damageinc86

Oh wow, interesting. I use Dfend reloaded through RL, so I've never had to try to do it through launchbox.

Please let us know what happens with two player wireless and emulator mapping. I would love to know how that ends up working. Not knowing that is the only thing that has been keeping me from trying out wireless stuff like that. It would be useless to me if it lost all the mappings once the controllers were turned off from the mayflash unit.

I have always wanted to try wireless things like that may flash one,. But I was always under the impression that once you turned say, player2 off, that it would not save the mapping you had in the emulator because of Windows crap that they can't keep track of controller ids

Yeah I used to use the built in mapper, but it started acting wonky and not recognizing my xbox360 controller very well. I had to keep re-setting the mapping overt so often. It sort of became a hassle. Once I went to RL with joy2key i never had any mishaps. But this is just a secondary point to the main post. I have never used scummv. I have a bitter past with those style adventure games anyways, so I probably would just use dosbox for the occasional game from that genre. Couldn't you put them all in the msdos platform and just run them with different emulators depending on the game?

Playing dos games with a controller is relatively easy in rocketlauncher. Point rocketlauncher to the joy2key exe, and in he ms-dos platform set up per-game profiles in the keymapper tab. That way it loads the keymapper profile you made for each game anytime it's launched. It's been great for me so far .

So in your platform did you set the emulator checkbox and then select rocketlauncher from the list?

I am still on the last version of mameuifx before he stopped. But it's a no-nag version compiled by someone else. No reason to switch, as all the games I'm interested in have been working well since 2000 lol.

Oh damn, that's a bit of An issue.

If you use enough Viking videos and re-encode over and over, you could get that crazy endless mirror effect like when you point a camcorder at the Tv while it's plugged into it lol.

This is a really nice feature to have for weeding out non-essential games. Never knew this was there.

Orionsangel on YouTube. "Realistic arcade bezels made by me" search for that. Stuff is awesome! Plop the zip files in the name artwork folder and it works great. Some of them need to have screen stretch (horizontal and vertical) adjusted on the slider controls in the in game menu.

wow that's really weird. Never ran into that when I set up rocketlauncher. No idea.

I would wonder if you could tap into anything in the retroarch program? Doesn't that keep track of the retro achievements for every core and do that update message for each core when you are playing different ones? the standalone emulators I can see being next to impossible, but it seems like it might be a possibility if you could tap into the update message that retroarch displays.

I'm sure in theory you could figure out when retroarch is throwing that message to the screen, and then convert it to a nice little icon with text pop up notification. I have no idea though, as I know nothing of actual programming. But that would be a great step to take in the quest for seamless retro gaming via frontend.

Yes go to the fade tab of that system and turn it off, then you might be able to see any error messages that RL is showing you.

It would be cool if launchbox/ bigbox could look inside before it sends the command , and have a pop up window for you to select. I've made a copy of the file and renamed it to what the alternate version's name was. But that's just making a split version yourself sort of.

I've noticed that my rocketlauncher has a really hard time bringing up the pause menu over bigbox. Like sometimes it won't show but I can hear the menu sounds. Big box must just Be so powerful that even RL can't get on top ? Lol.

This is too bad. Hopefully someone can rebuild with all the assets and update it to work. Was actually thinking of going back to this one for a while because I sort of miss the look.

Yeah sorry for noticing that, but DOS games never had a WINDOWS logo on them. Let alone the modern one. Some in the mid 90s might have a logo for windows 95 since it might be compatible with that OS, but they would still have been ran in actual dos. Then when the game was exited, you'd usually have to go back to C:\windows and then type "win" to get back to Windows if I remember correctly. Surely you can post and share what you like, I just don't foresee anyone who knows better to find them useful if There is such a contradiction right on the box.

That's what a fade option is in rocketlauncher, but it's only with animated images at best. Maybe someday that could be an option built in to launchbox so that it could cover up the emulator while it loads underneath whatever's being shown on top of it. Helps to give the seamless effect.

would there be a reason for putting a windows logo on an ms-dos box?

Re-import the hack rims into your new platform, then it will populate and show up. It is sort of weird that you can't add platforms ahead of time with 0 games if you want to add games later. You could also make a hack/home brew playlist to show all those games.

Is that a windows logo up top?

Oh cool, i didn't know that. I've just stuck with my 4.0 version not knowing any better. Here's my mega folder if anyone needs it. Should all work. https://mega.nz/#F!XM5h3CRY!NLcW-s7IUNXdXoih1LMd3A

That's a good tip. I'll try that. I just used auto populated a few times because Its way quicker than going through each platform and searching for the appropriately named games.