dsync89

Hey guys, just created a fully automated AHK workflow that ON-DEMAND extract your zipped PS3 Encrypted ISO (such as the one downloaded from Erista) from remote storage (e.g. NAS) to your local drive, then decrypt and mount to VirtualDrive. Finally start RPCS3 PS3 Emulator. The AHK script is readily integrated with your favorite frontend such as Launchbox! It also work independently by simply double clicking the AHK script. https://github.com/dsync89/rpcs3-auto-decrypt-ahk This is only needed because RPCS3 expect loading a decrypted ROM, instead of giving it disc encryption key and expect it to handle the rest 😛

Really appreciate this great effort @Zombeaver ! I'm able to integrate it perfectly with my existing LB library. I've never setup C64 before and this C64 Dreams project of yours really is a plug-and-play solution! I've originally thought of downloaded the No-Intro sets for PP and Disk, but I reckon even setting those up will be difficult and not something like `Retroarch.exe <game>`. Since I'd like the platform to display as the original system name `Commodore 64`, I did the following changes: - Renamed `C64 Dreams\Data\Games.xml` to `Commodore 64.xml` - Renamed `C64 Dreams\Images\Games` to `Commodore 64` to match with the platform names. Several questions that I had in mind: 1) I've set the Hotkey to another key, e.g. F1 in RetroArch but somehow holding it along with other Hotkey doesn't seems to trigger the hotkey function. Not sure if I'm missing anything here. Turns out that Function key does not work as Hotkey Enabler, the default `-` works. 2) Is there any way to disable the trainer/cracks to show up at the beginning? Not sure if using PP or Tapes version will get rid of it. AFAIK PP is the direct dump of the original game which might be copy protected. Thanks again for this amazing effort and looking forward for the next alpha/beta build!

Hey guys, just finished creating AHK scripts my PSVita system. The beauty of this method is it saves you having to manually set the argument per game since Vita3K only support GameID for game launch, unlike most Emulator which uses the game file or rom name. You just have to create a new Emulator called AutoHotKey then point it to launch these AHK scripts without further configuration. What's best if if you later decide to ditch Launchbox, you can still double click on those AHK scripts and it will still run! Note that this require the roms to be from NoPayStation PSN games, not commercial cartridge games. Some might even consider using RocketLauncher and using PCLoader module to achieve the same effect, but manually setting for each game, especially when it's 1800+ is so tedious! Hope this will benefit those that have more than 1000 games to import to the PS Vita system! https://github.com/dsync89/vita3k-ahk-generator

As titled, is there any way to start randomizing game in Attract mode only after the current video snap has finished playing? The way it works now is it will start to randomly select the next game after a set amount of time. This make sense especially when playing back Platform videos where the duration varies, unlike most game which is set to 30s.

This is also pondering me, and I'm still yet to have any workaround for it. Hope we could have a feature to use local metadata instead and skipping downloading it again before media can be downloaded. For now you could also opt for EmuSync and then manually copy those media over LB Media folder, which is way faster, but not as automated.

Not sure if it is still relevant, but I've seen speed improvement from ~150kbps to 8MBps right after connecting to Amsterdam using ExpressVPN Then again it's probably because the route to their Amsterdam node is not the optimized one reported by my ISP route.

I've solved the speed issue by connecting to LB Amsterdam node using ExpressVPN. From ~150kbps to 8MBps right after the switch

