Retro808

Are you having Launchbox move the rom file when you import? If you are that is why it is adding the -1 after multiple times trying to import the rom. Launchbox will not overwrite a rom or image file it will simply add the -1, -2.

@LaunchRoo Have you tried updating the rating? In Launchbox under tools there is an option to "Download Updated Community Star Rating". There is definitely a community rating for that game.

In LB or BB? My community star ratings show fine in either. The rating should not have anything to do with the mame monthly file update since that rating is pulled from the Launchbox Games DB.

@OhBoy Is this part of a Pause Theme and Startup Theme or just images to be used in them?

What you map to BigBox as Enter and Exit to function within BigBox will not be affected or affect anything in the emulator. You should be fine. I have my P1 Start mapped as Enter in BigBox and as Select when in RA menus and no issues.

If you are talking about in game play that would be up to the specific emulator. Retroarch for example does let you bind controls to an Arcade input and a gamepad input. This is easiest if your arcade controls simulate keyboard inputs as it would not conflict with game controllers (xinput or dinput).

We would need to know for sure. In some cases with those using MameUI and roms working directly in Mame and not in LB that has been an issue with the mame.ini file not being located in the Mame root folder. If you mame.ini is not located where the mame exe file is place it there and test to see if that helps.

What errors are you getting in Launchbox ? Is it missing file errors?

Well Wikipedia has been an issue for a while. So it is not anything you are doing wrong. It just is not working and Jason mentioned it might get removed. As far as scraping those rom hacks as NES @C-Beats summed it up for you.

Did you refresh the Image Cache? Also is the image named exactly as the platform is named?

I will post this on Tuesday. I really did not tweak it much so pretty much looks as the images show. Sorry for the delay, but have not been home for a few days to access my pc. Remember this will only be a functional theme with no media. Any control images I have are unique to my set up and they all have logos made specifically for my cabinets. So not going to redo the thousands of images. This theme will allow to drop your images in the appropriate folders and as long as the images are named as your games/rom files or as the platform is named it should display them easily.

Is it certain platforms you are having issues with? One thing we always recommend is any arcade platform you add always scrape them as “arcade”. Such as SNK Neo Geo if you add as a platform and not a playlist scrape as “arcade”. You say you are having issues with playlists?

Launchbox does not update anything with your roms. What you imported is what it keeps. If you never reimport they just stay the same The only time it can affect it is if you initially added your roms using the Full Mame romset importer. If you do not update your roms and try to run the full importer again after Jason has updated to the latest Mame version it can cause some issues. You should only use this method if you actually have a full Mame romset. The answer on BigBox would be based on what license you bought. Lifetime or yearly? Yearly would mean as long as you are still using the version you were last on when your year expired you can keep using it. If you try to upgrade it will not work. You can only use the versions you downloaded during your year. Lifetime will of course work at any time since you get lifetime updates.

Are all your drivers up to date? I get that exact thing on one of my cabinets and had to switch the video driver. I am not at home to check what I set it to.

If your talking about a single stripe that starts at the bottom and rolls its way up the screen try changing your video setting in Mame. It can be set to options like auto, opengl, and so on. Change to something other than what it is and test.

No, you will want to put it in Launchbox. Go to manage emulators and edit Dolphin. In the Running AHK tab paste the code @jayjay gave you. Be mindful the “Exit AHK” tab is used by the Exit option in Launchbox Pause Theme options. So if exiting from the Pause them using the menu item does not work also paste the code there.

To clarify as I knew I had read somewhere before the automation sent “Escape”. It actually sends that first and then tries Alt+F4 If the emulator has not closed. It can send different commands based on emulator as well. I found the post I was thinking about with Jason’s clarification here. I would definitely try @jayjay recommendation.

Are you talking about startup videos? They should not as quite a while ago the feature was changed to play any startup video in full unless you hit a button to skip out of it. If you are using the old way that required naming the video "Startup" then you need to use the update way. Just create a folder called "Startup" in your \Launchbox\Videos folder and drop the video file in there. It can be any name.

Currently no.

Uncheck the "Extract ROM archives" option.

If they launch fine directly in Mame and not in Launchbox there is a disconnect in LB. Can you post pics. Edit your Mame emulator in LB and show pic of the Details tab and the Associated platforms tab. Then select an AAE game and right click, edit. Show a pic of the Main page with the Launcher tab selected and then a pic with the Emulation tab selected.

OK. Will have to check with the team to confirm what it is sending.

In the Mame emulator set-up in Launchbox did you add the name of the AAE platform to the associated platforms tab?

The exit command should be sending "Escape" not "Alt+F4". There are some emulators that only close with Alt+F4 so we instruct users to put an AHK in the emulator tab to have "ESC" send "ALT+F4" because of this. You mentioned hitting "Escape" on the keyboard during gameplay does not cause this issue. Is this done when you launched the game through BigBox?

It is because of the new dynamic box sizing. Unfortunately to get this back to how it was you would have to turn that feature off. You have to go to >Tools>Options>Visuals>Boxes and uncheck "Dynamic Box Sizing".