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The roms are in a separate folder from LB. All the metadata etc is in the default users folders, but the actual roms and emus are in a different folder. Sounds like I will need to use Notepad++ to find and replace. Which xml file do I need to parse?

Is there a simple way to do this? Currently I have all of my roms and emulators in various subfolders of c:\emulation. However, the 128GB SSD is almost full, thus restricting me from any more emus. This htpc does have an external 240 GB SSD connected via an esata dock. This was being used for photos, but I have all my photos backed up to Google and Amazon and my internal Qnap NAS. I really have no need to keep these photos on this external drive any longer. Would it be fairly simple to "forklift" everything from one drive to the other, do you think? Thank-you!

I have done all of that, same as you. But when I exit BB, Kodi is sitting minimized and I have to alt-tab or use my mouse to select it and bring it back to full screen. Does anyone have a solution for this?

That would be great, cash84. Thank-you

I'm having this issue as well. BB launches fine, but when exiting it drops me to the desktop with Kodi minimized. Has there been any resolution to this yet?

Again, thank-you. I think I need to trim down my games library a bit. The SSD in my htpc is only 128 GB. If I start pulling in all the mp3 and mp4 files that emumovies has to offer, then I'm likely to fill up very soon. There are a ton of games in my library that I will, realistically, never even launch. So I probably need to do some trimming before I open up the flood gates for all that stuff from emumovies for games that I will likely do no more than gaze at the box art. But damn, I do enjoy browsing box art :) Thanks. Day 1 has been hugely successful in my opinion. I have basically hit the goal of my core functionality on my first install. The only really outstanding issue is the BB kodi launcher not exiting back to kodi. Otherwise, most of my hopes for this install have been met. I'll revisit things tomorrow. Thank you again.

Yeah, upon reflection, I have to agree with you. One other thing, I was wondering about. I only stumbled across emuvideo after already scraping two platforms: Genesis and SNES. I love the way it brings in music and video preview. It did a remarkable job with NES and MAME. I would love to retro add that to my Genesis and SNES games. I have figured out how to do this manually and have done so for the games that I am most likely to play often, but is there a way to do it for an entire platform, after the fact, so to speak? I saw something on the emumovies home page about a service. I downloaded it, but have yet to install it, as I'm not 100% sure what it does. Are you familiar with Emumovies DSU 2.2? Based on the description, it sounds like maybe it runs in the background and fills in missing metadata? I am not sure, however. That would be great if it did. I don't really want to have to scrape two platforms from scratch to include the emumovies content. But when first scraped, I had no idea what emumovies was. http://emumovies.com/forums/files/file/321-emumovies-dsu/

Thank you Derek! You solved two of my issues right away. I followed your tips and now snes9x launches full screen and I mapped left trigger plus right trigger to exit the emu. I tested and it works great. Small wishlist item: is it possible to use only one key for ESC? Also, I selected left trigger plus right trigger since most of the games I emulate have no use for a L trigger or a R trigger. But I am guessing that if I ever decided to emulate N64 or such platforms, this mapping could be an issue? For Genesis, NES, SNES, TGFX16, etc...this will be no issue at all. Thanks again, two issues put to rest on Day 1 is very impressive. You have been very helpful.

I'm intending this thread to be my experience with setting up Big Box (BB) with KODI for the first time. I will post my issues, if any, and initial impressions, etc. My goal: to have BB integrated with KODI using a wireless controller and no keyboard input ever required. I wish to be able to launch BB from Kodi and select and play games and when done return to Kodi, ideally with no keyboard input required at any point. I hope this is possible. Underlying hardware: I have an Asrock htpc. It was the highest end model they had at the time, 3 or so years ago now. It is a Core-i5 with 4GB of RAM running on an SSD. Kodi works flawlessly with my old xbox 360 media remote. This remote worked with no setup required, so it has been the only remote I ever needed for Kodi. For my wireless game controller, I have chosen a Logitech f710. This has worked in the past, so the drivers are already present. I have installed BB and setup emus for Genesis, NES, SNES, and Arcad ( using MAMEGUI32). I also purchased a lifetime sub for emumovie for added scraping metadata goodness. The games have all scraped fine and the emus have been setup. I used the recommended ones by LB (Snex 9x, Kega Fusion, etc). I went into each emu and configured them to use my f710 with no issue. I installed the kodi addon for BB and that works fine as well. I have also configured BB to use my f710 too. So far, most things are working as intended. I can launch BB from Kodi just fine. I can then pick up my f710 and start browsing platforms and games and launch games. Snes 9x does not launch fullscreen, but I am sure I can fix that easily enough. My biggest issue right now is in still needed the keyboard for ESC key. I don't know how to tell the emu to exit from my f710. So, I could use a hand there. Also, when I exit BB, it does not return to Kodi, it takes me to my Windows desktop with Kodi minimized. I guess, at this point, those would be the two issues I am dealing with. I really don't want to have to pull out my keyboard to quit emus, or to alt-tab back to Kodi. That kind of makes things less than ideal for me. I want my htpc keyboard to remain in its spot under the coffee table and only pulled out when really necessary. Is this possible? Also, later I need to fine tune things such as mapping keys per emu for save state, load state, etc. But right now, I am focusing on core functionality. Side note: I tried to set this up with Retroarch, but had issues with input. I configured each core separately, but it still did not provide me with any input when I launched a game. I am happy to table that issue for now. I really don't mind using a separate emu for each platform as long as they work they way I want them to. At some point down the road, I may revisit the Retroarch setup. I like the idea of Retroarch, but right now I have bigger fish to fry. Another longer term goal will be to use a 360 controller. I am giving my 360 to my nephew. I recently bought a PS4, so my 360 is powered off and in a box. I still have 4 controllers and the 360 IR usb transmitter for Windows. I will hold on to two of those controllers and eventually look toward moving to 360 controllers. The f710 is fine, but the 360 controller is better, I think. It feels more substantial and is more comfortable. I selected the f710 for my first attempt at setting this up since I knew the drivers were already present back from when I had setup Rom Collection Browser with XBMC a couple of years ago. Thanks.

