Need a mod to automatically select from first wheel

[ScottP]

I have Bigbox on an arcade cabinet, and only have arcade games on it. The problem with this is that Bigbox initially shows the first slect wheel with Arcade on it in all slots. This then fades out after about 1 second, and the screen stays black. I then have to press the select button to get to the @real@ wheel of categories inside the Arcade section. Is there a mod to automatically press the button after BB launches, to get past the first wheel? If not then I can write an app to do it, from a startup script, but if someone's already done it, it'll save me time :)

[neil9000]

5 minutes ago, ScottP said:

I have Bigbox on an arcade cabinet, and only have arcade games on it. The problem with this is that Bigbox initially shows the first slect wheel with Arcade on it in all slots. This then fades out after about 1 second, and the screen stays black. I then have to press the select button to get to the @real@ wheel of categories inside the Arcade section. Is there a mod to automatically press the button after BB launches, to get past the first wheel? If not then I can write an app to do it, from a startup script, but if someone's already done it, it'll save me time

If you only have the one platform you can set Launchbox to open to "all games".

[ScottP]

Thanks, that wasn't really what I wanted though. That just shows all the games on the machine in one long list, without any of the categories. I'll just set something up to inject a keypress into iBB after it starts up. That should then automatically go to the category view.

[Retro808]

If “Arcade” is your platform category and inside that you have all your specific arcade platforms then set BigBox startup view to be “platforms” and not set to “category”. At least thats how I am reading how you have things set up. 

[ScottP]

12 hours ago, Retro808 said:

If “Arcade” is your platform category and inside that you have all your specific arcade platforms then set BigBox startup view to be “platforms” and not set to “category”. At least thats how I am reading how you have things set up. 

No, that's not how it has organised it. When I set the machine up about a year ago (haven't really played it since then) I just let LB organise everything into categories, download videos etc etc. So it's not different arcade platforms, but categories like "Nintendo classics" "CPS2" "Atari" "Shoot-em-ups" etc. Once into the categories menu, random videos play in the background, under the wheel. The only way I can get to categories is to choose "Platform Categories" as the startup, which then starts on a wheel where every option is "Arcade", and after it fades out, it just stays on a black screen until I hit the select button, then it shows the category wheel. I have tried every startup option - some just do nothing - no wheel, nothing happens after hitting select, one of the options just shows an ugly looking list which seems based on the directory structure, or I can show all games in one long list. It took a bit of time to test them all as I have to reboot after every settings change so that BB reads the new settings (I need to plug a mouse in I guess!)

I'm probably just looking for it to do something it's not set up to do - I guess most people have more than just Arcade games on their machines. I wrote a Windows app last night to inject a keypress after a process appears, which I haven't transferred to the arcade machine as yet, but should fix the problem - just need to get the timing right after BB launches!

I have put in a feature request to skip wheels with only one option, which would fix this issue in BigBox.

Edited February 20, 2021 by ScottP

[neil9000]

2 hours ago, ScottP said:

When I set the machine up about a year ago (haven't really played it since then) I just let LB organise everything into categories, download videos etc etc. So it's not different arcade platforms, but categories like "Nintendo classics" "CPS2" "Atari" "Shoot-em-ups" etc.

Those are playlists, not platforms or platform categories, you should be able to set Launchbox to start in Playlists in the "View"menu.

 

[ScottP]

edit: just tried it again - that’s the one that just shows a black screen. Pressing select does nothing. Shows zero games.
 

Yep I did try that. I think that’s the one that just switched to a list view of directory paths on the left with box art on the right. I’m going to use the program I wrote to keep the wheel view as I prefer that. Thanks.

Edited February 20, 2021 by ScottP