Playing (2) games on split screen?

[whazzzzzup17]

Prior to Big Box, I would play Pokemon (Game Boy) on my living room TV with my daughter. 

I would have two copies of the same ROM, and open both versions on separate emulators copies, split the TV screen and each controller would work on its own window. 

Is there anyway to do this within the Big Box interface, or do I need to continue to do it outside of Big Box?

Here is a sample video of someone playing two games: 

 

[Lordmonkus]

Maybe with an additional app pointing to a batch file that loads the same game and emulator. That's at least the first solution that comes to mind, might be a simpler way to do it.

[whazzzzzup17]

34 minutes ago, Lordmonkus said:

Maybe with an additional app pointing to a batch file that loads the same game and emulator. That's at least the first solution that comes to mind, might be a simpler way to do it.

I think I would still need to have separate copies of the emulator and the game and just run each emulator and reference each game. 

[proghodet]

You could create an AHK script, with something like this:

Run, "%A_ScriptDir%/VisualBoyAdvance.exe" "%A_ScriptDir%/roms/Pokémon LeafGreen.GBA"
Run, "%A_ScriptDir%/VisualBoyAdvance.exe" "%A_ScriptDir%/roms/Pokémon FireRed.GBA"
WinWait, VisualBoyAdvance
sleep, 1000
Send, #{Right}
sleep, 2500
Send, {Enter}

Just compile the script into an exe which you execute from launchbox

Edited December 30, 2018 by proghodet

[whazzzzzup17]

11 hours ago, proghodet said:

You could create an AHK script, with something like this:

Run, "%A_ScriptDir%/VisualBoyAdvance.exe" "%A_ScriptDir%/roms/Pokémon LeafGreen.GBA"
Run, "%A_ScriptDir%/VisualBoyAdvance.exe" "%A_ScriptDir%/roms/Pokémon FireRed.GBA"
WinWait, VisualBoyAdvance
sleep, 1000
Send, #{Right}
sleep, 2500
Send, {Enter}

Just compile the script into an exe which you execute from launchbox

You rock, proghodet.

Thank you for the awesome help. I will be using this for sure!

[proghodet]

Glad I could be of help

[whazzzzzup17]

Is there anyway to modify this script, so you don't' have to manually change the script for the ROM location for the other RetroArch instances?

For example, how can I right-click on LaunchBox and/or BigBox and use a script to locate the same ROM file for other instances "FULL\PATH\TO\ROM\FILE"?

Within the Startup section on the emulator tab, you can add Run, "%A_ScriptDir%/Retroach2.exe" "FULL\PATH\TO\ROM\FILE", but it only works if I remove "Full\"