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  1. dingodan
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    It handles media that is present in the Launchbox XML, and copies/transforms it to the needed formats. Yes, it supports Batocera as an output.
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    Not really a LB question, but I figure if anyone knows the answer they are lurking here. Is there a way to make the official wireless Nintendo snes controller work on an android device? I have the 8 bitdo ones but for the life of me I can't do a dragon punch using those things.
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    @ItchyRobot Do you notice any major differences when playing between 0.139 and 0.198? 0.198 and 0.235? I used to keep thing up to date just because, but have fallen quite far behind.
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    I just setup mame4droid with a 0.139 rom set. Mame4droid really wanted the roms in its own directory, so I edited the launchbox xml. Surprisingly, it worked. Launchbox can read roms in ../Android/data/com.dev.mameapp/roms Maybe I'll try the retroarch core with a newer set, as suggested above. RIP PD 😔 🪦 if anyone can recommend an alternative I'd really appreciate it - pls send me a PM.
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    Pretty sure that's the * in Q*bert messing it up for just that title. The script has to guess what the image filenames will be based on the game title. Probably adding a line for * would fix that, so lines 83-87 would become: input = input.replace(":","_") input = input.replace("'","_") input = input.replace("/","_") input = input.replace("*","_")
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    That's a new one. Is it possible you've added your roms into LB using a relative path? If your roms are under the same directory as LB under Games I could see this logic not working. The script is looking for the ApplicationPath value of each XML entry in the various Platforms XML. Here's one of mine, using an absolute path: <ApplicationPath>Z:\Media\Roms\Nintendo\NES\Vegas Dream (USA).zip</ApplicationPath> Quick way to test would be to back up your platform XMLs, do a find and replace on <ApplicationPath>Games\ then punch in the full path prefix, ie <ApplicationPath>C:\Apps\Launchbox\Games\
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    I'm looking for the PAL manual for SMW on SNES - does anyone have a scan they could share? I know it's a dumb request, but I figured this would be a safe space for nonsensical nostalgia ?
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    @bvanwesten If you're getting no such file or directory from the command prompt python is probably not in your path variable (step 2). You can add it after setup by editing your system environment variables and adding the folder that contains python.exe.
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    No, just the images. I wouldn't have space on my sd card for games and videos.
  10. dingodan
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    I used it again recently, so it still works. But I'm not planning on adding more features anytime soon. Something you're after?
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    +1 I spent a while getting the right boxart for my games, and don't want anything between that art and the background. An option to 'make it look like it used to' would make it easier for me to upgrade (yes, I know I shouldn't be so stubborn, this is just my personal preference).
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    Apparently it's in the works: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/issues/1170 Personally, it's the 90s news and current affairs discs I want to see most.
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    See step 2: if pip isn't recognised it means Python and its tools are not in your system path variable. Pip is a python package manager that downloads and installs modules. Pillow is the image resize module I chose for making pi-friendly versions of larger images. Python 3 installs by default to C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36 and pip is included in C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\Scripts. Both folders should be added to the path environment variable.
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    Thank you so much - works like a charm!
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    I'm having a heck of a time getting epsxe + lilypad 20151231175709 (the one that comes with pcsx2 1.4) working. The in-built epsxe plugin doesn't work with two controllers, but with lilypad two controllers (x1s) work just fine. But then I can't exit epsxe with escape or alt-f4. Either from launchbox BB using controller automation, or separately using kb. It's not a Launchbox issue, but I wonder if anyone here has got it working. If so, what were your settings and versions? I have tried the 3 exiting options inside the plugin (send esc, exit emu, and safe fullscreen).
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    Can I get a text list of all the files that are missing from a given platform? I'm asking because my roms folder suffered some losses, but I have (badly sorted) backups. If I could get a list of filenames in whatever format I could automate their extraction/restoration.
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    I went with RetroPie, and wrote an export script to reuse the metadata and pics from Launchbox.
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    Launchbox-RetroPie-Batocera-Miyoo Export View File Launchbox is great, but it doesn't run on linux. RetroPie is great, but the scraper is terrible. This script will copy your roms, metadata and images from LaunchBox for use with RetroPie (or Batocera/Miyoo). If desired, it will also reduce the size of the copied images to make them load faster on the Pi. Edit the attached file to choose your platforms, and decide if you want everything, or only your favourites. If selecting Batocera XML format it will attempt to copy the first box art, marquee, screenshot and video file for each of your titles. If selecting the Miyoo Onion OS XML format the gamelists will be called miyoogamelist.xml and the boxart will be reduced to 250px and converted to PNG. See their github for more info. How to Install: Download and install Python Choose All Users and add it to your Path Open cmd, and type 'pip install Pillow' Download the attached file and edit it accordingly (specify your LaunchBox folder, desired output folder and platforms) Run 'python launchbox_retropie_export.py' Transfer the files to your Pi using WinSCP or similar Copy the gamelists, roms and images to /home/pi/RetroPie/roms Enable the 'Parse Gamelists Only' option in EmulationStation Submitter dingodan Submitted 12/04/2017 Category Third-party Apps and Plugins  
  19. dingodan
    More information about "Launchbox-RetroPie-Batocera-Miyoo Export"

