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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

Some things to try. Try a different rom, I always recommend Alien 3 the Gun since it's easiest to run and see if you have same problem there. If you do, try using a different border for T2. The Artwork could be too bright for the game to know art from the actual white border. Check your light around and behind the arcade. Do you have a lamp or a strip of LED running by or behind the arcade cab? that will affect and cause your mouse jumping around. Good way to double check that is go into your Sinden program look at your raw and process screen, if it's not fully blue that could be the cause. Your monitor is the refresh 60hz, a higher refresh rate, especially concerning Mame could be a factor. For some game (T2 is one of them) in-game calibration is needed. f2 or f4 into the games test menu and calibrate there. Also, it looks like that border cuts off part of your trigger so you may not have been able to accurately calibrate your gun. Solution, use the regular Sinden border and turn off the artwork border. after you calibrate it and are satisfied then you can use your artwork border again after that.

also one last thing to try if any above hasn't worked out are these ps-x specific settings. Under game specific notes try any of those fixes with your die-hard game. It may help your game work correctly. Hope something there helped out. Good luck PSX specific settings (core settings): Start a Playstation game Press F1 for quick menu Scroll down to "Options" Turn Gun input mode to "Lightgun" Turn the Gun crosshair to "off" Press the right mouse key to go back a menu Scroll down to and select "Controls" Go to Pad 1 For input type, press the right arrow key to change to Guncon **Note, some games will need a game-specific override for this to "Justifier" instead** Go up to "Save Core Remap" (this means all PSX games with this emulator will recognize you are using a lightgun) press the right mouse key to go back a menu Scroll down to "Overlays" Turn show overlay to "ON" Select "Overlay Preset" Navigate to one of the Sinden Borders, such as the medium white, and select Select Overlay opacity and make it 1.0 (this makes the border fully white instead of kind of grayed out) Turn off the option for showing the mouse cursor with an overlay Right mouse click until you are back at the general quick menu again Scroll down to Overrides Select save core override (this means all PSX games will use the options and overlays you set, so you won't have to do this again for PSX) Exit out of the quick menu by clicking resume or F1 and play your game PSX popular game-specific notes: Area51 and Lethal Enforcers collection need "Justifier" instead of "Guncon" in the Quick Menu controls option. Some others may need this too. For these games, start the game, enter the Quick Menu, go to Controls, change the input type to Justifier, then save GAME REMAP instead of CORE Remap This applies the settings to this game only. You need to do it individually for both games. For Time Crisis, Time Crisis Titan, and Jesse James, you can go into the actual games' in-game settings/options and change the reload method to "press" instead of "release" Changing the default means you will always be "out" of cover, and you pump the gun to go INTO cover. For various games, you will either use the pump action, or the back left side Sinden Lightgun button to reload, and test to see which one works for which game.

Members 25 Posted just now Also when setting your controls in retroarch, you may need to have your border on. The guide doesn't mention turing that on. Normally when you set your "trigger" or left mouse button, the system will not recognize it as a "trigger" or left mouse button, because sinden can't see it. When that happens you get the program reading it as "pump action/off-screen reload' or Right mouse button. Hope that helps some. Should solve your #2 issue anyways. In RetroArch's main menu, go to Settings, then scroll to Input -> Port 1 Controls. Now you have to assign actions to your lightgun. When changing an input, highlight your desired action, then press the Enter key, then press the lightgun's key that you want to use before the time limit is over. Some of these actions may already have a key assigned, some might not, some you will have to overwrite and some you may be able to leave alone. If you have to overwrite an action that already has a button, clear the existing assignment first by highlighting the action and pressing the Delete key. (Images below if you prefer those over text). B Button - Mouse 1 (Left Mouse Button/Sinden's Trigger) < These could both read as Mouse 2 if you didn't have your white border on when you were doing your inital button inputs Y Button - Mouse 2 (Right Mouse Button/Sinden's Pump) Select Button - Up (Keyboard's Up Arrow/Sinden Directional Pad Up) Start Button - Left (Keyboard's Up Arrow/Sinden Directional Pad Up) D-Pad Buttons - Same as Keyboard/Sinden Directional Pad Buttons A Button - Mouse 3 (Middle Mouse Button/button in Sinden software assigned to Mouse Middle/Sinden's Left Back Button) X Button - Num 1 (Keyboard's Numeric Pad 1/button in Sinden software assigned to "1"/Sinden's Right Front Button) Skip until you get to Gun Trigger Gun Trigger - Mouse 1 (Left Mouse Button/Sinden's Trigger) Gun Trigger - Mouse 2 (Right Mouse Button/Sinden's Pump) Gun Select Button - Left (Keyboard's Up Arrow/Sinden Directional Pad Up) Gun Start Button - Up (Keyboard's Up Arrow/Sinden Directional Pad Up)

Sinden Lightgun borders in RetroArch In the Sinden software directory, go to the Borders\RetroArchBorders directory. Select all its contents, copy them, then go to your RetroArch installation directory and go to the overlays\borders folder. Place the contents that you copied in there. You will need to set the borders up later within RetroArch's interface.

try this, found it in the sinden guide you posted. Has to do with Bezels, if you don't have your bezels set for your psx roms here's how. Sinden Lightgun borders in RetroArch In the Sinden software directory, go to the Borders\RetroArchBorders directory. Select all its contents, copy them, then go to your RetroArch installation directory and go to the overlays\borders folder. Place the contents that you copied in there. You will need to set the borders up later within RetroArch's interface.

Try this, goto "tools" in upper right corner of Launchbox, click "manage", click emulators and whichever emulator is giving you issues. From there locate "start up screen options", should be inside of one of the menu settings on left hand toolbar side. Once found you will see a few boxes, checkmark the one that says "Hide all Windows not in exclusive Full Screen Mode". good luck!

True but not way I like it. Again best for my build.

It works best for me and my setup. I don't want users getting into options and accidentally making changes. Having "shutdown" as its own platform, allows me to lock menu access from users accidentally into it, as well as a quicker seamless way for me to shutdown my system from a platform menu.

I have mine setup with a "Platform" call "Shutdown" and contains .bat files for Shutdown and Reboot. That could be a method you can try. I use that method so I can keep other people from accessing the Bigbox menu, which does contain a lot of options, if someone who doesn't know better can mess up a lot of things.

Here's a couple things to double check. Where are your Mame roms located? are the in your Mame 0.239 "Roms" folder, are they in a separate file or drive location, or did you move them into the Mame 0.240 "Roms" folder after you downloaded them. If you didn't move your Mame romset into the 0.240 "Roms" folder, then check your Mame.Ini file and see if you have the rompath set to your roms location. Mine for example looks something like this. "rompath D:/Mame041" mine is on a separate drive. yours by default unless you changed it should look something like "rompath roms" And if you already done all this, I recommend check all this again see if it your rompath was saved. Another solution just scrap your romset and get a non-merged one. Use Launchbox to filter out just the roms you want to play and export those to a new folder. Then delete the rest. That will leave you with a curative list for your needs and free up alot of memory the romset once had.