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Being able to have multiple manuals like RL is the one feature i have been waiting on since pause menu was added. hint hint. ?
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very cool. what software are you using for the tablet to be used as a monitor?
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28 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
Beta 9 is out now with the following:
- Fixed the Retro Score in the Game Details Sidebar not hiding if unchecked
- Fixed a potential null reference error when playing games
- Audit should now be up to par and ready to go (various things fixed and added)
- Fixed the 7-zip wrong version issue (but it's not force-updated for this version so you may need to delete the LaunchBox\ThirdParty\7-Zip folder in order to fix)
LB would not open to grab the beta 9 update (from Beta ? if i d elete the 7-Zip folder or the contents of it. Leaving the folder and files intact allows LB to open and update. I remember reading about an issue with 7zip but not sure if mine updated with beta 9. My x64 folder shows modified today, but none of the files in the folder show modified today. Log attached for the crashes.
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Just now, ItchyRobot said:
Thanks for the tip!
How long ago did your crash happen? Mine only started crashing about a week ago.
its been a while and i dont remember if it was LB/BB related or a different program. just remember having the issue and found that as a workaround to get the mouse back. Havent been able to do much testing on the new betas.
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22 hours ago, ItchyRobot said:
Sorry to add another issue; but, I have been having BigBox quickly crash out to my desktop, only to leave me with no cursor. Task manager says nothing is open, still no cursor, like when in BigBox. I have to do a hard restart of the PC to get my cursor back. If I remember, this started about 2 betas ago.
On the latest beta
Attached is the Debug log...I know it doesnt fix the bug but you shouldnt have to do a full restart. if you have your windows search enabled, press the windows key and type "mouse" to get into your mouse settings, use your tab and arrow keys to change the size or cursor color temporarily, should bring the cursor back. I had this issue before and found this beats a full restart. Hope it can work for you.
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@Jason Carr tested 2-3 games. with dip switches get the "dips tampered" in the log. just resetting them back to default without deleting cfg works and allowed score to be uploaded. seems to be working as planned.
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1 hour ago, Jason Carr said:
In the end I decided not to change those files; we only read them. We simply refuse to upload the high score if we find any dip switches changed.
will that show in the debug log? If settings were changed prior, can we reset the switches and have scores uploaded? Not sure if you can/will answer how it works, but is it reading the cfg file for mentions of dip switches? it looks like more than just the dip switch settings are saved in the cfg files.
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16 hours ago, Jason Carr said:
Hey all, the first 10.14 beta out now with the following:
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Improvement: Handling of multiple instances of LaunchBox and Big Box has been improved with a proper message instead of just ending the second process or focusing the window
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Improvement: The MAME high scores system now checks MAME .cfg files to help prevent cheating by changing dip switches, and several other stability improvements were made as well
Does this mean if people don't/can't update they can essentially cheat the system?
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32 minutes ago, faeran said:
if you hide all the games within a platform, it will hide the platform as well.
The other option, while launchbox/big box is closed. Move the system platform.xml (example Arcade.xml) out of the Data/Platforms folder. Next time LB/BB opens, the system will not be there. Once you have a banner or want the system back, just put the .xml back in the Data folder. When moving .xml files in/out of the Data folder, always make sure LB is not running.
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Probably related to this.
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This sucks but is understandable. I game more on my pc but bought the Android version on release because of the quality of windows version in hopes of using it on my ShieldTV. Now that Android is gone, people will be wanting a Linux version instead. Lol
Long live LB for Windows!
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Just now, Jason Carr said:
Okay, I'll look into that plugin and see if I can figure anything out.
Ok, good luck. Not sure if you need to though, starting to think it was an issue on my end, since no one else has reported any issues. I reinstalled the theme and made the necessary modifications. Everything seems to be good now. Like i mentioned, i even got it working with Colorful without any issues.
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34 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
Okay, now I'm thoroughly confused. I looked at the XAML that references the High Scores plugin, and none of it is correct. If you download the latest version of the high scores plugin from the forums, nothing matches up to what you have referenced in the XAML. Are there two different plugins or something?
Yes, kind of there was the original plugin that enabled a hi score pop up for BB and required editing the xaml files. Then there was the newer version that added functionality to LB. I see the local score option in other themes but unless i edit the xaml, the pop doesnt show for the local high scores. The hi scores introduced in the beta work fine.
