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tony.silveira:
i have VICE running thru mamewah with no difficulties, i don't even have the menu bar up top if i'm not mistaken (i believe it's an option in the VICE ini to hide the menu bar).

one trick i did, i mapped the VICE option of (i believe) "warp" mode (ctrl+w).  that way for games that take a long time to load, i hit the key, the emu goes into turbo mode and the game is loaded FAST.

FYI, i believe i am running gamebase images, not sure of the version number though.

Jimbo:
If you get GameBase installed on your cab (www,bu22.com), you can get over 20k pre-configured C64 games, all with screenshots/info/best-versions/etc. running seamlessly on your cab using MaLa/GameEx/etc. quite easily.

If you don't know what GameBase64 is, see here www.gb64.com

I have set my C64 collection up on my cab with MaLa and it works great :)

http://www.bu22.com/wiki/exporting_gamebases_to_other_frontends

GameEx also supports it by default.

Cheers

JayB:
Firstly, thanks for all the detailed replies guys, much appreciated. I'm going to spend a couple of hours tonight trying these out as I had a quick go the other night and couldn't get a lot of the games to work. Probably did something wrong.

Also, I downloaded Gamebase but you have Mala with Gamebase running? I thought Gamebase was a front end to run an emulator?

Thanks again... I'll be firing some more questions I'm sure  :lol  :cheers:

Jimbo:
GameBase is a frontend you are right, but one of the "databases" that GameBase runs is GB64 (20k+ C64 games fully configured for the emulators).

If you want to use the GB64 Database/Screenshots and game files to get your gamelists in MaLa, GameEx or other frontends, you'll need GameBase installed as it is a component of GameBase that runs the games in the other frontends (e.g. MaLa won't run VICE emulator, it will run GameBase via commandline which will then run VICE).

The easiest way to get it up and running is to use GameEx as that frontend has GameBase support built in (you'll still need to download GB64 games/database/screenshots etc which should be available on torrent somewhere (ask/look on gb64.com or lemon64.com forum).

I use MaLa for my cab, so I exported the data from GameBase as in the wiki link in my previous post.

I also have GameBase Amiga on my cab which totally rocks too :)

Good luck! :)

Vigo:
Just wondering, what exactly do you mean by pre-configured? I will be adding more c64 games on my next cab and am wondering if there is a definite advantage for someone who does not want 20,000 c64 games on his cabinet. Maybe more like 200.

Does GB64 it set up disk-swaps for multi disk games? Does it set anything as far as game controls, either setting the in game used controls or doing a joystick swap for games that use joystick port 2? Using Mala, can I use snapshots to skip past crack/trainer intro screens?

Thanks!  :cheers:

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