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hi Dos - i thought it was also but no unfortunately. Sounds interesting about the lightgun.ini.. how would i point only the lightgun games to use this ini?... If it is an .ini then surely couldnt i just change the setting in the Mame.ini, OR is that not possible?

hi guys - i have 2 machines.. 1 with Sindens, the other just sticks... Same build on both however i want to hide the cross hair on the sinden cabinet (i keep it showing for obvious reasons on the stick cabinet so at least they are playable-ish using joysticks and moving the cross hair around). I dont want to go through every single mame gun game and turn off the cross hair so was wondering if the setting resides somewhere in the mame.ini or a CFG file?. I had a look and couldnt see it. thanks Dave

thanks Neil - So i changed the settings file and then it gave a similar error but for the ListCache XML... I decided to just move all 5 or 6 of the XMLs in the ZIP over to DATA and it seemed to do the trick fine!

OK i can see the abrupt shut down perhaps may have happened and know who it was too!!!!! thanks will try the recent ones see how we get on. Can i ask, what is it that is in the Settings.xml file? will i need to redo many changes recently made if i use an older one?. Also, what happens if this does work? Any fall back?

Naa didnt know how, and didnt have the time, it popped up before shooting out to get some presents. So is it best to pick the most recent ZIP>Settings.xml and pop that into my data folder?.. Does it backup every day or will it be a very old backup. Im not near the cabinet now so cant look until later Why did this happen so i can avoid it in the future.

Hi guys - Booted up the arcade machine for the kids earlier and it loads windows of course, starts to load bigbox automatically yet JUST before the bigbox startup video starts up this error flashes up with the typical windows Error chime noise > Screen goes black for a second as normal and the startup video launches. Can see and hear it fine. Once it ends bigbox just doesnt display, no sound, nothing, the screen stays black as if its switched off. Any ideas??

hi Retro - Sorry for the delay. Thanks for the suggestion i will take a read soon

Yes thats right, its all set up now and working well enough to change. So, i have just uncovered another game that is effected (ice cold beer which is within my Windows collection and not TTX) and also a fix for the problem!!!. - the Fix :... If i have played a mame game it isnt possible to play any TTX or Ice cold beer unless i restart the machine. However if i start and end any SNES game i am then free to play any TTX and ICB once again as normal... I assume any other emulator other than MAME probably free's it up too. Very strange. If there isnt a fix for this is there anyway i can add some kind of script for TTX and ICB that it forces the game into focus in case a mame game was played previously?

Yes the difference must be that you are using TP - unfortunately i dont really want to go down that route as the loaders took enough time to get working fine. It has to be some kind of conflict with theloader then, but its odd why its only after MAME has been run and closed. I am using bigbox startup yes, but i also have tried it with it deactivated too and no difference.. That was my immediate first thought

Yes its TTX specific, and im not using TP no.. I have a loader for each one So SSF4AE, and all others ive tested which were about 4.. Raiden, KOF Sky stage etc

hi Guys - wondered if anyone has had this problem. - Start bigbox > Taito Type X > start a game it loads fine However if i: - Start bigbox > Play then end any Mame game > goto Taito type X > try to load a game bigbox sticks at the launch game menu... I hear the noise to confirm i have pressed start but bigbox stays in front and the game loads in the background because i can hear it.... however the odd thing is if i Alt-Tab there is nothing else running apart from bigbox AND suddenly the game (and/or game sound) stops as if AltTab has closed the game.... Very odd. I have tried loading Megadrive, SNES and other emulators first but that allows Type X to load fine. Seems that Mame conflicts with it and the only way to play a Type X game after playing a Mame game is to restart bigbox. Any ideas?

Hi Neil - So, when i went into Bigbox > options > Game start up and ticked the Enable start up - it solved the problem... however it has created a new one on only 2 platforms i have. Taito type x AND my Windows games (MKx / Killer instinct etc) dont load properly 90% of the time.. it seems what is happening is the games are loading BUT bigbox is staying in front of the game..... It is absolutely perfect for the problem i had however, in Mame, or any other platform i smash the 1p button and only ever one instance starts up, i just cannot crash the machine its perfect.. However i really need to be able to play TTx and Windows.. how can i stop it for those? any idea? thank you

Ok once the kids are in bed and i get a bit of time ill check it out and report back, good man

ok i will take a look when i can... remind me what i am looking for once within Tools / Options? - surely its not called "new start up features" as they are now Old start up features if this was back in 2018.. Haahahahaha so funny

Thanks Neil - how come in happens to me then? something obviously isnt enabled - how do i enable the "New start up features" you speak of?

Bump - Does anyone have any ideas on this? it must be happening to quite a few people unless every has a "ONLY PRESS START ONCE" sticker on their cabs.... I get the feeling, thinking it through, that it would be very hard to implement as if you locked out after only 1x start button push what if there was an error, youd be stuck... or to be honest, the odds of that happening over many instances loading is FARR less and i would rather deal with the occasional sticking of bigbox. I can guarentee if a child played bigbox it would be broken within a few games due to their impatience and pressing "Start" more than once resulting in many versions of the game loading in the back ground etc

Perhaps an Autohotkey to Alt+Tab and bring that window forward, i dunno.....

Hi guys - So Injustice 2 (windows/steam) when selected from bigbox loads behind bigbox.. So i can hear it and have to Alt+Tab into it.. Every other windows game etc is totally fine. Just this one, any idea? thanks

Hi guys Ive noticed a few times when idiots are using my cabinet in bigbox mode - whether it be young kids, impatient adults etc that they are able to do things which i NEVER seem to do. resulting in the need to reset the machine time and time again. I believe the main culprit for this is when you select a game using my 1p Start button if you press it impatiently a few times in a row it just doesnt like it. So it will do 1 of a few things - Either load the game fine, or load the game fine but also another instance in the background causing all kinds of echoy sounds of course.. Or.. load the game but stay on bigbox with the game playing in the background unable to stop it unless you open her up and pop a keyboard and mouse in. If bigbox could only accept one push of the start button just before launch ( so in the Play game / Favs menu) that would eliminate it and make the front end so much more tougher as it were. hope i am making sense there Thanks

yep - thats it! thanks again Retro, you deserve a payrise

hi guys - So i was trying to add Stepmania and now i have 2x sets of "All" in Launchbox. When i right click i cannot delete one of them as 2 of the 3 options are shadowed out, i can only "Add". Please see pic Any idea how to remove one of them - they both contain my entire games lists - 14,000 each thanks Dave

Youve only gone and done it mate!... it wasnt in LB/Images, it was in the Themes folder (themes/unified/images/Theme/Background).. Legend thanks

Hmm I dont know, I havent used a different theme - i do know that i did add this Pad Png to many different systems so it isnt just calling the same image. So N64, PSP etc all must have this file within their folders, i guess..

Ah bollocks - yeah i remember doing it, it was was a simple carbon grey type hexagon tile pattern... Can i narrow it down to the Images folder at least? Surely its in there somewhere (regardless of how massive that damn folder is of course!)

hi guys - So for all my systems which need a pad and its analogue sticks a while back i added a simple Control pad png file in the top left of the system screen to tell anyone playing, "Please pick up the controllers off the bracket" etc... I feel a right idiot as ive totally forgotten the location of the file and i want to make amendments!! here is the screen i mean, showing PS2 as an example - you will see the white pad overlayed in the top left.. thanks guys