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None that I have noticed. I played a lot of Smash bros 64 where timing is can be very critical, and it feels just like playing on the actual system to me.

Is this the Hori FC you're talking about ? http://shoryuken.com/2017/08/29/shoryuken-review-hori-fighting-commander-pad-for-playstation-4xbox-one/ I've never owned an xbox or xbox controller before a few months ago, but I am starting to take a real liking to it. Gamecube is still my number one :P.

Thanks! I have a hard time playing some games without the OEM feel, specifically the N64 and Gamecube. Visitors seem to really like this especially those that aren't into emulation. Plus I thought they looked pretty cool on the shelf, and it kind of turned into a dual purpose collection from there.

I would really really like to use retroarch but I can't get it to work with my controller set up. I want to be able to load up either a X360 or Xbox one control scheme from the launchbox menu. So I tried saving two of the same core with different filenames with different control schemes, and no matter what I do I have to enter the controller config and do it manually anytime I try to switch controllers. What I've done with Mednafen is create two Mednafen directories with their own executable, and make them share the same folders through the config file (for save files, snap shots, etc). The only difference between the two is their controller config. Then within launchbox I choose one or the other for my controller of choice.

Just a video showing off my favorite parts of my set up. Features: -Wireless via wii remote multi controller set up if you're in that nostalgia mood -Alternatively one can use the Xbox one controller if you're feeling lazy (except for Wii/Gamecube I am having issues setting up alternative controllers with Dolphin, so in the meantime I have to use either an oem wii remote or gamecube controller.) -Press the center button on any controller (Wii remote, PS2, Xboxone) to load/exit big box, holding center buttons turns off controller without exiting or launching. -Television automatically turns on and tunes into correct HDMI input when launched from controller -A splash screen with a 5 second timer shows up on monitor before bigbox launches to give me the option of loading big box on to computer monitor instead (in case someone is using the TV screen for something else.) -Custom X link Kai semi-transparent interface for simulated LAN play over the internet. -3D printed Gamcube port where a CD drive normally sits in PC (+ wavebirds!) -BIGBOX UI SHORTCUTS! select + right -> Audio and video sent to TV Select + Left-> Audio and video sent to PC Select + Down-> Audio sent to headset Select + Up-> Custom semi-transparent X Link Kai interface pops up. When interface is up Select + Down hides the interface again Select + Triggers or (- and 1 or 2 on wii remote) -> Volume control Controllers in my collection thus far: 2 NES Classics 2 SNES Classics 4 N64 4 Gamecube Wavebirds (wireless gamecube controllers) 4 Wii remotes 2 Wii Classic controllers 2 Sega Genesis 2 PS2 2 Xbox one (would like 4 eventually)

I never used this before due to how difficult it was to set up, after reading your reply I started to play around with the config file for a few days the emulator is working exactly like I need it to. Thanks!

Hello. First a little background, I am using a program called "Wiinusoft", and what it does is it connects your wii remotes to the computer and outputs them as an X360 controllers. I am then connecting the wii remotes to the OEM controllers of whatever platform I am playing using adapters. BAM wireless OEM controllers. For most emulators this works great. Kega Fusion however has been causing me some headaches. If I "plug in" one x360 controller I can map the outputs fine no problem, as soon as I "plug In" two controllers, this is no longer the case and no button presses from either controller is read by Kega. Please help! I am in the final stages of completion of my little emulator station... until I decide to add more lol.

