Chaosmountain

Oy Vey!!!! Sad, sad, sad....... I am just at a loss for words!!!!!

And there must be a LOT of people that would like more control with an external controller without having to have to use a keyboard because this thread has had a TON of views, more than any thread in this section for quite a few pages except one and that was also about mame, something to do with artwork, and one about buying BB premium or something to that effect. And whats nice is you can drop the BB .exe into your startup folder and it will start when you turn on your system and then you can turn off your PC/HTPC dedicated gaming system within BB all from your controller!!! Well, at least now I can now that I figured out how to exit MAME while in BB!!!

Sometimes I could just KIK myself in the @$$!!!!!! I have the R3 button set up to pause while in an arcade game in MAME and it never crossed my mind about setting it up in MAME to exit the emu with the L3 button!!! DOHH!!! Then when I thought of it I was not sure if it would work and when I tested it, it worked in MAME when launched directly so then I tried it in BB and it worked and I was like HELL YEAH!!!!!! LOL!!! I hate it when you spend a ton of time trying to get something to work and then it ends up being something simple you should have thought of in the first place!!

Okay, so today I was thinking about it and remembered you can globally change key bindings in MAME so I did this, Hit the TAB key while in any game to bring up the settings menu and select "Input (general)" Then "User Interface" Then I scrolled down until I found "UI Cancel" binded to the "ESC" key, Then I pushed the "A" button on my 360 controller, or you can use the "ENTER" key, to clear the binding then I just pushed in my left thumbstick, which is "L3", which is "Joy 1 Button 8" Now the L3 button works as the ESC key on the keyboard so while in BigBox and playing a MAME game pushing in L3 closes right out of MAME and returns to BB!!! But there still should be some kind of custom controls in BB and Lb to let you do custom key bindings so people can be keyboard free at least enough to play games between emus!!

Just show me a simple way to exit MAME on a 360 controller in BB without having to use the ESC key on a keyboard!!!! It can't be that hard for ONE emulator that has to be the most popular EMU of all time!!! EDIT: Any way from any controller other than having to use the ESC key on the keyboard!!

Okay, the LilyPad-0.11.0-20150505.dll plugin from PCSX2 did the trick. Here is the thread if anyone else needs to do it. https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/emulation/hekp-epsxe-2-0#p13774 Thanks for all the help everyone!! Now to get MAME to close and exit back to BigBox as that one still does not want to work without having to use the ESC key on the keyboard. SentaiBrad Let me know if yours works to exit MAME as I have tried all kinds of stuff and just can not get it to exit from BigBox or LB. lordmonkus said The paid premium version allows you to set up and exit key press using your controller or you can use xpadder to set up your own if you dont have the paid premium version of Launchbox. Xpadder worked for me before I bought the premium version. How did you set it up with Xpadder ? I have also tried everything I can think of with Xpadder, starting from scratch trying to bind different buttons on the 360 controller to the ESC key and even trying my config. files from my hyperspin setup but nadda!!

Hey Okay so I thought of something and did this, I changed the -slowboot to -fastboot and now it skips the sony loading screen and goes right into the start of the game. Now could/is there some kind of a command line that would possibly get rid of that exit confirmation screen ? Because it only does it when launched through BB. Like I said, when launching ePSXe alone neither of those things happen.

Okay, now before you mentioned that there was an option to disable the exit confirmation I also thought I had see that somewhere in the last version, 2.0.2 but I could not find it and using the escape key did not produce the exit confirmation dialogue. Now I went through everywhere on the newest version and I can not find anywhere to disable it. It's weird because when I start ePSXe directly there is no sony loading screen, like when you turn on the actual hardware, and no exit confirmation screen, but when launched through BB the sony intro screen is there and there is an exit confirmation screen. Also pushing the "Close the Active Window" and "Hold" button does make the exit confirmation box go away for about a tenth of a second and it comes right back, so fast you can basically always see it so that's not work for me either. And I am using 6.3 beta 10. I saw that there was an update to MAME also the other day, OY VEY!! LOL!! I am still on 0.172 but have everything to update to 0.174 just have not gotten around to it yet then I saw there was a new update!!

Okay I will check it out. Currently I have v2.0.2 and I did see a few days ago they released v2.0.5 and I already have had it for a few days but I have not messed with it yet. But for the life of me I still can not exit MAME without using the ESC button on the keyboard and right now those are the only two EMU's I am using in BB, MAME and PSX. So it kind of sucks having to use the keyboard all the time and it would be nice to be able to just have to push one button to exit any emulator which is why I suggested some type of shortcut linked to the ESC key or command of a keyboard. And yeah, that is me over on Bitbucket about the RetroArch style hotkey.

alissongamer Thank you for giving some actual SPECIFIC info on how to set it up!!! I actually already tried that and also used the L3 & R3 buttons on a 360 controller and neither way would exit from the MAME, although both ways would exit from ePSXe. But when exiting from ePSXe it would ask for a confirmation which I would have to use the "enter" key on the keyboard to select YES and confirm the exit from the emulator. But when using the ESC key on the keyboard it does not require the confirmation, and using the ESC key on the keyboard in any other EMU also does not require any other confirmation or key stroke, it just exits to BigBox. @ DOS76 I also just voted for your suggestion of the controller controls..... But honestly, I don't see why it would be so difficult to just make some kind of shortcut or code to allow one of the L3 or R3 buttons to be linked to the ESC button on the keyboard ?!?!?!?! He/they seemed to have done way harder coding in the software/program!!!!!! One thing that would have put this software on the top of the hill like many many versions ago!!!!!!!!!!!

Oy Vey!!!

Okay, so I tried both "Close the Active Window" and "Show Launchbox" and neither worked and I don't know what other options would work ? I have tried so many settings under the different sections and I can not find any setting that will exit any emulator back to BigBox or LB. I mean with the 5000 options and all the things being worked on and upgraded you would think this would be one of the first options made to be easy and built in, with or without Xpadder. It is one function, a shortcut to the "ESC" button on the keyboard, there have been many others ?

I do have Premium, or the paid version, for about 4 months now at least. I will have to check it out some more in depth tomorrow. I know you can set up a shortcut within LB to to exit LB back to windows but I have not found a way to exit any emu back to LB with a game controller, only the ESC key on a keyboard. Your reply was very vague lordmonkus and gave no actual details on how to do what I asked. Just saying you can fly to the moon does not tell anyone how to actually fly to the moon!!! LOL!!!

Hey all So I am not sure if this should be here or the "Features" forum but here goes.... I have my wireless 360 controllers set up to play in my emus, MAME, ePSXe, snes9x, etc. and run LB but does anyone know how to set it up so I can use one of the buttons on the 360 controller to exit the emu's and return to LB ? You can do it in Hyperspin and I have tried to set up xpadder but when in LB it does not seem to work. I always end up having to use the "ESC" button on the keyboard to exit the EMU's and return to LB but I want to be able to be keyboard free when in LB and this one thing is the only thing standing in my way. Or maybe there should be some kind of shortcut/script added to LB to allow you to set one of the buttons on a controller to the ESC button on the keyboard, like the L3 button on a 360 or PS2 controller. Unless there is something already there and I am just missing it ? Thanks for any answers or insight into solving this issue.