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    Launchbox Media Performance

    in Noobs

    Posted

    Hey all, I'm running Launchbox/Bigbox on an external USB drive and it's expectedly pretty slow. I know most keep their ROMS on an external drive, but I'm specifically asking about the media itself - images and videos. If I move the Launchbox install to an SSD but keep the ROMS AND media on an external drive, will it increase performance in any meaningful way? I wasn't sure if the bottleneck is where Launchbox is or where the media is.

    Also, if there's no way to specify a default media location, please consider this a feature request :) I know you can change the paths in Manage > Platforms > Folders afterwards, but before would be nice so the ROM import would put the media elsewhere to begin with.

    What was that old poker game??

    in Games

    Posted

    Hey friends, so I've been pulling my hair out for a few hours trying to track down a poker game I used to have. It's about 10 or so years old, single player and involved a campaign consisting of tournaments. I seem to remember it was related to WPT or WSOP but none of their poker games seem to be it.

    It's probably abandonware by now as it had graphics like PS2 quality. The graphics and voice acting was horrible, but back then it was great.. lol. I'm almost sure it was https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480483/videoplayer/vi1308492057 but it was on PC/Windows. 

    Although I'd love to find that one, if anyone knows of any more modern ones please let me know. I've pretty much exhausted the Steam poker games and they all want money to progress and barrage you with P2W garbage. 

    Thanks in advance :)

    We Need Your Help! We're being attacked and threatened.

    in News and Updates

    Posted

    19 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

    We knew the email would be devisive, but we felt it should be sent as it effects every user of the product, assuming you want it to continue to improve.

    I'm perfectly happy with it as-is. I'm glad other companies don't send Email to their entire userbase about their drama. It was extremely unprofessional, petty, and won't result in a thing. Jason decided for it to be DRM-free, and this is one bad thing about doing so. If it comes down to a legal matter, Jason should contact his lawyer, not all of his customers. I hate to break it to ya, but most inside of this community, much less outside, knows how much of a scumbag Chris Shaw is.

    A solution instead of telling customers about the drama:

    The licences should of course be revoked (I believe I saw that they have) for future updates. In future drives Shaw includes a license with, those should be revoked as well. Jason or someone on his staff should have a copy of his product as it does update. If the update includes a new license, revoke that too. If someone has a revoked licence, offer them a link to a page/blog post explaining that through no fault of their own, the hard drive they purchased contains a 3rd party commercial product that the seller was not allowed to legally distribute. Keep it simple and drama free. It isn't hard.

    Live Streams?

    in Monkeys

    Posted

    On 7/26/2017 at 1:06 PM, NJDave71 said:

    Jason can you please give us advance notifications on Live Stream cancellation.  We all have busy lives and I know things come up.   Your streams take place while I am at work and try to adjust my schedule so i can join in and contribute to the group.   Thanks

    Same here.

    AutoHotKeyScript on non-emulated games

    in Noobs

    Posted

    It's always best to run scripts, emulators, etc outside of LaunchBox first to make sure everything is kosher before integrating into LaunchBox.

    Do you have the script saved? If not just save it as doomii.ahk and run it. A little H icon will appear in your systray. Then just run Doom II and see if anything works.

    Close custom AHK scripts after a game is closed

    in Emulation

    Posted

    You'd need to monitor to see if the process is running. I use this to monitor services and if it isn't running, restart it. 

    ; Script Function:
;	Restarts the iTeleportConnect service if it hasn't started - this usually happens if your
;   wireless network interface hasn't started when iTC tries to connect.
;
;   This script loops every (45) seconds to determine if iTC is running or not, and restarts it if it's not.
;

#SingleInstance, force
SendMode Input  ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%  ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.

iTC_EXE     = C:\Program Files\iTeleport\iTeleport Connect\iTeleportConnect.exe
iTC_Path    = C:\Program Files\iTeleport\iTeleport Connect
iTC_imgName = iTeleportConnect.exe

loop {
	sleep 45000
	Process, Exist, %iTC_imgName% ; check to see if iTeleportConnect is running
	If (ErrorLevel = 0) ; If it is not running
	   {
	   Run, %iTC_EXE%, %iTC_Path%, hide
	   }
	Else ; If it is running, ErrorLevel equals the process id for the target program (Printkey). Then do nothing.
	   {
		sleep 5
	   }
}

    In your case instead of "Run, %iTC_EXE%, %iTC_Path%, hide", use ExitApp to kill the script. This would need to be done for each emulator.

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