RedHoodRobin64

So i thought it was the updates to big box. I did a clean install of launchbox 11.9 and it was working, decided to take a risk with re doing stuff and update to the latest. Its still working. Guess something was corrupt. Idk wish i could be more helpful but think that bout raps it up

Sorry for spam. But it was a issue with the latest version of big box. I reverted to 11.9 and everything works as i once had it even with x360ce

So still no luck. I am getting really annoyed. Some more diagnosis for my situation tho. I tried with both ahk and just through import, disabling start up screen. I also tried enabling it as well. This is a pain in the ass because the steam games are the most used and the fact that big box is not letting me do this properly is causing me to have to go through launch box which loses the emersion. The last thing I can possibly think of is launchbox has had a few updates. Is it possible that one of these updates would cause this issue? Im so confused why even with ahk im getting the same result and even more confused why its only bigbox and not launchbox. Really need some help

So i may have figured out the prob. So i use x360ce for my cabnet. I need it to combine the sticks and buttons together as a controller. So my usual start of my pc, i open up x360ce and then open bigbox. I forgot this morning to turn on x360ce and the controls stayed lit, even the ones i didnt have ahk for. So i tried booting up x360ce wile in big box and it causes the same prob again. Again still works fine in launchbox. Why would this happen? How do i fix this? And not using x360ce is not a option. I got 4 ultra stick 360s, so x360ce can register the anologue. I should also mention that once x360ce starts, even when i close it, the light problem still happens

Thank you So much, unfortunately I tried everything you mentioned and it still only works through launchbox. In bigbox I Get the same result every time. Tried Changing the launch path to the exe. Tried Making ahk the emulator and used both lines of code too launch game in the link you sent me to look at Just dumbfounded as too what happend. When I first figured this out, It was as simple as changing the setting in led blinky to ignore game quit command. worked like a charm for the longest time. Why would big box have this issue and not launchbox? The only thing I can think besides getting windows 11 is a buddy of mine wanted me to play call of duty warzone which requires battle.net. Maybe it installed something that is interfering? I know I'm reaching at this point but I just got nothing. Thank you so much for your help tho

So glad i could help!

So update, still couldnt fix this, but what is interesting is windows games dont have this isue. Just steam. So im not sure if its how big box is comunicating with steam or what. Retroarch, mame and everything else is working fine as well. But like i said in launchbox steam games stay lit just fine

Sorry didnt see the other post. I added them through the steam import. Its just so strange because i had it working fine before. I have not used ahk before except for pinball fx tables

I think your right about multiple sends. It flashes my taskbar and screen flashes then goes into it. And launchbox its just smooth and right to it. Thanks for the reponse

Ya i did that already, it originally worked fine until a few weeks ago. Not sure what the heck to do

I was hoping for this 2, but from the looks of it theres no way to do so. Its defenently a feauture id absolutely love. Just to put a wheel on my spiner and just let it land on what ever. The other isue i have as well is on my arcade i have ultimarc ultra 360 sticks. There full anologue so you can play modern games. Prob is there magnets and when i try to navigate with them, they sometimes just move on there own or extra click. If they were to impliment some anologue control/ dead zone and have mouse move ment speed to navigate, it would fix both our probs

So certain things for me cause that isue, when i run visual pinball, sometimes when i exit, bigbox is frozen. No inputs work, cant navigate and videos arnt moving. But if i right click with a mouse on to the monitor that has big box goin, it goes back to normal. Its a wierd focus isue that ive worked around. Sometimes manualy adding a exit scrypt in launchbox helps too. Hope this helps

I also back in the day got those errors using themes that were much older or if i messed with the folders. Make sure your using all up to date theme files, and make sure if you messed with any files in the theme folder, that you get your self a clean install of the theme. Hope that helps you

