[Just going to leave this here...]

Think this will be my default. Nice nosh

[Unofficial BigBox Kodi Addon(Linux and Android Beta)]

Thanks for clearing that up. Maybe worth adding that line about the hard drive to the 1st post

[Unofficial BigBox Kodi Addon(Linux and Android Beta)]

12 minutes ago, slipsystem said:

On android devices it converts the command used to run the game. 

retroarch.exe -L "cores/stella_libretro.dll" "%ROM_PATH%"

becomes

/system/bin/am start --user 0 -a android.intent.action.MAIN -c android.intent.category.LAUNCHER -e ROM "%ROM_PATH%" -e LIBRETRO /data/data/com.retroarch/cores/stella_libretro_android.so -e CONFIGFILE /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.retroarch/files/retroarch.cfg -e IME com.android.inputmethod.latin/.LatinIME -n com.retroarch/.browser.retroactivity.RetroActivityFuture

 

Thats awesome I have been looking for the command for a while ? But I was actually asking an even simpler question.

is the android add-on a standalone android app that replicates Launchbox look and launches games on an android device?

im going to go back over the thread and vids.

[Emulation accurate , but ...]

12 minutes ago, lordmonkus said:

If input lag is something you are prioritizing in a new monitor look into the BenQ gaming monitors, those are very good on the latency side of things.

My brain is to slow to notice it but i will look at the BenQ equipment as a matter of caution. Latency is one of those sometimes subtle things that i dont spot but affects the experience of the game

[Emulation accurate , but ...]

Yeah, im not really a big gamer generally so that would be overkill for my needs. I may price in around £150-200 as a good display is just below sorage on priorities for me.

Prolly CPU, GPU, ram, (which i have) PSU, Storage, Display which i dont yet

[Emulation accurate , but ...]

Jeez that is the almost thw cost of the rig im planning on. no g-sync for me then

[Emulation accurate , but ...]

Thankyou for that. Very informative. I guessed the mame stuff was handy for something.... now i know one use

Serious offer if you ever want to write this stuff down in a static environment my site is always availiable. Not for personal gain just for getting that sort of info out to the public. To avoid the curse of forum archives and repetion. Then again i dont really have any timeframe for keeping that hobby alive

[Emulation accurate , but ...]

Cool topic.

Whats the other areas that g-sync can help my computing experience? Google is not my friend... i like 1st hand experience feedback.

[Unofficial BigBox Kodi Addon(Linux and Android Beta)]

Sorry i didnt read the whoke thread. 

What does the Android part do?

[My custom SNES game borders]

@JamesBaker im not sure if there is a shader without scanlines but you may be able to turn them off. There should be shader parameters menu in the shader menu that may give you the option to remove them.

[Adding additional mame roms issue]

@Jason Carr following on from discussion at HS. The issue I had was with adding additional roms to mame platform using a non-merged set. .184

Adding a few roms at import and launching worked fine.

Added a few more roms to mame/roms folder. Lb scanned and found new roms but once added when launched it would only open up a file explorer window inside the Rom zip file.

I did try this setup without any command-line parameters and use file name unlocked to no avail.

Lb7.8

Windows 8.1

I can test again if needed and if anyone else wanted to test feel free

 

[Zombeaver's Retroarch PSX and Saturn Overrides]

Hell of a job dude... starting on a full(ish) PS1 set soon maybe I will contribute to this in a couple of months.

 

[Your Favorite Youtuber Channels]

Lon.tv

 

bit more general the just retro gaming. I love it.

[retroarch bezels]

Oh I think the shader reference in the download description is a suggestion of what shader to use possibly. 

I may be wrong

[retroarch bezels]

You can put these files anywhere. For neatness I suggest you make a folder in retroarch/overlays/borders & call it "Custom Bezels"

you will need to make .cfg files to go along with them. This tells retroarch how and where to display the .png image.

I don't have the pack linked yet but will get it soon.

look in the retroarch/overlays/borders folder and you will find a gb.cfg. (So long as you have done an "online update" of overlays within retroarch.

copy gb.cfg file and rename it to match the Nyny77 .png files. Also match the name reference inside  the cfg to the png's.

repeat so all the bezels have a cfg file named the same.

open retroarch load a game, say for NES. Go to retroarch menu

Onscreen Display -> Onscreen Overlay

enable it and browse to the cfg file for you Nyny77 NES bezel.

now "save core override" in the quick menu 

You may need to adjust your game viewport so the screen fits the artwork user the video settings.

repeat for all bezels you want

 

[Has anyone converted gdi to chd?]

