My "Big Box" Work In Progress

[Jason Carr]

Thank you for this Craig! I should really add Rocket Launcher to the default list of emulator settings, even though it's not really an emulator.

[PixelBlitterBoy]

Hey Craig, Many thanks for the response and assist....I'll crack on with this and hopefully get the magic going!!!

[craiganderson]

for MAME (and a couple others)....you need to check the box at the end of the red arrow (see pic below) (ill go through and post the others when i have more time) (a few others are a little more tricky as well....like DAPHNE etc)

[daithidownunder]

craiganderson said

ccorkin said

craiganderson said added Fix-It Felix Jr ....among others....

Hey Craig, Any advice as to where a noob can get guidance with setting up/integrating of Rocketlauncher with Launchbox? Cheers Chris C.

The integration is very easy. The real trick is learning how to set up RocketLauncher. http://www.rlauncher.com/forum/forum.php http://www.rlauncher.com/forum/forum.php And then set up your Launchbox as shown in pics below.

This is looking great and thanks for the guide. I am an experienced Rockelauncher user and I followed your instructions but when I try and load a game rocketlauncher gives an error saying that no default emulator is set in settings ini and I need to set one so rocketlauncher knows which module to use.. This is strange as there is default emulators set up for all systems and everything works perfectly in all my other frontends. Am I missing something here? cheers

[craiganderson]

If I remember correctly, that usually means that inside Rocketlauncher you need to make a selection at the end of the red arrow for whatever system you are trying to launch (see pic)

[daithidownunder]

craiganderson said If I remember correctly, that usually means that inside Rocketlauncher you need to make a selection at the end of the red arrow for whatever system you are trying to launch (see pic)

Hi Craig, Thanks for the response. As I mentioned I have Rocketlauncher fully set up and working perfectly and all default emulators are already selected. Ive had a perfectly working RL/Hyperspn set-up now for many years but fancied trying something different :) I now have it working but had to enter the code as below. When I entered it as you had it, it kept throwing errors for no default emulator which was very strange. on the plus side it now works correctly using the code below. -f H:\LaunchBox\LaunchBox.exe -p RocketLauncherUI -s "Super Nintendo Entertainment System" -r

[craiganderson]

cool. glad it is working that way for you. that might be the "better" way for sure/....i was doing it my way purely on "trial and error"...and that what was working for me..... again....glad it is working for you -craig

[tof]

Hello craiganderson, that IS a huge collection :-) Can you please detail how you added future pinball artworks ? When I import tables, Launchbox grabs games artwork, not pinball table artworks... I couldn't find any tip in the forums about the way to da what you did, Thanks in advance for your time ! Tof

[tibic]

nice budy^^

[retrogamer]

