You can hit any button on the keyboard or controller to skip videos, as long as Bigbox has already loaded that is. If it hasnt the video wont skip until Bigbox is ready and loaded.
This is the exact reason i have my mayflash arcade stick set to dinput rather than xinput, MAME would always confuse it with my xbox controllers, and i map the stick differently than i would the controller (i have the top row as the first 3 buttons for example). I never found a way around it so i permantly leave my stick as dinput as its the only dinput device i have so it doesnt confuse MAME.
OK good to know. If you look in your Launchbox/Backups folder you should find copy's of the settings.xml with the date ammended to the file name. You can try and renaming one of them back so it is just called settings.xml and putting that into Launchbox/Data folder. Obviously you would want to use one with a time and date previous to the issue occurring.
Strange one for sure though and i would be interested in how it happened in the first place.
I have never seen that before and have no idea how it could of happened. You could try removing the settings.xml from the Launchbox/Data folder (just move it out for the time being) and see if Launchbox will load. Are you getting any errors at all?
This looks like it is something on your system specifically that is causing issues, the speed of changing games is just fine for me on the latest beta, just like it always has been. Here is a quick video i made to demonstrate there is no issues for me with beta 10.
LB Speed test..mp4
You can turn on remember last game in the options/General.
You can allow shutdown without a pin, there are various options you can allow in Options/Security.
Just go to tools/manage emulators, double click your MAME entry and use the browse button to point to the MAME 0.202 exe instead of where it is currently pointing.
1. If you only have the one platform you can set Bigbox to open into the "All" category in the options.
2. Again in the options is a option to "Skip game details screen" check that and it will load straight from the wheel.
3. In that options menu is a "Lock" option, you can set a pin and lock out specific options so they need a pin entry to change in future.
Hope that helps.
Just because Retroarch recognises the controller on launch doesnt mean that that is what it is actually using, it just means it knows it is connected. Like @DOS76 said you need to go to settings/input/user 1 binds and make sure that controller is actually selected there for use. I use a XBOX ONE controller with the official Microsoft wireless adapter and it works perfectly in Retroarch.
Download them from here,
https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/category/7-big-box-startup-videos/
And place them in Launchbox/Videos/startup folder, if there isnt a startup folder there just create it, you can put as many videos as you like in this folder and Bigbox will play a random one each time.
Bigbox takes as long or as short a time to load depending on how many systems/playlists you have, the more you have the longer the load. My Bigbox with around 10,000 games and no playlists loads in around 5-10 seconds. You cant really compare it to how long hyperspin takes to load as they are built on completely different platforms and therefore have different assets to load. I suggest getting a startup video to cover the load, and there is a splashscreen when Bigbox is loading that can be toggled on/off in the Bigbox options.
Yeah, you really only have two options with MAME.
1. Get a set and stick with it by not updating the romset or emulator version.
Or.
2. Update every month and keep on top of it and update the emulator every month as well.
Yeah, thats why we have a value for alternate names in the database, exactly for times like this when there are two games with the same name on the same platform, and the alternate name on the database page is, Biohazard :RE 2