After successfully setting up Mega Bezel project and setup Duimon's Mega Bezel pack, I then try to use different shader for different game content folder while using the same core. E.g. loading Game Boy game should apply Duimon GB shader Preset, while loading Game Boy Color game should apply Duimon GBC shader preset. I know RetroArch already support saving different shader preset per Content Directory (in addition to per Core and per Game), but the behaviour is different/not expected when launching it via LaunchBox. Issues: When trying to apply Save Shader > Save Content Directory option, game launched via Launchbox using RetroArch emulator will always saved as `Temp.slangp` under `retroarch/config/CORE_NAME/Temp.slangp`. This causes issue where all the game launched by this core will always use the same preset. When trying to Load Content from RA emulator itself, saving the shader using the same `Save Content Directory` option will save the shader as `CONTENT_FOLDER_NAME.slangp` under `retroarch/config/EMULATOR_NAME/CONTENT_FOLDER_NAME.slangp`. When the game residing at that CONTENT_FOLDER_NAME is launched, RA will then load its `.slangp` file instead of a static `Temp.slangp` file. One approach is of course using Additional App setting option for each game and run a batch file to copy the right .slangp file, but adding it to thousands of game is tedious and time consuming.

Confirmed that this method still works in Launchbox 13.5 in 2023! Recommend to use this approach to make it automated!

Who knew Controller Input could be 'this' interesting. Here's a visual guide on demystifying the relationship of Controller Bindings and its related concepts in RetroArch. Drew this myself to help me in the future in case I forgot. This is the setup I used in my current cabinet Granted it's not complete but hope the gist is there! Drawing more arrows would further complicate stuffs MAPPING.drawio.svg

Yeap I reckon this feature will be awesome! Not all clear logo are designed in 21:9 aspect ratio and mostly just centered. I already imagine overlaying a clear logo ontop of a fanart background

tldr: This is for those that has additional sub-display with non-conventional aspect ratio (e.g. 3.73) and NOT 16:9 or 4:3 or 21:9 and wishes to display control information such as moveset for fighting games. Currently seeking for community sites and efforts to gather control information with such aspect ratio to expand the supported games. You can find my curated widescreen images reordered to display relevant control information on sub-display with aspect ratio 3.73 (1920x515) or similar from my Github repo here . The file structure here follows the same structure that Launchbox used to store such image type. Requirements You had to first install MultiMonitor plugins for Launchbox. Then configure your second or third display to show Game Controls so that it will read the game control information for the selected game. Motivation The pictures scraped by Launchbox Games DB already contains multiple images for controls information for Arcade game stored in Arcade - Controls Information. However the aspect ratio is mixed and most of them (4:3) are not suitable to display on a sub-display (e.g. marquee display) with aspect ratio fo 3.73 or similar. Otherwise the text might look too small and the black side borders are too much. In fact many of those images are a generic black template with button actions such as the following pic which looks ugly (no offense 😅) on such an odd-ly wide LCD screen. It will display just as fine on a 16:9 monitor though. As of present Launchbox still doesn't allowing user to select a default image for an image types with multiple images. It always display the first image with the smallest number, e.g. -01 or if multiple images are found. There is no option to modify the order such as random. Monitor Display The images that I reorderd are best viewed with a screen with aspect ratio of 3.73 (e.g. 1920x515) that is typical in most sub-display to show marquee, such as the NV126B5M-N42. You may easily find them on Taobao https://world.taobao.com/item/680221506574.htm? as well. Picture of me mounting the NV126B5M-N42 LCD display to my Vewlix/Chewlix player panel. The spot used to be a white LED strip. Ignore the left and right 'holes' next to the LCD screen 😁, as I'm now custom-ordering a custom-sized metal plate from China to cover it in my next phase of my arcade mod. The plate will be my next 'mod' to house additional controls of this awesome Chewlix/Vewlix cabinet. The text on the moveset is also visible clearly with the LCD size. Video Demo https://youtu.be/en7EAzlzqxE Method I browse through the image scraped by Launchbox, and simply copy and rename the control information images that best list a moveset for an arcade game to -00. Since Launchbox always choses image with the smallest index number, it will use it instead of the different -01 image name that might contain 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio not ideal to be displayed on the sub-display. The image were scraped on my full merged MAME 0.250 set. How to Use Simply clone my repo on Github https://github.com/garygan89/Widescreen-Arcade-Controls-Information-Images. Then copy and paste all those images with *00.jpg and *00.png into your LaunchBox\Images\Arcade\Arcade - Controls Information folder. TODO Find more high quality images for more arcade games.