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Currently there is no way to place images above the game information. The only way to move the images up the panel is to disable some of the tick boxes. You can do this in the Game Details window (Tools, Options, Game Details).

To add each game Application Path: point this to your DICE executable. Parameters: type the game name (you'll find the list in the ReadMe text file that came with DICE). When you press OK and LaunchBox goes on about using an emulator etc., just select NO. For certain games to work properly, an external ROM is also needed. Put them in the roms folder in your DICE folder; if you don't see this folder then create it. These external ROMs must be renamed according to the DICE ReadMe list. So the game Anti-Aircraft [TTL] needs it's external ROM renamed from antiairc.zip to antiaircraft.zip There's no need to do anything else with these external ROMs. Whan a game that needs one is run, DICE will know one is needed and look in it's roms folder for it. If the ROM is missing or wrongly named, then DICE will show an error box. Two images here, one of a DICE game LaunchBox setup, the other of my DICE roms folder.

DICE 0.9 simulates 21 of the pre-CPU arcade games of the 1970's. As there are no actual game files for LaunchBox to point to, you need to run DICE as an application and add the game name (as known to DICE) as a parameter. Some games also need an external ROM image in order to work properly: Anti-Aircraft, Attack, Clean Sweep, Crash n Score, Indy 4, Jet Fighter, Shark JAWS, Steeplechase, Stunt Cycle and Wipeout. You need the TTL versions of these. The ROMs (still zipped) go in the DICE roms folder and they must be renamed to the DICE recognised names as listed in the text file that comes with DICE. These games are also launched with DICE run as an application. DICE will detect if an external ROM is present and use it. DICE broadly follows MAME in expecting coin credit entering and select player to start.

Hi Jason. I tested the official V.7 and the left sidebar Platforms view not sorting issue with LaunchBox ever since the Category feature was added is still there. With Game Counts enabled, here is how Platform sorting displays for me with various combinations of the ALL, NONE and EXISTS options: With ALL, NONE and EXISTS all disabled - platform sorting is correct. With ALL, NONE and EXISTS all enabled - platform sorting is correct. With any one of these three options enabled and the other two disabled - platform sorting is incorrect. For example, with ALL enabled and both NONE and EXISTS disabled. With any two of these three options enabled and the third one disabled - platform sorting is correct. For example, with both ALL and EXISTS enabled and NONE disabled. With Game Counts disabled, then all of the above combinations of ALL, NONE and EXISTS will sort platforms correctly.

Hi teceem. On the subject of showing the Box front in the Details pane (LaunchBox right sidebar), currently the direct options don't allow for Box fronts. As a workaround go to Tools, Options, Screenshot Priorities and tick the Box-front box. This will add the game Box covers to the Details pane. If you want the Box to show above the game screenshot, just move it up the priorities list.

The Dropbox Repository link is still working and you can download from it, but bear in mind that the member who created and maintained it appears to be no longer active here. He hasn't been on the forums for well over a year now.

Hi 80sarcadeboy. I also tried this and I couldn't get it to work. The "Show Clear Logo In Game Details" tickbox in the Options, Images menu has to do with showing or hiding the clear logo as a sidebar header for a particular game when you are viewing that game's Details menu. What's really needed here is an option to cycle the Game Image Type to NONE. Here is a workaround that may hide your Clear Logos as shown in your screenshot. Set the Game Image Type to Boxes. Exit from BigBox to LaunchBox and go to Tools, Options, Box Front Priorities. Clear any active tickboxes and save. Now start BigBox and see if your Clear Logos are absent. By the way, clearing all the Box Front Priorities tickboxes in LaunchBox will set all your boxart images in LaunchBox to their defaults - Grey Box with LaunchBox cube. But if you only use BigBox then this may not be a problem for you. You can always temporarily restore these whenever you need to use LaunchBox itself by re-ticking the boxes you used to use, and clearing them again once you finish with LaunchBox.

