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No worries - really glad it helped

ok ill point out none of these really hide the logging in process. I did actually follow this yt video with bcedit its how i got my pc to boot up with a black screen but you still see a brief login as it logs in. I ended up putting a pacman character as my aavatar pic and renaming my profile "ARCADE BOOTING..." does the job. i dont think its possible to compltley remove it unfortunatley.

Ok so i finally found the cause of these images not loading and thought i better post for the devs (as it appears to be a bug) and incase anyone else has the same issue. Honestly if i had known this last time id have saved myself 6-7 hours of messing about. So as mentioned in this post I had transferred my PC from my desktop monitor to my arcade cabinet. My desk monitor being a 30" Dell Ultrasharp at 2560x1600 resolution and my arcade unit screen being a Nec V321 32" 1360x768 native resolution. What would happen is when loading big box none of the graphics eg clear logos, banners and other things would load and it would also slow down the performance of the emulator, often you just have a black screen (unless text view) with the sounds of of the videos. If you could navigate (which was based off the sounds of the videos) you could get to the game and it would run perfectly, until of course you returned to big box, which had become more like "black box" !! So what was the issue ? Well a few days ago after wiping my original PC and transferring launchbox to a new Windows 10 fresh PC and it doing a similar thing (not exact issue again) when i came to install it in the arcade, my brother said to me "you dont think that monitor is too low resolution for bigbox do you ? maybe the graphics are too large to load at that size" I thought it was highly unlikley but decided to change the resolution anyway from 1360x768 to 1920x1080p and WHAT DO YOU KNOW ?!?!?!?!? it fixed the issue., the logos and everything loaded perfectly. What I really found strange is changing them back again to 1360x768 (its native resolution) still worked perfectly......Ive since restarted the PC and it appears to have fixed the issue now. So for anyone who cannot be bothered reading all that and has similar symptons, my advice. Change the screen resolution to something else (pref higher) and change it back. Hopefully the devs will look into this bug and fix it but I have to say im happy as larry as i really dont think i have the patience to repeat all the work for a third time ! Id like to thanks everyone on here who tried to help its a great community and the fast responses are really comforting knowing you have support from others.

so this may help anyone else ive realised this is related to another issue ive had with a slight difference which ill explain in my other post - may be worth leaving this thread open for search purposes as its still describes the issue i had.

ooooooo nice, thanks for these guys ill give them a go

thanks again mate, thats sorted now

yeah ive already tried both in the root and in the platform folders neither works

i dont seem to see a background folder in the music folder and creating one and dropping an mp3 in doesnt work

So after setting up my machine on my main monitor as i want it ive just transferred to my arcade cabinet and everything loads fine eg windows, the startup video but when it goes into black box it goes black and i can hear the videos playing. Basically as its a resolution change (from 2560x1600) to a 720p screen i can only assume i need to smoehow tell it to change resolution inside a ini file maybe? Odd thing is ive done this countless times on windows 7 from either display and its always been fine, I can only assume this is a windows 10 thing. Can anyone tell me how i tell it to change the resolution or fix the black screen issue ?

perfect thanks again dos76

Im wanting to add some retro music after bigbox loads - Ive dropped mp3s into the root and mame folder but it doesnt play them Ive also noticed in launchbox it says no music available but i have no idea where or how to add music, either via googling it or with any of the options in launchbox or big box could someone please explain how i go about doing this please ?

them's the ones thanks

tried that one thanks. All these guides that se this netplwiz method do the same thing, they allow you to not have to enter your password but rather frustratingly you still see the member login screen appear for a second before which completely ruins that fluid arcade boot im trying to get with windows hidden as much as possible

Im finally coming to the final polishing of my arcade cabinet with big box and i have just come across these really nice 3d icons ina video of each console and device Ive seen them about a lot but cant seem to source them 3:10 in you see the famicom 3d icon ? can anyone tell me where i download those ?

ive given it a go and its a good alternative but would rather keep explorer running - i just want to to remove the logging in screen !