SentaiBrad

Yea, a 5 year old might have problems with that, though I was 3 or 4 and installed Lion King on DOS, give them more credit. :P Less passionate and more I want to try and give everyone all of the information. So if I am passionate about anything it is these forums and LaunchBox.

When you have a premium account with EmuMovies and you are logged in it should now scrape video during the scraping process. Otherwise, since they're already imported, click a Platform on the left and Ctrl + A all of the games in that platform. Normally this is done for Bulk Editing, but instead go to Tools -> Download Images and Metadata. Make sure to select on the screen after EmuMovies "Yes, but do not replace any existing fields". If you click the first one it will re-download all metadata again and will take a long time, and the 3rd option won't scrape for games which have already been scraped.

You load the presets and it does all of the work for you. Some shaders need more than 1 pass and more than 1 file attached. Use the presets.

Of your 3 questions I can tell you Pete's is no longer the best plugin. The changelog made that abundantly clear that it is vastly superior now, and users have reported big increases for performance. There may be instances where Pete's is used for compatibility because the new default is not perfect, but it is superior.

So personally (and this doesn't effect shaders) but the "bsnes_balanced_libretro" core is damn near perfect except for one game apparently? It is the one I suggest, but of course that is subjective. So you know this much, start a game, Press F1 for the quick menu and then go down to Shader Options. What I do for 2D systems myself is Load Shader preset, shaders_glsl (If they don't work under this folder (but they should) use the _cg folder), then down to Retro, and I use Pixellate. I love this shader for 2D games because I want it to be pixely, not rounded and with high resolutions. Once I select Pixellate then you hit Apply Shader Changes, then I back out to the main menu and click Save Current Config. Speaking of configs, I don't use the per core settings personally. I just set the default RetroArch config file to how I want generalized settings, then I load a core and click Save New Config. This will create a new config based on the core name in your configs file in the RA root folder. Under associated platforms where you specify a core I use -c "config\RetroArch-1220-194545.cfg". -C means to load a config for RA then I give it a similar path like the cores but the config path instead. You can even do this -c command for individual games if they need specialized settings apart from the other games in a system, you just do that on a games edit screen. As far as resolution goes, under Video, I set the Aspect Ratio Index to Core Provided. This way it is the proper aspect ratio for the RetroArch config that everything else was based on. If I need to change a cores aspect ratio later I only apply the change to that systems new custom config. I am with you though, I don't like the image to be stretched either. SNES should be in a box on your screen. However, I don't use fullscreen, and very short testing I can't figure out how to keep the aspect ratio correct in fullscreen either. Hopefully someone else figured that one out.

We could very easily start a thread, that would be good. As far as something official from Jason or myself, a segment in RSS when the need arises for a high profile emulator (ePSXe and PPSSPP) is a great idea. Ideally it shouldn't add on much more time in any leg of production. Also Derek we stole another thread. xD

Some early 3D games can be really fun, but they age horribly. 2D games from that era ages beautifully for the most part. The systems could technically handle it, it was the industry getting their footing. As far as ePSXe is concerned, the one game I tested on the new version was Blasto, and it didn't run any better, if anything the sound was worse. I didn't test much, that is the game I test every time because it is a bitch to emulate apparently. It's also very nostalgic, I love Phil Hartman in it. I don't think I am going to switch from RetroArch... but I need to see more tests, I might switch. As far as a news section, to be perfectly honest guys I like the idea of it, and even we talked about how we should handle something like that. My first thought is on video every two weeks or month, and that is where this has the best chance of living. There are already several websites which provide what you guys want, and I even linked to one. I would honestly probably just copy what I see on that site and some from Reddit. It would take me forever to go to each websites, or some aggregate sites, some forums and search out all this news, and If I am just going to go to the site I linked most of the time, then why isn't that site sufficient for the job? I am all for video's or blog posts about opinions on the news or our thoughts on whats going on (Like RetroAchievements.org integration in RetroArch, holy crap!) but it would just take time away from being able to do other things which I honestly think are more important. If you guys watch RSS lets put it this way, it takes me about 10-30 min to find 3-5 news stories (or If I heard anything natural over the course of a week I keep note of that stuff too), and find a game to suggest and a game from the past that fell in this month. I mainly use Bing News and Google News to search for certain keywords. It then takes me about 45 min to an hour to write the script, 10-20 min to record the episode, and about an hour to edit it all together. Granted, I don't have to do video editing if we did it in writing, but I am less of a writer myself. I can do it just fine, but it would take me time to write it, edit that, send it to Jason who then wants to read it, then If I need to make changes I do, then I re-read it, then he re-reads it. Just like if we were working at a place like IGN or Gamespot. So twice a week or once a month video to aggregate all of that news might be the best chance that that has of happening. Only have a certain amount of hours a month. That last paragraph, that is also for transparency. I'm not gonna lie to you guys about the possibility of us being able to do something. If I was full time, then that would be different potentially. I still think we don't need to just do the same thing other sites already do well enough. We want to focus on things we're not seeing happen well or at all. Of course though, let me know what you guys think. Also, damn it Derek, we did it again.

