HotMommasCowboy

I do understand and appreciate you taking the time to explain everything. Thank you!

Thanks Retro808. I do have a legit license. I bought the lifetime, somewhere around, 6-7 years ago. I can understand y'all's frustrations behind pre-bought and the potential beef with them. Due to traveling for work all of the time I just don't have the time to try and build a system. So I took, what I thought, was the easy route to go with the arcade pedestal I built. I did add my license in to make it legit (at least that was the thought in my head) since LB/BB is all I care to use. If that's not OK and I need to purchase another license, or pay a fee, please let me know and I will. You guys have always been great and I'd like to keep it that way if I can.

Thanks JoeViking245. Being a license holder, even though it's a pre-configured drive, it was a setting I did inside LB/BB and was hoping someone would point me in the right direction within so I could turn it off. I'll find it myself then at some point. Thanks again.

Need help! The other day I turned on a setting for MAME to call out the game name and the high score at the start of a game and now I can't find where I turned that on at so I can turn it off. I've searched LB/BB and MAME settings and I just can't seem to find it again. If anyone knows where it is, would you please remind me of it's location? Thanks! I'm thinking I was in LB when I turned that setting on, but I'm not sure. Not sure it's needed, but this is my setup: Hyper Arcade Systems 48tb drive setup. I do not use Hyperspin, I only use LB/BB in that setup.

@skizzosjt You are correct, it’s a different program, but it also works with AimTrak light guns. The main benefit I see to this program (unless Andy’s updated the AimTrak program) is that it will not lose its identifier (not sure of the correct wording here, but it’s not the ID# that is assigned) inside windows when/ if you turn your computer off or even do a restart. There is the video that was posted with Chuck with Maverick’s Arcade explaining how to stop that from happening. Which was a PITA for me to comprehend and understand not being a computer guy. There are features inside Arcade Guns that won’t work with Ultimarc’s light guns, but the guns are always “remembered” when you shut down your computer and turn it back on. Thats why I mentioned that program. I’ve had it installed for about a year now with no issues.

Mark, a donation is not necessary. That’s what this forum is for! It’s to help one another out. If it wasn’t for the LB community, I would’ve given up a long time ago!! Here’s a pic of the program I use now. It’s similar to AimTrak, but, unlike AimTrak, it keeps the light guns recognizable by MAME. This program automatically turns itself on when you start/ re-start your computer so the light guns don’t lose their configuration. You would only need to set them up one time in MAME. As far as working with other emulators, I’m not sure because I only use them in MAME. As far as setting them up in MAME, if you google “AimTrak MAME Config Light Guns” by Retro Lizard, he does a great job explaining how to set them up in MAME. I’m sure you’d probably need to do the same for other emulators. I’ve just never set mine up for other emulators.

@marcosgaming I apologize, but I'm not sure what you're asking. This is just my thought, but as long as everything is saved to your an external drive that you plan on making "portable", it should work when you take it with you. Although I've never used it, one of the features of LB was being able to make it portable. So as far as I know, you should be able too as long as everything is saved to your portable drive. One of the issues I had when I posted my question was that every time I turned off my computer, my light guns were given new address locations. A couple people posted on how to fix it along with several videos, which I eventually figured out. But then I also found out that downloading (I apologize if I'm not allowed to mention this...delete if I'm not allowed to state this) the program Arcade Gun Pros utility, solved my problem. So that's the program I use now to keep my ID's for my LG's.

For anyone trying to go by @Arcade Workshop post, some things have changed. If you follow Arcade Workshop's post, when you right click to go too "Bulk Run Before/After Main Application", that has been removed since his original post. But, @JoeViking245 had already accounted for this by creating a .dll file you can download to have it back. Here is the link to his forum post to download that link if you need it: Hopefully this'll help save some headaches for those that have the GRS 4-8 way auto-switcher and try to set it up.

That worked perfectly. Thanks again!

Sorry, mistake from being in the rabbit hole all last night. I would go into my newly created platform category "Joystick 4-Way", highlight one of the games and then use ctrl+a to highlight all my games in there and then I would right click on my mouse (not go to tools - major face palm on that one!! 😒) and Add is at the bottom of that popup window. But, from your posts I've seen, you appear to be a seasoned Vet at this, so I'm sure you probably had my SNAFU figured out! 🤣 All of my glorious searching last night, I never once came across that post!! I apologize for posting this. Had I come across your post in that link, it would have saved me hours of headaches last night trying to figure this out! Thanks for being patient with a rookie JoeViking245! 👍👍

Arcade Workshop did a great how to for the GRS 4-8 way auto switcher back in June last year that would allow for a bulk edit to switch your joystick to 4 way and back automatically. Since then, I see that the "Bulk Run Before/After Main Application" has been removed and "Add" replaced it. Is there another way to get to a Bulk Run... to make the necessary changes without having to do the all my games manually? I've tried going into Tools, Add, under Metadata...Additional Apps...Add apps. Once I'm done adding in the .exe for the GRS auto switcher, clicking run before, I hit OK, then when I hit the final OK, I get a screen pop up telling me to add the Game Title. I went down a serious rabbit hole trying to figure out how to bulk add the info, but I just can't seem to figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Well, they've changed this up since you wrote about this in the forum. The bulk run... has been removed and now it's "Add". All the steps work until you get to the very end and click the final "OK". Then it gives you a pop up wanting to know the name of the game! Whelp, guess I'll have to add all my games manually (twice to have them switch back to 8 way after I exit a game) unless someone chimes in with a way that'll let me do them all at once like in your video. On a side note, I had your pieces 3D printed and received them today. They look great, except for the fact that I had them do 2 tops and not a top and bottom!! Major head slap over that one! Whelp, if all goes well, I'll have 2 bottoms in a few days! Thanks again for sharing that info with me. These are going to be awesome once I get them into place.

I appreciate that. I'll keep you posted. I'm sure we'll get it. I actually rewatched that video again yesterday and some things finally started to click in my thick head! I might go at it again tomorrow. If it's any consolation, I did get American Laser Games up and running!!

Actually had to go to a French site to download it. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️