[Allow for LaunchBox Shortcuts]

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.
 

[(Bulk) Add Additional Applications]

1 hour ago, JoeViking245 said:

Thanks! Glad you like it.  The Bulk Remove was kind of an afterthought to "what if they use this and later find they don't need them anymore."  

 

No.  This works on a game-by-game basis.  If you need every game in multiple platforms to have the same run-before and run-after command, I suppose you could select All platforms in the left pane (the top of the list where you select individual platforms).  Then select all the games and add the before/after apps to them.  Then in the few platforms don't need it, select them and use the bulk-remove plugin. 

 

Platforms don't run applications.  Emulators don't have the option for a run-before and run-after command.  Only individual games do.  In fact, that's largely the reason why this was created.  Call it a sorta work-around to give a platform/emulator a run-before and run-after option.

Personally, I don't use it (beyond the initial testing) because I don't have any fancy controllers, light guns or the sort in my setup (which as I've seen, is the typical need for it).  Over a period of time, I heard, several times over, people expressing concerns like "I have 250+ games in this platform and I have to add the same thing to each of them one-by-one-by-one?"  This was my solution.

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.

[(Bulk) Add Additional Applications]

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?