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i thought it odd that rolling back caused errors too, but everything is where it should be. The hi score plugin is in the plugins folder.
@Jason CarrI think you can ignore those errors. I found a difference in the 2 plugin folders between my cab and laptop. I reinstalled the refried theme fresh and made the needed changes and all is good running on beta 9. even modified the Colorful theme to show my local hi scores. sorry.
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I sent just the views. I am working on zipping all but the media. My cab is running beta 8 and the original plugin works fine with the pop up. the pop up in BB works. same theme on my laptop on beta 9 throws all those errors. i even rolled back to beta 8 and get the errors now.
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When the plugin was originally released, you had to add a couple of lines to one of the views xml to get hi score popup to show in BB, not even sure they were needed anymore. It has worked just fine until whatever was done in beta 9. The theme is just over 1gb. how do you want me to send it?
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46 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
Beta 9 is out now with the following:
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A new MAME community high scores popup is now available in Big Box, either via the game details menu or the new keyboard and controller bindings
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Added some anti-cheat measures to the MAME high scores system, including disabling save states and only uploading newly achieved high scores
@Jason Carr Getting crashes on the Beta 9. Default Big Box theme doesnt give the error, but Unified Refried and Memories of Yesterday themes crash when cycling views. Got these 3. My Refried theme has the code from the original Hi Score plug in added, not sure if that is causing it.
The original plugin allowed local hi scores to be shown for the top 3-5 scores, does the new addition override this?
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Thanks for all the info. Your other posts helped me get vpx running in lb in the first place. Might take a stab at it this weekend. But yeah, I get the don't pause mid roll, but sometimes the boss needs you now, and it's always on a good ball. Lol.
I have little experience with joy2key. Use it with fx2 &fx3 for more functionality. I kind of like having the single key for pause and exit. Makes it easier for rest of family to use.
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15 minutes ago, ItchyRobot said:
@JoeViking245 making it -60000 worked. All is perfect now
@ed20910 I use a single button Pause... I was actaully having issues trying to use a 2-button combo for BigBox pause. It was hit and miss when it would work, so I reverted back to a single button and have had no issues since.
From what I understand, VPX does not have a true pause. I just wait until I gutter ball, or get a hold with the flipper... then hit pause.yeah, i know. Esc is kind of a pause. You can even disable Esc and use Q to sort of pause, then either Q again to quit the table or R to resume. Might look into using Joy2Key to see if i can get something working. was hoping someone maybe had a better solution using just LB/BB. Most probably dont use BB/LB for pinball, but its what i have right now. 1 cab to rule them all until i can do a proper VPin, then will probably go full Pinup Popper for it.
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honestly, not 100% sure. my gut says no. i think my issue may be the default BB/LB controls. i dont use the combo for those features. Button brings up the pause menu just fine and pauses just about all emulators, but those allow you to redefine the pause key if necessary. Since Esc is the default VPX pause key, i think that is why it isnt working since LB uses that as the default exit, correct?
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@JoeViking245 curious if you have preferred setting for the pause and exit. I have a single button setup for pause and a single for exit on my arcade cab. When i pause, the pause screen shows, but the table is still running. tried the suspend emulator when paused but that didnt seem to work right.
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@Jason Carr getting LB crash on latest beta when selecting an arcade game. Pretty sure it is due to my internet being down and LB cannot access the hi scores. When I turn off the download scores, no crash. I know the feature can't be used without connectivity. Not sure if way to warn a person LBDB can't be connected to and they need to turn off the feature.
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I'm not sure what happened either, it's the only one that has done this. I would like to think my issue had something to do with the Mame reset. The next game had no mario. I had to exit the game and restart. The current hi score on the machine is the 26k. If iwe can't read nvram, that is going to limit the number of games. Is there any way to "erase" a high score from lbdb on your end? If so, delete my Donkey Kong entry.
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I think the hi scores are adding together or something else is going on. My original Donkey Kong score was around 22-23k, i beat it with a new score of 26K. Now it shows a hi of 51k but not with the right initials. I did fat finger the MAME reset key and wiped out the original hi score before the new one was created. Would be nice if there was an option for a user to clear a high score from LBDB.
Unified Refried 2.0
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are your platforms named the same as the images in the LaunchBox\Themes\Unified Refried\Images\Theme? I run refried and all the images show for proper platform. Do you have the theme unzipped into the right level? Not Themes\Unified Refried\Unified Refried?