HomerJ

I am trying to setup Stella with all the controllers connected and then configure each game to use the proper controllers. However, it's not working well. It seems Stella want to override all my settings. My hardware is an old Win11 laptop. I have 2 Daptor2s and an iCode quad. IDEALLY, I would have to pairs of paddles connected to the Daptors. Then I would have two joysticks and two driving controllers in the iCode. However, Stella insists on mapping on the physical controllers to all the virtual ones. So, the paddles and the joysticks are all mapped together. So, when a game starts, depending on to position of the paddles, stuff may just start moving around. I will go through the input mappings and only map one physical controller to each of the joysticks and paddles properly. All seems good. But if i quit and restart, the mappings are all gone. I have tried letting Stella put the settings in %appdata% and i have tried-baseinappdir. No matter what, I can't seem to get my mappings to stick. Any thoughts? Thank you in advance.

Thank you everyone!

*sigh* I feel so stupid. That never even occurred to me I have spend hours on this. That was simple and worked well!!!! Thank you very much!

I have searched and read all (i think) the threads for Daphne. I can get Daphne to work with the batch file, so I think I am pretty much setup outside of LB. The existing threads helped me with that. However, when I go to import media, LB (or me) has issues. Here is what I did 1) Created a platform: Daphne, scrape as Arcade (is that right?) 2) Next I created an Emulator that points to the batch file and has the appropriate checks 3) Then I go to import. Best I can tell, is to point to my framefile folder but when I do that LB finds nothing. So then I try importing the files... but LB doesn't seem to like that and seems it can't figure out what the games are and thus, no useful media is imported. Any help would be much appreciated.

I have multiple BT Controllers for each console (to give the most accurate experience). Problem is, Windows reorders the Joy numbers when controllers are connected and disconnected. This makes it impossible to configure emulators (even retroarch). I have been successful using DevReorder and Dinput to configure Fusion, Snes9x and Messen so far. However, no matter what I do, I can't seem to get Visualboyadvance to work with DevReorder. Has anyone been successful with this? Thanks!

Any thoughts? So, today, it's still stalled out. So I canceled it and then did a tools->download metadata and media. But this time, i disabled all the EmuMovies check boxes. It's currently working. So, this is certainly related to EMuMovies. I want movie clips....how do I go about troubleshooting this? I have a lifetime membership to EmuMovies and i can log into it via chrome with no issues and my account states it has no restictions.

20 minutes later....1 media file scraped....and more errors. Is this a server error? I have screped 10s of thousands of files in the last few days. Now all of a sudden, dead stopped. And also, login to what? How do I fix this error? Where do I login?

Still have issues. I started from scratch. Deleted everything. One platform at a time. It's been goin pretty well. Now, it's back to the same thing. It will scrape 10 files or so and then pause for many many minutes (like 10 or more) and then do a few more. Now, when it pauses I am getting the following error: Is there any log or any way I can troubleshoot this? It's getting really frustrating.

Again, thank you for you patients and help..... That's not what's happening for me. I have 4 games selected. I choose Tool->Download Metadata and Media. I get this: I click all the way through and at the end I see: When I click ok, it will update the metadata for everything and then try to download al media (unsuccessfully). I am running 11.17

Didn't help. Fixing the permissions, did allow all the metadata to be downloaded ok, but when it transitions to the media files, no go. It stalls after just a few files. When I cancel, quit, and restart, LB then instantly goes back to the beginning and redownloads all the meta data again....well over an hour process. Forgive me for my lack of knowledge here, but I still can't figure this out. I select a platform, then I select the games....then what? If I go tools->download metadata and media, it brings up the wizard and does everything. How do i just do 1 platform? I wonder if maybe, in general, this method works, but my LB thinks it's still in the middle of a larger operation because I had to cancel the import. Is there a way to clean things out (without a clean install of LB)? thanks for the help.

Well, I figured out the 'accesses denied issue'. My noob fault on that one. I thought I was being 'creative' and 'safe' by creating an admin account and then a BigBox account on windows. Where I would do all the configuration and setup on the admin account, but play the games ont eh BB account. Well, appears I must have scraped some stuff on the BB account and it was unable to mess with the admin account files and vice versa. So, I went and changed ownership of all the LB files to the admin and rescraping now. I'm guessing that this might be causing the download stalling too. Fingers crossed.

Sorry.. figured they were different enough Well, I have scraped before with no issues. And I can go into those folders and create and edit files, so, i don't think it's read only. I will try on a different computer to see if i get similar results although there is a significantly less number of games on that one.

OK, this is the Noobs forum. How do I import metadata for just one platform?

I just finished scraping about 29k items (not games, but all the meta data tha goes with about 4000 games). However, when it completed there are 6714 errors (see screenshot). so 23k or so scraped ok, but these 6714 have some access issue. 1) Should I keep the metadata updates despite these errors? 2) Any thoughts how to fix it? Thank you! Update, this was just the first step....metadata download. Once i clicked yes, it is now stuck on files 2 of 24792...:( Back to the other thread.

Thank you for the reply. I will certainly try that in the future. What I did after I posted this is turned off "remove similar images" and that seems to help. If completed. But now it came up with 6714 errors....since that is a different topic, I will start a new therad Thanks again Well, i was wrong. The 6714 errors appeared during the first part where it updated the metadata. Now it is trying to downlod the files and stuck on file 2 of 24792.....stuck... are there logs anywhere that I can see what is going on? My Speed test is giving 900+mBps. I am logged into EMU Movies and LB just fine. I will try the batches way, but since this is getting stuck on file number 2 I have little faith. Thanks again