1. Taito Type X-games

We have already discussed the new digital distribution system that Taito has developed (called NESICAxLive) but one area we were waiting to hear more about.

@slashguns04: Just make a right click on the background in LaunchBox and choose add. As the application path you choose the.exe or.bat file you use to start the game. Then you can search for metatdata, download artwork, change the platform to Taito Type X, etc.

You have to this for every game. @DOS76: Maybe you want to check out SimplyAustin’s tutorials for the TaitoType X games. In the video descriptions he offers working and preconfigured versions of the games and shows how to start the game, change controls/graphics, etc. Here’s the link to his playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe424gm2Z-GezoefTRd-aLe581kKsxMc.

Yeah thanks for this @CriticalCid I have SSFIV up and running it looks awesome by the way. @Slashguns04 If you have it working in other launchers i'm going to guess you have already configured it properly. To add it to LaunchBox you click on add in the bottom right corner then type in the name, the platform, the path and then get the metadata now if you want to have a platform called Taito Type X then you need to make sure that after you get the metadata it doesn't add it to your Arcade platform because it will try to if you want it to be labeled under Arcade then you don't have to worry I like my Arcade games to be separated by systems like Sega Model 2 CPS1 instead of just lumping them all under one Arcade category but this will be based off user preference. Is there anyway to get the portrait games to start in horizontal or at least to choose which monitor they open on I do have another PC with one Horizontal and one Portrait monitor I use it to play portrait MAME games but they have a built in setting for that this barely has any settings. Also i have some games that don't work at all like Samarui Shodown it starts to open then the launcher.exe file becomes unresponsive and never recovers. Another issue is Chaos Breaker and Battle Fantasia are both Battle Fantasia when I open them.

I'm going through them and trying to figure out which ones are playable but I have to go school for a few hours so it will have to wait until I finish. Do you use Austin’s game versions and follow all his steps in his tutorials? Because the launcher files he provides rotate the screen for horizontal monitors automatically. I only use the versions of Taito Type X games which Austin shares because they all working perfectly fine for me and I don’t have to struggle to get the games to work.

Taito Type X-games

And of course the games don't have much options. They were all designed to work in dedicated hardware so there was no need for the developers to make the games much configurable. That's why we have to deal with workarounds like launcher.