DerHof2007

Well, the solution for now is the BigBoxSettings.xml Set values to 0 <KeyboardVolumeUp>0</KeyboardVolumeUp> <KeyboardVolumeDown>0</KeyboardVolumeDown> <KeyboardSwitchView>0</KeyboardSwitchView>

Looks like I may be able to edit the settings.xml...

Ok, this is a minimal issue... I have no problem editing the ini file if necessary. I'll experiment with that. It's scraping metadata at the moment so I'll mess with that later... The keymapping is screwing with me though.... some of commands are set to none by default. Is there a settings file I can edit?

I had actually tried that before... and again now... that's not working...

No, escape selects 'escape' ... like for the back button. I remember this always being an issue in the MAME configuration as well.

Any input on the keyboard mappings?

I'm setting this up on my main pc. I'm going to want to simply be able to copy and paste this folder to my cabinet pc. So I'm thinking I should copy my emulator folders into my Launchbox directory....

Still in the original MAME folder..... in my hyperspin folder.

Well, since I imported the roms I don't even have a MAME folder anymore... LB made its own folder called arcade. I'm thinking I'll be better off if I just copy my MAME folder over to the games directory and just point LB to that location.

Yeah, in my original setup but I imported/copied the roms over. It put them in the Games\Arcade folder... should I just copy it there?

Where does my MAME 'samples' folder go?

Thanks lordmonkus... I'll give Daphne a shot after I get other things up and running. So I just said screw it and paid for premium... $20 is no big deal and if everything is as great as it seems then I'll upgrade to lifetime. Quick test of LedBlinky... simply enabled it and pointed to the directory in my HS folder and it seems to be working just like it did with Hyperspin including all correct colors for MAME controls. One question I need for now... I have to change the keyboard mappings. For one thing with a 4 player setup the bulk of my keyboard is used up. Some of these options I don't need at all like volume controls.... how do I select 'none' for these. I can't see how to select a command without assigning a key to it.... Oh yeah.... where is the option to disable bezels? Is this something I could set up to toggle while in the game?

Ok, then minor setback on cabinet testing. My wifi dongle is giving me issues. I had to transfer the files with an external hard drive. When I run Launchbox it tells me it needs to upgrade my .NETframework... so, since I can't without internet I'm down for now. Don't have a network cable lying around long enough to get from my cab to the router. I should be able to stop and grab one tomorrow... Till then....

Quick question.... I installed this on my regular PC. Can I simply copy the Launchbox directory to my cab? Or do I have to use the .exe file to install?

Got it. Maybe before I do a full blown MAME import I will do one and not download any artwork.... binge test all the roms and make all deletions first. With the minimal time I have so far this seems like it will be so much more user friendly than HS. Just imported my C64 collection... a few minor problems so far but that is because of the filename guidelines I've chosen. I don't follow the standard for this emulator... so adding some info in the editing tab and successfully copied appropriate artwork from my HS files. I'll have to get Winvice to launch in full screen and attempt a auto hotkey file. I'll have to get back on it a little later though... time for the gym. Thanks for the help, Bro. I appreciate it... from this and other posts I've glanced through it seems like a great forum :-)

Loaded up a little over 100 MAME roms. Ok, liking so far... even though many options are only available in premium. I noticed I can simply right click on a game and delete it from the list. While I have my MAME collection whittled down quite a bit there are still going to be quite a few roms I will want to try and most likely delete. So I did that with a game and while it removed it from the list I see that the rom and artwork are still present. Is there a way for me to delete a game from the list AND all associated files including the rom as well?

Ok, cool. I'm set up at emumovies as well. Checking out LB as we speak....

Hey neil9000, Thanks for the fast reply! Definitely going to give it a shot. As for the AHK files.... as of right now I don't know any other solution to that situation. But with C64 intense use of the keyboard on at least some games I would have to resort to a wireless keyboard no matter what. Hopefully its as great as it looks and easy to set up.... if I get her up and running full blast I'll make a post in the Collections and Builds forum.

Hey there, So, I've been a HS user for years. Love it aside from the fact that its insanely over complicated and doesn't always work right. I have a 4 player cab that I built. All lighted buttons with a spinner and lighted trackball. All of my controls are from Ultimarc and includes 2 servos to toggle the 1 and 2 player joysticks from 4way to 8way. My lighting and servos are controlled by LEDBlinky. My primary use is MAME probably 90% followed by Commodore 64 at 9% with a minimal use of Daphne, Bally Astrocade, and maybe some NES/SNES. So my questions.... #1 Will I still be able to control all of my lighting the same way with LED Blinky? Including color specific lighting on a per game basis especially MAME where it automatically knows the original colors. #2 I noticed in the demo I watched on youtube that the systems and games have themes. Will I be able to use any of my existing artwork and files that I spent way to much time putting together or will I have to reacquire all of this stuff for Launchbox? #3 All of my controls are obviously assigned keyboard commands which is basically set up for MAME. However the Commodore 64 relied on the keyboard quite a bit for many games. So I had reassigned buttons to be used on specific C64 games using AHK files. So for example the game Spelunker would require the use of the D, F, and Space Bar buttons. So with the AHK file I could simply reassign a couple of the player one buttons to use this commands. Button 5 on my regular layout is Z... I could make that act as a D with the AHK file. I have an AHK file for each C64 game I need to do this with. Can I do this or something similar with LB? #4 I'm not the type that wants 15 terabytes and 75000 roms on my machine. Safe to assume I can pick and choose games lists for each emulator and only display what I actually have roms for? #5 How easy is Daphne to set up? I remember it being a PIA on HS. #6 So there is Launchbox and now I see BigBox... how are these different.... how do they work together? I'm sure I'll have many more questions if I make the change over and will be happy to purchase the forever license. Just trying to get some reassurance that I wont have to invest another 1000 hours getting everything set up again.