[FBAlpha2012 Sounds Terrible and WinKawaks Scripts]

I had a similar issue with a nightly build earlier this year. Turned out as @lordmonkus mentioned in his post it was a bad build. I had to go back to the earlier version. 

[Default marquee for ROMS that dont have an image?]

@igotdvds Thanks for sharing those by the way. I have them all on my system. Love the Playstation ones.  

[**IDEA** PC Case Badge]

I would be interested in one. 

[Full arcade experience using Launchbox while also using coin receptor.]

I see now what you mean. The attract mode in BigBox does not demo games it just randomizes your game media set to the intervals you input. Moving the controller or hitting any button just makes the system fall out of the attract mode pattern. So I do not know how you could accomplish the look from the video. 

 

[Full arcade experience using Launchbox while also using coin receptor.]

Depending on how your system is set up for controls and the coin mechanism it can be pretty simple. I use an Xarcade Tankstick one of my machine so it was simply a matter of running two wires from the coin selector switch to the left pinball bumper button on the Tankstick (default add coin button). Now anytime a coin drops the emulator thinks it is the left bumper button (or the #3 key from a keyboard). Basically that simple on other encoders too like an iPac.

[Retroarch Core Remap File help]

Yes. I did it for my set up with Sega Master system.

 

[Default marquee for ROMS that dont have an image?]

Yeah I saw the size of your marquee but you mentioned the marquee stays blank which is why I mentioned the box art. I know the box art image in your shape LCD would not look good, but it might be better than a blank screen. Heck until I get my lcd like you are using I am using a 22" widescreen and my marquee images look horrible all letter box looking on it. 

As far as I know there is no controls to set a generic marquee image. . I know default images have been mentioned (especially for things like missing box art) a lot so I am confident it will be coming . For now we are kind of stuck. 

I love the build you have so far. Please share when it is complete. It is looking amazing!

[Default marquee for ROMS that dont have an image?]

If you create custom marquees they simply go in the \Launchbox\Images\[System Name Folder\Arcade-Maquee I think though for now Launchbox/BigBox looks for images based on the rom name. So you would have to have the default image named after each rom. I am not sure if there is functionality to have just one default image and if a game is missing the marquee LaunchBox inserts that image. 

What theme/themes are you using? All the themes I use will show box art on my marquee whenever I do not have an actual marquee image for the rom in the Arcade-Marquee folder. For example I use Critical Zone theme and If I do not have an image in the arcade-marquee folder my marquee will simply show box art on my marquee screen. 

[Game & Watch/ Retroarch games not loading]

This really is a great forum with amazing members.

[Problem about the Mame]

Good to see that sorted it out for you.

[Game & Watch/ Retroarch games not loading]

@neil9000 Holy snaps good eye! Of course it is likely something that simple.

[Problem about the Mame]

It has been a while since I used mameplus but if I remember right there used to be a couple .exe files in the mameplus folder. It looks like you are pointing to the gui.exe. Try pointing launchbox to the other .exe. 

[Game & Watch/ Retroarch games not loading]

@Happy Horus Sega Genesis I do have working using Retroarch core. As for Spectrum I do not have the system loaded at all. 

Here are images from my edit game and manage emulator. Mind that you named your platform different, but as long as how you named it matches how the platform links in the emulators tab it should not matter.

[Game & Watch/ Retroarch games not loading]

Just adding to @lordmonkus prior post to share that I have Game & Watch working fine in Launchbox and it did not need any special command line parameters. I am using the most current version of RA and the Handheld core with no issues. So it shouldn't be a command line issue. 

[Problem about the Mame]

I would suggest posting a few pics of an edit game screen (right click a game and choose edit) showing the launcher tab and emulation tab as well as pics of the manage emulator screen (go to tools>manage emulators) showing the emulator detail and the associated platform detail. Sometimes a disconnect can be seen in those fields if there is one. 

[Problem about the Mame]

Not sure if this will solve it as when I had this happen it did not launch the mameui it only gave me an error the rom could not be found. 

Are your mame roms stored in mame's default rom folder or when you imported through launchbox did you have launchbox move the rom file location? If you had it move them you will need to update the path in Mame. 

[Background images and videos on custom themes]

I cannot really help much as I do not typically mess with image much in the themes, but I do know in themes folder of Minimal AO there is a .pdf that will tell you how to customize that theme quite a bit. It also lets you know where to place custom videos or background images to work with the theme. 

 

 

 

[Auto Hotkey Scripts]

@FlawLezZ

I simply copy then paste the script into the Autohotkey tab in the Edit Emulator screen within the Launchbox options.

 

 

[Changing Joypad layout on the fly in games is that possible ?]

"General" is for across the board and will apply those controls to any machine you load. "Machine" is for an individual game. So if you want to set it for a certain game adjust the "Machine" inputs.

[Video Snaps how to import them ?]

 Sometimes things are just that simple. I knew I saw that somewhere, but kept looking in the edit for the games versus platform edit.

 

[Video Snaps how to import them ?]

I was never able to get the bulk edit to work either. It kept wanting a file name versus a path. I simply copied all my game videos (those that I did not have LB download during import) to the specific system folder in the Launchbox\Video folder and Launchbox recognized them on start up. 

Videos for individual games go in \Launchbox\Videos\[system name folder]    for example NES: \Launchbox\Videos\Nintendo Entertainment System

[Looking for the highest quality console emulation for each console]

There is some good information in a recent post about using standalone emulator vs. Retroarch here.

The individual cores in RA are not always better than the standalone counterparts, but in quite a few they are. The post I linked gave me some great information on the pros and cons of standalone vs. RA so I figured I would link it. 

[X-Arcade / Tankstick and Keyboard Control of BigBox]

14 minutes ago, lordmonkus said:

@Retro808 would mind please posting this script over in this thread I just made to collect useful scripts like this ?

And if you could provide a short description of which buttons exactly on the X-Arcade Tankstick this uses that would be awesome too.

Posted in the link you provided. 

[Auto Hotkey Scripts]

AHK script for Xarcade tankstick users to exit emulators that do not have internal binding options since Xarcade simulates key strokes. It is modified from the script in this post

Script is set to use Player 4 start button and Player 2 start button as exit. Hold P4 and P2 for more than 2 seconds. Simply change "4" and/or "2" to the key of choice if you desire to use an alternate button key. This is using default Xarcade layout. 

Also you can lengthen or shorten the duration you have to hold the combo by changing "Duration > 2" (this is seconds)

 

~4 & 2::

Duration=0

Loop

{	Duration ++

	If !GetKeyState("4","P") || !GetKeyState("2","P")

		Break

	If Duration > 2

	{	

        WinClose, ahk_exe {{{StartupEXE}}}

		break

	}

	Sleep, 1000

}

return

 

[X-Arcade / Tankstick and Keyboard Control of BigBox]

@Egga

I use this AHK script in the autohotkey tab of the emulators I need it in and I can close out of the emulator holding P4 and P2 buttons for more than 2 seconds. I found it in an old post and changed P1 to P4 as all my emulators are set to exit using that combo. 

~4 & 2::

Duration=0

Loop

{	Duration ++

	If !GetKeyState("4","P") || !GetKeyState("2","P")

		Break

	If Duration > 2

	{	

        Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}}

		break

	}

	Sleep, 1000

}

return