Zombeaver

For GOG games that use multiple confs like that you'll typically just want to set it up like a traditional PC game rather than a DOS game. You'll just want to direct the LB entry to the shortcut that's in the installation folder (usually something like "Launch [game name]") and turn off DOSBox (if you have it enabled) in the game entry in LB. Alternately, you can typically just disregard the confs that come with GOG games (which sometimes use less than ideal settings and/or an older version of DOSBox) and just create your own.

You gotta make sure to turn the whole controller when you play an imaginary (or real, for that matter) racing game too. It helps!

This is something I'll be working on more later, but at the moment there isn't a separate download/forum section specifically for playlist media. I suggested to Jason that this is something we probably need and he seemed to agree, so that'll probably happen at some point (presumably after the release of 7.8). There are, of course, no set-in-stone playlist names (outside of the arcade ones), but there are at least some fairly obvious generic things that I think I can get out of the way like Shmups, Beat em Ups, RPGs, etc.

I picked up that Humble Bundle a while back that included Backblaze and have been backing up ever since... it's got something like 400 days to go I've actually got the majority of the important stuff backed up already on a 5TB external that I then put in a fire-proof safe haha. I really like the security of having everything backed up off-site, but holy crap it's gonna be a while. As far as the data recovery stuff... my experience has been pretty similar to what Jason mentioned - the last time I did it, I was able to recover some stuff, but not all because some things came out corrupted. Typically a format or file deletion doesn't actually bleach that portion of the hard drive, it just says "it's okay to write new data here". I haven't had to do it since Windows 95 though so I don't know how successful it typically is with NTFS. The good thing about emulation is that nearly all of this stuff is available in numerous places, so it's still recoverable even if the data undeletion is unsuccessful.

Imgburn is what I use to rip my PSX games (to bin+cue), and those rips make up a good portion of my PSX library - I've never had any trouble out of any of them.

I added the below games to my library, several of which needed overrides. Further details are on the sheet. Bust A Groove Bust A Groove 2 Dynasty Warriors Evil Dead: Hail To The King Hexen Magic Carpet Rampage 2: Universal Tour Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure Road Rash 3D Road Rash: Jailbreak For Bust A Groove and Bust A Groove 2 I made overrides that have an increased Hard GPU Sync frame delay. This helps cut down on input latency which is especially important for rhythm games. I went back and did the same thing for Parappa The Rapper and Um Jammer Lammy as well. I found that this made a pretty significant improvement. I'm using a delay of 10 though, which is pretty high - and if it's too high for your computer to handle it'll cause the game to stutter. If that happens, just reduce the number until the issue goes away. You want it as high as you can get it (without impacting performance) because the higher it is the less input latency.

Well at this point with the advent of overrides, custom configs are, generally speaking, complete overkill and more time consuming to implement. Outside of this specific situation, per-core and per-game overrides will take care of pretty much anything you could need and are way more convenient.

I suppose you could, yeah. You'd need to setup the game to use custom command line parameters in LB to direct the config to it, and then I guess do an additional app version for the second config. But yeah I can't really think of a good reason to do this haha. It's not particularly practical.

So I just added Game Boy and Game Boy Color to my library tonight, both setup to use the Gambatte core, and I did some experimenting to see what the best solution was for dealing with this specific situation. What I ended up doing was duplicating my retroarch.cfg in the base RA directory - copying it into the config folder, and making two copies - one named "Gambatte_GB.cfg" and the other "Gambatte_GBC.cfg" and then specifying those configs for those platforms in LB: Then, load up a Game Boy game, set your shader, exit; load up a Game Boy Color game, set your shader, exit. Voila! Separate shaders for each, no per-game shader overrides necessary. The one really important thing here is that you cannot create a per-core override in this scenario because if you do the override will then apply to both (because it's the same core) - because it overrides the base config (in this case Gambatte_GB.cfg or Gambatte_GBC.cfg). This doesn't actually limit you in any way since you're essentially using those configs in functionally the same way as a core override - the changes you make will only affect games you load with that config.

No problem! As far as Sega Saturn, I actually haven't found this to be an issue for it - the following settings seem to work fine for everything (with one exception, which I'll get back to in a moment). Note 9/11/17 - after I did a closer inspection there was some cutoff with these settings for some games. There's none in the custom overrides I've made. Aspect Ratio = Custom Custom Aspect Ratio Width = 1510 (5x) Custom Aspect Ratio Height = 1200 (5x) Integer Scale = On I have these settings saved as a core override and they seem to work great for everything (I've got about 80 Saturn games in my library, nearly all of which use RA Mednafen Saturn). I do have the games that are in interlaced 480i (similarly to PSX, they're pretty much all fighting games) setup to use the deinterlacing shader, but the aspect ratio/resolution/view port settings are unchanged. The one exception to this is the game Enemy Zero - and for it, it's not that the normal resolution/AR settings are wrong, it's that the game itself is in a letterboxed format on a normal 4:3 display (so on a 16:9 display it has space on all sides). As result, I made an override which essentially crops it so that it's in a full-scale 16:9 format. There's some cutoff on the main menu but I think that's it - the game itself seems to all be in the odd format. Enemy Zero.cfg There isn't much to do in the way of controller customization yet either as the 3D pad still isn't supported in RA Mednafen Saturn. Once that's implemented I'll probably be making some overrides, where relevant, for that.

Because, ya know, having to only ward off normal hackers wasn't enough... let's throw the CIA in there too. Thanks for letting us know.

Yeah I suggested to Jason that we create a new forum/download section specifically for Playlist media. I think that'll be happening at some point; probably when 7.8 stable is released. Here's one for RPGs, featuring my favorite non-PC RPG of all time: Suikoden II. Normal: Scanlines:

I've changed Cyberia to a custom aspect ratio override. AR Setting 2, which is what I had it on previously, didn't actually scale it all the way.

