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    BigBox is broken after latest update

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    47 minutes ago, nealosis said:

    Wow, okay I've heard enough. You insult your customers by saying it's their responsibility to troubleshoot your software when your automatic updates break your program. My problem is solved and I'm not arguing the importance of proper release management here. I'm off to investigate BigBox alternatives.

    He did not say you had to troubleshoot he just said you have to download the user created theme that was updated to work with the new version of BigBox. You posted a link to the theme from the creator and then say "Looks like everyone using this theme is broken too" and you did not even bother to read the thread you linked to see the creator of that theme fixed it. All you had to do was read it to know to download the update and you would be back up and running fine. 

     

    Black screen when exiting Dolphinlaying Wii in Big Box

    in Emulation

    Posted

    On ‎2‎/‎15‎/‎2019 at 4:31 PM, Tatts4Life said:

    When I exit a game in LB things work fine. But when I exit a game by pressing the ESC key I get a black screen and nothing happens...

     

    3 hours ago, Tatts4Life said:

    So I check and my edit emulator screen looks the same with -b and -e. Again when exiting a Wii game in LB things work fine. When I press ESC in BB screen goes black and nothing happens. 

    Are you using "ESC" key in both Launchbox and BigBox? Just want to clarify as your first posts makes is sound like you are not.

    MAME crashing

    in Noobs

    Posted

    35 minutes ago, harrisone said:

    Ahh gotcha, I appreciate the tips please don't get me wrong :D

    I do not believe so, the only thing I can think of is this...

    I have a GTX 2080 in the machine I am using with the nVidia control panel.
    For some reason, when the full screen resolution changes, it kicks the display mode in the nVidia control panel to 30htz.

    I was mucking around trying to get the X68000 stuff working right, and somehow it forced my resolution on my machine back to 720p and 30htz refresh rate.

    I DID correct this at the same time that I re imported the roms, so maybe that had something to do with it. Thats the only other variable change I can think of.

    That probably was the issue. I had something similar with a 3 monitor setup. 

     

    MAME crashing

    in Noobs

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, harrisone said:

    I have never had an issue in several years having a newer app version than the romset, so I highly doubt that would have anything to do with this issue. I am fairly confident I read in release notes long long ago that as long as MAME was a version = /= your romset version, you were fine, especially if you were NOT using split roms.

    Night 1 = all games were working (Ghouls and Ghosts for example)
    Night 1 = every single game crashes at load in MAME until the romset was re-imported

    From the night that it worked until the night that it crashed were there any system updates you installed or even Launchbox updates. 

    I think @neil9000 was mainly saying to be safe it is best to use Romset that matches the Mame version. I usually stay within a 1-2 number range. We will typically recommend matching just to be sure we can eliminate a variable when trouble shooting. 

    MAME crashing

    in Noobs

    Posted

    7 hours ago, harrisone said:

    Having the same issue, would like to know why.

    We would have to know what is going on exactly to try and help. There can be any number of reasons why depending on what is or is not happening. 

    Let's start with the same question I asked the first member...Is mame working outside of Launchbox? In other words can you run a game directly in Mame? 

    Custom wheel images in cleanBG theme

    in Noobs

    Posted

    Ok, I tested and it is not working for me either. We are checking with Jason to see if some of the changes to BigBox theming could have affected this.

    Edit: I able was able to get it to work as it should. not sure why the first time it did not work. But I deleted the images and copied in a new set of images and it worked fine.

    Neon Deluxe Arcade - Launchbox Theme

    in LaunchBox for Windows Custom Themes

    Posted

     

    5 hours ago, dunnster said:

    So, I get no background image (i have renamed to jpg.01 the one i want and set the background as advised above) also i get no NEON writing top left of screen, although my menu is in correct font.

    1. The file name should not be jpg.01 it should be -01.jpg. So it would look like Background-01.jpg

    2. In Launchbox go to Tolls>Options> then Under Images look for

    Default Background and make sure you do no have the background fade slid all the way up.

    Capture.JPG

    Is GBA box art/screenshots really sparse? or is there an issue?

    in Noobs

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

    Yeah, i actually noticed this myself the other day as i deleted my whole image folder and re-scraped everything. I though it was a issue on my end at the time as all other platforms scraped just fine. Then i saw this thread with the same issue, so i moved out my GBA image folder and scraped just emumovies for 3D boxes, and it just grabbed a few DS 3D boxes instead.

    Wow. Definitely something up. Just tested one of the games from your screenshot and it brings the DS box from emumovies. Just checked their FTP and I see the zips for box images. Downloaded the 3D box files and they are all there. Something is not linking correctly.

    GridBlocked Startup Theme

    in Startup Themes

    Posted

    GridBlocked Startup Theme

    View File

    Decided to mess around some more looking at code and learning more. So I set out to look at adding gif, linking metadata, and linking images to metadata since I do not use the details screen in BigBox. So here is what I put in another little theme. Once again, I am not a coder so if anyone peaks at the xml file and sees some fixes or a better way please let me know. I am all ears. Or if you have ideas on how to make the theme look nicer fire away.

    Icons used in the theme came from BigBox themes by @CriticalCid and @Mr. Retrolust so big thanks to them. (Slightly modified from their original versions.) 

    I claim no credit to any artwork displayed or included in the theme.

    IMPORTANT: Launchbox 9.3 or higher required for Startup Themes. 

    Version 1.0

    Theme will show fanart background blurred 20%, Metadata text contained in a view box, and 3 metadata logos (Favorite, Your Personal Star Rating, and ESRB), along with large 3D Box and Cart/Disc.

    Startup theme view for non CD based games will show the cartridge image slide in from the right.

    Startup theme for CD based games will show the CS slide in from the right and spin.

    Shutdown view will show the fanart background blurred with blinking "Game Over" text.

    Installation: 

    Download the GridBlocked.zip and unzip it into the Launchbox/StartupThemes folder.

    Install the supplied fonts. (Working on figuring out how to have it so the fonts do not need to be loaded. So once I can do that I will update the theme)

    In Launchbox go to Tools>Options>Game Startup and choose the appropriate named theme. 

    In Launchbox make sure for Cart Front Image Priorities you have "Disc" checked and listed as top item.

    If you need to add other disc based systems to the startup theme simply copy any cd based xml file in the theme's folder and paste into the same folder then rename the file exactly as your platform name appears in Launchbox. 

     

     

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