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    EMULATING VS COLLECTING

    in Monkeys

    Posted

    11 hours ago, OlDirty said:

    I played on MAME many years ago, but not very often. One day I stumbled over this video

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXA0xnl0mls   and all collecting hell broke loose. I could visit him and since then the arcade virus got me (not that i wasn’t addicted when I was a child. ? )

    I bought 2 Taito Egret cabs (vertical & horizontal) and just one PCB. Ok another one, but that’s the last one. Haha, yeah right…

    Now I’m sitting on near full CAVE PCB collection. Sometimes I really ask myself WHY??!? Hunting for all those “diamonds” were kind of fun I must say.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlDO7KDSs7E

    You can play those games all on MAME, so for what you have these? I tell myself because they still can’t emulate the CAVE games 100% correct because of all the slowdowns and stuff like this. But would I sell them if the emulation is 100% perfect? I don’t know if I could let them go :-(. But after I set up now Bigbox with Groovymame I’ll sell a few other PCBs I have. It makes no sense FOR ME to keep the PCBs if the games look absolute the same when you emulate them in a real arcade cabinet.

    Nevertheless I collect now A TON of games just for emulation. Will I always play all these? Nope, but collecting and hunting is also fun.

     

    Are you from Germany?

    Launchbox with RocketLauncher

    in Noobs

    Posted

    there should be some tutorials out there where you can see how to set up rocket launcher without any front end, and a tutorial how you can connect a already set up rocket launcher with Launchbox.

     

    more interesting would be why you want to go with rocketlauncher? maybe the pros are already in launchbox implemented.

     

    Noob with questions about Launchbox and emumovie premium

    in Noobs

    Posted

    welcome to Launchbox.

     

    01. do you mean details page in Launchbox or in Big Box? in Launchbox Detail Screen (the Sidebar) you can configure which of the given fields should be shown and which one not. there are also Fields for Series. in BigBox it depends on the Theme you would use.

    02. I assume not. But you can use a sort field, so you can beside the name of the game use a sort Titel like the Game Resident Evil: Code Veronica will sort in my playlist as Resident Evil 2000, to fit the chronology

    03. you can jump directly to a specific letter by pressing that letter on you keyboard. in BB you have a slider to jump directly to the wished letter

    04. it is possible, depending on the artworks and the theme you want to use. some themes also have the wished information without going into the detail screen.

    05. if you want to use it on a big screen only with your joypad, I recommend big box. emu movies is very helpful to get best quality artworks and movies for most of the games (not all).

    regards,

    Chris

    Your List of Small Things

    in Features

    Posted

    I would like to see more functionalities and an upgrade in the Database system. All the fields in Games DB should be aligned with Launchbox, some fields new a rework like Number of Players or Country, also would like to have controller type and some other things as an addition to this. Also setting the country to each artwork would be helpful. have a few more ideas for an overhaul there.

    it would also be very helpful to have a upload link from Launchbox to GamesDB with fields and artworks because the plugin is sometimes really unstable and I assume there is a better and more fluently working integrated solution possible, like the community ratings and so on.

    I am also missing a better Artwork audit functionality within Launchbox. something like the third party tools already can, but with a lot of hiccups. I am dreaming of choosing a system, than the game and style (Clear logos) and I can see all logos next to each other --> can easily add some or delete some, also reassign to another type of artwork or different country code (i.e. from North America to Japan). 

    this would give LB/BB a better look and more potential in not having double or dribble time the same artwork in the system with slightly different MD5 hashes... saves space, makes all clearer, and more fancy.

    also rethinking about the audit system of Games DB things would be good. a lot of strange stuff are now in the system as well.

    Who has the largest collection currently standing in Launchbox?

    in Collections and Builds

    Posted

    18 minutes ago, Kondorito said:

    I trimmed my collection a long time ago, and now i am at 12k. It was a difficult decision, but took some strength, deleted the nonsensical stuff, and I am glad I did it. 

    One thing I am doing that helps me play a lot of games rather than the same 10 every time, is using Grila's random game plugin. I just trigger it for the entire collection, and even if the selected game does not look appealing at first, I force myself to give it a chance (play for at least 10 mins). I discovered some awesome hidden gems that otherwise would be buried in my collection forever not being played even once. 

    I am thinking and doubting it now for months. first I am a collector who wants to have all the games, but it is way too much. so I will try to handle it with the "hide" option. so I can hide the games which should not shown in BigBox... maybe this will help, but at this moment It is to complicated to hide the games. and in audit it is no flag who shows me if hide or not.

    Pause Menu

    in Big Box Custom Themes

    Posted

    5 hours ago, bbweiners said:

    @Chris Kant I have no way to make a preview video. That's a good idea though. Out of curiosity, why will you not try it yet?

    I can imagine that this is a really cool feature. but I don't like to try so many things anymore. if it is cool I will give it a shot else I will overlook that - and saying it is cool would be easier when I can see that in action.

    I am still fighting with my setup it is not as flawless as I hope after many years (like saving in Retroarch Mesen Core crash the emulator without any save and so one.

     

    3 hours ago, funtasticguy said:

    Hi Chris!  This is not a Theme.  Instead, by pressing the ESC button it will bring you a menu screen that will let you save or load a game state.  Thereafter, you can resume gaming or quit the emulator altogether.  It's really cool and a great utility for emulators.  In fact, it's so useful and necessary that I believe Jason should integrate something like this in LB/BB.

    is there a way to bypass the esc and use the xbox button?

     

    3 hours ago, neil9000 said:

    Pause screen is already planned,it was very highly voted in the last poll.

    so if this is already in planning directly into BB / LB I will wait for it.

    Updating Fields and Artworks from Games DB in LB?

    in Noobs

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:

    Hi Chris, syncing data like this without overwriting user changes can be a particularly nasty/difficult problem to solve, and there might never be a perfect solution. So unfortunately it's not likely to be something that gets addressed in the near future.

    Hi Jason, thank you for responding on this. So at this moment only delete all and resync is the only solution.

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