KanjiEater

I love using launchbox to automate the steps for starting a game in a unified way. Mounting ISO's or changing resolutions pre-launch is a lifesaver. Unfortunately LaunchBox is pretty slow on boot. So if you want to frequently start 1 game, not browse through the entire front-end, shortcuts are more practical. It would be nice if there was a middle ground that allowed shortcuts to be created and run them with the same commands as LaunchBox as a single shortcut. RPCS3 does this exact thing very well. Even if Launchbox had to start a "headless" version to quickly run the commands, it would be faster than starting the whole GUI for a single game.

Thanks for the response - that all makes sense and matches my understanding. In my case I want to switch graphics cards before and after when using retroarch for my CRT. Unfortunately it's not all platforms for me so I will just have to group by individual system, then readd the programs for each system, as I can't reuse the application configurations with the plugin. So it sounds like I will need to add the configuration for pre/post programs for roms as they are added? It's unfortunate, but at least this add-on allows me to do it in bulk.

This is great. I also like that you have a Bulk Remove plugin (though that's separate from this one). Would it be possible to offer a similar experience to that plugin? Where you could select a platform to copy a program to an entire platform? I also am curious how people deal with adding new ROMs? Do you always have to do this? Or can you set it up so a platform always runs with a pre/post application running too?