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Has anyone had any success with Apple II full screen? I've tried both AppleWin and MESS. Applewin works but when in fullscreen I get a small box in the centre of the TV with a huge black border around it. It's actually larger in window mode than it is in fullscreen mode. It's as if it's not stretching to fit the screen. MESS has problems with most disk images, only the occasional one will actually open so it appears to be a lost cause. Frustrating...

I have exactly the same issue, really frustrating. I added a feature request to have an autohotkey trigger the ESC key instead of closing the active window. I was going to try the following registry key to try to circumvent the issue by not displaying the error: "Set this registry value to 1 : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\DontShowUI" EDIT: I just tested again and the crash message is gone unless I'm just getting mixed results. Or perhaps they fixed in the latest version of Dolphin I installed recently. webbexperten - What version of Dolphin are you using?

Would adding an option to map the ESC key to a joystick button combination in the input autohotkey be a reasonable feature request? As I said forcing windows closed causes erratic behavior with some emulators. ESC would be much cleaner, and convenient for those trying to restrict input to a joystick.

DOS76 said LaunchBox has the option under Tools options input AutoHotKey Didn't realize! Been using third party apps to map my escape key. Just tried this input autohotkey for closing active window. It works for some systems like retroarch but it breaks the exit autohotkey script in Kat5200 that you just provided (it goes back to emulator screen instead of closing now) and Dolphin crashes instead of closing cleanly. Dolphin might not like the window being forced closed. Would be nice if that input AutoHotkey had an option to simulate the ESC key instead of closing the window. That might fix it in this case. Or maybe there is somewhere else and I'm missing it. I'll keep fiddling here and test with other systems as well.

That did it! Next I'm going to have to see if there's a way to map joystick button combinations to exit instead of clicking a single button. My son already found out the hard way by clicking R3 by accident on the PS3 controller in the middle of a game. He was pretty pissed haha. Love fiddling with this stuff, and again I appreciate so much having everyone to roll ideas off. That's why I didn't hesitate to buy the lifetime license for LB. I had a sense there was a great community presence here on top of a great product. DOS76 said In Manage Emulators there is an AutoHotKey tab add this and it should work ; This section closes Snes9x when pressing Escape $Esc:: { Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}} }

Great, had to fiddle for a bit but got Kat5200 working! One more quick slightly off topic question. What would you recommend for closing emulators to get back to the LB/BB interface once the game exits? I have the ESC key mapped to a joystick button and that works for many systems but in the case of Kat5200 it goes right back to the main screen of Kat5200 instead of back to LB/BB. I'm sure other systems would be similar. Would mapping Alt-F4 be a viable option? Only concern is accidentally clicking it twice and closing Big Box as well. What would you recommend?

Ok great I'll check them out. Would be nice if at some point retroarch could incorporate some of these systems as cores. I just hate having to reconfigure controllers on a per emulator basis. But perhaps shortcuts aren't always for the best. :) Cheers.

Thanks DOS76, I'll try to avoid MESS if I can as long as I can get everything working. Is it just a pain to work with? And you were correct about a core for the 7800 in Retroarch, but I made a mistake. I actually meant to say the Atari 5200. Any recommendations for the 5200? Does anyone else have any ideas to get Apple II games launching full screen via Launchbox or should I try messing around with parameters in AppleWin?

I've been having a lot of success, loving Launchbox/Big Box. It has brought a new passion into my life and is keeping me out of trouble so thanks! So for some old consoles, simple as updating cores in retroarch and launchbox does it's magic. Others more involved and required external emulators and system roms but I was able to figure them out. Here's where I'm stuck. I want to get Atari 7800, Colecovision, Intellivision and also Apple II working. Apple II was more of a computer but I grew up on it so I'd love to get some of the games working fullscreen via Launchbox. From what I can read Coleco, Intelli and Apple II are all best suited for MESS via LB. Correct me if I'm wrong. I have no experience at all with MESS so I'm kind of lost here. First I tried using retroarch, used the updater but I noticed when I told retroarch to load core and selected MULTI (MESS 2014) it does nothing, does not show that core as being loaded. OK... so I must be missing something. My next thought was to just download the latest version of MESS and set that up. Well... looks like they've incorporated it into newer versions of MAME. Ok... so I get the latest (0171). Then realize my MAME roms need to be updated for this version of MAME, more work but ok no problem. Yet still, if I tell LB to use MAME to launch my Atari 2600, Coleco, Intelli roms nothing happens. I launch a rom and nothing happens at all. Does anyone have any advice on how I should be handling these consoles? I don't know if I should be using retroarch or mame and I don't know if I simply need to put some system bios files somewhere to fix this. Any help clearing my head and putting me on the right path here would be greatly appreciated!

The K-Lite Codec Pack fixed it - thanks! I'll check out CirticalCid's guide as well to make sure I haven't forgotten anything. :)

Ok, tried the progretto images, refreshed and they worked great, most roms now populated. Thanks much for the info CriticalSid! However still a bunch missing. I'm assuming that's because my roms are at 0.161 and the image set was for 0.170. Would that be a logical conclusion? I suppose I have a new project getting my roms updated now, which is all good. One additional question on this subject. I also pulled all the video snaps over from progretto and both Launchbox and BigBox are only playing back audio, no video. I noticed it was using Windows Media Player when I right-clicked on the black video box so I uninstalled Windows Media Player and then nothing at all - no video or audio. Just put back WMP and now only audio no video again. I assume LB and BB depend on WMP and can't use VLC or anything else? Let me know and let me know any thoughts about the lack of video with the audio on the video snaps. It almost feels like a plugin issue although the videos do play back correctly with the standalone Windows Media Player. Really appreciate all your help. Thanks!

Looks like that Progretto site has MP4 video snaps of all mame roms as well! Should I be able to drop those into the Launchbox\Videos\Arcade folder and have functional video snaps?

Thanks, I'll check it out as well! CriticalCid said I can ensure you that it works. For me it works perfectly fine with the files named like the MAME ROMS. The files at EmuMovies are named like the ROMs too. So I guess Jason integrated that feature along with the EmuMovies support.

Thanks all for the input! By the amount of response here I think I made a wise choice investing in this product over all the rest. :) I just tried rescraping and it filled in about 1/2 of the missing covers so it's an improvement for sure. Maybe I did hit some kind of limit..

Hello, As my first post here I first want to commend the author on this product, been having a lot of fun setting it up and figuring out the various pieces of the puzzle. Most systems seem to populate artwork well, and the entries that don't seem to work out I'm able to sort out by tweaking the names or just entering art manually. So to the point, I'm still having issues pulling 'front' art specifically with Mame. Less than 50% of the roms are pulling in 'front' art. They do appear to scrape a few screenshots and other artwork but the front art is missing. I'm using the new LB database(thanks for this by the way!), wikipedia and also emumovies as sources. My question is, are these results normal and to be expected for full Mame collections? If so, is there a fast way to swap out alternate artwork as the front rather than going through each rom one by one? If it's not normal, any suggestions on what I could be doing wrong? I'm including a screenshot as an example of what I'm ending up with. Let me know. Thanks!