Retro808

Did you turn off all the update check boxes in LB?

Not by adjusting a setting. It could be coded into a theme.

You linked to roms on archive. Its not there because I removed. I can see you even edited your original post and removed where I edited the link and typed a note it was removed.

No worries. Glad its sorted. I recommend always set the emulator up first (outside of LB) and set your controls and test the games. Once all that works add it all to LB. this way if it does not work in LB we know its a setting and not an emulator or rom issue.

@dyuloose I removed the link you posted. Forum rules prevent posting links to rom sites.

The only thing LB does is sent a command line to the emulator to run it. It affects nor controls anything within the emulator. 1: All the games you are testing inside of LB, do they run directly in Demul? 2: I see you have the Associated Platform listed as "Atomiswave" is that what you called the platform inside Launchbox? Whatever the platform name is that shows in Launchbox must match what you put in the Associated Platform tab. Can you choose a game and right click then edit it. Show pics of 1: The Metadata page 2: The Launcher page 3: The emulation page.

And anyone studying law should know that laws, like contracts, are written in language to allow interpretation of what is written. I do not blame you for just outright avoiding any risks.

The Exit tab is for Exiting from the Pause Menu. If you ever have issues with an emulator not exiting from the pause you would paste an AHK in the Exit AHK tab.

A couple things. You have the wrong command for Atomiswave. Needs to be below. -run=awave -rom= Naomi is wrong as well. Look back at my picture. Also, you cannot use the same Demul setup for Dreamcast and arcade platforms. Dreamcast requires different boxes checked on the Details page. You would just want to create a new Emulator entry. Most create a "Demul Arcade" and set it up for arcade boards and "Demul" and set it up for Dreamcast. You can still point to the same demul.exe.

That was the default command line parameter I posted. Can you post the following pics. >Tools>Manage Emulators and edit Demul. 1: Pic of the Details tab 2: Pic of the Associated Platform tab

Not sure if it is complete. But our Downloads section is always a good place to look for media downloads.

You have to be careful with Mame and what you delete. Depending on what rom set type you have you cannot always just keep the game file and delete everything else. Some mame roms require a bios, device file or a chd (CHD are usually separate from Mame rom sets). For example if you wanted to keep Samurai Shodown but did not keep the NeoGeo.zip the game would not work. So knowing what Mame rom set type you have would determine how or what you can delete. From the looks of the GB size you posted it is either a split or a merged set.

I edited my post and added some details. This is what I added: I did notice a lot of time changing themes and then later exiting BigBox caused the hang. If I stayed on the same theme and just moved around BigBox or played some games the frequency of the hang was less.

Longest has been 35 minutes before I chose to close it manually. I did notice a lot of time changing themes and then later exiting BigBox caused the hang. If I stayed on the same theme and just moved around BigBox or played some games the frequency of the hang was less.

I believe it is a known issue. On the discord it was mentioned it was being looked into.

Do you get any type of error or just an attempt to load and nothing?

It has been a few versions (beta and stable) since this happened, but getting quite frequent instances of closing BigBox and it still hanging in task manager. I have to force close it.

Do you have the command line parameters in the Associate Platforms tab in Demul within LaunchBox emulator set-up?

Edited: I checked with Jason and he advised the symlink is no made in all cases. So that is why you do not see it how I do. Is your build on an external drive or share network drive?

Are you using the most current version of those themes? They both work fine for me and Redux is one of the main ones I use.

What happens if you use another theme?

No. Its one or the other.

Are your favorites showing at the top of the platform's list of games? If so, in BigBox settings go to Views and there is a check box for "Show Favorited Games First" make sure it is not checked.

That \Metadata\Temp folder typically gets recreated each launch and LB with throw images files in there as you select games. It gets deleted on close of LB. So like @neil9000 I would try to install 11.5 over top. Is it just the temp folder that will not allow you to delete (can you open it and delete the contents)? Does it give you a warning when trying to delete it?

This. Also check the refresh rate of the second monitor. There were a couple threads where the user had a second monitor using 55Hz. Changing it to 60 fixed the issue.