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So cool! But it looks like you can't buy them right now.

You can do it for PC games too, but you will have to use the additional apps tab to run taskkill.exe with command line parameter of, /IM BigBox.exe , AFTER the game. If you have lots of games to do this to, it might be easier to just set it in one game, then open the Launchbox\Data\Platforms\Windows.xml file, find what it added for that one game and copy/paste those additional apps lines to each game you see inside that xml file.

On top of what @DOS76 said, I've found that you also need to add this for some emulators by adding it inside your Manage Emulator-> Autohotkey tab: $Esc:: { Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}} } So, if it still doesn't work with some emulators after enabling this in controller automation settings, add the script above. Demul and SuperModel are a couple I needed this for.

try to get the game working with MAME alone first. after doing that it should work from Launchbox also. tekken 3 works with my MAME emulator ok, as well as with Launchbox

I think you could shutdown Bigbox by using and Additional App AFTER command, batch file, or script. To totally kill it in a rude manner, you would run : taskkill.exe /f /im bigbox.exe but killing it like this might mean it won't close properly, and perhaps that might do something bad to one of the Bigbox xml files but i'm not sure. you could first try the graceful close method like this: taskkill.exe /im bigbox.exe the power of the before and after additional apps feature lets you accomplish nearly anything. Edit: since you want to do this for every game, it would be much easier to just run the taskkill by adding it to each of the emulators autohotkey tabs. so open menu item tools/manage emulators, and for each emulator got to the autohotkey tab and add something like this: $Esc:: { Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}} Run, taskkill.exe /IM BigBox.exe }

ok, long live windows media player then!

Fix for my LB/VLC crash on game launch? Or this is for some other issue @Jason Carr?

How do you know Bigbox is not extracting with the builtin Launchbox 7zip? Very strange indeed. What is your default extraction program?

Yeah, autohotkey does exactly this. It comes with Windows Spy so you can see the window title name and the exact button text name to click on. With ahk, it's as simple as one line of code to wait for the window title and one line of code to click the button. However, if either way can't recognize the button, you have to do something instead like send tab key until you get to the button and then send enter, or send the alt hotkey combo if the button has one.

Tell me the exact game process name as shown in task manager and I'll give you a little ahk executable to add to the Additional Apps tab in your LB game settings for that game. Add it as a Before app. It should close your game with popup and all automatically when you exit the game. Edit: On second thought, just tell me the window title name of that popup that you want to have the script automatically answer YES on. I need to know the window title name and the alt key combo press for answering yes, like if you are using a keyboard instead of a mouse to answer YES. So, the alt key for the yes button should show up on one of the letters in that button with an underline. If there is no underline, then press the alt key on your keyboard while looking at that popup and then one of the letters should appear with an underline. If there is no alt combo key, then tell me if just pressing enter chooses YES or if you have to tab some number of times to YES and then press enter.

@Jason Carr, also want to point out that i am getting inconsistent autohotkey (emulator's ahk tab) results since either this new Beta or since 7.0 release. for example, i have my demul emulator ahk tab in LB setup to run and hide nomousy.exe -hide and then on game escape/exit, it runs it again with no parameters to unhide it. This always worked 100% before 7.0 or this beta, but now I see a weird thing. Sometimes it works as expected but sometimes (seemingly random) it will not run the nomousy run command in the first part of the ahk tab (on emulator startup), leaving the mouse pointer on top of the game. then when i exit the game it runs nomousy i think with no parameter because my mouse pointer is not hidden and i see nomousy.exe in task manager remain. maybe it's related to the new way you have authotkey, but it is indeed a bummer that i never know when it's going to work and when it's going to mess up.

well, autohotkey is a scripting language. there are lots of examples for finding windows and sending keys to them. unfortunately you'd have to do a little research so you could put together an .ahk script. it is extremely valuable and will allow you to do lots of things that LB doesn't have out of box. it is a programming language, but it is probably one of the easiest ones out there. again, there are lots of examples to use. http://ahkscript.org/

@Jason Carr, i tried the new Beta. First DC game launched ok. closed it. launched a second time and whammo LB crashes right after unzipping and starting up emulator and game.

sounds like a bug Issues/Requests

It might help if you could post screenshots of one of your game settings (right click a game and choose edit), and also of your emulator settings in the manage emulators menu for pcsx2. You could also watch the pcsx2 Launchbox video tutorial to see if you have it setup the way it's expected.

