HisokaRyodan

Oh man, had I actually known that, and took the time to actually research what was going on, that 1g1r probably would have saved me some time... lol, but I'm actually glad I didn't since now I actually understand what is going on with everything. This is fantastic news, and I see that in the 1g1r set, the one game i was talking about that needs the HD is actually the one you boot, so this is fantastic!!! I am going to copy my main 9801 rom folder, hopefully use the 1g1r to get it the way it needs to be, then do the process again and report back. I am excited to get the other systems setup also! And thats awesome about japanese, i play all my games in japanese, so my emulation machine has enough storage to hold both USA and Japanese releases of every system currently playing Chrono Cross for the first time (in japanese), and having a blast, and will def play some of these absolute atrocious visual novel games for pc9801 once i finish

Disregard all my other posts, I dunno if its common practice on this forum to edit those or just delete them, so if they need to be deleted or edited I will do that. I got everything pretty much setup how I want! Just want to give a shout out to @xiron and @dsync89 I actually study japanese and can read/play video games without issue, so being able to live through this system is actually amazing!!! Just to edit above, I realize that you meant pointing the emulator to the actual AutoHotKeyv2.exe, not your template... this was my bad. I should have taken the time to actually logically go through step by step what you were doing.. Things I did to make this my own/Easier for Launchbox/Playing Games: Have Launchbox Default to HD games instead of FD games: I wanted to have Launchbox auto group the games together to make it cleaner. Unfortunately, because of the way Launchbox is setup, you cannot define a default "version" per emulator, and since no region is associated with these (I believe USA is the default region if 3 regions per game are included), I found out that it defaults to alphabetical order. Due to this Game 1 [FD] always comes before Game 1 [HD] due to alphebet. So what I did was before running the final run.py script, I used auto renamer to rename every folder to the following: [HD to [1HD [FD to [2FD [CD to [3CD This way 1HD always is first in the list. This way if there is a game that needs FD to be first (I actually found one game... its a hentai santaclaus question game... that asks video game questions....its absolutely hilariously wild) you can simply set the default "App" to FD. In this game, if you boot from HD the image is stretched off the screen. It has like an aspect ratio of 1080x1920 so half of it is off screen. The FD actually runs correctly tho. Had to Add AutoHotKey v2 Lines to the AHK File: I believe the AHK script in Launchbox is v1 (the default one in thirdparty folder) so my machine was getting confused as to what to do. I have to go into the ".\neokobe-toolkit-main\templates\nec-pc-9801\ahkv2" file and modify the "gametitle.ahk". If you were lazy like me, essentially the script uses this as a template to create the per game AHK files. So if you add something here, it gets added to every game. What I did was add the following at the top, which allowed everything to run without issue. #Requires AutoHotkey v2.0-a Created a Joytokey Profile that uses Retroarch Button Mappings and Modified AHK file to AutoClose/Open the correct profile on Launch/Close I could NOT for the life of me get joytokey profiles working with its default application switcher. This is probably due to the fact I have joytokey always running a default profile that has F1,F2,F3,F4,Escape,F10 also mapped so every emulator functions relatively the same always. But I had issues with it seemlessly switching so I added an ahk script to that same "gametitle.ahk" file so that when any game runs the first thing it does is close Jottokey, then opens it with a profile named "PC9801". Then upon exit (when hitting escape), it will close joytokey then launch joytokey with the "Default" profile. This actually works GREAT. If you want to see how I mapped it I used this as a template: NEC - PC-98 (Neko Project II Kai) - Libretro Docs if you scroll down itll show you the retroarch mapping. I did mine different tho, in that the "Enter" key is equivalant to "Start" on some games and is also "Action" on others. Because of this I made start equivalent to PlayStation controllers Circle, and I made Space X. This way, Circle controls action in all games (I play games in japanese, and mainly PS1/2 so Circle as action was most confortable). I also mapped R2 and L2 to mouse clicks. Left and right click respectively. The left analog gets mapped to mouse movement. and Select gets mapped to F12. If a game doesn't support controller, I simply hit select, and I now can use the ingame mouse with the controller. I also have F11 mapped (to a combo action) so if I have to switch disk, or change emulator options, I can hit that, then use the mouse and right click to function as a real mouse, not just an emulator mouse: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *This is added right under the AutoHotKeyv2 Section I put above* ProcessClose "joytokey.exe" sleep 1000 Run "A:\LaunchBox\ThirdParty\JoyToKey\JoyToKey.exe C:\Users\Hisoka\Documents\JoyToKey\PC9801.cfg" *This replaces the provided Esc section within the "Key Bindings" section Esc:: { ProcessClose "joytokey.exe" sleep 1000 Run "A:\LaunchBox\ThirdParty\JoyToKey\JoyToKey.exe C:\Users\Hisoka\Documents\JoyToKey\Default.cfg" sleep 1000 ProcessClose "np21w.exe" Run "taskkill /im np21w.exe /F",, "Hide" ExitApp } ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have attached my gametitle.ahk file that resides in "templates\nec-pc-9801\ahkv2" along with my PC9801 config that resides in "C:\Users\Hisoka\Documents\JoyToKey" should anyone want to see or use. THANK YOU AGAIN!!! I want to go through all the games and mark which work and don't work. I had a few games say it needs a data disk which isn't in that set, and tell me disk 3 had a key I needed to enter (don't know what it was refering to) but other then that, had 10-15 games work without issue. gametitle.ahk PC9801.cfg

