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I’d like to make some platform banners and platform logos and recently used the generic windows paint program to do so. I also tried to edit some current logos I have and noticed that when I did it lost it’s transparency. I imagine Microsoft paint is rather limited, so can someone recommend a freeware graphics program that I could use to create and edit images?

Thanks DOS76 good find

Thanks for the reply. I am a premium member so I’ll go off and grab those bits this weekend

I just had a quick question regarding the Unified themes for LB I’ve spent the last month or so setting up my LB build and getting all the videos and artwork but it’s a mix selection. I like the look of what I have but had never really looked at the Unified themes and now that I have I’d thinking of using it. ‘I just wondered if in most cases activating the theme is pretty seamless and in general most of the systems you have will be picked up without much renaming and will display correctly?

I’ve recently had a second attempt at building my LB setup having taken some time off and essentially started from scratch. I achieved more this time around and I’m on a roll. It is nice to have a setup running on my PC and connected to my TV but deep down I would love to have a bar top or full arcade cabinet setup. The prospect of constructing an Arcade cabinet seem from the outside looking in to be slightly more involved/complicated than just doing a straight forward LB build. I’d Really like to get something up and running over the next 6 months or so but don’t really know where to start. I’m based in the UK and see a large selection of retailers in the US that provide all manner of cases, even huge 4 player plug in and play modular controller. Unfortunately most won’t ship to the UK I’d be interested in hearing about your experiences during your builds, and any pitfalls you came across during the process. Also any recommendations on buttons, joysticks, monitors, light guns etc would be most appreciated.

Thank you DOS76

I had a question for you DOS76 regarding the above... I'm not using Demul for Dreamcast so that's not an issue, but is my understanding correct with the following. All systems in your images can be run with demul but if I want to run Gaelco games, it best to run another instance of Demul eg Demul and Demul [Gaelco games] Can you explain the DX11 issue a little further Using demul07_111117

Awesome, thanks for the help, most appreciated

I have the following systems sorted into separate folders and all files are zipped except the CHD folders. I also have the bios files for each in a bios folder and each system’s bios is zipped Sega System SP Sega Hikaru Sega Naomi (1&2 as well as GD versions) Gaelco Sammy Atomiswave I see various posts here for setting up Naomi and Brad’s video covers the setup pretty well. There are a few questions I have that will help me in the long run so perhaps you guys can clear a few things up. 1) Will DEmul emulate all of the above systems? 2) I don’t see Sega System SP listed in the LB database, does it perhaps go by another name? 3) My set was not extracted from my imported MAME 0.2.01 set and following Brads tutorial he suggests pointing DEmul to the MAME folder for the Bios files. I have a folder with all the bios files for all the above, will it be OK to just place that folder within the DEmul root and point to that? Will it be ok to leave all bios files zipped? 4) Is it preferable to leave all the games/chd in the root of DEmul folder in my emulators directory as Brad suggests or can you put them in your games folder? 5) I thought I might Import the Naomi content in 4 sections but in my search only seem to find clear logos for Naomi 1 & 2. Anyone here got clear logo’s for Naomi 1gd & 2gd Sorry to return to something that has been covered to death ? but with limited time I just wanted some clarity before I add this stuff, in order to avoid pulling my hair out later ? Thanks Guys

I’ve only added what ETA prime suggests in his tut video, to the hot keys tab, which is for pressing escape to exit the emu I believe

Just wondered if any of you guys came accross this error while launching games. the games seem to continue to load without problem but my curious mind wonders what this error means. Error does not present itself when run outside of Launchbox.

Great thanks!

Thank you guys ?

I see now that rather than entering command lines for each table, JaysArcade has made a Future Pinball Launcher. I have missed a whole load of new feature implementations due to a break from LB my understanding sometimes is limited by this and I seem to be playing catchup all the time . I wondered if the FP.ahk within the zip which contains the command Run, "Future Pinball.exe" /open "%1%" /play /exit, is placed in the Future Pinball folder with the launcher like in the pictures or the information within it is put in the auto hotkeys tab which seems to be a new addition to me since I last used LB. I maybe wrong and just haven't noticed the tab at all?? For those of you who have this setup just let me know thank you

That would be fantastic if you could, I’d be very greatful ??