Hi alpenjodler. You can add different versions of a game such as a different region, a pre-release, a translated copy, a trained copy and so on using the Additional Apps feature in LaunchBox. Any Additional Apps you create in LaunchBox for a game will be available in BigBox. You'll have just one visual entry for the game, with the other options available in LaunchBox via right-clicking the game's boxart and in BigBox from within the Game Details menu.

Hi @Jason Carr My Data folder is on it's way to you.

If you want blueMSX to automatically launch games for more than one system then, once you've assigned blueMSX to be the emulator to use with those Platforms, just add the Platforms and their required parameters to the Associated Platforms section of the blueMSX Edit Emulator window in LaunchBox. If some of your games are zipped then enable the "Extract ROM archives before running" tick-box. When you launch a game blueMSX will then automatically select the machine to emulate and launch the game. The image below shows some example settings that allow blueMSX to launch games in Microsoft MSX2, ColecoVision and Sega SG-1000 Platforms through LaunchBox. While all of this is nice to play around with, I'd still go with MAME/MESS.

Hi In virtute Dei. If you open this thread and scroll to the 2nd post you will see a link that will take you to the old Dropbox Repository. You'll find a collection of machine image pngs in the Device Images section. I'm sure that the Dragon and Colour Genie are in there. If you're stuck for some obscure ones why not post a list and maybe members can help out. By the way, your hard work on this is excellent and much appreciated. http://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/28686-new-launchbox-platform-image-collection-thread/

I'd go with MAME/MESS too, but you can also use blueMSXv282full (the standalone emulator, not the RA core one) to emulate the ColecoVision if you want to experiment with something else. As well as being able to emulate a variety of MSX, MSX2, MSX2+ and MSXturboR machines, blueMSX can also emulate some non-MSX machines. Coleco machines: ColecoVision console. ColecoVision with Opcode Memory Extension. Bit Corporation Dina. Spectravideo SV1-603 Coleco game adapter. Sega machines: SG-1000 console. SC-3000 computer. SF-7000 computer. Spectravideo machines: SV1-318. SV1-328. SV1-328 80. SV1-328 80 Swedish. SV1-328 MK2. All these can be selected (and reconfigured if you don't like the defaults) using the Machine Editor.

Hi @Jason Carr Just an update on the LaunchBox original Platform view not displaying in alphabetical order since the introduction of the Platform Category feature. As I mentioned earlier, using the old Platform view shows the platforms in correct order with game counts off but all jumbled up when game counts are on. But if you disable the All, None and Exists check boxes, then the platforms sort ok with game counts enabled.

Hi master333. I forgot to mention that if you disable the All, None and Exists check boxes, then your platforms will sort ok with game counts enabled.

Hi master333. Do you have game counts enabled? This issue seems to be linked to the new Platform Category feature and Jason is aware of it. If you disable game counts for the left sidebar then your platforms should sort ok. Mine sort ok with game counts disabled, but are all jumbled up when I enable game counts.

Hi paulmichel21. You can use an Additional App to run an XPadder profile before your game, and a 2nd one to stop XPadder after you quit your game. You don't need to use a batch file or a script to do this. You have to create 2 Additional Apps for each game. Application Name: Type what you want in here, it's only a description. Application Path: Set this to point to your XPadder.exe file. Application Command-Line Parameters: For the Additional App to start XPadder set this to the path to your XPadder Profile for the game. The /M switch just minimises XPadder to the tray. There's no need to include the Profile extension,; XPadder will add it automatically. By the way, XPadder is rumoured to not like spaces in the path to a Profile. If you have spaces, then you may need to enclose the path and profile name in double quotes. If you have to use double quotes, then leave the /M bit outside of them. For the Additional App to close XPadder set this to /C See images below for an example. Sorry I can't be of help with nomousy, but I don't use this.

