ABeezy13

Well I finally had my brother in law and sister with me to play some retro gaming. They were super impressed with launchbox and big box specifically. We wanted to play 3 player Mario party and some old school streets of rage. What a show... retroarch is SO bad none of my controllers ended up working. Wired or blue tooth. I fiddled with it for an hour. I had everything working previously on single player with very minor errors. Now today when I want to show others nothing worked. I got frustrated and decided to turn my MacBook Pro laptop on and use OpenEmu... paired three Bluetooth controllers and all configured automatically and just worked in less than 5 minutes. HDMI to the tv and bang we were all gaming. It's amazing how simple it was. Now I really am starting to become a fan of RA but there whole input section and in anything to do with controllers just flat out sucks. It's beyond awful. They really need to fix that. Sorry for the rant, as it probably doesn't belong here but just goes to show I'm still having issues with controllers. OpenEmu's controller settings are Just really easy and good. Wish RA could follow.

Haha sorry if that was confusing... for example I have a BUNCH of Genesis roms and they are in both the USA and Europe... aka Genesis and Mega Drive... I didnt want any of the Mega Drive info to download, just the genesis. Sometimes on its own it changes the box art on me on its own, and when I scroll through and look I'd rather just seen the Genesis stuff... not a HUGE deal but an OCD rather So if there was an option/feature to only download Genesis stuff I guess that's what I am asking lol

Thanks Brad! I found it, looks like its just the size, font and position I believe. Nothing with color, darn! When uploading Sega Genesis/Mega Drive games is there a way when the games upload and the data populates to ONLY include Genesis and no MD stuff? I know you can set priority but if I don't want it to even download anything MD related is that possible without manually going back through and deleting everything on my own?

Well things have been pretty smooth. I want to adjust some things on the big box theme and get the controllers sorted out a little better, but been playing SNES and NES lately.. so awesome. Leads me to my next question. I am playing on the nightly build for RetroArch and using my RetroAchivements account. Is there a way to change the color of the achievement text and possibly the size? its pretty small and its yellow, hard to read at times

Nice!!!!! This is legit. I have downloaded a few BB themes since I been here (wish is honestly less than 2 weeks). I'm going to add yours to the collection. Some day I would like to learn how to do this and make my own. Maybe one day Anyways, great job!

Awesome thanks Brad... it worked. Whats weird is I did this myself (so I thought) and it didnt work, but now it does so thank you sir!

Speaking of controllers and such in BigBox I went to controller automation (I think thats what its called, away from home pc with BB at the moment..) and I set exit to be start & select.. that does not exit my rom when I playing them. Am I misunderstanding something here?

This controller situation still remains a nightmare... might have to head over to their forums when they are back up. I have each controller loaded that I want with each core but it keeps automatically picking up new controllers and assigning them to new binds causing issues for the other controllers previously assigned. If it remains like this I don't see how I will ever get away from mouse and keyboard as I have to keep using that to correct this

Ahh, I did not realize that! Makes sense now. That was easy enough to update. I did so and not it shows properly! Thank you for the assistance!

Random question... How does LB/BB know a game is "completed"? What does it base the criteria on? For example I have beat 1 SNES game and one Sega Genesis game... by beat I mean I made it through the game and defeated the final boss. Under both systems it shows zero for games completed.

Awesome thanks for the help!

1. That is simple enough... does size matter for this or does it automatically adjust/scale? 2. I understand that part, I meant on the actual sega page where it shows the system and all the box arts in one big image... i wondered if he had one with Genesis instead of MD. 4. Thanks, I will give that all a shot and see what happens

Awesome work!!!! This is incredible! Downloaded and now using! I have a few questions. In the wheel; I wanted to replace the SNES logo with the US version is there a spot here on the forums to download the logo? Also, is it possible for me to change the image of the actual SNES from the PAL version to the US (the gray and purple version). speaking of. Is it easy to change the background game box tiles for Sega/Mega Drive from Mega Drive to their Genesis versions? is this theme just the consoles pages? For example when I click a system and it goes to the games list have you made pages for that? Also I'm using the version with the mini TV's on the bottom left...how do I get those to play? They are just black... and do I need to download anything extra? thanks in advance to anyone that can help! This theme rocks great job and thanks for your hard work!!!!

You rock, thanks for the fast response as always! Appreciate it greatly

Awesome, thanks! One more thing while I am messing around. I really love the idea of those retro achievements. I found out snes9x2010 is the best supported for this. How can I switch that to be the default core in RA and have that one open when i click a game in LB/BB? I thought I did everything... * Download that core in RA * Change settings to what I prefer and save a new configuration * Then in LB I hit tools - manage emulators - Retroarch - Associated platforms. From here I added a new line, a second super nintendo line, typed in the correct path/parameters and made sure the snes9x2010 was checked as the default and unchecked the other SNES line so its NOT default... Also added my custom config parameters... what gives?

and while I am on fire... is there a way to update all cover to USA versions? I notice a LOT of my Sega Genesis are using MegaDrive... (I did set the priority but it doesn't do anything since everything was imported prior).

I mean as in exit a rom back to BixBox - I am able to set that in BigBox or that needs to be set in RA?

So I just purchases BigBox... now to set up and configure all the settings on that... one thing that just came to mind. Is there an way to configure these controllers to quit a game back to BigBox mode? I don't want to have to use mouse and keyboard for anything

Well good news. I did what you said Monkus... I loaded up a PS1 game, F1 to go to RA, I turned off my SNES controller and made sure my PS4 controller was on (wireless) and I changed pad 1 to Dualshock and boom! It works So I will just configure the controllers in each specific core! ... hopefully the N64 one works out nicely. I think I am going to purchase a bluetooth one that I linked a page back! Will report back once Amazon delivers it.

Thanks guys that makes sense and I can give that a try to see if it works out easier for me. That leads me to one question for the time being until I try this... under my just default config I will need to at least assign a controller right? For when I have BigBox open, or do I do that in BigBox and has nothing to do with RA? Thanks Brad about the tidbit on the themes I will make sure to follow the user specific directions on whichever one(s) I download!

Awesome, probably give BoxBox a shot later this evening or tomorrow afternoon once I am off work! As far as the config file goes, I found it ok and this is what it shows when I open it with WordPad: So it looks like it was auto set/configured. Just really strange why it wont work... unless I need the inputmapper like Brad mentioned?

I dont necsarlly have friends, but different wireless controllers for the different systems. I like being able to play them with the accurate controller for each console (as long as the make wireless replicas ie. Playstation, N64 and NES/SNES) I be you are right though with RA auto detect. Now while I wait for the RA forums to come back online.. is big box easy to set up and get a nice sexy theme going? I did watch Brads video at work on "how to make your launch box look like ours" but I don't necessarily want the exact same theme

I can't believe this isn't a common problem... maybe I am the only one who loves the idea of all bluetooth wireless controllers. I hope its something that RA can fix and is on the software side of things.

Thank you for the reply! Maybe I will monitor their forums and when they are back up and running I will try and see if anyone over there has any suggestions. I do know from when I first installed the nightly before I did my restart the PS4 controller seemed to just "work". The issue in that build I had too was once setting up controller two, controller one didnt work. These dang controllers Hmm... to purchase BigBox and set that up while I wait... decisions decisions...

My whole goal is to play all wirelessly with controllers... from your statement is that not possible with the PS4 controller? Another odd thing I seem to keep coming across is I turn off my bluetooth SNES 8itdo controller and then when I turn it back on to "game" again the config did not stick in RA.. which I have saved 10000 times... what gives? This is literally the only thing dragging me down right now is this dang controller section