5thWolf

Alrighty. Will give it a try!

So I squeezed it down that BizHawk 2.6.1 works perfectly and 2.6.2 does not. Looking through the changes for 2.6.2 there are some things that sounds like would have affected the startup. So if anyone takes a peak and maybe could make sense of it. Here is the change log: BizHawk 2.6.2 Released May 25th, 2021 Set all cores to update Frame counter post-emulation. NOTE: This is a sync breaking change for MGBA movies using RTC, as the time sent to the core was the pre-incremented time. mGBA update to 0.9.1 Gambatte Fix RTC on Hard Reset MBC3 Fixes Support setting inital RTC state during a movie recording Fix layer masking Move layer masking to sync settings (these settings affect sync) Block toggle layer hotkeys when movie recording Update GBA modeswitch timing and testROM accuracy Fix autodetection of console mode Add wisdom tree mapper suport clarify sync settings (#2688) GBHawk Fix OAM DMA Bus Conflict emulation (#2709) #2715 , still needs vram open bus fix but that's seperate NesHawk Add missing mapper variable to state for some pirate games O2Hawk Fix PAL time calculation (#2684) PCE Fix default PCE gamepad bindings (fixes #2720) Fix crashes in PCE debugger N64 Add N64 plugin categories (#2729) Fix memory.read to allow addresses 0x80000000..0xFFFFFFFF (#1734) GPGX Add missing menacer keys (#2718) Intellivision Fix aspect ratio (#2670) SMS Fix system Id (#2650) C64 Implement memory hooks (#2726) EmuHawk Fix FormatException on startup on certain locales (#2716) Fix GB Layers not toggling (#2491) Add utvideo to ffmpeg dumper Movies - respect LogKey of loaded movie Firmware Config - don't treat known-but-bad as good (#2224) Rewinder Fix bug where nothing happens on the first press when frame interval is 1 (#2667) Add delta compression option (Good size reduction for some cores, less useful for others) Ram Watch - fix autoload Hex Editor - .tbl file loading - clear table before loading a new one, ignore empty lines in file Debugger - Add rgbds syntax for GB/C disassembly (#2706) CDL - Fix SNES core crash on load (#2662) Fix Log Window (#2694) Lua Accept all 4 colour formats in all Lua functions (#2602) Support swapping input using joypad.set() and joypad.get() client.seekframe - Prevent hangs from trying to go backwards lua socket fixes (#2194, #2671) MovieClock.lua - use cycle based time for Gambatte/SubGBHawk (#2708) TAStudio Fix auto-restore bug where auto-restore position was not set correctly the first time using it after auto-restore usage earlier in the movie Fix broken tastudio when selecting "New from the File" menu item and saving changes when asked Fix autoload Fix Converting to bk2 resulting in unsaved changes never asterisk appearing (#2583) Branches Fix branch loading (#2640) Fix hotkeys Fix right-clicking a branch when the contextmenu was already open would throw an exception Branch view will now scroll to the updated branch when using hotkeys to update a branch Fix exception, scroll to branch on updating branch and fix #2645 Make load branch hotkey deselect all but one branch Add initial marker in frame 0 when loading older tasprojs (#2693)

So reverted 3 version back and seems to work. So I guess this new version of Bizhawk loads by commands differently? So does anyone have any suggestions? Autohotkey in LB maybe or anything to get it working again? I don't want to revert back since Bizhawk will only move forward from here.

I guess we can try 2 version back of bizhawk to confirm.

Just adding note.... this same issue is across all platforms and ROMs not just NES. Regardless if in .zip or extracted.

To help eliminate how many different emulators I run. It runs tons of the ones I use perfectly. Like atari 2600, 7800, nes, snes, tg16 + cd tons more. Wonder what is up with the command issue then. Nothing was touched on LB and BH UI and options haven't changed that I can tell. BizHawk runs just fine when I load the ROMs on it's own. Only through LB does it happen.

So until this recent update all was working perfectly, but when I launch NES games now I get an exemption error. I do know that Bizhawk had a few updates as well. However if I run Bizhawk on its own and open the ROM it works fine, but through LaunchBox it gives me this error.....

oh I see, thought it was system files. Good spec sheets. Hope they look over them all to see if it helps. That page is a great find!!

I am not able to dable right now on my PC, but what is that dsp56001 file? Didn't notice it in the topic link.

Yeah.... That does look like the info they need. Wonder if they have see it as well.

Re-reviving this! hahaha. I tried to research this just now with no new results like every other time I have. I doubt there is a work around, but I would like to see if anyone has found the files and got it going.

Well I fixed the problem by just going into the update folder and running the setup. However I do not know why during the auto update it failed to find it's required folder and when reverting/canceling caused LB to not launch at all.

So LB started it's auto update to 11.9 nd it failed to see a folder and failed. It reverted back/canceled the install and now I can't launch LB at all. even with reboot! Anyone have any suggestions?

Oh man you are awesome!!! That worked!!!! Thank you so much!!! Also gave me chance to ditch old setup files since 2017 hahahaha!

So LB started it's auto update from 11.6 to 11.7 and failed to "find" a chromium folder during install so it aborted the install. Now I can't get LB to launch at all. Already tried a PC restart. Any ideas?? I don't want to loose any data.

Have you tried creating the D-Fend shortcuts, putting them in a folder somewhere together, and running the shortcuts with no emulator set? Basically running it no different then a windows game exe.

@Zombeaver Thanks!!! That was exactly what I needed!!! I will also experiment with CCS64 for that speed boost during loading as you suggested. Sucks though CCS64 has been dead since 2015.

I am curious.... the screenshot pictures, can they be animated gif? If you use one will it animate when looking at a game?

Not sure which version changed it, but it's all showing again like it should.

@MuddyWaters79 Glad you got it working!

So I just discovered the Ecstatica 1 (DOS) had an upgraded Windows port with way better rendering and resolution released in 1997!!! I just played the windows version and it's way better!!!! Ecstatica 2 came with dos and windows executable. The metadata for the first game should reflect windows version of 1997. The sequel as well just to be included as Windows platform also. Both games have technically DOS & Windows versions. Here is a link the info for both games. https://ecstatica.fandom.com/wiki/Ecstatica https://ecstatica.fandom.com/wiki/Playing_Ecstatica_II_on_Modern_Systems (showing the how to link because it specifically refers the the windows executable.

I am not using the wizard. I am adding my games manually.

I double checked associated platforms to the emulators. All the proper one's check boxes are checked. i even tried unchecking then rechecking. Nothing.

Since the last big updates to the menu system, I noticed when I add a new game, the default emulator is empty. Every system use to have a default EMU chosen for whatever platform you set. When I look at the associated platform for say Bizhawk, non of the platforms are defaulted when adding a game. I have to manually click on BizHawk and associate it as the emulator. Did something change and I have to set the defaults else where?

Well that worked!!!! Not sure why some games generated properly and some didn't. Guess I will just have to do this as I catch games missing it. Thanks a million c-beats!!!!