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So correctly what I have.
1 Nas (4x4TB) Total 11TB
1 Box account (50GB)
1 Amazon Drive (1 TB)
Multiple computers and laptops with C and D drives
Cdrive is for windows and random emulator user profiles (using symbolic links)
D Drive is for LB/BB, Rocketlauncher, Some emulators, All image files (Boxes, SS, etc), Windows games
Z drive is NAS and I have All Roms, All Videos, All Manuals, All Music, All Configuration files
By not using a backup software to backup my settings, I have no need to make sure that the files have been updated, it is instant.
Currently I have CEMU, CXBX, Pinball FX2, Xenia, Retroarch, and MAME running from my D drive with the settings being on the Z: drive.
For frontends I use LB/BB and Rocketlauncher (although shortly I hope to get rid of RL and just use LB/BB from the D Drive
I have symbolic links from the default folders to my Nas drive. For instance I have a symbolic link from d:\games\Launchbox\Games\ --------> z:\videogames\Games also one from d:\games\launchbox\manuals ----------> z:\videogames\manuals
This way there is less configuration to do in launchbox, everything is default.
Since @peterrrjr post I now have my images in a symbolic link from d:\games\launchbox\images ---------------> d:\cloud\amazon drive\Launchbox images. Which automatically backs up to my amazon drive with unlimited photo storage, and in turn also sync to my nas drive under z:\amazondrive and to my arcade to d:\cloud\amazon drive\launchox images. Which again means less configuration as all pc machines are the same. If I add images to one pc, it will automatically sync to the other pc within minutes.
If you would like any of y other batch files, let me know.
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@Lukeyboy67 The problem with your setup is that you are still using your external drive to load your images, not your ssd (as far as I understand). I know that when I tried having my images on my nas it ran really slowly, and not worth the extra time it took. I also learned from my most recent experience, there is such thing as too many symbolic links. I am attaching some of the batch files i created to automatically create the symbolic links I currently use. I will include what I use for Launchbox, Rocketlauncher, and MAME. I also have other emulators. Basically what I wanted to do was have certain emulators on my D drive on both my Arcade and my regular computer, yet have my settings be found on the nas. This way both PCs have the same exact user experience. Run the files as admin
This sounds like a great idea for my images, currently I have them in the images directory on my launchbox folder, and I have to manually copy them over to each pc. How did you setup the cloud service to work the best?
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Vertigo, you could setup a shared drive and then use symbolic links. I use a nas system and use symbolic links on all of the important configuration files.
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Ok so I use rocket launcher so my actual setup is different but here is the setup to use launchbox, Daphne, and Cliff hanger. I chose Cliff because I am not sure if talking about Lair is allowed.
1. Make sure yur games work in daphneloader.exe
2. add a game to Launchbox and make the game to point to daphne.exe
3. make sure and turn off emulator in launchbox
4. Load daphneloader.exe
5. Click on game then click on configure
6. Set your game preferences
7. Click on advance tab and and enable display command line
8. exit configure and load game, you will now see this screen
9. Click copy to clipboard and paste this information to launchbox edit game screen as shown below.
10. if you notice I delete daphne.exe from the application command line parameters. Now simply load the game!
If you have any other questions let me know. If you would like to know how to setup rocketlauncher with Daphne also let me know.
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I am having an issue though I have multiple displays but only 1 screen active in Big box and sometimes it loads like this. Quite often today ( i just moved i to screen 2 (which is larger) and I have rebooted multiple times. Sometimes it comes up right, others not so much
Edit 1: If I load big box directly from the big box shortcut I get this, If I load launchbox and then big box it works ok
Edit 2: If the shortcut is on my smaller screen, big box loads like above on the bigger screen. If the shortcut is on bigger screen it loads correctly. Is there anyway to fix this?
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So what is out of order I see 2. unified refried should be under Criticalzonev2 and above unified refried - Arcade. Also Pinball FX should be under Pinball Arcade, The. I just loaded the same theme, mine shows up correctly. However I changed Unified Refried - Arcade to Unified Refried-Arcade to test and It still showed up Alphabetically, but it was changed in the list to correspond with Unified Refried-Arcade.
My The Pinball Arcade is sorting under The Pinball Arcade not Pinball Arcade, The. Not saying this is an issue just was unsure how it sorted.
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2 hours ago, Keith Krummel said:
Hello, I just updated to version 9.1 and my videos are not autoplaying in LaunchBox, and escape is not going back in BigBox was wondering if you changed the button to go back. I tested 2 keyboards. Have great day.
Look above he already answered the videos auto playing. I think maybe the new version turned that off somehow, as mine was unchecked also.
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EDIT: NVM, this was answered here
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if you have time, if you can link me to the download page or send me a pm with it. I looked and not exactly sure what to look for
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Ok so I got those. However what i was trying to do is get what this guy got working. Check it out at 7:24 of the video
Edit: Found out he uses LEDBlinky, however is there a database of configuration files for all the games?
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@ninja2bceen I din't see any instruction cards. I did find the bezel project and have added those, it was really easy. Thank you. However I am really looking for the instruction cards.
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Thanks pitkin
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add this to the top of your bat file
Letter of drive
example D?
