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I think I got it sorted now. There were two controller layouts: desktop and guide button chord layout. I could disable steam input for the desktop layout but not for the other one. After I went into that one and removed the command for select and start, the problem no longer happens.

Thank you for the suggestion. The issue does not happen with Steam shutdown. However, disabling steam input did not make a difference.

Today I noticed when trying to use my usual combo to exit a game (Select + Start) that the game will still exit but the screen freaks out a bit and looks like it tabs out briefly and then it throws the OSD keyboard up for me. Back button gets rid of it. Sometimes, though, in the case of MAME the game does not actually quit but lingers minimized in the background. I looked in Steam and tried to edit the controller desktop layout to one with no commands at all, but oddly this did not seem to help. I can see in the layout where the Select (or View) button is set to tab. I can't figure out why this suddenly started or how to stop it. Anyone else deal with this before? Thank you

Thank you. I will give it a few mins and see if it disappears from background process.

How do I get it so that when I exit bigbox that it actually shuts down completely? Right now it is closing but remaining as a background process and I have to use task manager to end it. This is an htpc build and having to reach for a keyboard to cancel that process is not great. I don't have it configured to close to system tray or anything like that.

Thank you! That was very helpful. I assume that I put %romlocation% in the parameters and not the actual location? I then went and imported the handful of roms and it is scraping now for metadata.

So, I should install MAME first and then try to import those 26 roms?

I havent been able to try to play a game as I don't have MAME installed. I tried the process I mentioned, but it ended with "you dont have mame installed", and then I thought maybe I could do a full romset import but just use options to pare it down, but it says i dont have a full romset in the folder. So I havent actually completed anything at this point.

I tried the ROM Import, Single Platform, Arcade, but I don't have MAME installed and was hoping it would install as part of that process.

I think I tried that and was expecting LB to install MAME, but it did not. Should it?

I have about 30 or 40 classic arcade roms that I would like to import into LB. I don't have, or want, a full mameset. As such, though, I'm not really sure what would be the best way to do this? Any suggestions?

hmm, I think there is something wrong with that save. It crashes when I try to cast a spell in combat (D&D:WOTES) with that saved state but does not if I start a new game with default party to test.

Kind of a long title, apologies. I setup LB/BB on my htpc today and migrated over a Genesis saved state from my laptop. When I launch that game, F4 does load the state fine, and then in game I do a save, then exit the game but when I then launch the game again, I was surpised to see that I did not have the in game option to load that save. Any suggestions?

I can get there pretty easily if I forgo Windows Steam games. BigBox is by far the best front end for retro stuff. But this NUC has enough horsepower to play some decent Windows games after upping the RAM, replacing the system drive and attaching an eGPU. The tradeoff seems to be accepting some jankiness when switching between retro (BB) and Windows games. It's easy to feature only one vs the other, but to have both seamlessly swap between each other with no mouse or keyboard reaching seems like a lofty goal that is, mostly, unattainable. I can do it easily with my Shield 2019 Pro, but then Windows games become dependent upon Sunshine/Moonlight. Doable, but native is better. And BB for Android is great, but the Windows version is far superior and I can build it out such better hardware.

Same here. I've been chasing this white whale of a Windows based device that looks, feels and plays like a high powered console, on and off, for a few years now. I always end up in the same spot in the end. But then I get a new device to connect to my tv and I start all over again. There are always obstacles and headaches and it never really feels ready for primetime.