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Hi, I just made a clean install of windows 10 and i would like to know from your experience, which are the most reliable and active in development for dualshock3 and dualshock4 drivers for windows 10 that work the best with the different emulators and RA cores. I used scptoolkit but i started having issues with it, windows stopped detecting controllers, tried to change some registry setting after reading some guide and it only got worse... Tried input mapper instead but i started having the same issues. this is some of the reasons why i made a clean windows install... From googling , input mapper seems to be the only ds3 and ds4 solution that still get updates (?) I don't like to mess with windows settings. I just want to play games. Looking back, even though i prefer it over the xbox controller, maybe i should have bought another xbox one controller instead of ds4. (i already had ds3 from the time i owned ps3). My controllers set up is: DS4, DS3, Hori real arcade pro 3 and xbox one controller. Thanks in advance.

I was wondering the same. That would be awesome.

It solved the problem. Thank you.

Sorry if this was asked before: I'm using RA mame2003plus core. I renamed "mame 2003 (0.78)" bezel related folders to MAME2003-plus because this is how RA names that core, anyway, I got mwalk.cfg in \RetroArch\config\MAME2003-plus which contains: input_overlay = ":/overlays/ArcadeBezels/mwalk.cfg" and in \RetroArch\overlays\ArcadeBezels: mwalk.png and mwalk.cfg which contains: overlays = 1 overlay0_overlay = mwalk.png overlay0_full_screen = true overlay0_descs = 0 Yet the bezel won't show, what am i missing?

1. In retroarch "mame 2003 plus" core, i have ds4 for player 1, ds3 for player 2 and real arcade pro 3 arcade controller for player 3. For games with up to 2 players, how can we allow rap3 arcade controller (or any other third controller for that mater) to be the second player? 2. Is there any way to allow to use the trigger or shoulder buttons in ds4/ds3 when playing arcade emulated driving games like Daytona USA in model 2 emulator? Using the analog stick to accelerate and brake is pretty annoying and feels unnatural. I know its originally made for wheel but still most people play emulation with gamepads and driving games with gamepads.

Hello, i would like to accurately display my current platform video themes. I download them, press ok, but when entering the platform video themes window LB keeps the previous platform theme displayed. Although, the newly selected video platform themes will play in BB. The same happens for 5-6 other platforms. For example, the current N64DD video theme is "colorful 4K...", i change it to "emumovies nintendo 64DD (16:9)HD", check the box, press ok, go back to the video theme window to see if the new theme is displayed but the "colorful 4K..." theme is still displayed. Is there a solution to this or is it already a known bug?

I highly recommend you guys to use the latest RA mame core to play ngcd as is considered the best emulator for it and allows to fasten the loading time. I made a guide in the following thread, enjoy and thank me later (it is in my last post on that thread): Enjoy!

Reporting the same issue with screenshots. I use Demul as emulator. Here is my Sammy Atomiswave roms folder: Here is what LB detects in the importing window: The AW games load fine directly through Demul. Example of a game LB detects: Example of a game LB doesn't detect:

First of all, i appreciate your help. Second, i did not ignore anything you wrote, but by reading my previous reply again, i found i did not elaborate myself correctly and a bit misunderstood what you wrote as well, but anyway, i understand your answer now. 1. How can i add this missing platform video so that it fades to the video and not to the black screen, like show in the youtube video presentation? 2. In case i want the platform wheel to remain static (on the right side, like in hyperspin front end), all the right side platform wheels fades, is that UR theme limitation? Would i have to change from UR to other theme? 3. In regard to mame game info launch screens, to make things clear, i want to game to launch immediately with no game info, no warnings, etc. nothing. Mame allows to skip information screen on start up but the warning screen remains. I googled it now and found that there is "no nag mame", would that be the only solution?

My above issue remains but i got a new question that hopefully someone can answer: 1. I'd like to switch from standalone mame to RA mame core for all my mame games because it has a feature which standalone mame lacks that allow to skip the mame game info screen that appears every time when launching a game (Right now i only use it for Neo Geo CD which has its own platform window in LB called "retroarch neo geo CD" with its own rules). What do i do in order to make the switch? I already updated mame core to the latest 0.215 (most roms should work even though some of the romset is for 0.214) and added my roms path t o mame ini in "...\RetroArch\system\mame\ini: rompath "...\Roms\MAME 0.215 Software List CHDs (merged)\neocd ;MAME 0.214 ROMs (merged);...\Roms\MAME 0.214 ROMs (bios-devices);...\Roms\MAME 0.215 CHDs (merged)" The games won't load in LB. What am i missing?

1&2. I did, i selected this for platforms wheel but the black screen remains. Only the game wheel seem to be affected by the game view themes, am i missing something?

1. Could you please validate your findings by comparing your roms folder to your cfg folder using a comparison tool and post your resaults here? Other than entering each of your hundrads of sega cd games to see if they show bezels which is not realistic, afaik, that is the only way to know if all roms names match all cfg names.

