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    Change Hotkeys

    in Features

    Posted · Edited by Aevans0001

    Where at, I only see for controllers.

     

     

    ok So i learned that LEDBlinky uses the settings in Bigboxsettings.xml, is this also where Launchbox gets there settings? 

    Change Hotkeys

    in Features

    Posted

    @Jason Carr  Is this option also in launchbox?  can it be added?  Even if it is a Paid option.  Also can you list what the shortcuts are currently?  Or are they actually added in big box and converted down to launchbox?

    Import from Gamebase?

    in Features

    Posted

    Ok so I liked Gamebase because it was a good list of files, All the games I remember were on it.  Most of the other lists didn't include a couple of games I remembered.  So all I really wanted it for, was the games.  However the naming makes no sense, so if you look back at page 2, I developed a little script to rename the files to something both I and launchbox likes.  Launchbox still has its issues with some of the games, but....

    Launchbox Autohotkey script issue.

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Sorry, I am completely confused now..

     

    Do i put the whole thing in?

      

    TIMEOUT /T 3
:while1
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %GAMENAME%"') DO IF %%x == %GAMENAME% goto FOUND
goto FIN
:FOUND
TIMEOUT /T 5
goto :while1
:FIN
taskkill /f /im joytokill.exe

    $Esc::
{
  Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}}
  Process, Close, joytokill.exe
}
    define emulator as %GAMENAME% set "GAMENAME=someprogram.exe"

    like that, or are you saying just do this now 

    $Esc::
{
  Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}}
  Process, Close, joytokill.exe
}

     

    Launchbox Autohotkey script issue.

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    5 hours ago, Undertherainbow said:

    u should replace joytokeykill.bat with something like this:

      

    
start "" /WAIT "somegame.exe"
Timeout 1
taskkill /f /im JoyToKey.exe

    By using start WAIT, "somegame.exe" can be name of emulator

    or.. most easiest maybe would be to put all on escape? 

    
$Esc::
{
  Process, Close, joytokill.exe
}

     

    or u can use 

    
if WinExist("ahk_exe someprogram.exe")
DO..

    @Aevans0001

    P.S

    just remembered , there is also little hard way to check if process is active then Do.. 

    
TIMEOUT /T 3
:while1
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %GAMENAME%"') DO IF %%x == %GAMENAME% goto FOUND
goto FIN
:FOUND
TIMEOUT /T 5
goto :while1
:FIN
taskkill /f /im joytokill.exe

define emulator as %GAMENAME% set "GAMENAME=someprogram.exe"

    Anyway there are bunch of choices to deal with it

    how do I define the emulator and game name?  I am running this for every game in c64.

    Rocketlauncher Issue Loading Mame .0213

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted · Edited by Aevans0001

    Ok Ive been using rocketlauncher with mame for a couple years now.  Always worked.  I just switched my pc and upgraded to .0213 now it throws up an error when I TRY TO LOAD MAME.

     

    Process.Run - Running: "C:\Games\Emulators\MAME\mame64.exe"  20pacgal -rompath "C:\Games\Launchbox\games\Arcade;C:\Games\Emulators\MAME\roms" -nowindow -nohlsl_enable -nogl_glsl -video d3d -artwork_crop -nouse_bezels -use_overlays -use_backdrops -nouse_cpanels -nouse_marquees -nofilter -skip_gameinfo 

    Process.Run - Running: "C:\Games\Emulators\MAME\mame64.exe"  
20pacgal -rompath "C:\Games\Launchbox\games\Arcade;C:\Games\Emulators\MAME\roms" 
-nowindow -nohlsl_enable -nogl_glsl -video d3d -artwork_crop -nouse_bezels 
-use_overlays -use_backdrops -nouse_cpanels -nouse_marquees -nofilter -skip_gameinfo

    So i have learned if I delete all but the following, it works  

    "C:\Games\Emulators\MAME\mame64.exe" 
20pacgal -rompath "C:\Games\Launchbox\games\Arcade;
\\mediacenter\VideoGames\Games\Mame;C:\Games\Emulators\MAME\roms"
-nowindow -nohlsl_enable -nogl_glsl -nofilter -skip_gameinfo

    However I do not know how to delete those in the mame.ahk file

     

    Also mame does work through mame64.exe gui, command prompt, and If I load mame manually in rocketlauncher it loads but if I try to run a game it fails 

     

     

    ______________________________Update________________________________________

    Ok so this issue actually started with .0212 and has been fixed with a new mame.ahk  you can find the file and the fix here http://www.rlauncher.com/forum/showthread.php?6201-MAME-v0-212-don-t-launch-with-RocketLauncher&goto=newpost&highlight=mame+cli

    Launchbox Autohotkey script issue.

