CDBlue

You can can tell PCSX2 to run in fullboot mode by entering the following command line in your emulator settings in LB for PCSX2 (see screenshot): --fullscreen --fullboot Doing so should allow PCSX2 to boot from the bios (ie. not uses fastboot) and should allow multi language games to work properly.... I think

lol those are alot of questions Don't have answers for most of your post, but I thought I'd help you out with a couple of things. First of all, RetroArch running slow. If it's running slowing on your system, it's likely an issue with the video driver you've selected to use in the driver settings in retroarch (or more than likely the one that retroarch determined was "best" for your system). Looking at your specs, that on-board Intel graphics is really going to hold you back (better forget anything newer than maybe PS1 with that card). For that graphics card I would bet that RetroArch determined that it can do OpenGL (which it can... on paper at least) and likely that's the video driver that's being used. From experience, I can tell you that it won't work well with most onobard intel graphics cards. Try going into Retroarch settings, drivers, video driver and select d3d11, as that's likely going to give you the best performance for that system. Once you select it, save your settings and restart retroarch and try a game. The specs you have listed looks like they should allow for SMS, NES, SNES, Genesis etc. games from that era to run at near full, if not 100% full, speeds. As for getting better performance, as I mentioned above, the onboard graphics are really going to hold you back. Forget about playing anything modern on that card, unfortunately. To get much better performance you'll need to look at getting a dedicated graphics card (AMD or nVidia are the main cards to look at). One last things, for the black screen with sound when you launch BB, that might be related again to the onboard video. I find for those, you sometimes get better performance/less issues if you select Windows Media Player as the video player in LB/BB. Try that out and see if that resolves your black screen with sound on startup. As for pressing a key to bypass the startup video early, you can do just that. Press your select key that you have bound to your controller in BB and that will exit the video as soon as BB is loaded in the background. Hopefully some of this will be helpful, and maybe someone else will chime in and help with the other issues/questions you have listed. Cheers, CDBlue

Can't go wrong with 8bitdo controllers. I have the SN30 Pro, which is about the size of the original SNES controller, but with 2 analog sticks, and two shoulder buttons.... basically like an xbox controller's setup. It's bluetooth and is a very good size for a childs hands... plus it can be used on Mac, PC, Android and Switch so it's very versatile. Look up some reviews and see if it's to your liking. https://www.amazon.de/QUMOX-Controller-Gamepad-Windows-Nintendo/dp/B07H87FSW4/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=8bitdo+sf30+pro&pd_rd_r=26b01724-1259-4653-8706-f86839474bb0&pd_rd_w=zA0ra&pd_rd_wg=8NpbL&pf_rd_p=fa44f4b0-05d3-4223-9c78-8eb364be1556&pf_rd_r=3AC9YMP0X4F70P8A7CH4&qid=1570282715&sr=8-4

If it's working correctly when you launch from PCSX2 directly, it might just be an issue with the command line option in your emulator settings in LB. Check your emulator configuration and make sure the following is listed for the command line: --nogui --fullscreen --fullboot If I remember correctly most multi-language games prefer fullboot, but some might require the fast boot process instead. So, if you use the above command line and it doesn't work, try removing the --fullboot so that it reverts to using the normal fast boot process (there is no command line needed for fastboot, if you remove the fullboot command line it should use fastboot by default I believe). Hopefully it's as simple as that -CDBlue

For Dolphin Fullscreen is an option you just need to select in the program. Open Dolphin and go to Options/Graphics Settings. On the general tab there's a check box for Fullscreen. If you select that and save/close, the next time you launch a game it will automatically go to fullscreen. For the error, I'm not 100% sure what's causing that error to come up. But, if you right-click the game in question in Dolphin and select properties, from there you can try deselecting the Synchronize GPU thread (or select it if it's unchecked) and see if that makes and different. Not 100% sure if that's related to the issue or not, but it is an option you can play with per game so it might be somewhat related.

I dropped using ePSXe as my goto emulator for PS1 games in favor of the PSX_HW core in retroach which is much more feature rich, and to be honest better in just about every way... just an FYI in case you wanted to give that a try (if you already have retroarch setup that is). That being said, if I recall correctly there's a command line you need to enter in your emulator settings in LB for ePSXe in order for it to load correctly ( ). According to the LB thread for command line options, -nogui -slowboot -loadbin is the recommend command line option for that emulator. Not sure if this will fix your issue or not, but check to make sure that's listed as a command line options in your emulator settings in LB just to be sure. If it's not there, that might be the fix.

