spycat

Hi folks. I'm on 13.18 official and seeing an issue with uninstalling the BigPEmu LaunchBox Integration plugin. This plugin has an active Uninstall box which, when clicked, tells me the uninstall is pending and I need to close the Plugins Manager to proceed. Closing this then shows a popup box telling me LaunchBox needs to close to complete the uninstall. LaunchBox then closes and restarts, but the plugin is still shown as installed with it's Uninstall box available to click on again. Am I seeing a bug in the software?

If all you want to do is load the Videopac+ Home Computer Module and auto open it's BASIC screen, use the parameters videopacp -autoboot_delay 1 -ab "0" -cart1 and point the LaunchBox Launching entry to the homecomp zip But if you are trying to get the Videopac Home Computer Module's BASIC to load and run a cassette then I would imagine something like videopacp -cart1 homecomp -autoboot_delay 1 -script scripts/c7420.lua -cass where c7420.lua is in a sub-folder of MAME called scripts - edit my location to suit yours. And point the LaunchBox Launching entry to the cassette. By the way, I wasn't aware that there were tape games available for the Videopac+. There's no cassette software list and I've never came across a No-Intro cassette set or similar.

The required bios is mtx512.zip There are 3 associated devices mtx_cfx.zip mtx_sdxbas.zip mtx_sdxcpm.zip I don't use any of these devices and the cassette games work ok. Not sure, but these devices may be related to the flop and hdd softlists.

Using RandoMame's svi318_cass.lua script with the Spectravideo svi318_cass software list / Spectravideo No-Intro set with MAME via LaunchBox. This lua handles BASIC and Binary games. My LaunchBox Default Command-Line Parameters (lua is in my MAME/scripts folder) svi328 -autoboot_delay 6 -script scripts/svi318_cass.lua -cass The lua worked fine with the vast majority of BASIC games. With a handful of BASIC games, however, the lua's sending of RUN arrived too soon and corrupted on screen, causing tape loading to fail. There's a custom lua in the attached zip for those games. I met two issues when using the lua with Binary games. The first issue was with the lua itself and affected the loading of all Binary games. Editing the lua and changing emu.keypost('BLOAD "CAS:",R\n') to read emu.keypost('BLOAD"CAS :",R\n') fixed that issue for me. The second issue (after fixing the first one) was not a lua one as such and affected some but not all Binary games. By default, the lua sends CLOAD which expects a BASIC game. A Binary game, by right, should reject CLOAD with a Device (I/O) error, causing the lua to rewind the tape and switch to using BLOAD. Some Binary games, however, fail to flag an error and so the lua, being none the wiser, continues with CLOAD. There's a custom lua in the attached zip for those games. The svi318 and svi328 systems use the same software list / No-Intro set, and the luas (RandoMame's and customs) are compatible with both. I came across the odd game that didn't work properly with svi318 but did with svi328, nothing to do with the luas. So I use svi328. svi318CustomLuas.zip

Two lua scripts for use with Philips VG 5000 cassette (vg5k software list) emulation with MAME via LaunchBox. RandoMame's vg5k.lua plays the tape at normal speed and sends RUN once loaded. The two luas in the attached zip use tape fast loading; one is for games that require RUN once loaded, and the other is for games that don't. See the ReadMe in the attached zip for more information. vg5kLuaScripts.zip

Try this artwork dotron.zip Ignore the deprecated warnings on game launch. In game open the Video Options and try out the two XBLA artwork views and the Hausjam one. They all use full screen 16:9 aspect. dotron.zip

You might like to try the attached invaders.zip artwork file for the Space Invaders (invaders.zip) arcade game. You can switch between the various video options such as Upright_Artwork_Midway, Upright_Artwork_Taito and so on. invaders.zip

@Kedog You may find these images of some use. Yuurei-Kun 3D Box.zip

Once you've typed CLOAD and pressed Return, you need to manually play the tape.

Your 2nd option - left click the image to show only that image and then right-click it and 'save image as' downloads the full size image for me. Tried 'Fix It Felix Jr.' Box - Front image which downloaded as a 2.3 MB 1637 x 2430 png.

Concerning your vsmile.zip bios issue. If MAME tells you that it can't find vsmile_v102.bin and vsmile_v103.bin but doesn't report anything amiss with the vsmile_v100.bin then maybe your vsmile.zip bios is iffy. vsmile.zip was last updated Feb 2020. I use that version (see Retroroms) which works with MAME 0.269 as it also did with several recent builds.

Concerning your VSmile issue. You need vsmile.zip which contains the 3 files vsmile_v100.bin vsmile_v102.bin vsmile_v103.bin By VCreate do you mean VTech CreatiVision? If so, then see your 'Creativision Emulator' thread.

To emulate The VTech CreatiVision carts with MAME via LaunchBox you need the bios crvision.zip If you're emulating the MAME crvision software list games then the 'Remove Quotes' and 'Remove file extension and folder path' boxes should be checked. If you're emulating the No-Intro games then the 'Remove Quotes' and 'Remove file extension and folder path' boxes should be empty. In either case the LaunchBox parameters are crvision -cart When a game is launched it displays the demo screen. Press F10 and then press R. After a short tune the game can be played. See the crvision.xml hash file for more information.

@dragon57 There's a discrepancy between the SA-Atari7800 and the themed Atari7800 bezel filenames for the Super Huey bezels. The SA uses UH-IX (the letter I) whereas the themed uses UH-1X (the number one). Any chance of a fix to bring the themed into line with the SA?