SentaiBrad

Yea, and that's totally understandable. I guess I've just re-installed enough operating systems that they've become second nature. The tools I use I chose because they work really really well. They've helped me fix a lot of systems that would otherwise take hours to fix. I don't even go to most websites to update software anymore. I use the FileHippo Update Manager because it works really well. It doesn't cover everything, but you get the idea. If you do want a specific version of some software, and you know you need, then don't check that box for Ninite, and unless you need to install 7 or 8 pieces of software at once that it has then it's almost useless. I also recall seeing .Net updates in the Windows 10 Updater, I could be wrong, but I recall that being the case now. I also love Driver Booster now. I ran it on my mother-in-laws system when we first moved in, and it solved a lot of issues she was having right away, because she simply didn't know that device x y and z needed drivers, or they had drivers. So it's certainly not for everyone, I learned PC's the hard and long way, and over the years I found software that completely screwed up systems, but then I found software that really really worked. CCleaner for example is a nightmare, or it was a nightmare. I've ran that once and it broke a system I had. So I've certainly learned the hard way, so any software I do recommend I've made sure it can work.

The first post I made on this thread was all about getting set up, and Ninite was a service I highlighted.

Most of that stuff does get downloaded from Windows 8 and 10 updates now, there is a category from Ninite on it as well specifically. Especially the Microsoft stuff, and even a lot of 3rd party stuff is in there now for Windows updates. So if you're updated and you check all in that category for Ninite you get most of what you need right away. Also, DirectX 11 and 12 are backwards compatible with 9, but you still need to run the installer so that the dll's can be installed in to the proper location. So 11 and 12 override it, but it wont install the proper dll's (at least it didn't before for me). The Driver Booster Game Components thing is just a bonus, but it's apart of their premium, but it keeps things up-to-date in some regard and will fill in the rest of the gaps. The DirectPlay option is a very very great suggestion, I completely blanked on that.

Yes, you can do exactly that. You'll need Notepad++, and you'll go in to your LaunchBox/Data folder and open the XML files for each of your platforms in Notepad++. You'll press Ctrl + F to bring up the find menu option then you'll select find and replace. You'll want to find 'C:\' and replace it 'D:\'. If LaunchBox is using Relative paths (which look like "../", you'll find that and replace it with D instead. LB will use relative paths if the stuff it's using is on the same hard drive, so if LaunchBox and your games are on the same drive, I would say just to move them both. Since it's not using a hard drive letter, it doesn't matter if it's on C or D. You can also move them, remove the games from LaunchBox and re-import them while not downloading any media, but this will reset play count, favorites etc. So you have 3 choices you can make. The Notepad++ method is the easiest I think. Even if LB is using relative paths you can change it to the absolute path and you should be good to go. You'll need to close down LB before you edit them, make backups of all your XML's first, and you'll need to do this for each System XML. Someone was telling me that they opened up all the XML's in Notepad++ at once and they were able to use the find and replace all function for all opened documents. I know Notepad++ uses tabs, but I've never actually used replace all on multiple docs at once, so I am unsure where it is.

No. We will always respect any other websites wishes and how they do business. You don't get access to EmuMovies FTP without getting Premium. They're our partner and we would never betray that.

Unfortunately, the discount is only meant to be gotten once.

Sweet, thank you ckp

They are the same console, and it will require us to accommodate for that difference, so that we scrape both platforms on EmuMovies.

Well having integrated graphics on will also lower the performance of the CPU. We haven't had much testing with an integrated build on a recent CPU. I also admittedly didn't look at which CPU it was. There might be some inherent performance boost to LaunchBox from having a GPU, but LB doesn't use it directly.

I fond something that is fairly up-to-date, and it looks like a lot of these may have not been properly scanned yet.

Some of those machines will actually lag with LaunchBox and Big Box with larger libraries. Even with smaller libraries it may be slower than desired.

Overclocking the CPU could help, but I honestly wouldn't on such a small machine, with low cooling potential. LaunchBox is CPU heavy first, so if a CPU is lacking in anyway, then that's usually the culprit.

