Morris Schaffer

Hey dude I'm having the same issues as you described with VPX and BigBox. It feels entirely random like some tables start up with no issues, others do, something I'll get lucky and even the problematic tables occasionally work. no issue starting tables from VPX directly or from Launchbox directly but through Big Box it's another story. And with a few mouse clicks I can bring all into focus and it's ok, but still annoying. So based on your comment it seems the issue was resolved entirely. Thanks for the help!

Is anyone using dgvoodoo with teknoparrot or something else? I'm trying to run H2 overdrive in 4K and I know it should work, but no luck for me. I grabbed the latest dgvoodoo version, which gives me a ZIP file containing some files (see screenshot). I followed some vids online, but for some reason H2 Overdrive refuses to play in 4K. I pasted the files into my roms directory of H2 overdrive, the one that has the game's exe called 'sdaemon' (See screenshot). I open Dgvoodoo as admin, I point dgvoodoo to that directory, set my resolution to 4K in directx tab (see screenshot), boost my vram to 1024 because I have an RTX3080, Click on apply, close dgvoodoo. Start the game, via Launchbox, but no boost in resolution I'm afraid. I know it's important to paste the correct D3D9.dll file into the folder that has my game exe Sdaemon, but I have tried pretty much each one, no luck. Thanks.

Hi guys can anyone help me out? Yes, modifying the vertical and horizontal stretch sliders in game and then exiting the games saves those parameters. Here's the thing, i don't wanna do that for each single game separately. That said, my H and V stretch parameters would be the same for Horizontal and a bit different for vertical games. I think horizont.ini and vertical.ini is the solution but it's unclear what exactly must be in them and their exact location where those ini's must be. For example, here is the code for Aliens, with modified H and V slider parameters: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!-- This file is autogenerated; comments and unknown tags will be stripped --> <mameconfig version="10"> <system name="aliens"> <counters> <coins index="0" number="3" /> </counters> <video> <screen index="0" hstretch="0.984000" vstretch="0.976000" /> </video> </system> </mameconfig> this file is to be found in the cfg folder (So not an ini file) and you can see the h and v stretch values. But this is for a single game. I'd like to apply these exact parameters to all horizontal games at once. Thanks

Hi just wanted to say it is much improved, for pretty much all games I tried the marquee behavior is as intended so thanks.

I made a new one with the logo a bit bigger.

Hey man, here you go.

yeah I just checked it says 0x1B. So just to be sure, it should say that or I should change it to 0x1B (Escape)? or should I check 'Hide console windows?' it is now unchecked. Confirmation prompt on exit is checked tho. Maybe I should uncheck it?

Looks like the marquees stay now which is real progress, so thanks. Except when I exit some Teknoparrot games, the game window will remain open in the background and can take precedence over my big box window. Even though I have this script (see below) set in Launchbox under 'running script' and it works for other emu's, for TP clicking esc on keyboard doesn't quite shutdown the TP exe it seems. Maybe this issue is a different issue. Could it be the same that Monsterclip has noticed and for which you helped him? I'm not sure as I've been chatting with him back and forth/ $Esc:: { Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}} } By the way, using your plugin would it still matter where in display settings I have placed my marquee screen? So I mean top, right or left of the primary screen. Thanks for the progress on this, the marquees are definitely staying it seems. I also have some more videos attached. In one you can see that even though I closed Time Crisis 5, the windows remain open. In another transformers is now minimized top left corner and finally even though Rambo works really well (it was wonky before), there is a brief nanosecond where my fixed marquee screen wallpaper is visible before it goes back to Rambo (at 6 seconds in the vid). No biggie obviously but I'd like to be thorough in my reporting. VID_20230105_141710.mp4 VID_20230105_133531.mp4 VID_20230105_143519.mp4

Some more stuff I made.

Hi there, not sure if anyone provided something, but I cooked something up for one of these 2. Hope you like it.