WARNING: This tutorial could be borderline difficult, and is specific to my own personal use. Feel free to experiment, change or customize to your own use. If there are other emulators that work through the lan, you may be able to play other console games this way as well. My knowledge of programming is extremely limited so if you feel you know a better way to accomplish this same goal, please share! You will need to set up your PCSX2 for lan play I used this tutorial for SOCOM II. I think this same tutorial can be used for other games as well- https://1upsdevelopment.com/pcsx2-socom-2-xlink/ Programs you will need for the XLink kai UI overhead for BigBox: Autohotkey - https://autohotkey.com/download/ XLink Kai - https://www.teamxlink.co.uk/ Nircmd (download link is at the bottom of the page)- http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html Internet Explorer that came with windows A controller hotkey program capable of launching other programs. I am using controller companion, it costs some money, but in my opinion is well worth the price. This tutorial I will be using controller companion, feel free to use whatever you want http://controllercompanion.com/ My main account is a non administrator account, the rest of the tutorial will assume the same. For those of you that don't know pcsx2 is capable of Lan play through the XLink Kai community (or at the very least Socom II US Navy Seals works I haven't tried other games yet). Xlink Kai is normally used to connect old consoles through LAN, so using this program you could potentially be playing other players that are actually playing on their consoles. That being said, for us bigbox users it can be kind of cumbersome because you have to open up the program separately and then choose your server; if you're using a non-admin account like me, you have to enter your password, log in, etc etc. If you're only using one monitor and would like to check the Xlink kai chat room you're pretty much SOL. Using this combination of programs and batch files I simply hold the SELECT button and press up on either a PS3 controller or an Xbox one controller to launch a semi-transparent Xlink Kai UI. Holding SELECT and Down closes the Xlink kai UI. Loading UI in bigbox: Launching Chat in the middle of game: STEP ONE Prepare X-link Kai for auto login You should have downloaded Xlink kai by now following the PCSX2 tutorial, if for whatever reason you haven't please download and install it, the rest of this tutorial I will assume you have gone through the SOCOM 2/PCSX2 Xlink tutorial, and that your PCSX2 is ready for Lan play through X link Kai. Start up the Kai engine. On the task bar right click the engine -> ConfigurationIn Engine settings use your username + Password Check mark on the "auto Login" and then save. Close the program and reopen the engine to see if everything loads OK. Right click on the engine in the task bar and click on "Launch UI to make sure it logs you in properly. STEP 2 Writing your scripts Download nircmd and unzip the folder to your Launchbox folder. eg: C:/program Files/Launchbox/nircmd-x64 Within that folder create another folder called "Commands" and within that folder make another inside of that one called "XLink Kai" We will start by making four scripts inside of this folder. Right click an empty space in that folder select -> New -> Text Document Make four text documents one called "UI Launch.txt", one called "UI Close.txt" one called "UI open.txt" and one called "Refocus Window.txt" Open up UI Launch.txt and enter this script: ----------------------------------------------------------- Timeout /nobreak 15 "<LOCATION OF nircmd.exe>" exec min "<LOCATION OF iexplore.exe (INTERNET EXPLORER)>" -k http://127.0.0.1:34522/ Timeout /nobreak 10 "<LOCATION OF nircmd.exe>" win hide ititle "http://127.0.0.1:34522/" "<LOCATION OF nircmd.exe>" win trans ititle "http://127.0.0.1:34522/" 215 ------------------------------------------------------------- Mine looks like this: If the port you are using for XLink Kai is different please change it from 34522 This script is the launcher for the XLink Kai UI that you will be using to start up with the computer. What it does is open up the Xlink UI minimized in internet explorer after 15 seconds from start up. The -k argument makes it a full screen page so you don't get all the browser toolbars and such. 10 seconds after loaded it hides the browser into a background process, and the last line of code gives it a semi-transparent look. Save this file and close notepad. Rename UI Launch.txt to UI Launch.bat Open up UI Open.txt Enter this script: --------------------------- "<LOCATION OF nircmd.exe>" win activate ititle "http://127.0.0.1:34522/" --------------------------- Save this as UI Open.bat this is the batch file that your hotkey program will use to display or "activate" the Xlink UI. Mine looks like: Open up Refocus Window.txt and enter this script: --------------------------- #Persistent