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Maddoc1007 said Saboti said Hi, first, thank you for this great Launcher ! I Managed to get Demul for Sammy Atomiswave or Sega Naomi to work. Similar to N64 Emu you have to work with a batch File. Create it in the Same Folder as Demul. Naomi: bat code @echo off SET STRING=%1 SET STRING=%STRING:.zip=% SET STRING=%STRING:E:\LaunchBox\Games\Sega Naomi\=% echo %STRING% start demul.exe -run=naomi -rom=%STRING% Furthermore you have to adjust the Path in the Demul.ini Change the following Line according to your needs: roms0 = I have Installed Launchbox and Demul Emulator in E:\Launchbox\Emulators\Sega Atomiswave\demul-0.57\ My Roms are in E:\Launchbox\Games\Sammy Atomiswave\ So to set the Path Relative to the Games you have to insert: roms0 = ..\..\..\..\Games\Sega Naomi\ Hope it's understandable English is not my Primary Language Greetings Saboti . The batch file also works great for Naomi games but dont use the string -run=naomi -rom=%STRING% in command line for default emulator when importing Naomi games, as it will bring up the demul windows where you have to choose game. Instead use the string in the edit game under emulation tab check the Use custom command line box and enter -run=naomi -rom=%STRING% change the %STRING% to rom zip name (not game name) -run=naomi -rom=sstrkfgt the zip name for Strike Fighter game, do this for each game, now each individual game will open instead of demul game chooser window

Saboti said Hi, first, thank you for this great Launcher ! I Managed to get Demul for Sammy Atomiswave or Sega Naomi to work. Similar to N64 Emu you have to work with a batch File. Create it in the Same Folder as Demul. Atomiswave: @echo off SET STRING=%1 SET STRING=%STRING:.zip=% SET STRING=%STRING:E:\LaunchBox\Games\Sammy Atomiswave\=% echo %STRING% start demul.exe -run=atomiswave -rom=%STRING% Naomi: @echo off SET STRING=%1 SET STRING=%STRING:.zip=% SET STRING=%STRING:E:\LaunchBox\Games\Sega Naomi\=% echo %STRING% start demul.exe -run=naomi -rom=%STRING% Furthermore you have to adjust the Path in the Demul.ini Change the following Line according to your needs: roms0 = I have Installed Launchbox and Demul Emulator in E:\Launchbox\Emulators\Sega Atomiswave\demul-0.57\ My Roms are in E:\Launchbox\Games\Sammy Atomiswave\ So to set the Path Relative to the Games you have to insert: roms0 = ..\..\..\..\Games\Sega Naomi\ Hope it's understandable English is not my Primary Language Greetings Saboti The batch file works great but dont use the string -run=atomiswave -rom=%STRING% in command line for default emulator when importing Atomiswave games, as it will bring up the demul windows where you have to choose game. Instead use the string in the edit game under emulation tab check the Use custom command line box and enter -run=atomiswave -rom=%STRING% change the %STRING% to rom zip name (not game name) -run=atomiswave -rom=dolphin the zip name for Dolphin Blue game, do this for each game, now each individual game will open instead of demul game chooser window.

Thanks @bd000 no hurry also the Sammy Atomiswave and Sega Naomi which demul emulates which could be used for games that nulldc cant emulate

@bd000 3 more systems that have no platform logos etc for, Namco System 22, Sega System 16 and Sega System 32 arcade machine's. Thanking you in advance will do fanart for them when someone does the logos etc.

@ps4isthefuture thank you for that ps4 no wonder mine didnt close out pcsx2 fully didnt have the --nogui, but saying that still leaves you with a default configuration for all games, thats why did a script to make each game have their own configuration, however that make the --nogui --fullscreen --fullboot not work as you point to the ahk and dont specify an emulator for the game the script does that. If any one knows a different way or easier way of doing be much obliged if they,d let us know.

Not really thats what iv done IrfanView has a batch conversion which is really really fast about 200 images in about 2 to 5 minutes depending on the size your doing without loss of image quality and if youu convert png's to jpgs they shrink from around 1 to 2mb to about 500kb for large pictures. What i initially did was go into the Launchbox image folder used the search function and typed in fanart.jpg showed all the fanart jpgs and i copied them to a folder on my desktop called fanart, then i created another folder called fanart1 the destination folder and did a batch convert to jpg to save in fanart1 folder. finally went into launchbox and the longest part was editing each game and changing the fanart there in each game, which overwrote the original fanart, afterwards i just deleted the 2 folders on the desktop. Did the same for front boxart all uniform at 500 width x 700 pixels so all my paltforms are uniform.

