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Every theme should work. I use the Clean Hardware theme myself too and it's working just fine. Sorry for the obvious questions, but did you extract the Theme folder from the package and change the setting in BigBox? You may even need to restart BigBox.

Microsoft did a lot of screwing around with their drivers recently and both us and RetroArch had to do a lot of patching and adding related to them. RetroArch 1.3.4 I believe was the first version they got those fixes implemented?

Wow, thanks for sharing this! I know it's a lot of images, but have you thought about uploading some of these to games that are lacking in this category? Images are separated out a lot more now. While placing all screenshots in to the same folder works, you wouldn't be able to accurately use the Image Priorities system.

Drybonz said Is there a way to start BigBox on your second monitor? If not, this would be a very helpful option to add. There is also software that can do this. Like Jason said, obviously want to create a way to do this without extra software, but I use DisplayFusion Pro. I actually talked about it in another thread where someone wanted to do the same thing and I detailed how to do it.

No there isn't. You can enable the file name for the Game Details bar though so you can see the full file name in the right.

There's gonna be a MAME update every month. The Sony boot up screen is related to BIOS. If there are BIOS Screen options then you can turn this off or on. So there might be something in the command line parameters that messes this up. ePSXe for example, needs -nogui for sure in order to load properly within LB and BB. Have you tried mednafen PS1 on RetroArch?

It's not the only option, but it's one of the better options.

Yea I bought more than I should have. X_X Wish I had more money for things. Need a new hard drive, phone, car. Money... xD https://i.imgur.com/iLdSalL.png

Having to edit each game is why I just replaced the .74 install with Daum instead. We do want to implement something to make it easier to replace DOSBox with your own version, but varying command line parameters and way it handles mounting things like discs and other changes make it difficult. Vanilla DOSBox is languishing though, so we might even find a fork to start using instead like -x.

I need to re-import my MAME system since there was an update Wednesday, but I will see if it's working for me. I have everything still set up the way I did it for the Controller Automation tutorial that goes up in about 50 min.

It should work just fine this way. You might as well leave LaunchBox and the images on the same drive, I assume the SSD. These are the things that are most used. Games and emulators work on a different drive. That's how I have mine setup, except not an SSD. I have LaunchBox and all my media on an internal hard drive (SATA3) and my games and emulators on a USB3 external. I would love to move my LB install to an SSD though. Besides not enough space on the drive, everything works great. Working on getting a big internal drive to move all my games and emulators to. I never let LaunchBox move my games. Since you already have all your stuff scraped mostly, just delete the games from within LaunchBox (backup your XML just in case), move everything to the folders you'd want them set up under then re-import all your games and uncheck all of the media check boxes during import. The systems should import extremely fast. I would say use Notepad++ to edit the paths, but if you have multiple systems, and the game root folders and drives are changing I would just re-import as it will be the easiest way. Don't clean your images with the option in Tools while the games are removed or the images will go poof too. Then just fix the paths to your emulators. Don't remove them or you'll have to setup commands and associated platforms all over again.

You'd use Visual Studio, download it from the MS site.

RetroArch isn't generally the best for MAME, but it should be fine as it's getting updates more frequently for MAME. The games can be in any directory, shouldn't need to specify anything in RA for MAME specifically. I know the tutorial I created mainly dealt with regular MAME, but I recall showing off RA. As long as you got a 174 or 175 pack, import them in to LB with the MAME Importer. Should honestly work. RetroArch crashing like that generally means a BIOS issue.

XP was drug along because of corporations. Some stayed in DOS (sadly), some stayed in XP, some use Windows 7, some use 8 and some use 10, depending on the job needed. Let's take my local game store for example. He upgraded his 7 machine to 10 and he said it ran a hell of a lot better, but his PoS (Point of Sale) software wasn't patched for 10 yet and they were taking their sweet time, so he had to go back to 7 for a while. Walmart's self check out machines use Windows XP (I used to work self check, and they would crash a lot). Walmart's Jewelry registers still run fucking DOS. Some business switched over to proprietary or upgrade slowly because it costs them a shit ton of money.

