Marquee displays game when launching Arcade games.

[1dummy]

Hello All.

My marquee screen on my arcade cabinet works great in BigBox while playing Atari 2600, SNES, Sega, etc games. For whatever reason when I go into my Arcade section and I'm scrolling through my games, the marquee screen displays the marquee perfectly. When I select play to start a game, it states 'Now Loading' on my main display and then the game loading process immediately switches to the marquee screen. The game then loads and plays on the marquee screen while my main display screen goes to a black screen. 

I'm running LaunchBox on Windows 10.. In my Display Settings, my marquee monitor is display 1 and my main display is display 2.

Thanks for any and all suggestions for solving this issue.

[Retro808]

5 minutes ago, 1dummy said:

Hello All.

My marquee screen on my arcade cabinet works great in BigBox while playing Atari 2600, SNES, Sega, etc games. For whatever reason when I go into my Arcade section and I'm scrolling through my games, the marquee screen displays the marquee perfectly. When I select play to start a game, it states 'Now Loading' on my main display and then the game loading process immediately switches to the marquee screen. The game then loads and plays on the marquee screen while my main display screen goes to a black screen. 

I'm running LaunchBox on Windows 10.. In my Display Settings, my marquee monitor is display 1 and my main display is display 2.

Thanks for any and all suggestions for solving this issue.

I am going to assume you are using Mame. I would check in your Mame settings (either in the Mame settings menu or your Mame.ini file) and confirm what screen you have Mame set to launch to.

[1dummy]

Retro808 - yes, I'm using MAME. Do I change one of the settings within MAME on the attached photo? Thank you!

[Retro808]

2 hours ago, 1dummy said:

Retro808 - yes, I'm using MAME. Do I change one of the settings within MAME on the attached photo? Thank you!

 

Look in the Mame.ini for the area below. The Default might have screen set to auto. Try changing it to \\.\DISPLAY1 or \\.\DISPLAY2 depending on how Mame sees your monitors.

# OSD PER-WINDOW VIDEO OPTIONS
#
screen                    \\.\DISPLAY1

[1dummy]

19 hours ago, Retro808 said:

Look in the Mame.ini for the area below. The Default might have screen set to auto. Try changing it to \\.\DISPLAY1 or \\.\DISPLAY2 depending on how Mame sees your monitors.

# OSD PER-WINDOW VIDEO OPTIONS
#
screen                    \\.\DISPLAY1

Thank you very much! This worked perfectly.

[cmid21]

On 4/23/2022 at 4:05 PM, Retro808 said:

Look in the Mame.ini for the area below. The Default might have screen set to auto. Try changing it to \\.\DISPLAY1 or \\.\DISPLAY2 depending on how Mame sees your monitors.

# OSD PER-WINDOW VIDEO OPTIONS
#
screen                    \\.\DISPLAY1

Hello all, 

For some reason I am experiencing this same issue. I am using two screens. I changed the default from "Auto" to \\.\DISPLAY1 with no success and to \\.\DISPLAY2 with no success. I also tried DISPLAY numbers 3-9 with no success. 

 

To summarize my issue: 

On 4/23/2022 at 12:25 PM, 1dummy said:

Hello All.

My marquee screen on my arcade cabinet works great in BigBox while playing Atari 2600, SNES, Sega, etc games. For whatever reason when I go into my Arcade section and I'm scrolling through my games, the marquee screen displays the marquee perfectly. When I select play to start a game, it states 'Now Loading' on my main display and then the game loading process immediately switches to the marquee screen. The game then loads and plays on the marquee screen while my main display screen goes to a black screen. 

I'm running LaunchBox on Windows 10.. In my Display Settings, my marquee monitor is display 2 and my main display is display 1.

Thanks for any and all suggestions for solving this issue.

 

Edited 15 hours ago by cmid21