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....

I haven't had any issues since he delivered this unit. Has worked perfectly, no issues at all, until I started messing with things. I had just been running it through Bigbox as intended. But I really wasn't too impressed with the jaggy's. I understand it's old technology being displayed on new, but I just wanted it to look closer to the original. Which with some .ini file settings I was able to achieve. I had originally asked him if he knew why they weren't displaying through LB/BB. He had no clue lol. This is only the second one he has built. The first was for himself. He is still learning as well. Said if I figure it out he would like to come over so I can show him how it's done. Which led me to this forum Now I really wish I was more involved from the start. Sooo, I had never looked before to see if BB/LB was opening a separate window for mame, or if it was running "embedded" through the front end software. Does that make sense, or am I just making this more confusing?

And TBH, I've never noticed before if when launching a game in BB/LB, a separate window opens for mame. Is that normal?

I don't think I mapped any buttons that shouldn't have been. I did the alt+tab, and all that is runnig is bigbox, and mame. Anywho, I removed all .ini files I made. Put the command line back to the way it was, and it's still having problems. I'm back to the original video settings though lol. It seems to be leaving BB as the visible image on the screen, but isn't the "active" window if that makes sense. It's like I minimized it without minimizing it. So the controls aren't working. I just have to move the mouse on the computer running it all, and I have control again. But it keeps happening when I exit a game. Think I've really done something goofy. The guy who made this is a friend, and has an image of the hard drive to put on if needed. But I really want this to look like it can (not so jaggy). The settings I found online are such a HUGE improvement. Any ideas? Also, let me say thanks for taking the time to help out someone who obviously is in over his head. It really didn't seem all that difficult when I first started trying this all out.

I was, which is why I was originally confused as to why the settings worked in mame by itself but not LB/BB. But once I made your recommended changes, I closed everything, rebooted and started up Bigbox fresh. Launchbox actually has mame grabbing the roms from a different folder than mame itself. I even removed the couple of roms I had moved for testing purposes thinking that might have been part of the issue. It seemed to be working as expected, but once I changed games issues popped up. I checked windows, and there was actually bigbox and 2 separate mame's running....I am utterly confused. Which according to my wife is commonplace. haha

Thanks very much, Joe! I did this, and it definitely has changed to my preferred video settings. Which I have been very much looking forward to since I got this cabinet. But for some reason, now when I run mame through bigbox it opens a separate version of mame, which is causing stability issues. Maybe I messed something else up somewhere?

Hello. Firstly, I am very new to this stuff (along with this forum) but think I understand how the .ini files work. I'm having some trouble with Bigbox\Launchbox not using the video options settings in my .ini file. When I run mame by itself, it uses them and all is good. Anything I may be missing or doing wrong? Any insight is very much appreciated. Thanks!