Actually no, but that's because it's never been needed. SWF files can run without needing to do much. The easiest method would be to grab a piece of software like Xpadder that will take keyboard buttons and map them to a controller.

Actually Windows 10 updates will solve a lot of that now automatically. Otherwise I use Ninite for OS re-installs, and let that do it's thing. I don't choose to download Steam through it, as it is an unattended installer, so it installs to the default location in C (and automatically says no to crap-ware or adware in the installers, if they even have it), but otherwise it's perfect. I also use IOBit's Driver Booster (which everyone should anyways and it in conjunction with Advanced System Care (which IOBit Uninstaller is fantastic for making sure a program is actually and completely uninstalled) to keep my PC cleaned up, tidy and secure), and the Pro version has the software version of it's driver portion for games. So the Game Components portion runs down the line, if there is anything else that is needed. I never need to bother with checking pre-req's as I generally have them all.

If you're on Windows 7, 8 or 10 you can also do a lot to turn off transitions and even make the UI go back to an old style, which takes less RAM and CPU power to operate. Doing that may also help as well, but ultimately those machines are just a bit too under powered.

So we now have a public Discord available for all users. This is different from the Patreon Exclusive Discord, which you can get access to as well which still has it's benefit, but now there is a public one. https://discord.gg/AFxfhnv Edit by Lordmonkus to change the discord invite link.

Then even potentially go for a cheaper 960 or even a higher end 950? I blanked on small form factor, so actually a 950 could work really well for the half size cards, but you are sacrificing vram, speed and decent DirectX 12 support. 950's I believe technically support it, but... and some emulators are moving that way. PCSX2, Dolphin, CEMU, CITRA, I wouldn't be surprised if DS and PSP emulators start to take advantage of it. DirectX 12 is a serious boon. To help keep form factor down, water cooling could be a great solution. You'll still need fans, but you wont need a massive heatsink which is what most of that cooler is. Also remember, that the smaller you go the more and more limited you'll be for parts, so you can nab a Mini ATX motherboard, but they do start to compromise on features. The motherboard in the PC Parts picker link has USB 3.1 on it. I grabbed a 3.1 to 3.0 small 4 port hub, plugged 4 USB 3 drives in it and they're super super fast.

So I swapped out for a 960, but a 970 isn't too much more, and there are some 1070's on sale that are affordable too, if you want to push it. You can also swap up or down on the storage, I just grabbed general sizes I thought would be good, and I picked higher performant hardware. If you buy 1 part at a time over some time, you'll also find great deals and it could probably be cheaper, as well as black friday. http://pcpartpicker.com/list/DmpDkT

I would say you could grab a GTX 970 / 980, and an Intel i7 6700 or an i5 6600, with 8 or 16GB of RAM. For head room, I would go with 16 as DirectX 12 and 64bit properly set up executable's are becoming way way more normal. Mid range DDR4 would be cheap as well. With black friday around the corner, Amazon and NewEgg are going to have crazy deals, so now would be the absolute best time to get it. I would also say grab an SSD for the OS too, and as long as LaunchBox / Big Box are on a 7200RPM SATA3 drive that will be plenty. I can try and spec one out for you if you'd like.

Well I'll cover both just in case, we'll never offer any roms for any system ever on this site unless we get the specific rights to re-distribute them, and as for images what I said above is still true, we just need more submissions.

Close down LaunchBox, Go in to your ../LaunchBox/Data/Platforms, create a backup of your GameCube platform XML and delete the original. Go back in to LB, re-import your GameCube games under the same platform (preferably the default) and uncheck all of the boxes for media, as all of your previously downloaded artwork will re-attach it's self automatically. If you still get the launching bug then I'll ask Jason if he has any ideas. Edit: I hope it's just some odd XML corruption first.

Oh wait, not images? Now im confused too.

Yea but we still don't have a ton of Japanese specific artwork, especially carts or disk's.

No, but this has been requested a lot. It would be good to have. The initial import and the Download Images and Metadata are strict to cut down on false flagging.

The version doesn't change the solution, uncheck the use for emulation and re-add the path. If you can't uncheck the use emulation check box or it keeps re-checking it's self, then that is a bug.