Exit game from BigBox with controller

[RikanProdigy]

Hey guys,

 

First I'd like to apologize if this is the wrong place to ask or if there was a thread previously for this issues. I just obtained BigBox today along with the purchase of the premium version. I've been playing around with it and so far so good, everything seems to work right with my emulators. However, when I try to exit a game using the guide button, one particular game (a windows game), the game will not ignore the selection and continue running. If I press ALT+F4 the game will close and BigBox will work as normal. I know it's this one particular game as I went ahead and closed the steam game Mega Man Legacy Collection and it worked using exit. BTW, I'm using the guide button on my controller to bring up the exit selection screen. Not sure if I'm explaining it right... anyway, if anything, is there a way to let BigBox know that maybe some PC games don't close with whatever method it's using and force it to use ALT+F4 instead for said game? Or is there another option? If anyone is curious, it's an old windows 98 game Sonic R (it works on Win10 just fine). Thanks guys!

[neil9000]

48 minutes ago, RikanProdigy said:

Hey guys,

 

First I'd like to apologize if this is the wrong place to ask or if there was a thread previously for this issues. I just obtained BigBox today along with the purchase of the premium version. I've been playing around with it and so far so good, everything seems to work right with my emulators. However, when I try to exit a game using the guide button, one particular game (a windows game), the game will not ignore the selection and continue running. If I press ALT+F4 the game will close and BigBox will work as normal. I know it's this one particular game as I went ahead and closed the steam game Mega Man Legacy Collection and it worked using exit. BTW, I'm using the guide button on my controller to bring up the exit selection screen. Not sure if I'm explaining it right... anyway, if anything, is there a way to let BigBox know that maybe some PC games don't close with whatever method it's using and force it to use ALT+F4 instead for said game? Or is there another option? If anyone is curious, it's an old windows 98 game Sonic R (it works on Win10 just fine). Thanks guys!

You shouldnt just "close" windows games like that, you should quit them through there own menus, at least if you want to not corrupt your saves, there is a reason games warn you about not turning of your system while the save logo is on screen for example.

[RikanProdigy]

Thanks for the response. While I understand that may be of concern, I'd still like to know if it's possible to do. I used to have no issues doing it within steam's big picture mode. Also, the exit works just fine on most of my PC games.

[Retro808]

I believe Launchbox’s exit hook sends “Escape” key so if the game does not close with escape and does with Alt+F4 then Launchbox exit will not work. You would need to create an AHK to have the button you want to press “Send Alt+F4” to get it to work. 
 

As Neil mentions this is not good to do. But that is how you could do it.