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I've used a program called pakkiso to uncompress those type of compressed roms. Then most Emulators can load the cue or other files

this is the main reason I use retroarch for fba and mame. Once you start using retroarch for mame then you can start researching and testing and playing around with ini files and mame bezels. Other then the mame core not using opengl or direct video renderer it works pretty work and the controllers work easier.

What I do now is just update the missing media then run image cleanup and if I run into an image I don't like I delete it (usually fanart backgrounds or bad looking front box) using the launchbox interface.

I have noticed the samething. One thing I can add is if the image in the LB DB gets updated in at all it will be seen as a "new" image by the scrapper because it's hash is different and will be downloaded again. At least that's the behavior as it seems to me

I would like a start up screen that is configurable, something I would like would wait till a button on the controller was pressed. There are games and emulators that have to have the controller turned on before they are launched or the controller doesn't work. Maybe also picking some options (with the controller) before the game or emulator launched. To do something like copy over an ini file to a directory or other behind the scenes things. I'm not a bezel person. They only time I like bezels is on the compilations where they show moves or stats. A pause menu would be great. I would check the manual or another pdf for a moves list or statergy guide. Being able to save and load state on the pause menu would be great on emulators that don't have easy to use controller interface. I try using borderless full screen mode whenever I can. My tv/monitor or Windows just doesn't switch resolutions elegantly. Also some emulators work/behave better in windowed mode so I use that if that don't have a borderless mode. So having a bezel to cover up the window in that situation would be cool.

Could create a junction shortcut to a different location. I haven't examined the ini and settings files for launch box to see if the image cache path is in there somewhere

The name of the image should be the database name with a - 01 at the end (ex. Super Mario Bros.-01.png), I believe the image can also be the name of the rom file. If you have multiple images per image type then just up the number value at the end -01 -02 -03 etc.

Shouldn't the main name just be the name of the game and ad&d/advanced dungeons & dragons at the beginning be alternate name entries?

These advanced dungeons & dragons edits are making me sad ?

Apparently enough people approved all the ad&d edits. Now I'm getting advanced dungeons & dragons: game name edits now

Why doesn't the database have a series entry but the launchbox app does? Where do we suggest improvements to the whole database system?

Ran into them a few days ago. Rejected all of them and one had a typo of AR&R which I thought was funny

I use Ctrl+p now to launch a game from keyboard. Not the same workflow but I keep my hands on the keyboard the same.

I would download the retro arch full install exe (which will be the largest). It'll have the prerequisites and dependencies needed to run

Not that I've noticed. The compression isn't the best, like a zip file compression set to it's least setting. But its mainly about speed, I don't noticed that the files are compressed when launching games. Once the folder is set to compress when you copy/move files over it gets compressed on the fly so it can appear to be copying/moving slowly.

I use the Windows NTFS compression. On my cd/dvd based systems it goes from 1.91TB to 1.33TB, so not bad. My Roms folder on the whole goes from 3.05TB to 2.36TB. To enable it just go to the folder properties, then advanced, then check compress to save space. I have it set on my whole rom folder.

that is just wow. I use launchbox to launch all games. especially pc games bought on all the different stores (steam, Gog, origin, uplay, Facebook gameroom). Must of been just the mention of the word rom.

usually your video card driver can do that. It'll center the resolution instead of stretching full screen. like if you have 1920x1080 and set the emulator or Windows itself to 1600x900 or something smaller. Usually its a check box to fill or stretch or something just turn that off

apparently you can just turn off the prompts but uac is still active? So yeah.. I thought disabling the prompts turned uac off but apparently it just auto excepts and grants elevated rights. Just go to the Change User Account Control settings in control panel. Not the best solution but definitely easy

apparently you can just turn off the prompts but uac is still active? So yeah.. I thought disabling the prompts turned uac off but apparently it just auto excepts and grants elevated rights

disabling uac on Windows 10 doesn't allow windows store apps (uwp) to run or I would (gears of war, super luckys tail, etc). Plus the lil bit of a safety net when using the computer

learn something new everyday. There goes my way of getting rid of uac prompts when launching games. Been using Windows since '93 and launchbox since it's price went from 10 to 20 dollars but didn't know that about programs with different elevation of rights.

I was wondering exactly what issues are caused by running LB/BB as admin. Which emulators have issues, what are the issues. Which utilities and what's their behavior. Any other weird behavior. The reason I run as admin is to stop those UAC prompts when launching pc games (especially the old ones). Could Jason make a startup utility / service that could launch just the games and emulators we wanted with admin rights so we don't get uac prompts and LB/BB won't have to run with admin rights? Like a check box somewhere "Launch this with Admin Rights"

which programs? Are they processes spawned by launchbox? After searching for an answer on the web one of the best solutions was to run a program launcher as admin and launch the apps from that to not have the uac prompt.

one tip is go into the file properties for launchbox and big box and check run as administrator. then anything launchbox launches will just start up. As for launching the games outside of launchbox, directly from Windows there are ways but I don't know them off the top of my head.