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Title: Microsoft Pinball & Mamewah
Post by: shawcomputers on July 05, 2006, 02:39:45 am

Someone please help me
I have all my PC Games working in Mamewah but Microsofts Pinball
When i try to load it, it just sits there
Is there a setting i am supposed to use, or a wrapper or something that will let me load this game ?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Title: Re: Microsoft Pinball & Mamewah
Post by: Space Fractal on July 05, 2006, 07:46:21 am

look in wiki: http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Wrappers

Title: Re: Microsoft Pinball & Mamewah
Post by: shawcomputers on July 05, 2006, 03:54:36 pm

i downloaded the wrapper and can get it to launch in windows xp by running the wrapper with launcher on the end. but when i do the same in mamewah it just loads the launcher GUI
how do i force it to load the pinball arcade launcher ?

Title: Re: Microsoft Pinball & Mamewah
Post by: Space Fractal on July 05, 2006, 04:32:41 pm

did you change the shortcut, so it point to the wrapper (or created a new one)?

You may need to genereate the list again, before it works.

Title: Re: Microsoft Pinball & Mamewah
Post by: shawcomputers on July 05, 2006, 05:13:03 pm

yes, the sortcut points to the wrapper.
"C:\Pinball Game\whatever the wrapper is called.exe" launcher.exe
it works in windows xp when i run the shortcut, it goes right in and loads launcher.exe (which is the microsoft pinball loader) and works fine

when i run the exact same shortcut from Mamewah it only loads the wrapper GUI.

Title: Re: Microsoft Pinball & Mamewah
Post by: Space Fractal on July 05, 2006, 06:13:17 pm

it maybe a setpath problems? You may need to look in the mamewah log file, what it has tried to run.

I guess the wrapper diddent could find the actuelly game, because it started with a wrong start path (a typical problem, wich chaused my own jukebox software too). Hince it open the wrapper gui.

Instead you may try to create a bat file, and type this into that:

Code: [Select]

c:\
cd C:\Pinball Game\

; Your wrapper file
launcher.exe


You should of course let the shortcut point into  the new bat file.

Title: Re: Microsoft Pinball & Mamewah
Post by: shawcomputers on July 05, 2006, 06:48:11 pm

THATS IT !!

Thanks a billion
for reference heres the batch file i made.

CD..
CD..
CD Pinbal~1
pba-launch launcher