Retro956 Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 Hi guys! Usually I can figure out some kind of idea of what to do but here, i'm completely stumped. My issue (which recently started happening out of no where) is that bigbox no longer starts my games. I open the games menu, hit play, and it says that it's loading but just sits there and then the dialog goes away. So normally I would check Rocketlauncher since I run everything through that but rocketlauncher runs everything successfully. After checking that, I checked if it will run via Launchbox's desktop interface. Which the game will run when clicking play in the Launchbox desktop gui. But when I try to load the game through bigbox, it just says loading then hangs until the dialog goes away and nothing happens. Any ideas on why bigbox's gui doesn't work but launchbox's gui works? -I haven't updated rocketlauncher or launchbox. I don't recall making any changes to anything actually. -My current setup is that I have Bigbox opening rocketlauncher as an emulator, then rocketlauncher opens retroarch. -I tried loading a game that doesn't use retroarch also and had no luck as well. Sorry, I'm checking more things as i'm currently writing this lol. Thanks for the help guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 That is very weird that it would work through the desktop mode but not through BigBox mode. Unfortunately I cannot help with anything RocketLauncher related because I do not use it at all but you should try setting up a game to just use an emulator on its own and not being passed through RL. See if that works or not, if it does then obviously there is something going on between BigBox and RL and if it doesn't then maybe something is going on with your BigBox. Are you using a beta or stable build of Launchbox ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro956 Posted October 21, 2017 Author Share Posted October 21, 2017 Thanks for the quick response! Usually I use beta builds but I am currently using the stable build 7.11 I tried running one of my systems that doesn't go through rocketlauncher and it turns out that RL is the problem. I don't believe I updated RL but it seems to not like the bigbox UI but will play well with the Launchbox UI. Maybe there is something I can do to fix it. My setup relies quite a bit on rocketlauncher since i have overlays that need to be system and game specific and I really like the RL loading screen instead of the boring launchbox loading screen for those games that take a long time to uncompress. Anyhow, Thanks for the help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 Hopefully someone with far more knowledge of RocketLauncher can help you out. My knowledge is extremely limited but did you by any chance update your emulators and possibly your RL modules don't support the emulator if you did update ? It's very odd that your RocketLauncher is working through Launchbox and not BigBox though because there really is zero difference, the both pull from the exact same .xml files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmoney Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 @Retro956 Do you by any chance have the "Show loading game message" enabled in BigBox options? I don't think it plays nicely with rocketlauncher. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro956 Posted October 21, 2017 Author Share Posted October 21, 2017 @kmoney +1 rep Kmoney!. That fixed it. What's strange is that I've always had that "show loading game message" ticked on and it worked just fine. Oh well, i'm just glad it works now. I was having a meltdown about my overlays and all of that stuff lol. You saved the day! Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 I knew someone with more knowledge of RocketLauncher and how it interacts with Launchbox would be able to help here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro956 Posted October 21, 2017 Author Share Posted October 21, 2017 @lordmonkus I definitely appreciate your help though. Even though you didn't know much about rocketlauncher, you had good thoughts and input. I appreciate the help guys! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmoney Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 1 minute ago, Retro956 said: @lordmonkus I definitely appreciate your help though. Even though you didn't know much about rocketlauncher, you had good thoughts and input. I appreciate the help guys! No problem, I think I am the only moderator that uses rocketlauncher..lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 Yeah I had enough of RocketLauncher a couple years ago when I setup HyperSpin and I absolutely hated the software to the point I never wanna see it again so I don't touch it now. The few cosmetic functions it brings just isn't worth it to me but that is just me and my tastes, I certainly know why people use and love it however. Glad you got it all working again. Just now, kmoney said: I think I am the only moderator that uses rocketlauncher..lol Yeah, I think so as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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