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    So I just moved my installation of everything over to a new computer and everything was going good until I noticed my ahk wasn't working on commodore 64.  @Jason Carr was there anything done to running ahk from the emulators settings lately?

     

    So what I am trying to do is run joytokey.exe with a particular profile before I run winvice, and then closing joytokey upon exit of winvice.  This used to work, however now I can not get it to. 

     

    My current ahk script reads this 

    Run, "C:\games\joytokey\joytokey.exe"
WinWait, ahk_exe x64.exe
WinWaitClose  ; Wait for the exact window found by WinWait to be closed.
Run, "C:\games\joytokey\joytokeykill.bat"

    everything seems to work  except the joytokeykill.bat does not run.  Also you may notice that Joytokey.exe does not run a particular profile.  I would love it to choose just a profile, but when I set it up I could not get it to work, so any help there would be great also.

     

    My file JoytoKeykill.bat does work if I manually load it.

    ultimarc joystick question

    in Collections and Builds

    Posted · Edited by Aevans0001

    I followed a couple of different youtube videos.  I got the u360s, the ipaq ultimate, the restrictor plates, as well as the servostiks.  All of this has been pretty frustrating.  

     

    First to install the newest version of the u360s with the restrictor plate you have (or I felt like I did) to carefully drill out the holes for the pegs, then install the restrictors and servostiks.  Hooked it up, but the joysticks still were not operating correctly.  

     

    Then I tried removing the servostik and the restrictors and they started operating better but still pretty horibly.  I ended up researching other peoples 8-way config files and found part of the problem.  For me to seem to fix this, I ahd to put sticky keys around the center.  This made 8 way and 4 way games playable and not bleed over to diagonals, even when they were turned off. They always seemed soooo touchy.  Barely move the joy up and left and you were going diagonal.  This seems to be fixed but we haven't tested it quite yet.  

    So in conclusion I am now only using the U360s and not the servostik or the restrictors. 

    I feel the secret to the U360s is getting the 4-way and 8-way profiles correct, so that mame can handle  the rest.  I also have this setup through rocketlauncher and using @dbinott ultrastik configurations located here 

     

    UltraMap UGC Files (9200+)

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Released)

    Posted

    @dbinott  Thank you for ths. Could you send some more info on how you have used these.  Are you using Bigbox, Rocketlauncher, or anything else?  Where did you put the files?  any other helpful things or more profiles?

     

    @Fablog  How I use these is with Rocketlauncher (I am 95% sure I know how to work them).  I put them in my rocketlauncher profile directory under mame.  Then in settings you make sure ultramap is turned on and it knows where your executable is located. Or if you don't want to set up rocketlauncher, you could do what @James35is doing.  This would be a long process and I don't know of a quick way to do any of it.  I believe I read in the beta forum that they are looking into making additional apps a lot easier to work with.

     

     

     

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    Best Way to use Launchbox with NAS system

    in Noobs

    Posted

    On 9/4/2019 at 9:17 PM, zoemorn said:

    i was gonna get a 4 bay usb caddy but second guessed that hearing of issues with windows changing drive letter to the drives and thus breaking for launchbox? 

    anyway i appreciate further tips or thoughts about what could be a winning combo.

    I have never heard of this.   Windows doesn't really assign the drive letters to the nas.  You assign them by mapping them to your pc.  Some people have to create a scheduled task to reassign the mapped. drive on every reboot,  but not much of an issue.   Now windows had problems with assigning controllers (joysticks) different Id #s, but that had nothing to do with nas.  I live my little nas device, I have the readynas 214.  I would suggest something a little more powerful for plex and movies, but overall very happy with it. 