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@Kozar927 If you want your images not too zoom too much before you add them to Launchbox download a program called Irfanview and resize you images to your screen size then when you add them they wont distort or zoom outside your screen aera.

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When you use Pcsx2 as a Playstation 2 emulator through Launchbox you import all your games into it, but they all run with the same configuration, that means with some games that you either have to use software plugins or harware plugins. What if you want your games working with a different configuration for each game? what then? I struggled with this and googled for an answer there was one but this meant you had to create shortcuts to the pcsx2 emulator and set properties in that shortcut for your games to work via that shortcut. This worked for some games through a frontend but not all, as some games complain that they cannot find the plugins, it depended on the length of the names ie:- where the games were stored etc. I looked around for an easier way but couldnt find one, so i decided to try and create an Autohotkey script that would work for each individual game and once you had it written for one game it would be easy to apply for all the other playstation 2 games you would have. But not only that, as you know when Esc key is pressed on pcsx2 when a game is running this only closed down the game emulation but does not close down the pcsx2 emulator or its background running process's and you have to manually with the mouse, click on System then scroll down to exit and click on Exit, which is far from ideal. Here is a copy of the script i made and have working for me, the game is running on software plugin and wont render graphics with a harware plugin which is why it needs a different configuration to a game that runs on Hardware graphics plugin:- Run C:\Users\PC\Documents\LaunchBox\Emulators\pcsx2-1.2.1-r5875-binaries\pcsx2-1.2-r5875.exe "C:\Users\PC\Documents\LaunchBox\Emulators\pcsx2-1.2.1-r5875-binaries\isos\Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb\Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb.iso" --cfgpath="C:\Users\PC\Documents\LaunchBox\Emulators\pcsx2-1.2.1-r5875-binaries\isos\Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb\Indiana Jones inis" Esc:: Send, {ALTDOWN}{ENTER}{ALTUP} WinWait, PCSX2 1.2.1, IfWinNotActive, PCSX2 1.2.1, , WinActivate, PCSX2 1.2.1, WinWaitActive, PCSX2 1.2.1, MouseClick, left, 31, 34 MouseClick, left, 59, 353 ExitAPP return I will now try and explain the script to make it a bit easier to understand then i will tell you how to apply it on a per game basis. Run C:\Users\PC\Documents\LaunchBox\Emulators\pcsx2-1.2.1-r5875-binaries\pcsx2-r5875.exe This part of the script tells the emulator to open and where it is placed, as you can see its in LaunchBox in the documents folder and the full name of the emulator to open. "C:\Users\PC\Documents\LaunchBox\Emulators\pcsx2-1.2.1-r5875-binaries\isos\Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb\Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb.iso" This part of the script tells the emulator where your game iso is, whats its full name is and the folder it is in (make sure each game has its own folder in a folder called isos (your folder might be games or something different, in that case instead \isos\ it would be \games\ or what ever your game folder is called). --cfgpath= The configuration path "C:\Users\PC\Documents\LaunchBox\Emulators\pcsx2-1.2.1-r5875-binaries\isos\Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb\Indiana Jones inis" This part of the script tells what folder the games ini file is, its in a folder called Indiana Jones inis which is inside the game folder(Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb) inside the game folder(isos). Esc:: This tells the script that when you press escape on the keyboard Send, {ALTDOWN}{ENTER}{ALTUP} WinWait, PCSX2 1.2.1, IfWinNotActive, PCSX2 1.2.1, , WinActivate, PCSX2 1.2.1, WinWaitActive, PCSX2 1.2.1, MouseClick, left, 31, 34 MouseClick, left, 59, 353 This part of the script tells the emulator after the Esc button is pressed which automatically closes the game to wait and then click on System on the Pcsx2 emulator and then move mouse down and click on Exit (which will close down Pcsx2 and its running processes) MouseClick, left, 31, 34 is the mouse co-ordinates of where System tab is. MouseClick, left, 59, 353 is the mouse co-ordinates of where Exit is. ExitAPP return This part of script tells the script to exit and stop running. Well thats the script explained as