Retro808

What theme is it? The theme is supposed to look like the pics you saw look like. So not sure what you mean by this. Have you set up for NES emulator in LaunchBox, added your games, and downloaded your media? Once you do all that BigBox is pretty much good to go. Just select a theme if you do not want to use the default one. You have to set-up all your emulation things in LaunchBox first for BigBox to be able to launch any games. Not sure which tutorials you watched as there are many. Usually the ones from LaunchBox (Unbroken Software Youtube) are best to use. Although I do not think there has been a recent one for setting up NES, but the process how not changed much.

Thanks @Grila I know many users would agree with that. I was simply posting information for users to see since most may not be aware of it. Also my other focus was to move non-beta topics out of the beta thread and into a thread more appropriate for the concern. Use the thread I linked so we can keep the Mame file concern in that thread. Since Jason has responded there before it keeps all your requests and input in one spot for him. Thanks.

Feature requests should be made using the feature request link located at the top of the forum under Help & Support. Post a feature request there, make sure you vote for your own request and then I recommend posting a link to that ticket back in this thread to help drive users to see it and possibly vote for it.

Here is a quote from Jason taken from this thread. Figure I would post it so you can see the process Jason takes as it pertains to the Mame file LB reads. Jason is not simply using the Mame data alone. My recommendation if you have further responses related to this topic please post there since it is not a beta related issue/concern.

Not as a standard option in LB. If you are taking about the badge icons that appear by the box images in Lb I believe there is a plugin that allows you to create your own icon badges. Edited: Here is a link to it.

What theme? Try changing the view. Easiest way is in BigBox key mapping or controller mapping bind a key/button to the command for “Change View”. Then when in the theme you can hit that key/button and change the view on the fly.

Not that has been mentioned.

You should not need to bulk edit anything to do this. All you need to do is add the new emulator in LaunchBox under >Tools>Manage Emulators. Set up the emulator, call it what you want and make sure the platform name is listed in the Associated Platforms tab and once you save it the emulator is available to all games in the platform. When you right click any game in that platform and choose "Launch With" you now see the other emulator as an option. There was never a need to do anything per game. That is also why LB has a button in the Associated Platforms tab to set an emulator as "Default" because it was designed to allow more than one emulator to work with a platform.

Should be possible, but would likely need a plugin as I do not believe BigBox can do this in it's current state. I believe there is a plugin that might help with this. You would have to check the 3rd party plugin sub-forums for it. All requests for feature updates should always be done via the "Help & Support" link above the forum and choosing the "Request a Feature" option. If you are using the Theme Creator I would definitely see if this is something Y2Guru could implement as well.

BigBox themes do not work in LB. Two separate theming types. I know you said you downloaded and wen to put them in there but there were already there. I would still download and drop them in there, after all the steps on the theme say to do that to override what is already in there. I would then refresh your image cache in BigBox settings just to be sure. If you still have issue it is always best to post in the actual theme's support thread that way the creator sees it and can offer help.

You do not need both. The vk07 one is used for the Xbox guide button. Also, it is recommend not to use Process, Close. It messes with emulators saving on exit since it is a hard close. Recommend using the one below. $Esc:: { WinClose, ahk_exe {{{StartupEXE}}} }

Well shoot I missed that part in your first post. If LB works and BB is not, in the past the issue was antivirus quarantined BigBox.dll. Do you have Windows virus protection running also? If so check if that blocked the dll as well.

@mainery I removed all the links in your post. Several either contained roms or links to rom sites. I was not about to go through everyone and confirm they did not contain either so I removed them all. Please refrain from linking to sites that contain roms, bios files, and other proprietary game files per forum rules. Unfortunately I cannot answer your Dosbox question as I do not mess with Dosbox games.

Cannot get it to work with what? Launchbox, Bigbox, emulators, work at all on the pc? Many of us use 8bitdo controllers without issue. They work in LB/BB in either x-input or dinpu, but x-input is easiest. So they do work.

Is it only from the tools menu this happens? Can you launch from the BigBox.exe?

Do your games work directly in the emulator without using Launchbox?

Do either of you have MSI Afterburner (or Riva Tuner) running? In the past we have seen good old MSI Afterburner causing conflict with d3d9.dll and cause LB boot issues. If that is not it check and see if you have Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 installed. I had that issue on a recent build on a used pc.

I believe that is actually a misalignment in the border image. The same thing can be seen, though not as obvious) in the non-ultrawide versions. I had to modify the border images in Photoshop.

My comments mirror everything @neil9000 already stated. One version of Mame and that is it. I used to pick and choose the roms I wanted form different sites many, many years ago and fell into the same hole. It is more troublesome this way, especially if you ever want to update Mame to take advantage of its improvements. Keeping multiple versions of Mame to run different roms is just over-complicating things. To me it is easier just downloading a new set when you are ready to update your roms and emulator. I do not import the full working Mame set, but I do keep the full set in my files. I only import about 500 or so roms. Since I keep the roms in the same folder I just remove the old set and drop in the new set in. Some users will just run the new torrent against the existing rom folder and it will just download the changed/missing files from the new set. So that is an even easier way. I only update my roms maybe once or twice a year so I just download a new fresh set. The whole process take me really only as long as the download takes.

That is the default nature if LB to try and keep the software as portable as possible. This way after the platform name change if you use the option to move games into the LB structure when you import roms the properly named folder is there in the Games subfolder.

That ribbon on the bottom is coded into the theme to show only the items you see showing. The setting you checked is for the Game Details view which is not that bottom ribbon. The Game Details view is shown when you select a game to play (as long as you have that view on in settings).

One of those might be a playlist. With LB closed go into \Launchbox\Data\Playlist and see if you have an “All” playlist. If you did not create that one delete it. Or you can right click the name of one in the Launchbox side panel and edit to see if one is a playlist and delete it there.

Yes. It only affects media such as images, videos, etc.. It does not touch emulation.

Good to hear. I agree with Neil, whatever tutorial you watched or read is definitely messing things up by having you add that command line piece.

If you put it there and then add it using the UI LB will just keep it there. Can you share a pic of the image in its folder?