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  1. Hi All, My thoughts are go for as much ram and you can afford and put in your mobo. You can always use more ram. Plus, you need enough to run - OS - BIGBOX - EMULATOR Once you have done that you're good
  2. Good Morning All, There are a few of us trying to use ahk script with taito games. Has anyone worked out a sure fire way to get this up and running? I am looking for exit emulator script to set to arcade joystick control panel button to exit. I have the script running with all the other emulators. There are other applications too. I know @Lukeyboy wants help with xpadder and keyboard controls Methods I have tried are:- 1 Trying to use windows game ahkscipt in LB 2 Setting up ROCKETLAUNCHER and using that as emulator to hook ahk into games. CHEERS BMAN
  3. Good Morning All, Lets take 5 here, This forum is awesome because we're all able to help each other where and when we can. Lukeyboy are you trying to play contra evolution hd? That only works with keyboard. Getting back to your question: Teknoparrot emulator runs taito stuff but you have to configure it differently to rh loader. It will however give you an emulator to 'hook' ahk script to when running LB. OR You could make a bat file to run both xpadder and the taito game.exe one after the other. There is usually a bat file somewhere in the taito directory for each game. Make a back up copy before editing anything and then add the xpadder.exe string to the command. Try this you may need to put a time delay between launching xpadder.exe and game.exe. FOUND A REALLY GOOD BAT FILE PROGRAMMING COURSE HERE: TECHNOLOGYCRAZY YT CHANNEL SIDE NOTE: Will someone please help me work out how to use AHK script to exit from GAMELOADER ALL RH? I have tried both ahk script in LB and ROCKETLAUNCHER nothing I have tried works so far. CHEERS BMAN
  4. Hi when importing mame in LB i think there is a setting for importing roms by region. I can't remember and I am not home right now. Since you migrated from HS WITH RL to LB are you still using ROCKETLAUNCHER to connect to LB? You can setup RL to have many front ends and just switch between them. So I guess you could use dons tool to rename stuff and just re-import to LB once your done I hope that answers your question
  5. Your're either gonna get 16;9 or 4;3 with black bars, sorry
  6. Hi, I don't run many dos games but I have many systems running all through bigbox. So I do test everything 1 emulator at a time. Taito/Nesica emulation is my fav it's based off windows file system . With this you test on a game by game basis. And really just use what ever works. Dos is probably the same. And I change my setup to be configured for ease of use. So if retroarch is easier to get the games running that dosbox I would got that way. I have arcade cabinet. Do happen to know how to use ahk script to exit windows/nesica/taito games? I have all my other scripts closing emulators this is my last one to set up cheers
  7. Hi Mate, What emulator are you testing on? 1. Can you get joystick to configure in windows joystick setup in control panel? To get there in windows 7.. click start menu and type "joystick" 2. From there get the second joystick to work in the windows joystick control panel. Both joysticks need to work separately from there. When you can get both joysticks working individually at the same time then you should be good to go. I have 4players working. I always test in windows first. Then mame because it has 4 player games to test on. Mine are xinmo arcade joysticks. They are DIRECT INPUT. A gamepad can either be Direct input or Xinput. Xbox 360 controller in Xinput. let us know how you go
  8. Hi, This one sounds tricky. I think the only way to do this one would be to edit the video. What format is the video in? Something like "Windows Movie Maker" is a quick and easy program to use to edit the video. Have you got a master volume control on your speakers/Amplifier? The way I would solve this is to match your Launchbox software volume levels with the levels of the opening video. And then use the controls in your operating system to set at say 40% or set the amplifier at 40% to get the levels you want
  9. Hi if you use ROCKETLAUNCHER you can set a program to run before the game starts FOLLOW THIS AWESOME TUTORIAL FROM COLPIPES78 COLPIPES EXAMU EX-BOARD TUTORIAL cheers Bman
  10. Hi Mate, GAMELOADER ALL RH from emuline.org HERE has a setup config for each game including fullscreen. Before you install, RH LOADER is a game injector so your virus scanner needs an exception setup or disabled while working with RH LOADER. FOLLOW THIS AWESOME TUTORIAL FROM COLPIPES78 COLPIPES EXAMU EX-BOARD TUTORIAL
  11. Hi Garbanzo, Most emulators will emulate similar machines made by a manufacturer, that's how I look at it anyways. So start with what roms you want to play to pick the best emulator from there. FABLOG'S post is a great place to start
  12. Hi Mate, So far I have been using Colpipes78 examu Ex-board tutorial as my main resource. COLPIPES78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzohF-hgujA SIMPLY AUSTIN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S6F-4QZfzo LAUNCHBOX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xowd0JiDqdQ Taito typex, Nesica, Examu Exboard, Tekno Parrot and the Sega Edge and similar roms all work in the same way. I have been able join the rom sets of:- TEKNO PARROT, NESICA, EXAMU EXBOARD, TAITO TYPE X FROM COLPIPES & TAITO TYPE X FROM SIMPLY AUSTIN They all work with RH LOADER, once you get one game working , transfer the following files to each game directory. RHLOADER.EXE - LOADS GAMES RH_CONFIG.EXE - CONFIGURES GAME LOADER TTXCONFIG.EXE & TTXCONFIG 2.0.EXE - MANUALLY SETS CONTROLS "..\SV" FOLDER - STORES CONTROLS CONFIG, SO COPY FOR EACH GAME Now can someone help me. How do I setup AHK script to exit RH LOADER to go back to my frontend? Thanks In advance BMAN
  13. Hi Mate, So far I have been using Colpipes78 examu Ex-board tutorial as my main resource. COLPIPES78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzohF-hgujA SIMPLY AUSTIN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S6F-4QZfzo LAUNCHBOX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xowd0JiDqdQ Taito typex, Nesica, Examu Exboard, Tekno Parrot and the Sega Edge and similar roms all work in the same way. I have been able join the rom sets of:- TEKNO PARROT, NESICA, EXAMU EXBOARD, TAITO TYPE X FROM COLPIPES & TAITO TYPE X FROM SIMPLY AUSTIN They all work with RH LOADER, once you get one game working , transfer the following files to each game directory. RHLOADER.EXE - LOADS GAMES RH_CONFIG.EXE - CONFIGURES GAME LOADER TTXCONFIG.EXE & TTXCONFIG 2.0.EXE - MANUALLY SETS CONTROLS "..\SV" FOLDER - STORES CONTROLS CONFIG, SO COPY FOR EACH GAME Now can someone help me? How do I setup AHK script to exit RH LOADER to go back to my frontend?
