Drybonz

With MAMEUIFX, my main MAME, shutting down again, I decided to go ahead and migrate to MAMEUI, which I haven't used for a while. As I was setting it up, I noticed that there are no options to select GLSL shaders (like Lotte's, etc) in the default game options. Does anyone know how that works for MAMEUI? Is it not supported?

Hey man... it was a two-parter... the first part with the bad list file was fixed, for me, by updating to the latest Lightspeed and deleting all the stuff from previous versions. The second part (fixed about two weeks ago, post 338) was to have the converter in the same exact folder as the list. Hope that helps... if not, that's all I got.

I basically said the same thing as Brad and I use and love it... I don't think he was trying to bash it.

kerszr, the best way I can describe it is a launcher for games that adds extra features... such as a pause menu, an easy way to control display of bezel art around your games, input stuff like joytokey and ultramap, and other things. Basically, a way to add stuff that emulators don't already have. It's a pain to set up, but can be useful. You may want to read up on it to see if it offers a specific feature you want before you mess with it.

Ok... just thought I would poke around a bit.

Thanks, Brad... the all-caps "currently" makes me wonder if you guys are about to drop a surprise on us. :)

Lmagnus87 said Everything new for Launchbox is an excellent news lol... well, that's great... I thought maybe we could talk about specifics though. To me, as a casual observer, no one, including the LaunchBox developer, really seems to know how this feature works or what it is good for. At a glance it seems to be on just about the same level as we have always used RL with LB. I'm sure, though, that this isn't the case and I'm just not understanding it.

For the button assignment to use controller input in LB, I need to be able to assign keyboard buttons, as the buttons on my arcade controller are keyboard output.

Never mind... it was another problem related to the change in image directory structure. I figured it out... just going to delete the platform and start fresh.

I am trying to download all Steam banners for my Windows platform, however about half of them are missing banners. These are games that are in my Steam library. If I try to download the banner for an individual game from which it is missing, it says the banner is available for download... but nothing happens... no image is imported.

Old school would be Ultima... more recently Dark Souls.

Jason Carr said I still have plenty of bugs to fix and such, but thought I might as well put out what I got in there today. I did find a bug with the image migration process where the platform image folder paths end up looking like this: ..\LaunchBox\Images\.. I wonder if that is the problem I have been having with my images, that I mentioned previously?

Hm... I'm not sure I see the real advantage to this.

Hey guys... would love to see some wheel logos, backglass images and playfield images in the database for pinball emulation.

Anyone know how this works, exactly?

Nice... gonna update mine and check it out. Thanks for the heads up.

SentaiBrad said There was a bug of them not switching, but if you're on the latest beta then it should be switching just fine. When themes are out of Beta I will be making a tutorial on how to enable them. Thanks... I'll let it marinate for a bit and check back.

Yeah, I gave up on it pretty quickly. Just just wanted something I could test out that would make use of the wheel logos and so on, but I have too many other projects to put a lot of time into it, unfortunately. Thank you for the helpful comments, though... I appreciate it.

Thanks for the reply... yes, I have them extracted properly. I tried another theme other than Clean Hardware last night and it did work. There were elements missing... I assume I have to supply backgrounds, etc... However, neither of them affected the platforms screen at all. It still has the default, generic look.

SentaiBrad said Every theme should work. I use the Clean Hardware theme myself too and it's working just fine. Sorry for the obvious questions, but did you extract the Theme folder from the package and change the setting in BigBox? You may even need to restart BigBox. Yeah, I did extract the folder and change the setting... I restarted it multiple times... I'll try to mess around with it some more. Is it possible I got a wrong version or something like that? *edit* These do go in the "theme" folder in the launchbox dir, right?

Thanks... I use Display Fusion and actually just set up a profile for this.

Hey guys... I tried the Clean Hardware theme because the screenshots looked great... didn't work for me at all. Are there any themes that are tested and working, just drop it and and it works? I just want to test this feature out to see if I like it in BigBox... don't want to invest too much time in it yet. Thanks.

Is there a way to start BigBox on your second monitor? If not, this would be a very helpful option to add.

Jason Carr said As best as I can tell from the server logs, there should be no bandwidth issues since we upgraded to the gigabit connection. We are indeed allowing more bandwidth to go through, and things seem performant from my end, so not sure what might have happened there @Drybonz. No worries, Jason... I did finally get that beta downloaded... just wanted to send a heads up that the site has been dragging a bit vs. other sites that I visit. Also, is it possible that you can add a "pinball" platform video and image? I know there's a few guys (and me) out there launching their pinball stuff with Launchbox and I thought the silverball could use a little love. *edit* I should add that today's beta download seemed to be back to normal speeds. Looks like there was a MS .Net update for anyone who hasn't got it yet.

Yeah, I had a weird pop-up error with games I think was related to a recent RL update... I need to check and see if they fixed that. I thought it was Launchbox at first, but I don't think it was.