Nixx Integrations (beta): Xenia, Cxbx, Vita3K, PPSSPP, Flycast, melonDS, no$gba, SUPER ZSNES

[Nixx]

Hi everyone!

I made a pack of plugins for LaunchBox 14. It is called Nixx Integrations.

What does it do?

For some emulators, like retroarch, launchbox is able to handle them, manage save and stuff, well, i add support for extra emulators that do exactly that.

It puts 8 emulators in LaunchBox for you. Go to Add Emulator, pick one, click Download. The plugin does the rest. You don't have to set anything up. You pick a game, and you play.
 

The emulators

Xenia for Xbox 360
Cxbx-Reloaded for the first Xbox
Vita3K for PS Vita
PPSSPP for PSP
Flycast for Dreamcast, Naomi, Atomiswave and System SP
melonDS for DS , DSi, DSIware
no$gba for Game Boy Advance, DS and DSi
SUPER ZSNES for Super Nintendo

Hey, but Vita is already managed by launchbox !!!

Yes, it does. Mine shows up under the name Nixx-Vita3K.
Here is why I made my own. Normally you install a Vita game into Vita3K, and it stays inside the emulator's memory, the NAND. I don't like that. I want my games to stay as normal files, like any other ROM, and to start like any other ROM.
So each time you play, the plugin builds a fresh little console just for that game, in a RAM disk. When you quit, it keeps your save and throws the rest away. Your game file never moves.

I use the same trick in other places:
DSiWare games in melonDS work the same way: one fresh console for each play, and only your save is kept.
For formats an emulator can't read, like CHD, the plugin uses the AIM tool to open the file so the emulator can see the game inside. No copy, no conversion.

How to install

Close LaunchBox.
Get NixxIntegrations.exe here: https://github.com/nixxou/lb-integrations-plugins/releases/latest
Run it and click Install.
Open LaunchBox and add an emulator with Add Emulator.
This is a beta

Some things may not work yet. If something goes wrong, tell me here. It helps a lot if you send the log files from this folder:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\lb-integrations-plugins

Thank you for trying it!

 

 

NixxIntegrationsv1.2.2.exe

 

NixxIntegrationsv1.2.2.exe

Edited Friday at 11:58 PM by Nixx

[Nixx]

I will probably end up adding more emulators, ideally i want to cover all those in the launchbox internal database, but that take more time than expected.
Edit : I'm working on Xemu right now, and i will probably have to alter the way i handle save in cxbx to be able to make them compatible with xemu, so expect some compatibilty issue with cxbx save on the next version.

Edited October 4 by Nixx

[Nixx]

1.2.0 update.

Lot of work to fix some issue with the way launchbox handle game save and try to correct or prevent some bugs. Also LaunchBox only asks the game's current emulator about its saves, it should be corrected with this release.
Some new emulators and update :

Nixx-Xemu : My take on the Xemu emulator, save are cross compatible with cxbx.
Nixx-ares : Multiconsole emulator, focused on console fidelity.
Nixx-RASnes9x : Fork of standalone Snes9X with retroachievement support
Nixx-bsnes and Nixx-Demul : Because why not ?
Also update to SuperZsnes to handle the change in the last version (x86 to x64 and Retroachievement partial support)

AIM Toolkit became mandatory because the ability to make it convert on the fly chd/iso/whatever to other format is just too good to skip if i want to handle a bunch of standalone emulator with some that have limited format support.
And it's now only working with Launchbox 14.

[Nixx]

1.2.2: 

Compatibility Update : Works with the LaunchBox 14.1 beta 3 now, and still with 14.0.1 (which stays the minimum).

New emulator: ZiNc EX, for the Sony ZN-1 and ZN-2 arcade games (71 games). Per game settings, sorted imports and saves like the others.

The Launch With menu now tells you how well each emulator of the pack runs the game, with a colored badge and a note when you hover it. Big Box shows it in its emulator list too. If something is missing to start the game (a file, a BIOS, a CHD) it says so.

Our emulators aren't marked as recommended anymore, so LaunchBox stops pushing them on you. And you have to add them manually before import.

Edited Friday at 11:59 PM by Nixx