ppjoy, virtua tennis and mamewah dont mix

[darthbane2k]

Im trying to get virtua tennis PC running on my cab for 2 players. The game is installed and works just fine, PPJoy when launched allows the second player to use my control panel, however I  CANNOT get it to launch neatly from mamewah. I have fiddled with batchfiles and services/processes and NOTHING works.

I realise  a solition is this mamewah setting

pre_emulator_app_commandlines c:\ppjoykey\ppjoykey.exe{autoquit}
emulator_commandline pc
post_emulator_app_commandlines


however, I have an older version of mamewah which does not support pre and post emu command lines. I dont want to upgrade (too much reconfiguration)
so can anyone help me launch ppjoykey minimised, run virtua tennis and kill ppjoykey AND virtua tennis upon exit?

i guess I could run ppjoy at startup, only im not sure how to do this. I have mamewah setup as a shell you see, and I would ideally like to hide the launch of ppjoykey. Also Ihave concerns about how much memory this eats

[darthbane2k]

Please guys, I REALLY need a solution.

Im assuming mamewah (ver 1.5x I think im using) can launch an external application before the emu (pc game) launches.. okay, lets say that app is ppjoykey, I would need something to kill PPjoykey once I leave the game. How can I do this? batch file? I have tried all commands to no avail

[darthbane2k]

think I may have solved it. As I am away from my MAME PC I experimented using BATCHRUN (freeware)




now if you look at the settings/script, imagine setup.exe was PPJOYKEY and batchrun.exe was Virtua Tennis. - when my frontend launches the *.brs batchrun script file, it would launch ppjoykey minimised and then virtua tennis. It would then wait until virtua tennis is exited before killing the ppjoykey process and resuming control to mamewah.

[headkaze]

You need 3 batch files... one to launch PPJoykey in the background and one to launch Virtua Tennis and one to launch them both. I place both the PPJoyKey.exe and the ini file for the settings into the Virtua Tennis folder.

--- vtennis.bat (the batch file you run from your FE) ---
@ECHO OFF
start ppjoykey.bat
start virtuatennis.bat
EXIT

--- ppjoykey.bat ---
@ECHO OFF
ppjoykey.exe .\vt.ini
EXIT

--- virtuatennis.bat ---
@ECHO OFF
VIRTUA_TENNIS_PC.exe
taskkill.exe /F /IM ppjoykey.exe
EXIT

Hope this helps

[darthbane2k]

You need 3 batch files... one to launch PPJoykey in the background and one to launch Virtua Tennis and one to launch them both. I place both the PPJoyKey.exe and the ini file for the settings into the Virtua Tennis folder.

--- vtennis.bat (the batch file you run from your FE) ---
@ECHO OFF
start ppjoykey.bat
start virtuatennis.bat
EXIT

--- ppjoykey.bat ---
@ECHO OFF
ppjoykey.exe .\vt.ini
EXIT

--- virtuatennis.bat ---
@ECHO OFF
VIRTUA_TENNIS_PC.exe
taskkill.exe /F /IM ppjoykey.exe
EXIT

Hope this helps

how do i ensure ppjoy is launched minimised? I dont want to see it at all.

and has anyone sucessfully added virtua fighter 2 pc to their cabs? I believe it requires an aquward alt f4 command to quit