alpenjodler

Nah, don't use it. I gave up on it and also there finally is an actual duplicate finder in Launchbox :-D

I updated launchbox today and now launchbox is not starting anymore. Bigbox is still starting, but when I start a game from bigbox, the sound will stutter. When I launch the game directly from retroarch, the sound is fine. edit: If I run it from bigbox on my pc monitor instead of on the TV I don't have the weird stuttering but launchbox still won't start edit: I already redownloaded and reinstalled launchbox but it didn't make a difference edit2: okay, now I have launched launchbox and waited for an hour and suddenly it started again. Closed it and reopened it and now it started quickly again. Then I started the game on the TV again and the sound was fine. Is there a virus that detects if I have friends over and fucks up everything if I have? Who wou... how did my ex-wife manage to create such a horrible thing?! She's barely literate!

well, the caching did something... now I can't control bigbox at all anymore. Is it possible to create single system bigbox installations so I can remove the really big systems, amiga and c64 into seperate bigbox installations? I removed those two systems and disabled all fade effects and I have not seen the bug again, yet... Again my original question: Is there a way to enable logging so I might get an idea what pains my poor setup?

Hi, I tried that program after seeing you recommend it in another thread and it did update a lot of drivers but I still had stuff not showing up after updating. But I think it's really only a caching issue. When I close bigbox and start it again, the game showing the black screen will work. I'll set attract mode to the fastest setting there is and leave it running while I'm at work. That should do a ton of caching ^^ edit: I think this won't be the most productive day at work since I have to peak at my remote desktop all the time. But it seems to work: when I left home I had some black games already but now everything shows. I request an auto-cache mode and it shall be called "Gotta cache them all" edit2: nah, it was all black when I got home. Then I pressed cancel so I was back in platforms, there it showed something. Cancel again for option-menu-stuff => black Is there any way to turn on logging so I might get an idea about might be the issue? I started removing some duplicates but...

Sometimes when I just scroll through my platforms or enter/leave a platform, everything will turn black. I can still hear the sound of the video but I can't see anything. If I then enter a platform, everything might either show for that platform again, or not edit: 37k games might be an issue. cpu is i7 16gb ram, 4gb ram cache edit2: sometimes it's just that a video doesn't play. Going up and down does not fix it, leaving the platform and reentering does fix it. Is there some way to turn on logging?

I don't think it started with the update, maybe after I imported mame (without clones! ^^) But I can try running as admin

specs: i7-4790 @ 3.6 Ghz 16 GB Ram GeForce 960Gtx Windows 10 64bit installed on ssd harddisk: connected by usb3, does ~ 160-170 MB/s read/write (today I also tried an internal hdd that does around 120-130 MB/s) video playback set to vlc (tried media player as well) ram cache set to 4096 I currently have a total of 26099 games in 33 systems. When the audit tool allows to not only remove the games but readd them as "additional apps", I should be able to trim that down quite a bit. cpu use in launchbox in idle is between 0% and 15%, ram use in idle around 1084 MB in bigbox it stays quite constantly around 12% with also about 1000 MB RAM use It seems to be a caching issue. If I keep going back and forth between two systems, it gets quicker after a while but it's always slow right after startup. Is there any way to maybe make it cache wheel images or put them in a special path? Then I could just put those into a ram drive or at least my system ssd so any slowdown from caching should only happen when I stop at a game to look at the actual art ^^ edit: the whole behaviour is quite weird and unpredictable. When I tried it just now to check the cpu and ram use, it was pretty smooth constantly. Before that, I disabled the wheel images and it worked fine with text only. Then I started it again with text only and text only was also slow. Maybe it's really joystick related. I can randomly have x-input enabled or disabled or a mix of those joysticks connected. When it was smooth from the start just now, I had no joysticks connected... edit 2: it's not completely unplayable. Just if I compare it to various youtube videos (or hyperspin) it's just a lot slower

hmm maybe sometimes but I think often it will not be the same

ye. eventually. But now when I tried it, I just created a corrupted database

I got a version 3 that prefers not having beta in the title http://www.filedropper.com/launchboxcleanerv3 and... I have to hope... Oh damn, it can't detect the japanese versions at all -.-

you can try version 2, It fixes that weird file size bug http://www.filedropper.com/launchboxcleanerv2 ahhh... I have to add one more thing: only use beta if it can't find a non beta one...

ahh, it's for different regions of games for example if I have a european version and a japanese version and an american version, I want to keep the American version in the list and add the other two as additional applications

ohh! That's unexpected :-D

hmm, where is it? I only see scan for added/removed roms. I still have the roms and I want to add them as "additional apllicationos" to what I think of as the main game, I don't want to delete them :-D

oh! Ohh T.T Well, I practiced some golang then :-D If you're interested in a golang example how to parse xml files, be sure to check it out :-D

