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On 8/12/2018 at 9:25 AM, Dane said:
Do you have any kind of lightgun or are you just using a controller or mouse? I would love all the Wii games. Only thing with the Wii though is I would have to wait until Retroarch gets better compatibility for it as I try to only use MAME and Retroarch for everything.
I bought a brand new official WiiMote (£35) and a "Mayflash Dolphin Bar" (£16) which is the Bluetooth sensor that the WiiMote or Lightgun and other Wii peripherals work with and this is setup in the Dolphin emulator just by selecting "real WiiMote" in the control settings. It's really easy and it works great as well, better than I expected it to. You'd definitely need to use the Dolphin 5.0 emulator for it though I think. Dolphin is a BRILLIANT emulator. I'd go as far to say it is a masterpiece with the amount of stuff and complexity of the stuff it emulates.
Ahh man, I've had a lot of fun discovering all these Wii and WiiWare games. I never touched a Wii during the time it was around so it's fun been to go back and play the games with the actual controller the games were designed for. I'd say that Wii games are ones that don't themselves too seriously. Some of the shovelware is actually pretty fun lol.
In recent weeks, I played Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword for the first time ever and it is awesome with the WiiMote. You must use the WiiMote for it because of the way Link uses his sword which can't be emulated on a 360 Controller. There are two Wii House Of The Dead games which I've yet to try but I'm expecting them to be awesome!
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2 hours ago, Dane said:
I know there are SOME decent games on it but the system was basically for twelve year old girls and a platform to cash in on crappy reality TV shows.
Haha, I know what you mean but the nihilist in me loves collecting all the shovelware, similar to a 'crab biting my ding dong'. I've been putting together a full USA set (1179) (2TB) of Wii games for the last 3 weeks and my word there is so much shovelware on that system too! I've even gone as far as getting a WiiMote, Dolphin Bar and 8TB drive for the occasion. I've fallen in love with a shitty game called "Chicken Shoot". Such a guilty pleasure
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I've been toying with this emulator today, and this is the only emulator that runs Club Drive for the Atari Jaguar and the only Atari Jaguar emulator that has Save States. Ahh crap. I think I may have to put my RocketLauncher cap on for this one.
@Agent47 Is it possible to get RocketLauncher to use Phoenix for Atari Jaguar?
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On 8/4/2018 at 6:08 AM, shawn said:
first thing tomorrow after lunch I'm calling lawyer
After lunch. I wonder why "after lunch". Why not before? Little details like this intrigue me.
I wonder how he got on too. Normally 15 minutes with "lawyer" will set you back 100+ smackeroonies. He could have bought 10 LaunchBox's with that. Poor shawn.
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Just incase anyone new to LaunchBox, or thinking about buying into LaunchBox, gets the wrong impression about how LaunchBox interacts with RetroArch......I must say to them that LaunchBox will in NO way interfere with your RetroArch settings. It doesn't go anywhere near RetroArch's settings. Even these Beta version's of LaunchBox will not affect RetroArch. All it does is launch your game and your chosen config.
It's normally human error that screws RetroArch's settings as it can be complicated, for some.
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8 hours ago, Landcross said:
I currently have more than 2000 submitted changes on the DB and the bulk of those was for the 3ds set...
I'll echo what Dane and say thanks for that bro. The 3DS set scraped very nicely with minimal work for box covers and art for all 400 of my 3DS USA Roms. Being a video completionist, I had to scrape some videos from YouTube manually myself but that's an EmuMovies thing.
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8 hours ago, Dane said:
Yeah the DS is one of two systems I have left to organise. The duplicates in that set are a pain in the butt. I’m also deleting any Korean, French, Spanish etc and leaving USA & UK only. I might make a seperate category for Japanese, not sure yet. Overall it didn’t correctly scrap a fair amount of the games, did you have that issue with yours?
At a guess, I'd say about 20% didn't scrape correctly, even after naming them correctly. I do remember however, that I spent at least 3 weeks downloading trailers and gameplays from YouTube, editing the videos, and getting the box art at the very least. Rather like the MSX platform that we spoke about earlier brrrr.
I'm doing the Wii at the moment. I've been going for the full set of 1179 USA Roms (2TB) for about a month now. A little bit before Nintendo started going on the warpath. I've got about 600 imported into LB at the moment.....the box arts are scraping really well thanks to the LB Database, but the video's from EmuMovies videos are very patchy so once again, a lot of manual scraping from YouTube is in order :-)
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Ahh yeah, I did the WiiWare titles recently too. It came to about 360 titles for the USA set. I've got the Europe and Japan titles in separate folders but I don't think I'll import them or it'll be dupe city. I just need to work out how to install DLC for Wiiware and Wii games because I have a ton of those.
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Oh poo. I misread Harryoke's post. I thought he was talking about the 3DS!
Yeah, I got 1200 USA Roms for the NDS which took ages to sort out and rename.
