Mute Volume Shortcut for Bigbox ?

[Elhora]

hi,

i made (without thinking first, of course) an arcade cabinet with button for lower volume, increase volume and un/mute volume.

The thing is that i realise there is no (or i'm blind) "mute/unmute volume" shortcut in Launchbox/Bigbox. So i dont know how i can map a shotcut to my Mute/unmute button to achieve this.

If ever you have any idea.....

 

PS i have the same with "pause", i dont know if there is a unified shortcut in LB that can pause my game no matter which emlator i'm playing.

Edited Wednesday at 02:22 PM by Elhora

[JoeViking245]

50 minutes ago, Elhora said:

The thing is that i realise there is no (or i'm blind) "mute/unmute volume" shortcut in Launchbox/Bigbox. So i dont know how i can map a shotcut to my Mute/unmute button to achieve this.

If ever you have any idea.....

You're not blind.  Or... we both are.  

Depending on what you wired the Mute/Unmute button to and what mode it's in, you might be able to create an AutoHotkey script that you have run when you start LaunchBox and/or Big Box. For this (possible) option to work, you need to know what your button is mapped to.

Example: Your encoder in keyboard mode and you have the button mapped to "M" (again, just an example).  The script would look like

m::Send {Volume_Mute}

 

 

1 hour ago, Elhora said:

i have the same with "pause", i dont know if there is a unified shortcut in LB that can pause my game no matter which emlator i'm playing.

To use the built Pause Screen, set the pause button.  Note: LB and BB require separate mappings.

LaunchBox:   

• Keyboard Mode:  Tools < Options < Gameplay < Game Pause
• XInput Mode:   Tools < Options < GameControllers < Mappings - Show Pause Screen

Big Box:   

• Keyboard Mode:   System Menu < Options < Keyboard Mappings - Show Pause Screen
• XInput Mode:   System Menu < Options < Controller Mappings < Show Pause Screen

 

Once that's all dialed in, take a look around at all the other cool things you can do from within the Options Menu(s).