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Yeah, it's been up for awhile. Just search pleasuredome and github. I just checked it. Still there.

Pleasuredome only provides the latest romsets. They do have older ones, but those are mostly for the lower end units, such low power pc, or raspberry pi style boards. I wouldn't worry about trying to update your roms. Just download the newest and match it with the new mame build.

Thanks I appreciate it. I posted an introductory to what is going to be built to check it out. The build itself the white borders will come up automatically when games start so no need for border button, the gun will control everything (game selection, exiting game ect...) Also everything will be contained in the launchbox folder, which in theory will make it a portable build. (Still need to test that) it you want to check it and have an idea what will be covered, check this link out. 1st set of tutorials will be posted the 7th of Oct. Could be sooner (the 1st) but the 7th at the very latest. Those will cover, gun set, mame setup, and integration into Launchbox / Bigbox.

I've since taken down the videos cause I'm in process of revamping that sinden light gun tutorials. Those videos were helpful but production was very poor and hard to follow for some people. Give about 2 weeks from this post and I'll have the videos up covering full 2 gun setup for mame use integrated into Bigbox/launchbox. I will have an introductory video up soon. Next couple days hopefully, which will breakdown what to expect from the guide.

Thanks glad it help. That being said, I would only use it for nintendo since those games are all 1player. Again, all else I recommend standalone emulators. When troubleshooting on retroarch, fixing one core problem maybe break the rest of them. Plus the standalone are more upto date and if you have an issue with one system you won't risk breaking your entire build. I'd recommend setup the batocera build. It's about as plug n play for sinden as you can get. I believe all you have to do is set your monitor size and gun calibration (takes like 15sec to do) and you're good to go. (Assuming you loaded your own roms on it as well) then you can also focus on your other gun build. At least this way you have a playable setup with batocera out the gate, while you can still be working on your w.i.p. Build for launchbox. Just a suggestion. Good luck, hope you get it figured out.

Batocera will be the easiest setup, has limitations though but not many. Best experience don't use Retroarch especially if you are on a 2-gun setup, use standalone emulators. I have done a setup tutorial for 2-gun setup with Sinden using Launchbox/Bigbox. It's on Youtube, search my tag name, "tks sitch gaming" just go to my channel and should be a playlist called 2 guns setup for 2023. There is a quick guide playlist as well but that only concerns non launchbox setup so won't be much help to you. The videos are long form but i break everything down and emulators covered are Nes, Mame,SegaM1,2,3, Naomi and Atomiswave.

Sinden doesn't work well with plug n play setups unless it's from a Batocera build, which Batocera natively will be the closest to plug n play you will get. Not the most optimal but good for a beginner to play some games. (Just need to get your own roms to add on to it). Your drive is tied with however it came when you bought it. Those scripts are tied to each emulator and if it's goes into Teknoparrot or American Laser Games those scripts are tied to, you will break your setup. Rule of thumb, when buying a prebuilt hard drive, don't mess with it, use it as intended. To your actual question, i run 3 instances of Launchbox (One for Main use, LG Setup and testing/misc use) Just have to rename your root launchbox folder something different than your Regular Launchbox folder (e.g. Launchbox LG). Also if you proceed to do what you suggested, create a backup folder for all your files in your paid drive. If case you do mess something up and can't reverse the issues, you can delete and start again with the backup folder. Good luck.

Have you tried just running your roms on the actual Mame emulator without running it through Launchbox?

Late to the party here, but if you're using Retroarch to run your emulators, retroarch can auto set your refresh to 30hz inside retroarch. You would need to change that inside retroarch configs, because that is an issue with my TV, I've had multiple times running builds from a Batocera and Launchbox setup. If you're not Using retroarch to run your emulators then I dunno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Set your additional app for Sega M2 this way (not in the picture, but what I'm going to tell you) application Name =DemulShooter (name means nothing just keeps things cleaner) Application Path = c:\DemulShooter\demulshooter.exe (Use the demulshooter .exe file, app path is just wherever you keep your Demulshooter not your bat. the reason for the add'l app here is to launch demulshooter along with your game) VERY IMPORTANT STEP!!!! Application command line parameter= -target=model2 -rom=ROMNAME (if it's House of the Dead the replace ROMNAME with hotd) check your box as seen in the picture. Do this for all your games (I think for shooting there is only 6 roms) Also, you need to edit your running script in your emulator settings so Demul will properly close, or it won't shutdown. You'll need to go to "Running script and add this between the existing brackets Process, Close, DemulShooter.exe If you don't do that then demul may close when you open the game. Hope that helps or get you on the right path at least.

yes this works Thanks. (Sometimes reading old threads pays off) I added that into my running script in launchbox for my segamodel2.

oh also, you have model2 in your bat file as target=mode12, just double check that make sure it does say target=model2 and not "mode 12"

Try these steps, Mess with just the Standalone emulator, don't launch with launchbox. check your Emulator.ini file and make sure your directory is set correctly. You're Dir1=c: line should be your rom location, just point it to wherever it's at. Also at least 2 games (lightgun wise) contain CHD files, HOTD & VCOP. if you have a seperate spot for CHD files you can create Dir2= (CHD LOCATION HERE) directly under Dir1. (note remove the ; in front of Dir1. ;Add your rom directories here (max 10) ;ROMS subdirectory in the same folder than the exe is always scanned when searching for roms ;(remove the ; form Dir1) [RomDirs] ;Dir1=c:\Model2\roms Run emulator_multicpu.exe - this will populate the remaining settings within EMULATOR.INI Close the Model 2 emulator Open EMULATOR.INI Search for the settings below within your EMULATOR.INI file and set as appropriate From there run your emulator using emulator_multicpu.exe also, set this in launchbox as your launching executable. if the game starts up then you solve the problem of game running via the Sega M2. If the doesn't work then scrap your M2 and redo setup. If it doesn't work when you launch it with Launchbox then it's narrowed down at least to a launchbox issue. Good luck!

Necroing a thread but I run different guns (Sinden) but regardless of the gun, the proper setup for Model2 requires raw input to 0. Setting it to 1 is bugging, especially when combining it with demulshooter since demulshooter will take care of your raw input. Just change it back to 0 and go from there. As for, adding Demulshooter as additional apps, you shouldn't need to do that if you are launching it from the batfile. I do run demulshooter as an additional app however in my build and that's cause i avoid using batfiles as much as possible for a cleaner setup. That setup however requires it's own type of setup which belongs in a different post. Good luck hope you all get it running properly.

Is your box an andriod box or pc? if you have a pc i run a channel that goes through thoroughly running games with Sinden from Mame up to Demul and Sega M2 (more coming in the future). about 1h long videos but I go through every step and just follow along you will be up and running. These are PC based though so if it's not pc then may not work out for you. good luck