Arcade Jukebox

[john160]

Hi gang, I was wondering if their is a way to list arcade jukebox on the screen like a game so you can select the jukebox or a game.

Thanks

John

[Cue-Ball]

What frontend are you using?

[john160]

I am using glaunch. I tried to config it under the Misc menu but it locks the machine with an open dos box. The jukebox software does work right if I launch it outside of the front end

Thanks

John

[Cue-Ball]

I'm not familiar with that particular FE.  Most of the frontends that are available can be configured to launch just about any executable.  You'll have to check out the documentation for glaunch to find out.  Worst case scenario, you can switch FEs and use one that you know will work (Lazarus, Emulaxian, MameWah, etc).

[AlanS17]

Well game launcher works by specifying an emulator executable and just appending a game's rom name to the end of it in a configuration file. Then it just executes a full command line including the program and rom name.

You can probably make one category just for your jukebox program and then only list on "game" for it. Give it a good name for the screen but then give it a filename of " " or something else like that which wouldn't register if it were executed in a command line.

[Zakk]

Hi gang, I was wondering if their is a way to list arcade jukebox on the screen like a game so you can select the jukebox or a game.

Thanks

John

Here's a quick frontend-frontend I use in cabs.  Maybe it's what you're looking for?
http://www.mameworld.net/massive/How-to/MMP_Loader/mmp_loader.html

[ErikRuud]

You could try setting up a .bat file to launch the jukebox software.

Then in GLaunch you use CALL for your emu executable, the bat file is the rom name, and .bat is the rom file extension.

If you set it up correctly GLaunch issues the following command:

CALL JUKEBOX.BAT

I use this all the time to launch everything (Even MAME) becuase I have different IPAC configurations for my different Emu's

[Frostillicus]

It could be the fact that glaunch doesn't give up the screen when calling some other executables.  Turn on debug mode in the glaunch.ini file and see if that makes it work.  

[ErikRuud]

I was able to launch the DosCab jukebox from GLaunch last night.

I created a new emulator configuration called jukebox.cfg.

In that .cfg I set the executable to be CALL. The ROM extension was set to be .exe, I set the rom directory to be the directory where jukebox.exe was located.  I used a .rom file so that GL would only show the jukebox executable(there were three other .exe's in the directory).  

I was able to launch the Jukebox and then return to GL with no problem.

[Brettski]

Hi All,
I recently built a Mame cabinet and it includes arcade Jukebox, Mamewah and VPLauncher (Visual Pinball).

What I did for the main interface was to simply use windows desktop, I hid the recyclebin and all the other icons I did not need and added a shutdown shortcut plus a shortcut to each of the above programs, I resized the desktop icons to double the size and made a wallpaper background to suit. On my control panel I have bsides the usual buttons a set of 4 buttons for, Escape, Tab, Alt and Enter, when I exit a frontend and go back to the desktop I hit the tab button a couple of times and one of the shortcuts then highlights, I then navigate around the desktop shortcuts with the joystick then press the enter button to select.

It works really well and eliminates the need for trying to get all three working under one frontend which seems to be a difficult task.

I have attached some pics to show you if anyone is interseted...

Cheers: Brettski...

[papaschtroumpf]

Pics please!
I might be interested in doing the same. I'm using keyWiz and the windows navigation keys sound like a good use for the Shazaam feature.