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Hey guys, Quick question when for example playing "Broken Sword" on Retroarch with a PSX core with a mouse (controller type set as PlayStation mouse but also when controller type is usual PS controller playing with a controller, mouse clicks will still do that), the first 2 clicks will bring up the start-up screen and then the game-over screen (both a for a couple of seconds), after that everything works as expected. When launching games from Retroarch directly, it is working seamlessly. Other emulators don't seem to have the same issue. Is there a way to prevent that from happening?

Hey guys, not a very annoying thing and can easily be corrected (if you have a backup of your core folder), is this a Retroarch thing only or is it because of updating via Launchbox?

Hey guys, I am pretty much done with building my setup and the last step is now to make a bootable version of Bigbox with minimal windows features including all my ROMs/Emulators and all Launchbox files, on a 4tb M2 external drive. I plan to play mainly on 2 devices: - my living room workhorse pc + 4k TV (where I did configure everything to run well at this resolution) - a laptop on the go (less powerful and 1080p monitor). Both have very different hardware and resolution. Is it a pain to switch each time? Do you have to reconfigure options etc on Launchbox and emulators, download correct video drivers to fit the machine you are currently on? Or it's kinda seamless?

Thanks a lot actually your screenshot helped me as I wasn't looking for "custom field: name" but directly the name of my custom field in the bulk edit wizard, hence why I hadn't found it previously 😅... All sorted now! Thanks @C-Beats and @JoeViking245 for the guidance!

@C-Beats In the end the best I managed to do is to list out all publishers from the auto-generated playlists only reducing my new MAME playlist from about 2000 to 900, as there is no "AND" operation possible, I cannot also remove the games from playlists based on "source" and not publisher like Sega ST-V. I tried to use a custom field but I didn't manage to find a way to apply it in the Bulk edit wizard (as it doesn't appear) it looks like you can only apply a custom field on a per-game basis which makes it impossible to use in my use case, maybe I am wrong and there's an easier way?

Ok thanks for the explanation on the "OR" thing. I have a premium licence and it actually makes sense I could just go through each playlist and add the same custom field to all the games so then I can filter them out in the new playlist. I'll check how it's done. Thanks for all the tips!

@C-Beats So indeed unchecking MAME does the job, but I went one step ahead and tried to create that new MAME playlist and tried to list out all the publishers from the other playlist like Atari, Nintendo, Capcom etc... to only show the games that are not inside an auto-generated playlist. I don't know if I am doing it wrong or there's a limitation with the "Doesn't contain" option. Basically 1st option is "Platform" "is equal to" "MAME then: "Publisher" "doesn't contain" "Atari" "Publisher" "doesn't contain" "Capcom" etc... But it seems to work only with 1 condition regarding Publisher, adding extra ones negates the effect. I tried to use "Publisher" "has none of the values" "Atari; Capcom; etc" but also doesn't work Edit: To use "has none of the values", I Guess I'll have to get the list of all exact values of all possible publishers for example, Atari, Atari corp, Atari ltd etc.. I'll give it a go once I have the time.

Thanks for the answer, probably the way to go for me then I guess, I could create a duplicate MAME playlist (and rename the media to that playlist name, or rename the default MAME platform), where I would add all the games that are not added to any autogenerated playlists. That sounds like a painful process, unless I can basically use the criteria from all the other playlists but reversed (like brand != Atari or something like that). Or check if those are really games I am interested in and if not just simple hide it.

Hey there, so I am almost done building my Bigbox collection and basically I have it setup this way: Default landing view is "Platform categories" (Arcade, Computers, Handhelds, Consoles and added Favourites as a Category also, and I may add more stuff along the way like never-played, completed for example) I only auto-generated playlists for MAME to have Sega Classics, Sega St-V, Capcom CPS1 2 3, SNK Aes etc, basically dividing my arcade category by Arcade platforms/brands (same as Consoles for example) and also leveraging @viking 's amazing device images and videos (I deleted all the playlists that are genre or play mode based). I moved those playlists 1 level higher in the hierarchy so that they are considered as platforms (basically now they show under the Arcade Category along with other non MAME arcade platforms like Naomi for example, and it looks amazing in the Colorful 4k theme and artworks/videos). I did that because otherwise they would show as subcategories of MAME when all other platforms show games directly so it felt wrong to me . Now here is the problem (very minor I admit), MAME still shows as a platform and of course all the games inside the auto-generated playlists will also show under MAME. (After a bit of simple math I have about 1400 games in the Playlists and about 2000 in total under MAME). So question is: Can I hide games under MAME without affecting them under the playlists? If not can I hide MAME entirely in my platform selection and only show the playlists? Hope that makes sense, and I am not doing something considered super weird.

Hey @viking again this theme is just absolutely amazing and also love the colourful start-up video... Looking forward to the loading screen and pause screen!!! Thank you so much. Following up my review. I managed to get all the platform images working by using the community theme creator and the BB overrides, basically I had to make sure I renamed the arcade one to MAME (because it would also apply to the arcade platform category which is supposed to be another image) and then put the Platform category images (renamed to just the category name) in the same location as the platform device images (hardware set folder). In the end I don't know if it was the overrides folder or the hardware set folder that did the trick, I just ended up putting the images everywhere possible as I was losing my mind a bit I Just created my favourites playlist as platform category and struggling to set it up but I think it may be just a naming issue of files or something. Here are a few suggestions for the future: Platform categories are my main default landing section and would like to give them each a different colour, currently they are all sky blue, same as the platform would be amazing to have a separate colour for each. One very minor thing for you to be aware in case you want to change it in the future, the PAL SNES image is not entirely aligned to the video. Mega-cd needs a PAL version;) A last big one for me and I think a couple of people would love it as well is to have the box and cart front showing on the left side on the game wheel view with a nice animation, I spent countless hours getting high quality images and would love to see them more Edit: sorted the favourites thing as it is a custom playlist you have to point out the content I.e. logo, device, video within Launchbox directly when editing it. Last minute suggestion now 😜, having an extra playlist in the Platform categories for completed and never played games would be awesome, but that would need a device images and video created for each.

Couldn't really notice any difference having Retroarch in windowed full screen.

Interesting stuff, I'll actually see if using windowed full screen changes something to that behaviour and if impacts performance. If it does I'll just live with that flickering, but you know the quest for perfection is a never-ending journey 🤟

Hey there, it works I can use all the pause screen features, it's just as the OP said, the game shows up for a second between hitting ”quit game" in the pause screen and the ”game over" screen appearing, it should allow for a smoother transition. It looks like a flickering screen and can be jarring. Really not an issue for me to be honest. Would any of the requested elements help for that scenario? I can fetch them after work if they do. (Emulators -> Retroarch, Cemu, Cxbx-R, Model 2 emulator, Supermodel) Best

Hey there, I get the same thing on all platforms and emulators, so I guess it's not something wrong on your side. Maybe a script wizard can solve this for us!

Thanks!!! You have to do it for Save state, Load State, and Reset Game. For others wondering how, this is what my Save State script looks like (I changed the default key from F2 to S and added Q as secondary "Hotkey Enable" in Retroarch): ; Retroarch saves state with F2 key by default Send {q down} Send {s down} Sleep 50 Send {s up} Send {q up}