best i can, now to show you how to put it in practice for each Playstation 2 game:- Make sure you have Autohotkey installed, i would also advise you to install a program called AutoScriptWriter (Google is your friend here). The first thing you need to do is open up the pcsx2 emulator, then click on CDVD and then Click on Iso Selector and then choose a game iso. Now configure that game plugins, gamepad etc to the way you want for that game. When you have the game set up the way you like it launch the game for a few seconds till it boots up, and then you can exit the game and emulator (but make sure you do not launch any other game or make any more changes) Now go to the inis folder and double click on PCSX2_ui.ini, go down to line DefaultToFullscreen=disabled and change it to DefaultToFullscreen=enabled and save and exit and close out of inis folder, Now copy the inis folder (this is important because it holds all the information for the game you have just set up). Make sure each game has its own folder and now paste the inis folder inside the game folder you just did the configuration for. Rename the inis folder to the Name of the Game inis (as my example script shows Indiana Jones inis). Now right click inside the folder and down to new and create a text document save it as the name of the game and add the text Run C:\Users\PC\Documents\LaunchBox\Emulators\pcsx2-1.2.1-r5875-binaries\pcsx2-1.2-1r5875.exe "C:\Users\PC\Documents\LaunchBox\Emulators\pcsx2-1.2.1-r5875-binaries\isos\Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb\Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb.iso" --cfgpath="C:\Users\PC\Documents\LaunchBox\Emulators\pcsx2-1.2.1-r5875-binaries\isos\Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb\Indiana Jones inis" (all this part of the script is together except on where i tell you to put a space, see below) Esc:: Send, {ALTDOWN}{ENTER}{ALTUP} WinWait, PCSX2 1.2.1, IfWinNotActive, PCSX2 1.2.1, , WinActivate, PCSX2 1.2.1, WinWaitActive, PCSX2 1.2.1, MouseClick, left, 31, 34 MouseClick, left, 59, 353 ExitAPP return Run C:\Users\PC\Documents\LaunchBox\Emulators\pcsx2-1.2.1-r5875-binaries\pcsx2-r5875.exe= full path to your pcsx2 emulator, then press space and "C:\Users\PC\Documents\LaunchBox\Emulators\pcsx2-1.2.1-r5875-binaries\isos\Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb\Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb.iso" =where you game iso is the inverted comma's must be included, then a space --cfgpath =configuration Path "C:\Users\PC\Documents\LaunchBox\Emulators\pcsx2-1.2.1-r5875-binaries\isos\Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb\Indiana Jones inis" this tells where your specific game ini is. Esc:: Send, {ALTDOWN}{ENTER}{ALTUP} WinWait, PCSX2 1.2.1, IfWinNotActive, PCSX2 1.2.1, , WinActivate, PCSX2 1.2.1, WinWaitActive, PCSX2 1.2.1, MouseClick, left, 31, 34 MouseClick, left, 59, 353 ExitAPP return can be copied as it is here. Now the reason i said to download an app called AutoScriptWriter is it can record mouse click's and their co-ordinates for you just in case your mouse co-ordinates for System and Exit are different to mine, as mine is a 4:3 screen. To do this open up AutoScriptWriter by clicking it's exe. It will stay in front of any window you open, now open Pcsx2 emulator and before you do anything else click on the record button on AutoScriptWriter it will shrink and go up into the left hand corner of your screen, now click on Sytem on your emulator and then click on Exit. When that is done click on Stop on AutoScriptWriter and it will maximise again and show you the co-ordinates of System and Exit and just change those mouse Click co-ordinates in script and then save the text. Now we change the .txt to .ahk (an autohotkey script). which will be the name of your game. Now all we need to do is open LaunchBox, go to the game you created the script for, right click go edit and point now where game is to the ahk instead of the iso, we also must under the emulator tab uncheck use emulator and then click on Ok, LaunchBox will say this game needs an emulator just click on No. You must do the above steps exactly for each Playstation 2 game (no shortcuts copying the ahx from one game folder to another to speed things up so you only need change paths of where emulator game etc is as script wont work for that game trust me i tried). So new text document for each game inside each game folder then all the code then change to ahk. I know this may seem a bit long winded but i wanted to make it as easy for you to understand as possible, and once you have one script done you'll be amazed how quickly you will do the rest.

