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hi CBeats - Yes this is kinda what i did, carefully.. i did back up my main drive first just in case. I replicated exactly the other build and it worked but did take some time, as expected of course

Hi everyone. So I have a solid arcade build i have been working on for years. Over the weekend i have managed to get an equally solid Light gun only build. I would like to incorporate this light gun build into my existing blood sweat and tears build but of course a little scared of messing up my main build. Anyone have any advice on the best full proof way of merging the 2 without causing havoc!?.. thanks muchly for your times in advance

thanks Rollo - I did try Flycast, however the problem i had with that is i could map the Trigger to left mouse and reload to right, however i could not map the sinden side gun button to "B", or anything to "Start"... the "waiting for input" message came, counted down, and nothing. I opened note pad and pressed side button or anything on the gun and it entered the given characters fine so its not the gun buttons. Odd

Ah ok thank you i will give that a shot when i get chance after kids gone bed later.. I have all day tomorrow too! thanks a million for your time

What i find very odd is - When i launch the Bat file i talk about earlier outside of Launch box then it loads, and the P1 start works as it should.... However when i simply get Launchbox to point and load that bat file it loads fine however P1 button does not work on my arcade machine.. Its peculiar

HI Neil thanks - Well, because its the only instance on the machine that uses Demul (only for HOTD2) ive assumed there is no need to name them independantly. All my dreamcast games use redream

Hi guys I have my build sorted for lightguns and all i am trying to do is add house of the dead 2. I have started using Demul, and set it all up so when i open Demul indepentantly of launchbox, then select HOTD2 it loads, fine.... I have added it to Launch box, when i double click it it simply launches Demul and sticks there. Nothing on my build uses Demul, ONLY HOTD2 and these 2 screens shots are how i have the emulator set up : I have also seen a topic in here where someone suggests using a Batch file with this command inside "demul.exe -run=naomi -rom=hotd2" - If i turn off "use an emulator" and point the launchbox title to this Bat file it starts Demul and then loads HOTD2 fine!..... However......... i cannot use ESC to exit the game like normal because the Emulator had a running AHK script within it(which is now turned off).... Also, an odd thing but my Player 1 no longer starts the game when going this way (P2 works fine however). It seems i keep getting so close but just cannot get it 100% - I also added DemulShooter as an additional App but thats not linking but i can deal with that once its running and closing properly. Please help ! I just need HOTD2 running with Sinden on here for a party in a couple days. Sounds crazy i know, it means a lot to the chap. thanks

Hey did you ever find a solution to this? mine is doing the same.. thanks

Hey guys. I have a back up of my 3TB build for obvious reasons. If i implement this build on a machine for my son for his birthday how do i : 1) keep the same favourites that have been added throughout all the systems within the main wheel? (Do i just copy the entire Data folder over to the back up?) 2) how do i transfer over the arcade high scores that we have battled against on the main house cabinet? thanks alot

yes will do, think i am going to do some testing... Main thing is, if you are saying Favs wont save with it read only then its a non starter anyway as that is essential

Hmm ok thanks - so, what if i kept all as read only apart from the file which stores the adding of favourited games? - I don't give a monkies about play time or anything else being stored

ok so for clarity - if i read only the data folder i would no longer be able to add and remove favourites. thats annoying. Any other repercussions other than that?

If i were to tag the DATA folder as Read only, what implications could arrise from doing so?.... Note, i wont be adding any new systems, games to the build. Would it impact adding / removing favourite games within various systems? cheers

Thanks Garrett! what a handy thread, also solves my need to remove the date/ time also! Great

Hmm - i did a VB5 course back at college.........

Hi guys - I am using unified - is it possible to stop the Top systems wheel from fading out after leaving the joystick for a few seconds? i want it to remain on the screen. Have looked through a few of the bigbox settings and cant seem to find it. thanks

Ah a reply! - thanks for that, it is the road i went down actually in the end and works fine...

Using this script when in Bigbox it puts bigbox out of focus, so if on an arcade machine you are stuck and need to ALT +TAB back to Bigbox.. Tried adding an ALT TAB type line but gave an error. Any idea?

Hey Piper. Not sure if youll get this but this is exactly what ive been looking for. One question, the first additional app above to launch Demul shooter. I cant see anything here that closes it afterward? So if you jumped from hotd, to vc1, to vc2 would t you start to build up multiple instances?

Hi guys - so i have added the sinden light gun software to start as an additional program, however i need it to be stopped once i end the game or every gun game i then go on to load tries to add another instance of lightgun.exe and bigbox loses focus, breaking the cab. Thanks all

an update - So i had to use the Sinden Mame bezels which had built in sinden borders.. now all my mame games are perfect.. however, tackling Sega model 2 and suprise suprise, whenever it is loaded through there the border stays behind the game and not seen. But when i load say House of the deaddirectly through sega model 2, outside of launchbox, when i press the sinden border button it overlays nicely on top!!.... Its obviously a LB issue somewhere but i cannot see where

More info for you - its Launchbox / Bigbox causing this. I have just tested Area 51 in mame totally outside of LB / BB and the border appeared fine. Any ideas guys??

Hi guys - testing a pair of sindens and when i load bigbox, then say Area 51 in Mame it loads fine, however when i press the border button on the gun it looks like it isnt working. When in fact it is working if i alt tab out it is clearly there surrounding the desktop... How do i get it to appear on top of everything?? Does anyone know? - thanks very much Edit: All my games are in 4:3 ratio and the borders are filled with the bezel packs (if that makes a difference)

Wow thanks Neil - a very new addition from December eh!!. Awesome thanks again

hi all - as above - is this possible? Say I wanted to turn my PC on and it goes straight to Windows > Bigbox > Bubble bobble (arcade) thanks