If there is no way to suppress the prompt, the only thing I can think of is to run an autohotkey script that looks for the prompt dialog or window and then sends a key press to it. Or if you don't mind killing the game process, you could just kill the game process after escape or your select/start is pressed, also using the magic of autohotkey.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed! I will try it out and let you know.

@Jason Carr It is not 100% of the time. Just very often. If I launch the same exact game over and over, sometimes LB will not crash. Demul and Dolphin zipped games for sure. I can always make it happen. It's more rare that it doesn't crash LB. I haven't tried any other emulators because 2 were enough for me to see that I needed to disable VLC. It never happens at all with the same exact games when I have Win Media Player set. I wish I could give you more info, but I can reproduce it at will if you need me to run a debug launchbox.exe

Sweet! glad it works for you now @Headrush69

@Headrush69 , in LB, it should look like this (change path to match where your cemu.exe is): emulator application path: ..\Arcade\Emulators\Cemu\cemu_1.6.3\Cemu.exe default command line parameters: -f -g If you run this from command line (not with launchbox): Cemu.exe -f -g "C:\WUP-P-ARDE\data\code\RedCarpet.rpx" then I would expect that to fail also if it fails in LB. Both "should" work. maybe the path to your rpx is wrong in LB if command line works with -f -g It works fine for me using 1.6.1, 1.6.2, and 1.6.3

@Jason Carr here is what my screen looks like before launching:

Sure @Jason Carr, I have before but rather than try to find that thread... My LB will crash when launching various games from various emulators for some that require the 7zip unzip process. I am using only LB and not RL or anything else for these emulators/games, such as Dreamcast Demul games. My Demul games in in .rar format with .bin, .raw, .gdi inside. My games launch fullscreen. My Demul is set like this (although it's not just with Demul): ..\Arcade\Emulators\Demule\demul32-0.5.8.2\demul.exe checkbox for no space before rom and extract rom. Where I double click a game in this Dreamcast platform from regular LB (works fine with VLC in BB), LB will run 7z.exe to unzip. As soon as that is done, the Demul emulator starts up and launches the game, but at that very time LB crashes. Every time it's like this when using VLC setting. But Media player has no such issue. And of course since LB crashes, the unzipped game files are left for me to manually clean up in the unzip folder inside LB. Win 10 x64 with all updates. It's been like this ever since I first bought and started using LB several versions back. For my LB view, when I select a game, it shows the video on the right bar along with screenshots, boxes, etc. My Dreamcast videos are .mp4. I have all .NET Frameworks and updates installed. Win 10 logs this in Event Viewer: .net runtime: Application: LaunchBox.exe Framework Version: v4.0.30319 Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception. Exception Info: exception code c0000005, exception address 00000000748E9C17 Faulting application name: LaunchBox.exe, version: 7.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x58542eef Faulting module name: libvlccore.dll, version: 2.2.2.0, time stamp: 0x00000000 Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x0000000000079c17 Faulting process id: 0x10cc Faulting application start time: 0x01d257f5acdfe333 Faulting application path: R:\LaunchBox\LaunchBox.exe Faulting module path: R:\LaunchBox\VLC\x64\libvlccore.dll Report Id: 510f67df-c786-4131-9c94-ef09ec1caa74 Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID: Edit: and i run LB window maximized.

Thought I would try setting VLC again in regular LB to see if LB would not crash anymore in 7.0 after uncompressing games like for Dreamcast/Demul, but it still crashes LB on the transition from finishing the unzip part to the launch of emulator and game in full screen (not an issue in BB, just in normal LB). So, I still have to use Windows Media Player in LB or LB will crash when I start most games.

It's ok, I survived. Main thing is I was able to get back to what I had before.

Now for the great performance improvement: 6.12 LB startup time = 25 seconds 7.0 LB startup time = 11 seconds !! 6.12 BB startup time = 23 seconds 7.0 BB startup time = 12 seconds !! woohoo!! i'll take that @Jason Carr !! mucho thanks.