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Title: Have mame launch Donkey Kong when started
Post by: Trebeck on September 17, 2011, 06:35:20 pm

Hey all,

Just wondering how to have MAME launch DK when it's started?  Do I need to create a .bat for this or is there an option in the mame.ini?
Any ideas?

Title: Re: Have mame launch Donkey Kong when started
Post by: abispac on September 17, 2011, 09:11:06 pm

If you use mala or hyperspin they have that option, or you can do a simple bat file that goes like this

cd c:\mame
mame dkong

that easy.

Title: Re: Have mame launch Donkey Kong when started
Post by: Trebeck on September 18, 2011, 09:16:31 pm

Hey Abispac,

The .bat is my fav option but it didn't work for me.  Am I missing a header or something?  Is it case sensitive?  I'll keep at it.  Thanks!

Title: Re: Have mame launch Donkey Kong when started
Post by: Trebeck on September 18, 2011, 09:17:33 pm

HA!  Must be in the mame directory.  Works awesome except one thing. 
When you hit escape it closes mame.  Is it possible to go back to the ROM list?

Title: Re: Have mame launch Donkey Kong when started
Post by: abispac on September 19, 2011, 02:53:29 am

why dont you use mameui or a frontend? beacuse in order to do what you wish , you would have to launch your mame exe by itself, in that way, when it closes it will take you back to the random game list mame gives.O maybe some other batch experts can give us some advise on how to acomplish this via a batfile.

Title: Re: Have mame launch Donkey Kong when started
Post by: thefooz on September 19, 2011, 09:55:42 am

This isn't really my strong suit, but I would think you could, if you had some basic knowledge, program an autohotkey script to do everything you want to do here. Again, I'm not really the guy to ask about how to do any of that, but I'm pretty sure that would be your best option if you're looking for more features than a batch file.

Good luck  :cheers:

Title: Re: Have mame launch Donkey Kong when started
Post by: ratsflif on September 22, 2011, 04:31:01 pm

just create a shortcut to the mame.exe then go to the shortcut properties and add dkong after mame.exe.  The shortcut will launch directly into dkong, you can even move that to the startup folder so it loads dkong on boot.

Title: Re: Have mame launch Donkey Kong when started
Post by: Howard_Casto on September 22, 2011, 10:53:50 pm

Most frontends give the option of lauching a program on startup.  You just need to lauch mame with the dkong flag.  When you exit, your FE will be waiting. 

It's not rocket science.  ;)

Title: Re: Have mame launch Donkey Kong when started
Post by: Thenasty on September 26, 2011, 08:31:50 am

Quote from: Trebeck on September 18, 2011, 09:17:33 pm

HA!  Must be in the mame directory.  Works awesome except one thing.  
When you hit escape it closes mame.  Is it possible to go back to the ROM list?

if you like the .bat idea, then edit it and at the end put the EXE for your FE

cd c:\mame
mame dkong

cd \FE folder
put  "FE" EXE here