[When im not Retro gaming I.......]

 

When im not Retro gaming I Like to play some AAA titles and create the odd montage of said titles... here is what ive done so far, if anyones interested.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

work in progress

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Hide All signs of Windows 10 for my Arcade Cab ?]

On 20/07/2017 at 7:24 AM, Kevin_Flynn said:

@Mute64 ... jelly. Any chance you are willing to share that intro and/or the batch to run the video in front?

There's the intro, its not my work like i have stated in the description.

Edit: here is another intro that i have tweaked from its original source, original file is not my work i have just added my own touch to it. 

 

 

[FightCade Intro]

FightCade Intro

View File

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This is not my work

I do not remember where or who i got this video off,  it has been sitting on my PC for some time now and i thought others may enjoy using it. If you know who created it let me know so i can credit them for there work.

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• Submitter
  Mute64
• Submitted
  07/22/2017
• Category
  Big Box Startup Videos

 

[Hide All signs of Windows 10 for my Arcade Cab ?]

4 hours ago, liamb2001 said:

ok ill point out none of these really hide the logging in process. I did actually follow this yt video with bcedit its how i got my pc to boot up with a black screen but you still see a brief login as it logs in.

I ended up putting a pacman character as my aavatar pic and renaming my profile "ARCADE BOOTING..." does the job. i dont think its possible to compltley remove it unfortunatley.

Yea i do believe it is much harder to hide stuff like that on Win 10... you might have more luck on win 7 tho?

 

Edit: Haven't been home yet to share the video/batch file.. ill do it ronight probably tho.

[Hide All signs of Windows 10 for my Arcade Cab ?]

Yea sure, ill do it when im home from work in 10+ hours.

[Hide All signs of Windows 10 for my Arcade Cab ?]

55 minutes ago, DOS76 said:

Well according to this you can change the login screen background so could you just make the background image something that would blend in with your arcade build
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/change-the-windows-10-login-screen-background-to-a-solid-color/

I mean its not what your looking for per say but if you found an image you liked it might work. You could even find multiple images and use the slide show option if you wanted.

Thats as far as i got, i have my custom bios boot screen then i have an arcade style login background with an arcade stlye login icon that you only see for a very short time that then boots my custom batch file ive created that launches my video intro screen wich hides my other programs that bootup in the background while its playing... its all pretty seamless and to the standard person it looks like im not running windows.

 

Here is a a video of it in action ( after the videos intro) bear in mind this video is a pretty old setup and i have fine tuned it more since

And here is one i did for a fight cab for a mate, altho i think i used windows 7, could have still done with a bit more work but he was happy, apologies for the average recording 

 

[Portable PC for Emulation: Want Advice!]

20 hours ago, onebadveggie said:

I'm not super concerned with budget, but "best cheapest" is kind of the idea.

I can clarify more what I mean by that. The media, as in Fades, Videos, etc will all be stuff that looks good on 1080p displays, but the games themselves will run at native resolutions.

I like that a lot, and I think that's more along the lines of what I'm looking for. Actually I was wondering what Cooling you were using, as I see it was a water cooling device.

This is the current build right now, I think it may be a little overkill, so critique and suggest alternatives!

Current Build

Yea i have a AIO 120mm in the front of it..  love the portability of it.

[Portable PC for Emulation: Want Advice!]

I have a Portable Arcade Machine aka PAM, did a write up on it last year some time so i have done alot more work on it since then. It great for taking around to a mates, everything i need fits into my backpack.

 

[Moving Roms Location]

Spoiler

 

You could also symbolic link  your roms folder as well, i had to move my whole launchbox setup off the root of my hdd into a subfolder called LaunchBox because launchbox would not self update/install the update if it was on the root of my drive and if i just up n moved my LaunchBox/rocketlauncher setup alot of my directory links would have been broken.... so symbolic links to the rescue....... waiting for the day when it all goes tits up and somethings break lol.... lets hope it doesn't happen.

[How To Move Launchbox Cache To SSD (Tutorial)]

Thanks levo, a handy tool indeed.  Im glad someone did a write up on it, it can be used in so many ways too.

