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I'd rather keep all of them but I'm asking what they plan on doing because I started updating NEO GEO AES and was planning on doing the others too... but not if they are going to delete the platforms.

So NAOMI 1 and 2... CPS 1, 2, and 3 will all be removed? If so, what about Neo Geo AES?

Why do you say it is more stable and faster? The problem was not the version, just a borked update.

Ok, it seems that was the problem. I re-downloaded a fresh 7.5 launchbox from the site here and it works fine now. I guess the clean LaunchBox install I have been updating somehow corrupted Big Box with the most recent update.

Thanks for the replies. I tried re-selecting the license xml on my desktop PC but it did not work, unfortunately. Running Big Box as administrator doesn't work either. Not sure what the problem is as my other Launchbox install for NES works fine after updating to 7.5. I did not try re-downloading a fresh Launchbox from the site, though. Could be the clean install I am using has gotten borked over multiple updates. I'll report back if it works, but you said you tried that I think.

I started with a clean install of LaunchBox and added a few Wii U games. Problem is when I try to go into BigBox mode, it is just stuck on the first platform screen. If I select Wii U, I hear the sound but nothing happens. Same with "escape". Then all I can do is close bigbox from the task manager. Any ideas? Thanks EDIT: It works fine in Desktop Mode, by the way.

@imdavid555 Where do I get those platform intros or whatever it is you are using when selecting platform?

As far as that VLC bug you guys are talking about... I'm not noticing anything wrong in mine? The videos seem to be playing properly with VLC for me and using CleanBG 1.1.1. I'm not on beta, though... maybe that's why. I'm using 6.8

Excellent work, niglurion. I think this is the best theme that I've seen so far. You don't happen to have one for Famicom Disk System, do ya? Or if you can send me a background .psd I can slap the hardware image on it in Photoshop. I was just going to use the Famicom background and slap the Disk System hardware on top but the controller is in a position that would need moved to the left.

I love Genesis/Mega Drive but one thing that bothers me is the audio in emulation is noticeably worse than the hardware. Arcade/MAME is like that too in some cases.

Ohh ok, thanks for the info.

@lordmonkusHey, when I put in Launchbox to load the config (via custom command-line parameters for the game), it loads RetroArch in a window with no shader? Not sure how to fix that.

@hubz: Famicom will be merged with NES, so no need to change the platforms on the database as it just wastes time. EDIT: Nevermind!

This looks awesome:

I guess there is no workaround if you only have two or three platforms you want to show on the wheel at once?

I really like Zandronum 3.0. It's suppose to have the better mod-compatibility of ZDoom compared to Zandronum 2.1.2. It's an alpha or beta download but it seemed to work fine. Not sure when the stable version will be out. What I would really like to do is extract certain things from the BrutalDOOM mod that I like without changing the gameplay like the mod does. I imagine it's a bit annoying to figure out which things in the mod file are what.

I've been screwing with HLSL all day yesterday (and this morning). I just can't get it anywhere near looking as authentic as crt-royale-kurozumi, even though that's not really an arcade monitor but a Sony PVM-like shader. It's still the only thing that looks realistic to me, but that's my opinion and preference of course. So this means I have to use RetroArch for the horizontal games, which is unfortunate because they don't really keep it up to date often. I'll either end up using the custom config in RetroArch for vertical games, or standalone MAME with HLSL. I guess this just depends on if I can find a shader that looks better than HLSL in RetroArch for vertical games or not. I'll have to try easymode-halation to see if it even flips the scanlines for vertical games.

Thanks elliot, worked great.

I did want to skip the platform screen before, but now I've grown to like that screen with a nice background showing the system hardware.

I don't mind seeing the nice platform screen, but I think having an option to do that would be a great option in certain cases. Also an option to just not show repeating platforms on the list would be great too. Thanks man

Yeah, I don't have much experience with it but the ones that I tried were ok. At least you can overclock it to never drop below 30 like on WWF No Mercy. That game had horrible framerate at times, particularly when there were 4 players or AI on screen at once. I don't recall if Mario 64 ever dropped below 30 but if it does, the overclock most likely won't cause any issues. For games that you clock from 30 FPS to 60, I'm sure some have issues.

I keep hearing about > than 1080p, which I'm sure is true. Unfortunately my 47" is 1080p, but I make sacrifices for the size. I'd like to see royale on 1440p, but honestly it still looks great on 1080 even though others say use a different shader. Nothing else I tried seems to look as good, though.

I tried them and it's pretty much the same thing as MAMEUIFX default for the most part. There are some slight setting differences but it looks the same. I like to just make the scanlines a little darker and remove a little bloom so it doesn't change so much of the colors and drown out scanlines. I also like to add a touch of convergence and hum bar.

There is no way to play Mario 64 in 60 FPS, right?