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    Launchbox is great, but it doesn't run on linux. RetroPie is great, but the scraper is terrible. This script will copy your roms, metadata and images from LaunchBox for use with RetroPie (or Batocera/Miyoo). If desired, it will also reduce the size of the copied images to make them load faster on the Pi. Edit the attached file to choose your platforms, and decide if you want everything, or only your favourites. If selecting Batocera XML format it will attempt to copy the first box art, marquee, screenshot and video file for each of your titles. If selecting the Miyoo Onion OS XML format the gamelists will be called miyoogamelist.xml and the boxart will be reduced to 250px and converted to PNG. See their github for more info. How to Install: Download and install Python Choose All Users and add it to your Path Open cmd, and type 'pip install Pillow' Download the attached file and edit it accordingly (specify your LaunchBox folder, desired output folder and platforms) Run 'python launchbox_retropie_export.py' Transfer the files to your Pi using WinSCP or similar Copy the gamelists, roms and images to /home/pi/RetroPie/roms Enable the 'Parse Gamelists Only' option in EmulationStation
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    Anyone else come up with a good workaround for this? I'm married to xinput because of my steam link.
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    That'll have to do until we get per core and per system - cheers. This was my initial work around - I put the details of it above in case others run into the same issue.
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    Confused - I'm on nightlies too, and both my TGB Dual dlls write their overrides to config\TGB Dual\TGB Dual.cfg. Wonder what I'm doing differently.
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    The per core config functionality has changed to 'per core overrides'. As a result the duplicate dll trick doesn't work. Using tgbdual_c_libretro.dll and tgbdual_libretro.dll they both write their overrides to config\TGB Dual\TGB Dual.cfg. Can't figure out a workaround. Edit: Got something, sort of. Alternative suggestions welcome: 1. use the same dll core file 2. on the extra system, ie GBC for TGB Dual, add a command line switch like: Nintendo Game Boy Color -L "cores\tgbdual_libretro.dll" --config "config\TGB Dual\tgbdual_color.cfg" True 3. Then disable core overrides, choose your shader and go to Configuration, Save New Config.
  24. dingodan
    Has anyone come up with a bigbox+gamepad approach for manuals? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  25. dingodan

    cdi emulation

    dingodan replied to Arcade's topic in Games

    SentaiBrad has sage advice: Daphne is your best bet for laserdisc games. It can be a bit weird to begin with, but it behaves well once up and running. To use it from LaunchBox I needed a simple batch file, because the video files should be in separate folders, named the same as the romfile. (LB assumes our romfile with be the final parameter, and that it will be used only once.) Just make a text file, change the extension to .bat, and point LB at it instead. It takes the romfile parameter from LB, and gives it to daphne to help it find both the romfile and the framefile: cmd /c daphne %1 vldp -fullscreen -homedir C:\roms\daphne -framefile C:\Roms\Daphne\video\%1\%1.txt -fastboot -x 1920 -y 1080 If using a gamepad notice dapinput.ini: KEY_BUTTON1 = 32 306 1 The third number here is your joystick button number. There is also a Daphne autodownloader that I dare not link to - it works, just make sure to turn it off/delete it/rename it when you're done. It has a somewhat cavalier attitude towards using your bandwidth for 'the greater good'.
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