damageinc86

Hopefully they can figure out how to send ahk key presses to the emulator. That's all that rocketlauncher does. There is a setup screen for your specific emulator and you just type in what the key presses are for save and load. Example: {F5}{down}{F5}{up}{1}{down}{1}{up}. That sends a press of F5, and then when the emulator wants the slot number to save, it then sends a 1 keypress for that. you can set the delay to be whatever you want in milliseconds, so there's enough of a pause in between the keypresses, and then bam, you see everything flash on the screen as if you had pressed the keys yourself, and your save goes through.

hmmm interesting. I wish Windows would just show you a list of what usb ports you have (numbered), and then let you confirm which controller is plugged in, and then lock that name to that port until you wanted to change it. That way you could lock it to a usb dongle so windows wouldn't shuffle everything just because it got an on or off signal.

I'm still trying to get someone with one of the 8bitdo bluetooth controllers to tell me if they re-arrange the order of wired controllers when turned on and off, or if the dongle keeps it's slot occupied even when the controller is turned off. I'd love to get one, but I don't want to loose every mapping of the other controllers as soon as I turn it off and back on.

Yeah, not sure if there's anything more you can do as far as optimizing. I guess that might be one thing HS still has over LB. How are you liking it though so far?

One of the coolest things for me is the fact that we all are collectively preserving video game history on each of our setups. It's a big problem for preservationists in general, and seems to be overlooked mostly. I like the feeling of being a part of something that is helping to save these cultural artifacts in some form or another.

I used this for my startup video: http://www.a4video.com/volume-normalizer-master.htm It was insane how much louder the startup video was than my bigbox.

Heyyyy welcome! Haven't seen that name in ages. I think I have a start up video that lasts about 15 seconds maybe, and somehow it's perfectly timed for when bigbox starts up. I don't even have close to that amount though. That's frickin' huge. I think there is a cache setting you can adjust, but I'm not sure what it was. Someone else probably knows more.

i'd say it is still worth it even for non-emulator games. The presentation of launchbox/bigbox is just so nice.

how does that really feel to control? ergonomically feels ok or what? i'm really into this, but it's just not really out there a lot, and you can't go hold it anywhere. Curious how it really feels and works.

Is this for navigating bigbox with the controller, or for exiting a game from the emulator? I use rocketlauncher, which uses joy2key profiles that can be game-specific, emulator specific, or platform specific. So i have "select" set to the esc key, but with a hold of like half a second before it engages. It's always select, across all platforms. I think keymapping is the next big piece of the puzzle for a more seamless experience in LB/BB.

yeah shoot 'em ups should not be with shooters, or run 'n gun. That one is pretty obvious. FPS games should be their own genre "First-person shooters". I haven't really messed with genre stuff much, but I would have thought that it wouldn't be as general as what is presented in the original post. Interesting. Good solution from agent47 as well.

Oh first of all you have to tell launchbox to use rocketlauncher as the emulator for the system, and then point rocketlauncher to launchbox, so it gets the signal.

I think you could bulk edit all the games without box art and then point those to the image. I've never had to do anything like this because my no box art games are so few that I can deal with it. Even in the arcade system, there is box art for so many games. But if you select them all and then do the bulk edit, maybe you can select box art image from that menu system?

I deleted the playlist, and then re-auto-generated it, and it is still the only playlist showing up on the regular platform category list in bigbox. Refreshed image cache for all images too. I also deleted the auto-generated list and replaced it with a manually filled list. It's weird that it would pick Castlevania to be the only playlist i've made and feature it on the platform category menu lol. Maybe it's a sign?

try asking on the reddit too. https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick/

Yeah you have to really be dedicated to your hacks/homebrews to have all the images and videos and stuff. I try as best i can, but some fall through the cracks. I just deal with the gaps, but I have found a lot of videos on youtube, and made a lot of clear logos on my own. It's tolerable, but not complete by any means.

I just updated everything, and then updated to the new cityhunter theme that is supposed to work with the new beta. One of my playlists is showing on the main platform line, even though the "show in platforms" is un-checked. I don't know if this is a themeing issue, or a bigbox issue. Just wondering if anyone might know how to stop that playlist from showing up in the mail platforms somehow.

I like having them as separate platforms. I put all my hacks/homebrews together, for example: SNES Homebrew, NES Homebrew, Genesis Homebrew, etc. I know a lot of people further separate between homebrew and hacks,...but I consider it all homebrew since even a romhack was still "brewed" by someone or a team, on their own.

Oh no, we can't loose this theme to any of the new updates that have happened. It's one of the best!

yeah it looked pretty damn cool. Can you do two players with it on the same box? or would you need another blissbox plugged in also?

I never understood how the blissbox could let you hot-swap (i think that's what it's called?) controllers and it would be able to stay mapped properly to the emulator? Could you explain a little how it works?

Hey the more options the better. Even if they aren't exactly to the same specs as the original, I think you did damn good!

Wow, I think these are actually very cool. I'd love a pixel theme.