arkraider34 Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Trying to launch ps1 emulator xebra to fullscreen in bigbox if it can be done any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DivinityCycle Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 Just curious, what made you want to run Xebra instead of other PS1 emulators available on Windows? It seems pretty barebones in terms of featureset and the lack of documentation makes me think either it'd be a royal PITA to figure out the command-line arguments it accepts, or there just aren't any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlansix Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 (edited) Hi Arkraider, The command line switch to launch xebra in fullscreen is -FULL. Open the Manage Emulators window (tools->Manage Emulators), select xebra, click edit and add it to the "Default command line parameters" text field. p.s. I agree with Divinity, although I'm guessing you're aiming for a high-accuracy emulator. Have you tried Retroarch's mednafen forks? They work amazingly well, aree also known as highly accurate emulators, and you get all the nifty options of retroarch :). Edited October 14, 2016 by Vlansix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DivinityCycle Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Actually, there have been developments on that core just this earlier this month that should lead to better graphical output. Arkraider, if you're curious you can check it out over here: http://www.libretro.com/index.php/mednafenbeetle-psx-pgxp-arrives/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkraider34 Posted October 18, 2016 Author Share Posted October 18, 2016 Thanks for rhe reply sorry I've been away. I tried to get retroach running bUT for some reason everytime I try I can't get it to open any of the games. Not sure what I've done wrong, I've followed the tutorials as far as I can tell. Just kinda gor frustrated with it after awhile. I got to the point where if I could just get xebra to launch in full screen I'd be happy with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlansix Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Heya Ark, If you're having issues with mednafen under retroarch, what I've found is as follows- 1) Mednafen requires that BIOS files match specific checksums and case-sensitive filenames 2) mednafen only supports uncompressed games or PGP-compression. If you open retroarch, download the latest mednafen-balanced core under the "online updater" feature and make sure that LaunchBox passes the correct mednafen_libretro core to retroarch as a command line parameter under the "manage emulators" window, you should be abke to get games running in it. Or just pass -FULL to xebra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkraider34 Posted October 18, 2016 Author Share Posted October 18, 2016 Thanks got xebra in full screen! Having trouble with retroarch though. I'll continue to work on it see if I can get it up and running though. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DivinityCycle Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 (edited) One thing that I wish I had known when I started messing around with RetroArch: by default its text output on Windows is lost, but it can be captured to a file to diagnose what's going on with it. Usually I would recommend you open up a command prompt and cd to the directory where your RetroArch installation is. Then, run the command that LaunchBox would be running if you tried to launch the game you're testing with. If you're trying to use the Mednafen Playstation core, you'd probably be doing something like this: retroarch.exe -L cores\mednafen_psx_libretro.dll "C:\Path\to\game" In your case, since this is not working, it'll probably only launch RetroArch and then immediately close. To get RetroArch to "tell you" what is happening, you'll want to modify your command like this: retroarch.exe -v -L cores\mednafen_psx_libretro.dll "C:\Path\to\game" 2>log.txt Adding the -v command switch tells RetroArch to operate in "verbose" mode, meaning it outputs a lot more info than normal. Adding 2>log.txt tells Windows to grab the output from RetroArch and write it into a file called log.txt rather than lose it. Also, each time this is run it'll overwrite the contents of the file, just FYI. My main issue when first trying to run the Mednafen PSX core was that it requires a very specific BIOS fileset. By default it'll look in the bios folder inside the main RetroArch folder. I've got scph5500.bin, scph5501.bin, and scph5502.bin for my PSX. Let us know how it goes Edited October 18, 2016 by DivinityCycle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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