This was the info I got off the guy I know who converted his gdi's recently

"Hello, sorry for the tardy reply. So v5 was introduced into mame at version 0.146 (march 2012). Any Mame version  prior to that one comes with chdman v4.
The main difference between the two is that v4 uses zip compression while v5 uses LZMA , Huffman and Flac compression. The syntax was also slightly changed from v4 to v5. You can still make v4 chd files with the latest chdman if you specify the compression to be zlib (Deflate)
I didn't use a specific script/program. I just took the chdman.exe from the mame build I had at the time (0.180) and looked at how the syntax needed to be. Then created a batch file from scratch which unzipped my roms to a temp dir and have chdman convert the extracted gdi to chd and moving that to a 'finished' dir. Delete the temp files and have the batch move onto the next file.

Also it's possible to go back to the gdi file if you use the command "chdman extractcd"

Side note Demul is the only emulator I know of compatible with V5 and reicast is only compatible with v4.

just drop a chdman.exe in with your .bat and roms, from MAME version 0.145 or below for v4 or latest version for v5

may  help someone in the future if they come across this topic.

chdman can do a few things and there is a gui for it at progettosnaps somewhere although I have not used that and don't know anything about its compatibility 

[Has anyone converted gdi to chd?]

Just came across this thread and for people in the future.... I believe chdv5 does give you a bigger reduction in file size over chdv4 MAME standards. I know a guy that done this recently after I did and got much bigger savings than myself.

i will try and get back to this post with some more information.

[Getting the NEC PC-FX working in Launchbox with Retroarch]

The bios needs to be pcfx.rom afaik it changed recently from .bios

just rename the one from MAME set

[1080p SNES Recorded Hyperspin Game Theme Videos *RELEASED*]

Yeah the Hyperspin update thing is well documented! That's not really a concern or turn off for me like so many others here. The lack of communication is frustrating and that's the appeal to LB for me. It's just nice to make use of people's (yours) hard work to benefit other people in the emulation quest.

Everything has its limitations (hell I use Android & Hyperspin so I'm mega limited) and I can work with that. imo I like something to be released as close to finished as possible with bigger gaps in updates. Anything that gives me constant updates just makes me think constant maintenance and fear of things breaking. Probably unfounded it's just the way my brain reacts to updates.

 

anyway look forward to more videos  

[1080p SNES Recorded Hyperspin Game Theme Videos *RELEASED*]

Thanks for the reply, the couple I tested didn't look to bad stretched but my screen is only 37". Probably looks bad on bigger TV's 

i can probably fit them into a bezel or something easily but I won't get round to that for a long time! 

I doubt they will get the 16x9 conversion there's not much of that happening now. 

[Big noob and already p***ed off about performance]

Is there any reason why the mismatch in rom import and time taken to get setup is so hard for Chris?

 

im probably going to set LB up soonish and don't really want hit similar issues?

[1080p SNES Recorded Hyperspin Game Theme Videos *RELEASED*]

Well the test worked out fairly well in full screen,

These are def a contender for my Android setup could work better than using Hyperspin themes because of swf issues in Android.

 

The purists I guess wont like the 4x3 being used as 16x9 unless im still confused, they look good to me.

the game text may look a bit odd for some and I have to forego the box/cart art unless I convert them to being in a large box allowing for that

 

heres an example

 

[1080p SNES Recorded Hyperspin Game Theme Videos *RELEASED*]

Are these all 4x3?

(Edit: stupid ? Maybe as the thread is titled 1080p!)  

i may see how they look in Hyperspin. Adjusting the normal themes for android is time consuming and from using bakermans cinematic themes it could be really easy with less issue to get these running on android.

Fingers crossed & thanks Riffman for the hard work

 

[Hyperspin VS Launchbox - pros and cons?]

As this is pro's and con's, there are some serious pro's to LB. So many tick box features you don't find anywhere else, constant development, easy setup. 

Themeing and artwork will come, (so much has come in the last few months)  I expect code is Jason's artistic side so like most people he will take cues from the community and if people want he he will oblige as proven.

HS and LB are just different beasts  with different looks. Community artist's push the look's and dev's enable it. 

[Neo Geo Home Version (AES)]

Thanks I'll try and find this thread to report back when I'm setup.