Also, I swear I've posted this before but I'm not seeing it in this thread. Mine is "Zombeav" http://steamcommunity.com/id/Zombeav

That's fair (in this case it's "rinimotion" if anybody wants to look it up manually). I just say it as a habitual link-to-other-threads-by-way-of-linked-text...er. Being cautious is definitely good though - which is why I always look at the URL in the bottom left in such a scenario.

Your browser should show what the url is in the bottom left corner if you hover over the link:

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Great music too! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Divine Divinity - $0.89 Divine Divinity is another "not Diablo" isometric RPG. It's got a huge world, a great story, a lot of charm, and a lot of humor. A real classic; and for less than a bottle of [insert soft drink of choice] from a vending machine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Divinity 2: Developer's Cut - $2.99 Divinity 2 unfortunately launched with a lot of bugs, some of which were basically game-breaking. Thankfully those are all patched at this point, but it kindof tarnished what is an otherwise fantastic game. It's also completely hilarious. The Divinity games have always had humor front and center and Divinity 2 is no exception. It plays nothing like the other games in the series, mind you - this is not an isometric RPG - it's third person not unlike, say, Gothic. Divinity 2 is really underrated. Highly entertaining and highly recommended. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deus Ex: GOTY Edition - $2.99 There's really nothing I can say about this game that hasn't already been said a thousand times over. It was way ahead of its time. An engrossing cyberpunk story and a whole lot of player agency makes for a great time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines - $4.99 Not unlike Divinity 2, VTMB launched in a pretty broken state and unfortunately ended much the same since Troika Games, the developer, went belly up shortly after it was released. The good news is the community has fixed basically everything in the game (and are still making improvements) and put it in a good state; that's a damn good thing because underneath the rough edges is one of the best RPGs ever made. It's a masterpiece. A great story, great characters, a whole lot of player choice, extremely atmospheric, and great music... I love this game. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Witcher 3: GOTY Edition - $29.99 TW3 isn't a "classic" game in the sense that it's not as old as the rest of the games listed here, but it's just as good. I've spoken here, at length, about all the great things that TW3 does that other devs should take note of in their future endeavors, but suffice it to say that it has a great story, great characters, wonderful writing, meaningful consequences for your actions, and it does optional side content better than probably any other game I've played - all of it comes together to form this extremely well-realized cohesive world full of characters that you actually care about. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyway, those are my recommendations! Maybe someone looking for something new will find something here

The .m3u shouldn't have the .bin names unless that's a typo. It should only be the .cues: Policenauts (Japan) (Disc 1) (English).cue Policenauts (Japan) (Disc 2) (English).cue Policenauts (Japan) (Disc 3) (English).cue I'm not sure how it works with standalone, but with RA Mednafen the saves (or any other related files) simply need to match the file name that you want them to be associated with. So if you start the game with "Policenauts.M3U" you would then have "Policenauts.bcr", "Policenauts.bkr", and "Policenauts.smpc". That would work for RA Mednafen (though I believe it uses different file types), I'm not sure about standalone. Have you tried "Policenauts.147b1db63e40e97cc61028633f482985.bcr" etc.? It looks like it would probably need that based on bujinkanrn's post above.

I think that would be a decent compromise. Since it already treats it as an "OR" across multiple uses of the same field I think that would cover the majority of use scenarios. I'll try to think of any potential exceptions

Is there not a way to accomplish an "OR" search across different fields via auto-playlists? I just now started messing them. If I have: Developer - Contains - Cave It shows all games with Cave in the developer field. If I have: Developer - Contains - Cave Publisher - Contains - Cave The playlist then shows only games that have Cave in both the developer and publisher fields. Is there a way to make it populate based on all titles that contain "Cave" in either the developer or the publisher fields?

Yep. You can call them whatever you want in your own library and subsequently set them to "scrape as" any of the platforms in the DB. Keep in mind that the "associated platform" in your emulator entries in LB need to match what you name the platform in your library in order to be associated with that platform. If the platform in your library is named "C64" and the associated platform tab in the emulator you want to use is set to "Commodore 64" it's not going to work. They need to match. As far as a list of the platforms that currently have Launchbox Games Database sections, just look at the DB.

Hmm. What do you have in mind specifically? Personally I don't think they're really interchangeable - I know the option is available to combine them but they're for two very different purposes in my view and never the two shall meet in my library haha I think it might be a little weird having them lumped together in terms of media categorization/separation. Presumably people looking for media for one or the other are, well, looking for one or the other; and having them mixed together could make that more difficult.

Are you planning on using Mednafen standalone for anything other than Saturn? If so, you'd want to put the lines into the commmand line parameters field of the "associated platform" tab, in association with the Sega Saturn platform. If you're only going to use it for Saturn you could just put it in the main emulator details tab. Also, keep in mind that you might not want some of those parameters - like "-ss.scanlines 40" which adds scanlines.

It's not significantly different from anything else. I use standalone Mednafen for a handful of Saturn games. Basically you just add it as an emulator in Launchbox ("manage emulators"), go to the associated platform tab and enter the platform you want to use it with, and then put in the appropriate command line parameters. @lordmonkus listed the ones he uses (or used) for Saturn here: Mine are slightly different. It's just your own preference. The specific command line parameters you can use depend on the platform. Mednafen has pretty extensive documentation on these on their site. Click on a platform in the outline and it'll take you to the relevant section with a list of usable command line parameters. Other than that, it's just a matter of directing the entries in your game library to use Mednafen as the emulator.