subatomic09 Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Just now, lordmonkus said: if you got the configs made all you need to do then is go into Launchbox and for each game edit it and on the emulation tab of the edit window check enable custom command line parameters and add the line: -L "cores\core_name.dll" -C "path\to\gameconfig.cfg" So for example -L "cores\genesis_plus_gx_libretro.dll" -C "config\sonic2.cfg" But the Rocket Launcher stuff someone like Brad or someone else who knows more about it can hopefully help you out. RIght. That's how I have it set up now and it's working perfectly. I want to add RL as a middle-man for clean entrances and exits, and that's where I'm lost with how to set up RL to play nicely with LB and RA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Ok, I thought you were having troubles with the configs as well. Well hopefully someone can help with the RL side of things. I started back about a year ago with RL and HS and I had just learned how to get it working together when I found Launchbox and haven't looked back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted August 24, 2016 Author Share Posted August 24, 2016 If you want to use RL, you need to set it up as the emulator, so then RL needs to completely handle RA in that instance. I also don't really have any plans to make an RL Tutorial at all. That could potentially change in the future, but I just honestly have no desire in that area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted August 24, 2016 Author Share Posted August 24, 2016 1 minute ago, subatomic09 said: I feel you, @lordmonkus. I actually gave up in my quest a couple years ago because of frustration at what the gamebox frontend situation looked like. A few options, all of them promising, but none of them really that great. When I found LaunchBox, I knew I'd found what I was looking for. I would really love to be able to hide the OS, and RL seems like the best way to do that right now. Maybe one day LaunchBox will be able to do that too! I wouldn't put it past @Jason Carr! By hide the OS, if you mean BigBox or LaunchBox pops up instead of Explorer, then that is totally doable and people do this. Otherwise, BigBox / LaunchBox launching your media in fullscreen is going to be what happens anyways, so why add a middle man? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subatomic09 Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 19 minutes ago, lordmonkus said: Ok, I thought you were having troubles with the configs as well. Well hopefully someone can help with the RL side of things. I started back about a year ago with RL and HS and I had just learned how to get it working together when I found Launchbox and haven't looked back. I feel you, @lordmonkus. I actually gave up in my quest a couple years ago because of frustration at what the gamebox frontend situation looked like. A few options, all of them promising, but none of them really that great. When I found LaunchBox, I knew I'd found what I was looking for. I would really love to be able to hide the OS, and RL seems like the best way to do that right now. Maybe one day LaunchBox will be able to do that too! I wouldn't put it past @Jason Carr! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subatomic09 Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Just now, SentaiBrad said: By hide the OS, if you mean BigBox or LaunchBox pops up instead of Explorer, then that is totally doable and people do this. Otherwise, BigBox / LaunchBox launching your media in fullscreen is going to be what happens anyways, so why add a middle man? Hi SentaiBrad. You know, your statement made me go check my settings, and I realized I had "minimize LaunchBox when game launches" turned on. I unchecked that, and now the games launch without showing my desktop. So then, am I misunderstanding what people mean by clean entrances and exits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted August 24, 2016 Author Share Posted August 24, 2016 Probably a bit. As far as I know, it's just fancier transitions or bezels. I wouldn't call it a smoother launch necessarily, just a fancier launch. It probably does do a bit to hide some stuff, but if you have LaunchBox set the way you do or you launch your game or emulator in full screen, you get the same effect in the end. If the extra stuff is something you want, then RL is the way to go if you want the extra stuff it provides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subatomic09 Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Well that's a big relief, actually. Basically, I don't need RL to do what I wanted! Sorry to have derailed this thread for a bit. Thanks for your help, guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Glad you got it sorted out 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted August 24, 2016 Author Share Posted August 24, 2016 3 minutes ago, subatomic09 said: Well that's a big relief, actually. Basically, I don't need RL to do what I wanted! Sorry to have derailed this thread for a bit. Thanks for your help, guys. No problem. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imdavid555 Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Glad you got it figured out. In case someone asks about it in the future, I recommend checking out Simply Austin video on how setup Rocketlauncher and Launchbox to work together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charco Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 I am in the same boat guys, I guess I was confused as to the need for RL, I doubt I will need it at all for my setup in this case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cody0 Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 I use rocketlauncher for bezels and if I want to switch between front-ends easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroArcade Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 RL is great for such things as bezels, transitions, easily changing/setting different emulator options to be used, utilizing its configurations for changing controls, custom scripts, easy ability to use with multiple frontends so you don't have to set up each one separately. List goes on and on and on. RA is easy to config, add it as an emulator, direct it to the cores and launch a game, set up your configs for that system and save them and rename that file to match the name of the system in RL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beatlemaniac19 Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 I have a unique tutorial request @SentaiBrad. Can you do a tutorial on how to make Big Box automatically start up on your gaming computer when powering on your PC? I don't want anyone, including myself, to ever see the operating system and it'd be really cool to be able to have Big Box automatically start up immediately once you launch your PC. If we can get this working then Big Box will truly be a plug and play system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 The easiest way to do this is set up Launchbox as your Windows shell. Use a program called bsetshell to change your shell. Go to this website http://bb4win.sourceforge.net/bblean/ on the left hand side click bsetshell and download it. Put the program where ever you like and run it. A small window will open and in the Shell for all users section click other and type in the path to your BigBox.exe. Click set & logout. Now when your system boots up it will boot into BigBox. If you ever want to switch back open your task manager with Ctrl + Shift + Escape and use this to load the bsetshell.exe and set it back to Explorer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beatlemaniac19 Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 Thanks @lordmonkus I'll definitely give that a try Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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