SetTimer, ActivateWinUM, 100 return ActivateWinUM: MouseGetPos,,, WinUMID WinActivate, ahk_id %WinUMID% exitapp return --------------------------- Save this as Refocus Window.ahk this autohotkey script auto "refocuses" or "activates" PCSX2/Bigbox to wherever your mouse is positioned once the UI is closed. If you do not have this bigbox tends to hang and wait for you to manually click it with the mouse to bring it back into focus. Last but not least open up UI Close.txt and enter this script --------------------------- "<LOCATION OF nircmd.exe>" win hide ititle "http://127.0.0.1:34522/" "<LOCATION OF Refocus Window.ahk>" --------------------------- This script "closes" or hides the UI back into the background and then launches the refocus script to refocus bigbox/PCSX2 (whatever the previous windows was before). Mine looks like this: You should now have four scripts that look like this: STEP 3 Hiding the command prompt windows from displaying This scripts in their current form will do the job, but they will have irritating command prompt popups every time they are executed. Using nircmd we will create shortcuts to launch these scripts which will hide them. Navigate to your LaunchBox\NirCmd-x64 folder. Right click nircmd.exe -> Create shortcut Right click the newly created shortcut and go to properties: In the target location you'll see the "<location of nircmd.exe>" at the end of that location press space and enter : exec hide "<Location of UI Close.bat>" The target field should now look like "<location of nircmd.exe>" exec hide "<Location of UI Close.bat>" Mine looks like: --------------------------- "D:\LaunchBox\NirCmd-x64\nircmd.exe" exec hide "D:\LaunchBox\NirCmd-x64\Commands\XLink Kai\UI Close.bat" --------------------------- Rename this shortcut to XLink UI Close Move this shortcut into the Commands\XLink Kai\ Folder. Make two more shortcuts in this same folder in the same manner: "<location of nircmd.exe>" exec hide "<Location of UI Open.bat>" -> Renamed as XLink UI Open "<location of nircmd.exe>" exec hide "<Location of UI Launch.bat>" -> Renamed as XLink UI Launch Your commands folder should now look like this: STEP 4 Launching the Xlink Engine and UI at Windows startup As I said before my computer auto logs me in as a regular user, I use this to give my computer that little extra protection. The xlink kai server engine however requires you to log in as an administrator with an anoying UAC pop up. My solution to this is to have the program run with administrator privileges using task scheduler. On the bottom left of your toolbar click the search function and type task scheduler and click on it. On the right pane select "create a task" Name the Task XLink Kai Engine Under security options where it says use the following user account press the "Change User" button and start typing admin (or whatever your admin name is, click "Check names" and select your admin user account, click "OK". Select "Run whether user is logged in or not" Go to the Triggers tab, select new on the drop down menu where it says "Begin the task" select "at Log on" and click "OK". On the actions tab select new, the action you choose will be "Start a program" and in the program/script field you will browse to your kaiEngine.exe (wherever Xlink Kai was installed into) Mine looks like this: your conditions and settings tab should look like these: Click OK, you will be prompted with a login box, enter your admin password. Now we need to create a startup task for the UI Launcher Click on create task. Name this task "XLink Kai UI Launcher" the rest in the general tab can remain the same. Trigger will be "at log on of user" The action tab you will choose "Start a program" browse to nircmd.exe and in arguments type: exec hide "<LOCATION OF UI Launch.bat"> Mine looks like: exec hide "D:\LaunchBox\NirCmd-x64\Commands\XLink Kai\UI Launch.bat" Use these same condition and settings below: Click on OK, and you're ready for the next step! STEP 5 Use your hotkey program to open and close your UI All you have to do now is have a hotkey set to open your XLink UI Open.lnk (Shorcut file) to launch the UI in game and have another hotkey to close the UI by launching XLink UI Close.lnk Both these files should be located in your LaunchBox\NirCmd-x64\Commands\XLink Kai\ folder. As I said before I am using controller companion. I have the secondary select and up button configured to open the UI under PSCX2 and Bigbox, and under internet explorer program I have secondary select+ Down to close the UI. STEP 6 Restart your computer Restart the computer. The XLink Kai engine should start with the computer hidden in the background. About 15 seconds later an internet explorer window should pop up minimized into the taskbar (this is the XLink UI), and then after another 10 seconds should disappear into the background. When you launch bigbox or PCSX2 you should be able to hit your hotkey to open up the UI and the other hotkey you have assigned should close the UI.

