Gamerdude420

Haven't been on forum in years, went through welding school so got out of gaming for a while. Now working as a welder, have more time for messing with Launchbox. Have missed it. Anyway, does anyone know a good scripting language to learn to use with Launchbox (auto hotkeys, Python, Java, etc)? I'm not sure where to begin and want to learn what the code I have seen on the forums was telling the computer. Tired of "copy/paste" code only for it not to work on a particular emulator, then searching for new code, trying that and it still not working. Want to actually learn it.

I have my SNES collection, Genesis collection, NES collection, and Steam collection working in Launchbox/Big Box. I have had a problem with startup screens on specifically the original Sonic on Genesis, video does not display in Big Box. Disable startup screens, game plays just fine (I don't want startup screens for older games). Steam games, some work seamlessly, and others...not so much. They do work. I don't want to see any computer stuff loading, Ubisoft loading screens, desktop flickering and disappearing, seamless. Alien Isolation Steam version, I change individual settings for that one game in launchbox, timing for startup and shutdown, works like a champ. Problem is, go into Big Box, doesn't work, enable startup screens, acts like these are two separate fronts ends. Make changes to launchbox like that, changes not applied to Big Box.

Thank you, I tried the command line but it doesn't work. I'm sure I'm missing something as I don't know much about using the command line in Windows.

This is the game select screen I was talking about in Mesen

I am new to Launchbox, this program is amazing!!! Thank you guys for making it. Just finished my NES library (tried all the games, deleted the ones that I don't want, never realized just the sheer number of horribly bad NES games LOL aside from what Angry Video Game Nerd would review LOL). Anyway, I have been using Mesen standalone through this project, great emulator. Standalone it starts fine and works great. Launchbox, it goes to a game select screen, I disable the screen and star the game from power on (in settings), Mesen just sits there with a black screen. I can exit it, but can't get past this part. So I tried Retroarch, works great, the only problem is that once I changed the controller to act like a normal NES controller (switched from Xbox One controller to wired USB NES style controller), both B and A do the same thing (jumping) while B functions normally...had no controller issues in Mesen. I would use Xbox one controller (as it functions just fine between B and A buttons, X and Y are turbo buttons, but I changed the exit from retroarch to the back button and can't figure out how to remove the mapping of that being the back button as I tried to just delete the mapping which only added delete as an exit hotkey).