I believe the KB shortcut to exit Demul from within Demul (all versions) was alt-F4. Try this one to see if it works. $Esc:: { Send !{F4} Return } This should force-close Demul, and should work with pressing ESC and controller automation. I also found this script in the AHK post in the forums here, not sure if it still works or not through. If the above one doesn't you can try this to see if it still works: $Esc:: { WinClose, ahk_class window ahk_exe demul.exe } Hope this helps, CDBlue Edit: Here's a direct link to the thread in these forums where people have been posting AHK scripts and questions relating to emulators and LB/BB -

There are a few things that I feel I should mention before a possible solution is listed (or at least what I believe the solution, anyway). Firstly, in case you were not aware, Mess is now integrated into Mame, and no longer two separate arcade platforms. I would recommend using Mame instead of Mess nowdays as Mame is more up-to-date than the old Mess standalone. Secondly, if you have retroarch setup and working for other systems, the core for Atari 2600 (Stella_libretro) is actually very good, and what I would recommend for emulating Atari 2600, as it's typically easier to setup retroarch and get it working for consoles, rather than getting Mame/Mess Now the possible solution to your issue, that is if you do want to continue using Mess. It's been a long time since I touched Mess, but if Mess is similar to Mame, which I believe it was back in the day, then it's actually recomended to not use the AHK keys in LB to exit Mame/Mess, but rather map those hotkeys to work with the emulator itself. For example, map the exit functionality in Mame/Mess to the two thumbsticks. The issue is that ESC works because Mess's default key to exit the emulator is ESC. But, pressing the controller automation in LB/BB doesn't trigger that properly... and even if it does, it usually causes problems as it doesn't exit properly and causes things to not save (if you made changes in configs for example). So, for Mame/Mess, it's best to change the mapping in there if possible, to match the controller exit scheme you use for other emulators. Hope this was helpful in some way... good luck. -CDBlue

Typically, that error can be ignored. From what I've experienced it's actually more or a warning that there was an issue in the archive, but it typically doesn't prevent the files from being correctly extracted. More about this error on 7zip's forum (https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/12f4a318/?limit=25)

@RetroHumanoid Just wondering if there was any update on the startup screens that you had to start over due to the HD crash? Based on all your other work you've posted here I'm really looking forward to what you do with those

Seems to be only happening for any fields that are also drop downs. For example, you can also edit/select with the mouse the Version field in the top section, but none of the others, which are drop downs. Not sure why, but that seems to be the key difference that I can spot which is stopping it from being able to be selected with the mouse.

Sounds like it might be a theme-specific bug. You can locate the thread for the theme you're using here: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/category/2-big-box-custom-themes/ Click in the thread for the theme, then select the Get Support button on the right of that thread (below the Download this file link/button). As long as it's a theme that's pretty popular/newer, and the theme developer is still around, usually someone will assist and/or fix the bug and they can reproduce it (if it's the developer for example). If it's an older theme also, it might not be full compatible with the version of LB/BB you're using, in which case I would suggest trying one of the newer themes that is to your liking and see if the bug exists on those as well. I know this is not really an answer as to why you're seeing what you're seeing, but hopefully it will point you in the right direction to get a fix for it... or maybe to get a different theme you were not aware existed and want to try something else

I believe if you select and remove the platform from within launchbox, then close launchbox (so the files are not locked and can be deleted manually) then go into the following locations and manually delete the files, it will be as if that platform never existed and all will be downloaded again... but not 100% sure on the meta data part. Simply deleting the platform within LB does not delete the actual files related to those games (ie. artwork, videos, etc.) Default location of meta data for platform and games within the platform: ...\LaunchBox\Data\Platforms\ Arcade.xml Default location of images artwork for games within the platform: ..\LaunchBox\Images\Arcade Default location of video files for games within the platform: ..\LaunchBox\Videos\Arcade Keep mind that the above locations are assuming that you imported your MAME collection into a platform called Arcade. If you imported them into a differently named platform, just delete those instead (eg. if you called the platform MAME, then you would delete the MAME.xml file, and the MAME folder in Images and Videos). Also, doing so will mean all of the artwork and videos will need to be re-downloaded for all your games you import, which can be time consuming if you are doing a large or full set. Hope this helps. CDBlue

Classic Shell is a decent program. But, Windows 10 start menu is very functional now days, and if you don't want the tiles you can just right-click on them and select unpin and it'll remove them... or in 1903 version of Windows 10 if you right click on the name of the group of tiles you can select unpin and it'll remove the entire section of tiles at once. But, as you said if you do prefer the old Windows 7 style menu with All Programs, etc. then Classic Shell is a nice solution.