Actually I added "#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0-a" to the top of a AHK file and it ran without the error message when having "AutoHotKey2.exe" *i know thats not the name of the exe* path for the emulator and having the v2 ahk script copied into the "Running Script Portion". If I put "#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0-a" at the top of the "Running script" portion it still pipes out the error.

it wasn't running due to me not having the python from windows store, shame on me for using windows and not running everything via command line.... BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I do have a few questions. So if i try and run your ahkv2 script, it says that it requires Autohotkey 1.3, however if I run it with Autohotkey 1.3, all of the ahk files give an error. That eror specificaly is attached. Error, line 52. If i manually point the emulator to AutoHotKey 2.exe the games will run. I assume your script does a bunch of other things so realy want to get that going. I did copy and paste the contents of ahkv2 into the 'Running Script' Portion of Emulator tab in launchbox, and it actually runs it and allows for escape to exit so I know its working, but that same error line 52 pops up as well. Thanks again for all your help! This is so great

Hey guys, I actually was wondering if anyone could help me get this all setup. I tried @xiron's script and it doesn't launch any game (but I also am using games that have multiple disks for hdm files, so I don't know if it is suppose to work). As for the @dsync89 I am getting the full set that you linked currently and when i run it it rezipos the files. Is this by design? Then once it zips them all in the correct folder structure am I then support to extract them to each archive? I am trying to create a ahk file for Abunai Tengu Densetsu. I have the files in the extracted folder you linked called pc98. Also included my config.json. Sorry if I am just oblivious, any help would be appreciated

Hey guys, I have a rather strange question as my implementation of Launchbox is different then most. I have a separate Platform Category for each region, since I study Japanese and play all games exclusively in Japanese. The issue is, I want the roms to show up using their English name (or translation) instead of their Japanese name. This is for many reasons but lets take Xenogears for instance. The japanese name is ゼノギアス while the english name is Xenogears. I can read the Japanese titles no problem, but it gets sorted in order using the Japanese Albephet instead of the American. There is also other use cases where the technical name has Kanji in it, but the file is in Romanji so finding the games is rough and names in japanese using Kanji is actually the hardest thing lol. But also, there are certain games that I only know of by the english, so if I want to play like The Evil Within, I have to know that the Japanese titles is Psycho Break. I am aware you can go into each game, go to Alternate Names, select the english and hit 'Set Selected Name as Title' then OK, but I would have to do this for every Japanese entry on top of once you change that, it sets the scroll bar to the location where the new name exists, so for each game I have to scoll all the way down, select, change, scroll all the way down, etc. Is there a way to either force the use of alternative names, or some type of batch way to manually select the name used for each game? I don't mind doing this even the long way, but it would not be the most fun

