SentaiBrad

That is strange, a setting must be off or it's not changing. You should be able to move them from your User folder anyways and tell PCSX2 to load them from where ever PCSX2 is installed.

It mean's a lot. Your PC can do and load a lot but the time it takes to load and do those actions is still hindered by how fast your Hard Drive can spin, or in this case how fast your SSD can read its self. RAM and GPU's can make your system technically run smoother but the SSD will change how fast it can do those things. Programs will also boot faster as they the instructions can technically go faster with a faster read speed.

The custom configs save the full information. I have a genesis_plus_gx_libretro-2.cfg file and my regular RetroArch.cfg. I just did a test. In my gx cfg I loaded the Pixellate shader preset, saved the shader settings then used the save cfg settings option. I then closed RetroArch, loaded a new game (Playstation 1 in LB) which uses the default RetroArch.cfg. I already set this cfg to Pixellate, so instead I turned off the shader settings (by setting shader passes to 0), saved the shader settings then saved the config settings. Closed that down then went back to Sega CD and loaded the same game, looked at the settings and Pixellate was still shown and saved. Just to double check, I closed RA again and loaded up an SNES game with a completely separate cfg loaded than the two previous. Loaded a completely different Shader preset, saved the shader settings then saved current cfg. Checked both Sega CD and PS1, both still at what I set previously. RetroArch should save all settings regarding damn near anything in those Config files. My Configuration Per-Core setting is set to off as well.

PCSX2 defaults to your users folder.

I am speccing out a new PC to build and I am looking at two SSD's myself. One for my OS and one for my most played games or load intensive games like Fallout 4. Your OS takes a lot of read and write cycles from your Hard Drive, so when you do anything intensive on your OS Drive (Usually C:\) the task you're doing (Playing a game, writing video, etc) clashes with your OS just being on. For most programs that's not a problem, I have tons of programs installed. When it comes to writing video I have a separate Internal HDD for that (My YouTube channel and LaunchBox's channel), my 3rd Internal Drive has mostly video on it but also has Load Intensive games on it (F4 and The Witcher 3), and my other drives have my games on them. Not all games or tasks are intensive so for the most part having them installed on your C:\ drive is fine (Like Kodi, or Firefox, or Anti Virus Software etc), but when we're talking about trying to lower Load Times as low as possible a completely separate SSD will provide the best possible solution. In Windows 8 and 10 you can actually see your Hard Drive load. Ctrl + Shift + Esc. Click More Details if your Task Manager isn't already expanded and go to the Performance tab at the top. You'll get an idea of what I mean. Idle your C:\ drive still bounces around a lot.

Don't put games on your OS drive, even an SSD. Always keep them separate for best performance.

Noise isn't the factor here usually, it's speed. SSD's are blazing fast compared to HDD's. I always tell someone to get SDD's for their OS drive and an HDD for their games. After playing Fallout 4 with 130 mods I want a 250GB SSD for the games I play the most. Rom's aren't going to see a performance increase honestly if you get an SSD except for maybe PS2, Gamecube and Wii games, And even then, I honestly doubt you'll see one. Lucky you if you can afford a 1TB SSD, thats insane. The alternative is an SHHD, a Sold State Hybrid Drive. It's a mix of SSD and HHD, though it takes a bit of time to learn what you love running the most. So after a few uses something you use the most, like F4 in my case, would start loading faster and general speeds should be increased a bit but not like an SSD. So it's really all what you need it for. If you only play a handful of PC games that came out within the last 6-8 years, or in Oblivions case are modded heavily, then go for a 250GB and transfer some steam games to it and save the money. In due time 1TB's will be affordable.

Use the add button in the bottom right of LaunchBox.

I all together have had weird experiences using the same core but trying to load a different cfg file myself. It behaves oddly. Assuming you load the cfg, make the changes, then select the "save cfg" setting, have you tried editing them manually? If you know the lines that need to be changed and what they need to say, manually do the changes and save. Stupid, but see if that works.

LaunchBox does nothing other than facilitate your experience with the emulators and changes nothing in how or where they store anything related to them.

I used your post for some news help in one of our new YouTube shows. I will be browsing the Monkey sub forums from time to time for related news pieces, so thank you very much for posting this and several other things here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U52sWQEwniM

From the outside in then as of right now, unless you had access to source code and built a more open / plugin based version of LaunchBox I don't think it would work. Unless you built a program specifically around just using command line parameters. I don't know if the XML store Command line parameters, but you can edit it with Notepad++ to some success so getting a program to batch add certain command line arguments could be possible. Edit a game and on the first page the command line parameters: You could write the command line to run X bat file or Y program. From there it just reads what game you started (or if you could do it in the batch editing have a marker in the command line that tells the program it's game name), then from there you could have the program then scan your LB Images folder for that exact game name then display images in certain orders etc.