FYI (in case you were not aware) Windows 7 end-of-life is scheduled for Jan 2020... might be time to think about upgrading as once that date comes along MS is no longer going to be patching any security issues for most, if not all, Windows 7 variations. No patches means that known and/or new exploits, after that date, will make it much easier to hack/infect Windows 7 machines. It will continue to work after that date, but why risk giving much easier access to hackers https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4057281/windows-7-support-will-end-on-january-14-2020

You might want to look at The Bezel Project for Windows as well. I'm not a fan of bezels in general, but I did try these out on one of my systems to see how they looked, and was overall impressed by their work. https://github.com/thebezelproject/BezelProject-Windows/releases ETA Prime did a good video explaining how it works, etc. Have a look at his video before downloading, as it might not be what you're looking for: EDIT: Looking back at your question, this might not be ideally what you're looking for. These are not flat borders, they do have a CRT curve in the overlay. However, still might be worth a look. If you want to try them out, backup your retroarch folder and then install.. if you don't like them, just restore from your backup.

You can get platform clear logos from the forums here: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/category/14-platform-clear-logos/ From the looks of the platform logo you do show in your screenshot, it looks like that one is using a variation of the Silver Ring logo's by Viking. If you want all your icons to look similar to that you download them from this thread: You simply download the ones you want and place them in your clear logo folder for the platform in question. For example, for Sega Saturn it would go in your ..\LaunchBox\Images\Platforms\Sega Saturn\Clear Logo folder. As for the game icons missing etc. most of those can likely be downloaded withing LB/BB itself. This should have happened when you imported your games, unless you unchecked all the media to download during the import. In LB click on your platform that you want to download the files for, select all your games for that platform (CTRL-A), then click on Tools... Download Metadata and Media. Select all the items you want to search for (front box, 3d box, clear logos, etc.) or you can just click on select all. Go through the screens by clicking next and then on the last screen you can select to replace all existing media, or replace only missing items (recommended). Hope this is what you're looking for, and that this helps somewhat. -CDBlue

From what I can tell, it looks like Mame 0.172 is when support for the command line -keyboardprovider was introduced. To be safe though, I'd probably go with 0.173 just in case what I read was off by one release.

I would suggest to just set those back to the default CEMU settings, you likely won't notice any difference in performance in 99.9% of the games with the default settings vs those custom settings, and you won't have any issues launching games from LB/BB with the default cemu time settings. Or, are you saying that the default settings are now causing you the same error? I don't have any issues with my CEMU, with the default settings, and launching games via LB/BB, but I did when I was using custom timer settings.

Ok, found the issue. It was Windows update process messing up the nVidia drivers. I downloaded the latest version (same ones I had already) and just did a clean install and all is good again. So, if anyone else has this issue, first thing to try is to re-download and do a clean re-install of your video card drivers.

Yeah, I did reboot after playing with the scaling, etc. It's not a big issue I guess, with the work around of checking those boxes in the compatibility tab it all looks fine. I just wasn't sure if it was a bug introduced in 9.8, or Windows 10 1903 update, or like you said maybe it's a drive issue that's appeared as a result of the 1903 update process. I might try to uninstall and re-install my nVidia drivers and see if that changes anything. It's unfortunate (for me I guess if no one else is having similar issues) as both LB/BB and Windows updated the same day, so I don't know who the culprit is for sure

hmm I'm at 1080p with 125% magnification. I tried my other PC that I also have updated to the latest 1903 that came out a couple of days ago, and LB is doing the same thing on there if I set the scale/magnification in Windows to 125%. That one is connected to a monitor, so I normally just leave it at 100% (recommended) and it has no issues there.