[can't load gb roms when using Retroarch through Launchbox?]

In the Edit Emulator pic you provided I cannot see your GameBoy listing. Do you have GameBoy somewhere in the associated platforms? Is it down lower in the list? 

Any platform you add to Launchbox that is going to use Retroarch you need to have the name of it listed in the Associate Platforms tab. 

[can't load gb roms when using Retroarch through Launchbox?]

So if you try to run GameBoy roms directly in Retroarch it works, correct?

If so, in your Retroarch setup in Launchbox if you edit it and look in the associated platforms tabs do you have the platform name for GameBoy listed there and is it listed exactly as you have it showing up as the platform name in Launchbox?

[2 player arcade controls help needed]

Give this video a watch. It may be helpful. 

Mame Stable Controller IDs

[ROMs being detected but not added]

Try checking the "Force Importing Duplicate Games" during the import process and see if that helps. Looks like since you are trying to import all your GBC roms the different regions for the same game may be being excluded as duplicates. 

[Arcade 3D Boxes 2.0 project W.I.P.]

Nice! This update pack just finished off the last few missing boxes from my trimmed down Arcade list. Thanks @Mr. RetroLust for all the hard work. 

[StartUp Questions (About Steam etc...)]

13 hours ago, retro6 said:

A nother question about the Default StartUp

I like simples i do ?, is there any way i can get rid of all the images on the StartUp screen? Clean Art? I would like to just have the now Loading and the Game Over letters with the background image to be displayed ¿is it posible?

There are a couple startup themes that use simple images you can check the downloads section and see if any of those fit what you are looking for. If not, you can copy the default theme and rename it then edit the xaml to remove references to the images you do not want to see. If you are comfortable editing code that is. Are you just wanting the loading text and the background image? 

The reason you have to copy the default theme is you cannot edit any of Launchbox/BigBox default themes. They will always revert back to normal state. This is to ensure LB/BB always have at least 1 working theme. 

[Creating a Startup Theme with Video Support]

Thanks @Jason Carr I agree. So I went and coded audio is mute in the theme and set it to true.

Will leave steps on how a user can change if they want the audio to play and leave a notice that there may be some audio overlap if they choose to do it. 

[Creating a Startup Theme with Video Support]

@Jason Carr Update 10 is a huge improvement. So far in some emulators I only get about 1 sec of audio overlap. Retroarch seems to be hit and miss depending on core and how fast the emulator takes control. But it is only 1 second of additional audio heard and then no issues. Thank you for working on this. 

[Playlist showing up under Platform Category?]

You can set playlist location when you edit the playlist and go to the parents tab. To remove from platform category make sure Root is unchecked. 

[Creating a Startup Theme with Video Support]

1 minute ago, Jason Carr said:

Wow, that's strange; I haven't seen that. What is your video playback engine set to in Big Box?

VLC. Tested both on VLC and Window Media. Same effect. Both in LB and BB.

[Creating a Startup Theme with Video Support]

@Jason Carr I can confirm the new beta fixed the video play issues I was having. There is one issue still present. The audio keeps looping in the background even after the emulator takes over. I have to close LB completely to clear the audio.

[Multi Images Startup Theme]

22 hours ago, FlightRisk said:

Funny that I was going to copy a link to some code for this to you and then in my searching found a thread where you mentioned you are already using it! (WpfAnimatedGif on Github). Seems to be the only way to handle transparency and GIFs with funky frame durations. Have you seen he has updated the code and renamed the project? See here https://github.com/XamlAnimatedGif/XamlAnimatedGif He genericised it to work in non WPF XAML and it now uses a lot less memory due to more efficient frame loading. Are you using this newer code?

Haven't tried it yet, but guessing this should work in the XAML:

<Image Stretch="None" gif:ImageBehavior.AnimatedSource="/Images/animation.gif" />

or give it parameters. There are several available in the library:

<Image gif:ImageBehavior.RepeatBehavior="3x"gif:ImageBehavior.AnimatedSource="Images/animated.gif" />

and I found this from Jason on how to do it in BigBox, so it may be simple to adapt this to Startup themes. Do I need to use the "UserControl" tag in the Startup theme XAML?

You need this xlmns code up in the top of the xaml. You can see an example of gifs working in GridBlocked startup theme.

 xmlns:gif="clr-namespace:WpfAnimatedGif;assembly=Unbroken.LaunchBox.Wpf"	

 

[Creating a Startup Theme with Video Support]

 

@Jason Carr Thank you for this. I was stuck and it was getting irritating trying to figure this out. At least it is good to know as I read more I started down basically the path you showed here. So at least I was finally heading the right way with the code versus when I first started it.

[Marquee Banner Image]

For now you have to do a bit of a work around. Updates to marquee support just missed out on the last poll. So hopefully the next poll it will make the cut and maybe Jason can add an image priority for marquees. So for now you can try the below:

Any of these will have their drawbacks, but should get what you want done. 

