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@esko918 You can also edit the Mame.ini file and add .; in the section for the ini path. This will tell Mame to look also in the root folder for the ini file. Otherwise if neither of the options work you may have something else wrong.

Go to BigBox settings and in images refresh the cache for all images. When you add new images make sure you do this each time to ensure the cache now captures the updated images.

Yes, you have to make the folder. It is not generated by Launchbox. Are you talking about if you are running a shutdown video when you close BigBox if you restart BigBox too fast the the start-up video does not play? Are you using that outro/shutdown video plug-in from the 3rd party downloads?

Not sure why that happened, but if you are using a LB version that is recent startup videos now go in their own folder. So you should have a /Launchbox/Video/Startup folder and then you can drop multiple videos in it (file names do not matter) and LB will use them at random on startup.

Ok, however you still did not answer the question asked. What is the name of the system/platform you are importing Street of Rage 3 into Launchbox as? If you are importing as Arcade under Mame LB will not find it since it is not an arcade rom. Edit: ninja'd by one of the best ?

What is the exact name of the platform you imported the game as? Reason I am asking is in the Launchbox screen on the left you have a platform name of "Mame" and in the associated platforms image you have "Arcade Mame". Just as an FYI the assocated platform name in an emulator setup must match the actual name of the platform you have in Launchbox. This may not be why it is not showing, but it can lead to issue with roms actually working through Launchbox.

You figured it out. That’s all that matters.

I would probably check the old emulator set-up and make sure the Default Emulator box is not checked in the associated platforms tab. If BigBox is trying to launch the game through the old emulator something in your setup is telling it to do so. Go tools>manage emulators in Launchbox and in the old emulators check the associated platforms tab for that check box. If it is checked uncheck it.

Do the games launch with Retorarch in Launchbox? If they do it should work in BigBox since your Launchbox set-up is what feeds BigBox. Even though you bulk edit the games to a new emulator you need to make sure Retroarch has the platforms for those games listed in the associated platform tab.

Just open Retroarch menu and see what keys/controller buttons you have it set to. Open Retroarch or launch a game and hit F1. Go to the input menu and look under hotkey binds. I cannot tell you what the default is as I changed mine.

In Higan when you launch a game a new menu appears next to "library" with the system name of the game you launched. You need to enter that menu and make sure gamepad is enabled. In your video you launched a Famicom game so "Famicom" appears next to "Library" in the menu. Go into "Famicom" and choose "Controller 1" and make sure gamepad is enabled. I have not used Higan in a while, but I remember having this same issue when I tested it.

Knowing which emulator you are talking about would help. Retroarch? Launchbox/BigBox do not have bezel support.

Copy that! Thanks @Jason Carr

@Jason Carr 1920x1080 on the 2 machines with the issue. I do not bother with 4k much on the arcade machines. I can test a 4k if you would like.

If I have a pc game set to say 1920x1080, launch it, close it Next will freeze. If I launch the game at say 1920x1080 then just before closing change to a lower res like 1600x900 then close the game Next does not freeze. This one though is not replicated every time. It is like 50/50. The issue mentioned with Mame I can replicate every time.

If I have Next in fullscreen and it freezes, if I hit the task bar icon to shrink it from view then click it again to bring it back up it unfreezes. If I keep Next in a window smaller than fullscreen the issue does not occur at all. For the resolution part on a pc game that it might occur on if the game is set to say 1920x1080 if I change it to 1600x900 before closing the game I will not get the issue.

Yes to both of these. I can elaborate more on how I can replicate my issue. I did give details earlier in this thread but can repost if you want. Mame and some PC games are where I see the issue with freezing. If I minimize Next from fullscreen in Mame no issue. On some pc games if I change the resolution before closing to something lower no issue. I can try out the test build on my set-up.

Hey, I will take more mentions of this to build more interest in it.

@Lordmonkus Didn't this just miss the cut on the last poll? I know updated marquee support is something I have been wanting for quite a while and was excited to see it get more votes on the last poll. I will keep voting for any updates to marquee support.

If you remove games or add new games you did not have before the stock generated playlists will update accordingly. Even if you delete a game and then add it back the stock playlist Launchbox generates will add it. So if you take Irem Classics and have Kung-Fu Master installed if you delete it from your arcade platform the playlist will show it now as a missing game. If you add it back it gets put in that playlist. Or are you talking about something like editing the XML or editing the playlist and deleting the games showing as missing in the games tab?

@InsideSmoke He started another thread on the issue and figured did end up figuring out what was wrong.

Did you delete just the psx hw core info and reenter it or delete the entire line of data including the associated platform name? Your post is not clear as you only said you deleted psx hw libretro. I believe what the other user that had issues did was delete everything and enter it all in a new row. So go to the last row enter all the data for the platform (associated platform name and core) then go and delete the entire original entry. At least when I read the other post again that what he appears to have done. Worth a tey if that is not what you did already.

There are a couple ways: If you right click a game and edit there is a custom command line parameter you can use to set a game up for a different core. Enter a command line for the core you want in the "Use custom command-line" field. Or you can create a second emulator instance of Retroarch. Call it whatever you want just name it different from your original emulator set-up (In the pics I created one for SNK on my test machine) and still point it to the same Retroarch.exe as your original set-up. In the associated platform tab of the edit eumlator make sure you enter the platform name for Shoot em ups platform and enter the Retroarch core you want to use. DO NOT click the default emulator box. Then go to the Shoot em ups platform and select all the games you want to run with the core from this version of the emulator and right click, edit (this will bring up the bulk editor) and choose emulator than select the new one.

Does not appear this member has even visited the site since the original post. I use the Xarcade Tankstick with default key layout and most of the emulators I use work fine off of Launchbox/BigBox controller automation. Retroarch and Mame have internal exit commands you can set so you do not really need to use an AHK. For example I use P2 Start and Right Pinball button as my exit combo. This can easily be set directly in Mame and Retroarch. Any emulator that does not exit with what is set in BigBox or does not have internal exit command functionality I simply paste a simple AHK code that is posted in the thread.

The theme will determine the size of the video (and if it will even show videos) and the placement of the video based on how the developer coded it. Each theme will also have different view styles. You need to make sure you have a key mapped to change theme views (switch view) if you have not already done so. The theme Neil shared will do what you want. You just need to switch the view style in the theme.