Keltoigael, I will let you know after I have it all setup. It's been a while since I have used it. I do remember playing Genesis games on with it just fine.

Thanks for the suggestions and input, everyone. I think I will try with my f710 That is what I have used in the past and it seemed fine. And it has a dpad too.

This may seem like a silly question, but how do I use my PS4 controller without it sending commands to the PS4 at the same time? Do I need to power off my PS4 when using my htpc and vica-versa?

I've been using LB for a while now on my laptop. Now I am going to take the plunge and install it on my XBMC/KODI htpc. I have a premium license, and am looking forward to big box mode. I used to run an emu launcher on xbmc a couple of years ago, but it proved to be less that stable over time, so I kind of gave up on the idea. My first question is which wireless controller to use. I have a Logitech f710 and an xbox 360 controller available to me. If you had your choice between those two, which one would you choose and why? Is one easier to setup than the other, etc? Also, if you feel a different controller would work better, I'm not against that option either. Thank-you Forgot to add, I also have a PS4. So , I guess I could use one of those controllers as well?

Jason Carr said Hey guys, yes; I have plans to add room for multiple manuals, etc. However, keep in mind that you can already add these things to games without much of an issue. You can use additional applications for more than just "applications". It's kind of poorly named. This will allow you to add an "Open Cluebook" item to any of your games. It's not as easy as manuals, because you have to manually add them, but it should do the job for now. Per soundtracks, I realize that's a bigger issue. I do want to add that, but it will probably be a while yet. This works perfectly! Thanks for pointing this out. EDIT: Actually, while on this topic, does anyone know a good place to get old manuals and cluebooks for Genesis and SNES? I looked at Zophar and Replacementdocs.com, but some of the obvious ones were missing. I thought for sure Starflight, for example, would be there, but I can't seem to find them. Genesis, in particular, was great for having those big, thick manual/cluebook combos. Would love to get a decent collection of manuals and cluebooks going.

^^ Even better. I would love to see this.

Much like Open Manual on the Other tab, it would be great to have one for open cluebook, or open map, etc. Any sort of external doc that helps with the game. I recently purchased all the TSR gold box D&D games on GOG. I set them up in Launchbox fine, and the open manual feature works great, but a lot of these games come with pdf cluebooks as well. Would be great to have a definable option for that too. Thanks

I changed my launchbox exe to run as admin, that seems to help with launching some emus. I still don't have a clue what to do with Retroarch. Which is odd, because I use MAME all the time. So far, it's either me or Intellivsion emus suck. The controls are not very responsive and the games act odd. For example, Demon Attack, every X number of seconds my ship turns red and refuses to move, I can fire, but not move. When trying to play something like Lock and Chase, fuggedaboutit! The arrow controls are not responsive enough to manouvre the maze successfully. Damn,I was really looking forward to channeling some boyhood nostalgia with these games. The Colecovision emu fails to start and complains about being unable to switch to desired video mode. I'm sure I can figure that one out with some googling. I was hoping this was going to be easier than this. Setting up Launchbox was fun. Getting all the metadata and seeing all the cool game covers and stuff again. I loved that! Actually playing them is getting a bit tricky it seems. EDIT:I figured one of my issues out. Nothing was happening when I selected play for Atari games because they are all still showing Retroarch as the emu. I went into manage emus and told Stella to be the default, but it does not carry over to the existing roms. If I manually edit a single rom to use Stella, it works fine. How do I tell the rest of my Atari roms to use Stella? Do I have to do the import roms thing again? EDIT2: Ah, bulk edit wizard is your friend :) EDIT3: For some reason, ESC does not exit the emulator when running Stella through Launchbox. Also, Demon Attack sucks on the 2600 emu too. The ship freezes right after you clear the first board. grrrrrrrrrrrr EDIT4: My Colecovision woes were solved by installing Colem. What a nice little emu :)

I setup Retroarch as my default for Atari games, but nothing happens when I select "Play". I can't seem to easily figure out what to do with Retroarch sadly.I have been googling it, and it's not as simple as others it seems.

Thank you for the link. It's very helpful. Now that I almost have things the way I want them, the question is how to easily move this to my KODI ( Win7 ) htpc? I have a premium license, so I can do the big box thing. Does this integrate at all with KODI?

Yeah, I figured that out. It's worked pretty well so far. I have also spent a few hours getting rid of duplicates. Does anyone have any recommended command line options for the emulators? I'm using: Gens Snes Nostalgia Retroarch

Thank you for the tips. I only have one Actraiser and it is a single file, not a zip. I will have to spend some time pruning my Launchbox database it looks like. I will try the right click, search for metadata option for unscraped titles. That sounds like a good option.

I purchased a premium license yesterday of Launchbox. I really like it so far, and think it has potential to be my emu launch pad. I had a couple of quick questions, however. Is there a database of rom titles that I should adhere to for ideal metadata scraping? For example, one of my favorite Genesis titles did not scrape. Dungeons and Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun. I tried using the exact title name form thegamesdb.net, but it still did not scrape. I tried it with the title it had before I changed it, D&D Warriors of the Eternal Sun, it still did not scrape. I'm curious what is the best way to ensure the best scrape results. Also, how do you update? I imported about 700 roms or so, but if I want to update that, is my only option to do the whole import from start to finish again? That is what I have been doing. So now I have duplicates. I have like 6 Actraiser for some reason. How do I deal with duplicates? Thank-you very much for your time and consideration.