[Option to move the cache folder?]

4 hours ago, syntax_X said:

When you forget what you've already posted...

To busy to check, my bad guys

[Option to move the cache folder?]

I use symbolic link to move my cache to an ssd.

 

 

Just my 2 cents while i have 2 mins to say something

[What is rocket launcher? Should I be using it?]

Im just glad i got my RL setup the way i like it while i had the time todo it...... before i got so busy that the only time to respond to the odd forum post is at 230am when i wake up thinking about shit i forgot todo at work and can not get back to sleep. 

 

I read so many problems and issues on here that i could help out with but never have the time to write up an explanation.

 

[What is rocket launcher? Should I be using it?]

Tell me bout it... ive brought this issue up before on the RL forums with no response.... its an aplication that really needs to look more than 1 directory deep if it wants to deal with emulators... it infuriates me.

[Steam Summer 2017 Sale]

Got an email today...... you have 15 items on your steam wishlist for sale...... GTFO

[What is rocket launcher? Should I be using it?]

2 hours ago, Porl Hendy said:

I am please

Short awsner is use symbolic links, for example, i am in the same situation as you but instead of making multiple directories in RL i only make one per platform now...... so for each platform i just do a search for that platforms file type like .pbp and then i symlink all those roms and put them in one Roms directory folder.

 

Make sense????

 

 Its like 230am.... 

 

Here is the link to the symlink tool i use

 

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html

[What is rocket launcher? Should I be using it?]

3 hours ago, mothergoose729 said:

I am thinking I am going to end up not using rocket launcher after all. 

There are so many cool features, but the basic stuff is so unnecessarily difficult. Rocket launcher doesn't seem to recognize any of my files if they are more than one directory deep. So for my CD games which are organized into folders by game, and folders by disc, I have to go and add dozens of rom paths so the audit will work. Frustrating. 

Another problem is I can't seem to find an option to just let me pass my own command line parameters for a particular game to a particular emulator. I just want to bang out the command myself and have RL use it. Why is this not a part of the rom audit dialog or the rom settings tab? I am sure this option must exist somewhere, but for the life of me I can't find it. Something basic like that shouldn't be so difficult...grrr

I know how to fix the 1 directory deep issue if you are still interested 

[BigBox on computer start up]

19 hours ago, SentaiBrad said:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/customize/enterprise/shell-launcher

Thanks for replying  brad, i hardly have time to write a comment on these forums let alone find links n paste them in.

[BigBox on computer start up]

7 hours ago, zetarad said:

Oh wow, didn't think that that'd be so easy to do. Thanks a bunch!

There are also other ways to make it boot before windows explorer ( as a skin ) so it does not even look like you are running Windows.

[Any PC Gamers out there who use SweetFX?]

I use sweetfx and reshade on a few games just to "pop" those colours a bit more on my dull tn panel...

[BigBox allows multi selecting a game if emulators takes long to load?]

It would be good to set a custom value for the " loading game " txt that pops up since on first boot up of a game/emulator it can take l9nger than usal to boot and the loading game txt disappears before the game launches....

[How does the cache system actually work?]

Spoiler

 

I thought LB cache and BB cache were two separate cache? 

[Need to set a delay for BigBox to launch after windows restart]

35 minutes ago, SentaiBrad said:

I remember this topic being in another thread too. If I recall, using a batch file to launch at start up, then setting a delay in the script for long enough should do the trick. Shell replacement software might have delay options too.

Yea this is what i do, i have a batch file that launches a list of programs/boot up videos with a time delay between each program launch.

[Importing and using PS 1 eBoot files]

I rename the eboot file to the game title.

[Importing and using PS 1 eBoot files]

I convert all my ps1 games to ebbot/pbp files but i have found the odd game will either not work in retroarch or epsxe as a pbp file so some games i leave as Bin/cue files, not sure if this is caused by a bad rip or the conversation settings im using, but 90% of my games work fine as eboots.

 

I actually have a realy weird issue with bishi bashi at the moment, if i had more time in my day ild write up/report the bug.. but im just to darn busy these days.