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Hello! I have a pretty large amount of games catalogued in my Launchbox at this point and I am attempting to save space on the disk it is located on. I have ran the media cleanup tool and removed any duplicates but I still find that many games download automatically multiple different covers/screenshots/etc and for my purposes I really would only need one of each. I am searching to try to find an easy way to automate the process of removing all but the first image of any media category for all of my games but I don't seem to be having any luck so I would like to ask is this a feature contained in Launchbox? Thank you!

I'm assuming that's some sort of remote play and the same could be done on a PS5. I get the lack of urgency but it would be nice at some point. I see other users echoing this sentiment. I mean lots of games on the PS3 and 360 platforms probably are not even playable through emulation yet, particularly 360, but despite that they are surprisingly well maintained. Even Xbox emulation is pretty spotty still but most games are still on there and as a modded Xbox owner Launchbox has been excellent as a catalogue so I don't have to boot up the console and I can use the synced library to just pull up my library and make a decision before I even look through that as well as my various modded consoles with large libraries on them. I can make my own PS5 platform for my own purposes and probably will, there aren't many titles exclusive to the platform yet most of them I own are crossgen but still, it appears I'm certainly not the only one using the application outside the 'intended purpose' so as time goes on would be nice to see support. Thank you!

I recently required a PS5 and use Launchbox not just to launch my emulators but also catalogue my physical games and I notice Playstation 5 is still not in the database as a platform along with any Playstation 5 titles. I wanted to post and voice that I hope at some point more support is given to Playstation 5 as a platform in the database. Thank you

Yes, I have 3 monitors all at different resolutions

No, sorry maybe I worded that poorly. My emulators all launch fine and fullscreen just fine. The problem is that Big Box has an option to select which screen it is on, when I try to set Big Box to one of my other monitors (so any monitor that is not checked in windows as my "main display") Big Box will move to the monitor but only fill a portion of the screen. If needed I can post a picture of this when I am home

Okay so the issue that I'm having is that I wish to make the screen I'm going to launch my game on to the primary monitor for windows and I wish to keep Big Box up on a secondary monitor while my game runs on my primary monitor. The problem is that any time I use the monitor selection option from inside the settings in Big Box when the application moves to the other screen it will not occupy the full screen. The only screen Big Box ever takes up fully and looks correct on is whichever screen is set to my primary monitor in windows. So far I've tried just about all the different Windows DPI scaling settings to see if that would help but I've had no results. Any idea what might fix this?

Are you running any shaders? Some Retroarch cores are only compatible with certain kinds of shader formats

What format are the games you are trying to run in? The PSX Retroarch cores don't support some file formats that other emulators do

The point of this is you are actually avoiding externally scaling your signal. When you send it say 320x240@60 it gives you a desktop that is actually 320x240 resolution so whatever type of signal you pick is exactly what you're sending. You might have to convert color space from RGB to YPbPr but whatever amount of lag that introduces should be pretty negligable. The only place there will be that much lag to cut back on is the software overhead

Hey that's me! Beautiful setup you have here I am glad to see more people out here doing this! Interesting how you matched it to your own consoles even down to the overscan, I always thought part of the benefit of this was that it made it easier to get your overscan perfect so every console can fill the entire screen but I understand the appeal of getting that extra last bit of authenticity.

Yeah CRT's are pretty limited with vertical resolution but can actually resolve a really wide range of horizontal resolutions most go even higher than 2560 I actually have a 3840x240 mode installed as well because using that I can have too different sets of porch values to adjust overscan on certain games. I hope everything works well for you let me know how it goes. I'd say why not keep the profiles for the plasma around too though? What I love about Launchbox is it makes it easy to pick between screens on a whim, I still quite like how retroarch looks on my tv with a nice shader / overlay, one thing I can say is nothing can beat CRT color though

It might help to know more specifically what kind of controller you happen to be using, and also if you have any experience yet making this controller work on any other games or emulators?

If you always run your monitors in the same orientation to each other and if you can make sure when you run dolphin that you can set the same monitor to your primary every time for that emulator, even if it's the one you don't want to actually run the game on, then you could make some sort of AutoHotkey script for the emulator to tell it to send keyboard strokes for Win Key + Shift + Right/Left right? I wouldn't know exactly how to go about it but I believe that's possible

I suggest using Multi Monitor Tool: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/multi_monitor_tool.html Just set up a batch file and edit it to point to which number monitor you want to be made primary, then set up another to undo the first one and set your other monitor back to primary, then either set these programs up as additional apps on a per game basis, or I believe you can set up your emulator to run an ahk script for these programs before opening and after closing

Thanks happy to help!

