Retro808
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Is the issue exiting from within the game or from the Exit option in the Pause menu?
If it is from within the game you need to make sure your AHK is inside the "Running AHK" tab.
Also I recommend changing that AHK for Exit you have. That version is a hard close and can, in some emulators, mess with save states when closing. The one below is better to use.
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This can easily be done. You really do not need a custom folder. Just use the Arcade - Controls Information folder for this (slight downside is that Mame images will override any custom you make, I just do not download those). Would be nice to have its own folder though. It can also also be done by platform as well. That way in the case of like NES no need to make an image for each game. I have a theme that does this on my daughter's cabinet. Never released it since many of the added layer images are custom for her. I could probably clean it of all that and release it.
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4 hours ago, Kaizer said:
how can i have the old version of my LB?I encounter error after updating like some games wont run and and sometimes slow.now i uninstall my LB and dowload the free verion but encounter other like"error in attempting download updated metadama in LB databes" and othe ir one is ROM file is not a gcm/iso file.
In your updates folder inside the Launchbox folder is all the past versions you used. You can launch one of those to reinstall a past version.
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You can place any "Platform" or any "Playlist" under any "Category". It does not affect cores used with an associated platform. The "Category" simply is that a category and has no affect on any emulator you assigned to a platform nor the core that platform may use if assigned to Retroarch.
In Launchbox simply edit the platform then go to the Parents tab and select the category you want it to show up under. You can even create a new category and call it what you want.
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48 minutes ago, yorketto said:
Any news? Please ☹️
No it is not something that will likely get fixed quickly since it is not something major.
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Without seeing what you are seeing it is hard to tell you what needs to be done. It could be any number of things. Can you share a pic of what you see with the theme?
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1 hour ago, NYCSNAKEEYES2 said:
Launchbox would be left behind except from the ones like me, who love the meta data it provides, and looks of it.
Yeah I do not think meta data only loving users are keeping Launchbox from being left behind. That's quite a reach there. Launchbox is doing just fine providing a great functional and customizable frontend for those who love playing their emulated systems, arcade roms and pc games. But hey who am I to argue with all the users we see and those constantly sharing, providing feedback, and seeking assistance in our forum, Discord, Reddit, Bitbucket and Youtube page.
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1 hour ago, alissongamer said:
Sorry for the inconvenience, but I didn't find the option to create a new category.
Right click in the area where your platform names appear (the left hand pane of LaunchBox) and the option will appear. Choose "Add" and Choose "New Category".
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2 minutes ago, Ripklawe said:
Ohhh, ok. I got that switched around. So I must have the merged set then. Gonna go find a non-merged set then. Still, gonna be a lot of games to go through on each playlist to get all the ones from the romset that i need.
Thanks all, sorry for my confusion.No worries, but @DOS76 and @Lordmonkus are the better experts in the differences with Mame. I just remember what they taught me. So take their advice any time you see it.
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3 minutes ago, Ripklawe said:
Non-merged? Wouldn't it be better to use a merged set so I do not have to hunt down all the files for any given rom?
No. Non-merged contains everything for a game to run in one zip.
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8 minutes ago, Ripklawe said:
Thanks for responding DOS,
I do not think that you get what I mean and that is not surprising. I did not word it very well. I am familiar with mame sets and the merged and not merged aspects. That is not my issue here. My issue is that I do not want most of the roms in the mame set, just the ones that fill out certain collections like Taito Collection or Data East Collection. or the CP1, CPS2, CPS3 sets. What I was wondering is if there was a way to move the files from those collections via their playlist to a separate folder or will I have to actually go into the mame rom folder and hunt down each roms in each playlist I want individually. My set is not merged so of course I would need the parent roms and the clones so it would just be easier to download a merged set at that point but I do not want to waste the bandwidth if there is a simpler solution.Dos's answer is pretty much answering what you are asking. There is not an easy way and you cannot use Launchbox playlists to move them. It is not only a rom/parent/clone rom issue it is support file issue as well. CHD files, bios files, or other support files that games in Mame may need but Launchbox does not care about. Non-merged set would be the best to do this with and again there is no feature in LB to do the moves based on those playlists.
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31 minutes ago, 79tcourse said:
how did you get it to work
I have an IPAC 4 and cant get it to work with launchbox
Can you be more specific. What exactly is not working? Controlling inside Launchbox, controlling a game launched from Launchbox?
Since iPac is basically a keyboard LB does not have key mappings for keyboard encoders. Launchbox only has mapping optons for a game controller. You mostly move around with the mouse. Game wise you need to make sure you bind your buttons directly in the emulator.
