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There's no need for Custom Command-Line Parameters for the voice synthesis games. Just use the Default Command-Line parameters below for your Intellivision platform intv -cart1 voice -cart2 This will play both normal games and the 4 with voice synthesis.

When you hide a game via it's tickbox option within the Edit Game window it's automatically hidden in BigBox but will still appear in LaunchBox unless the Show Hidden Games option in the View menu is disabled. This applies to All as well as the hidden game's Platform.

Some time ago the LaunchBox executables were obfuscated with piracy in mind. A Protect DLL is a mechanism to check at startup if an EXE has been modified and if so to prevent it from opening.

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Arcade Artwork has game video previews in mp4, 480p mainly for MAME but also for a range of computer and console systems. All are free to download. http://www.arcadeartwork.org/index.php?/page/game_video_previews

BBC Micro 3D Boxes (Audiogenic games) View File A collection of 23 3D (png) and 2D (jpg) box fronts of Audiogenic (ASL) games. Four 3D game boxes were made with custom spines, as I couldn't find any scans of the original spines. These boxes do not have the ASL catalogue number on their spines. They are Despatch Rider Emlyn Hughes Arcade Quiz Ransack The Genesis Project Submitter spycat Submitted 06/22/2018 Category Game Box Art  

If you don't wish to have the Button Bar visible, you can add a new game either by right-clicking any game in the relevant Platform or else use CTRL+N

That's correct. You can just delete the diff folder altogether. The first time you then run a game that uses a chd, MAME will recreate the diff folder and add files to it every time a new game is first run.

Hi folks. I've just today updated from 8.1 to 8.3 and had a look around LaunchBox Next. This is very impressive and I've really taken to it. Just two questions. Can I hide the "Platform: platform name" text that shows above the games boxart panels, and can I switch the Developer names in the boxart panels to the Publishers names?

BBC Micro 3D Boxes (AnF, Alligata games) View File This is a collection of 35 3D game box fronts for AnF (11) and Alligata (24) software houses which I've made. The 2D box fronts (in jpg format) are included. Submitter spycat Submitted 06/06/2018 Category Game Box Art  

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You may also come across games where the parent is unplayable but a clone is. For example, as you're on MAME 179, the parent of the game Alligator Hunt is protected and becomes unplayable shortly after starting, whereas it's clone is unprotected and fully playable. The parent didn't become working until MAME 190 or thereabouts. Also, since you've tried every game in your romset at least once, if you are going to delete quite a few chd based games you should also tidy up MAME's diff folder. These chd related data files can be big and add up to a nice amount of space on your hd.

Some chds have the same name as the game's rom while others don't, but all chds will be in unzipped folders named exactly like the game roms, making these folders easy to spot and remove. For example the game Killer Instinct, kinst.zip uses a chd called kinst.chd which is in a folder called kinst, whereas the game Crypt Killer, cryptklr.zip uses a chd called 420uaa04.chd which is in a folder called cryptklr

Have you tried using the LaunchBox variable %romfile% and placing the emulator's own parameters after it?

Good to hear.

I recently had updates and RA still plays games with sound. I don't know why one of your Defender updates is greyed out, I didn't receive that one myself.

When BigBox opens, go to Options, Views and set Default Startup View to Platforms.

BBC Micro 3D Boxes (Micro Power/Program Power games) View File This is a collection of 69 Micro Power/Program Power 3D game box fronts which I've made. The 2D box fronts (in jpg format) are included. Submitter spycat Submitted 05/09/2018 Category Game Box Art  

You could try Fn+S. This works for Dell machines with no ScrollLock button. Failing that you need to check your machine's documentation.

With a very small LBox games collection I prefer to do everything manually and haven't used the import features in ages, so I can't help with that. As regards the two games you mentioned. Pac-Man (pacman.zip) is a clone of the parent Japanese game Puck Man Japan Set 1 (puckman.zip). Double Dragon US sets 1, 2 and 3 (ddragonu.zip ddragonua.zip ddragonub.zip) are clones of the parent Japanese game Double Dragon (ddragon,zip).

MAME can emulate the Apple IIgs. The file format support list is flop1 and flop2 and flop3 and flop4 dsk, po, fdi, td0, imd, cqm, d77, d88, 1dd flop1 and flop2 only do, bin, nib flop3 and flop4 only img, image, dc, 2img, 2mg If all or most of your games are in the dsk (or another flop1 supported) format, then for your Associated Platform Default Command-Line Parameters you can use apple2gs -flop1 This will handle your single disk games. For multiple disk games you can set a Custom Command-Line Parameter for each game. apple2gs -flop1 %romfile% -flop2 "full path to disk 2 goes here" and so on if needed. If you have a few games which use a format that only supports flop3 and flop4, you can apply Custom Parameters to those games as well. apple2gs -flop3 or apple2gs -flop3 %romfile% -flop4 "full path to disk 2 goes here"