Gilrock Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 I've got everything setup and running this past week. I'm using a cabinet so I'm running Big Box. I love the joystick navigation for selection a platform and then scrolling through the games. Hitting left to bring up the letters, scroll around, then right to select the letter. I keep finding myself wanting to press right on the joystick to select the game and then right to play the game. Is there any way to configure that? Just seems awkward every time you need to switch from the joystick to an enter button for basic navigation. If I'm in the game info screen hitting left on the joystick should back me back out. I'm just too new to know if this is already possible. If not then I can add a feature request. There is also a bug in the MAME platform where a lot of times it picks the incorrect rom. I select a game and see the correct artwork and then hit play game and the wrong game comes up. If I exit out of the game and then hit play game again then it plays the correct game. It always seems to be a rom that is close in name like one or two positions away so it feels like its not keeping up with the navigation like I scroll down the games list real fast and then select a game and it still thinks I'm on a rom one or two positions away. I'm using RocketLauncher so the fact that when I exit and restart the right game comes up tells me it's not a rocketlauncher issue it's what's being fed to rocketlauncher that's wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 6 hours ago, Gilrock said: There is also a bug in the MAME platform where a lot of times it picks the incorrect rom. I select a game and see the correct artwork and then hit play game and the wrong game comes up. If I exit out of the game and then hit play game again then it plays the correct game. This is not a "Mame platform" bug but it is a bug none the less and will be fixed the next beta as I have already reported it to Jason and he said it will be taken care of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilrock Posted June 4, 2018 Author Share Posted June 4, 2018 Fair enough. I only saw it happen when running the Arcade platform but the only other platform I have running is Daphne which doesn't have that many games so the page never scrolls. Still curious about the joystick navigation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 Here's the description and how to recreate the bug posted in the beta thread: As for your joystick "issue" I am not gonna comment because it's never been an issue for myself and I haven't seen anyone else bringing it up as an issue but you can feel free to submit a feature request for what you want using the "Request a Feature" option under the "Help & Support" header at the top of the website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilrock Posted June 4, 2018 Author Share Posted June 4, 2018 Well I hope the same fix works for what I saw. Sounds like are running LaunchBox but I'm having the wrong rom launched in Big Box so there is no double-click action unless hitting enter to see game info and enter again to play the game looks like a double-click. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 This bug has been fixed in the latest beta just released an hour ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilrock Posted June 9, 2018 Author Share Posted June 9, 2018 On 6/4/2018 at 2:28 PM, Lordmonkus said: This bug has been fixed in the latest beta just released an hour ago. Still not fixed in v8.3 of Big Box. I scrolled down to "T" then selected Tempest. When I hit Play Game it loaded the correct Tempest marquee but the ROM it loaded began with an "S". I exited the game and re-entered and then Tempest came up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 Not sure what to tell you because I was able to reproduce this issue consistently before and told Jason about it and the very next beta it was fixed and works properly in the stable 8.3 release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 Any way you could record a video of it in action preferably one shot from your computer and not taken with a cell phone but if that is what you have to do that will work also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilrock Posted June 9, 2018 Author Share Posted June 9, 2018 17 minutes ago, Lordmonkus said: Not sure what to tell you because I was able to reproduce this issue consistently before and told Jason about it and the very next beta it was fixed and works properly in the stable 8.3 release. Are you using Big Box? Something I saw you say made me think you were mainly using LaunchBox so are you sure it fixed it in both programs? I can tell you I'm positive it did not. I've been developing software for over 30 years when I report something it's not imaginary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 Tested it with BigBox as well, I even just loaded up to triple test it and no problems switching games and platforms, proper games loaded each time. I loaded games both ways, using the "Launch Game" sub menu of the game and loading the game directly from the games list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilrock Posted June 9, 2018 Author Share Posted June 9, 2018 Ok just caught it on video...let me get it edited and upload a link. I guess I'm just selecting too fast. I'm scrolling with the joystick and it lands on the name I want then I hit the select button. I notice it initially flashes the name of the game just before the rom I selected so in the video I select Robotron but it initially display Rock Climber's info. It loaded the Robotron marquee which will not be in the video and it loaded the Rock Climber ROM. When I exit the game you'll see it's on the Robotron entry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 I'm not saying it's not happening for you, I am only saying I cannot reproduce it now when I was able to reproduce it consistently before. I can scroll through games as fast as possible and as soon as I land on a game I can press the B button to load directly into the game, close out the game and scroll to a completely different game as fast as possible and mash the B button again before the box art and information for that game catches it and it loads directly into the game selected. I Just did this again for 10 games in a row and each time the proper game loaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilrock Posted June 9, 2018 Author Share Posted June 9, 2018 (edited) Yeah I get it...I'm a main developer for a freeware program called xLights with several thousand users so I'm used to getting bug reports and know how these things go. Not a big deal just wanted to report it. By the way you can skip the first 20 seconds where it's just the Big Box loading title. I should have trimmed it off but didn't realize how long it was. Here's my video: Selection Issue Edited June 9, 2018 by Gilrock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesseb4838 Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 I had a problem with my easy smx controller. After hours of trying to fix, it finally works without fast forwarding the game, but now it's stuck on game cube console screen where I pick games. It still plays those games. I can't access the other menu with all my consoles. Anyone know what I can do? I tried re downloading other roms. They're still there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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