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I just want to make sure that I'm not creating extra work for myself unnecessarily, but is the best way to add ScummVM titles just one at a time?
I've been doing it via the following method:
1) "New" entry (ctrl+N I believe)
2) Enter the game title
3) Choosing ScummVM as the platform
4) Scrape for the title; choosing a (typically) MS-DOS database entry
5) Unchecking the "use an emulator button"
6) Going to the ScummVM tab, directing to the game folder, and choosing the appropriate title at the bottom
7) Confirm when prompted that I don't want to use an emulator
I mean, this works, but man it's pretty time consuming. Using the actual importer wizard doesn't really work since you don't have a typical "here's my rom file" for ScummVM. I guess I could just "import" several at a time, just clearing out all but one of the files for each game, then clearing the "rom" path, and then pulling them in as DOS and changing them over to ScummVM after the fact... I'm not sure if that would be much less time consuming though. I just want to make sure there isn't a better alternative currently. I was reading up on ScummVM command line options to see if there was some way to still use ScummVM as a normal LB emulator but making each entry use a specific launch command to indicate the appropriate game, but I haven't been able to get that to work yet in the brief amount of time I've messed with it.
I saw a number of tickets on Bitbucket regarding ScummVM but I didn't see one specifically for streamlining the import process. If the above is indeed the best method currently and nobody's aware of any other ticket requesting the functionality, I'll put one in.
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Oh no... Gabe, why you gotta do this to me...
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Jason Carr said @Zombeaver Thanks for reporting those controller automation issues; I'll take a look at them soon.
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Controller Automation does have to be enabled separately between Launchbox and Big Box. The reason Xpadder doesn't work via Steam Link has to do with the way Steam's In Home Streaming service works, which basically hooks into a single application. This is normally fine but it also means the inputs don't register with external applications that run in the background - Xpadder, Controller Companion etc. The reason it works in the case of Big Box is because that's the application I'm launching/communicating with/streaming from over the Link (as a "non-Steam application"). You can get the controller to work normally (and communicate with external applications) if you use something called VirtualHere, which basically tricks your PC into thinking a device is literally connected via USB to your PC despite being connected over a network, but VirtualHere has its own set of problems - namely that it consumes an unsatisfactory (for me) amount of bandwidth/bitrate and it hampers the experience. Were I not using wifi to stream to the Link, it probably would be fine, but I am so VirtualHere isn't an option for me and, as result, neither are external controller mapping applications. Trust me, I've tested Xpadder (and the like) in conjunction with the Steam Link (and Steam In Home Streaming in general) quite extensively. I literally bought my Steam Link for the purposes of emulation streaming; the fact that it allows me to play "normal" games is basically a (mostly unused) bonus for me. Before I bought it, I spent about two weeks messing around with emulation via In Home Streaming, testing what would and wouldn't work. Nearly everything is usable, but there's often an extra step or two to actually get things working. VirtualHere is the extra step in this case, and it's just not in a satisfactory state currently for that to be an option; not via wifi anyway.
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djweevil said you must click eject or something then switch the disc number with the arrow keys. It's pretty straight forward just imagine you are swapping discs you eject teh tray put in new disk and close the tray. then resume your game.
Yep, that's how it works via m3u as well. I have "0" as my open tray button and "+" and "-" as next and previous disc respectively.djweevil said I have been trying all day long to get cheats to work. Can any of you confirm them working or not.
I don't have any experience with using cheats, unfortunately. I know that Retroarch technically supports it, but the specifics of using them and whether or not they're compatible with the Mednafen core, I'm really not sure. -
Are you sure you can't use pbp with Mednafen? I'm certain I've read on the libretro forums that you can. I've never used it myself as I use the m3u disc swapping method which works perfectly through Mednafen. I remember reading about them patching in pbp support though. @SentaiBrad didn't you mention that you had used them with it? EDIT: Here's the thread over at Libretro. It's supported according to that.
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You shouldn't need to redownload anything. You didn't actually move any images correct? You just duplicated them and saved them elsewhere? If so, you should be good to go. Once you upgrade to the beta it should automatically move your existing images around correctly. The backup is just in case something were to go wrong.
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@djweevil The problem is that in order to get ePSXe to launch a specific game immediately upon launch (i.e. in order to launch a game in your LB library), it needs to be using the -nogui command line parameter - it is impossible to get to the gui at that point. Without that command line parameter, any game you launch will simply load up the ePSXe gui and not actually launch a specific game. If you're really stuck on using ePSXe and you have to have access to the gui, you'd have to remove the -nogui command line parameter, at which point all your game entries would effectively just serve as a shortcut to launch ePSXe itself (which obviously isn't particularly useful). My suggestion would be to look into Retroarch / Mednafen PSX. As a recovering ePSXe user, I can tell you it's far far superior. It's highly accurate and as a bonus you get access to all the great features of Retroarch.
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@DOS76 have you ever tried Xpadder (or an equivalent)? You can assign buttons or combinations of buttons to various keys (or combination of keys). I have Back + Right Bumper setup to alt+tab for example. This does seem like a function that could be added to the existing "Controller Automation" implementation though. If it can be used for the current functions it contains, I don't see why alt+tab couldn't be added in.
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SentaiBrad said I have drivers for an external capture card, and I think a recent update they made screwed up the drivers.
That's the reason I ended up getting one of these years ago when I was looking for a capture device - I heard nothing but nightmare stories about driver problems with various cards. This thing lets you record/encode straight from the connected console to a usb stick plugged into the device - so it's PC-less. Pull out the usb stick, plug it into a PC and you've got an mp4 of your play session. The video quality is... by no means great though (this device is 12 years old at this point...). It is better if you're connected via s-video though (which I didn't have for that video, just composite). I'd probably go with something like this if I were buying something now because, again, it doesn't require anything for the capture other than a usb stick. I'm all for anything that doesn't have a bunch of proprietary software and drivers that are required in order to get it to work. Glad to hear your PC is okay again! -
Based on the error, VLC does seem to be the likely culprit. As long as you have the correct codecs installed on your PC, the WMP option should work just fine. I've been using it for a while and haven't had any issues.
SentaiBrad said Would have been faster if my computer didn't decide to get stuck in a BSOD Boot loop...
Yikes... :( That sucks dude. Tried a system restore? -
Honestly, if I were to use an external app, I'd just continue to use Xpadder. It has mouse emulation, custom binding, etc. too. Based on what I've read, Controller Companion doesn't work via Steam Link either so it wouldn't address my underlying issue anyway. If there are bugs with Controller Automation, I think it's in everyone's best interest if they're just fixed. Even in its current state it's already a step up from Xpadder for my needs. I appreciate the suggestion though! EDIT: I went ahead and put in a Bitbucket bug ticket for this.
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So I've been experimenting with using Controller Automation. In the past I've always used Xpadder so I haven't really messed with it until now. Xpadder doesn't work via Steam Link unless you're using an optional feature called "VirtualHere", however, and that has its own set of problems. It occurred to me that Controller Automation might allow me to do the same thing I've been doing with Xpadder but actually work via Steam Link without the need to use VirtualHere. I'm very happy to report that it works through it just fine! I have, however, run into a couple of issues that I'm hoping can be resolved. One is that with certain emulators, the "close the active window" function closes both the emulator and Launchbox. This particular issue only affects Launchbox - the function works normally through Big Box. This issue was reported previously here and was supposedly patched, but I'm still encountering it on a couple specific emulators: PCSX2, Sega Model 2, and PPSSPP. The other issue is that with two specific emulators - CCS64 and MAMEUI - the "close the active window" function doesn't seem to do anything at all. I've tried multiple games and multiple controllers and it just won't close the emulator. I appreciate any assistance! Thanks!
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@Clavius You shouldn't need to do any of that. Firstly, I believe LB does ignore information contained in parenthesis in the filename for the purposes of scraping. However, as long as you have an image file in your Images -> [specific platform] -> Front folder and it's named identically to your rom name (and this does include parenthetical data... I think) it should automatically associate that image with that rom in LB. More importantly though, when you first do your import, you can specify (edit) what title you want it to actually look for on the final screen of the import wizard - if they're not, in fact, the same game, change the titles to search for (like "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1991)" and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1993)" for example). That way it should pull the correct metadata from the get go. If they both just say "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (and they probably will since it should be ignoring the parenthesis part of the file name by default) it's going to assume they're the same game when it scrapes and associate the same database entry with both. In the event that you do need to change the covers after the fact, worst case scenario is you could manually change the image file names to reflect the full rom file names and they should associate correctly in LB. My guess in your case though would be that it would have only pulled 1 image, because it thought they were the same game. Because your files may be "game (1)" and "game (2)" but it just searched for "game" and pulled in an image that it named "game.jpg". My assumption as to the reason it disassociated the first (correct) image in your case was because the only differentiating element in your two rom names was text that's in parenthesis, and the image file name that pulled in likely wouldn't contain that part, so if you disassociate the image from "X rom" (no consideration of parenthesis part) it's disassociating it from both. @SentaiBrad please correct me if I'm wrong on any of this!
