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SentaiBrad said I do not like Rounded squares or the rounding that can happen with Filters like HQ2X, 3X etc. It just looks bad to me. For 3D though, it can look decent. Oh, I agree. I only use Hq2x on 3D games - it looks quite good with things like Mario 64. Everything outside of the mupen core I use CRT-Easymode though (including Mednafen). It just looks great with pretty much everything. It looks especially good with sprite-based games, but looks good on 3D as well (except for N64, in my opinion). I switched away from CRT-Royale because, while it can look better than Easymode in some cases (all instances of which are in sprite-based games) it tends to look quite terrible in a 3D setting. It also has a tendency to wash out colors in some cases which I don't like. Here are some decent overviews of some different CRT shaders: Filthypants / CRT Pixel Shader Filter For SNES, Filthypands / More CRT Shaders, and Shmups / Retroarch shader thread. I'm a big fan of scanline/aperture filters for everything from PS1 backwards. Upscaling looks great for PS2 onwards, but PS1 titles tend to just look...wrong...when upsaled. The low resolution had the effect of both hiding certain things that weren't meant to be seen and it adds its own character to the image that just gets swept away when you upscale which makes it look entirely too clean. A good scanline/CRT filter can have the effect of both increasing sharpness and obfuscating those unnaturally sharp pixels and they do a pretty good job of restoring them to the state that they appeared on non-high definition displays. The next thing I want to do is test out some NTSC filters. I've seen some impressive looking results with these in the right setting. Scroll down to the shot of FFVI on this. Obviously this is all subjective...

Have you messed around with any of the shaders in RA? Some of them look quite good - typically I stick with CRT-Easymode for most systems (I started with CRT-Royale but visual quality could be a bit of a mixed bag depending on the system/game whereas Easymode is more consistent across the board) but for N64 I use Hq2x which looks quite good with it.

I don't think you can map the guide button with Xpadder but you could certainly do it with any other button or combination of buttons with that. I have back+left bumper mapped to ESC, back+right bumper mapped to Enter, and back+left trigger (Alt)+right trigger (Tab) for example.

Yes, I saw it. Wasn't sure if any of these had existing issues in it though, which is why I posted it here to potentially prevent duplicates. I looked, for the record. But I've be added them there in any case.

Is there one for disabling the startup logo for Big Box? I didn't see it if so. Some new requests: 1. Ability to quick-sort in Big Box like you can in LB (title, date added, etc.) and the ability to specify/limit those sorting options. It would preferably be something you could do with a button press like L2/R2. 2. Cross-platform playlists, so you could select a title in say Neo Geo and choose "Add to playlist -> Favorite Shmups" and then go to Genesis and do the same thing. There could be an entry in the platform list for "Playlists" that took you to your sub-lists. 3. Multi-emulator option. I'd like to be able to add multiple pre-defined emulators that can be used per game so that, for example, I could choose say Retroarch as the default, but then adding an alternate in the game settings. You can already do this, but it requires that you add it as an additional app, so you're adding in the app title (ePSXe), specifying the path to the emulator, and have to specify the launch commands every time. I want to be able to just edit the game, go to the emulation tab, and specify a second emulator that I already have setup in LB as another option that will show up on right-clicking the game (like an additional app). 4. Export game list; total and per-platform. I'd like to be able to generate a nice little formatted spreadsheet of my games list. Thanks as always!

Paynemaster said how does it work when u putt a new rom in the allready active list? How can i automatic search for that rom/roms I think you can do a refresh if you specify the folder where the platform's games are located. I just drag and drop new stuff though. Anything new that I want to add I just drag from Windows directly into the Launchbox UI, specify the platform, and go.

DOS76 said You have to use a .bat file these are the ones I am using. Set the bat up as the emulator and then add which ever platforms you want I have Naomi Naomi 2 Atomiswave @echo off SET STRING=%1 SET STRING=%STRING:.zip=% SET STRING=%STRING:J:\Emulation\Naomi\ROMs\=% echo %STRING% start demul.exe -run=atomiswave -rom=%STRING% @echo off SET STRING=%1 SET STRING=%STRING:.zip=% SET STRING=%STRING:j:\Emulation\Naomi\ROMs\=% echo %STRING% start demul.exe -run=naomi -rom=%STRING% Err...I'm not sure why you need to do any of that. Using the no-space modifier + appropriate command line parameters per platform entry in the emulator settings works just fine.

TONBOX777 said OMG works! Thank you very much , you are my Hero! Happy to help! :D

Okay, uncheck the "use custom command line parameters" in the game entry itself. You don't need it since you have them set in the emulator entry already.

And associated platforms? You have the parameters there?

Can you post a screenshot of your emulator page? I think you may need to use the "no spaces" modifier as well (I think it says something about being "primarily for use with nullDC").

I haven't used Demul with Naomi titles, so I can't really comment there (although I believe what you have is correct, so it may be something in Demul itself), but it definitely works for DC through Launchbox. I believe the launch commands are the same but "dreamcast" so: -run=dreamcast -rom= I have mine setup as a command-line parameter in the emulator entry through, not on a per-game basis. You may want to try that. You should be able to add Demul and then add two separate platforms to associate with it in the platform tab - one for DC and one for Naomi and then add the appropriate command line parameters. Doing it that way means you won't have to enter those commands for every game. I believe you also need to set Demul itself to automatically go fullscreen on game launch in the settings somewhere. Sorry, I can't remember the exact wording/section but I can post screenshots when I get home this evening.

