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Title: How do you set up game exiting in MAMEWAH
Post by: reebboy on August 22, 2005, 01:45:39 am

How do you set up all your emulators to exit with the same button in Mamewah. Some emulators require you to push "Q" to quit the emulator some require the "ESC" button while SNES alows you to select any button except the ESC button to quit the program.  I know there must be a simple solution but I have yet to figure it out.  ???

Title: Re: How do you set up game exiting in MAMEWAH
Post by: mrracer on August 22, 2005, 01:48:25 am

reeboy you should prob try this forum for mamewah questions as it's more geard towards this questions, plus you'll get a lot quicker response. Although your question can simply be answered by reading the documentation that dowloaded with mamewah... http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=arcadeospc2jamma

Title: Re: How do you set up game exiting in MAMEWAH
Post by: jcrouse on August 22, 2005, 08:19:54 am

What your asking is NOT a function of MameWAH and has nothing to do with MameWAH. It is a function of the emulator and can't be controlled from MameWAH. MameWAH does not monitor keyboard input (a key hook) after passing control to the emulator.

John

Title: Re: How do you set up game exiting in MAMEWAH
Post by: reebboy on August 22, 2005, 08:28:12 pm

I know this question applys to any frontend but I used Mamewah as an example because thats what I'm using now. I know quite a few if not most people are using multiple emulators on their cabinet, So I know there has to be an easy way to escape out of any of them with just one key. I can't imagine they have a seperate escape button for each emulator.  I'll check the forum listed and see if I can find anything. I'll check the Mamewah docs again maybe I missed something. Thanks..

Title: Re: How do you set up game exiting in MAMEWAH
Post by: jcrouse on August 22, 2005, 08:34:38 pm

I'll repeat! When MameWAH launches an emulator the keyboard input (control) is in the hands of the emulator. The emulator needs to be able to exit with a single keypress and then when the emulator closes, control is passed back to MameWAH. This is why there are so many hacked emulators and commandline wrappers available. Because many of them DO NOT exit with the Escape key. For instance, Nebula. It requires Shift+Escape to exit. Some like Handy (Atari Lynx) use the Escape key to toggle between full screen and windowed mode.

If you use an IPac you can program it to exit with a single keypress using macros.

I will repeat one last time. This is NOT a function of MameWAH so don't bother to check the docs.

I beleive this will apply to almost any front end unless it has a keyboard hook coded in which can monitor for certain keypresses and then send a command to a running process.

Title: Re: How do you set up game exiting in MAMEWAH
Post by: Timoe on August 22, 2005, 08:57:38 pm

basically you should check jcrouse's website, he has a ton of info and even some stuff to help you change the emulators you have to exit with ESC.

Also check out www.screenshotarchive.com for some emulator executables that have been modified to exit with ESC.  Look under >downloads>emulators

Title: Re: How do you set up game exiting in MAMEWAH
Post by: reebboy on August 23, 2005, 01:24:11 am

Thanks. Now I know what I'm looking for, a hacked emulator or commandline wrapper. I've heard the wrapper term thrown around but never actually knew what it was. Thanks for the info, I'll check it out...