1&2. What do you mean by switch views? Or in other words, how do i make my BB look exactly like that youtube UR presentation? My views settings: 3. The startup video is playing for like 15 seconds or so and even towards the end of it it cannot be skipped, and after it ends there is about 40 seconds or so of black screen and only after that bb shows. How do i prevent this startup black screen transition from appearing? By the way, this forum system is the best forum system i ever used. It is just great. I feel like opening a dedicated thread to it. I'm not kidding. Kudos to the LB website developers. You are awesome. It is very usable and pleasant to look at. For example, print screen and paste directly to the post is so simple and so fast. Other forum systems won't even allow it. Would be nice if someone forward my message to them.

Hi, i got a few BB issues i would like to solve: 1. The platforms screen fades into a black screen with information on the bottom after 1 second when i stop touching the up/down with the controller, say, when changing from SMS icon to Genesis icon. I tried to change settings and also reset LB configuration and nothing seem to help, the fading occurs again. How do i prevent the platform screen from fading? 2. I have Unified Redux theme selected and i would like my platform screen to show unified redux platforms screen like shown here, how do i do that? 3. The BB startup video cannot be skipped. My bb keyboard select button is assigned to return but when i press return/Esc the start up video won't skip. How can i skip the video by pressing my keyboard and and by pressing my controller? 4. I bought MSI Gaming X GTX 1660 SUPER today and installed it. Which are the max presentation settings i should configure in BB options? For example, i chose VLC for videos. Thanks in advance!

You are right about negativity. Wasn't my intention. My apologies. It's just frustrating. @tallpr24 do you have sms fullset? Genesis fullset? Etc. If you do, would be nice if you test many games to see if you catch some that are not showing bezels. Wouldn't be surprised if you find some. Would be nice if you share your resaults here.

@DOS76 Believe me, i tried. I posted my progress here and asked questions and nobody seem to know. I got no answers. I followed the guides here. I use the latest no-intro roms for all my consoles. We don't need to change the roms names, we need to change the cfg names to match the roms so i used fatmatch for that which is recommended here and after the renaming quite a lot of games still won't show the bezels because fatmatch is ignoring these roms. Why it ignores some of the roms? Nobody seem to know. Here's the quote of my progress. Moreover, i want 100% showing bezels or else there is no point afaic to use bezels, either all show bezels or i won't use bezels at all. As i wrote, this is why i only use the bezels for mame as of now. Any clues?

If you want happy life than do not use bezels for consoles, simple as that, until someone offers a proper integration. Who knows, maybe bezels will be implemented in launchbox in the future, until then, enjoy life and game on! Also, you don't need FBA for anything if you want the best emulation because there are best emulators for each console/arcade board, like mame is the best for most arcade boards.

I use standalone Mame version 0.214 so my mame bezels are placed each in their own folder here: "...\Mame\artwork", for example: "...\Mame\artwork\3countb\Bezel.png".

From my experience, if you want 100% showing bezels then use game bezels only for Mame roms and stay away from console game bezels or use one console bezel for all games from each console (that would be boring though in my opinion) until someone comes up with a proper name matching solution. Start by downloading the latest mame roms. They are out there. By the way. All my non Disc based console roms are the latest no-intros.

As you can read from my attempt which nobody answered, be prepared for a lot of games not showing bezels after renaming the cfg files by using FatMatch. FatMatch will miss a lot of games names, no matter the settings, its better than nothing but its not a proper solution by any mean. Unfortunately, there is no proper solution to this. Take it or leave it. If you don't care about uniformity then go ahead. One will argue that its better not to have bezels at all rather than some games showing bezels and others not. Think about it. By the way, i'm only talking about console roms as all Mame roms show bezels.

Problem solved! RA mame core. For the benefit of people who break their heads on how to get this to work. Posting my configuration: Materials needed: neocd CHD's folder from mame SL CHD's. neocdz.zip from mame arcade roms RA with mame core installed 1. Make a RA platform specifically for NGCD with the following configuration: 2. Enter "...\RetroArch\retroarch-core-options.cfg" and configure: mame_boot_from_cli = "enabled" mame_boot_to_bios = "enabled" mame_boot_to_osd = "enabled" mame_read_config = "enabled" mame_write_config = "enabled" 3. Make a mame.ini file in "...\Retroarch\system\mame\ini\mame.ini" and copy paste this with your own paths: # # CORE CONFIGURATION OPTIONS # readconfig 1 writeconfig 0 # # CORE SEARCH PATH OPTIONS # homepath . rompath E:\neocd hashpath E:\RetroArch\system\mame\hash samplepath E:\RetroArch\system\mame\samples artpath E:\RetroArch\system\mame\artwork ctrlrpath ctrlr inipath E:\RetroArch\system\mame\ini fontpath . cheatpath E:\RetroArch\system\mame\cheat crosshairpath crosshair pluginspath plugins languagepath language swpath software 4. Put the neocdz.zip in your neocd folder and import the neocd folder to LB 5. Enjoy a great nostolgia in CD quality with the best NGCD emulator! A suggestion for the moderators: Make a simple step by step guides for each platform and add it to the forum. There is no replacement for a written material and some of the LB video guides are outdated and it can be difficult to find out for an answer from only using the search and many times the answer does not exist. This will make everything easier... and draw more people to use LB and pay for LBP.

I'm trying to load them in LB as i'm only interested in LB to load games. Mame is already configured in LB for my arcade games and NGCD. Neo geo cd CHD folder is already imported to LB. Here are some screenshots: