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@Elmo80you can check my controller profile as a guide if you want, this is where it's located (accomodate the path to your actual path on your pc): "C:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\autoconfig\xinput" The line assigning the button (see below) is actually just deleted and not changed to "Null", so you can just delete it if you want: input_menu_toggle_btn = "10" My Dual Sense emulated as XInput controller with DS4Windows is seen as a Controller (xbox360 for Windows), just check how your controller is labelled to edit the right config file. Controller (XBOX 360 For Windows).cfg

In Retroarch settings (input settings section) you setup a key combination to open the retroarch quick menu (most other standalone emulators offer the same options as well regarding hotkeys and menu key combinations), you have the choice between several options, for me start+select was the best one. You may have to remove the home button binding manually in the controller profile file replacing it with a null value instead, I did it a very long time ago and I think I had struggled removing the home button binding in the controller binds from the UI and had to Google up a solution, maybe they fixed that since (let me know if you struggle). Then you go through Launchbox settings to set the home button to open the pause screen. (I think you have to set it in both Launchbox and Bigbox settings if my memory doesn't fail me). For me it makes it really feel like an all in one real console.

Indeed there's no options to set screenshots in Video priorities like for other media types, so I reckon it is down to how the theme is developed.

I use the home button for the Pause screen which has all I need like save/load state, quit/reset (I use start+select to bring up emulator menus but don't really need it unless I need to tweak something in the settings. and select as hotkey toggle for fast-forward hold/toggle & rewind using R2/R1 and L2 respectively), then apart from the obvious A & B, I use X for starting a game directly bypassing the game details if I want to, Y to view game media (and maybe L1 & R1 for page down/up for long lists of games but I'm not sure I actually do). The rest I don't really use apart from sticks to rotate boxes and navigate manuals/zoom. This works fine with other controllers also like Gamecube, N64, Mega Drive style modern controllers, all either native XInput or emulated with DS4Windows.

Don't think anything else but XInput is supported by LB/BB? I am using a DualSense as main controller emulated as xBox 360 with DS4Windows, everything works perfectly for me, it also supports Gyro functions.

Maybe I understood this completely wrong, you're saying your BB theme uses a default/generic for other arcade platforms? which theme is it? it probably doesn't have support for these platforms or maybe you're missing the necessary media?

You probably need to create a custom playlist which would have a custom field you created as condition, and then add that field to all the Arcade games. If you set Launchbox to display platform categories before platforms you can easily select all arcade games and add that custom field to them in bulk. Once done, you would set the playlist with root level as parent (or arcade if you don't use platform categories) and hide all regular arcade platforms in Bigbox (Mame, NAOMI etc...), there is a check box that allows you to do that when you edit a platform. I'm saying all this from memory so hopefully it's understandable. The easier thing would be if you could bypass sub platforms to display all games from the Arcade platform category but I don't think it's possible.

This is what I was thinking (I use the dark variant of the theme,just found this image online), mainly looking to have badges next to the titles in the list on the left (Games details section just as a future idea):

Ok thanks for the reply, I am mainly using the Colorful 4k theme and it would be an amazing addition to the Games text list view, I'll try to figure out how it works. But if someone has suggestions it's more than welcome, I'm not good with this thing

Hey looking for recommendations on a good theme that allows to see game attribute badges, for example controllers supported (light guns, wii remote etc..), Retroachievements support and more, so far I am mainly seeing badges only for favourited games. Reason I am asking is that I like having this overview on Launchbox and it allows me for example to quickly understand which controller I must turn on before launching etc... It's kinda preventing me from using BigBox, and I'd like to make the Jump on setting a dual boot PC with BigBox as shell.

For whoever was wondering why, it is happening when using the "Use all connected controllers" in the LB or BB controller options, doesn't happen when only using 1 determined controller that is showing up.

You can use ds4windows (just make sure switch pro emulation is enabled in the settings) and emulate it as an Xbox controller, also allowing you to create a buttons remap which will work across all your apps the same way in windows.

Hi thanks for the answer, how do you update game lists I could only find a change roms folder location which doesn't update anything just points to the right location when launching a game. So in my understanding I will need to remove the -01 of all files to make it work once I have the correct option to update game lists on the fly. Probably will find a way to make a script doing that.

Hey I just got an AYN Odin 2 and building my library, I also purchased a 1TB SD card where I put all my games on, all the rest (Emulators, apps, and the Launchbox data folder with all game media) is on the internal storage of 256 GB. I was using the Desktop export feature which works well full platform sets only for older generations (before CD based games consoles) as you can basically export everything and leave it on your device for ever since it doesn't really take much space (and free to make a selection if you want to but I already curated my platforms with only games I am interested in keeping). However I noticed that when doing a selection of games instead (for example for PS2 libraries of over 400 games that you can't have on your SD card all the time) that all game media still gets exported, which is totally fine to me as I plan on moving heavier games in and out of the SD Card along the way. But, here is where it gets annoying, a platform XML file is generated each time during the export and needs to be imported also, so you always have to go through your export selection manually and make sure the full list of the games stored that you will keep on your ROMS folder on Android is selected otherwise the game won't show up in Launchbox as not present in the new XML, unless you want to delete and reimport all the games again (which can take ages seriously) or edit the XML file manually but all of these methods are cumbersome (imagine if you have 200 PS2 games and want to keep 150 games but swap 50 games with 50 new games from your desktop). So it would be just nice to be able to have all your painfully curated media imported and that a new XML is generated (or just updating the current one), after manually updating the games list from the app directly, but there's another catch the naming of game media is different compared to the desktop ones, they don't contain a -01 or -02 at the end, so Launchbox for Android will not recognise them in any case unless you use the exported XML, or remove those from media title.

Hi, Using the retroarch 64 side loaded app with the MAME current core (although the naming and file type of the core is different in launchbox but this seems to be the same for other platforms), all other platforms work correctly except MAME, where it brings up a black screen and crashes retroarch. I am able to launch games correctly via retroarch directly though. Using 1.12, is it a known issue? -> FIX: disable Extract ROM archives in the Emulator settings in Launchbox

Hi you should take a look at the es de colorful theme it works great there. It would look better with a wheel and the clear logos instead of that huge brand name in the back for platform view.

Thanks for the quick answers!

Hey all, I will receive an AYN Odin 2 next week, and since I am a long term user on Windows I want to use it on this Android device as well. A few questions and sorry if the info is already available: - is there support for retroachievements? - are pause screens available with the options like on premium desktop version? - is it possible to make Launchbox the default boot app when starting the device to make it look like a real handheld console avoiding going through the android OS before starting Launchbox manually? - not related to Launchbox, has anyone experience with using retroarch overall on platforms from the ps1 and how is the performance compared to standalone emulators on android? I really prefer limiting myself to retroarch as much as possible for standard hotkeys and overall options. Thanks!

Awesome thanks for letting me know

Maybe I need to completely reimport the collection again for it to work. What I did is decompress my CSO files back to ISO and then compressed them again to CHD, I just then replaced all the file extensions in the Launchbox psp platform XML file. I'll try with just 1 game later on and see if it works, since PPSSPP recognises the games and their trophies when starting them it can't be a game file issue.

I just moved to standalone due to the new support of CHD format, I was using CSO before with retroarch so I never had the achievements show in launchbox yet, never used iso so I cannot say

Hey guys PPSSPP now supports this game format and retroachievements for it also. However they don't appear in Launchbox yet. Is it going to be possible soon?