Pause Screen Music

[Stovies]

Is it possible to have a set music file play when paused?  I have some mp3 arcade ambience files I'd like to hear when in the pause menu.

[TrailerVert]

I'll give a BUMP for this topic. Was wondering the same thing.

 

[crusadeRGP]

Vote for this feature here

[JoeViking245]

Relatively old post, recently revived (and expanded upon in the above-linked Feature Request) by @crusadeRGP.

 

From the OP question, this can be accomplished by editing the emulator (i.e. MAME) in LaunchBox.  In the Pause Script section, add the following:

file = Full/path/to/ArcadeAmbianceSounds.mp3
SoundPlay, %file%, wait

Change the path and MP3 filename to match your location.  .mp3 files works best.  But some other audio file types may work as well.

This is a one-emulator, one-song kind of thing.  As in, you need to set it up on a per emulator basis. Which is good because you can select a different 'song' based on the emulator.

You can also do this per game.  Edit the game, go to the Startup/Pause section, check Override default Pause....  Click Customize and in the On Pause section, place the above code, respectively.

 

Getting a little crazy, you could create an array of files and then have SoundPlay 'pick' a random file from the array.

 

Yes.  This is all "manual labor".  But the take-away is, it can be done natively from within LaunchBox. 😎

[crusadeRGP]

This is what I've been looking for. Thanks