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The only thing I can come up with is it's either some kind of weird revision or dump differentiation or possibly a checksum indicator. I don't think I've ever encountered that specific format. This is a pretty good reference for rom suffixes. The only thing that seems to fit with that list would be a checksum.
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Hmm...do you have a specific example? It could indicate a revision; which did happen on occasion for bug fixes. Typically those are listed as "Rev A", "Rev B", etc. though, so it may be something else.
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So, not only is your rebuttal not written by you, but it spends as much time actually discussing the specifics of the film as you have; which is to say, none at all. "Warcraft was AMAZING." "Alright, cool. That's good to hear. What was amazing about it?" *spends the next 5 minutes talking about how dumb critics are with nary a syllable to refute any claims made by those critics, and nothing to say about why it's actually good* "So...what was amazing about it again?" "Critics are stupid, that's why it's amazing!" "Oh, okay." Since we're quoting other people here, here are a couple that I think are appropriate:
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. -Harlan Ellison
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. -Christopher Hitchens
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. -John F Kennedy
And here's my very own contribution:If you cannot explicate and demonstrate the basis of your opinion, your opinion means nothing. You're welcome to spout it to your heart's content, but no one is obligated (or likely) to listen to you. -Zombeaver
If you can't justify how you've arrived at a conclusion, you haven't actually formed an opinion at all, you've simply regurgitated what you've heard elsewhere. I'm not saying you shouldn't like Warcraft, I'm saying that, if you do, you might want to take a moment to consider why you do before you start telling other people they should see it. I'd honestly love to hear it. I'm one of the most open-minded people you'll ever meet, but being open-minded does not mean you take whatever you're told for granted (that's called being gullible) - it means that you're willing to change your mind if something proves itself to be superior. Being highly opinionated and genuinely considering the validity of an opposing view are not only not mutually exclusive, I would argue they're inextricable. I realize by now you probably think I'm just picking on you or being a troll or something, but I'm not. It's because I value the opinions of the people here that I want to actually hear them. If I legitimately didn't care what you thought, I wouldn't have said anything at all. If you think Warcraft is good, that's great. If you're going to tell me that it's worthy of my time and money, I'd like to hear why (not being ironic, sarcastic, or rhetorical) because, as has been established, it's getting pretty universally shit on by critics. If they're wrong or unfair in their criticisms (you used the word "unfair" mind you), then I'm all ears as to why; but simply saying "critics hate it" doesn't add any intrinsic value to the film. If they're truly wrong, there shouldn't be any issue in refuting them. If there really are virtues to the film that aren't being taken into consideration, I'm legitimately curious to know what they are - because I haven't heard them so far (other than the CG being good). -
Antropus said Everyone is entitled to an opinion...
That's kindof my whole point. I have no idea what your opinion is on any specific elements of the film (other than the CG). You are entitled to your opinion - don't you think it'd be a good idea to actually elucidate that opinion if you're going to encourage others to see the movie?Antropus said ...and I really don't want to spend any more time discussing why and what.
You'd have to spend any in order to spend more. All it basically comes across as is "I have a vested interest in this movie being successful. Hey guys, go help make this movie be even more successful." Alrighty then, let me just jump right on that. The fact that there's clearly an inherent bias based on your involvement honestly wouldn't even bother me if you'd actually said anything particularly substantive about the film itself; and even if it was nothing but praise.Antropus said It's a thread about encouraging people to watch a movie that is just plain fun entertainment, instead of relying on others to make up their own minds.
Nobody should be letting reviews definitively form their opinion, but they're useful as a guide, especially if it's coming from someone whose views you know to be typically in sync with your own. Obviously everyone should form their own opinion, but the critiques of others can help inform your own examination of a film (sometimes even serving purely as a means of contrast). Sometimes totally valid points can be raised that you might not have considered.Antropus said You are entitled to your own opinion as well, that you made sure to exhaust over this thread...
Yes? Isn't that typically for forums are used for?Antropus said ...that's clearly not for you...
Oh, okay. Sorry, I missed that part.Antropus said ...so why bother?