I concur with everything Brad said, although you can also use Imgburn for ripping (or converting), which is free. I've used it quite a bit both for ripping my own discs and converting rips from other formats (mounting an image via Daemon Tools and then using the DT virtual drive as the source for Imgburn and converting to bin+cue) and have had great results with Mednafen. Another thing to note is that Mednafen does support ccd+img+sub in addition to bin+cue. Be aware, however, that it's much pickier than ePSXe when it comes to acceptable rip quality, even if your sheet is correct, and there are no small number of bad rips floating around the interwebs. If a game won't run, first verify that your cue sheet is correct as Brad mentioned. If it isn't, it's possible that you have a bad rip. I've had a number of games that didn't initially run in Mednafen (even with correct cue sheets) that run fine in ePSXe, but worked fine in Mednafen when using a good rip. ePSXe isn't nearly as accurate as Mednafen, however, which is why Mednafen is still better, in my opinion.

Is there some particular reason you haven't updated to 5.5? In any case, you can add it in the section you highlighted, yes. If you have the platform named "PSP" or "Sony PSP" or some such, that's what you need to put in the field underneath "Associated Platform" and if you want that to be the default emulator for that platform, check the "Default Emulator" box.

Here's one for the 3DO. Full gallery here.

Mine was set to my Retroarch system folder. There wasn't a MAME folder in there, so I did some reading and evidently there's a bug that sometimes causes it not to be created, so I created one, then a sub folder named "cfg" and then created a blank file that was named "default.cfg" and that seems to have done the trick. Changes made via the tab menu are now being saved! ...then I had to deal with a weird issue where it kept wanting to pull up the tab menu when I hit the left trigger on my controller. I think I've got it all sorted out now, but apparently that's been a known issue for some time now. Anyway, thanks for the help!

No? How do I do that? Is that a line in one of the config files? If so, which one, and what line? I appreciate the help by the way!

That didn't work for me at all. I'm using the Mame Git core in Retroarch, although I tried Mame 2014 as well. Neither are saving anything that's changed in the tab menu. Nothing is creating/saving cfg files anywhere - not in the retroarch folder/subfolders nor in the folder where I have my actual roms.

@TONBOX777 Can you elaborate a bit more on what you did? I've had this problem as well and would be interested in a solution. My default mappings for MAME in Retroarch work for most games but in the instances where there's something weird that has to be changed I've been using MAMEUI because I ran into the problem you're describing where any changes made via the MAME Tab menu don't actually save in the Retroarch core. The FBA core is nice because it has per-game remapping that you can do in the core options (which I have gotten to work), but the MAME core doesn't have that feature. FBA has it's own set of issues though, such as occasional sound problems and just overall smaller compatibility.

Cadet Stimpy said So you used something such as this (but from C|Net)... Blu-ray setup discs for your HDTV That looks very similar, yes. The one I used is in the special features for T2: Skynet Edition. I believe the original blu ray release came with its own separate disc, but it' built in with the Skynet one. It's actually an extremely useful tool for properly calibrating your TV. Cadet Stimpy said BTW, I like your 'screen-name' (assuming it's a reference to Zombies and beavers - for reasons I may not comprehend ). My home state (Oregon) has a beaver on the back of their state flag, and who isn't intrigued by Zombies? Thanks haha. It actually started out as a stupid not-really-reference to Grim Fandango. I think Zombeaver has a nicer ring to it than Demon Beavers though... so uh... yeah. Also...it's a movie. But I had it first! :( Cadet Stimpy said Anyway, since I lack motivation, on occasion , would you please supply that C|Net link you referred to. Thanks, in advance. The settings can be found here. Cadet Stimpy said I believe Vizio TV's, in general, provide some of the best 'bang for your buck' you can get these days. Exactly. It's not quite as feature rich as some other (significantly more expensive) TVs out there, but I already had all the various peripherals that I needed to compliment it, to the point that those extra features would just be redundant. It's got a stellar picture for the price!

RTings is a pretty good site for the review portion - I used it when shopping for our newest TV. The calibration settings they listed for the TV were complete garbage, however. CNET was much better in that regard. I used the CNET settings as a base and then the THX calibration disc that comes with the Terminator 2 blu ray to do some final tweaking - CNET's settings were pretty spot on while RTings's were pretty garish. It's a Vizio e55-c2 and I'm very happy with it despite a couple quirks.

@craiganderson I've made some platform images that I've got on my imgur. They're in the image thread but not on the Dropbox link.

I'm confused...what's the problem you're having with closing PCSX2 via Launchbox? I use the two in conjunction and haven't had any problems... --nogui and --fullscreen launch paramaters + AHK script to close on ESC works perfect for me

@Jason Interesting... I find myself running into more and more reasons as the days go on to be glad that I haven't switched from 7 yet...

So long as it has it's own dedicated .exe on your computer, you should be able to add it. I think the Xbox app is basically just a wrapper like Steam, Origin, etc. It still has to install somewhere on your computer and as long as it has it's own executable you should be able to add that to Launchbox (not the Xbox app itself). Now, it may or may not require that you're actually logged into the Xbox app to work - if it's anything like Steam or Origin, some games can work standalone and others can't. I know little to nothing about the Xbox app in W10, so take all this with a grain of salt, but Steam games work through Launchbox so I would think you could do the same with these, you'd just need to add the game-specific .exe to Launchbox.