Wormburner_bogey

I do want to thank you again for all of your assistance. You have been very patient and I appreciate it. If you're ever in the Saskatoon area, message me on here and I'd def buy you a beer and burger!

This is what's in my cntrl folder. I tried changing the line in the mame.ini to xarcade. But that didn't work. Was throwing darts on that one 😂

And thanks about the cab. My buddy did a great job! We love it.

Alrighty, I tried to copy the default.cfg over. No go. Checked my core input options and that line in blank...here is what it looks like:

Oh, forgot to mention yes, the romset is for .255

Not sure if it is super important, but I probably should have said that this is a big cabinet style game with plenty of buttons and 4 player option.

Is the game actually loading? At all? Or when you go to launch it, maybe you see a black screen for a quick moment, then it goes right back to LB. Yes, sir. It loads like normal through LB/BB and just by launching mame by itself. I can start playing, and it would just randomly pop up the game over screen and then go out of focus. The out of focus mame screen would still be the game running. I could click on it in windows to bring it back into focus. But then it would just do it again. And now for the "new" mame/arcade emulator. I did all of that and everything seems to be back to normal. Expect for the controls....none of those seem to be mapped anymore......Is there simply a file I need to move from the old mame folder to fix that?

When launching from LaunchBox, does the game have focus (like it should)? Yes. Until it randomly kicks me out and loses focus. And the game is full screen (it covers the entire screen, and you can't see the Windows taskbar)? Correct. And when exiting the game, LB regains focus (like it should)? AKA, everything works as it should via LaunchBox. Kind of. I don't get a chance to exit the game....it does that for me lol. It's just when launching a game from BigBox, the game doesn't have focus? If you press Alt+Tab, is the game now in focus and full screen? BigBox seems to be acting the same as LaunchBox. Everything starts fine, game is in focus. Then bam, game goes out of focus. Can still hear it. And I believe controls are still active for it (as they no longer respond to LB/BB. Obviously this seems to be a mame issue. All the other emulators and games work as they should. I must have had something buggered in my mame.ini when we changed the settings in LaunchBox to use the mame video settings. Do you think that is an accurate assessment? Think I need to take this thing "back to formula". To quote the Green Goblin from Spiderman.

Okay, i tried that with the same results....😪

Oh yes, the terminology I def need to learn. I opened mame, went to the video settings, and it is in fact off. But, while in there looking it just kicked me out. This is what screen looks like when it does that. 2 instances of mame running. I says "no driver loaded [__empty] - " I can't see the rest.....

Gotcha. Makes total sense. Now, can you think of any reason/setting as to why it keeps "minimizing" mame? Mame is still running, but on screen is bigbox. And the controls are still active, I believe for mame. BB is displayed, but doesn't respond to any of the controls.

I think I just figured this out. I ran the Nintendo Emulator and a separate window from BB is there. All the other emulators still work fine....