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Jason Carr said @Drybonz I hope nothing broke more than it was supposed to. ;) What happened exactly? Hey Jason, I had multiple platforms that were missing pictures, and I believe it was because I had renamed those platforms. When the image folder shuffle hit, those platforms never got back to normal, so I just had to manually move things around. I got it all straightened out last night. As far as the vertical theme, I'm hoping someone does come up with one. I find myself with at least one monitor in vertical orientation most of the time, these days. I tried one of the user themes last night and it didn't seem to work. I'll take another look at it later.

I dropped one of these in my theme folder, set it to the theme in options, restarted BigBox... nothing happened.

Had not opened Launchbox for a few days... just opened it to find that my game art is completely wrecked. Is this related to the recent changes in the folder structure? Has there been a thread about how to fix it... if not, how do I fix it? *edit* I figured it out... had to move some stuff between folders.

https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/emulation/bezels

Andy at Ultimarc will help you out. I have a couple of the Ultrastiks, and he was very helpful and answered all my questions.

rmilyard said So I am getting this controller with the 2 player sit down cabinet I am getting for the kids. Looks like pretty much will work with MAME out of the box. Wondering if anyone else has this and used it with RetroArch or other EMUs? http://www.recroommasters.com/Xtension_Two_Player_Control_Board_Emulator_Edition_p/rm-xt-sd-board-ee.htm You should be able to use it with anything that takes keyboard input. The biggest problem with those is the plexi top... not friendly to modding... like if you wanted to add a spinner or other hardware. If you are not planning on doing that, you should be good to go.

Antropus said Sorry for the lack of replies. Bed sick the whole day with a stomach virus :-/ I tested the Maximus Arcade exporter and everything went fine. Hey... hope you are ok. Take some time off... get better. :) I'm going to try setting the Maximus converter to run as admin when I have some time to play with it later. Even though it wasn't necessary for the Lightspeed.exe maybe I need to do it for the converter. I'll let you know how it goes. My antivirus has never stopped a process without alerting me, but if I need to I will kill it while running the converter to see if it helps.

I have just been hoping that new Saturn emulator would show some progress. :)

Yeah, I definitely like building a larger list, but I think the "all killer" is a good tool. It leaves off too many older titles for my taste, however. As far as the Maximus gui, when I drop the .txt file on it, nothing happens. No report or .lst created. I also notice that if I go back to the "supported files" box later, after running an export to LB, if I drop down to Maximus Arcade, it doesn't change to the location of the Maximus related files... stays on location of LB .xml.

SentaiBrad said My guess would be yes, but we might need to make some changes our selves for the vertical orientation. I would really like to see even a most basic vertical theme... as of right now BigBox is not practical for a vertical screen.

Ok, so I deleted everything and started fresh with version .7j, and the filter list was generated first try and export to LB appears to have been flawless, so that is great news. When I change the export box to Maximus Arcade, the Lightspeed.txt is generated, however when I drag it on the Maximus converter box no .lst file is created that I can see. *edit* At a glance, the "all killer" list is looking like a solid place to start for people that just want to set up MAME quickly and play some good games.

Yeah, I have been using GLSL for several versions, so it would all be new to me. I have different setups for horizontal and vertical games using different RL setups now, which works fine, but I would definitely like it if I could use one shader for all games.

Thanks, lordmonkus... I didn't know they had made big improvements to HLSL. I'll have to give it a go.

Would a theme make it possible to make BigBox usable in vertical orientation, or is that going to take additional changes in the program? I mean, it's possible to use it in veritical, but you can't read anything, the layout is bad, etc... Just curious.

Tried it again with "run as admin" but no luck. Hard drive space is plenty. My path to roms folder had reset at some point so I fixed that but still no luck. Tried "match roms folder" but didn't work. I'm sure it's something small but I can't seem to figure it out.

I don't want to throw another wrench in things, but when I create the new list file, it is again corrupt... 0 kb. My MAME .exe is still on .173, is that possibly causing it?

Sure... I'll send it over to you now... sorry for the delay, was out of town a good bit this weekend... last night I just collapsed. lol

I also noticed the font issue some time ago... was trying to add some cool video game/LED looking fonts and none of them would work.

With "prevent duplicates" un-checked, I am still getting an empty list.

Well, I just checked and I do have the "all killler" folder with .txt files inside. I'm wondering if maybe it didn't generate until after I closed Lightspeed on the first run or something? Let me try again and see what happens.

So, my plan was to start with the "all killer" list and add to it... when I get to the "export" tab at the end of the wizard and hit "filter" my list is blank. Have I done something wrong, or is it possibly a problem with the "bypass filters" feature on the "all killer" filter? Wizard is looking amazing... can't believe how many more options there are than at first. I'm guessing at the export page I just select Maximus Arcade, or whatever frontend I want, generate a list, then open that list in the frontend? Looking great so far... just stuck on the export tab.

Ok... Let's do this! Gonna test the latest version... sorry for the delay. :) My plan is to run this and set up a new MAME list in Maximus, which I have barely even touched... maybe opened it once or twice. So this will be a great test of how easy it makes it for me to set up a new install with a frontend with which I am not familiar. Round one! FIGHT!!!

I was cleaning up my system drive today and found 4.6 gb of temp files from old updates in the Launchbox "updates" folder. Would it be possible to have Launchbox cleanup all but the last 1 or 2 (this was 45 old updates)? Thanks for considering.

I just looked at the RL forum... they have a small LB section, but no mention of it that I could see.

Cool... I use RL and would like to try this out. Not sure how it works though.