damageinc86

Voted! We all should be doing this, just to show up HS.

I can't wait for a day when the emulators are able to automatically swap the discs when the time comes, in game.

I know it might be inconsistent to have arcade cabs facing different ways sometimes, but given the lack of full cabinet photographs, i'd be more than happy to deal with different facing artwork. I've always thought that themes should have the arcade cab there to show what it really looked like.

I actually preferred to move my box art, carts, and wheels over from hyperspin because of their high quality sets there. Just have to find the corresponding folder, and launchbox should be able to match them to the roms. In some cases I had to tweak a name here or there, to match launchbox, but nothing too bad. Just take a look around the folder structure and i'm sure you'll pick up on where things need to be.

Awesome! Do you have a list of the movies you took those clips from?

I'd suggest using mednafen. I've never had a problem with input detection using that. It's always been a breeze, and you can assign on the fly in-game as well.

id like to be able to have a platform be a link to all your playlists.

I ended up going back to metalzoic's RL universal bezel packs. Those realistic ones were very cool, but I started to get annoyed at the amount of screen glare and scratches. Sometimes the reflections in the screen glare were so light and bright that it began to overshadow the game. It ended up feeling not that realistic with that aspect, since most screen glare is very subdued in a dark arcade with crt light and very dark blacks. Those screen glare layers were taken in a brightly lit room with the "screen" turned off. So the glare is amplified under that setting. the other thing I ended up not liking was the very small gameplay screen area that is used in order to accommodate most of the cabinet and bordering cabinet with background stuff. With the RL packs, the gameplay area is maximized.

I would first try to turn off the now loading message,...it feels like that cuts down on time. But that's just my unmeasured perception.

I haven't bothered trying in a while, you might get lucky who knows.

Looks like a nice emulator thanks for the module . I hate updating rocketlauncher because then I have to go back into the modules and add my custom system names for my home brews into the msystem part of the module. I'd rather just update manually the modules I need.

I have been using rocketlauncher' pause menu for years, but I noticed that somewhere during the higher launchbox version numbers it stopped being able to steal focus from launchbox and displays in the background, but you can still hear the select sounds. So it's basically useless nowadays, but it used to work great.

You could actually do a lot on those old IBMs. A lot less in the way. The prices are insane though lol.

I think you'd have to make a playlist for this. I don't think sub-platforms are a thing yet. Would be perfect for this situation though.

Oh wow, awesome! I've always used mednafen with rocketlauncher because it's what I know, and it's never failed me. I really like being able to do the alt+shift+number key, to map controls on screen and on the fly.

Do you use mednafen for anything? I wonder if that might recognize inputs better, as it does on any controller i've ever had, and does all the sega consoles besides dreamcast.

Super cool idea. I'd like to have a "pc games " option instead of Windows, and maybe a few different versions of the DS? This does really look promising though !

Yeah i've only ever used RL to load emulator and game specific joy2key profiles. For Bigbox, it detects all my controllers anyways, so no issues controlling that program.

Fade screen and bezels. A lot of people say retroarch does bezels, but I don't use that and have never liked it. So I stick with RL for bezels. There's so many amazing sets out there. Just have to turn it on and put the files in the right folder. I got another user here going with a full bezel set in about 20 minutes. Half of which was just chatting while in teamviewer

I am 100% with you on the preservation part. At a certain point, I think things like this become a cultural phenomenon, and are sort of collectively "owned" if you will. It's part of our history, and I think we all have a right and duty to preserve it. Of course you must preserve the physical media and machines as much as possible, but yeah, just like the old films (especially nitrate) they might not make it for a hundred years or more. Then, as long as we have hardware that can run emulators, we can still preserve the history. Think of all the artwork assets being made as well, that is all part of it too. With the speed of technology the emulation itself needs to keep up, it also will be just as hard to preserve if the emulators only run on hardware from the last 10 years. Maybe an entirely new architecture and way of computing comes into play, and in 50 years what we are on now isn't compatible at all. It's like this with all archiving and preservation efforts. Fighting against time and "progress" so that we can still experience important points of our culture's past.

I don't really think there is much in the way of native gamepad support. I know I could very seldom get a gamepad to be recognized when I used dFend reloaded's options to activate joystick. For most of the games I play though (Commander Keen, Cosmo, crystal caves, original duke nukem) I have made keymapper profiles in rocketlauncher, and it works great. But if you just go straight dosbox, i'm sure that you'll be using a lot of keyboard/mouse combo.

So I'm curious about something. Would there be a way to have these box images rotate if you had multiple versions in the image folder? Since there were sometimes different boxes for the same console, it might be cool to have all the different versions, and then maybe they would switch each time you launched LB.

Get one of the latest builds, not that official 5.0 one. Then you can extract it into a folder and add a text file named "portable.txt" and then it will all stay in there with dolphin.

I don't really get the nes , snes, and ms-dos problem. The nes IS the Nintendo entertainment system. The snes IS the Super Nintendo entertainment system. Yeah they are made by Nintendo, but those are their names, that's what's on the box. The MS in ms-dos stands for MicroSoft if I'm not mistaken. That's why they added the MS to it, since before it was just DOS.

Yeah it's definitely surpassed hyperspin. Years ago. Just with the importing, editing, playlists, and other general organizational tools that make it so nice to use. Then Big Box was like, BAM,...Hyperwhat!? Someday it'll be like Rocket what? launch this sucker! DONE and DONE. Then nothing will ever come close.