I’ve already imported my mame roms and have those playlists visible, so if I understand you correctly all I need to do is add the mame emulator again and then do the edit. And point to the new emulator folder? If memory serves I’ll need to tell it my rom path as well because all the roms are in my mame emulator/roms folder. Wow! Light guns are pretty pricey ? Ah well if you want the real experience you’ve gotta pay the price. BTW how difficult was it to configure the gun for the American Laser Games?

Great, thanks for the reply! How did you single out the light gun games from that huge list of mame games? Did you by chance import the games through LB and select playlists and then just copy the relevant roms from the main folder? How did you make sure you got all the relevant files? I only ask because I’ve never really had much luck finding any information about extracting games from a mame set, I’ve just seen a few scripts floating around that extract certain systems. It would be interesting to know how one finds out which games are from which system and how to produce the scripts Anyway, awesome work on the American laser games, I’ll enjoy setting that up!

Ah OK, that makes sense now. So apart from my Daphne games I should be able to change all the paths within LB. It’s nice to see that from my initial foray in LB and then my break from it all,that returning to LB I find that the forums still remains one of the most helpful and friendly forums I’ve come across. Thank you all for the help! Now if you can excuse my I have missing covers to find and game descriptions to edit and if I have time I may just play some games. ??

Okey dokey, so having not looked at the data folder and being away from the PC in question, does a xml exist named platforms and does that include all the path information for each system? I’m following you with regards to the game paths but are you saying that apart from changing those paths, The copying and pasting of the Launchbox folder to my external drive will work just fine and will see all the vids and images without issue?

The games for the most part are in the Launchbox games folder with maybe the exception of Daphne which is within the Daphne folder in my emulators folder. Like I said the Launchbox folders is on my D drive and is being copied to an external drive which will be drive letter H. All paths at present as you would expect are pointing at D Thank you for the info, but having used those two methods to alter the rom paths in the platform xml, will all the other folders eg images, video still be pointing at D ?

Before I tackle adding American Laser Games as a platform and the MAME Light gun games, I wondered if I needed to pick up a light gun to play these games properly or is there support for other control devices I understand that I’ll need Daphne singe for ALG and MAME64 for my mame set. From past experience MAME recognises controllers and you just need to make small changes to map the insert coin button etc. Do I have to configure the light gun games within mame or will they work out of the box. I also wondered what works best with Daphne singe? I like to hear your experiences with the two platforms...

Thanks guys, forgot to reply to this post oops ?

I started from scratch with my Launchbox setup having taken a break from the whole scene for a while and I’ve been adding stuff onto my laptop. I’m now running out of space on my D drive and I’m in the process of copying the whole Launchbox folder to my H drive which is an external. I came across a post here yesterday but can’t find it now that talked about using note ++ to bulk edit the Launchbox.xml I recall that the post was from 2017 and I wondered if there was a quicker way to change all my paths for roms,video,images, from D to H I think it was a post from lordmonkus but can’t be sure. If you guys can point me in the right direction or quickly reply here I much appreciate it. I also wondered if what is done through note ++ would be added to the bulk edit menu at some point cheers guys

I've never added any custom categories just used the generic onces within LB I'm not sure of the changes made in the new beta releases although I elected to download them, but I added the Sega Saturn as usual within the tools menu, choosing Sega Saturn as a platform and importing the roms. In the past they would then be added once imported to the relevant platform catagory. Looking at the edit menu for Sega Saturn it has root checked as well as consoles and locomailto games are just present in the root. So what I find strange is both systems that I added did two different things. When you import systems going forward, will they gett added to the root folder and then I manually have to place them in the relevent catagory I can see how to remedy the problem but seeing as there have been a few issues recently I thought I'd leave things until I checked with you guys

Just wondered if anyone is experiencing the following. I added sega saturn last night and it is present within the consoles section but the sega saturn logo is also showing in the bar with arcade, computers, handhelds etc while running BB. Also noticed another of my additions is displayed in the same section On beta 3 btw