MetalVinnie

Yep, it's in the works.

There are two Spiderman/Venom games for Genesis and for Snes with the same titles. I had a bit of trouble with the naming of the titles and launchbox id's, particularly for 'Separation Anxiety'. For the Genesis game: 'Venom Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety' will get you the right Launchbox id, but 'Spider-Man and Venom - Separation Anxiety' will get you the mp4 from Emumovies. I left it in the playlist with the latter, but I did not expect that you would get the SNES game instead. So, I just changed it to the one that gets you the Launchbox id because I would rather you get the Genesis version of the game. But ,unfortunately, this will still leave us with the problem with EmuMovies.

Wii emulation isn't so friendly with arcade platforms. MAME is a disaster on it. Your best option is to use Final Burn Alpha cores through an old version of Retroarch. Even still, it has problems. I can run X-men (beat em up), for example, but the audio pitch is way off on the characters' voices. But the nicest thing about the Wii emulation is using the WiiMote for light gun games like Terminator 2 and playing Superscope games on the SNES emulator works better than the real thing. For more authenticity, I also have the Wii hooked up to a CRT.

I am also on the fence about getting the an X-arcade Tank-stick. But, I never really considered that there were 4-way sticks. I'm using a 360 controller, atm. I also use my Wii as an emulation device, and I really like using the Wii Pro controller. The d-pad on those are way more accurate. It's too easy to go diagonally on the 360 d-pad and causes a lot of mistakes. But, what really is holding me back from buying the Tank Stick is that I still can't play Forgotten Worlds and Ikari Warriors accurately, either. Both have unique controls. Having a dial would be nice. For games like that, I would think that a good control set-up would be like the controls for 'Tron', where you have a trigger button on the Joystick itself. Still, Ikari Warriors had a notched rotating stick, and maybe an analog dial would also make it inaccurate. Dials are easy to find. But I can't find rotating stick. Best I found on the internet was a page showing me how to 'make' one.

So, has anyone here played 'Rendering Ranger: R2' for the Super Famicom? It's in the SNES playlist. First of all, it is AWESOME! I thoroughly enjoyed playing that game although it is very challenging. But, I wanted to point out that it is a hybrid 'Run N Gun/Shmup'. It starts as a Run N Gun and then becomes a Shmup when you reach the third level. It's on the list because the Shmup parts of the game are amazing (not to take away from the Run N Gun parts, they are equally as great). Don't let the media video fool you. It only shows you the beginning. It's a great Shmup. It was made by Germans, the same people who made the Turrican games. But unfortunately, it was sold only in Japan and only 5000 copies were ever made, making it a very rare and very sought-after cartridge that goes around $3000+ (without a box) on ebay, INSANE!!! No translations are required, it's already in English. Try it out, that game is very well made. You'll be surprised how good it is if you've never heard of it. Oh, and I will be updating these lists soon. I found more Shmups for Mame (about 50). I will be adding playlists for some of the handhelds. And, I recently figured out how to run Sega Naomi on Demul, and there are 18 more shmups that I found there. Have a blast! -MV

I can make a list like that for you. But, I'm currently away from home. But, it's easy. Just add all the games from the 4 playlists in a new playlist.