Hi In virtute Dei. It's great to see someone taking on this mammoth task for all the new Platforms in the database. When the Platforms metadata was first done way back in mid 2015, we entered it in LaunchBox using the Manage Platforms and then eMailed the XML file to Jason and the metadata was available in his next beta. I don't know if Jason still uses this method, as this was before the games database came along and machine images were being submitted directly to the forums. But when the games database did arrive Jason had it all in there. Not too sure how many platforms were done back then. Quite a few members were active at it; I think I did around 70.

Hi Jason. The issue with the out of order Platforms when switching from Platform Categories back to Platforms appears to be linked to the games counts feature in the left sidebar. The issue appears when game counts are enabled, but the Platforms list in correct alphabetical order when this feature is turned off.

Hi Jason. I've just tried out the new beta (7.6) and the new Platform Categories view works fine after I added platforms that were not initially recognised. However, when I switch from Platform Categories back to Platforms view then all the platforms are no longer in alphabetical order in the left sidebar.

Hi Charco. See here for help with XPadder http://xpadder.com/forum4/viewforum.php?f=7

I don't know how to do links. If you use the search box to search for vivanonno it will find it.

Hi sarge. Try this. To remove the Platform Banner (the Genesis image), in BigBox select Options, Views, and set the Platform List View to Platforms Wheel with Video, Details and Thumbs. And to hide the Details text, now go to Options, Platform Details, and clear all the check boxes.

Hi knightCrawler In the forums go to Off Topic, Emulation and browse to the topic Vivanonno emulator need help.

Hi knightCrawler. Regarding the issues with running MSX2 in MESS. MESS151 supports the generic msx, msx2 and msx2p systems. However, from about MESS155 onward and of course all the MAME builds with MESS integrated, this support has been dropped. If you checkout the pastebin link posted above by lordmonkus for MESS174 you'll see that the msx, msx2 and msx2p systems are absent. Apparently, with the MAME/MESS devs constantly looking for accuracy, this support of what is a specification or architecture used by many machines was abandoned in favour of support for the actual machines themselves. So to emulate MSX1, MSX2, MSX2+ using a build of MESS later than 154 or MAME with MESS integrated you need to emulate a real MSX machine. The problem is that there are so many of them. They were made by the likes of Sony, Yamaha, Toshiba, Canon, Mitsubishi, Panasonic and so on. Which one is best - who knows. Which one has the best game compatibility - again who knows. MESS offers the following best match list. Unknown system 'msx2' "msx2" approximately matches the following supported machines (best match first): ax350 AX-350 (MSX2) ax370 AX-370 (MSX2) canonv25 V-25 (MSX2) canonv30 V-30 (MSX2) canonv30f V-30F (MSX2) cpc300 IQ-2000 CPC-300 (Korea) (MSX2) cpc300e IQ-2000 CPC-300E (Korea) (MSX2) cpc330k CPC-330K KOBO (Korea) (MSX2) cpc400 X-II CPC-400 (Korea) (MSX2) cpc400s X-II CPC-400S (Korea) (MSX2) expert20 Expert 2.0 (Brazil) (MSX2) expert3i Expert 3 IDE (MSX2+) expert3t Expert 3 Turbo (MSX2+) expertac Expert AC88+ (MSX2+) expertdx Expert DDX+ (MSX2+) fpc900 FPC-900 (MSX2) Of course there are many more MSX/MSX2/MSX2+ machines available. Some will have support for cartridge, cassette and floppy, while others will not have floppy support. I tried out the Canon V-30 (MSX2) with MAME179 and it worked the same as the old generic msx2 using MESS151. Out of 9 MSX2 games I tested, 8 ran and 1 failed (Aleste). This game apparently needs some sort of music file to be loaded into the cart2 slot. By the way, bluesmx runs Aleste just fine. As an example, to use the Canon V-30 (MSX2) machine with MAME179, the system is canonv30 and the bios needed is canonv30.zip. In MAME's Associated Platforms tab for your MSX2 platform, the basic command line parameters are canonv30 -cart1 or canonv30 -flop1 or canonv30 -cass depending on the format of your games.