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    Using Powershell XML Parsing to get Favorites (and other) data

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted · Edited by richardoswald

    Hello fellow Launchboxers!

    I ran into an issue where I restored Launchbox and I thought I lost all of my previous "Favorites". Luckily I backed up my old Launchbox to another folder and was able to find the XMLs that contained my favorites data! I was experimenting with parsing these files with Windows Powershell and since I found the syntax I figured I'd share it here in case anyone runs into a similar issue. 

    # For my example I wanted to get a list of of games I selected as my "Favorites" The Favorites are stored in the Platform XML files under your "Launchbox_Directory\Data\Platforms" folder

# Here you are adding the xml file you want to parse and store it into memory
PS F:\Programs\LaunchBox_old\Data\Platforms> [xml]$xmlDocument = Get-Content .\Arcade.xml

# This next command will look for all the games where Favorite is "true" and it will only print out the titles (instead of all the xml data)
PS F:\Programs\LaunchBox_old\Data\Platforms> $xmlDocument.LaunchBox.Game | where-object {$_.Favorite -eq "true"} | Select-Object Title

Title
-----
Caveman Ninja
Arkanoid
Alien vs. Predator
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time
Tron
Gun Force II
Tempest
Gun.Smoke
Pole Position
Centipede

     

    Hopefully this will help some people out there and you can get creative with other parsing as well using the various fields in the xml. Another example could be: 

    $xmlDocument.LaunchBox.Game | where-object {$_.PlayMode -eq "2-Player Simultaneous"} | Select-Object Title

    To get a list of all 2-player simultaneous games for that platform.

     

    Just something small I figured out to hopefully add to the wealth of knowledge on here.

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    AHK not executing for Windows games

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Hello chiming in here. Since I'm in the same situation. Most of my windows games were imported via Steam/GOG, etc. I understand the "Edit AutoHotKey script for Windows games" is not mean for Steam games. I can add an autohotkey per game using the method in the screenshot below, but I can't seem to do this in a bulk fashion. Can anyone help?

    autohotkey_per_game.thumb.png.c9cb8cfbf3c2892f6fa68070e15395c8.png

    Is there a simple way to launch explorer.exe AFTER BigBox has launched/opened?

    in Noobs

    Posted

    On 7/20/2020 at 5:33 PM, Gimpy said:

    I have now managed to achieve this after ages of messing around - a misunderstanding of the correct syntax to use could have saved myself a lot of time! I’ll post my bat file when I’m not on my phone in case anybody else wants to achieve this incredibly specific thing 

    Hi @Gimpy I am VERY interested in your solution. I'm in a similar situation where I need to launch explorer after launching my custom winlogon shell script which starts up big box. I need explorer since I am utilizing Spotify in my build (long story) this is achievable but It's stealing focus as you mentioned. Would you mind posting your bat file?

    Prioritize 4 player ROMS

    in Noobs

    Posted · Edited by richardoswald

    Hello,

    I couldn't find an answer to this on the forums. Is there a way for me to prioritize 4 player versions of MAME ROMS similar to how I prioritize USA ROMS within Launchbox?

    An example: by default Launchbox wanted to load a two player version of TMNT, so I had to edit the entry to make the four player version the default version. Now I guess I could go into each game one by one to do the same for all the other 4 player games but I was wondering if there is an easier solution.

    Keep up the great work Launchbox dev team!

    Arcade Controll Playlist

    in Playlists & Playlist Media

    Posted

    On 5/18/2020 at 11:15 PM, kidshoalin said:

    made a list for yeah bud :)

     

     

    Thanks for the list @kidshoalin Also if you would also like the auto-generate playlist based on controls feature, someone made a feature request for it. I voted for it and recommend you and anyone else who would like to auto-generate playlists for controls vote for it too! https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/2980/game-data-base-game-controller-statistics

    Arcade Controll Playlist

    in Playlists & Playlist Media

    Posted

    I noticed the LaunchBox games DB doesn’t seem to have a section for specialized controls, e.g. Spinner, trackball, light gun, etc.

     

    If these fields were available and accessible by LaunchBox, we could generate auto-populating playlists, Spinner games, trackball games etc.

    Maybe an idea for the next round of features request @Jason Carr?

     

     

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    LaunchBox 2019 New Feature Poll

    in Features

    Posted

    Hello Launchbox team! What are the chances of this feature coming into a near future release? " Add Alternate Names, Game Type, Max Players, Wikipedia Link, and Video Link fields from the LaunchBox Games Database to LaunchBox " as it seemed to win 8th place according to this tally by @Jason Carr

    I'm particular interested in having the app incorporate the "Max Players" and the "Cooperative" fields so I can auto-populate my playlists for console 2 player and 4 player games. This feature would be very useful to me and from what I'm finding on the forums for a lot of others too and hopefully it wouldn't be too difficult to implement.

    CityHunter

    in Big Box Custom Themes

    Posted · Edited by richardoswald

    On 3/27/2019 at 12:39 PM, LogicalEgo said:

    It's not scrapped, just taken out for a while to work out some issues. It will be back one day for sure. @eatkinola is already working on redoing the plugin and I have older versions of the theme I can refit to make it work at some point.

    @LogicalEgo Any updates on the random background videos? This would be a killer feature to mix-things up!

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    MAME Arcade Import Region Issues

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted · Edited by richardoswald

    On 3/3/2020 at 12:20 PM, Jason Carr said:

    Thanks, this should be fixed for the next beta.

    @Jason Carr and @TheNewClassics I am happy to report that with 10.11-beta-7 North America region now prioritizes USA ROMS over Hispanic ROMS! All I had to do was re-import my romset.

    For the record I tested this with Marvel VS Capcom and with Darkstalkers in my full MAME .0219 split romset.

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    LEDBlinky Support

    in Features

    Posted

    Hello LEDBlinky users, I noticed in the colors.ini file there are many entries for the color "black" . I saw this in the version 7 pdf doc, 

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    Color-RGB.ini

    This file contains a list of Color Names and the RGB (Red/Green/Blue) intensity values for each. Intensity values must be in the range of 0 to 48. Note: some colors cannot be reproduced by a RGB LED, for example; shades of Gray or Black. In these cases, substitute colors must be specified. This file is only used in conjunction with an optional colors.ini file for MAME.

     

    I'm not in front of my arcade this very moment so I'll check the file when I get home. But my question is how can I substitute the color black? And what colors are people supstituting it with?

    LEDBlinky Support

    in Features

    Posted

    On 12/29/2018 at 7:53 PM, pattonthompson said:

    That worked perfectly.  I set up MAME separately from retroarch then pointed LED Blinky to those files as you said and it works perfectly.  I do notice a bit of slowdown on startup otherwise it runs great.

    Can you elaborate exactly how you used RetroArch in place of Mame here? I’d really like to go down this path if possible.

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