[Retroarch won't load games]

42 minutes ago, scolink said:

@Retro808 Can you please check the information that you asked me ?

 

Regards

It could be the accent mark in your name in the path. We have seen character letters cause issues. See something similar posted here.

[Problem importing roms with almost the same name]

Try checking the box for "Force Importing Duplicates" when importing.

 

[Letting us choose which version of the game to use in BigBox mode?]

3 hours ago, Arcade1993 said:

So I have been using Big Box on my MAME cabinet for quite some time now. I decided to enable the ability to see the file name of the game being launched. In this example, it's umk3.zip which is Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. 

However, in my ROMs folder, I have 3 versions of UMK3. umk3.zip, umk3r10.zip , and umk3r11.zip

Since I have all 3 revisions, I would like to know if there is a way in BigBox mode where I change which version of UMK3 I want to play. Sometimes different revisions have cool glitches and such which might be fun to play once in a while. 

If anyone knows any way to do this, please let me know!

Combine the roms in Launchbox into one title. Then in either LB and BB you can choose the version. In BB in the game details screen you will see Additional Apps/Version option. Click it and it brings up the different versions.

 

[platform loading video as startup theme ?]

On 4/28/2020 at 1:58 PM, Elhora said:

Hello, i just have a little question.

I'm just sucking more than Linda Lovelace when it comes to xaml.

But i'd like to know if there is a way to put a video as main visual for startup theme ? (i'm trying to make a "loading" video per platform that i'd like to play while the game is loading...)

Yes, It is possible. Big Fade startup plays a platform specific video if one is present or a default one if not.  

[Retroarch won't load games]

I do not see anything wrong in the settings. By chance does the full name of the folder path for your roms contain any special characters?

 

[Demul issues - Arcade button to exit and setup per game emulator on the same platform.]

21 minutes ago, kritvichu said:

Hi Retro808, Thank you very much for helping. You helped me save a lot of time doing things redundantly and not necessary. I am really appreciate your help.

When you said I could do per-game emulator selection on the same platform. I knew right away I must have done something wrong. I found out that I need to uncheck box a default emulator under an associated platforms tab when both emulators use the same platform name . Previously, it had one emulator checked as a default. When I tried to set both emulators on the same platform, I got a warning that the new emulator would override the default emulator.  So I ended up working around the problem creating multiple platforms. I am glad I asked it here first before wasting too much time on this unnecessary tasks. All I have to do now is to clean up my mess, removing those many redundant platforms to just one name per system and 2 emulators for a specific control setting to use.

Regarding binding the exit to an arcade button, my Launchbox is a free version. That controller automation is available on the Premium version. I think that is the way to go. I really love Launchbox. The developer business concept is awesome. They let people try their awesome products, not a share ware with trial period, but it is free and very solid functionality product. The community is very supportive and friendly environment to help users and noob like me. 

I will definitely say purchase a license. I have enjoyed the product for over 3 years now and our two devs just keep making it better. I know they would appreciate the support. Should be easy enough to fix what you have and get it a bit cleaner.

[Trouble getting MAME games working]

I see you did not put the mame roms inside the Mame\Roms folder you embedded one folder more. Which is fine you, but you do need to go into Mame and tell it to now look there. Also I do not see a Mame.ini file. This usually gets generated if you run Mame64.exe and save the current settings. At that point Mame generates the ini file.

Did you tell Mame where to find the roms?

[Injecting random videos in Attract Mode?]

9 minutes ago, screwball69 said:

Is it possible to have random videos play between platforms or games in Attract Mode?

Ideally I would want it to pull from a collection of retro commercials and videos I have.

Currently this is not possible.

[Retroarch won't load games]

52 minutes ago, scolink said:

If i run them direclty it works on retroarch, but if i use retroarch in LB do not work and dont load the game...its weird. I really want to put this working, but i need help

 

Ok then that is definitely a disconnect in LB settings and has nothing to do with cores or bios files. Since your game play in RA properly.

Can you right click a game for NES and edit. Then share a pic of that full edit screen showing the Launcher tab showing and then same pic with the Emulation tab showing.

Also FYI you do not need to use an image hosting site you can attach them directly to the post.

[How to install game themes?]

Typo. I did mean 4. If you bind a key/button as I mentioned you would get to the correct view as you watched it switch.

[How to install game themes?]

Yes. That is the spot. Vertical Wheel 3 is fullscreen. I recommend set a key/button to change views that way in the games list you can hit that key/button to change the view on the fly.