I guess because I was under the mistaken impression that I was entitled to my opinion.Antropus said Go outside, breath some fresh air, smell some flowers, snuggle with a puppy :)
I have allergies and I'm a cat person. It's a nice thought though. -
Antropus said I do take in account the box office success though, because that's what I do for a living and if the movie does well, then I will probably be able to work on a sequel
That's all well and good but again that has nothing to do with the quality (or lack thereof) of the film itself. It has nothing to do with whether or not it's enjoyable to watch. Telling people that something is worthy (or not) of their attention because of how well or poorly it does at the box office makes literally zero sense - it has nothing to do with anything. People eat up overblown blockbuster junk like it's candy and ignore deep intelligent films all the time... neither is an indication of whether or not a film is good (there are awesome blockbusters and terrible "smart" films, mind you). I'm glad you'll have more work to do but, not to be a jerk, why would anyone else care about that? You're not talking to people who worked on it, or will be working on sequels, your talking to people who might potentially watch it, just as a movie. Your topic isn't titled "I worked on this movie and had a blast" it's "Ignore the Critics, Watch Warcraft!" and then you proceed to tell us how well it's doing in sales as if that's some kind of metric for whether or not it's worthy of our attention. It just doesn't make any sense. No mention of the story, acting, score, pacing... the things that actually matter for a viewer? Nothing in your post is relevant to the aspects of the film that a normal viewer would actually care about. Instead it's "Critics hate this film. Other people like it. A lot of people have seen it. I like it. I also worked on it. The CG's good. I worked on the CG." You don't think that's a little disingenuous?Antropus said I went with low hopes and I really enjoyed it.
Why? What changed your mind exactly?Antropus said 60% to 70% easy.
Based on what exactly? This means literally nothing without any sort of context. We have no indication of what you did or didn't like about it. This is what I'm talking about as far as scores. "60% to 70%" doesn't mean anything in and of itself. You obviously don't think it's a perfect film, but apparently also think it's "above average" ...but on the basis of what specifically, we have no idea.Antropus said No way a 2.7 out of 10 like RT's "professional" critics are saying. Really unfair score.
Again...why? On what basis? What makes it so much better than the critics are saying? What criticisms are critics levying against it that are unwarranted or unfair? We don't know because you don't tell us. See what I'm saying?Antropus said Di you watch it? Planning to?
I'm not really planning to, to be honest - I just don't have any interest in the lore or universe. I'm sure I'll see it eventually but it's not something I'm in any particular hurry to watch, because I don't find the subject matter particularly compelling. If they were to make Diablo or Starcraft adaptations, I'd be down for those though haha. -
I remember coming up with something mostly satisfactory based on some settings posted over on shmups forum. I've found that site to be a pretty good resource for this because they're extremely picky about this sort of thing haha. I haven't done any tweaking in a while - I'll probably mess around with it some tonight.
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kerszr said Going to try this xpadder out. Can i get a link? I want to make sure that Im getting on the right website. The freeware version i just downloaded said there was viruses on it. And since it's freeware... well... its not illegal and we can totes link it :)
Newer versions actually aren't freeware (it's $9.95), but there are earlier versions that still are. I believe 5.3 is the last freeware version which I think is what I'm using - I know it's an older version anyway; and it works for me on W7 64 bit. It looks like it's on a few sites. Here's one from Major Geeks. -
DOS76 said Since SSF works without a bios is this even an issue?
That's a bit of an oversimplification. SSF itself allows you to attempt to run games without a bios, yes, and in some cases that works, but not always. Some games will not play correctly (or at all) without an actual bios, I can say that with 100% certainty because I ran into them first hand. By bypassing the bios you're introducing the potential for compatibility issues. They mention that in the setting guide as well, which I would recommend any SSF user read.DOS76 said When they translate games do they switch the region also?
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DOS76 said 3 versions would work. If there is a better solution I don't know it I use this trick to handle a few emulators in LB (Demul needs different settings to run arcade and Dreamcast and I use it for DS to for differently rotated games).
I do this for for Demul as well, though I do it because certain games run better with certain settings like software vs hardware rendering and some games have controls that are awkward with a normal control scheme like Bangai-O and Outtrigger so I just have multiple copies of Demul and set them up as separate emulators in LB. I haven't had the need to do this with SSF though. As I said, there is a multi-region bios out there that can be used with SSF. That's not to say that there's anything wrong with using separate entries, I just haven't had the need for it personally. The other problem is that the way that I currently use SSF in LB is such that multiple entries wouldn't actually do anything - because you're not "using an emulator" with that method. -
niglurion said Use the Automation input option and enable the gamepad in Launcbox.
That works too. I like Xpadder because it let's you assign basically any input or combination of inputs to a button or combination of buttons on a controller - not just some predesignated functions. I use it for alt+tab as well, for example. The automation function is certainly faster/easier to setup though.
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