DJQuad

Oh cool I can bring it up Monday!

Paging Mr @Jason Carr

That worked after clearing/refreshing everything. Thanks!

I've tried adding "Apple II.png" to "LaunchBox\Images\Apple II\Clear Logo" and it still displays as text in the wheel. I've even tried clearing cache.

Hey all, does anyone know why negative spacing doesn't work? I'm trying to slightly overlap the games (and platform) as well as add a background to each clear logo. The closest thing I've found that shows what I'm shooting for is -

I must have misunderstood Brad's video, I thought all dsk formats were -flop3. Is it best to separate by format as well as multiple disk games?

I know. You start by doing a "dir > dir.txt" in the directory and load it into NotePad++. From there just use macros, column mode editing, and search and replace. Creating that file took under 10 minutes. @knightCrawler if that's over your head just attach your dir.txt

I made a batch file for this. NotePad++ helps a lot for this type of thing. nonumbers.bat

It's something as simple as - send {a down}{j down} sleep 500 send {a up}{j up}

No, that's why I still have it installed. It's the only thing I use it for.

Should this be working? G:\Emulators\MAME 0.185 64>mame64.exe apple2gs -flop3 "G:\ROMS\Apple II\TOSEC\Apple II - Games - [DSK] (TOSEC-v2010-01-16_CM)\Zaxxon (1983)(Datasoft).zip" Fatal error: Device Floppy Disk [Sony] load failed: Invalid image G:\Emulators\MAME 0.185 64>mame64.exe apple2gs -flop3 "G:\ROMS\Apple II\TOSEC\Apple II - Games - [DSK] (TOSEC-v2010-01-16_CM)\Warship v1.1 (1986)(SSI)[RDOS].zip" Fatal error: Device Floppy Disk [Sony] load failed: Invalid image G:\Emulators\MAME 0.185 64>mame64.exe apple2gs -flop3 "G:\ROMS\Apple II\TOSEC\Apple II - Games - [DSK] (TOSEC-v2010-01-16_CM)\Spy Vs Spy (1984)(First Star Software).zip" Fatal error: Device Floppy Disk [Sony] load failed: Invalid image

Ya might wanna just grab Gigapig's HyperSpin install. Everything is setup already.

Classic Video Game Console Commercials View File Classic Video Game Console Commercials. Perhaps a theme developer could add some of these to their themes. Submitter DJQuad Submitted 05/29/2017 Category Game Media Packs

Should I try anything else?

I'm not quite sure what to try next. I got a screenshot right after MAME opens before it closes, and it looks like apple2gs is loaded, but I don't know what the ROM03 means.

Nailed it! Now I can play Zork.. lol. Thanks!

It only asks for 1 though.

Does anyone know the name of the bios file kat5200 needs for "Atari 800 BIOS"?

SHOULD.

Is there a way to tell exactly what command line LaunchBox sends?

Yep, split. I got both sets from PD. Edit: Sorry, I got the 5200 roms from TOSEC per your tutorial.

; LaunchBox-Backup Changelog ; v1 - 5/26/17 - Initial Beta Release #NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases. SendMode Input ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability. SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% ; Ensures a consistent starting directory. ; File types to save FileTypes := Object() FileTypes.Insert(".ini") FileTypes.Insert(".xml") ; Window definition Gui, Add, Text, x12 y9 w80 h20 , Source Folder : Gui, Add, Edit, x92 y9 w330 h20 vSourceFolder, %A_ScriptDir% Gui, Add, Button, x432 y9 w30 h20 , ... Gui, Add, Button, x12 y39 w80 h40 , Backup Gui, Add, Button, x102 y39 w90 h40 , Restore Gui, Add, Text, x202 y39 w260 h40 , Backup all .XML and .INI files in a folder. Choose the folder to back up. Gui, Show, x377 y225 h105 w483, Backup .XML and .INI files Gui, Add, Text, x12 y89 w450 h20 vStatusResult, Return ; Button events Button...: ; Save the input from the user to each control's associated variable. Gui, Submit, NoHide FileSelectFolder, chosenFolder, *%SourceFolder%, 3, Choose your path to LaunchBox chosenFolder := TrimPath(chosenFolder) If (StrLen(chosenFolder) <= 2) { MsgBox You cannot choose the root directory } else { GuiControl,, SourceFolder, %chosenFolder% } return ButtonBackup: Gui, Submit, NoHide BackupFolder := GetBackupPath(SourceFolder) CopyFiles(FileTypes, SourceFolder, BackupFolder) SoundPlay *-1 GuiControl,, StatusResult, Updated return ButtonRestore: Gui, Submit, NoHide BackupFolder := GetBackupPath(SourceFolder) CopyFiles(FileTypes, BackupFolder, SourceFolder) SoundPlay *64 GuiControl,, StatusResult, Restored return GuiClose: ExitApp ; Support functions TrimPath(inputPath) { return RegExReplace(inputPath, "\\$") } GetBackupPath(inputPath) { path := TrimPath(inputPath) . "_configBackup" return path } CopyFiles(fileTypes, source, destination) { Loop % fileTypes.MaxIndex() { extension := fileTypes[A_Index] copyCommand = xcopy "%source%\*%extension%" "%destination%\" /S /Y /H /R RunWait %comspec% /c %copyCommand% } } LaunchBox-Backup.ahk

This is a very simple AutoHotKey script that backs up (and optionally restores) all xml and ini files in your LaunchBox directory. I.E., the configuration files of LaunchBox, your emulators, etc.. I made this a while back for HyperSpin and have tweaked it a bit so it works and is branded for LaunchBox since I've switched to it. I didn't wanna go crazy and add backing up other extensions like zip and 7z since that includes roms and it would kill your drive space within 10 seconds. Use a service like Carbonite if you want to back up everything in the cloud. Making a local backup of xml and ini files are the bulk of how configs are stored whether it's an emulator or LaunchBox itself, although cfg files would be realistic. All this script really does is copy all configs to a new directory, and as far as I know xml and ini files hold all config files whether it's LaunchBox or an Emulator. You can either do a bulk restore, which copies all of the files back to their original locations (easiest), or you can manually select any file (like mame.ini or ThemeSettings.xml) and copy/paste it back to it's original location. When I say it's a simple script, I mean it. Features could be added so it internally supports additional directories (such as backing up both G:\LaunchBox and X:\Emulators, although you can run it multiple times and specify said directories) Other features could include scheduling, automatic uploading to external services like DropBox and OneDrive, pseudo version control, and so on. Consider this a very functional proof-of-concept at this point. Feature suggestions are more than welcomed. I'm sure Jason could add this as a feature within about 15 minutes, but until that happens, LaunchBox-Backup gets it done.

Making a MAME2 emulator at least got the systems launching, but there are problems. Apple 2 opens MAME then immediately closes. Jaguar isn't supported - no rom gets past the Jaguar splash screen and from what I've read it's not worth the trouble. Atari 5200 runs but the input controls are pretty spotty. On some roms, an input key seem held down, on some the input doesn't work at all (unless a key other than 1 starts it?) Anyway, on cases like these, is it generally better to use another emulator or do they all have the same flaws in the emulators/roms themselves? I'd ideally like to stick with either MAME or RetroArch.