Great Idea and I don't mean this insultingly but that's still over complicated. There really wouldn't need to be another application installed. A Plugin system could work in the future, given a lot of work and security scrutiny, but why not just create an attract mode? It could work on several different layers. You can have it show images after a time of no input for all systems or selected systems (more or less a window or screen saver style). Then when you launch a game a window can pop up and do the same thing as the attract mode except only for the game or series you've launched. I do see this as being a specifically Premium Feature though.

No we do not, but we are going to be looking in to that soon enough. Even simple anti-bot measures go a long long way. Most of the time they are just looking for the path of least resistance.

Well the posts are gone now. At least it's not the attack we had the other week where it was all in Korean or Chinese and opening the thread routed you back the forums main page.

Use Kega Fusion. Again, go to the Emulator window in LaunchBox. Click add and from the Drop down menu select Kega Fusion. Browse and select it's exe. LaunchBox will fill in the Associated Platforms list and the needed command line arguments for this.

Sorry I've not been getting e-mails for this sub forum, I've fixed that now though. So we don't support Windows XP anymore, and we do personally suggest keeping up with the latest with Windows 10. Otherwise Windows Vista onward as Derek said does work. Though Vista support will be going away soon too (if it hasn't already) and when Microsoft stops supporting it, so do we. Daemon Tools Lite also like Derek said is a great tool. I use Virtual Clone Drive, but they don't mount cue sheets. There are only a few emulators though that require mounting of cue sheets, and even then they have alternatives. As per preferences with windows. I love Windows 10. I even like 8 with a start menu replacer, but 10 has the start menu, it looks good, runs good (better than 7) and is secure. You can't get rid of Windows Security easily, but I did because I already have fantastic AV Software. Otherwise, it is very secure. Internet Explorer is going by the wayside, but I personally use Firefox for everything and Chrome when I need to which is hardly ever. The only two things in Windows 10 that should get turned off are Wifi Sense (if you use Wifi) and Seeding Updates to other Windows users. You can google those and we have a thread in the monkey section of the forums about this stuff. If you have any more questions feel free to ask.

You can command line any program in LaunchBox, you just need to find what they are.

The two posts below this do look that way, but I can't do anything about it. I'll let Jason know.

If you have a modded Wii then yes. If you go to the emulator page in LaunchBox, add an emulator. From the drop down select Kega Fusion. It will give you a link to download and you select the exe from the browse menu. I assumed you knew this and gave you the link for more alternates. If you haven't tried the emulator we suggest though then do that.

If the solution is only Images then there is software that can easily do this. Edit: I missed your response, ok I get it now. When launching a game you want it to send instructions to display the art for that game on the second screen. We can certainly try and add something like that to the Feature Request page, I don't know how easy this would be to achieve though.

I said that already. "Your PC is a mix of parts... but no I don't think it would be reliable in running anything more recent." It will probably work but I don't think you'll get a reliable frame rate from PCSX2 or Dolphin.

Why over complicate things? Over a network game performance will degrade for more demanding games, but LaunchBox does know how to handle and launch games over it. This doesn't solve having flowing artwork but instead maybe have a screen saver type solution or a software solution that reads images from the LB Image folder in a nice artistic way? LaunchBox is set up on the host computer with the roms on another computer or network drive. You import games like normal with the file path looking towards the networked drive. From there import like normal and have all of the artwork downloaded to the host machine. Use LaunchBox or BigBox depending on the mood or need as a top layer GUI. If it is a separate machine users have even had LaunchBox load first inside their machine and stopped Explorer from launching its GUI essentially making their PC machine more like an arcade cabinet. From there have a piece of software read the images folder and display flowing images if the machine doesn't have any input after x amount of time. Sorry if this is completely off from what you are trying to achieve.

What I meant more of was that if you have a larger library, LaunchBox requires more performance from your PC, though storage is a huge question too. All my stuff takes almost 2TB.

It only took several other people to get Jason to change his mind about font and styles. I've been wanting to do other designs, so I am happy this is working. As per the Pixel Art shirts, I am a strong proponent for anything Pixel Art, so I will personally make sure that some of these Pixel Art shirts will make it. I'll talk with Jason about which ones specifically and I will let the users know if he hasn't already. I also do Pixel Art builds and I want to make some of these now... I have been trying to create my own Pixel Art LaunchBox logo but it hasn't been coming out right, this one looks really good.