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I don't see any "controller options". Below the two checkboxes it says "Device" though there are no devices listed there.

Yep, I have both enable and use all controllers ticked.

I think so, though it's plugged into a USB-C adapter as the port is USB C. It works fine when playing Neo Geo games.

Thanks for the quick replies! I had tried that, but still doesn't work. When I enable controllers, nothing appears in that windows under "device". If I just go back to the main screen, joystick inputs are still not recognised. If I try and configure controller buttons, the inputs aren't registered there either.

I have a Neo Geo X stick connected via USB. When I run a game (e.g. using Retroarch), the stick is recognised and I can play Neo Geo games using the stick. When I am in Big Box mode I would like to scroll/select games using the stick, but the inputs are not registered. How can I get it to work? Thanks!

I thought I had asked this before, but can't find a record of it. Which MAME romset version works with Launchbox? Or is it independent of Launchbox, and dependent more on the emulator being used? When I was trying to get Neo Geo games to work I think I had to use the 0.149 romset. Thanks.

Is MAMEUIFX still the recommended emulator to use for MAME games in Launchbox? Is it much better than using Retroarch?

Thanks SentaiBrad, I will try the LFN DB. I wonder why that is not the default one with Lunchbox, if it has improvements.

I added some MSDOS games to Launchbox - the King's Quest series. When I try and run one I get the error message: Because of a limitation with DOSBox's command line usage, Launchbox cannot launch games with a single-quote (') character in the folder structure or file name. Please either move the game to a folder that does not contain single-quote characters in it (or its parents), or leave the application path blank and manually run the game in the DOSBox configuration file's [autoexcec] section. Is this expected behaviour? Do I really have to rename all my DOS games which contain a single quote to get this to work? Thanks!

In the Launchbox options menu there is an option to always go fullscreen when viewing images. The images themselves however appear to be shown at their native resolution so can be quite small on a high res monitor. Is there an option to get Launchbox to stretch these images to fill the screen? If not then this would be great, so that I can read the text on the images properly

Spycat - that looks like a good workaround, many thanks. I do have premium and am looking at customising the various colours. But I cannot find the item which changes the colour of the game hover/selection box! I can change all sorts of other things like the colour of the menu bar selection, and even the edges of the colour of the menu bar selection, but I'm struggling with the game selection box! Any help appreciated!

Oh - is there any general timeframe for Launchbox on Mac/OSX? Just wondering how much to invest in Parallels/Windows.

2016 15" MBP - so Radeon Pro 450 / Intel HD Graphics 530.

Thanks for your input. I was trying to load presents. What I have found is that not all shader presets load - I got things like GEOM, Lottes and Easymode to work, but when I select CRT Royale for example and return to the Retroarch shaders screen, it hasn't loaded it and still displays the previous shader. I am happy that I have got some shaders to work but am unsure as to why some don't seem to load.

I'm struggling to get the shaders working with Retroarch. The platform I am trying to get working is the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (which I have renamed to Nintendo SNES), and the emulator is Retroarch. The core in Retroarch that I am using for this is bsnes_balanced_libretro.dll. When I go into Retroarch and load the bsnes core, then go to quick menu, then shaders, then choose a preset and select it, everything seems well. When I run a SNES game in Launchbox however, no shader effects seem to be applied. I have tried restarting Launchbox. Am I doing something wrong?

Yes I think I did. I got it working though. I think the problem might have been that I didn't save the file in NP++. I had assumed that when you closed NP++, it would automatically save the edits to the file, but perhaps that didn't happen!

Thanks DOS76, I did that and the paths were all replaced. The ROMs still don't load however. When I re-open Launchbox and edit the details for a ROM, it is still showing as the old path (v:). Doesn't it update automatically when you edit the XML outside of Launchbox?

Somehow, the game path for one of my platforms (NES) changed - the drive letter changed, from z: to v:. Not sure how this happened as I don't remember it ever being v: Anyway, I need to change the drive letter part of the path of all the roms back to z: I tried the bulk edit feature, and whilst there is a lot there, I could not see the rom path as an option. Am I missing something? Thanks!

Thanks Zombe, as I suspected really. Just weird that they chose such an acute angle for the SNES 3d box art that you can hardly see the front cover! I will just have to make them bigger!

Was just going to ask - isn't DOS the same as PC in gaming terms? I mean one refers to an operating system and the other to the machine that runs the operating system.

That's a pity; it would be a great addition to Launchbox. I have it set up in 3d box mode, and for some systems the angle of the box is quite acute (e.g. SNES), necessitating a larger thumbnail in order to see the artwork clearly. May I also ask if it is possible to change the angle of the 3d box artwork, or is this set? I don't know why the SNES artwork is at such an angle. A few occasional games are at a more upright angle, but most lie quite flat.

It is possible to have the game icon/box art thumbnail size set differently for each platform?

Thanks for your input DOS76. My hardware is a 2016 MacBook Pro (Intel i7, 16GB Ram, 1TB SSD). I wouldn't have expected any scroll delay. Regarding your comment of scrolling through your list in 3 swipes - I can do something similar - i.e. there is no reduction to the actual speed of the scrolling once started; it's just the initial response to the user input that is delayed.

I've noticed a slight scroll delay when scrolling through the games list. It's small (about 0.2 seconds) but enough to be noticeable and to make the app feel a bit less responsive. I wondered if it was to do with me running Launchbox on a Mac via Parallels (Windows VM), though other apps within Parallels (such as MS Edge) don't exhibit this scroll delay. To be clear, I don't mean a delay in the rendering of the thumbnails, I mean a delay in the scrolling action itself. Is there anything I can do here? Thanks.

Thanks guys, I stupidly assumed that it was a setting within LaunchBox. Now using Sumatra PDF.