JaysArcade

Thanks! Now if you could just tell me how to write an AHK script to send ctrl+alt+t to AMIduOS every time it opens, that would be great. LOL Its really a good android emulator but it requires the controls to be turned on manually every time you open it with those keystrokes. Apparently it is designed that way so mapped keystrokes won't interfere with the keyboard so it can be used for typing. Go figure.

Thanks. The cmd.exe shortcut is a great idea. I'll give that a shot when I get a chance but I do have a question. And I would test this out right now if I had Launchbox available to me here at work. Does the minimized cmd.exe close when you exit the app, game, program, etc, that your shortcut is pointed to, or do I need a launch-after bat file to close the cmd.exe file? Something with a taskkill command in it? Or am I over thinking this and the cmd window shortcut doesn't actually get opened by Launchbox and is just being used as a placeholder? I love that Launchbox gracefully launches the .lnk files regardless of being associated with an emulator or not. Thanks for your input.

So if I wanted to add links as ROMs (for instance, the android emulator Bluestacks will create a link to each game so it's accessible from Windows), how does everyone go about adding those? If I add a link as a ROM, Launchbox wants an emulator associated with it. All I really want to do is launch the link. I've been able to add the links in a round about sort of way and have them launch, but when editing the game details in Launchbox, Launchbox fusses that there is no emulator assigned. Doesn't seem to matter, the games will still launch. Just wondered if there is some other way I should be doing this or if it is a current limitation of how Launchbox is designed? When I did try adding Bluestacks as the emulator, Launchbox tries to open it first which doesn't seem to work. Alternatively, I have been playing around with AMIduOS and it also creates links but they work differently than Bluestacks' links. If you try to launch a windows link that AMIduOS has created from anywhere other than clicking on the link itself, AMIduOS complains and throws an error because AMIduOS itself wants to be the launcher. I've found a way around this by creating a .bat file for each game using the shortcut in the link's properties, but this will be time consuming to create a .bat file for each game. I much prefer AMIduOS for emulating Android but I wonder if there is a better way to go about this or a better Android emulator I should try that works differently. One benefit of using the .bat files is I can add them as DOS games and Launchbox doesn't complain about not having an emulator associated with it. Curious to know what everyone else is doing in this regard.

Funny you should ask for this. I opened a ticket to do the same thing just last week. Go vote for it to make it a higher priority. https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/1521/ability-to-launch-a-program-or-game-from

I only got to see the new attract mode feature briefly last night before heading off to bed. It looks pretty good to me, especially for your first try at implementing something like that. Thanks Jason! I'm sure you guys will get the VLC stuff worked out soon. Glad you are now able to focus on other stuff besides spending all your time on those VLC issues.

Looking forward to trying it out later when I get home from work!

I created a ticket for this. Ticket # 1446.

This looks cool. So if I run it on my D drive it will copy to D:\LaunchBox\Games\Arcade? I really don't want anything else copied to C: if I can help it. I'm not able to test while I'm at work...

My first post. Just wanted to say the new forum looks great Jason, and thanks for all the hard work you do for the emulation community. For me, you've made the hobby interesting and fun again.