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On 1/9/2020 at 6:21 PM, ItchyRobot said:
OK, I see now that I am on the wrong beta... I am on 0.5, but the latest is 0.6. Isn't BigBox supposed to automatically update to the latest?
No. BigBox does not auto update. It is a manual process.
On 1/9/2020 at 6:46 PM, ItchyRobot said:@viking
I got the 0.6 beta loaded and now have the dark mode working for the Platform wheel window. But I can not get it to show up for the game selection window (text). Is this a coding limitation, or did you overlook that view? See image link for the window I am talking about ...
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1P2Z5Qh_9KpIwzs-wD5pFUdeUnjBBzgxZViking likely did not code a dark mode for text (TextGamesView) since there is only 1 text view option. He would have to choose between defaulting to a white or dark.
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4 minutes ago, ItchyRobot said:
I dont see where to change it to dark mode. Under Option>Views I see this window, but with no option to change to dark.
*attached image
https://drive.google.com/open?id=18oLVlW6jcr5OXfTKtSxcx99w3CzOmgaGIn both the Platform List View and Game List view you change it until it shows a dark view. There is not an actual setting that shows "dark view". You just change the view until it is a dark view.
So the best is to set a key or button so you can be in the theme directly and see the view change to set it to a dark view. Platform Wheel 2 and Vertical Wheel 3 will be dark views.
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3 hours ago, vgbox said:
Hello,
i would like to accurately display my current platform video themes. I download them, press ok, but when entering the platform video themes window LB keeps the previous platform theme displayed. Although, the newly selected video platform themes will play in BB. The same happens for 5-6 other platforms.
For example, the current N64DD video theme is "colorful 4K...", i change it to "emumovies nintendo 64DD (16:9)HD", check the box, press ok, go back to the video theme window to see if the new theme is displayed but the "colorful 4K..." theme is still displayed.
Is there a solution to this or is it already a known bug?
That screen you are showing is only for downloading the video theme. Not for setting the preference in Launchbox/BigBox. It will always revert to the Alpah list sorting unless you set the "Select to Prioritize" and that is only so it sets which version you prefer to download.
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1 hour ago, C-Beats said:
Not sure, was under the impression it always worked like that. Will check with Jason though.
No in prior versions this did not happen. Just tested on 10.7 and it stays in place.
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15 minutes ago, DwightSchrute said:
@Headrush69 Thanks for that. I am not sure why, but even reading tutorials I cannot track with how to do that exactly. Can you point me to something that might help?
If you open Mame without Launching a game then click on "Configure Options > Configure Directories > Roms. In this option you can remap to the roms folder.
Or if it is a simple matter that on the laptop it saw the drive as say E: but your pc sees it as something like D just edit the ini file and change the drive letter if the rest of the path is the same.
Edit the Mame.ini file located in your mame folder with something like Notepad++ and usually around line 11 or so you will see "rompath" you can edit the rompath there as well.
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I think it is the that theme and that view. I can replicate it. If use my normal themes like Unified Redux this does not happen.
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Change the view. You can either do it in the view menu or map a key/button to “Change View” and change it on the fly.
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I believe Launchbox’s exit hook sends “Escape” key so if the game does not close with escape and does with Alt+F4 then Launchbox exit will not work. You would need to create an AHK to have the button you want to press “Send Alt+F4” to get it to work.
As Neil mentions this is not good to do. But that is how you could do it.
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Just a shot in the dark since you are using MameUI and say the game works directly in Mame. Where is your Mame.ini file located? Is it in the ini folder or is located in the root folder where the Mame.exe is?
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3 minutes ago, Ranthalion75 said:
Does everyone have this problem or is it a certain combination of things (hardware/software)?
If I can change my configuration of Windows settings to use the new theme I definitely would, instead of reverting to an older one.
Thanks for the info, guys! ?
It is affecting some more than others depending on hardware. Jason is aware. Steps have been taken and I am sure he will keep looking to refine. In the meantime the best option is use the Old Default or try 10.9 as he added some performance improvements.
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This has been reported on. See here.
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What Mame version are you using? Standard command line Mame, MameUI, Arcade64? And how old is the version of it?
Did you update Launchbox versions?
If it still runs in Mame then there is a couple things it could be depending on your answers.
Problem Exiting Dolphin from BigBox
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Ok. Remove the AHK you have in the Exit AHK tab. It is not needed. Even the default text in the tab tells you an AHK is not needed since Dolphin uses "Escape" by default. The "Exit AHK" tab is only used for the Pause menu's exit command if one is needed, but for Dolphin it is not.
Does it work with it removed from there?