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    Autohotkey Startup/Exit scripts issues

    in Noobs

    Posted · Edited by Aevans0001

    So first I got my first commodore 64 game working using Joytokey and additional apps.  I put a startup app to load joytokey, and then a batch file to kill joytokey after closing emulator.  That worked, however it only worked for the one game.  I need 20,000 C64 games to work.  So I tried an autohotkey script.  So I got the autohotkey to load jpytpkeu amd an exit script to run the bat file.  However, it didn't run the batch file.  So then I tried using the following cod e to kill it. 

    if WinExist("JoyToKey Ver6.1.1 : Joytokey")
    WinClose ; use the window found above 

    this again failed to load upon exit of the emulator.  I have verified both ways worked independently, but not through Launchbox.

    ------------------------------Edit--------------------------

     

    Ok so I got it working, however I would lke to see how to do it the proper way with ahk script in begging and end.  Here is the code I used

      

    Run, d:\games\joytokey\joytokey.exe
WinWait, ahk_exe x64.exe
WinWaitClose  ; Wait for the exact window found by WinWait to be closed.
Run, "d:\games\joytokey\joytokeykill.bat"

    and here is my version of joytokeykill.bat 

    taskkill /IM joytokey.exe /F

     

    This is specifically for Winvice but you can use it with any emulator, you just change the ahk_exe section

    Rocketlauncher + Launchbox\Big Box

    in Features

    Posted

    Thanks guys.  Anyone know any way to use servo stiks without using rocket launcher?  I am currently using rocket launcher with no servo stiks so I don't imagine it will be very hard to set it up, but have been contemplating uninstalling RL as I could probably get most of the things I like through BB now (except maybe Servostik, led blinky, hyper Marquee)

     

    Control Panel Help!

    in Emulation

    Posted

    Cool, i wasnt sure as the the site lists emulation as "Discuss emulators, console platforms, and related games."   to me that is a software related forum, but that cool.  Thanks for looking at the message   

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    Control Panel Help!

    in Emulation

    Posted

    @Jason Carr Can we get a Sub-forum  under Off Topic for Controllers?

     

    So I need to get some user input as to how I should connect and Ipac Ultimate, 2 Ultimarc U360 controllers, 2 spintraks, and 1 Happ 3" Track ball.

     

    I originally planned on connecting everything to the Ipac Ultimate.  However, I asked Andy how to get this accomplished and he basically sent an email stating 

    "Usually its not necessary to connect the U360 to the I-PAC. The output mode was originally intended for situations where there is no USB port on the host.

     It will work fine in Mame if just connected via USB, in all games"

    i know that I don't have to connect it, but what if I change my ipac to Dinput or Xinput mode?  Don't I want my U360 to change with it?

    I also want to use this control for other emulators like N64 and lower

     

     

    9.8-beta-1 Released

    in Beta Testing

    Posted

    I second what @Line said above.

    I also would second the suggestion that we should be able to see the picture of the control panel.  Emumovies has a downloaded file with a lot of the arcade control panels included.

     

    Errors I have found

     On Occasion Pause screen freezes up after viewing manual.  I thought it was a rocketlauncher, but even after i disabled rocketlauncher it was still occasionally locking up.  I tried it on 2 games and it locked up on Bagman mostly.  

    Great Work @Jason Carr

    Rocketlauncher + Launchbox\Big Box

    in Features

    Posted

    Hi, 

    So I was wondering what the benefits of Rocket Launcher these days.  With Jason currently working on Pause screens, and Startup screens working.  I know that they set controller mappings pretty easily, but don't know what the real benefit of any of it is now.  

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    Daphne Laser Disc emulator - a comprehensive tutorial

    in Emulation

    Posted

    Here is my command line without scan lines

    daphne.exe cliff vldp -framefile Z:\VideoGames\Games\Daphne\cliff\cliff.txt -blank_searches -min_seek_delay 1000 -seek_frames_per_ms 20 -homedir "Z:\Videogames\Emulators\Daphne (Customized)" -cheat -bank 0 00000000 -bank 1 01000000
    -bank 2 00000000 -bank 3 01111000 -sound_buffer 2048 -fullscreen -x 640 -y 480

     

    here is my command line with scan lines

    daphne.exe cliff vldp -framefile Z:\VideoGames\Games\Daphne\cliff\cliff.txt -scanlines -blank_searches -min_seek_delay 1000 -seek_frames_per_ms 20 -homedir "Z:\Videogames\Emulators\Daphne (Customized)"
    -cheat -bank 0 00000000 -bank 1 01000000 -bank 2 00000000 -bank 3 01111000 -sound_buffer 2048 -fullscreen -x 640 -y 480

     

     

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