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If you've been fuddling with complex boot sequences for various computer systems in MAME/MESS, look no further! I'm now sharing a collection of MAME-tested Lua autoboot scripts that I've personally written to seamlessly launch software for various classic computer systems that often have complex boot sequences. Say goodbye to manual boot commands and enjoy a smoother MAME launching experience! Key features include: Curated & Tested: A collection of reliable Lua autoboot scripts, verified against MAME 0.278 ROM sets. Seamless Launching: Designed to automatically handle complex boot sequences for various computer systems. Modular Design: Features a autoboot_common.lua library for easy maintenance and readability, encapsulating complex timing and future expansion. No more complex coding the frame time or button sequences! Simply call the intuitive functions encapsulated in this library! Easy Integration: Simply download and extract to your MAME scripts folder. LaunchBox Friendly: My MAME Curated Softlist Importer v1.1.0 plugin can automatically configure -autoboot_script command lines for matching titles in LaunchBox." If you're interested to run those obscure MESS system without having to execute those complex boot sequence, look no further! Currently it can autoamte 24 system softlists by the time of posting, which are selected based on some obscure or common computer systems that has most working titles. I'm open for suggestion if you have any more systems that would like to automate! https://github.com/dsync89/mess-curated-autoboot-scripts

I need some help, my pc has bigbox shell enable, upon booting today i have a black screen. I posted this on April 25, when i had the same issue. "I am not sure if this is the same issue I'm having, but I started up my gaming PC yesterday with Bigbox set as the default shell and it boots to a black screen. No sound, I can see my cursor when I move the touchpad on my keyboard. None of my keyboard inputs, like Ctrl, Shift, Esc to bring up the taskmanager seem to work except Windows + P which brings up the project to screen window. Does anyone know how i can startup explorer.exe and undo the changes Bigbox made to the default shell? " In April, I ended up reinstalling the operating system; my games are on a separate drive. After that incident, I created a restore disk in case this happened again. Well it happened again. I don't want to do a restore. I would like to find a fix. C-Beats tried to help but we're both stumped. Here's what I've tried so far: "I was able to mount the os drive from another computer and I loaded the registry hive from there and changed the shell from Drive letter:\Launchbox\Core\Bigbox.exe to explorer.exe from here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell but the shell is still not loading, black screen is still there. Can still see mouse pointer everything else mentioned above." Windows+R open run? Ctrl+Alt+Delete menu None of these work "I just tried to boot in safe mode. Still loaded a black screen. Tried safe mode, safe mode with networking, and Safe mode with command prompt, nothing comes up. I booted into windows recovery and loaded the registry hive for my account and set it to explorer.exe and rebooted and still got a black screen. I rebooted back into recovery and checked the registry hive again and it still says explorer.exe. so I'm not sure what's happening at this point. I've attached a few screenshots. One with the black screen only showing the presentation button working. Another with the bigbox reg key and the change to explorer.exe" Also of note, I'm using windows 10 enterprise

Hi guys, I have a bios file for N64 and i am wondering how can I use it or in which directory it should be placed for Project64 to load it. Thanks in advance

Name: How to boot directly into BigBox Category: Tutorials Date Added: 2018-01-30 Submitter: Pyrometheous In this video I discuss how you can modify your home theater PC to boot directly into BigBox, just like a game console. How to boot directly into BigBox