Thank you so much for a full explanation! Thought it was something like that, either way it’s all good

Why would you assume I don't own them? I actually have a complete n64 japanese collection, complete wonder swan color collection, (missing 50) dreamcast japanese collection, and have roughly 800-1k Japanese ps1 games and roughly 1000 Japanese ps2 games... all the games I am playing are games I own. I know japanese and learned it specifically to play jrpgs, so playing on a phone and or a computer that has OCR, fast forward and save states to get to japanese input, and the ability not only to record but have instant flashcards created in anki, is way WAY more beneficial then you know.

Hey guys, I understand the process of installing android, and all of that, however I am running emulators on a work phone that does not allow the toggle of unknown sources, which makes sense. I am running all emulators fine, since they all come from the playstore, but have found all of the front ends are awful, or aty the very least, dont work/scan all systems correctly. Is there anyway you can add a versionto playstore that does nothing until you download the license file and load it into the application? If not I understand, just love launchbox and want to bring it to android to hopefully have a useable frontend. Thanks!

Good morning everyone! Longtime Launchbox user, but recently reorganizing my collection and redoing Launchbox so I wanted to ask for a few inputs on if I am doing this correctly. To preface this, I want my setup to be as followed: Console Name -> 1. USA/2. Japan/3. Europe -> Playlists I understand you can use playlists for region, but you cant do playlists WITHIN playlists.... If I could I'd simply have: Sony Playstation (Platform) -> 1. USA (Playlist) -> Co-op (Playlist)... However the goal is to have the ability to create playlists for each region separately. The reason is simply. I ONLY play japanese games, and usually just RPGs. I study japanese so all the games I play are in Japanese, and for obvious text based reasons, rpgs. I want to be able to have the ability to do this: Sony Playstation -> 2. Japan -> RPGs and Sony Playstation -> 1. USA -> Co-op This way finding new RPGs to play for myself is super easy, but if I have friends over finding ENGLISH games to play together is also very easy. Currently what I have done is Create a new Platform category, then move that to the root, Then create a new Platform that includes all one region. Then I'll rename that platform to fit the region... so in the case of 3DS I rename 'Nintendo 3DS' to '1. USA (3DS)' and then move that UNDER the platform category. I have currently only done 3DS as a test, but I want to know if you think this is a good solution for what I'm trying to accomplish so my structure is currently this: Top Level: Nintendo 3DS (Platform Category) Next Level: 1. USA (3DS) (Platform) 2. Japan (3DS) (Platform) 3. Europe (3DS) (Platform) Bottom Level: Any Playlist I want I am pretty sure this should be sufficient, but it is a lot of manual work, which is fine, just want to make sure I only do this once. This also begs the question of where do the logos go for the platforms? I have attached pitchers, but since all of the platforms are initially put in as 3DS they all have the same Nintendo 3DS logo. I would want to just make my own that includes the region. Thanks alot for any info you can give! This is what launchbox starts with going to platform category. I am aware because its a category I can't get the cool test for the system....? Either way I'm fine with this. Is there a way to have the text appear as a banner though? This is where I would need to input the region into the Banner. Do you know where these banners live? This is the Platforms that I have renamed to 1. USA (3DS), 2. Japan (3DS). Here is what Launchbox looks like to show Platform Category -> Platform -> Playlist which is specifically what I need to have accomplished.

Man i just stumbled upon this thread trying to get my 3do setup and it seems it is not launching the games correctly. When I try to launch a game nothing happens at all, I have followed the directions to a T. Any chance someone could help? I can post any logs or locations needed

I ABSOLUTELY love this and am doing the same thing since i know japanese and want to play all my games in japanese but have them seperate but organized! What theme are you using? Everything about that looks FANTASTIC!