Retro808

You definitely should not need any AHK or even that command line to exit PPSSPP cleanly. The default call to exit a game and close PPSSPP when direclty in it is Alt+F4 and that is one of the commands LB/BB controller automation sends when you bind a key/button to close out the game. If having the command line works then leave it in. Is there any chance you are running PPSSPP as admin? Although that would not explain why adding the command line works, but worth asking. What version are you running? Kega Fusion should close cleanly as well without any extras needed. I recently set that up helping someone on the forum and nothing extra was needed.

Are you on one of the betas or the stable 11.13 that was released for a short while? Tested a couple of machines and seems to be working fine. You have to bind a back button and hold the button for about 5 seconds if memory is correct.

Since the theme is designed to use Background images it likely has the Stretch aspect of the image type set to either "Fill" or "UniformToFill". So with you using the box art image it is blowing the image up to fill the screen. You would have to edit the theme's code and change that piece of the code to read as: (Change UniformToFill to Uniform) <Image Source="{Binding BackgroundImagePath}" Stretch="Uniform" RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="HighQuality" Height="{Binding ElementName=Canvas, Path=ActualHeight}" Width="{Binding ElementName=Canvas, Path=ActualWidth}" /> In the Manage Emulators screen edit the emulator giving you issues and go to the Startup Tab. You can try adjust the delay there as well as try checking/unchecking the options for "Hide all Windows..." and/or "Agressive Startup". Not sure how much this will affect exiting from the Pause Menu, but worth testing. What emulator is giving you issues? You might need to check the box for "Forceful Pause Screen Activation" in the emulator's settings in LB. Go to Manage Emulators and edit Dolphin. In the Pause Screen tab check the box for that and then test. Pause works fine in Dolphin and I see that box is checked in my settings.

Any chance you are running Dolphin as Admin? Just tested Dolphin on a few builds and it closes fine without an AHK from either the controls I mapped for exit or from the Exit option on the pause menu. Also is this from LB or BB that it is not working? Or both?

Try the latest BizHawk dev build. Looks like they fixed whatever was causing the issue.

The controller image in that pic is a custom image I make for all my games and platforms. So it is not a transparent background image of just the controller (see attached pics). That is an actual black background the image is on to make it easy to see the controller labels. Unfortunately controller images have to be made and making something changeable and highlight-able would require a plugin for that type of creativity. @OhBoy uses custom made images the exact same way. His just happen to have the console in the background. I can produce the theme in the layout as you would like. However, creating all the controller images as you would want them for your set-up would be up to you to do. You would only then need to drop them in the required folder and the theme will use the images. The theme layout would allow you to have game specific controller images, if one is absent it would fallback to a platform specific controller image, and if that is missing it would then fall back to a default image of your choice. That's why it also shows the actual original controller of each platform. So the user can see what the original layout looks like and what those controls are on the controller being used.

Those would go in the \Videos\Playlist folders. Name the file exactly as your playlist is named. I recommend spending time looking inside LB folders to get familiar with them. You will quickly see how and where LB want media stored.

If you want to use them for any theme they go: \Launchbox\Videos\Platforms\ If you want to use them only for a specific theme they go: \Launchbox\Themes\[Theme Name]\Videos\Platforms\ Place each platform video in either of the folder options above named exactly as you have your platforms named.

I have a Startup that does somewhat what you are looking for. I actually never posted it (actually forgot it was in my test folders) as it was just something I was tinkering with when I made the Pause Menu versions. I can tweak it a bit if you want and then send it to you. Let me know what changes you might be after.

Looking at the theme from the download post in the forum looks like at least: Clear logos, Box art, Background fanart, Disc, Cartridge, Screenshot, and videos. Of course all this depends on the view you choose to use in the theme. BigBox can also have priorities for images which means you can select other image types to fill in for missing images. So, another preference item that may determine what you personally choose to download.

All images are located inside the \Launchbox\Images\[Platform Name]\ folders. Just head there and look around you will quickly see how everything is organized. I have never really messed with that pause menu plugin so could not offer any tips.

Yes, Its possible to do this. Just depends in the theme and if you have to edit the code. What do you mean how can you find them?

LB does not actually need an AHK to close Nestopia. Bind your exit button or button combo in LB and/or BB controller automation and it just works. Just tested both with the AHK and without and it works either way. Both in Fullscreen and Windowed mode. In the Nestopia preferences do you have the box for "Confirm on Exit" unchecked? Also make sure you are not running the emulator as admin. Doing so will not allow LB to elevate and have the AHK close the emulator.

There is not a simple way, as in settings you can just adjust. You have to know how to do some basic coding to get this theme you are showing to display what you want and where you want.

11.2 is the latest stable version. As I mentioned it is the latest betas (11.13) that has some more improvements to this. So you can try the beta or wait for the release to stable which I believe is just around the corner as we are nearing the point of the next stable release. .

I don't use GroovyMame since I do not have a CRT, but this seems like a resolution issue when your setup is switching from BigBox to GroovyMame. I am not too familiar but I think the way GroovyMame internally forces resolution for a CRT would cause an issue with the LCD being at a different resolution. Edit: Looked at some older posts and Arcade Controls forum and does seem like the case. I did not dig too deeply but there were several post about trouble getting marquee screen set-up with GroovyMame.

Looks like this is from running a Mame game. Does it do this when you run a game in any other emulators?

What version LB are you on? There have been some improvements to this in the latest betas.

@C-Beats Good to know. I tested his data in several builds and no issue. Had him try a few things on his end with no fix. So glad you were able to figure it out.

@malarrya I know CBeats is going to try and test your data, but if you want to PM your data folder to me I am doing some tinkering in a new cabinet build and I can test your data as well.

I responded in your bitbucket ticket with some pics as well showing that the Default does in fact show fanart images when in the paltform wheel views you mentioned, but good to see @C-Beats posted here. I tested on 4 machines and like C-Beats could not replicate the issue you are having. I made sure to use the same settings you mentioned.

Maybe when running the media download wizard for a game that options is applying the Arcade platform import rom default setting for it to skip "Non-Arcade Games" so when running a scan through the import wizard versus the edit screen it is possible it applies those defaults (snap below is from the Arcade import screens). I only mention this because if you import that game from a fresh import LB will not find it unless that option is unchecked. The edit screen option is searching the game name against the Games DB and allows you to pick the correct name so it is possibly not applying any of the import wizard skip options.

No, that is not weird at all. It is not uncommon for software to save settings on exit. That depends on if you bought a yearly or a lifetime license. The \Launchbox folder itself is the parent so just copy the whole thing to make it easy. For roms and emulators that would depend on how you set those up and where you chose to save the emulator files and the rom files.

Look in your \Launchbox\Updates folder do you see the update file for 11.2? If so just run it.