patientFool

Hi All! I have some questions that hopefully some of you can help with.. somehow I configured bigbox so that it jumps straight into my favorites playlist which is great. However, I can no longer back up a level to pull up the bigbox config menu. I forget how I did that nor how I was planning to go to that menu if I needed to. anyone know how I can get back to seeing the root bigbox config menu? is there a way to mute the volume while in big box via a keyboard shortcut? when I launch a game and am in mame, how do I exit and get back to bigbox? Currently I have to have my keyboard plugged in and have to hit the escape key. do I map the escape key to one of the console buttons or better yet some combination of them? when in mame is there a way to adjust the volume up/down using keyboard or controller shortcuts? dropping to the windows desktop to adjust the volume from the taskbar isn't great. how do i quit bigbox itself without using a keyboard? currently i have to alt-tab and use a mouse to close the application. I'm sure there is a better way to do this. some controller multibutton combo perhaps? Thx!

Hi All, I've got bigbox up and running with the colorful theme. One thing that I am not crazy about is when I'm in the actual menu scrolling through games, it transitions to the game's animated video way too fast. The actual game selection menu disappears, and it start's playing that game's video only a second or two after i stop scrolling through the list of games. Is there a way to increase the amount of time before it shows the game's animated video? Perhaps even only show it if i select the game? I feel like this would be a better user experience but i've been going up and down the options menus and can't seem to find a setting that'd let me do that. Thanks!

Thank-you all. Very helpful. I'll tinker with trying to set it up this way @Johnny T. I think this is exactly what I'm looking to do too.

But whats a good way to then enter bigbox and be viewing that playlist? Ideally when I load bigbox, I see those favorites and nothing else or something akin to that unless i want to go off and look at the rest of the library which'll be rare. I'd love it if bigbox just showed me my favorites and nothing else unless i want it to. Something like that

I'm struggling to decide how best to organize so many games. My full ROM set has nearly 3000 titles. When importing them, it's nice that it'll automatically create so many playlists and all. But it's simply too much. Truthfully, I probably only care about 20-30 games. Those nostalgic games I played growing up. So a part of me thinks that I should maybe not import anything but what I actually want to play. Keep it stripped down and as simple as possible. No nested menus, just a wheel of games i like to scroll throw. Trash the rest. Then there's the other side of me that thinks, gee it'd be nice to have the option to play the others. And I have them. Maybe there's a way to have my cake and eat it too. But how? I'm wondering how others deal with this dilema? What do you import? How do you keep your interface clean and easy to navigate?

Maybe my confusion is that I only have the MAME rom set and those are all arcade. Lol. I don't have any other platform. I would separately need other platform rom sets.

Thanks this worked. I left the rompath alone but added the -video and -bgfx_backend flags and games launch now. Awesome! New Question :). When I load Big Box, Every game seems to be grouped under "MAME" which is what I entered as a name when importing earlier (instead of the default "Arcade"). Why doesn't Big Box break out the games by platform like i've seen in the theme examples? Mine just repeatedly says MAME and is the only option. Thanks!

OK, I managed to get mame to run the games. I had to run it with "-video bgfx -bgfx_backend d3d12" and with the -rompath flag specifying the folder where the zip files were. But I'm not sure how to fix LaunchBox. Under tools->manage->emulators->edit i see that %romlocation% is specified, but I'm not seeing a way to set romlocation. Plus, wouldn't that have been set properly when i imported using the automatic method mentioned above? Weird.. Should I hardcode it? Where do I check what it's set to? Also, it doesn't feel right to have to add the -video flag for such a vanilla computer/setup. Should I do that? Watching ETA Prime's youtube video for him it just worked right out of the box..?

I think you're on to something. When I run mame by itself with the -video option mentioned previously (using cmdline from "c:\users\<me>\LaunchBox\Emulatores\MAME 0.243\"), it loads but when I try to run a game within mame I get "Required ROM/disk images for the selected system are missing or incorrect. Please acquire the correct files or select a different system.". This is MAME 0.243 and the 0.243 rom set (merged). Appears to be complete. 71GB, over 13k files. I see a folder called mame-merged full of zip files. Does MAME not just know where to find the ROM's perhaps?

Hi All, I'm stuck. When I try to launch a game, nothing at all seems to happen. I installed Launchbox. I imported my MAME full arcade set with all the defaults using "Automatically Install and Configure MAME (Recommended). This all went well. I see the games. But when I try to run one, nothing happens. I start googling and fine some threads telling folks to check how the emulator is setup for a game. click game and edit. Check what emulator it's using. MAME. Ok, go to tools->manage->emulators->edit and check the platform associations and cmdline. It all looks fine to my noob eye. Hmm.. OK I think. Launchbox is just launching mame. Must be something wrong with Mame. So to troubleshoot, I opened a command prompt to run the mame that launchbox installed so that i can see what it's returning. When I run it without any parameters, I get "Unable to create Direct3D device (8876086C)" and "Unable to initialize Direct3D 9" and "Fatal error: Unable to complete window creation". OK I think. Lets google that. After reading a bunch of threads, I try installing DirectX and my latest Geforce drives. Still nothing. This is on a fairly vanilla windows 10 computer with a Geforce 1080 card. I find one thread that leads me to trying the -video bgfx -bgfx_backend d3d12 and mame suddenly loads fine. Interesting I think. So I go back to Launchbox and add these flags to the cmdline under tools->manage->emulators->edit figuring that was the problem. It was not. Is still doesn't launch within Launchbox. So I'm stuck not knowing what to do or why it doesn't just work after the import. Any ideas? Happy to post screenshots and answer any questions. Thanks!