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Hi I was thinking I might want to have some of my PC games not launch if a "secret" controller combo is not pressed by xx seconds after trying to launch and exit back to LB/BB if the combo isn't pressed. This way I would leave all my games in view if kids or visitors play, but not mess up some of my PC games that I wouldn't want them to play. I haven't tried playing with this yet, so I'm not sure if the autohotkey script or the BEFORE additional app feature can hold the emulator/game from launching until after the script or additional app does its thing and just exits if that's what you want it to do. Does anyone already have an autohotkey script or utility to do this? Thanks.

Hi @GreenGriffon , these are just suggestions. The software is fantastic. It's ok to suggest things.

It's surely reasonable to take a long time I agree. But the interface could be improved, like a meaningful progress bar or at least a message saying this could take a very long time...

Oh shoot, I just saw right click Refresh list and clicked it hoping to get an updated view, but didn't realize that now I am probably going to have to wait 40 minutes again for it to finish

So I was excited to remove my duplicate clear logos that i have for many games. The audit shows me which ones have more than 1 clear logo, but how can you easily remove all the duplicates clear logos?

Ditto

I wish the First column (Title) could be frozen so I could scroll to the right to leave any position on the other columns, while still being able to see the game title. Edit: Also when I was removing Casino genre from some games that had a Casino checkmark but were not at all casino games, after I edited them to remove the Casino setting, they remain in the audit results window with casino still checked. Looks like none of your changes are reflected in the audit window unfortunately, like even after deleting duplicate games, there are still checkmarks and red highlight even though there aren't any more duplicates. Edit: Is there no column to show which games are hidden? I really wanted to see that. Edit: Cool, found some MAME duplicates so I deleted all the ones that I didn't realize I had from my C drive somehow. It said it was going to permanently delete them from my collection so I was hesitant thinking it would delete the actual files too, but I took a chance and it did not delete the actual rom files thankfully (but some people might want the option to do either?). Edit: this is really great. finding some cleanup to do in my MAME platform

Sure you can do that, but I didn't want to have the full screen of it distracting me behind my other windows and covering my desktop as well. Anyway, it really should have a minimize.

@Jason Carr i just tried the Audit menu item for the very first time. I ran it for MAME. It's been running for 30 minutes so far, but only a blank screen with bottom window scrolling bar. I have i5 2500k 8GB ram and no other software or AV running. It's been using one full core the whole time. I'm going to give it an hour, but how long are you guys seeing it take for MAME? Of course, it is a very large amount of games. Edit: I think it might be nice to cache the audit results to disk and the next time you run that audit, it does a diff of sorts so it comes up faster than an hour or however long it's going to take mine. Edit: it finally came up. i think somewhere around 40 minutes or so. Edit: i have to do some other stuff on the computer but don't want to close the MAME audit results window, but it has no way to minimize!

I had a similar issue with BB totally freezing until I enabled the BB setting to use all controllers. Just a long shot, but maybe give it a try? For me BB totally freezes simply by enabling my second controller or at launch time if both controllers are enabled, if I don't set the setting to use all controllers. So, it's different than your issue, but related to controllers and BB freezing...

it kind of seems like giving it its very own dedicated top level menu in LB is odd. maybe it should be buried in the Tools menu?

i'm impatient (seems to be doing a sync for a long time) so in my browser i went to view my collection. so far it's crazy weird. i looked at the list of platforms on the left and clicked on Windows. Inside windows are currently up to 5 games, of which, four I've never had and don't even recognize. so, i'm trying to think, would this be cool if it actually mirrored my collection. yeah that seems kind of cool. now i'm wondering, what i would ever do with that and if i would ever look there again? i think i'll click Cancel on Syncing...

ok, i logged in and it says it's sending my collection. i see virtually no network traffic going out but it's been "syncing" for a few minutes now... getting anxious to see what happens

Still not sure I get it so I tried it, but I just launched it from the LB menu and now it wants me to login. Do I already have a login? Like, is it my forum login? Edit: ok, i just used my email address and told it i forgot my password. The email told me I'm not registered so I'll try registering...

Sure, I understand what you're saying, but you see how it's designed at this moment. So for the time being, I was hoping we could provide you with some settings that may help you to achieve a happy-medium.

I always wondered what it was and still feel like I don't know what it is or if I would want to use it

Everyone has their own preferences. So does @DOS76 suggestion about changing the key solve the problem for you? It seems to me that this would solve the problem you originally stated, which is accidentally hitting "escape" after exiting a game.

A lot of applications can't run in a RDP session as opposed to a local console session. And some run, but don't work properly because they don't support a concurrent multi-user environment, like you may not see a sys tray icon when expected, for example.

Windows 2012 R2 is the same as Windows 8.1 in terms of underlying OS. Video drivers for Win 8.1 "should" also work on 2012r2, unless the installer is specifically allowing only certain Windows versions. If the driver update doesn't work, you can try the things below, but should probably do these things anyway... You might try enabling Windows Desktop Experience as you should do this if you want to use your server like a desktop: https://pubs.vmware.com/horizon-7-view/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.horizon-view.desktops.doc%2FGUID-13F25FDB-654C-467F-9BC9-F2F9C4E4EAD7.html You might also try setting RA to run in compatibility mode, like for Win 7 or Win 8/8.1 to see if that helps. In general I would advise against using any Windows Server OS as a desktop PC, like for running games and other desktop applications. Why? Because a LOT of application installers are written to block installation on a "server" OS. And in order to get some applications you may want, like OS imaging software, you are going to have to pay for "server" versions which are VERY expensive compared to regular desktop versions.

You can totally and easily do this with Launchbox. Just make a symbolic link to have the LB 7zip unzip location to be your C drive or wherever you want. If you need help running the Windows command for this let me know. Edit: Here is an example of how to do this. The below example was used to move the LB image cache folder, but you can just replace the paths with the ones you want (below the C path is the folder you want to change to, like your SSD): mklink /J R:\LaunchBox\Images\Cache C:\LaunchBox\LaunchBoxLinks\Images\Cache

that'll do it. good luck!

assuming i have your emaultor path and exe name right and the same for your rom, can you try running this in command line (it's all one line): "D:\Arcade\emulators\Mameui64 NEOGEO\Mameui64.exe" -inipath "D:\Arcade\emulators\Mameui64 NEOGEO" "D:\Arcade\Neo-Geo\breakrev.zip"

can you list one of the full commands you are trying to use to launch a game from command line?

ok, that's a good thing. it's working! just have to figure out your command line then.

what about using the emulator gui? does that work for running a game?