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34 minutes ago, harryoke said:
finally broke the 100,000 games mark after adding full set of decrypted NDS roms
Did you add the USA set? I did the same recently and after consolidating the duplicates and versions. it came to dead on 400 games.
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Good price! That CPU and RAM alone is worth more. I think you got a bargain there.
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Just need some BigBox on there now ?
Those specs look good. How much did you pay for it?
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Do you mean add them as an alternative name so that they scrape nicely? I think that is a good idea. I'm experienced in the tortuous boredom of manually procuring and renaming Media to fit my collection but this ScummVM video re-naming thing I did took about 3 hours. 2.5 hours too much
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Ahh ok. Thanks folks. I had to know if there was a rational reason.
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9 hours ago, Dane said:
That is actually known as Weber's Law, and it is depressing
I just spent the last 4 days excruciatingly manually adding screenshots and box art of all of my 530 MSX games in LB so I appreciate the effort put into anything like your C64 project.
I never knew that phenomena had a name. Weber's Law. Learn something new every day :-)
Ahh the MSX haha. I did exactly what you described there about 6 months ago. With a lot of box arts, I could only find a photo of the box from places like eBay so I screenshotted them and cropped them etc. I think (though I can't quite remember) that I created a bunch of videos as well to fill in the the gaps from EmuMovies. A nightmare system to complete. Give me a shout if you need anything for the MSX. I'd gladly upload all of my MSX media to DropBox.
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Klop, what is the naming convention of these videos? I've renamed them all now to match my Roms but I'm still curious as to why they are named this way.
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10 hours ago, Dane said:
This modern era of having everything at the snap of a finger as ruined my patience as embarrassed as I am to admit it.
Yeah, but the truth is none of us are getting any younger to waste time waiting for a bleepy bloopy 8 bit game. It was ok when we were 8 years old when 1 year felt like an eternity lol.
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Yeah, I've never gone near Atari ST or Amstrad CPC464 for the same reasons. I think I tried an ancient frontend thing called GameBase Atari ST (I can't remember) and didn't have a clue what I was doing so binned the whole lot. That used the Steem emulator.
I tried Amstrad once for 5 minutes and got rid of it as well. Just couldn't work out the controls. Even though I'm a Brit, I guess I should have an affinity with the Amstrad but no. My heart lays with the Sinclair Spectrum and the Commodore Amiga which run great with RetroArch Fuse Core and FS-UAE respectively. I think there comes a point when you have to ask yourself whether you're spending more time collecting and configuring just for the sake of it.
Saying that though, like you Dane, I've always been curious about the C64 and the good music it has but have never had much success with it. Mr @Zombeaver is a C64 guru and he has a C64 package on his Zomb Lair website which is on my to-do list.
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I was going to blame Steam, but I can't now :-)
I do the same as you, BigBox launches at startup. Erm. I'm a bit stumped because PCSX 1.4 and the Nightly builds don't mess about like this for me.
I'm not at my Games PC now so I can't check, but try removing that --nogui parameter and see what happens? I don't think I have that on mine because the two little windows pop up when I run it. It probably won't do anything. Just curious though.
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On 7/23/2018 at 8:35 PM, DOS76 said:
Why do I feel like I'm in a different conversation
OMG lmao!
@A_Clever_MonocleHow did you get on with this in the end? I always like to hear how things turn out.
I love that username by the way. If I had that, it would make me sound clever, too.
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Do you launch LaunchBox through Steam? Like the OP does?
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On 7/25/2018 at 4:00 AM, fraganator said:
Are you using the latest ACM version 1.5? It should support LB.Next.
You might also need to re-install ACM after each new LaunchBox update. I plan on turning ACM into a proper LB plugin at some stage so this won't be an issue in future, but for now running Install.bat after a new LB update is sometimes required.
That worked. Just needed to run the Install.bat again. I guess I should have thought of that already durrr. Thanks :-)
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On 7/23/2018 at 2:51 AM, CDBlue said:
Hmm, didn't notice any performance hit on my machine, but I have a newer PC for my "retro gamer"
I can tell roughly how much an RA core is taxing my CPU by using RetroArch's Fast Forward feature. I get a stable 60fps with Mesen but only about 80fps when I use Fast Forward. I get about the same with Beetle / Mednafen PSX core so it's probably on par with that. That is my 'non-technical' benchmark anyway lol (i5-2500k stock 3.3ghz).
Anyway, yeah Mesen! I stumbled across this by accident a few months ago when RetroArch updated to 1.73. For some reason, the Nestopia core audio was becoming garbled even with Latency off, so I switched to Mesen, purely because I liked the name lol. Tis' a great emulator. No glitches or anything. Today, I imported the Famicom Disk System and to my surprise, there is a "core option" to automatically switch disks and you can bind some disk controls to your pad as well. Love it.
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