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Intellivision and Mamewah - Nostalgia?
markjen1:
Is anybody running an Intellivision emulator within Mamewah?
I have tried several emulators for Intellivision without a whole lot of success. The best to date has been Nostalgia. However I cannot figure out how to avoid Nostalgia's GUI. I want to run the game directly from Mamewah. Right now when I do, it runs Nostalgia and then I have to pick the game from there and run it again.
Does anybody know if this emulator can be used the way I want?
Any suggestions on a better emulator to use?
I have tried MESS, but cannot get it running at all. I have also tried Bliss, but games didn't run too well from this emulator.
Thanks,
Mark.
arcadecab:
Mark,
I had this exact same question a few weeks ago. I also tried several emulators and found Nostalgia to be probably the best overall. I also use MAMEwah and I was finally able to get the roms to launch and bypassing the gui. Mamewah launches emulators and roms through commandline so if the paths in MAMEwah are correct and if the four categories (Send rom path, Send rom extension, Use long names, show Dos box) are set right, "yes, yes, no, yes" I believe, the rom should load to full screen and no gui involved at all. I works very nice with MAMEwah after it is setup. If you cant get it to set up properly, I will try to answer your questions as it is still somewhat fresh in my mind since I did this a couple weeks ago. Good luck and I think Nostalgia is a good choice with MAMEwah.
markjen1:
I will check those settings as soon as I get home. Thanks for the advice.
Another question...do I have to unzip the roms? This is the only way I could get them to run in Nostalgia.
Thanks,
Mark.
arcadecab:
Mark,
Not sure if you HAVE to, but I know that I did. Just checked the other day and it works great. Loads to full screen and absolutely no gui involved--great setup with MAMEwah. Now if I could get my remaining two--Atari Lynx and Neo Geo Pocket to work well with MAMEwah, ie load to full screen and exit by escape key, I would be set. Let me know if you have any further problems with Nostalgia and MAMEwah.
Zapper:
arcadecab, I tried those MAMEWah settings but it gave a "Ddhelp - illegal operation". The machine it's running on uses Windows98 (not SE). I did manage to launch the program with a batch file from MAMEWah and exit back with no probs. The only way I could get it working was to choose refresh games list which launches Nostalgia ???