NeoRaine won't launch games

[wobb]

Anyone use NeoRaine for a Neo Geo CD emulator?  I'm having trouble here.  I've tried 3 different versions of neoraine and have the same results..  when I go to play a game, the emulator just closes out right away.  I have the neocd.bin file in the same directory as the exe.  I'm on Win7 64bit and tried the compatibility mode.  I've tried different bios files and roms that have been confirmed as working for others.  I have all my DirectX and C++ files updated.  I don't understand what the problem is here.  There has got to be something I'm missing.  I posted over at their forums, but I'm not getting much help there.
I'm hoping someone here might have experience with this and will be able to offer me some suggestions.  Thank you.

[Howard_Casto]

Any reason why you are using NeoRaine?

For that matter any reason why you want to run the cd games instead of the arcade versions?  There are only 3 games released on the CD that weren't on the mvs and those are Japanese Trivia Games and a demo disc. 

I know that isn't the help you were looking for, I just thought maybe we could help in a different way.

Nebula and MESS also run ng cds btw.... as do a dozen or so other emulators.  Neogeo is pretty popular.

[wobb]

Hey there Howard. Thanks for the reply.
I wanted to use NeoRaine as that is the emulator that is supported with ahk scripts for use with HyperSpin.  I didn't have much luck with MESS.  I found the bios files and MESS will load up the Neo Geo CD screen (cd player), but wont load any games, or even list them for that matter. 

Nebula works great though. But again, no module for use with HyperSpin.

I didn't know that all but 3 of these games were the same as on the Arcade system.  Thanks for informing me of that.  I do have the full set for Neo Geo.  Guess I've been so busy setting everything up, I didn't notice
well...just for the sake of having "everything", I may still try to figure out why neoraine wont work.  Or..I'll put in a request for a script for nebula w/neo geo cd.

[Howard_Casto]

You HS guys are cute with your ahk scripts specifically made for each system.  Try my generic wrappers.... been around since 1999 and with a little work they'll launch anything. 

[wobb]

so you think guys are cute? 

only kidding.  hyperspin is pretty nice.  i plan on sticking with it.  i dont know anything about your generic wrappers.  will this make nebula work in hyperspin for neo geo cd?

[Howard_Casto]

so you think guys are cute? 

only kidding.  hyperspin is pretty nice.  i plan on sticking with it.  i dont know anything about your generic wrappers.  will this make nebula work in hyperspin for neo geo cd?

Hyperspin is the front-end... it has nothing to do with the emulator and very little to do with the launch method.  I don't use hyperspin, so I don't know for certain if they will work but if HS is programmed correctly they should work... you launch one of them as you would launch the emulator.  You'll have to set it up for nebula though... which will take some time, but unlike writing a ahk script no programming knowledge is necessary. 

I'm not making fun of you or picking on you btw... it's just that some HS users have sort of become the mac user of the emulation world.... everything is spoon fed, so when something goes wrong they don't know how to deal. 

Strictly speaking though, nebula doesn't even need any help... it's a command line app.  You just need to set it up by defining a rom directory and re-mapping the "quick exit" key to escape or whatever.  It'll launch just like mame.  So basically, no script or wrapper needed, you just need to actually set it up. 

I would give you more specifics, but to be honest I haven't messed with nebula since around 2005.... as I said, arcade and cd versions are pretty much identical, so I never bothered.

I Hope that helps.