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Author Topic: Mamewah running PC games  (Read 1563 times)

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Mamewah running PC games
« on: May 18, 2008, 11:38:35 pm »
Ok so i gave up on running the older Touhou games because i couldnt find a cab friendly PC-98 emulator. I downloaded some of the newer ones and i can get them to show up and run in mamewah, however i can not use the controls in the game. If i run the games normally they work, just not if i run them through mamewah. Any suggestions.

P.s. just remembered that if i run it in windowed mode it works fine, but if i start them in fullscreen mode it wont.

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Re: Mamewah running PC games
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2008, 12:23:47 pm »
Are you running them using .lnk shortcuts?

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Re: Mamewah running PC games
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2008, 03:57:38 pm »
Yes i made a seperate folder and put the short cuts for the 3 games in it. Each game launches fine, in full screen mode. But i can not do anything after that, i can not even quit the game and must manually restart the computer

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Re: Mamewah running PC games
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2008, 04:06:43 pm »
have you tried to use bat files instead of calling the game directly some thing like this and let the shortcut point to that? Etc like this:

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cd c:\yourgame\
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Re: Mamewah running PC games
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2008, 07:12:12 pm »
have you tried to use bat files instead of calling the game directly some thing like this and let the shortcut point to that? Etc like this:

c:
cd c:\yourgame\
game.exe


I seriously have no idea what to do with the information that u just gave me..... :cry:

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Re: Mamewah running PC games
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2008, 09:50:26 pm »
Right click in your MAMEWAH folder and create New Text Document. Rename the txt file to something like game.bat

Enter the info above, but for your file's location:

c: (or whatever your drive letter is where the game is)
cd c:\yourgame\ (cd means change directory, and change "yourgame" to the folder name where your game is)
game.exe (change this to the filename that starts your game)

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Re: Mamewah running PC games
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2008, 11:27:43 pm »
Ok then have mamewah use the file extention set to .bat instead... ok i wil try it later.

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Re: Mamewah running PC games
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2008, 06:18:47 am »
You shouldn't have to use bat files really...but it usually does work.  However, the preferred method is using shortcuts...

Try adding {safelaunch} to your emulator_commandline, ie:

emulator_commandline pc{safelaunch}


I looked through the code and this should work, although I noticed a slight mistake which might prevent it from making any difference.  If it doesn't work, let me know and I will compile a fixed version...