labeattie

That did the trick. I'll just use alt+f4 to exit now and I don't think I'll have any more problems. Thanks!

Ok thanks Brad. I know this problem isn't unique to launchbox. If interested, here's a post on the snes9x forums where a Maximus Arcade frontend was causing the same issue. http://www.snes9x.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=23625 Also, for a workaround, is there an easy way I can disable the esc key within launchbox to keep me from making the mistake on reflex?

I'm thinking this will be easy to diagnose and fix. I'm running snes9x 1.53. When I launch it from launchbox, the esc key closes the emulator as expected, but when I launch snes9x from the desktop, the esc does not close the program. I've recently noticed that this causes a problem. If you save your game (in game saves, so s-ram data) and exit snes9x WITHOUT using the esc key, the s-ram data is saved as expected. However if you use the esc key to close snes9x it does NOT save on exit. I expect launchbox's esc protocol is somehow not a "proper" snes9x shut down. Any help to work around this (and still be able to use esc to close) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!