1. If you are comfortable editing code you can edit the theme's specific GameMarqueeView.xaml and change the line of code to point to the banner instead of the game marquee. This would need to be done with each specific theme you want to use. 

2. You could just copy and paste all banner images into the marquee folders.

3. You could make a symlink in the marquee folder to the banner folder.

[Steam Games - not possible to remove ???]

53 minutes ago, jromao said:

Of course these files were removed when LB was completely closed, not minimized window. 

I mentioned it only because people have done this many times without closing Launchbox. 

I believe it's a bug or a xml schema issue, but didn't found nothing concrete to test on. The steam games I don't even want to delete, I just don't want the Windows/Steam platform to show up on BB, this issues could be avoided if LB provide some option to hide the Platform, so simple and already requested long ago.

Yes, a platform hide feature would be useful. 

Just tested a couple Steam games and no issue deleting as @fromlostdays mentioned as well. So I am not sure what is going on with your specific set up.

[NeoGeoCD starting from Launchbox using FB Alpha Core from Retroarch!]

2 hours ago, turboblasius said:

yes i have, i als have try the fb alpha core but they wont star from launchbox, only from retroarch itself!

Share a few pics.

In Launchbox go to Tools>Manage emulators and edit the retroach. Share a pic of the Emulator Details tab and the Associated Platform tab (make sure it shows the line with your Neo Geo CD platform listed). 

Then choose a game from the Neo Geo CD platform you are having issues with and right click and edit the game. Share a pic of the Launcher tab and the Emulation tab. 

 

[Steam Games - not possible to remove ???]

2 hours ago, jromao said:

Hi Joe.., Thanks but that also was done, nothing changed, the Windows platform and all the 119 games return back.

If you do the step JoeViking mentioned Launchbox must be closed before you delete the xml from the folder. Otherwise if you have it open and delete the file then close and reopen Launchbox it will regenerate it.

 

[Launchbox takes a long time saving when importing a rom.]

18 minutes ago, ModerateNOOB said:

Yep the 2 first steps are pretty smooth, It's the now saving part that takes a couple of minutes in my case.

BTW is it safe rolling back?, It Might or might not fix it (Who knows).

You can roll back. Just look for the last version of the install you want to use in the /Launchbox/Updates folder.  

[9.6-beta-1 Released]

Maybe because of Omen's screen name...making a link to "Damien" Omen??

[Launchbox takes a long time saving when importing a rom.]

1 minute ago, ModerateNOOB said:

Ok, But i had this problem for about a week now.

I also thought it would solve itself, But i have restarted Launchbox and my pc several times during the last 7 days, and nothing has changed?.

I have never experienced importing and saving after just a few seconds, Can i borrow your lucky trousers ? ?

LOL. 

Yeah I am not sure what it is. I do not think anything Jason released in the last update altered scraping and importing games. I just know I have randomly seen what you mentioned. When I am talking save I mean the point at which after the media is done downloading the progress bar changes to Now Saving. It is from that point randomly I would get where it took like 1-2 minutes before the prompt showing how many games were imported. Normally it is only a couple seconds. 

[Launchbox takes a long time saving when importing a rom.]

2 hours ago, ModerateNOOB said:

Hello hello.

is there any way to shorten save times when importing?, I was used to around 30 seconds but now it takes around 2 minutes (It happened after i updated from ver. 8.5 to the newest).

my game library is quite big but it was also big before i updated?, It would be really cool if there was something i could do about it.

 

Is anyone experiencing this as well?

 

I do not think it has anything to do with the updates. I have seen this sporadically during my use over the years with Launchbox. Oddly enough many times closing out Launchbox or rebooting the pc stopped it from happening. Sometimes though it would just randomly go back to normal a few minutes later without doing anything. 

 I just imported 10 pc games and all only took a few seconds to download media and each took about 1-2 seconds to save after the media downloaded. 

This is on my test pc running the latest beta and on my main arcade. 

[Add Game to Playlist from Big Box]

It is there as long as you do not have BigBox locked to a passcode. 

 

[Hot Scripts]

50 minutes ago, eirrocmh said:

Can someone/anyone give me a HotScript for the following scenarios:

1.) launching Snes9x in Full Screen automatically without having to change the emulator settings each time? 

2.) launching CXBX Reloaded in full screen and also exiting program with escape button?

 

 

For Snes9x you do not need an AHK just enter the below in the default command line parameters box when you go to Tools>Manage Emulators and edit your Snes9x.

-fullscreen

[Options Legacy?]

46 minutes ago, Dexll said:

Thank you for that explanation.  Interesting.  If they all still work, how are they legacy?  They going away?  Going to be replaced?

They are called legacy likely because they came from the legacy framework. Maybe something Jason wanted to do just to reference the old system. I doubt they are going away as they are the foundation settings for your Launchbox setup. 

[9.6-beta-1 Released]

18 hours ago, Dexll said:

Why are the options now all lumped under Legacy now?  What is happening?

They have been under the "Legacy" name since 8.6. That was the version Jason released the updated Launchbox interface. The settings from the old interface where put as "Legacy".