[COLORFUL bigbox theme]

I have spent dozens and dozens of hours on my Launchbox because of your amazing Colorful theme. I'm not sure if I thank you or scold you for that viking. 😇
I even started to custom my retoarch to match your theme using the Mega Bezel Reflection Shader.

I hope we will get our hands on your Startup and Pause themes to finally a taste of the whole Colorful experience.
Thanks to everyone involed in this project! 

[Long Mame load time on BigBox for first game]

This is an old post but I had the exact same issue. Pinflip_ last message helped me to figure out what was the problem so thank you for that. Here is my solution in case it helps someone else.

Just like Pinflip_, my build is on an external hard drive and my drive was under huge pressure when I loaded my first mame game through launchbox/bigbox. It could take up to 30 solid seconds before mame showing up. 

Antimalware Service Executable was the culprit. I had to add mame.exe as an exception into Windows defender (Fix3 in the link above).

https://www.easeus.com/partition-manager-software/antimalware-service-executable-high-disk-usage.html#3

MAME now starts almost instantly and I have a flawlessly experience with bigbox/mame.

 

 

 

[MAME, no-nag setup and mame.ini missing]

47 minutes ago, Your Friendly A.I Overlord said:

1 hour ago, Nanotik said:

I just did your mame -createconfig, now I have my mame.ini!

Are you sure that in LaunchBox the path to mame.exe (your first screenshot) and the folder where you created mame.ini (your second screenshot) are the same?

Yes, I checked again. Just to make sure, I browsed and put my mame.exe path again in Launchbox. 

 

47 minutes ago, Your Friendly A.I Overlord said:

1 hour ago, Nanotik said:

I am wondering if the automated MAME import was the best solution. Should I start to setup manually from scratch my MAME set? 

Importing games has nothing to do with how you set up the emulator.

Sorry if I wasn't clear. The thing is I did not set up anything yet. When I try to import a MAME full set, Launchbox asks in the process if I would like to let it install and configure MAME by itself.

For testing purposes, I deleted my mame.ini file again and tried to start a game through Launchbox and it worked. I don't know how Launchbox behaves with mame but it seems to ignore this mame.ini. Problem is I need this mame.ini (with skip_gameinfo set to 1) to make the no-nag mame.exe to fulfill its purpose but I have no idea on how to fix this.

[MAME, no-nag setup and mame.ini missing]

I can see file extensions. I managed to start and play many games without this mame.ini. I think it has something to do with Launchbox itself who has its own command-line parameters so it doesn't rely on this mame.ini file. This is my MAME parameters generated by Launchbox when I told it to import my MAME full set. I can even see "-skip_gameinfo" there.

I just did your mame -createconfig, now I have my mame.ini!

I set skip_gameinfo to 1 and... nothing. I still have romcheck/nag screens when I start a game (tried with xmen).

I am wondering if the automated MAME import was the best solution. Should I start to setup manually from scratch my MAME set? 

 

[MAME, no-nag setup and mame.ini missing]

Hello there,

I am struggling a bit with my MAME setup following this video:

 

My MAME set is a full 0.245 with CHD, roms and CHD were apart (MAME ROM Set 0.245 (Merged) - No CHD + MAME 0.245 CHD (Merged)) so I merged them together into a same folder so it looks this way:

./Games/MAME/romname.zip

./Games/MAME/CHDfoldername/file.chd

 

Then, I did import this full set into launchbox using the "import MAME Arcade full set" feature. 

So far so good. 

 

Now, I want to get rid of the nag/rom checking when I start a game so I replaced my mame.exe by this one but it doesn't do the trick. It says to be sure to have Skip_gameinfo  1 in our mame.ini file but the thing is I don't have this .ini in my mame emulator folder. I am clueless at this point.

 

Btw, I don't know if this is related to nag/checkrom boot but my CPSIII games need to load a "CD-ROM" which can take up to 20 min. I mean, there must be a faster way to boot these games. How do I fix this ?

 

 

Any help appreciated.

 

 

[Videoborders do not adjust to videos with the Unified Theme]

Hmm, can I edit Unified to do this for specific systems only?

I am trying to guess which values to edit in which files and how to apply this but I am pretty clueless right now. I know it's probably somewhere in \Themes\Unified but unlike HyperSpin, there isn't an archive for each theme/system to mess with, everything seems mixed up in one big folder.

For now, I just modified my videoborder.png for GBA to manually adjust it to my emumovies videos resolutions : https://prnt.sc/uchlld

I don't know if I had to do this but it's a progress I guess. I still have to deal with the black background behind like you said but I have no idea where to find the right values to edit. Any help?

 

 

 

 

 

[Videoborders do not adjust to videos with the Unified Theme]

Hi there,

I used to spend countless hours on my HyperSpin config but it became a never-ending project.

Years have passed since and today, I am discovering the wonders of LaunchBox. Way more user-friendly than HyperSpin imo. It did in a couple of hours what it could take days or weeks to me with HS.

 

Now, I am looking a bit more into details. I am using the Unified Theme and for some systems (mostly Handhelds and HD ones with specifics resolutions), videoborders (see below) do not adjust correctly to videos.

Is there a way to get rid of those black borders easily?

https://prnt.sc/ucdyae     

https://prnt.sc/ucdyg3