Lordmonkus

Yeah I think your idea is great for a nice CRT friendly UI even though that can be taken care of with a theme designed to it. The more light weight for lower end hardware is also a good feature and even though I have no specific interest or need in what you are doing I know there are people around here that would be interested. A video of it in action would certainly be good.

I'll send him a message reminding him to get in touch with you. But i'll tell you right now if this goes live without a deal with Jason and people can basically skirt paying Jason for a premium license then your product won't be welcome around here. My best advice here is to put some sort of check (if possible) to make sure the end user has a valid non pirate premium license for it to work.

That's fine but like I said as long as you aren't basically producing a way to get around paying for the premium license of BigBox it's fine. Because if that is exactly what you are doing then people could just get the free version of Launchbox and use your "plugin" for free or pay you for it and Jason makes nothing.

As long as you aren't cutting Jason out of money for BigBox then that's fine to me.

Yeah that's fine, I don't need the sales pitch but what it sounds like you are saying here is what you are doing is making your own custom "BigBox like" controller driven UI using Launchbox's data. If that is not what you then you need to explain it better. If that is what you doing then well there's gonna be problems because you are cutting out @Jason Carr from his main premium feature. Essentially all that needs to be done to achieve what you are saying is just a simple theme, no need for some 3rd party program.

So let me get this right. You want to make a "BigBox" like UI for Launchbox (which already exists) and call it Attract Mode (which is another front end all together) ? Maybe I am missing something here ?

Try what @DOS76 suggested, make a dummy text file but rename it the same as the picture file with the .jpg extension.

Ahhh, I had replaced mine with other images.

There will just be an empty space where the image is supposed to be, I am assuming what you are talking about is the small picture of the Wonderswan in the upper middle of the image you posted. Just to be safe you could just rename it to something like <filename.jpg.bak changing the file extension to one that is not a supported image file type will make Launchbox just pretend it's not there.

You can just delete it, it will either be located in: \LaunchBox\Images\Platforms\<platform name>\Banner or \LaunchBox\Themes\<theme name>\Images\Platforms\Banner

Download the core if you haven't done so already of course. Set your core in the associated platforms command line with: -L "cores\mesen_libretro.dll" Then make sure all your NES games are using Retroarch for it's emulator. If you had it set to a different stand alone emulator you will want to use the bulk edit tool, select all the games (Control + A) and edit (Control + E) to change the emulator to Retroarch.

Are you using the stand alone or Retroarch core ?

Windows 10 and Daemon Tools don't play well together. If you have a decent CPU like an i5 Skylake CPU running around 3.4 GHz or better or an AMD CPU running close to 4 GHz you might want to look into using either Retroarch and the Beetle / Mednafen Saturn core or the stand alone version of Mednafen. It's a better emulator and you don't have to muck about with mounting disk images. The one drawback besides the extra CPU requirements is that it does require proper disk image dumps, SSF is much more forgiving on crappy disk dumps.

No problem, glad you are liking the new version.

In the options menu turn off the confirm on exit and use this AHK script in your edit emulator > autohotkey scripts tab to close it out with Escape or your controller button combo, it will also move your mouse if its not disappearing. It will also move your mouse off screen if it's not disappearing though you may have to change the 2160 to 1920 if using a 1920x1080 display. Sleep, 3000 SetKeyDelay, -1, 110 MouseMove, 0, 2160, 0, R $Esc:: { Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}} }

I knew someone would come along with an answer. I haven't touch Citra in a while so what I had worked back when I last updated it.

I don't have an answer you but i'm sure someone will have something for you and post when they see it.

-f last time i updated it it was that, not sure if it changed or not

Yup a lot of new stuff since 7.10 and not just for premium users either.

Yeah I don't know what async is either and there's no info when you press the select button on the controller, i'm gonna guess and say it's some sort of hybrid read ahead while playing without a full precache into ram.

I just did a quick test with it and seems to work exactly as it did before. I also noticed a couple of extra things in the core options that I don't recall being there before like the analog toggle option. I think you used to have to go into the controller options and change that before which while not a big deal this new toggle on the controller is much more convenient.

Hmm, I haven't looked at the PSX core options in a while and by the looks it has changed a little. There used to be a "Pre cacheCD" option where the emulator loaded the disk image to memory which took a small amount of extra time on the initial load (nothing significant) but sped up the disk access a lot during game play. It seems now that is gone and there is the new CD Access Method so yeah I would assume that is exactly what that message is referring to. Try setting that to async and see if you get any issues or messages. Edit: There is a precache option in that setting as well, I would probably start with the precache one myself since I always turned that on before.

and we're back to the shit games getting MSU'd

Click View at the top of your Windows File Manager Options > Change folder and search options Uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types"

Start here with some basic steps: