming files or like you said creating or editing xml files.

I have Hyperspin and Launchbox/Bigbox on my cab. I slowly built up Launchbox while using Hyperspin because I wasn’t sold on Bigbox. It was laggy on the wheel which was my main concern. Now it’s gotten a lot better and I rarely use Hyperspin if at all. Hyperspin does however have more artwork available so it looks a little nicer sometimes but Bigbox will get there I’m sure. The ease of setting up Launchbox makes it worth it. All the media downloaded for you automatically and importing games is super easy. I don’t need third party programs like I did in Hyperspin for stuff like controllers and to just turn the volume up and down. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! Good luck!

This is what I do for my cab. I have player 1 button 2 as my back button but I enabled “hold button” to get to the main settings so it doesn’t pop up by accident. Works great on my cab!

Same here. No issue.

I’ve noticed this as well. All my videos work but sometimes my start up video hangs on a black screen with no audio or video until I hit a button which takes me the main wheel. Never have an issue with any other videos so I’m wondering if Bigbox is taking too long to load something else which is causing the video to hang? At least I know it’s not just me.

I just added this system and games. I just added the eboot.bin from the games folder and everything loads fine. If it works outside Launchbox it should work in Launchbox which makes me think you’re calling for the wrong file to be loaded? I’m no expert though

Thanks for this! I will be trying this later today as my start up seemed to take a long time as well.

Ok thank you! I’ll start looking there for sure. How would this get out into the database for others? Thanks again!