OldSkool8bit

When I start my pc corsair iCue software loads up and fans on arcade change colors but as soon as I start bigbox iCue seems to stop working and arcade fans turn back white Any idea on what might be going on?

@JoeViking245 I actually just solved the issue by downloading and installing a fresh version of LB. This installed all the files i seemed to be missing and what ibtransferred from the removeable drive works now

I have never seen this issue before but I setup a new launchbox instance on a removable drive...connected it to a new pc...tried starting both launchbox and bigbox but the error in the attachment. No clue what to do or how to resolve this

@JoeViking245 thank you...Do I need to specify the drive of where the bigbox.exe is that I want to close or will it just search all drives/running programs for bigbox.exe?

Long story short I have a bigbox version that has all my arcade games on....I could not get the sinden light gun games to work well so I bought a drive which had all of them pre-configured The gun drive has another instance of bigbox on it and I can't just simply copy it to mine as it breaks alot of the configurations. I tried creating an ahk to open up the gun bigbox.exe when I want to play gun games but I get an error that a version of bigbox is already running. I need help with an ahk that will in a sense kill the version of bigbox my arcade games are on and then open up the bigbox.exe of the drive the gun games are on. I can't figure it out and would greatly appreciate any help.

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So quick clarifying question as I have seen conflicting information. I know I can use a 3mu file for games with multiple iso disks....but what about chd's? I have a few systems where some games have multiple chd's for them and my ocd only wants one icon in launchbox for the game. Can I follow the same procedures and create a single source (of multiple chd disks) using chd's and 1 3mu?

I was missing some bezels and ended up taking some bezels found on here and trying multiple ways to get them to work...however what I am noticing is the game appears to be sitting above the overlay. This is only happening with the test one I did for Air Galett. I know i can adjust the size of the screen in the Slider Options but the bezel has a sligh curve in it and the overlay should be sitting on top of the game. I have even opened the image in Photoshop and made sure the area where the game should be is transparent. No clue why this is happening and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Have redream premium and running into issues with VMU issues only while in LB for 2 games (Soul Caliber and MvC2). If I am in the redream emulator (outside of LB) I can load all the games fine, no issues. Also according to the Save menu in Redream I have plenty of blocks left. When I go into to Dreamcast in LB or BB and start either Soul Caliber or MvC2 I get stuck at the loading screen stating I need to create a save file and to press Start to do so...when I press start nothing happens, and yes I have verified the buttons are mapped correctly. Every other dreamcast game I have in LB/BB run w/o issue. I have even tried deleting the saves as well as exporting them to differrent VMUs but nothing helps. Just lost as to what is causing this issue in LB/BB and not in the emulator when ran standalone.

@skizzosjt @JoeViking245 I FINALLY GOT IT. I appreciate the help. Even if you couldnt help much with V2 the help you gave from a V1 standpoint helped me think of commands in a different light. I will leave the entire script here in case someone else has an issue/need for this. Again what this script will do...Load a game and your preconfigured keyboard keys mapped to xbox controls (which you have to do manually and reach out if you need help) in Keyboard Splitter, and then allow the AHK V2 script to continually run allowing you to play the game as much as you want with your arcade stick and buttons acting as virtual controllers. When you stop the game Keyboard Splitter as well as the script will automatically stop. I wanted to use Keyboard Splitter because it is DirectInput which allows my LED Blinky program to still light up buttons in LaunchBox/BigBox when playing through the FE as LED Blinky doesnt work with XInput. SetKeyDelay 200 Run("C:\Keyboard Splitter\KeyboardSplitter.exe") Sleep 4000 Send("{Alt}") Send("{Right 4}") Send("{Down}") Sleep 1000 Send("{Right}") Sleep 1000 Send("{Down}") Send("{Enter}") Sleep 2000 Send("{Tab}") Send("{Enter}") Sleep 35000 if ProcessExist("mk11.exe") loop { if ProcessExist("mk11.exe") Continue Sleep 3000 Send("{Tab}") Send("{Enter}") Send("{Tab}") Send("{Enter}") Send("{Enter}") ExitApp() }

@skizzosjt @JoeViking245 Also forgot to mention I have the window names since I can hold alt tab on the keyboard I'm using to set all this up if that helps or would make it easier than using the games .exe name

@skizzosjt @JoeViking245 I appreciate the feedback. MK11 and my other games actually do run really well with the keyboard splitter if you ever wanted to try it out, but will check out what you suggested as well. As you can guess I wont really have a KB readily accessible but rather joysticks and buttons mapped to various keys, hence the ahk. I have been messing around with many different variations in the script and am getting closer (i.e. can now get everything to load properly and pull up/run the game) but have run into a wall with getting the program (Keyboard Splitter) to quit after the game's .exe file has stopped running. I have tried reading through some of the .exe stuff but am just lost. Here is what I have so far (In AHK V2 if that matters)...what I am now stumpped on is in red at the bottom SetKeyDelay 200 Run("C:\Keyboard Splitter\KeyboardSplitter.exe") Sleep 4000 Send("{Alt}") Send("{Right 4}") Send("{Down}") Sleep 1000 Send("{Right}") Sleep 1000 Send("{Down}") Send("{Enter}") Sleep 2000 Send("{Tab}") Send("{Enter}") ; --------------------------this right here is where the game mk11.exe launches and script is good up to this point SetTitleMatchMode 2 ; Allow for partial window title matching ; --------------------this is where I am trying to have a loop to check if mk11.exe is running and if not then hit Tab, then Enter, then F4 to close out of keyboard splitter Loop { If not WinExist("Mortal Kombat 11") { ; Replace "Mortal Kombat 11" with the actual window title of MK11.exe ; If the title of the game window is different, you should change it here. ; This line checks if MK11 is not running. ExitApp } Sleep 5000 ; Check every 5 seconds (adjust as needed) } Sleep 2000 Send("{Tab}") Send("{Enter}") Send ("!{F4}")

All, I am at my wits end and have an issue similar to someone on page 51 or 52. I have tried everything I can think of to get my script to work but no such luck. What I am trying to accomplish. When I start MK11 in LB it fires up an ahk script to open KeyboardSplitter.exe, then navigates to games in KeyboardSplitters window (this can be accomplished by hitting Alt + Right 4 times + Down+ Right + Down + Enter...literally the same thing from page 51,52. I tried copying the script @skizzosjt helped document (just to see it in action), pasted in a new AHK file, saved it as test.ahk, then went into ahk2.exe and converted it. When I ran it the script sure enough I could see quick flashing across File, Home, Share, View in the window. I then thought, and went to chatgpt to see what the command was to open KeyboardSplitter.exe, took that information and pasted it before the original "test" script language thinking this has to work. When I saved/converted it and opened the new AHK file ahk2exe spit out it opened KeyboardSplitter.exe but then nothing else after that. I have tried roughly 10 different iterations and I am completely stuck. Below is my current script (no I have not got to the exit part yet as I have been focusing on getting the main part to work first Run, C:\Keyboard Splitter\KeyboardSplitter.exe SetKeyDelay, 100 Sleep, 3000 Send {Alt} Send {Right 4} Send {Down} Send {Right} Send {Down} Send {Enter} Sleep, 3000 Send, {Tab} Send {Enter}

First off thank you in advance. I have been trying to figure this out on my own via other posts and keep coming up short. I am trying to get my Joy2Key profile for MK11 working and its just not. Here are the screens of information I have thus far... Not sure if it is important or not but I did not have a controller hooked up when I created the profile but rather looked up what xbox buttons correspond to the native Joy2Key buttons.