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bfauska:
I don't know if I have set up Johnny5 correctly or not, I am definately having problems with it but I don't know if it is my fault. 

I unzipped the downloaded file into it's own directory and set up the mame directory and mame exe in the parsing options screen.  When I try to run Johnny5 from the command line I get an error message:

"Run-time error '339':
Component 'LEDWIZM.OCX' or one of it's dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid."

This message is poping up over the default cp picture with no labels on it.

In my current settings I am using mameplus command line version mamep.exe and I have tested it also with mame32, and mame32fx.

In addition to the error message I am also not getting it to launch the roms.  When I tried it with mame32 it opened the cp picture, poped the error message and opened mame32's frontend and now that I am trying it with a command line mame it only opens the cp picture.  If I try to pass mame32 or mamep a rom name directly in the command line that works, so I must not have johnny5 set up right to send a rom name to mame.

To make a long post longer... the whole reason I am even attempting to set this up is so that I can use the command.dat system.  I have that working directly through mameplus but would like to run it independant of the mame build.  I also love the idea of showing a particular games controls in the FE before the game gets launched.

I feel like if I just understood what files go where and how I have them reference eachother I would be able to figure much of this out.

Thanks for any help, I would love to be able to use this program it looks like a great addition to my future cabinet.

Later,
Brian
Howard_Casto:
The error message tells you what is wrong.  Ledwizm.ocx is not registered properly.  I don't do it for you because, well ocx's are funny and j5 doesn't use the latest version of the ocx (yet).

open up a command prompt, navigate to your johnny5 folder and type

regsvr32 ledwizm.ocx


All should be well.

bfauska:
I hate to seem helpless, but when I tried that command I got another error message:

"ledwizm.ocx" is not an executable file and no registration helper is registered for this file type."

Ideas?

Thanks,
Brian

EDIT:

I should mention I am running Windows XP with all current updates.  I was however missing mfc30.dll which a microsoft help page said may cause problems so I dl'd it and restarted and tried again.  Same probs.
Howard_Casto:
Honestly?  Sounds like something is wrong with windows.  You didn't by chance do one of those "tiny" installs did you?

I wanted to make absolutely sure that there wasn't a glitch in the ocx so I re-registered mine using the command I suggested above.  I got a "ledwizm.ocx successfully registered" message and that was it.  I run xp too btw.
bfauska:
Standard install.  I should say Gateway install, on a laptop, but I've never had any trouble like this before.  I could try it on my desktop just to see if it is this computer.  I think I'll do that and see if that's the problem.
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