Jason Carr

New beta is out. Not as exciting as last night, but I added a new "Broken" field to games to specify whether they work or not, with options to hide them in Big Box or LaunchBox. Also added some additional keys to Big Box to support X-Arcade Tanksticks.

New beta is out. Do let me know if you run into any issues with the TankStick controls.

Hi @Gorillapond, planning on tackling this tonight. Should have a beta for you in just a few hours. :)

Ha, awesome. Cool beans. :)

Hi @eric, currently the only way to run a custom AHK script is to use additional applications on games. That said, LaunchBox does have a built-in AHK script for closing emulators, but it's currently only made to work with a game controller. I have further customization options on my list.

@CliveBarker, I have to admit I was tickled pink last night when I got that working. Not only does it make for awesome performance, it finally opens us up to stuff like animations in LaunchBox itself, or possibly even video backgrounds. Gone is the old-school GDI+ rendering that was holding us back.

Thanks @shinra358. I'm aware of that issue; just implemented it that way originally because it would have taken significantly longer not to. I have that on my list to fix. :)

Me too @garbanzo. So much so that I've selfishly put it pretty high up on the list. ;)

Hi @jordanb, welcome! I am actually already in talks with Circo at EmuMovies to see if we can get it integrated into LaunchBox. Communication has been slow, however, so it might help if several of us were to encourage it. ;)

Very cool @nathanddrews! I'm actually building my own right now as well (though I'm cheating and going with RecRoomMasters). The one thing I would say is Retroarch will be your secret weapon. It won't cover everything, but I'd replace at least a few of those emulators with Retroarch, just because the uniformity really helps when you have so many platforms. Retroarch makes for a much more seamless experience with cabinets too, because LaunchBox works with it to hide and show the games without any distracting windows and such.

Guess what, folks. I'm in talks with John D.; hoping to sponsor Retroware. So that's exciting. :)

New beta is out! I managed to pull off DirectX rendering for the games list and game details. Game scrolling is now smooth as butter.

Sounds good, will do.

Cool, one last question. Which buttons did you want to use for Enter and Escape?

Good find @Maddoc1007, that does look like it would help. That said, @Triclinic, get me your list of key mappings so I can get them into Big Box. I assume you're using the Tankstick defaults?

Yeah, I think Big Box is actually much quicker in general than LaunchBox. Though it's a lot easier to work with because there's not huge lists of box art images for the moment. But also, the code is a bit cleaner; uses more modern technologies. I'm working on bringing LaunchBox up to speed.

Hi Martin, sure; I'm surprised I didn't add that originally, must have just looked it over. Will do. :)

Hi @Zarazilla, it should work to use your game files from that manual install process in LaunchBox. What issue are you running into?

@Triclinic, what are the Tankstick keys mapped to by default? What do you have them mapped to? It'd be faster for now to just add those keys, that way I can probably get you a beta tonight that works. I'll build in custom keys functionality, but that will likely take a bit.

Hi @Triclinic, as of right now it's not possible to customize the keyboard keys. However, I am realizing just now how important that probably is, as I'm guessing you need it for Tankstick compatibility, correct?

Hi @TonyWatto, indeed you can; just edit the Emulator and add new records to the grid on the bottom. Or you can change the existing ones in the list to point to a different core. There should be a record for each platform, basically.

Absolutely. Really good to hear, thanks. :)

Hi Joe, that may have been requested before, but if it has it's been a long time. That is a good idea; I'll add it to the list. :)

Hi @rich2k4, welcome. LaunchBox does support RocketLauncher; I'm not overly familiar with how to set it up, but I know there are people on here who do successfully use LaunchBox with RocketLauncher. Per filtering to parent ROMs only, no, there's nothing in LaunchBox to automatically filter. You can certainly filter out or hide anything you want to, but LaunchBox won't automatically identify ROMs as parents.

Wow, okay, interesting. Thanks for running through that process. I'll take a look. :)