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jcrouse:
I am curious, does anyone have this script of Howards working from a FE? I can get it to work from a commandline but MameWAH doesn't like it. I have tried all I know to no avail. I am sure it's a MameWAH issue and was wondering how it is working with the other FEs.

I also have to first mount the image before using the script. Howard, is this by design and just not mentioned or in your testing is the script sifficient to allow nullDC to start the game? If I don't mount the image first I just get the DC screen with the spinning CD. If I mount it everything works perfect from the commandline. Mounting and unmounting is no problem in MameWAH, i'm just curious as to what is intended and working for you or others.

My issue appears to be one of focus. MameWAH mounts the image, then nullDC appears, then nullDC disappears and I'm looking at MameWAH again, however, nullDC is now running the game in the background, behind MameWAH and obviously without focus. I have gotten MANY emulators working with MameWAH but this one puzzles me. I have tried all our normal settings for {dosbox}/{nodosbox] and {safelaunch}/{nosafelaunch} but nothing yet. It must be something to do with the two windows that nullDC uses.

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
John
Zeosstud:
Anyone been able to get San Francisco Rush 2049 running well on either EMU?

Zeosstud
Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: jcrouse on April 24, 2007, 09:47:22 pm ---I am curious, does anyone have this script of Howards working from a FE? I can get it to work from a commandline but MameWAH doesn't like it. I have tried all I know to no avail. I am sure it's a MameWAH issue and was wondering how it is working with the other FEs.

I also have to first mount the image before using the script. Howard, is this by design and just not mentioned or in your testing is the script sifficient to allow nullDC to start the game? If I don't mount the image first I just get the DC screen with the spinning CD. If I mount it everything works perfect from the commandline. Mounting and unmounting is no problem in MameWAH, i'm just curious as to what is intended and working for you or others.

My issue appears to be one of focus. MameWAH mounts the image, then nullDC appears, then nullDC disappears and I'm looking at MameWAH again, however, nullDC is now running the game in the background, behind MameWAH and obviously without focus. I have gotten MANY emulators working with MameWAH but this one puzzles me. I have tried all our normal settings for {dosbox}/{nodosbox] and {safelaunch}/{nosafelaunch} but nothing yet. It must be something to do with the two windows that nullDC uses.

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
John

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I'm not sure what you are talking about.....   you don't mount/unmount images in nulldc (although I believe it's an option).  You can simply set a default image to load, when you start the emulator, which is what the script exploits.  Mamewah has focus issues with everything, (bah! ;)) but I'm pretty sure there are settings to fix this.  You'll have to ask a mamewah user for specifics.  If you are using real, physical,  dc discs  then you'll need to modify the script (and put in the cds ahead of time due to how the emu works.)
jcrouse:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on April 26, 2007, 12:45:52 am ---I'm not sure what you are talking about.....   you don't mount/unmount images in nulldc (although I believe it's an option).  You can simply set a default image to load, when you start the emulator, which is what the script exploits.  Mamewah has focus issues with everything, (bah! ;)) but I'm pretty sure there are settings to fix this.  You'll have to ask a mamewah user for specifics.  If you are using real, physical,  dc discs  then you'll need to modify the script (and put in the cds ahead of time due to how the emu works.)

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Yes. It is an option. That being said, what format are your images in. Mine are mds/mdf files. Using your script and using the menus does the exact same thing for me. When I launch the script a box still pops up asking for the image file.

It seems to be a bug in nullDC. Even if I just launch nullDC and use the menus I still have to select my image twice. First I select the mds file and then the mdf file. The second time, the file filter is "mds" but it only lists "mdf" files in the selection box. If I select it the game then launches after I select start.

The exact same thing happens if I manually do what your script does. If I modify the cfg file and set the first parameter to "1" and the seconf parameter to my "mds" file when I launch nullDC it still asks for the second file as it does above.

The app still seems to have a few bugs to be worked out for cabinet friendliness but it is looking great so far.

John
Howard_Casto:
You must have an odd setting in nulldc somewhere because my images are in the same format and it doesn't do that.  Perhaps you've changed from the default cdrom plugin?
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