neil9000

You will still need it enabled in retroarch, Launchbox only shows your achievements it does not unlock them that is the emulators job, in your case retroarch.

Not really from a rom set that old, you would need about 150 different update packs to bring it up to date. It would be much much easier to download a new set than update what you have.

Ah, that I don't know. I haven't used a MAME version that old, you would simply have to boot up MAME and try setting your controls.

You can simply name the systems slightly differently when importing and point them both to the same emulator. The default in the dropdown is "Commodore 64" so use that for your full set, then for the other instead of using the dropdown you can actually type into the box. So for example you could call it "Commodore 64 New Games" and as that is not a default system name you will be asked what to scrape it as, just say Commodore 64 again. So you would then have two C64 systems imported, one called "Commodore 64" and another called "Commodore 64 New Games" (or whatever you want to call it).

I would assume so, I personally have no experience with that particular controller, but again you set the controls in the emulator so you could probably set the dpad and the analog at the same time without even needing the switch.

Launchbox has nothing to do with controls in emulators, that is down to the individual emulators, launchbox does not "passthrough" anything control wise. All launchbox does is open the emulator and tell it what game to load, nothing more. As for the version Launchbox suggests, it just that a suggestion, and its simply suggesting that version because it is newer. The thing you have to remember with mame is it is update constantly, as are the game zips themselves. You may find that as your games are so old that a lot of them simply will not work with the current version of MAME. That's why I suggest using the matching version, or simply getting more recent roms and then the matching version of MAME to go with them.

Generally speaking you want to be using Xinput if you can, there is much better support for it on Windows as it is part of DirectX. All your emulators should be xinput compatible, and as you mention all actual PC games from probably the last 10 years or so will also support it,(if they support controllers at all that is). I use xinput for everything on my PC with no issues.

I have deleted the other thread for you. I'm not too familiar with C64 emulation, but I have also heard that CCS64 is the best choice there. If you have a really old MAME set like that then your best bet for compatibility is to use the matching version of MAME. There may however be features missing in that version that are in the newer versions due to it's age. You can get that version here.

Close Launchbox, go to your Launchbox/Data/Playlists folder and delete the playlist .xml files from there. Re-open Launchbox and they should be gone.

This may be a silly question so apologies if it's not related to your issue. Are you using a controller or keyboard in bigbox? If it's a controller have you enabled it in the Bigbox options as it is off by default, this may explain why Bigbox is not taking any input.

I'm not sure how this works in other browsers, but with chrome you can make desktop shortcuts directly to any webpage Here are instructions on how. So you could make a load of shortcuts and put them in a folder, then import said folder just like you would with any roms, so you would name the "system" something like "websites" and when Launchbox asks for the roms just point it to your shortcuts folder. Edit: Actually the easiest way would be to add the shortcuts to a folder then drag the folder onto Launchbox, when the wizard pops up asking what you are importing choose the "none of the above" option.

Yes you will receive a new forever license if you buy forever.

If you are upgrading to a lifetime license you will receive a new license file via email. So you would be on the new lifetime license, but I'm not sure what would happen to the older license, my guess is that it wouldn't work anymore as you would have your email attached to the forever license now, not the yearly one.

Yeah the actual advice is to never run Launchbox/Bigbox as administrator. As it causes issues just like this. There is also no need to in the first place, it just causes issues.

That is clearly a metadata xml issue, do you have write rights in that folder? and have you just gone to tools update metadata and images and updated the local metadata, to see if you get the same error?

Yeah quite possibly just some downtime on there end. Worth trying again, and if the issue persists its worth checking there site to see if it's up at all.

Still the same as far as I am aware. -f for fullscreen, -g for game load.

I may be way of, but....

Yep, that's sorta my point, Bigbox needs to start before it can load anything, right???

There is only one Windows 10, but like every other OS in history you need to stay updated and current with it.

Both good questions.

Awesome, we need that image in Launchbox.

Yeah if you could get a outside program or script to run that should work, I just don't think bigbox could do it, as it's simply not loaded when the video is playing.

Hi and welcome to the community. I have never used ledblinky personally so am not to familiar with it, but I would say no probably not to your question. The point of the startup videos is to hide the loading of bigbox and give you something nice to look at while it loads, and as bigbox is controlling ledblinky it wont be activated until bigbox is loaded, which will be after the video ends or is skipped. Of course I could be wrong, so if anyone else who uses ledblinky wants to chime in on this then feel free.