  14. Hi All, Firstly thanks to Colpipes78, Harrison Hacks & Johnny T. Combining these 3 contributors, I have been able to load American Laser Games (ALG) through Launchbox. ** AND REMEMBER MAKE BACKUP UP COPIES OF ALL FILES THAT ARE RENAMED** So Background on the way this works:- There are 3 files needed to run the games. a. The DAPHNE emulator (daphne.exe) - [ROOT DIRECTORY] b. The FRAMEFILE (game.txt) - [..\SINGE\GAME\game.txt] c. The SINGEFILE (game.singe) - [..\SINGE\GAME\game.singe] 1. Download Daphne emulator. Install in ..\LAUNCHBOX\EMULATORS\AMERICAN LASER GAMES\ 2. Create JohnnyT .bat file. SAVE as "AMERICAN LASER GAMES.bat" in DAPHNE.EXE directory. daphne.exe singe vldp -fullscreen_window -ignore_aspect_ratio -x 800 -y 600 -framefile singe/%1/%1.txt -script singe/%1/%1.singe BAT file is used as the emulator application in LAUNCHBOX "-fullscreen_window" can be substituted with "-fullscreen" 2. Match file names for each game in "..\SINGE" FOLDER for the files below:- [FOLDERNAME], [FRAMFILE.TXT], [GAME.SINGE] eg. ..LAUNCHBOX\EMULATORS\ALG\SINGE\CRIMEPATROL ..LAUNCHBOX\EMULATORS\ALG\SINGE\CRIMEPATROL\crimepatrol.txt (rename from crimepatrol-framefile. txt) ..LAUNCHBOX\EMULATORS\ALG\SINGE\CRIMEPATROL\crimepatrol.singe (rename from cdrom-crimecontrol.singe) 3. SETUP LAUNCHBOX EMULATOR 4. IMPORT EACH ROM FILE eg: ..\LAUNCHBOX\EMULATOR\ALG\SINGE\CRIMEPATROL\crimepatrol.txt
  15. In my case I have 8 arcade button control panel for each player. So start and exit button is very useful. Fyi midway games save on mame exit so killing tasks in windows or alt f4 will not save your game
  16. The script has a slight issue where he the game starts because you have credits in the machine or is on free play you may have to hold button again for 5 seconds. But will exit 99% of the time
  17. To test ahk script open mame and press escape on keyboard to exit. Also go into control panel in windows and test game pad settings to make sure your button is number 1
  18. Hi everyone, I have got a working copy of taito x running with launchbox, Contra Evolution HD works with xinput joystick. Does anyone know how to get all the other roms this way thanks in advance
  19. Is there a way to add games to favorites from bigbox front end using joystick/arcade controls? Pressing "left arrow" displays star icon, search and a-z lettter.
  20. Hi Guys, JJ helped me by creating this ahk script for me. Holding joystick button 10 (my start button) for 5 seconds exits mame. $joy10:: ; my start button { keywait, joy10, t5 if errorlevel <> 0 { Send {esc down}{esc up} } }
  21. I have solved the issue by turning off Mozilla updates service in Mozilla options. I also turned of tablet mode in Windows 10 settings selecting all options to desktop mode.
  22. Ok thanks, I am using xinmoteck usb gamepad controllers. I will check how they are configured with the keyboard mappers cheers for the quick reply bman
  23. Hi thanks for the quick reply, Yes, I have been experimenting with joy2key, and other keyboard mappers, although currently I think they are all uninstalled. I have done more reading and I will invesitgate onenote, cortana being the casue and kicking the active windows to minimize, I am also yet to try ease of access mouse controls and sticky keys but will check all that. What do you recommend to check with the keyboard mappers? cheers bman
  24. Hi, I have been running bigbox for few months with windows 10. Newly updated with bigbox 8.3 now randomly, big box menu appears during emulator gameplay, tested with several emulators same result. 1 - I select the game using joystick 2 - play game for at least 5 minutes 3 - bigbox menu appears - emulator runs in background, with game sound still playing pressing "ALT+TAB" on keyboard can get me back into game Please help I am very confused I am thinking something in windows is triggering the menu, although 8.3 is a new update ? thanks in advance bman
  25. Hi Everyone, My setup consists of 4 xinmo joystick controllers. Running windows 10. Windows 10 has successfully configured the sticks numbering them 1-4 I am trying to configure xpadder or antimicro. I cannot save button config files and auto_launch profiles. Does anyone have a quick tutorial I can follow that shows 2 controllers setup simultaneously from the same keyboard, with auto_launching so that the profiles change with each game being loaded. cheers Bman
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