CD "(name of directory to daphne)"
don't forget quotes
example cd "emulators\daphne\"
So my bat file would be
d: cd "Emulators\Daphne v1.0-2.2.11 (Customized)" daphne.exe lair vldp -framefile "D:\Emulators\Daphne v1.0-2.2.11 (Customized)\framefile\lair.txt" -blank_searches -homedir "Z:\Emulators\Daphne (Customized)" -useoverlaysb 1 -bank 0 11001000 -bank 1 00000010 -noserversend -sound_buffer 2048 -x 640 -y 480then save that as Dlair.bat. If that works post back to here then I will give step by step instructions
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@rgreen2002 Ok so you have the files working in daphne? Do you know the command line to run those games automatically?
for instance here is my command line
daphne.exe lair vldp -framefile "D:\Emulators\Daphne v1.0-2.2.11 (Customized)\framefile\lair.txt" -blank_searches -homedir "Z:\Emulators\Daphne (Customized)" -useoverlaysb 1 -bank 0 11001000 -bank 1 00000010 -noserversend -sound_buffer 2048 -x 640 -y 480
now copy that into a new text file
save that file as DLair.bat or something similiar.
Go into launchbox and add rom file but no emulator. make it add the batch file you created. This should add it
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Have you uploaded them here? thank you for this
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Ok these files allow you to rename any Gamebase collection Games, Screenshots, Sids, and Extras!
Ok so I know this is not exactly what everyone was looking for, but I created a renamer for GB64 V15. It is a simple batch file. If I can I will attach both the excel and the batch file so you can update it with v16 if it ever comes out. This was very easy to be made, and the end result is this
MOVE "j\JUMPMAN1_04000_02.zip" "Jumpman (4000).zip"
Instructions on how to convert to other gamebases.
01. Open Database file (in this case it was C:\GameBase\GBC_v15\GBC_v15.mdb)
02. Open the Attached spreadsheet file
03. Copy Full Row of GA_ID, NAME, and Filename from Database to spreadsheet
04. The rest should be automatic, unless there is more than 25,000 entries. In that case you will need to copy d2-F2 to d250001 - D ?? ??=to wherever file list ends
05. On first line of new text file type the path to the games for instance C:\GB64
06. Copy Row D to new text file
07. Save text file as "Name of gamebase renamer.bat"
08. run new text file
09. optional: add Pause at the end of the batch file
10. Optional: Column E shows number of special characters (this mainly finds the letters with tildies and appostrophies)
Unfortunately It does not rename ALL of the files, only the ones actually listed in the database. This is a problem with the GB64 creator, rather than the renamer. For instance out of 42,718 screenshots 17,881 are not renamed, but there should be 1 per game.
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Ok so I know this is not exactly what everyone was looking for, but I created a renamer for GB64 V15. It is a simple batch file. If I can I will attach both the excel and the batch file so you can update it with v16 if it ever comes out. This was very easy to be made, and the end result is this
MOVE "j\JUMPMAN1_04000_02.zip" "Jumpman (4000).zip"
Instructions on how to convert to other gamebases.
01. Open Database file (in this case it was C:\GameBase\GBC_v15\GBC_v15.mdb)
02. Open the Attached spreadsheet file
03. Copy Full Row of GA_ID, NAME, and Filename from Database to spreadsheet
04. The rest should be automatic, unless there is more than 25,000 entries. In that case you will need to copy d2-F2 to d250001 - D ?? ??=to wherever file list ends
05. On first line of new text file type the path to the games for instance C:\GB64
06. Copy Row D to new text file
07. Save text file as "Name of gamebase renamer.bat"
08. run new text file
09. optional: add Pause at the end of the batch file
10. Optional: Column E shows number of special characters (this mainly finds the letters with tildies and appostrophies)
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I have also made files to rename the extras folder, so that all the screenshots should work in Launchbox. Unfortunately this does not rename every single item in the extras as there are a total of 6003 items that are not listed in the database. This mostly includes the magazine Covers (2000), Cover Disks and tapes (1545), and Back covers (907), but also includes Covers (187) and Adverts (423).
Files are added
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@Jason Carr Has there been any movement on this. I am having a heck of a time getting the best commodore 64 list working in Launchbox. Organization of C64 is not very good, and add the fact that the software as a whole had a lot f duplicates or hacks o clones makes it even worse.
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@InfinityFox The files are no longer available in that manner, you must look in the places you may find things like mame roms.
@CaptainJ Did that work for you?
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ah that makes sense, thanks
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So I have been trying to import my c64 files all day and ran into numerous snags. The first thing was I had them in 1 folder with nested subfolders (1 level). Even if I put some files in the root directory, the import would not find any files. tried other kinds of files and it always worked. Possible too many folders (15,000+)? Anyway finally got it to import in by moving the files outside the directories and doing them 6,000 at a time. This worked, however, It only found 7035 out of 8500. Unsure why. Can you help me understand how it decides what to accept and what to deny.
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So I ran a small test with a couple 1000 games and it did find defender this time. Have no idea how it happened the last time as it defaults to north america
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I have not had that issue, my issue has been with Launchbox not realizing which are parents and which are clones. So Defender gets listed as Attack, Ms. Pac-man gets listed as Ms. Pacman 2 and Pac-man gets listed as Hangly Guy
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Do you mean scanlines in daphne or in lb or in all emulators? I have never seen a plugin for daphne scanlines.