Im not sure if its cause i updated to windows 11, but only in big box, launch box works fine, does led blinky geeks out. So in big box, il highlight a game ive colored and the controls light up for all players. I press start and it blinks the controls, but as soon as thats done, they all shut off, then turn back on for 5 sec like as if im highlighting the game again then they just stay off. Its almost like bigbox just completely loses focus or something. Im just stumped because there is no isues what so ever in launchbox. If someone could give me some pointers that would be great

Thanks for the response. When i get back home from my anniversary im defenently gonna dip my toes in this and add creations on here for all to use. Very helpful. Thank you for everything. This comunity is just ausome

You friggen rock! Thank you so so much! How do you make them? I have tons of free time and would love to help out

And absolutely take your time with the others. I am a very patient man. But just that alone is ausome. The video game based is so i could combine pvz from fx2, with doom, portal, and others. Dont want bethesda because then it would only be 3 tables. This way its a bit more so launchbox dosent repeat tables because theres not enough. Same with movies. I used your guys movies and tv logo way back towards the begining of this thread. The video game one i just couldnt find one that worked. But thanks again!

Holy crap! Thank you! Those are absolutely perfect!

These Logos are absolutely amazing, thank you all for doing this. I actually re done my entire arcade with it set to platform categories and it looks so clean. I was wondering if any one would be willing to make a bunch of pinball categories. I have pinball fx2 and 3 with all tables and I actually divided them up into different categories. Star Wars, Marvel, Video game based Tables, Movies and TV Based Tables. Williams, Baily, and Zen Originals. If any one would be willing to create logos or teach me how to do so would be greatly appreciated! Thanks For Your Time! You Guys Rock!

Thank you, Ya im not sure how to go about that but id love to learn. Il look into it. It just really cleans up the transitions and as much as I love your theme, id love to experiment and have that load screen on other themes. Thank you again for your time

Hi, I have a couple of post on this matter but I really am trying to make a incredibly clean set up. I am using all night long horizontal with lightning as my platform theme and then for my games I am using memories of yesterday horizontal and deleted the rusted metal so its just greys and black. I love the look but cover box has this great feature where when you click on any console, the screen goes black, it shows the logo for the console and then smoothly transitions to the game selection. I beg for this to become a natural feature of big box because its just incredible to see every time. If there was any way to take the load feature from coverbox and incorporate into the themes im using, id never change it again. I also would absolutly love to be able to do the exact same thing when you click on a game and just have like the box art or the logo come up with the load screen. I just find that it eliminates any slow pop ins when switching from one theme or one screen to another. Being able to mask that with that beautiful load screen would be absolutely phenomenal. It would also be amazing to just choose what photos show up on each game or console. I think this should be a big box feature not just tied to one theme. Until then i am going to keep trying to Frankenstein these themes together and hope for the best because it would just be the most beautiful thing ever

Hi, I just wanted to say your themes and ideas are absolutely amazing, and you have one feature that has really caught my eye and that is the logo load screen when you pick a console. Is there by chance any way I could take that feature and put it in to other themes? This is for personal use only and I wish that was a main feature of big box itself. Any advice or help would be greatly apreciated

So i am not sure if anyone will be able to help with this, but ill try asking anyways. So I am incredibly picky when it comes to my themes. I ended up using memories of yesterday theme and deleted the rusted metal background in it to make it look really clean for the games in horizontal wheel form. I struggled with the consoles for a while but ended up really digging the all night long them with the lightning moving on the curser. Its also dark and in horizontal view so it goes together really really well. Be for I came to this combination I was strictly using cover box for everything. It looked fantastic but I really disliked both the ds and the psp versions that came out. I also loved how when you clicked on a system, it showed the logo first then loaded to where all the games are. That became a problem too because steam, pinball, and others didnt have the logo load screen. So what I am getting at is how can I make that load screen show up using memories of yesterday as my games theme? When I click on a console like n64, from going from all night long then it takes a second to load the other theme, it looks clunky. If any one has an idea how cover box does that load in on systems it would be a tremendous upgrade to my bigbox set up visually