[Retroarch won't load games]

1 hour ago, scolink said:

I put the file in retroarch system folder, restart LB but the game still not working, the name os platforms its equal, i have the cores, i have everything but the game wont load, its very weird, this must but a step that i can solution, i really need help because id like to get this working 100%

I did not see this mentioned so going to ask.

Do your game play in Retroarch if you run them directly in Retroarch without using Launchbox?

[Platform disappeared from List]

@ci2own Quick question for clarification. In your first post you talk about platforms then in your second you are mentioning playlists. Are these two separate issues? Are you missing platforms or playlists? They are not the same so just want to clarify.

[How to install game themes?]

The theme you are using is designed to show videos in that box. All themes have multiple views and some will have a view dedicated to fullscreen video, some may not. You just need to change views. I believe the Unified and Unified Redux themes have a fullscreen view for videos.

[How to install game themes?]

2 minutes ago, vgbox said:

I downloaded teknoparrot game themes from here:

For example, i put the file in: \LaunchBox\Videos\Sega Lindbergh Universal Cabinet\Theme

The generic game theme still shows.

By the way, it there a way to download all these game themes from inside launchbox? It is a pain download and add these game themes one by one.

Are the the videos files named exactly as the game is named in LB? The file needs to match either the LB game name or the rom name. Also there is an option in BigBox in the videos setting to "Prioritize Game Theme Videos".

If the game theme videos are not available in Emumovies and are only posted on our forum there is no way to download them directly in LaunhBox.

[Demul issues - Arcade button to exit and setup per game emulator on the same platform.]

8 hours ago, kritvichu said:

I'm currently runing Demul on Launchbox for playing games on Naomi, Naomi2, Naomi (2)GD, Hikaru, and Atomiswave systems. My problem is on Demul, not Launchbox. Since it last update was in late 2017, I am not quite sure if Launchbox has any work around functions to deal with these 3 problems I have on Demul.

1.The exit key is fixed to 'Alt+F4'. It not allow me to use an arcade button for an exit. Launchbox has an ahk script to bind Esc to Alt+F4;

$Esc::
{
    Send !{F4}
}

It is not quite an ideal to use a keyboard on the arcade cabinet. When I configured a control setting on Demul, it acknowledged one of my arcade buttons as 'JOY0_11'. I tried to change the above script from 'Esc' to 'JOY0_11'. Unfortunately, it does not work. The only workaround I can do is to use another third party 'JOY2KEY' to map Esc to the arcade button. This JOY2KEY causes some conflicts to my PS3 controller time to time and I try to avoid it. Is there a way to map Esc to my arcade button on that ahk script?

 

Did you set your controller automation mapping in LaunchBox/BigBox to the button you want to close emulators? In BigBox it is the mapping for "Close Active Window". In LaunchBox it is "Exit Game". If you set the mapping it should work. I use the script below and can close Demul with button combo set for Joy8 + Joy9. What LB controller automation does is basically send Escape when you hit the button you mapped in it.

$Esc::
{
        WinClose, ahk_exe demul.exe
}

If setting it up that still does not work you could try

Joy11::Send {Alt Down}{F4}{Alt Up}

I am not an AHK expert so probably a better way to script that. It was an AHK I saw in another thread that worked.

8 hours ago, kritvichu said:

2. On Naomi and Atomiswave systems, many games only run on 'Digital' mode on the Arcade JOY1 controller setting (lots of fighting games) while many others still run on 'Analog' mode. This is a pain that requires me to fumble on finding a keyboard and mouse to manually re-configure different type of controller mode on those games. For instance, playing Naomi games, 18 wheeler uses 'Analog' mode on controller. Then, if I need to change to Capcom vs SNK, I need to manually reconfigure the controler to 'Digital' mode. I need to have 2 copies of Demul; one for Analog and another for Digital mode. However, Launchbox not allows me to associate a per-game emaulator selection on the same platform. So, I ended up having to create 2 NAOMI platforms; one associated with 'Demul-Analog' and another  with 'Demul-Digital' emulators. There will be more works to do on Naomi 2, Naomi GD, Naomi2 GD, Atomiswave, Hikaru, and Spider. Before moving on, I need to post it here to make sure this is the right way to do it.

Can I do a per-game emulator selection on the same platform?
If not, any suggestion to classify in categories with less headache?

 

You can do per game. Just right click the game and edit. In the Emulation tab choose the emulator you need. You can also select multiple games at once and it will bulk edit them.