Hi Jason been noticing a peculiar incidence everytime i shut down and reopen my computer, and then launch LaunchBox, then go to Tools, and Clean up images, see image below As you can see it constantly says 316 images have been removed from....... This is the same result every time after a shutdown and re-open of computer, i dont know if this is a cleaning out of cache or that those images are repopulating themselves every time or just a cleaning bug. Thought id pass it on as there is no error popping up or any erors either in LaunchBox or in Windows. ps:- This has only started happening with the last 2 beta's

Here Are the Scripts for Vivanonno emulator if anyone is looking for them open up notepad and paste each one into a new document. Rename Rave Racer to Rave Racer.ahk and Save the Ridge Racer one as Ridge Racer.ahk (make sure you have autohotkey installed on your computer). Now just point to the ahk file when adding game to LaunchBox and make sure no emulator is selected. Rave Racer:(NOT PART OF SCRIPT) Run, C:\Users\PC\Documents\LaunchBox\Emulators\Nameco System 22\vivanonno.exe WinWait, viva nonno, IfWinNotActive, viva nonno, , WinActivate, viva nonno, WinWaitActive, viva nonno, Send, {ALTDOWN}s{ALTUP}{ENTER}{ENTER} WinWait, Select System, IfWinNotActive, Select System, , WinActivate, Select System, WinWaitActive, Select System, MouseClick, left, 58, 127 Send, {ENTER} WinWait, viva nonno - *, IfWinNotActive, viva nonno - *, , WinActivate, viva nonno - *, WinWaitActive, viva nonno - *, Send, {ALTDOWN}{ENTER}{ALTUP} Ridge Racer (NOT PART OF SCRIPT) Run, C:\Users\PC\Documents\LaunchBox\Emulators\Nameco System 22\vivanonno.exe WinWait, viva nonno, IfWinNotActive, viva nonno, , WinActivate, viva nonno, WinWaitActive, viva nonno, Send, {ALTDOWN}s{ALTUP}{ENTER}{ENTER} WinWait, Select System, IfWinNotActive, Select System, , WinActivate, Select System, WinWaitActive, Select System, MouseClick, left, 82, 70 send, {ENTER} WinWait, viva nonno - system resetted, IfWinNotActive, viva nonno - system resetted, , WinActivate, viva nonno - system resetted, WinWaitActive, viva nonno - system resetted, Send, {ALTDOWN}{ENTER}{ALTUP} IMPORTANT STEP Replace the C:\Users\PC\Documents\LaunchBox\Emulators\Nameco System 22\vivanonno.exe with where ever you have placed your vivananno emulator. A thanks to Badmouth over at arcadecontrols.com for this script And a major thank you @bd000 for finding this useful info.

Thanks very much @bd000 tried for few hours to get that script but wasnt having any luck getting a link for it on internet explorer somehow, will have to install chrome, yes thats what i was looking for its launching the games in LaunchBox now, All you have to do is choose no emulator and point where game should be to the ahk. file for each game. Cheers thanks again.

Thanks all down to your and scree, porthacking for the wonderful images that ye provided and must say make BigBox really stand out. Big cheer to you guys. Have opened a topic on vivanonno emulator for nameco system 22 maybe you could figure out a way of doing a script to open each game individually in LaunchBox as i know completely nothing on scripting. Tried your excellent bat that works for all emulators iv tried it on except this particular stubborn one, as it sems it needs a wrapper that you can make for emulator and each game (only 2 of them) that you can use instead of the game like your bat files.

Hi i need help with the vivanonno emulator vivanonno.exe for the nameco system 22 it only runs 2 games ridge racer 2 and rave racer but it plays them graphically perfect unlike mame does. What i need is a script or wrapper for this emulator, tried bd000's script but it wont work for this particular emu. There was a wrapper for it reading posts online a few years ago but i cannot find that wrapper anywhere. When you add those 2 games to LaunchBox and choose vivanonno emulator, when you click on game in Launchbox it only opens the emulator (which checking online has no command lines whatsoever). You then have to click on System then click on Load then choose the game. Once the game starts you then click on Setting and then Click on Toggle Full Screen Mode. If someone knows how to do this as a bat script ot autohotkey script please advise how to do this. Or someone that is good at scripting will do a wrapper for each game to load i would be exrtremly grateful.

