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Just wanted to post this method works great for people that might be using Dfend for DosBox, thanks!

I believe I had a couple instances that this has happened awhile back... so I switched sleep to hibernate and it has not happened since. But I can't confirm sleep caused the corruption nor if hibernate fixes it....just so happens it hasn't happened since.

Perfect.. thankyou!

I'm not at all familiar with the Taito launcher. So from your pic it shows teknoparrot for your emulator.... there are a couple threads on here about setting up teknoparrot. You need to point to your TP profile xml files as the roms. Configure your TP as in the pic below. For some other TypeX games you might not need TP... but will launch directly from the EXE, just depends on the game and which version you have. Basically I had to configure most TP and TypeX games individually.

well yah that's the risk of pre-configured drives, I would suggest take a look at the many video tutorials for setting up systems on launchbox. I would try doing 1 system to get the hang of it. Explore your drive to see the folder structure of where everything is.. roms, media, etc. Most likely you have a hyperspin folder and a Launchbox folder. Start launchbox and look at the top right corner, is your name displayed as the licensed user? Anyhow l would start with some tutorial videos on setting up a system, once you get it down then it should be pretty straightforward on how to make it work right.

Hello Arzoo, it's been a couple years since using your app.. Finally got my whole system transferred over from Hyperspin to BB. I have 2 questions.. I still have LED blinky 6.5, to upgrade to latest just drop system and exe files into existing folder? Also back in the HS days we had to rename any MAME collections with the word MAME in it for LED blinky to see the button configs. (Atari Classics MAME, Capcom Classics MAME, etc...) Is this still required?

OK will keep an eye out for that release, much appreciated. Something I noticed was if there is no marquee image BB will display the boxart in my case... something to do with the image priorities, for now maybe I can put just a clear logo.. will play around with it.

I got mine from Alibaba.com.. lots of Chinese vendors. But ebay has some from vitrolight - https://www.ebay.com/str/vitrolightlcdmodulestore

I actually built this a couple years ago.. got the design from chanceKJ's Flynn cabinet from arcadecontrols forum. I was running Hyperspin with HyperMarquee and LED Blinky but have fully switched to BB. Will be reskinning the cabinet soon with a new graphics theme. Using eclipse style RGB buttons from paradise arcades, also has cabinet RGB's in back, under CP, and at the bottom of the cab all controlled by a PacLED64. Obviously it runs a PC... but also a RaspberryPi with a USB hub switch to be able to use the same 4 player controls for each system. Has 2 Aimtracks with recoil and a Xbox360 controller receiver and Dolphin bar for all the console games that play better with a gamepad/wii-mote. Something about personal arcades, seems I spend more time adding and tweaking than actually playing!

Nice so you figured it out.. whenever you have time if you could share the code/steps to do this that would be great!

cool, another scenario would be platforms that don't have any marquees for each game. Lets say OpenBor (I know a set has been done recently though)… in the gamelist it would make sense just to have a permanent marquee display of the platform you are viewing. Also I know we talked about this awhile ago... being able to display the clear logo of the game on top of the default platform marquee image but I don't think that ever got implemented. (Hypermarquee/EDS does this... MUGEN below as example). With that being said I would settle for a default platform image.

yup works great... so what do you do for missing marquees in MAME, is there a way to have a default placeholder marquee image, in this case the platform marquee image MAME like in this example pic below.

Quick question... for PlatformMarqueeView.xaml, I assume its the same exact code?

YES!! Thanks for the help... I wouldn't of been able to figure this out. Will keep testing different size images and see how it looks but so far so good! Next up.... LED blinky!

Ok I placed the original SF Alpha image back.... the "fill' tag actually does fill in the sides as pic shows below.

Changed to 'Fill'... no changes. For the SF Alpha I simply resized the image to same size as SF CE. As you know the MAME marquess out there are all kinds of different sizes and resolutions so that will take some time to sort out but hoping LB can get by for now with marquee image display.

Ok getting closer, as you can see in the pics the bottom is slightly cut off. Then also the SF Alpha marque isn't filled in horizontally like the SF CE one.

Hi Retro, was hoping there was some recent marquee support threads... so I'm finally getting around to getting marquees on my cab, I changed values on in the xaml but still same results. (1920 x 540). Win10's recommended resolution is 1920 x 1080. I did notice my Xaml file looks different, could you share xaml or anyone as the file link takkett posted isn't working. Not sure what I am doing wrong... I really should confirm my stretched LCD resolution as there are quite a few different sizes. The one I'm using I imported from China couple years back.

Hi, I have interested in using my Dfend setup and import into LB.... could you elaborate more on the steps you did to do this?

Xenia not remembering fullscreen from F11... (Feb 20 2020 build) The AHK code works though, thanks!

hey retro, do you know if there is a way to have LB open xenia in FS?

$75 seems fair as the software does have regular updates... that being said that price takes things to another level and maybe expectations as well. I really hope we get true dynamic marquee support, bulk editing of additional apps, hiding platforms, adding additional apps to a platform rather than individual games (PC executables) and so on... Keep up the great work.

Is there a way to have your music play when going into your pause menu only? I put some test MP3's in a few platform folders but no luck -> D:\Launchbox\Music\Platform

Yah TP is a pain... code wont work, I did however got JoytoKey to work mapping ESC to control panel. So far working with Aliens, transformers, operation ghost, hotd4... but if launching the game with Gameloader all RH, it seems to block the JoytoKey mapping.... more to investigate. Thanks for your suggestions!

Everytime I try to login I get an error...tried deleting and redownloading tapatalk app but no success. Anything I can do to get this to work?