8 hours ago, kritvichu said:

3. Is there a way to auto-disabled screensaver while running Demul? All other emulators have this functions, not Demul. I need to make sure to turn off the screensaver before running the game.

Cannot help on this as I do not run a screensaver on my cabinets. I use BigBox attract mode whenever they are running.

[Setting up light guns on Teknoparrot/Aimtrak]

4 hours ago, clarkus said:

Thank you Retro808 for your direct response. Its nice to see someone just answer the question instead of giving me a lecture. I've searched the internet for all my questions and had my answers provided.  Unfortunately teknoparrot was my pain in the ass emulator. I did find the version that worked. 

 

Thank you all for your answers. 

No worries. I have only tinkered with Tekno and Lightguns so no expert here. We try to be as helpful as we can though.

[Setting up light guns on Teknoparrot/Aimtrak]

5 hours ago, clarkus said:

Also will having a newer version of Teknoparrot cause issues? 

On demulshooters site it states - "Last version of TeknoParrot tested : 1.0.0.287"

I would probably stick with the known working versions of TeknoParrot for DemulShooter. Even though TeknoParrot receives constant updates the dev of demulshooter may only do updates when there is a known TeknoParrot update to rail shooter games. I would check emuline forums though they are good source of info. If the wiki states Linderberg system games were tested with 1.0.0.287 I would use that version.

Also what are you using as your lightgun?

[Atomiswave/naomi issues.]

3 hours ago, Arne said:

Thank you. Will give this a go.

Appreciate your time and effort.

Any troubles just post here. We will help get you sorted.

[Launching BigBox Directly Into 1 System]

9 hours ago, Rombo Deadfish said:

I am only interested in using the front end for arcade games.  I would like BigBox to startup directly in my Arcade platform.  Is there an easy way to accomplish this?

All responses are greatly appreciated.

If you only have the one platform you can set BigBox default startup view to All Games. This way BB opens right into the list of arcade games. 

[Atomiswave/naomi issues.]

7 hours ago, Arne said:

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

I'm going to put this on ice until a better core/emulator/tutorial/solution comes along. 15,000 games will keep me busy till then. 

Are the rom files you are currenlty using .bin and .lst? If so ditch those. They are no longer worth using. The best way to play Atomiswave and Naomi is to use the rom files from mame rom set.

Demul is simple to set up. If you download a full mame rom set all the zip and bios files you will need are in there. You would then only need to get the chd for some games. The Riecast core is now the Flycast core and that core works with the mame roms/bios files as well.

[Troubleshooting MAME High Scores]

33 minutes ago, Blitz Mary said:

Thank You I will do as you say . By the way some user is pissed about that high score can you please erase the highscore?

If a user takes direct issue with you, or anyone else for that matter, about a high score please let us know. We already had one such instance and it is uncalled for. Jason will likely remove the score since it is not valid anyway.

[Light gun setup for House of the dead 2 pc /Demulshooter]

21 minutes ago, clarkus said:

Thank you guys soooo much. It worked. I have two more questions. 

1) How to setup two light guns. (they both recognize but shot with one target.)

2) How to get launchbox to load the game directly. It will only load the demul program and thats it. I have to load the game through demul (file , play naomi roms, hotd2) 

 

Thank you 

Make sure in the Associated platform you have the platform name if you imported the games under their own platform and the correct command line for each system.

 

[Launchbox forgets imported games]

1 hour ago, FulgoreDE said:

Hi,

I fixed the Problem!

Under Data/Plattforms there was a file named gamecube backup.  The file dint had the new games in it. I deleted the file and restarted. The games were still there than. I hope this Information helps someone else .

That will definitely cause an issue. In the \Data\Platforms there should only ever be 1 file with a platform name in it. Even if you name it something like Sega Genesis_Backup.xaml LB will try to read it. So, if you create a backup file of a platform xml it is best to save it elsewhere.

[Light gun setup for House of the dead 2 pc /Demulshooter]

10 minutes ago, clarkus said:

So Demul (sega dreamcast emulator) can run a rom from mame? Do you have instructions on how to do this? 

I have a rom of hotd2 from my mame .207 set. I just need to install Demul (never installed this emulator) and load hotd2 and it will auto detect both Aimtrack light guns? (no config in demul)

 

Thank you 

In Demuls path setting point Demul to the folder where you have the roms and make sure you have the correct bios files. When you add those games to Launchbox you need to set up a separate Demul for arcade games. You cannot use the same set-up in Launchbox that runs Dreamcast. Reason is there are some different check boxes for the arcade games needed for Demul that Dreamcast does not need.