Command Line for the SuperModel emulator:- -res=1280,1024 -fullscreen You need to replace the 1280,1024 with whatever your screen resolution is, this is very important (the , signifies X multiply, you must use the comma, also there is a space between 1024 and -fullscreen). With this command line supermodel will open up in full screen mode, why that is important is that superModel will work perfectly with your gamepad without you having to configure your controller. (well at least i didnt have to i just had to click buttons on it till i found out which keys thet were mapped to my generic usb gamepad). The following games work perfectly with the SuperModel emulator:- Daytona 2 Power Edition Lemans 24 Star Wars Trilogy (must be Rev A) The Lost World Jurassaic Park.

For people having problems with BigBox or LaunchBox not showing platform or fanart properly i would suggest they download software called IrfanView (This is totally free Software) with this you can batch convert what ever you want ie:- platform images, i would recommend that you batch convert them to what ever your monitor or t.v size that you are using for LaunchBox/BigBox and the images will not zoom outside the size of your screen. I would also download a little free program called unchecky, this is a nifty little program that stops any unwanted toolbars, or third party software spyware related stuff from installing anything else but the program or emulator that you want to install.

Update list of Platforms:- 1 Acorn Archimedes 2 Acorn Electron 3 Amstrad CPC 4 Android 5 APF Imagination Machine 6 Apple iOS 7 Apple MacOS 8 Aquarius 9 Arcade 10 Atari Jaguar 11 Atari Jaguar CD 12 Atari Lynx 13 Atari ST 14 Atari XEGS 15 Atari 800 16 Atari 2600 17 Atari 5200 18 Atari 7800 19 Bandai WonderSwan 20 Bandai WonderSwan Color 21 BBC Micro 22 Browser Games 23 Capcom 24 Capcom CPS1 25 Capcom CPS2 26 Capcom CPS3 27 Capcom System Dash 28 Colecovision 29 Commodore 64 30 Commodore Amiga 31 Crystal System 32 Desura 33 Eaca EG2000 Color Genie 34 Entex Adventure Vision 35 Fairchield Channel F 36 GOG 37 Magnavox Odyssey 38 Magnafox Odyssey 2 39 Mattel Intellivision 40 Microsoft Windows 41 Microsoft XBOX 42 Microsoft XBOX 360 43 Microsoft XBOX ONE 44 MS DOS 45 MSX 46 NEC TurboGrafx 16 47 Nintendo GameBoy 48 Nintendo GameBoy Advance 49 Nintendo GameBoy Color 50 Nintendo Gamecube 51 Nintendo N64 52 Nintendo Entertainment System 53 Nintendo 3DS 54 Nintendo DS 55 Nintendo SNES 56 Nintendo Virtual Boy 57 Nintendo Wii 58 Nintendo Wii U 59 Nintendo Wii Ware 60 Origin 61 Oric Atmos 62 OUYA 63 Panasonic 3DO 64 PC 65 Phillips CD I 66 ScummVM 67 Sega 32X EUR 68 Sega 32x US 69 Sega CD 70 Sega Dreamcast EUR 71 Sega Dreamcast US 72 Sega Game Gear 73 Sega Genesis 74 Sega Genesis Nomad 75 Sega Master System 76 Sega Mega CD 77 Sega Mega Drive 78 Sega Model 1 79 Sega Model 2 80 Sega Model 3 81 Sega Pico 82 Sega Saturn 83 Sega SG-1000 84 Sinclair ZX Spectrum 85 SNK NeoGeo 86 SNK NeoGeo Pocket 87 SNK NeoGeo Pocket Color 88 Sony Playstation 89 Sony Playstation 2 90 Sony Playstation 3 91 Sony Playstation 4 92 Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) 93 Sony Playstation Vita 94 Steam 95 UPlay Media Centres 1 Generic Media Centre 2 Kodi Media Centre 3 Plex Media Centre 4 Windows Media Centre Think thats them all finally

Went through all the BigBox platform images i uploaded and seen a few with mistakes yellow blobs and on that i had put the wrong platform on so have rectified those mistakes @bd0000 could you replace these in the repository bd thank you in adbvance

And the Media Centres in Greyscale and Yellow

The last of the Fanart BigBox platforms in Greyscale and Yellow

And the Media Centres in Colour

And finally the last of the Fanart for BigBox platforms over the next few posts

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Roundup planet of the apes style?