Retro808

If you are importing alot of games at once and downloading media make sure you uncheck to box that references “rough matches” for media. Having this checked will slow down large imports as it is comparing every image.

I am not familiar with the controller/controller board. Does it replicate keystrokes or game controller inputs (xinput / dinput)?

Did you check defender’s quarantine log? Defender has blocked the BigBox.dll for some users.

Only by editing the LB theme’s code.

What steps are you taking to import them?

Are they just not playing or do you not see them at all in the game details panel? If you cannot see them at all you need to go into LB >Tools>Options and in the Visual section look for Game Details section. Check the box for “videos”.

The wizard has a few options to check/uncheck in relation to those playlists. Unfortunately those "classics" arcade board playlists are in the same check spot as the other arcade board system playlists. So you cannot exclude them outright without affecting things like CPS, Cave, Sega M2, and so on. Well the dev put those all under the Arcade category since they are all arcade playlists. If you do not want them there you can edit each of them and change the parent location to move it to a different category. If you want to propose a feature to allow more fine tuned importing of these playlists use the "Request a Feature" link located at the top of the forum under the "Help & Support" tab. If you do, be sure to come back to the forum and link that ticket to help drive votes for it.

I recommend using the one below instead. It was discovered the Process, Close is not a good close command as it is a hard close and can prevent an emulator from properly saving settings or save states it may save during shutdown. $Esc:: { WinClose, ahk_exe {{{StartupEXE}}} }

No. However, you can typically move the controller to bring up a letter scroll list to quickly scroll to the letter of choice. For example, if using a vertical scroll game list view, if you move your controller left or right (depending on if the wheel is on the left side of screen or right) the quick alpha list will pop up.

What settings do you have in the controller page checked and are you selecting the name of the controller in the "Device" field?

@Wanderer189 I am going to take your snarky comment about maybe “I should read” very lightly. I am always professional and polite on this forum. I do not appreciate your passive-aggressive response. You still asked about a related issue. The more appropriate thing to do was build on that original post since it follows the same concern.

@Wanderer189 I deleted your other thread about this issue. Please do not start multiple threads for the same issue. Unfortunately I do not know the answer to this as I have not messed with that view in themes when editing a xaml file.

It is recommended to scrape as "Arcade". Set it to that and you will get metadata and media pulled from the DB.

There currently is not a way to do this.

Along with the games you download you need to download the emulators as well. Set it up first and test your games then add them to LB. To keep it simple Retroarch is great for your console systems and Mame is great for arcade. You can of course use Retorarch’s mame cores for arcade but using good old standalone Mame is always a better choice.

First thing to do is determine did you set up the emulator you are using and test the games directly inside the emulator first? Forget about LB for now. Do your games work directly in the emulator you are using to run the games? If the answer is no, or you never setup the emulator and tested the games that is your biggest issue.

Horse has been beat its now time to move on. Anything further on the prior debate just becomes someone pressing the subject to the point of temporary bans.

CHDs go in individual folders named after the rom file. Mame default then wants the individual CHD folders all in the same folder you have the zipped from files. You can put them anywhere you want as long as you tell Mame where you put them. The most complete working rom pgk would be any full rom set (split, merged, or nonmerged - this does not matter as it is all the same files just compiled differently) and all the CHD files for those games that work in Mame. Not really much to it.

You need them for the games that need them that actually run in Mame. Keep in mind not all of the games in Mame that require a CHD actually run in Mame. So you do not need the full CHD mame set. The progettoemma site is a good one to use to run a filter to see all the current games that require a CHD and actually run in Mame. I think the site is down for maintenance though.

This will not work because the Marquee image folders are for game level images not platform level images. Platforms will only pull a marquee style image from Banners folder. @Amauri What do you mean by "proper marquee" image? You can use any image you want just put it in the banners folder. That is the simplest thing to do. BigBox will only show one image per platform as a marquee when you are on the platform selection level. LB really does not refresh the platform level banner image unless you manually do it so there is rarely and instance where the image you put there will get overridden by a metadata update. There is no marquee folder structure for platform level images other than the banner folder. You can create a custom folder and a code for it, but it is not just a simple changing of the selected binding path. You would kind of have to trick BB to show what you want because by default BB will pull from the banners folder even if no code exists in a PlatformMarqueeView.xaml file. Even in the absence of that xml file BB will pull only from that folder. Until LB goes through some marquee image updates the easiest workaround is just putting the images you want to use in the banners folder.

Can you share a pic to show specifically what it is you want to change?

If “Arcade” is your platform category and inside that you have all your specific arcade platforms then set BigBox startup view to be “platforms” and not set to “category”. At least thats how I am reading how you have things set up.

@slizzap All feature request are done in our bitbucket site. Top of the forum site click on "Help & Support" then click "Request a Feature". Please do a search on the bitbucket site first to see if a similar feature has already been submitted. If so comment on that one and vote.

You can eliminate the need to specify the launching. exe by using {{{StartupEXE}}} $Esc:: { WinClose, ahk_exe {{{StartupEXE}}} }

What do you mean "I have several users..."? Are you providing LB in a build for users? LB does not contain any viruses. It is a false positive. As long the users has downloaded it directly from the LB website the warning can be ignored.