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Warborg:

--- Quote from: Jakobud on February 23, 2003, 01:48:15 am ---Yeah its XP.  Game Launcher was originally made for DOS.  Even though it is obviously not a DOS executable you are using, XP just hates DOS stuff period.  It is doing something that DOS doesn't like.  I am using GL in Win2k with no problems though.

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I always love how people decide to blame XP when they can't think of anything else...  It's M$'s new OS, must be at fault.  I run XP on my main PC at home with GL, works great.  I run XP on my arcade cab, guess what?  Works perfectly there, as well.
Dave Dribin:

--- Quote from: Distortion on February 23, 2003, 04:20:14 pm ---I can't figure out why it's adding that space, but when I set it to use the full path on the roms, it merely added a . (period) before the rom title... so i.e.


--- Quote ---23 Feb 2003 16:07:18.010 [Info] Starting engine loop
23 Feb 2003 16:08:10.020 [Info] Game selected: <Aliens (World set 1)>
23 Feb 2003 16:08:10.020 [Info] Emulator: <MAME>
23 Feb 2003 16:08:10.020 [Info] Directory: <c:\mame>
23 Feb 2003 16:08:10.020 [Info] Pre-command: <>
23 Feb 2003 16:08:10.020 [Info] Post-command: <>
23 Feb 2003 16:08:10.020 [Info] Command: <mame.exe .aliens  >
23 Feb 2003 16:08:10.300 [Info] Average FPS: 24
23 Feb 2003 16:08:10.350 [Info] Exitting
23 Feb 2003 16:08:10.350 [Info] Cleaning up Launcher_Controller
23 Feb 2003 16:08:10.680 [Info] Cleaning up Launcher_Controller: Done

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and those spaces are still at the end there.

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I think I've seen this before.  Make sure you have "use_rom_directory = no" and "use_extension = no" in your mame.cfg.  I fthat doesn't work, post youre mame.cfg.  Better yet, join the Game Launcher mailing list and post it there.  Trailing spaces shouldn't matter, but that extra dot will mess things up.

-Dave
Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: Warborg on February 24, 2003, 12:44:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: Jakobud on February 23, 2003, 01:48:15 am ---Yeah its XP.  Game Launcher was originally made for DOS.  Even though it is obviously not a DOS executable you are using, XP just hates DOS stuff period.  It is doing something that DOS doesn't like.  I am using GL in Win2k with no problems though.

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I always love how people decide to blame XP when they can't think of anything else...  It's M$'s new OS, must be at fault.  I run XP on my main PC at home with GL, works great.  I run XP on my arcade cab, guess what?  Works perfectly there, as well.


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Agreed....  

People love to blame microsoft products (especially the newer, more advanced ones) because they are from a big "bad" corporation.   The truth is that big, bad corporation is the reason you are able to type this post on a global internet, with your cheap pc and your reliable, customizable os.  

It's like that ad about the phone company from "Crazy People"  

"Were AT&T and we invented the damn phone so shut up and pay your bill!" --AT&T

Well they are Microsoft and they made the damn personal computer industry so shut up and use the os. ;)

(Mac users and m$ haters please insert flame here, but do you honestly think that the computer industry would be as cheap, global and advanced without m$ ?)
romid:
Im having the same problem as the OP

I have tried all the recomendations, but games only launch when in deug mode.  I also have spaces at the end of the commands that are being executed.  If anyone has any other suggestions, I would love to hear them-- thanks!

romid:
I think I have it figured out...

This is the problem I had:  Games would properly load when in debug mode, but not load at all when not in debug mode.

This is how I fixed it:  I moved the directory I had extracted gamelauncher to the root directory (c:\)  It possibly wasnt working before because the path to it had a space in it?

Good luck to all those having similar problems!
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