If you're anything like me, yes big box is worth it, pay for your credit card, buy bigbox + emumovies lifetime then cancel the card if you have to lol. My son and wife love it, we play it when I have company over, everyone loves it. Nostalgia up the butt, and a thousand times easier than going through storage and going through the trouble of hooking up a console just to play one old game.

For an FYI for anyone else struggling like I have (This probably deserves it's own post and maybe we can put together a collective effort to address these issues) : I have been fiddling around with the wiimotes for the past couple weeks. I also have the mayflash bar. My ideal setup is to keep the mayflash bar on dolphin mode at all times so I don't have to manually switch the button over every time I want to use the wii controllers. I also want to use the wii controllers for their accessories for other emulators (SNES classic controller for SNES emu, NES classic for NES games, N64 to Wii remote adapter for N64 games etc). At the same time I would like the ability to use two Xbox one controllers for PC games. Now like everyone else I have been running into issues. Here is what I have tried, and failed to get the results intended. 1) I have tried two Wireless Wii Classic controller to PC http://www.mayflash.com/Products/PCUSB/PC047.html This was working fantastic with up to four regular classic controllers. (The adapters make it look like an ordinary DINPUT controller device under windows) As long as the adapters are plugged into the same USB ports all the time windows always kept the controllers in the proper order and I never had to redo my controller settings in the emulators after the first time. The downside is having to use an extra device you have to carry around. I was problem free until my next purchase threw a wrench into everything: The raphnet N64 to wii remote adapter http://www.raphnet-tech.com/products/n64_to_wiimote/index.php What this does is essentially plug into a wii remote (or in my case I was hoping my wireless classic controller adapter) and act like a classic controller. I tried it with dolphin plugged into a wii remote and it worked great. I plugged it into the wireless controller adapter and it was a no go :(. While plugged into the adapter one button press would act like I am pressing three, four or five buttons at once- for whatever damned reason it didn't work with this adapter. I am back to the drawing board. 2) I shelved my adapters and have been looking to use the wiimotes instead. So now I need some good third party software. I came across two programs called wiinusoft and wiinupro. http://www.wiinupro.com/ Both programs are very similar in nature, they can read the wii remote input and output it as a XINPUT (xbox controller) device. First I tried out wiinusoft and it worked great for the new N64 adapter and all the other controllers; it was very promising. The downside is that it is using the XINPUT drivers. For some reason Windows only allows up to four XINPUT devices and you're out of luck if you want to play a pc game with any other XINPUT devices. The next issue I had was the program would constantly crash on me after plugging and unplugging controllers a couple times. I turned to their other program Wiinupro. It has an option to feed into a virtual joystick which uses DINPUT, not XINPUT. Again, this seems promising but immediately I was met with hurdles. The program only supports ONE virtual joystick to be mapped to. So I put in the max buttons and pads and tried to map all four controllers to one virtual controller, but vjoy doesn't give you enough buttons/ control sticks for up to four classic controllers. The other downside to this program is that doesn't give you the option to run hidden and minimized into the tray. 3) I have come to the conclusion that I need to have the Wiiremotes be output as a four persistent DINPUT devices. If there is any programs that has worked for you guys please let me know. I have turned to a program called Freepie http://andersmalmgren.github.io/FreePIE/, and I think it will do what I want, but the programming is super confusing and I can't find much documentations or examples. I did find scripts for four wii remotes and four wiiremotes w/ the nunchucks, but nothing for classic controllers. It also only seems to connect to the controllers for one time after launch, if you turn your controller off and on it won't reconnect and you have to restart the program. This has been a horrible uphill battle.

Hello, I have posted this question in the Xlink Kai forums, and I haven't gotten a response yet. I have recently been playing some Playstation 2 games via BigBox and I found out that people have been playing my favorite game of all time (SOCOM II) online for quite some time now through emulation. The way it is set up is using the program Xlink Kai and playing online through the "lan" (you can play against others who are playing on console as well). In order to play a game online I have to launch Xlink Kai, browse to the specified game "arena" (server) and then launch the emulator + game. This is good and all but it requires far too many steps and defeats the purpose for using Bigbox. Does anyone know of a way (if possible) to create a shortcut that will launch xlink Kai and load up the selected server at the same time? This way in the game settings within launchbox I can choose to launch that shortcut with the game. Thus seamlessly play online with others. I am imaging a shortcut with a target similar to something like "C:\Program Files\XLink Kai\kaiEngine.exe" --server Arena/Playstation 2/SOCOM II/SOCOM II NTSC Or perhaps there is another way of accomplishing this goal?