Hi there, I have imported some roms in launchbox and after I was finished, I realized that I have quite a few duplicates. Creating an AdditionalApplication entry from the gui is possible but it might take some time. So I just created a duplicate identifier that automatically creates the xml tags for your platform xml and lists all the files that can be removed (manually) and puts that into a results folder. In theory, you can copy the additional apllication tags into your system.xml and you can remove the files that are listed as duplicates now. No guarantee it won't mess something up so please backup your platforms directory before you start modifying your xmls. YOU, YOURSELF. My program does not modify your files, it just lists and makes a guess what you want and puts all that into text files for each system I think I'll eventually make it more sophisticated and add trying to find wrong database entries. if you call it with no parameters, the program assumes you have your xmls in K:\LaunchBox\Data\Platforms\ and this is your priority preference: prioList = append(prioList, "North America") prioList = append(prioList, "World") prioList = append(prioList, "Europe") prioList = append(prioList, "Germany") prioList = append(prioList, "Japan") but you can also call it with cli parameters: first parameter is the filepath with backslash, then you can add parameters with region preferences I included the executable and the source code. Have fun :-D http://www.filedropper.com/launchboxcleaner Also: it's the first version that creates usable results stored in files for all databases in your system with priority and cli parameters. Expect to see some bugs. I just found one myself: some result files are exactly 4096 bytes and also incomplete...

yes, that was my initial plan, but it gets even better now: sean from bliss-box is currently sending a box to a retroarch dev in europe so retroarch can use the blissbox api which might lead to all kinds of awesome stuff :-D I'm waiting for a dreamcast emulator to output the vmu on the actual vmu I have connected :-D So for now I'll just remap when I switch pads. Also, I highly recommend getting a saturn pad, they are really, really nice!

Ahh, I see. I think I'll be busy with some cleaning up once mame finishes importing :-D

oh nice. Do I have to do this when I add them or can I group them after I already added them? Ah, I found additional apps. So I have to manually add the duplicates to my default version and remove those duplicates? It won't delete the game when I press delete, right? Will it automatically remove the extra videos and pictures?

I like to have the translated and the original versions of roms. Mostly because I'm still lying to myself about eventually learning Japanese. Is there a way to make big box show the game (and store the video) only once and always run the english version but allows me to select a different version on demand? I have the different versions in seperate .7z files and launch box correctly identified the different locales of each game.

Hi there! I use a blissbox 4play for all my console emulation needs. It's a 4-player adapter for many different pads. Get your's here if you haven't already: http://skunx7.wixsite.com/bliss-box Thanks to Launchbox I found out about retroarch/libretro and I think if used together with a blissbox 4play, it can be to console emulation what the mame+i-pac/x-arcade combination is to arcade emulation. I came up with a button scheme for the bliss-box https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1On1y5miyK5zQGnIe0r9fRRuUGV5Pr3OShv4IB1_c5Yg/edit#gid=0 that maps the pads connected to the blissbox to the corresponding RetroPad acccording to this scheme I found in the retropie wiki https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/retroarch-configuration If I got the layout right (please help me by pointing out any mistakes I made in my spreadsheet) this should allow for a true plug and play experience if used with libretro. I talked with the creator of the 4play and he said if enough people are interested he might add support for the libretro layout. He even made a facebook post about it: https://www.facebook.com/blissboxadapter/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE&fref=nf

Yes, I have "play mode" but it only lists single player, multi player, coop. Do I have to personally set add the games to those categories or can I import that information somehow?

Ye, I'm doing one after the other now. But maybe show a warning that this will not work or add a queue. That would be amazing :-D

Both. One works, one doesn't :-D I started with selecting my "Super Nintendo" and my "Super Famicom" rom directories and dropping them into Launchbox. After I finished with the dialogs, set up the default emulator for the SNES system and so on, the emumovies imports started to run in the background. "Well this is nice and easy, I like it" Next is Dreamcast, then Gamecube, then NES/Famicom... all while the SNES imports/downloads where still running in the background. After I started the process for mame, I went to bed and let the computer to its thing over night. The next morning, I only had SNES in the list, the imports for the other systems did not start after snes was finished. When I restarted Dreamcast, saw that the emulator I set up last night was still set up, though

I started importing my different rom sets last night and let the computer run through the night. In the morning, only the very first import I started showed up, even though I sat through all the wait times until I was able to click OK. The emulators I had to create are still there, though