Main > Main Forum

New Product: 49-Way USB Interface - The GP-Wiz49 with DRS Technology (TM)

<< < (115/130) > >>

jfunk:
Since I've got MAMEWAH as my shell, I can't minimize to desktop  :(  Was looking for a way to do everything through the frontend without the frontend having to specifically support it.

And yeah, 5000 bat files would suck  :) 

I guess I could write my own program to look up the game in controls.ini and do it for me, but I mostly know Perl, Actionscript (if you can call it a language), and java...  Maybe will have to write a java app..  hrmm...

Thanx, though.

screaming:
This is pretty off topic, but FYI...

MAMEWAH supports a "run external app automatically before launching the emulator" feature.  MAMEWAH can also pass the same input info that's available in -listxml to this external app (for example, "joy8way", "joy4way", etc).

If there were an app that could program this encoder on the fly that would accept some paramter like (to use TH's example):


--- Code: ---C:\GPWIZ49\GPWiz49_Uploader.exe -input joy4way

--- End code ---

That would fit in perfectly with MAMEWAH.

-sab

IntruderAlert:
Minwah or Dave Butler can fix this

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: jfunk on April 15, 2005, 09:25:43 am ---Since I've got MAMEWAH as my shell, I can't minimize to desktop  :(  Was looking for a way to do everything through the frontend without the frontend having to specifically support it.

And yeah, 5000 bat files would suck  :) 

I guess I could write my own program to look up the game in controls.ini and do it for me, but I mostly know Perl, Actionscript (if you can call it a language), and java...  Maybe will have to write a java app..  hrmm...

Thanx, though.

--- End quote ---
I see what you mean.  I use EmuLoader, and a desktop controller, and a Windows PC, so not familiar with MAMEWah (other than everyone raves about it).

I also can't speak for MinWah, but I can virtually guarantee that Mamewah will add support for this eventually.

What you maybe could do - See option 2 where I mention desktop shortcuts for the modes.  Wouldn't there be a way to manually launch these from Mamewah (you could in EmuLoader)?

So for example, you either added a new "Emulator" called "Joystick Modes" with 8 "games" - 49way, 49wayP, 8way, 4way, etc - each game launching the shortcut to Randy's software.

So you launch CPViewer, change Emulators, launch 4Way, change Emulators, launch PacMan, etc.  (Not pretty, but).

Alternately, - Again not familiar enough to know how it would work best - You create the "games" in the MAME list, maybe name them !49-Way, !4-Way, !8-Way, so they were always at the top of the list.  Then you launch CP Viewer, page-up to the top of the list, (easier if MAMEwah has a one-button way to do this), scroll back down to Pac-Man (okay that might take a while, . . .)

Probably the best way to do this - Set up an 8-way emulator with only the !8-way shortcut and all the 8-way games, a 4-way emulator with only the 4-way games and the !4-way shortcut, etc.  Select the "emulator", click the shortcut, play any of the games, etc. etc.  This would likely take a long time to set-up, but could be expanded and would also be great for guys with swappable CP's b/c you could have "Emulator" lists with only the games that particular CP could play.

Sorry now, Randy, for essentially hi-jacking the thread.

RandyT:

--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on April 15, 2005, 09:52:49 am ---[
Sorry now, Randy, for essentially hi-jacking the thread.


--- End quote ---

Heh.  No need to apologize.  I appreciate the help. :)

I've been wrestling with this one myself, and the only way I can see for it to work is through the front-ends.  They need to be able to call an executable with a command line based on information related to the game being launched, or just dump information related to a current game into a file that can be loaded and parsed by the switching software.   The problem there is deciding on formats and terminology that would be standardized across FE designs, so keeping the switching as generic as possible would probably be for the best.


RandyT






Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page

Go to full version