This is extremely similar to the setup I have been going for, and I'm jealous you did it first! lol Good job.

Awesome thanks

How do I do that? I only see checkmark to enable/ disable all controllers and if I uncheck that I am only able to choose one.

Is there an option to enable or disable which controllers can control the menus in BB? Alternatively is there an option to change individual controller buttons? Thanks!

I need a way to directly convert the file from 7zip to GZ. As I don't have enough room to extract all my games out of the current .7z format. I have a feeling I may need to buy another hdd :(.

Is that the checkmark that says "Automatically Run after app" ? I was under the impression it was to run the game and an extra program at the same time, but the checkboxes were to choose which to open first? EDIT: Yeah so I can choose the check mark to Automatically run After main application, which opens up AHK immediately after the game opens. I need it so that when the game closes it will open up ahk again. EDIT #2: I've spent numerous hour researching and trying out different things with little to no success. I noticed that the game would kick me out even if an internet browser was open with "autohotkey" in the title bar. What I ended up doing was using a hex editer on the Autohotkey.exe and changing the window id from "autohotkey" to giberish. Now the game no longer detects Autohotkey and I don't have to change anything else. YAY!

Hello, I am using AutoHotkey and it is integral to my Launchbox setup. I just installed this steam game that I've been wanting to try out for a long time, but it seems to detect autohotkey and the game stops running. I've tried simply suspending and pausing my script, also I've tried running a dummy AHK script, the game doesn't like AHK. I made a quick .bat file that opens with the game from Launchbox that closes all instances of AHK. The game works fine, but when I finish and close the game I am now stuck as I need something to launch AHK when this game closes. Does anyone have any solutions? Thanks!

I have seen this, the solution however is not desirable as I do not have enough room to extract all my files first...

Hello I have a whole lot of PS2 games compressed to the .7z format and I am looking for a way to mass convert these to .GZ. (Using windows 10) As I hear PCSX2 can open this compression type. I need this to do it in such a way as to not leave any files left over afterwards. (Not a whole lot of room currently left on my hardrive). PS2 7z files are taking up 2.35TB, I have 160GB free space. Thanks!

I am using Controller companion for volume control shortcuts on my computer (runs 24/7). Big box will launch on to my television screen, and sometimes it is too loud so I attempt to adjust the volume with the hotkeys set for my controller but it also ends up skipping the start up video. Is there an option somewhere to disable the skipping feature so I don't do this accidentally? Thanks.

I was just looking for what theme they were using for the video on the front page of launchbox website. The one with the buildings in the background. I want it, and I can't find it lol.

AWESOME! Sorry I didn't realize I searched a bit but didn't know.

I have a request to add the ability to have multiple Intro videos into big box, and it will randomly choose one of them at start up. I just found out about this amazing feature and I had a hard time selecting which video I wanted lol, there is a very good selection in these forums.

I have a multi controller setup in the works and I am using the xbox one controller to run the Big box front end. I have tried several different programs and codes and they weren't working for me very well, also the latest version of AHK doesn't seem to read xbox one controller outputs. Looking online at several scripts I have finally discovered a way to accomplish this one seemingly simple thing: Launch Big Box with a quick press of the center guide button on the Xbox one controller, alternatively holding down the button won't launch big box and will shut down the controller. When Big Box is the active window a quick press will close Big Box, holding down will simply turn off the controller (and keep launchbox open). Pre-requisites: -x keyboard button set as the hotkey to turn off BigBox (in hotkey settings) -Game Bar program disabled so the guide button doesn't launch this program. -Use Auto hotkey version 1.0.48.05 (Otherwise this doesn't work for me) -Set script to run at start up of computer. The script is this: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #IfWinNotExist, LaunchBox Big Box $vk07sc000:: aDown:=A_TickCount While GetKeyState("vk07sc000") Duration:=(A_TickCount-aDown) If (Duration<300) run "LOCATION OF BIGBOX.EXE" Else {} Return #IfWinActive, LaunchBox Big Box $vk07sc000:: aDown:=A_TickCount While GetKeyState("vk07sc000") Duration:=(A_TickCount-aDown) If (Duration<300) send, x Else {} Return -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------