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In the meantime a user wrote a useable AHK to shutdown from within BigBox you can try out. Here

@ernie12121 Eh do not back out in shame. The great thing about the mods and many of the members on this forum is they are extremely helpful and will try to stick with you until you fix the issue. User error or not. Welcome to the forum!

Good tip @jayjay I know for a while now VLC has been a bit of an issue for some users. I cannot use it as I get odd BigBox crashes.

@neil9000 Thanks. Corrected the error. I knew it was one of those two genius creators.

What Mame are you using? Command line or MameUI? If MameUI in addition to what @neil9000 mentioned another issue specific to MameUI is it now reads the config files from the main folder instead of the Ini folder. You can copy the config files in the Ini folder and paste them in the root (main) folder you have the mame exe file. I had the same issue. Since getting this to work I ditched MameUI and just use the command line version.

Nice work on the logo. Excited to see how the theme evolves. I have it installed on one of my bartops. I enjoy comic style themes. Grilla had a ComicBox one I still use. He has some cool screen transitions. Maybe check it out to get some ideas. Grilla and Cid are definitely awesome theme makers and I know we welcome you to the ranks!

1. If your are using VLC as video playback try switching to WMP. This has helped some (not all) with this issue. Jason mentioned he is working on fixing as he can replicate the issue. 2. I have seen one other thread with a couple people having this issue but it was not resolved in the thread and I am not sure how common it is. Here. Sorry I have no insight as to how to fix this. 3. Same as above. 4. If you are talking about how it switches when you scroll through games I think that is pretty much theme drive. Try a different view in your theme or try a different theme. Some themes have static backgrounds. I know off the top of my head Nostalgia does only as I use it as one of my options. There may be a way in any theme to set a static background, but I never had a need to do that so never inquired or learned if there is. 5. Favorites exists as a custom playlist you can create. Add a new playlist, call it favorites, and you can either populate it yourself or have it auto-populate with those you mark as favorite or based on star rating. You can then have the Favorites playlist show up only in playlist views or add it to platform views. With auto-populate anytime you mark a new game as favorite it gets added to the playlist. 6. Not sure on this as I do not see that type of data. Someone must care about it if the view and data exists. In BigBox settings you can go into game details and uncheck what you do not want to show up. If that is scripting in the description field you can manually edit any game's text there. By the way welcome to the forum. We have a lot of great and knowledgable members and mods. Hopefully they can help square you away and have you playing more.

Did either of you two try switching between VLC and WMP to see if it helps? Neil9000 mentioned switching to WMP worked when he tested the issue.

Since 2016 Jason has made a lot of improvements and updates. If it worked before and all you did was updated, then something in your settings got altered. I was not trying to say you changed anything, just recommending you check that connection. The "scrape as" function is working. I just added 3D NES emulator and had it scrape as "Nintendo Entertainment System". All the metadata imported and the roms launch fine in Launchbox.

In your (Nintendo Entertainment System) emulator do you have the custom platforms associated with it? In tools/manage emulators click on your NES emulator and in the associated platforms tab you need to have all platforms that are associated to use the NES emulator listed there.

Crisp as always JB. Simple, yet a stellar piece.

I love this theme. A go to on my pi set-ups. Cool to see you bring a version to LB. Looking forward to updates you make as this one will definitely be added to my machines options. Would like to see you add some views with video playback options.

The game should load directly like other emulators. There has to be a disconnect in your set up. I would suggest posting pics of an edit game screen showing the rom and then the emulators tab. As well as show pic of screen from associated platforms tab in manage emulators.

When you say the images do not show up in LB what in particular is not showing up? Do you see at least box art for each game? If you do not have the details panel open look in the upper right side of the screen in LB and you will see "details" click that and a panel on the right will open. That panel shows additional artwork, metadata, and videos (if you have them turned on).

Yes. It should work as long as you have any of those versions and the correct neogeo.zip file. There is a Mame one and one for FBA. I do not know how you tell the difference I did notice the FBA one I have has more files in the zip than the Mame one.

Should be any version 1.4.0 and up. I am on current 1.6.9

In Retroarch to change MVS to AES simply launch a game and hit F1. The qo into quick menu and choose options. Scroll to see NeoGeo mode and change to AES. This only works is you ha e the right bios file if you have the Mame neogeo bios it will not work I think it have to be a bios for finalburn alpha

In BigBox just head to settings page then options. There you will find settings for Controller (use to select to have controller(s) work in BigBox), Controller Buttons (set your button maps), Controller Automation (set your options for thing like exiting an emulator), Keyboard Mappings (set keyboard maps). Similar in Launchbox go to Tools/Options. There you will find option to set controller buttons.

Many of those 36k roms are filtered out during import by Launchbox so long as you have the boxes checked. A lot of those roms are junk you probably do not want imported. If you do then uncheck the boxes in the import wizard.

Normal (free version) is the Launchbox frontend. Nice, clean front end to organize and access all your systems and games. Minimal customization to that front end. BigBox is the premium (paid) version. You still have access to Launchbox, but with BigBox you get an additional version that can be customized thanks to theme makers. Probably a simplistic way to describe them but that is the difference. As neil9000 mentioned no roms. Also please do not ask where to get them as it is not a practice this forum does. Google is your friend.

Awesome. Glad its sorted and welcome to the forum. If you want change the duration to 1 for a quicker response. I like 2 seconds for when the young ones are playing the delay helps when they button mash.

Should work as pasted. It is a delayed response in the AHK so you have to hold the buttons for longer than 2 seconds. What emulator are you using for GBA? Emulators like Retroarch and Mame you can directly set the exit command in them and I would do that instead of using the AHK. Mame will let you hit two buttons at once to make an exit command and in Retroarch you set a hotkey and an action key.

I have the Tankstick and for the emulators that you can set internal exits with I use those. For those that do not I use the AHK I posted in this AHK thread. Just go to manage emulators and edit. Paste the code in the AHK tab and change the button numbers to the ones you want. I have mine set to right pinball bumper (4) and 2 player start (2) keys. My tankstick is set to Xarcade default layout.

Hmmm, not sure then. I have never used that version before but I downloaded it after your post. In the video settings I check marked the box for "emulate fullscreen" and set the command line in Launchbox. It launches without the bar. I tried messing up some of the settings to see if I can get it to stick but I cannot. If you hit escape does it hide the bar? Looking at the default menu options escape is the default to hide menu bar.

In Launchbox into tools/manage emulators and edit your RASnes9x. Enter the below in the default command line parameter field. -fullscreen