Benjc

Ah... okay, cheers for that! I guess I'm just used to LB having everything already set up and it threw me when it wasn't for once (I hadn't realised TeknoParrot was such a rarely added emulator) I'd still argue that message is not at all helpful given you have to switch to an entirely different tab to access the grid. By describing it as 'the grid' one would expect said grid to be actually visible at the point the message occurs. Perhaps saying '... the Associated Platforms grid' might clarify things a little. Sorry to be nit-picky

I must be missing something incredibly obvious here but TeknoParrot seems to be the first emulator I've found that isn't pre-populated in the Emulator Name drop-down when trying to add the emulator on my LB. Ignoring that and trying to add it regardless brings up the error 'Please enter at least one applicable platform in the grid'. This isn't particularly helpful as there is no grid on that dialog anywhere I guess I have two questions here (the first the main issue, the second just curious): 1. What am I doing wrong in trying to add this emulator? 2. Why isn't TeknoParrot available in the Emulator Name drop-down on the Add Emulator dialog already?

Is this just transitions in terms of animating images in one marquee (as you show) or can it also transition (e.g. fade) from one game’s marquee to the next when you’re navigating between games?

Ah… okay, I didn’t realise this had to be coded into a theme for anything beyond a straightforward marquee image swap. Will take a look into that- thanks🙂

Since I needed to integrate the marquee display into an upright arcade case I got a reasonably priced caseless ultra wide monitor from China. Something like this: https://m.aliexpress.com/item/1005001659262454.html

Ah okay, I think I’m just misunderstanding ’transition’ then- I assumed this meant some kind of smooth, animated change from one marquee to the next like HyperMarquee offered back on Hyperspin. Hopefully, this’ll come to BigBox one day 🙂

Thanks for the reply. I guess I’m confused why I’ve never had transitions in that case; one marquee image just quickly switches to another 🤔 Is there meant to be some smooth animation from one to another that simply happens by default?

Just seen in the LaunchBox 12.7 updates email that marquee transitions are now smoother. This came as a surprise to me as I didn’t even know there *were* marquee transitions in LaunchBox/BigBox, despite having used marquees for about a year now. Does anyone know anything about this and how to enable it? I’ve googled the interwebs and there seems to be no mention of marquee transitions. The only reference to it is just this throwaway mention of it in the LaunchBox email

As Retro808 said, the license is straightforward (although that isn't actually something you need to worry about in order to get Launchbox working with your games). It sounds like you might be in a similar situation to me (moving from Hyperspin on a game cabinet pre-built by a third party company) so I thought I'd suggest what worked for me in case that helps. Personally, I found the following video very helpful: ...BUT it does assume your current setup is using something called RocketLauncher (which, as I understand it, there's a good chance it is). Maybe do a quick search on Windows for RocketLauncher to verify (and if so, note the location so you can follow the above tutorial). Beyond this I can't help much (I'm a relative newbie too) I'm afraid

Not sure I even have NVidias CP installed TBH- just some Intel thing

Ah, that makes some kind of sense now. Hoping some fix can be made for this to avoid others going through this but glad to have helped and, of course, grateful for your persistence getting my marquee going!?

Didn't need to go beyond the standard Windows display settings but good to know there's an alternative, thanks!

Holy cow! That… actually did it!

With the wheel still no marquee. Have PMed the file, thanks!

No problem:

It’s one I bought from China so not a brand name. Here’s a link in case it’s any help: https://m.aliexpress.com/item/1005001659262454.html

Adding that file hasn’t changed anything unfortunately

Sure, here’s pic of my screens- for testing purposes I’ve added a hideous purple/pink desktop background colour…

I’m not seeing any black screens as far as I’m aware unless you count my marquee screen being empty. If I alt-tab I see the correct marquee showing in a window somewhere (presumably behind the BB window). I’m using a text view.

Tried 720x480 @60hz but no difference.

Was Coin-op now on Default but no joy.

I’m not sure where to change default marquee view (or even what it does) so presume I’m using default? Where is that set?

Cheers for the suggestion but sadly that hasn’t made any difference

Thanks- I set this in my mame.ini file and that seems to have sorted the game being on the wrong screen. Yep, Windows sees the monitors as being 1920x1080 and 1920x360 respectively.

Actually, it’s gotten even worse… BigBox runs on screen 1 (my primary screen) as expected, then I start a game and that runs on screen 2 (my marquee monitor) in a tiny window. Oh, and the marquee image still cannot be seen anywhere. This is with Primary Screen: Screen 1 and Marquee Screen: Screen 2. BigBox is pretty much unusable now- help!