Lazarus Suggestion

[bhille]

It would be a cool addition in the cfg files to have a "before" and "after" line in there to specify a program to be launched before and after the emulator.  That way, if you had to change the IPAQ configuration you could do it from the frontend instead of using bat files.  GameLauncher did this and I thought it was pretty cool.  Just a thought...

Brian

[Howard_Casto]

Actually there already is, but it's used for more general functions.  The "ati switcher" tag in the command line does just this... It launches a program with the hotkey ctrl-alt-a on startup and one with the hotkey crtl-alt-d on exit.  It's meant for screen managment programs but it  will work on virtually anything, even bat files, as long as you make a shortcut and give it a hotkey.  

[Lilwolf]

after doing that myself in my frontend... then trying to manage which games need what... I started playing with the .ctrlr files... Now I don't use it at all.  It's still nice for non-mame games since you can change all the settings, but you have to change it back before you get into your frontend (or have the frontend keys change)

[Howard_Casto]

It's really not good to do that to your ipac anyway.  It's flashrom and thus has limited writes. (about 10,000)   I know that sounds like a lot, but if you are going to be changing it every single time you play a game then it can add up.  

I misunderstood the question before.  Yes if you must do it then you need to use a bat file, but you won't see official support for it simply because it's so easy to do yourself and so hard to do internally.