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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: Chazz on May 01, 2003, 09:01:15 am
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How difficult is it to run a PC game from Lazarus? I've been looking at the Wrappers and I'm not exactly sure what I'd need to do. Can someone tell me the easiest way to run a PC game from Lazarus?
Thanks!
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If you're putting this in a cabinet, remember YDKJ requires a keyboard for the Gibberish Questions...
--Chris
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If you're putting this in a cabinet, remember YDKJ requires a keyboard for the Gibberish Questions...
--Chris
Yup! That's not a problem! I just pull my keyboard out from inside the cabnet.
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If you're putting this in a cabinet, remember YDKJ requires a keyboard for the Gibberish Questions...
--Chris
Yup! That's not a problem! I just pull my keyboard out from inside the cabnet.
flickerpiss nosescum!
rampy
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flickerpiss nosescum!
Hehehe! ;D
So how can I run this from Lazarus?
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"You're my question 4, Forever more. I LOVE YOU!!!!!!! My Question 4"
Question 4: The question that cares. :-*
lol ;D
I have to go find that game again. Shouldn't you be able to run it from laz like any other emulator/executable? (Not very experienced w/ laz) :-/
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You can, using the custom list. Check the documentation for details.
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Doh! I guess I forgot to document it.
I'll do that here in a sec......
***edit*****
Ok long story short go to the misc utilities section and download the custom list and dat generator. (The one at the bottom.) Run it and select manually creat a list file. Now you will be presented with a General "rom info" screen. The game title is the name that is actually displayed in lazarus, the romname and cloneof are the full path to the exe (including exe name and extension). The rest is just misc stuff that is only for filtering purposes. Click add to add it to the list and then save. Now if you look in the folder that the list helper.exe is located you will find a custom.lst file. Copy this to your lazarus directory (it's ok to overwrite) Now to make this game show up on a list you can use the search string "1=the title of that particular game" or "5=Custom".
The next time you regenerate your gamelist it will show up. Btw don't worry about rom paths and a .cfg file for these entries as they are manually added.
That's all there is to it.
Btw this is also useful for files that have a default program associated with them. If you want to say, have a list of all the emulator documentation in a gamelist you could add them all in a custom list and when they are ran windoze knows to open them with notepad or wordpad. The same goes for mp3 files, movies files or anything else you can think of. Of course there is the matter of exiting, but the custom entries are compatable with the generic command line wrappers, just remember to make the exe path the path to the wrapper when you go to add things to your custom list.
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Hey Howard, I'm trying to set it up but I'm getting a 'Run-time error 13' Type Mismatch error. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong?
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Not sure... the current build of lazarus is so far form dxlaz there is no telling.
There is an alternate method though....
Use izaram's dat file generator to build a dat based on the exe's directory. Name it accordingly. Save the dat and put it in your list generator /dats directory.
Now for whatever "emulator" you named that dat set the exe name to "", the extension to ".exe" and turn all other options off.
Now add the exe's path in the roms paths and make a search string to display the game accordingly.
Regenerate your gamelist and all should be well.
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The run-time error was my fault. :-[
I was trying to clean up my dir.ini file and thought since I wasn't using any logo files I could remove the 'logo=', I was wrong.
It looks like I've done everything else correctly now, but I still can't get Lazarus to find the game (just says no games available). I'll keep hacking away at it today.
Thanks for your help Howard! Still eagerly awaiting the new FE!!
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GOT IT!!!!!
THANKS HOWARD!!
Now back to Jack!