Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: arcadecab on September 06, 2003, 09:04:49 am
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Anyone use or know how to set up Arcade Jukebox 7 with MAMEwah? I have the exe setup to launch as any other emulator, but cant get the visuals, background, etc. of arcade jukebox to show up properly. I just want to have the Arcade Jukebox as part of the list of emulators and selectable just as the other emulators. Is that possible? Any clues on how to do this effectively so that the arcade jukebox appears as it would when launched normally.
Thanks.
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Use a batch file to launch Arcade Jukebox instead. Arcade Jukebox for some reason doesn't always like to be launched directly from frontends, however if you point Mamewah to launch the batch file instead it works fine.
To launch batch files in Mamewah, set your emulator executable to "PC" and rom extension to "bat".
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Thanks stuzza. Unfortunately I have no experience with batch files. How would I create/come across a batch file to use?? I understand the part of setting it to PC and use .bat, but how do I get the batch file? How do I use it?
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A batch file is simply a text file with a bunch of commands put in it on each line, so that multiple commands can be run just by running the single batch file. So all you need to do is create a text file called "arcadejb.bat" (can be whatever name you want as long as it is .bat extension". In this file put a command to change to the Arcade jukebox directory and then run the arcade jukebox executable.
E.g. I have a batch file called "arcadejb.bat" in a directory called c:\misc\
This file has the following lines in it:
@echo off
cd "c:\arcadejb"
"arcadejb.exe"
The echo off just means don't show dos output and the quotes are used because I run Win98 which doesn't use long filenames in dos so by using the quotes you can write the full length of the directory or file.
Then in Mamewah set the emulator executable as "PC" (no quotes) and the rom extension as bat. specify the rom directory as the directory with the batch files in it and you should have "arcadejb" come up in the game list. I also have other batch files in my \misc\ directory to run other programs such as Mame32, movies and other programs. ;)
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You could do it this way:
1) Create a Windows link (shortcut) to Arcade Jukebox,
2) Put the .LNK file in a folder (eg c:\links)
3) Setup an emulator in MW with 'PC' as the Emulator Exe.
4) Setup the ROM Folder as eg c:\links
5) Refresh the list
You could add other shortcuts to PC apps into the links folder if you like.
If it doesn't seem to work properly try setting the 'Show DOS Box' option to 'Yes'.