craiganderson said Absolutely Loving This Program/Frontend! Figuring Out How Things Work. Launching Most Systems Via RocketLauncher. So Far So Good. https://youtu.be/KU347n7dR10 I have a way to go....as I plan on adding the following Systems/Platforms: <game name="AAE"/ <game name="Acorn Archimedes"/ <game name="Acorn BBC Micro"/ <game name="Acorn Electron"/ <game name="Alf"/ <game name="Alice 32"/ <game name="American Laser Games"/ <game name="Amstrad CPC"/ <game name="Amstrad GX4000"/ <game name="APF Imagination Machine"/ <game name="Apogee"/ <game name="Apple IIGS"/ <game name="Atari 2600"/ <game name="Atari 5200"/ <game name="Atari 7800"/ <game name="Atari Jaguar"/ <game name="Atari Lynx"/ <game name="Atari ST"/ <game name="Bally Astrocade"/ <game name="Bandai Super Vision 8000"/ <game name="Bandai WonderSwan Color"/ <game name="Bandai WonderSwan"/ <game name="BK 0011"/ <game name="Bridge Companion"/ <game name="Camputers Lynx"/ <game name="Casio PV-1000"/ <game name="Casio PV-2000"/ <game name="ColecoVision"/ <game name="Commodore 64"/ <game name="Commodore Amiga CD32"/ <game name="Commodore Amiga"/ <game name="Commodore CDTV"/ <game name="Commodore VIC-20"/ <game name="Creatronic Mega Duck"/ <game name="Daphne"/ <game name="DICE"/ <game name="Dragon 64"/ <game name="Dream 6800"/ <game name="EG2000 Colour Genie"/ <game name="Electronic Game Watch"/ <game name="Emerson Arcadia 2001"/ <game name="Entex Adventure Vision"/ <game name="Entex Electronic Baseball"/ <game name="Epoch Game Pocket Computer"/ <game name="Epoch Super Cassette Vision"/ <game name="Exidy Sorcerer"/ <game name="EXL 100"/ <game name="Fairchild Channel F"/ <game name="Fujitsu FM-7"/ <game name="Fujitsu FM Towns" <game name="Funtech Super Acan" <game name="Future Pinball"/ <game name="GCE Vectrex"/ <game name="Hector HRX"/ <game name="Interton VC 4000"/ <game name="Jupiter Ace"/ <game name="Kontiki 100"/ <game name="Luxor ABC80"/ <game name="Lviv PC-01"/ <game name="Magnavox Odyssey"/ <game name="Magnavox Odyssey 2"/ <game name="MAME"/ <game name="Mattel Aquarius"/ <game name="Mattel Intellivision"/ <game name="MGT Sam Coupe"/ <game name="MicroBee"/ <game name="Microsoft MSX"/ <game name="Microsoft MSX2"/ <game name="Microsoft MSX2+"/ <game name="Mikrosha"/ <game name="MUGEN"/ <game name="NEC PC-8801"/ <game name="NEC PC-9801"/ <game name="NEC PC Engine-CD"/ <game name="NEC PC Engine"/ <game name="NEC PC-FX"/ <game name="NEC SuperGrafx"/ <game name="NEC TurboGrafx-16"/ <game name="NEC TurboGrafx-CD"/ <game name="Nintendo Entertainment System"/ <game name="Super Nintendo Entertainment System"/ <game name="Nintendo Famicom"/ <game name="Nintendo Famicom Disk System"/ <game name="Nintendo Sufami Turbo"/ <game name="Nintendo Super Famicom"/ <game name="Nintendo Super Game Boy"/ <game name="Nintendo BS-X Satellaview"/ <game name="Nintendo Virtual Boy"/ <game name="Nintendo 64"/ <game name="Nintendo GameCube"/ <game name="Nintendo Wii"/ <game name="Nintendo WiiWare"/ <game name="Nintendo Pokemon Mini"/ <game name="Nintendo Game Boy"/ <game name="Nintendo Game Boy Color"/ <game name="Nintendo Game Boy Advance"/ <game name="Nintendo DS"/ <game name="Panasonic 3DO"/ <game name="Partner"/ <game name="PC Games"/ <game name="Pecom 64"/ <game name="Philips CD-i <game name="Philips VG 5000"/ <game name="Pioneer Palcom LaserDisc"/ <game name="Radikal Bikers"/ <game name="RCA Studio II"/ <game name="RM Nimbus"/ <game name="Sammy Atomiswave"/ <game name="Sanyo PHC-25"/ <game name="Sega 32X"/ <game name="Sega CD"/ <game name="Sega Dreamcast"/ <game name="Sega Game Gear"/ <game name="Sega Genesis"/ <game name="Sega Mark III"/ <game name="Sega Master System"/ <game name="Sega Model 2"/ <game name="Sega Model 3"/ <game name="Sega Naomi"/ <game name="Sega Pico"/ <game name="Sega Saturn"/ <game name="Sega SG-1000"/ <game name="Sega ST-V"/ <game name="Sega Triforce"/ <game name="Sharp MZ-1500"/ <game name="Sharp MZ-2500"/ <game name="Sharp X68000"/ <game name="Sharp X1"/ <game name="Sinclair ZX Spectrum"/ <game name="Sinclair ZX81"/ <game name="SNK Neo Geo CD"/ <game name="SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color"/ <game name="SNK Neo Geo Pocket"/ <game name="SNK Neo Geo"/ <game name="Sony Playstation 2"/ <game name="Sony Playstation"/ <game name="Sony PSP"/ <game name="Sony Playstation Minis"/ <game name="Sony Pocketstation"/ <game name="Sony SMC-777"/ <game name="Sord M5"/ <game name="Spectravideo"/ <game name="Star Wars - EBC"/ <game name="Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer 3"/ <game name="Tangerine Oric"/ <game name="Texas Instruments TI-994A"/ <game name="Thomson MO5"/ <game name="Thomson TO7"/ <game name="Tiger Game.com"/ <game name="Tomy Tutor"/ <game name="Touhou"/ <game name="Vector-06C"/ <game name="Videopac Plus G7400"/ <game name="VTech CreatiVision"/ <game name="Watara Supervision"/ <game name="WoW Action Max"/

I like eric the car guy in there. u got about 100 systems u want. nutts! im still learning the free version.

