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Title: Controllers in Zsnes doesn't work when loading with MAMEWAH
Post by: roelieboelie on January 23, 2008, 02:36:15 am

Hi all,

I'm building an arcade cabinet for my own. I use en simple front end called MAMEWAH to select all my games and select the platform (Zsnes, n64, mame, etc).

Everything works fine, except the controls in Zsnes if I load a snes game in mamewah.

I can push on my joysticks what I want, but I get no reaction.

Is there something that i get my joysticks work in Zsnes when i'm loading a game in mamewah? Must I change something in de *.ini files from mamewah / Zsnes?

Thank you!

Roel
from the netherlands 

P.S: If I start ZSNES stand alone, the joysticks works fine. Strange, isn't?

Title: Re: Controllers in Zsnes doesn't work when loading with MAMEWAH
Post by: Turnarcades on January 23, 2008, 11:52:53 am

It all depends on how your joysticks are connected to your PC - via a hacked joypad or some other way?

I've worked with Mamewah for ages and not envcountered strangeness like this.

Title: Re: Controllers in Zsnes doesn't work when loading with MAMEWAH
Post by: unclet on January 23, 2008, 02:42:17 pm

I have no idea since I am at work right now, but does ZSNes default to "keyboard" mode and perhaps require the user to turn on "joystick" mode?

Can you play a ZSNes game by starting it manually (ie: not by using MameWah at all) and have your joysticks work properly?

Are you using normal 8-way joysticks, U360 joysticks, joystick hack connected via serial port, etc.. etc...?

Title: Re: Controllers in Zsnes doesn't work when loading with MAMEWAH
Post by: roelieboelie on January 24, 2008, 10:13:57 am

Alright, the following:

I have ONE frontend called MAMEWAH for my arcade games (MAME emu.) and Super Nintendo Games (Zsnes emu.)

I also have controlls for my arcade games (arcade joystick and 6 buttons) and I have 2 joypads for my super nintendo games.

So if I start Zsnes alone (without mamewah) the joypads works great.  :cheers:

If I start Zsnes with MAMEWAH, my 2 joypads don't work anymore.  :badmood:

I searched on the internet and i think it has to do with "window focus", Zsnes isn't focus when loaded with mamewah.  :cry:

I also found that I have to play with {dosbox} and {safelaunch} to solve the problem, but that doesn't help.

Can you help me?  :D

Title: Re: Controllers in Zsnes doesn't work when loading with MAMEWAH
Post by: Turnarcades on January 24, 2008, 12:40:48 pm

I use MAMEWAH 1.61, but here is my .ini file...

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### SNES.ini (mamewah v1.61) ###

emulator_title                            SNES

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  c:\SNES\roms
rom_extension                             ZIP
dat_file                                 
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           
list_generation_method                    rom_folder

### Execution Settings ###
emulator_executable                       c:\SNES\zsnesw.exe
commandline_format                        "[rompath]\[name].[romext]"{nodosbox}{safelaunch}
alt_commandline_format_1                  "[rompath]\[name].[romext]"{nodosbox}{safelaunch}
alt_commandline_format_2                  "[rompath]\[name].[romext]"{nodosbox}{safelaunch}
game_specific_config_path                 

### Artwork Locations ###
artwork_1_image_path                      c:\SNES\snap
artwork_2_image_path                     
artwork_3_image_path                     
artwork_4_image_path                     
artwork_5_image_path                     
artwork_6_image_path                     
artwork_7_image_path                     
artwork_8_image_path                     
artwork_9_image_path                     
artwork_10_image_path                     
movie_preview_path                        c:\SNES\movies
movie_artwork_no                          1

### Screen-Saver Settings ###
enable_music_in_screensaver               0
saver_type                                slideshow
movie_path                               
movie_fullscreen                          1
quit_delay                                30
wrapper_executable                       
wrapper_commandline_format                "[rompath]\[name].[romext]"{nodosbox}{safelaunch}
scr_file                                 

### External Application Settings ###
ipc_file_or_path                         
app_1_executable                         
app_1_commandline_format                 
app_2_executable                         
app_2_commandline_format                 
app_3_executable                         
app_3_commandline_format                 
auto_launch_apps                         

### Additional Settings ###
music_path                               
lcd_display_file_path                     
lcd_fe_text                               

### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_list                              0