Belmont Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 Maybe I'm missing something. Hopefully someone can help. I can set a custom startup delay in LaunchBox (let's say 15 secs). It works when launching the game from LaunchBox (if startup screen is enabled, obviously). However, BigBox doesn't seems to care and will only use its global setting (1,2,3,4 or 5 secs). Is this broken? Or am I overlooking a setting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 These settings are emulator-specific. What emulator are you testing with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belmont Posted March 23, 2020 Author Share Posted March 23, 2020 I'm actually trying to launch a steam game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 3 minutes ago, Belmont said: I'm actually trying to launch a steam game. Where are you trying to override the setting? Under the game edit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belmont Posted March 23, 2020 Author Share Posted March 23, 2020 Yes.. This is on Marvel Vs Capcom Infinite (terrible game i know). Launching from LB, the "now loading" screen does show up for 15 secs. However, from BB, it only shows for 2 before returning to the game details screen (where the video starts playing again). The game eventually launch, but I'm trying to have the "now loading" screen stick around for 15 secs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 I've tested this and I can replicate it, so I can confirm it's an issue. It's on my list; hopefully I can get to it soon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krakerman Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 (edited) Yeah noticed that with my LB/BB startup videos making timings are wierd. Sometimes will play video just fine and launch the emu for example MAME/MESS and other times after the video is done will start to repeat playing then 1/4 way into it then the emu launches. So you will see the initial startup video then start over and launch the game. No matter where I adjust any of the timers. I just want the startup video to play for 5 or 6 secs then launch the emu. Most of the time this happens on just the initial launch of LB/BB and running the emu for the first time. If you try playing the emu several times after it plays and works just fine. Edited March 25, 2020 by Krakerman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 On 3/25/2020 at 7:05 AM, Krakerman said: Yeah noticed that with my LB/BB startup videos making timings are wierd. Sometimes will play video just fine and launch the emu for example MAME/MESS and other times after the video is done will start to repeat playing then 1/4 way into it then the emu launches. So you will see the initial startup video then start over and launch the game. No matter where I adjust any of the timers. I just want the startup video to play for 5 or 6 secs then launch the emu. Most of the time this happens on just the initial launch of LB/BB and running the emu for the first time. If you try playing the emu several times after it plays and works just fine. This particular issue being discussed here has nothing to do with videos on the startup screens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krakerman Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Yeah I realized that haha sorry. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanBoy Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 (edited) Guys this problem falls perfectly in a suggestion that I've wanted to do for quite some time now, but never did, so here it goes... Before using LB to launch my games, i've used to have 1 script for each PC game and each emulator, what this script does is: 1- Show a splash screen with the game's fanart 2- Launch the game. 3- Wait for the game specific window to show up 4- If window exists, i could set things like borderless windo to games that don't have it, and other stuff... 5- When it's done, close the splash screen and show the game window. This way all the garbage that some games and specially emulators from before launching the actual game gets hidden and we never get to see it. It Would be awesome if you could add something like that to LB, i guess it should be very easy, cuz even i could manage to do it with AutoHotkey... This way we would't have to guess how much time each game takes to load exactly to only then set that "timer" to each game. I'll attach a copy of the script i've used before LB, you could take a look and see if it's possible to port it to LB, this is the only thing that my old "setup" does better than LB. RPCS3.ahk LittleBigPlanet.disc Edited March 30, 2020 by FanBoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 9 hours ago, FanBoy said: Guys this problem falls perfectly in a suggestion that I've wanted to do for quite some time now, but never did, so here it goes... Before using LB to launch my games, i've used to have 1 script for each PC game and each emulator, what this script does is: 1- Show a splash screen with the game's fanart 2- Launch the game. 3- Wait for the game specific window to show up 4- If window exists, i could set things like borderless windo to games that don't have it, and other stuff... 5- When it's done, close the splash screen and show the game window. This way all the garbage that some games and specially emulators from before launching the actual game gets hidden and we never get to see it. It Would be awesome if you could add something like that to LB, i guess it should be very easy, cuz even i could manage to do it with AutoHotkey... This way we would't have to guess how much time each game takes to load exactly to only then set that "timer" to each game. I'll attach a copy of the script i've used before LB, you could take a look and see if it's possible to port it to LB, this is the only thing that my old "setup" does better than LB. RPCS3.ahk 547 B · 4 downloads LittleBigPlanet.disc 143 B · 2 downloads This sounds a lot like Rocket Launcher. To be honest, I think if you want that granular level of control, Rocket Launcher would be your best bet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 17 minutes ago, Jason Carr said: This sounds a lot like Rocket Launcher. To be honest, I think if you want that granular level of control, Rocket Launcher would be your best bet. 100% does and thankfully if you need that functionality you can use RocketLauncher with LB for the times you need it. I think adding that functionality to LB just complicates things especially when we have RetroArch handling so many emulation cores and covering the majority of major systems. FanBoy, I use RL just for a few systems for the exact reason you posted. Mostly Teknoparrot games which have notoriously long start up times. (I switched a lot of these games to JConfig which is much faster for many games) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanBoy Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 (edited) On 3/30/2020 at 1:14 PM, Headrush69 said: 100% does and thankfully if you need that functionality you can use RocketLauncher with LB for the times you need it. I think adding that functionality to LB just complicates things especially when we have RetroArch handling so many emulation cores and covering the majority of major systems. FanBoy, I use RL just for a few systems for the exact reason you posted. Mostly Teknoparrot games which have notoriously long start up times. (I switched a lot of these games to JConfig which is much faster for many games) Great! I will give RL a try and post the results here later. So I've tried RL and it does exactly what i want but, there is one problem here, backgrounds... Do i really have to create a Layer 1.jpg inside "Fade" folder for every game that i have? Or there is a way to tell RocketLauncher to get backgrounds from LaunchBox? Cuz if i really have to create a copy of every artwork that i have on LB but wanna use on RL, i think i'll have to stick with LB solution, even with it letting me see my desktop every time i enter/exit a game. Edited April 1, 2020 by FanBoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 On 3/23/2020 at 12:36 PM, Belmont said: Yes.. This is on Marvel Vs Capcom Infinite (terrible game i know). Launching from LB, the "now loading" screen does show up for 15 secs. However, from BB, it only shows for 2 before returning to the game details screen (where the video starts playing again). The game eventually launch, but I'm trying to have the "now loading" screen stick around for 15 secs. FYI, this was fixed in a recent beta release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belmont Posted April 1, 2020 Author Share Posted April 1, 2020 Sweet! I'll give it a try. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimir Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 Hello! I'm having the same issue when launching a game from Epic on BigBox. As described above, the game will eventually launch but it will go back to the BigBox menu screen for the game. I want the startup screen to last until the game is ready. I have adjusted the load delay to 30 seconds to no avail. I am using the latest Launchbox 11.9. Can someone help me please? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGameBox Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 I am also having this On 3/20/2021 at 8:23 AM, Mimir said: Hello! I'm having the same issue when launching a game from Epic on BigBox. As described above, the game will eventually launch but it will go back to the BigBox menu screen for the game. I want the startup screen to last until the game is ready. I have adjusted the load delay to 30 seconds to no avail. I am using the latest Launchbox 11.9. Can someone help me please? Thank you! I am also having this with Launchbox 13.6. BigBox does not care how much time I have setup Start Load Delay. This is so frustrating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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