So Xpadder works for emulators without controller support, but RetroArch supports controllers and has a lot of games. It also supports RetroAchievements. If you need help with RA our YouTube channel has a lot of videos on this. You can get there by clicking the link in my signature. Otherwise the best suggestion for a couch I can offer you if BigBox, you need premium for it, but you get other features in LaunchBox and any future premium features. It's $20 for a year or $50 forever. If this is a retro gaming dedicated PC, then you can have Explorer not launch and BigBox launch in its stead so it is a true front end. The only thing I use differently than @fromlostdays is my PS4 controller because I hate the 360's D-Pad and shoulder buttons. If you want to use a PS4 controller then you just need a program called InputMapper, it makes the PC think the PS4 controller is a 360 controller. Any other questions, feel free to ask.

Of course, no problem. Enjoy your games.

There are a couple things to note, but from the images it look like you unrared / unzipped everything? MAME runs the zip file directly, it won't work if they are unzipped. Otherwise the Platform is called Arcade, so that's good.

Yes, all of this I knew from that website. ;) We also talked about this being a video series once a month or bi-weekly too. Edit: Actually that site + another I go to sometimes.

http://emu-russia.net/en/ There's already this.

Yea I saw this earlier. I need to check it out.

I was thinking more of a way so that it can be launched with a controller from inside BigBox, but I still think if you need to go in to explorer you need a mouse and keyboard, so Ctrl + Shift + Esc and launching Explorer that way works.

The registry changes regardless of if you do it from a bat or manually, you can create a 3rd bat file and add that to LaunchBox / BigBox that loads explorer on command. So you can do that from inside the program. Even if you want it to be controller only, you'll still need a Keyboard and mouse from time to time anyways for debugging, updates, software management etc. So the end goal is to create an enviroment where it is Controller only, but you'll still need the tried and true from time to time.

Actually the Registry way is reversable. It is easy to create two bat files. One to change the registry so that Explorer doesn't load, and if you need to get in to Explorer Ctrl + Shift + Esc, File -> Run New Task. That is if you need back in, to reverse the changes the second bat can change the registry back to what it was, and when you restart Explorer will launch. The method @cejpe created is perfectly viable, but Explorer is still technically launching and just being closed. It is as if you opened Task Manager and closed the explorer process, just automatically. The registry stops explorer from launching all together, but is still reversable.

Yes, our tutorial series on YouTube. The systems that need BIOS I cover.

Yes, this is what I said. Use BigBox remapping function or wait for LaunchBox to get it.

DOS76 said I offer help and I hi-jack threads that's what I do. Honestly though threads like this once the OP gets their responses they are usually done with the thread unless they need further assistance which they can still ask for. So I hope nobody minds things aren't as rule based around here and threads may be taken over by random post that no longer are relevant to the original question. Also we definitely need some PM or chat function then we can chat about things in private (well except for the NSA listening too). The forums and website were upgraded last night. We have PM's now, and active anti spam on the forums too.

Join the Steam group, there's a chat function there, or we need a chat on the site. Either way we gotta stop stealing peoples threads. xD

Guess you're gonna have to go to the theater like my Mother in law. :P

Damn, im sorry Derek. Thank you two for the replies.

There we go, I am not fully familiar with this stuff, so thank you Scott.

BigBox is for media style and cabinet style setups, so you'll need that for complete fullscreen. Under Gamepad/Joystick, does your controller show up as a device? If it doesn't does that change with "Use all attached ontroller's". If not I suspect what your controls use and what LaunchBox is looking for is different. Your controller has it's own internal numbering system for each button and LaunchBox is getting confused. In BigBox you can reassign buttons in the menu though, so if you have a Premium license give that a try, it might work better long term. The best solution would either be to wait for Jason to implement reconfiguring the controller options in LaunchBox or getting a different controller. Or using Xpadder and other programs like that to see if you could get close, but I am unsure if you will.

Probably not. They'll take every precaution they think they need to take to protect against piracy.