Mamewah 1.61 and House Of The Dead 2

[dabone]

Has anybody gotten hotd2 (PC) to launch form 1.61?

It used to work fine under 1.5

Also, I'm trying to run virtuacop2, but it requires 98 compatibility mode, and mamewah seems to ignore the compatibility settings on programs.


Later,
dabone

[hatrick]

The compatibility settings should be completely independent of Mamewah.
If you set up a shortcut to the exe to start Virtual Cop that has the Win98 compatibility mode selected, and then have Mamewah call that shortcut, it should work.

I haven't tried this, but at least that's how it should work 

[dabone]

Shortcut works great from windows.

Doesn't work under mamewah.


Mamewah is also launching HOTD2 as a process instead of as a application.
(And you can't alt-tab into a process.)


Later,
dabone

[clanggedin]

Dude, where'd you find HOTD2 for the PC?? I can't find it anywhere! I have HOTD and Virtua Cop 2, but no HOTD2.

Thanks

[dabone]

http://search.ebay.com/house-of-the-dead-2-pc_W0QQfkrZ1QQfromZR8


Later,
dabone

[Chris]

It works for me.  I had to set the command line in MAMEWah to {dosbox} instead of {nodosbox} to get it to launch, though. 

HOTD2 is sweet with dual lightguns...

--Chris

[Popcorrin]

It works for me.

[Chris]

Is there a trick to getting the dual lightguns to work.

[vibez]

Can anyone help me out. I have house of the dead 3 & virtuacop2. I have them showing up in the games list but they don't load.

For HOTD3 I have a .lnk pointing towards the launcher exe (the game won't load even on pc without this) When I try to launch via PC, everything is ok. But via mamewah I get a direct3d cannot innitialize error.

Virtual cop2 crashes. I have win98 compatabilty set in the .lnk & the exe. It loads ok when I click the .lnk. But crashes when I launch the .lnk in mamewah. It seems like the win98 compatabilty is ignored when launching via mamewah.

Anyone got these games working from mamewah in winxp? Fancy sharing your config's.

[DreamWeb]

I find NFL Blitz for the PC the most difficult game to find.

[vibez]

did anyone fix this for house of the dead 2? I have the problem of hotd2 being launched as a process & not an application.

here is my ini

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emulator_title                            PC Games

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  c:\pcgames\links
rom_extension                             lnk
dat_file                                 
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           
list_generation_method                    rom_folder

### Execution Settings ###
emulator_executable                       PC
commandline_format                        "[rompath]\[name].[romext]"{dosbox}{safelaunch}
alt_commandline_format_1                  [name]
alt_commandline_format_2                  [name]
game_specific_config_path                 

[Chris]

did anyone fix this for house of the dead 2? I have the problem of hotd2 being launched as a process & not an application.

here is my ini

[code]emulator_title

[vibez]

oh dear now I have a new problem. If run it from the start/run box with

"C:\House Of The Dead 2\Hod2.exe"
it loads ok

but if I put that into a batch file, it still launches the games as a process! even outside of mamewah

Can you post your batch file if it's different from mine. Or know what is going wrong on my system

[Chris]

hotd2.bat:

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@echo off
d:
cd \hotd2
start /wait hod2
exit


[vibez]

Cheers! I couldnt get a bat to run from mamewah. it grumbled about not being a .url or .lnk extention. So I created .lnk that pointed towards the .bat & now it works! Thanks again.

Now my last problem is that when I'm running virtuacop2 in my cabinet. I have no way to exit the game, unless I use alt+f4 on my keyboard or use the mouse. Neither of these help as they are hidden in the back of the cab most of the time. Has anyone got a way to exit the game with the keyboard/mouse?

[Chris]

Now my last problem is that when I'm running virtuacop2 in my cabinet. I have no way to exit the game, unless I use alt+f4 on my keyboard or use the mouse. Neither of these help as they are hidden in the back of the cab most of the time. Has anyone got a way to exit the game with the keyboard/mouse?

You might be able to do it with an AutoIt script.

--Chris