[Styphelus]

Nice to see you here Craiganderson. I was missing all your crazy systems. I too have been trying to setup some of the same systems (AAE, Vectrex, Dice, PC=Engine, PC-Engine-CD and so on) with mixed results. I think it's because I'm still learning the ins and out of this FE. The Launchbox Database needs a bit of an upgrade. Hopefully that will happen soon.

[SentaiBrad]

PC Engine is TurboGrafx 16, PC Engine CD is TurboGrafx CD. If there is a default name in the drop down that's the bes possible scraping name.

[Styphelus]

Not for me they aren't and not for anyone who was previous using Hyperspin. Launchbox has a Nintendo Famicom and a Nintendo Entertainment System. How come? Aren't they the same? The TurboGrafx-16 library is much smaller than the PC-Engine library. I don't want my PC-Engine exclusive games on the Turbografx simply because they never came out on the Turbografx. I really don't want to get into a debate about this again. I also want my AEE and my Dice separate from my Arcade (Mame) and my Sega Mark III separate from my Sega Master System, and my Super Famicom separate from my SNES. I'm going to try a workaround tonight and see if the scraping will still work so i can have my systems the way I want them. Launchbox tapped into the hardcore gamers and collectors over at the Hyperspin forums and as such, we like things in a particular way. Emumovies and Rocketlauncher follow the same format as Hyperspin. Maybe that's the way it should be now that Launchbox is downloading content from Emumovies and will downloading content from Hyperspin in the very near future.

[alexis524]

Styphelus said Not for me they aren't and not for anyone who was previous using Hyperspin. Launchbox has a Nintendo Famicom and a Nintendo Entertainment System. How come? Aren't they the same? The TurboGrafx-16 library is much smaller than the PC-Engine library. I don't want my PC-Engine exclusive games on the Turbografx simply because they never came out on the Turbografx. I really don't want to get into a debate about this again. I also want my AEE and my Dice separate from my Arcade (Mame) and my Sega Mark III separate from my Sega Master System, and my Super Famicom separate from my SNES. I'm going to try a workaround tonight and see if the scraping will still work so i can have my systems the way I want them. Launchbox tapped into the hardcore gamers and collectors over at the Hyperspin forums and as such, we like things in a particular way. Emumovies and Rocketlauncher follow the same format as Hyperspin. Maybe that's the way it should be now that Launchbox is downloading content from Emumovies and will downloading content from Hyperspin in the very near future.

I feel the same exact way. I want them separate as well. My OCD requires it or else I can't touch the system.

[SentaiBrad]

We've been downloading from EmuMovies for a while, and the HyperSpin thing is not at all a thing we've decided on yet. They are the same system. We also haven't decided either way what we are doing yet, but that doesn't change that fact that they are the same.

[Styphelus]

That's your opinion. Obviously, CraigAnderson, Alexis524, me, and everyone over at the Hyperspin, Emumovies and Rocketluncher forums disagrees.

[SentaiBrad]

I never said it was set in stone, and yea we might choose to do it that way. In the end, we are more than likely choosing alternate naming for almost every category. So in the end, if you have it split it should scrape all the same. The reason why it's not a good idea to split them now is for scraping. Using a different name might get you some results, but for the most part it wont. So even if we merge them on the Database to keep things more clean, if you seperated them in LB either the scrape as or alternate naming scheme will fix that up and it wont matter what we have on our database in the end.

[DOS76]

While technically they are the same they aren't the same. I think the easiest way to decide this matter may be to hold a poll and let the community decide how they want to handle these systems democratically. This would circumvent the endless back and forth of differing opinions and allow the majority of the community to decide the issue.

[SentaiBrad]

Derek, you are right. That's maybe the point I was trying to get across? The BitBucket is a testiment to that as is. We don't have anything set in stone.

[Jason Carr]

Yes, I think a democratic way of deciding this would be best. Though to be completely honest, the Hyperspin ways are probably *already* the democratic decisions. I am leaning heavily towards switching up the platforms to mostly match Hyperspin's, but if the community disagrees with this decision, of course I won't end up going that route. That said, going forward I am looking to take the strengths of the Hyperspin data approaches and combine them with the ease of use and openness of LaunchBox. So in time, we should have the best of both worlds.