Beat 'Em Ups View File 266 Beat 'Em Ups (Split playlists for MAME and Consoles) The .xml files: Beat Em Ups (Arcade): 133 Games for MAME Beat Em Ups (NES): 28 Games (17 NES + 2 Famicom) Beat Em Ups (SNES): 60 Games (37 SNES + 18 Super Famicom) Beat Em Ups (Genesis): 45 Games (40 Genesis/Megadrive + 5 Sega CD) Beat Em Ups (Turbo Grafx): 22 Games Download the .xml files and place them in your LaunchBox\Data\Playlists directory. Issues with Metadata and Launchbox IDs: 'Avengers' (Arcade) is a vertical scrolling beat 'em up made by Capcom with no Launchbox ID. Launchbox will default the Metadata and Media to 'Avengers In Galactic Storm'. That is the wrong game. The Mame rom filename is 'Avengers'. Do not attach any Metadata, title it exactly as 'Avengers' in the Edit Game window in Launchbox, and Emumovies should give you the proper media (although you may have to surf around to get a clear logo). There's an arcade prototype game called 'Judge Dredd' made by Midway. It is a beat 'em up and has no launchbox ID. This is confusing because there is a light gun game called 'Judge Dredd' made by Acclaim. The Mame rom file is 'jdreddp'. Title it as 'jdreddp' in Launchbox, and Emumovies will give you the media for it. Hit ok and edit it again if you want to change the title without losing the media. Just don't title it as 'Judge Dredd' or it will get mixed up with the other game. I named it 'Judge Dredd Prototype'. For the SNES list I added the Rushing Beat Series: 'Rushing Beat', 'Rushing Beat Ran: Fukusei Toshi', and 'Rushing Beat Shura'. These are the Japanese but superior versions of Rival Turf, Brawl Brothers and The Peace Keepers, respectively. No metadata for the Japanese versions and I'm still looking for some of the media. 'UFO Kamen Yakisoban' for the Super Famicom also has no launchbox ID, but there is media for it on Emumovies as long as it is titled exactly like I have it here. ............ It took about a week and a lot of research to put these lists together and I tried very hard to get every Beat 'Em Up for each platform. But, I was pretty strict about what made it on the lists. There aren't any one-on-one 'Fighters' in these lists, that's a whole other category. I also kept away from 'Hack n Slash' games which can be categorized as Action/Platformers. Please let me know if there are any games that should be on these lists. I'm sure I missed a few. -MV Submitter MetalVinnie Submitted 04/21/2017 Category Playlists  

If you're looking for clear logos to match some of the games on these playlists, try looking here: http://web.coolrom.com/sites/default/files/logos/ I just wanted to mention this webpage to you guys.

Wow, I still have a lot to learn. I tried that and it worked. Awesome!

Yep, that worked. I still don't understand how I can't change the images through BigBox options. But I'm happy for now. Thanks, Maddoc1007.

Ok, I'll try that

Man, I wish I could go back to 7.8, now.

I probably should mention that this is only happening in the 'Main Platform Categories'. I can get the box art/ad flyers when I select one of the sub-categories (ie Capcom Classics, Sega Classics).

I meticulously added box art for every system. Even still, if I was to select 'Box Art' and there was no box art, there shouldn't be a clear logo there. I can choose anything on 'Game Image Type' and it will still give me clear logos. Do you have the 7.9 version? I want to know if I'm the only one having this problem. I didn't have this problem in 7.8.

Yeah, I already tried that. Didn't change anything.

Anyone else having this problem?

It seems that no matter what I do here: I am always getting clear logos: HELP! I want to see box art over there...

I thought that the Nestopia core couldn't run at all without that xml file. But, yeah...I downloaded it and a few Famicom games didn't work for me. I remember Kid Dracula and the Japanese Castlevania 3 didn't work as well. I know some Famicom games work with the Nestopia core, but I just made the FCEUMM core the default core for all the Famicom games. It also makes it easy to have a default bezel for Famicom games only while Nestopia handles all the NES games with a different bezel. Btw, The Famicom Castlevania 3 is a way better version with better music (due to the extra sound chip that came with the cartridge) and sometimes different graphics. But the Pirate also is a more useful character because his main weapon is throwing knives instead of the stubby little weapon that he has in the US version.

Well, well...we have some Metalheads here. I guess my name here might have given me away. If you guys are interested, I have a soundclick page featuring my Heavy Metal guitar instrumentals: http://www.soundclick.com/mobile/default.cfm?orig=%2Fbands%2Fdefault.cfm%3FbandID%3D1392077 I made these tunes for guitar competitions. Mostly metal and very 'shreddy' stuff.

I just use the FCEUMM core for all the Japanese Famicom stuff, especially for the roms with English translations. Crisis Force is definitely a problem with the Nestopia core.

I uploaded the playlists without the 'sort title' this time. Good to know that it worked out for you. It sure is. NES/Famicom came close, though. On that note, I'm really enjoying Crisis Force for the Famicom, right now.

Just added a new playlist for the arcade/MAME SHMUPS. I also added SHMUPS lists for MSX, NES, SNES, SMS, Genesis, and Turbo Grafx. ENJOY!