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Ha, It adds up quicker than you think. I had an initial budget of $1500 for it and stayed under that if you take out the value of the PC.

QTY Item Price 14 GoldLeaf Push-button : Red $ 35.00 6 GoldLeaf Push-button : Black $15.00 1 Start Logo Push-button Black : 1 Player $4.00 1 Start Logo Push-button Black : 2 Player $4.00 1 I-PAC 2 Interface $39.00 2 J-Stik Oval Top : Black $44.00 1 U-Trak Flushmount Arcade Trackball: Red $79.00 1 1/4 Plexi for control panel top $53.00 1 Nintendo Marquee $59.00 1 Control Panel Graphics $75.00 1 Dark Grey tinted Glass 31 x 30 x 1/8 $170.00 1 Hisense 32" LED TV $120.00 1 Ultimarc Aimtrak LightGun $95.00 2 3/4 MDF 4x8 shets $70.00 DupliColor Automotive Lacquer : Silver, Black, Primer, and Clear $150.00 Total $1,012.00 PC Parts Asus Z97-A Motherboard Intel i5-4590 Haswell Crucial M550 256GB SSD 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 Corsair Hydro Series H75 with Silent fans Nvidia 560 Ti 4TB HDD EVGA SuperNova 750 PSU estimated $1,200.00 GRAND TOTAL : $2,212.00 PC cost is estimated. It was an old Gaming Rig I had collecting dust so I just re-purposed it.

@nathanddrews - I am actually going to make an itemized spreadsheet with cost soon. I'll post a list once I'm done tallying it all up...

Thanks. The 7" screen is populated by CPWizBiz/CPWizard. CPWizBiz is added to each game as an addition app and it is called with certain CLI arguments which then relay what image to show on the screen. Once I exit a game it goes back to the base control image for BigBox functionality. I have different images set for gun games and games that can only be controlled via DS4 controller, etc. CPWizBiz is Stigzler program and works great.

Let me start by saying thanks to Mysterysmellyfeet on Reddit. I came across his build and decided to make it with some modifications. Also, thanks to stephenpbhs who put his Vewflix standup mod build out there for Mysterysmellyfeet and myself to steal/borrow. Also, a big thanks to Scott at Gameongrafix for printing the CP graphics. Another thank you to Stigzler for CPWizBiz. A last minute addition with a 7" screen under the main screen to show controls and of course the Launchbox Team for a great front end. With all those thank you's I gladly accept the award for most thank you's in a forum post... Anyways, for the real topic at hand, the finished project and a link to the album. Can see the album here: https://flic.kr/s/aHskUxhi9j

I'll help as much as I can. I'll send you a PM through your forum.

@stigzler I think LB/BB has default systems. I'll put together a list of BB System Names that were default. You can always rename the systems in LB/BB but you can't be accountable for people going off the standard. @DOS76 The ability to add additional apps is what this is in reference too. You can add additional apps but currently if I want to run CPWizBiz as an additional app I have to add a cli argument per game with the game title, platform, etc so it knows what controls mapping image to display. The idea is that instead of typing out "Mortal Kombat" we could reference a variable that would return the field we are trying to access and then the same cli arguments can be copied to all games. Furthermore, if there is something to this level, I'm sure Stigzler could do more LB/BB on a CPWizBiz level like he has done with GameEX, if he was so inclined :).

Are there any database fields that can be used when calling a 3rd party app? For example, when calling and emulator to launch a game it uses something like the following: dolphin.exe "FULL\PATH\TO\ROM\FILE" Is there a similar way to use the game title, platform, and emulator name? this would allow a general cli argurmant for a 3rd party app like cpwizbiz For example: CPWizBiz.exe -gm "{GAME}" -sy "{PLATFORM}" -em "{EMU}

I have it working well with CPWizard and CPWizBiz on a second monitor. Takes some configuration but once you get it going it works seamlessly. Thanks for that recommendation @Crush . I actually ordered a 7 inch display to add to the cabinet since I was so pleased with it and @stigzler was great. He quickly pointed me in the right direction to fix the minor issues I was having. Next thing I am trying to figure out is how to mass add application to games because on the BigBox/Launchbox end, each game has to be configured to launch CPWizBiz with the executable plus the arguments for each emulator and/or game. I was hoping Launchbox had a way to maybe do a %game%, and/or %emulator% variable which will know the values. That way in each application section for the games you could have the following: CPWizBiz.exe -gm "%Game%" -em "%Emulator%

ok, I applied for the group and will start posting there once I am in.

Ok, so I did some testing and everything is displaying correctly when running the command via cli. I did not see a parameter for this but is there once to launch cpwizbiz minimized? Also, CPWizBiz stays open so calling it via another cli command does not change the control screen. For Example: First command: CPWizBiz.exe -gm "Home Control System" -sy "NESFlix" -rg "NESFlixArc" Opens up Control mapping image for BigBox. Second Command: CPWizBiz.exe -gm "Mortal Kombat Komplete" -sy "NESFlix" -rg "NESFlixArc" Nothing changes after this is ran. If I run the second command after closing cpWizBiz it will relaunch it and change the CPWizard image.

I think that may have been what I was missing. I'll have to test later today. For some reason I was thinking it was the magic button of loaders and would automatically know what BigBox is running. But now that you say we have to issue a cli command before launching game to tell cpwizbiz what game control images to load it makes more sense. I had went through the videos for setting up systems and home control, etc. Setup one game, MK Komplete to test. Will let you know results once I test now that I believe I have an ides of the correct way to do it.

@stigzler - I have been fiddling the past day or so with this. Not sure what I'm missing but I have configured a system and game for BigBox and then another for MK Komplete (PC). How do I get it to switch between the 2 when I launch the game in BigBox? All it does it stay on the last active one I was working on in CPWizBiz/CPWizard.

Thanks @wemr97dl - I am actually looking into that program now based on others recommending it as well. I like the idea of a 7" screen to show controls. I'll have to test it out. I have room for it under my 32 inch as well. If it doesn't do what I want I'll continue developing my own.

Worked perfect, thanks.