This is something I'd be really interested in something like this as well, I'd like to be able to have Background Music playing on everything without it's own .mp3 or video associated with it. It seems for now when I enable Background Music it takes priority over game music and videos but I may still be configuring it incorrectly

Over the last couple weeks I've been chipping away at setting up my ROM collection with Launchbox and my CRT TV http://imgur.com/CraS2GE The picture I've linked above is the result I shared on Reddit when Lordmonkus replied and stated there might be an interest here in how I pulled this all off and I'd be happy to spread whatever knowledge I can to help people achieve the same thing. The first thing required in setting this up is just getting a modern PC to output 15khz into a CRT in the first place, the way I'm able to do this is using an old AMD Radeon HD 7850 GPU with modified drivers called CRT_Emudriver, more information on that here: http://geedorah.com/eiusdemmodi/forum/viewtopic.php?id=295 then after my computer is now able to send 15khz I take the signal through a custom VGA-SCART cable I found on Ebay, from there I use a common SCART to Component trans-coder easily found on either Amazon or Ebay and an aux to RCA L/R audio cord to send a component signal to my CRT. There is a lot of good extra information about other methods and equipment that can help you bring a signal from your PC to a CRT TV or PVM/BVM here in this thread I've also participated in: https://www.aussiearcade.com/showthread.php/87668-A-guide-to-connecting-your-Windows-PC-to-an-SD-CRT-TV-PVM-or-Arcade-Monitor . That covers how I output to my CRT but now onto how I configure my emulators to work with this. Now on to the Emulator setup, for most systems I use Retroarch. CRT_Emudriver allows you to assign any custom resolutions you want that the TV can support so I have set up several resolutions for my different consoles for the GBA, GB, and SMS they mostly use one resolution but for SNES, NES, Genesis\CD\32X, etc switch between 240 and 224 so I have a profile set up for both. How I do this is I make seperate emulator listings for different profiles in example, Retroarch_GBA.cfg, Retroarch_TV.cfg, Retroarch_224p.cfg etc for each different console / display / vertical resolution I want to choose and point my command line to load them accordingly depending on which "launch with" option I choose. The CFG's for the CRT just define which screen index the CRT is, the resolution to switch too (so no borderless fullscreen here) and the aspect ratio matching the same resolution ex. 2560x240, same with the profile for my big screen TV but it's set to auto fullscreen to whatever that screen is set to. I use Project 64 and EPSXe for just a few games on both platforms as well Dolphin and Mame primarily for GC and Arcade so for those I use two tools. Multi Monitor Tool: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/multi_monitor_tool.html I use this too switch the primary monitor for emulators so they can full screen on the CRT, and then to change it back as well when the game is close using the additional applications feature. I also use ChangeScreenResolution.exe: http://tools.taubenkorb.at/change-screen-resolution/ to change the resolution on the CRT. I make batch files for these tools that tell them which screen to make primary or change to what resolution, then on a per game basis I assign them as additional apps for certain games. Dolphin just auto fullscreens to whatever monitor it was on last on so I have a separate Dolphin executable for games I play on the CRT like virtual console titles. Groovymame is made for CRT TVs in mind and doesn't really require much additional setup. Anyways that's how I set up my CRT to work into my Launchbox setup, feel free to ask any questions and hopefully someone finds this interesting / useful

Hello everyone! I made a post on reddit about this earlier so I'm pretty much pasting it here as well but I recently decided to purchase Launchbox premium, I've tried a few other frontends unsuccessfully and figured if I ever had a hope of getting one working properly with my setup it'd be this one. normally I have two monitors my 4k TV and my CRT TV and I'm trying to set it up so that when I start a retro emulator it will select the right resolution most 2560x224 and 2560x240 and then switch monitors to the CRT and toggle Fullscreen. Looking online it seems possible if I were to make a batch file the right way for my emulators I've been trying to get it working though and struggling so I thought I'd ask if anyone here has any experience with a setup similar to mine and has any advice? Meanwhile I'll keep trying things on my end thanks!