Yea it would probably need to be customized for everything, and there is a lot of stuff. Something like xpadder only works globally because it's emulating a keyboard. Once you specify applications it can then load based on what you just launched. Tapping in to the code for each emulator would actually be pretty much impossible. Jason would have to learn the code of each specific emulator. RetroArch easily gets away with this because it's ported each of the systems it can run to the same code base. It can adapt easily to each situation. Once you step outside of RetroArch though that would require an interpreter. That could also potentially add in some input lag because instead of just pressing the button and immediately sending the proper code to make Mario jump it has to first pass through an interpreter so that it could then run. That's part of why Java is so poor in performance, it's designed to run on everything and not specialized for anything really. It could certainly be done, but it is way out of our scope or time. Also, congratulations on 2k posts Derek!

Sweet, thank you @imdavid555. A new Demo is probably a really good idea actually. These are more basic though and less tutorialy, but the two can compliment each other nicely. ScummVM! Yes. That is a system tutorial I've been wanting to do for months. Jason asked me to wait on it *cough cough!* but I think sooner rather than later (unless the change happens next week) I am just gonna have to do the tutorial, then make an update video to it. So that might be next weeks. That is easily one the most requested left that I haven't done. AHK is a great idea, but I am not a coder. I will look for some good scripts, but if someone can find good ones for Windows and DOSBox functionality, or can create some I will certainly show them off and explain AHK more. I do have a plan to cover Overlay's in RetroArch which will cover quite a bit. I admit though that MAME emulation was previously behind, but it seems to be getting semi-regular updates, so I will probably end up doing both. I don't know if it will be a combined tutorial, but it seems like it could be.

We'll have Windows 11 by that point.

This is more powerful then mapping Esc to a button. AHK works on almost everything. It still works here, just ePSXe has this dialogue. In the most recent version of ePSXe, in the options you can disable this. You should also be able to press your button combination again to then close this dialogue box.

I did just replace the DOSBox folder. Keep the folder name the same, and drop in DOSBox Daum. Backup the DOSBox .74 exe and rename Daum's x64 or x86 (depending on your system) exe to the dosbox .74 exe you backed up. Should be good to go. The conf is a bit tricky, but if you set the settings in Daum then specify to save it in the LB directory or the default directory (which might be in the documents folder... I can't recall) you just edit that config file from there on out. I wanted to use DOSBox-x. Superior to Daum, being updated regularly, but I had a lot of issues getting it to work. Also, some of the installing commands don't seem to work the same in Daum or x, so if we did implement using alternate versions of LaunchBox then the install process would probably break. So chances are, the best case scenario is "Choose your preferred DOSBox flavor!" with a drop down menu or something, then it sets the right commands and takes you to the download page.

You don't need our permission, if you'd like to go ahead and create them, then please!

spektor56 said It makes no sense to upload videos to the HS site when they are not for use with HS anyway (they can just use the theme zip). We should just use the themes directly in bigbox, skip the whole video shenanigans. Its not too much work to make them work in BB. These could be re-created in the ZAML, but that would take a seriously talented coder and themer to do. Past that, making existing Hyperspin themes work in BigBox IS a lot of work, and after we would do it HS would be right back in this same spot, mad at someone and we would be right back where we started, if not more angry. To make these work, this was the best possible chance and it fell through. Now, we hope someone that wants to create themes in XAML turns up and wants to create some badassery. XAML can certainly pull off very complicated and awesome themes, it will just take some time.

2020 is probably a stretch? Who knows when their support for W7 ends, unless their site says.

Unless you have a powerful CPU, use the Balanced core though.

Which is totally fine. It works and I don't want to break is really all the answer anyone needs to give. Besides changing a few options though, which happens on every OS, Windows 10 has run flawlessly for me. Performs better than 8.1 did which did better than 7. My other computer had all 3 at one point. 8 had more kinks to overcome than 10 does though for sure. The UWP thing absolutely does not matter in terms of upgrading your OS. It's really not all that bad, the idea behind is fine, but it's kind of what ever. If you're not buying games from the Windows Store, and I sure as hell am not, then it should have absolutely zero bearing on your decision. I've run old applications and they don't all necessarily run better, but not any worse than 8 or 7.

If someone see's this, be very careful with those. As easy as it is to change it over so that you can remove 7 or 8.1, it's just as easy to mess it up.