Retro808

Oh yeah, I forgot he said he was using Refried. Forgot about all those platform specific xaml files too.

If you enable high score feature in LB it will disable save states. It is a measure to prevent cheating on high scores that get reported for uploading to the community. If you want to use save states you would have to disable to high score feature in your LB settings.

Are you talking about any AHK you may have in the Running AHK or Exit AHK tab of the manage emulators settings? The move should not have affected those. Still working on my end and we have had no other reports even during beta testing.

Since you are using Startups do you have the box ticked for "Hide Windows not in Exclusive Fullscreen Mode"? It has been a while since I messed with Teknoparrot and added any games so not sure if it will have any affect.

I do not as I do not know what view in the theme you are using. If you only want to change it for the view you are using you would need to go into BigBox Settings and then View. In that section it will let you know the view you are using. Example if it shows Text Game view look for that xml in the theme’s folder. Otherwise change them for all PlatformWheel and WheelGame and the TextGame xml files you see.

Yes. LB is where you will import your games, edit your metadata, media and set your emulators. You can use LB in a cabinet. BigBox is just more graphically designed for it and you can move around it easier with a controller or arcade control panel set-up.

The paid license for LB comes with BigBox which is the arcade cabinet frontend version.

Depending on what view in the theme you are using you would need to edit the code in the xml file. If I remember correctly looking at codes for the Unified theme you will want to find a line of code for "Lower Glass Bar" should be both a background color and an opacity item you can change.

If it will not let you edit than it is likely not in the free version of LaunchBox.

Startups are only customizable by editing the code. You cannot edit the Default theme as it will always revert back to prevent it from being corrupt. You can copy the default theme folder and name it something else then edit that one and use it as your Startup theme. Once you copy and rename the default theme right click and edit the default.xaml in that new folder. You can delete the entire grid section below which will get rid of the text and the black bar. <Grid Grid.Row="5" Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="5" Background="#AA000000"> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition Height="90*" /> <RowDefinition Height="5*" /> <RowDefinition Height="5*" /> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="{Binding LoadingWidth}" /> <ColumnDefinition Width="{Binding LoadingEmptyWidth}" /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <TextBlock Grid.Row="0" Grid.RowSpan="3" Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Text="{Binding NowLoadingText}" Foreground="White" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" FontSize="60" Typography.Capitals="AllSmallCaps" /> <Grid Grid.Row="1" Background="White" /> </Grid>

Then you may not be looking at the right thing. Just go to archive site and search "mame roms" then look for a listing that shows "mame 0.220 roms (merged)" that one they only have a torrent to download from so click on show all and the torrent is in the list of zip files. Or choose the 0.219 one and that one has a direct download link.

To launch a specific config you would use the below command line. -c "config\name_of_config.cgf" You should not need to do this any more since retroarch allows you to launch configs per folder now. So if all your 8-bit roms are in one folder and 5200 in another you can set the config in RA then choose "save content directory override" option.

LB Save/Load from the Pause menu only activates the emulator's save states so you need to set the AHK script to use the save and load keys the emulator uses. So for epsxe the is F1 and F3. In manage emulators you need to edit epsxe and in the Pause menu tab make sure the below script is in save tab then do the same in the load tab but change the key to F3.

Did you set your controller or keyboard button in BigBox settings to activate pause? LB and BB have separate controller mapping settings.

Is it just Mame in BigBox it is not working with? Does Pause work with other emulators?

If the old named folder still has images in them just rename that folder to the exact new name of the platform. Then go into the platform highlight all games, right click an refresh images.

That's not a bug that is how it works. If you change the platform name LB does not rename folders. It creates new ones based on the name you changed it to. The reason it does not change folder names is for users that might point LB to folders outside the LB structure. Like those that use images for multiple frontends.

Do you mean when you first import them they do not download? Then you have to edit each game manually to get the images? Can you right click a game and edit than share and image of that edit screen. Do this for a game without images.

Do you have all 3 check boxes unticked in the updates section of LB settings? Just wanting to confirm because I believe if you have the Check for new updates unchecked but still leave the Background updates ticked it will give you the prompt. I would make sure all 3 are off.

Drag and drop the exe (or shortcut if you prefer) into LB and in the first prompt choose the 3rd option in the image below. It is asking for an emulator as you are likely choosing an option that makes LB think you are importing an arcade or console rom.

Please do not ever pay someone for roms. Search The Archive . org. You should be able to find a mame .220 merged full rom set. That should get you going with mame.

If you have image priorities set for those images it is counting them. I actually already mentioned this to the team. As far as an easy way to mass delete duplicates that is relative to the user. To me it is easier to open Windows folder and visually look at all images in one pane and ctrl click the dups to delete. Sitting in a UI single game edit screen and deleting dups then going to the next games is too slow for me. The media clean up tool is supposed to delete duplicates. Two images may look visually the same but can be different in the most minor of ways. So it matches checksums to confirm the file is a dup or not.

You can actually accomplish what you need in this scenario easily. 1. Import the roms and select 3D box for all games. 2. Once import/download is complete run the audit option on the platform. 3. Sort the 3D box column so you can see all games missing 3D box. 4. Highlight only those games then run the media wizard on only those games and select Box-Front. Now the wizard will only download box fronts on those games you selected that were missing 3D Box images. I know you are making recommendations, but there is an existing way to do what you want.

The text spacing such as in the box is easily remedied on user setup by adjusting the spacing in Launchbox's options. >Tools>Options in the Boxes >Spacing section you can adjust as needed.

There is no real documentation on theme creating. In the themes folder there is a documentation.pdf file but it only discusses data and bindings. Not how to alter or create themes. There is a user created Theme Generator you can use to make your own themes. https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/2115-community-theme-creator-for-bigbox/