Problem getting GensAVGA to work right

[arcaic]

Hi all,

I've just been setting up GensAVGA in my cab and cannot get it to launch properly.

I can get it to launch from Mamewah 1.51 it goes full screen but just shows a diagonal line pattern until I press escape when it then runs the game I selected. Once running all is fine.

I am running Windows XP Pro SP1 with Mamewah 1.51 and GensAVGA

This link is a 3mb video of whats going on. Sorry about the quality and ignore the odd colours as the green gun on my monitor is flipping out .



You can see the diagonal line pattern. That stays there until I hit escape and then after a bit of flickering it runs ok!

Any idea's. I have searched but cant find a clue.

It will run fine if you issue the followiing from either a command prompt or the new task dialog.

d:\gens\gensavga.exe roms\Sonic the HedgeHog.smd

Cheers

Andy

Here is the contents of my ini file for gens.

### gens.ini ###

emulator_title                            GENS

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  d:\gens\roms
rom_extension                             smd
dat_file                                  
nms_file                                  
catver_ini_file                          
list_generation_method                    rom_folder

### Execution Settings ###
emulator_executable                       d:\gens\gensAVGA.exe
send_rom_path                             1
send_rom_extension                        1
quotes_around_romnames                    0
long_filenames                            1
show_dos_box                              auto
default_options                          
extra_options_1                          
extra_options_2                          

### Artwork Locations ###
artwork_1_image_path                      
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                        
movie_artwork_no                          1

### Screen-Saver Settings ###
enable_music_in_screensaver               0
saver_type                                launch_scr
scr_file                                  d:\arcaic\arcaicinvaders.scr
wrapper_executable                        
wrapper_options                          
movie_path                                

### Additional Settings ###
music_path                                
controls_dat_viewer_executable            
controls_dat_viewer_options              
auto_launch_controls_dat_viewer           0
ipc_file_or_path                          
lcd_display_file_path                    
lcd_fe_text                              

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

[Minwah]

show_dos_box yes

NEVER use 'auto' except for MAME.

[arcaic]

Thanks for the reply

I've tried setting Show_Dos_box to all of 0,1, Yes,No, True and false but every time I exit mamewah and look at the ini file again it is set to Auto. I'll check again tonight.

What should it be set to for Gens/GensAVGA?

You can see from the AVI that Gens is launched and runs full screen it just doesnt seem to receive the path/filename of the rom correctly for some reason.

Cheers

Andy

[arcaic]

Thanks for the kick in the appropriate place.

I tried 'yes' not Yes or YES or True or 1 and it worked.

Idiot users  

Cheers

Andy

[Minwah]

Thanks for the kick in the appropriate place.

I tried 'yes' not Yes or YES or True or 1 and it worked.

Idiot users  

Heh, as of v1.51, the 'yes' is not case-specific...forget about True / False, that's gone for good