Emulaxian help

[mtalkington]

I guess I must be dense...I've tried to setup 3darcade/Emulaxian, and I can get it to run fine with no script errors, all the way up until the point where I try to launch a game. When I hit "1" to launch a game, nothing happens.

Apparently I've set up the cng files wrong. I'm running Mame32 on Windows ME. Can anyone help me with setting up this software front end?

I've tried using the tutorial online, but I'm still not able to set up the front end properly. Thanks to anyone who's willing to help out my slow self!
Regards,
Mario

[)p(]

first make sure you can run your mame from the commandline. the importent thing being that you point to your rom paths correctly in your mame.ini int the mame folder.

if that works all you have to do for the fe to work with mame is adjust a few paths and the name of the exe in the configuration file for mame...so

in cfg\emulators\femame.cfg:

-adjust emupath and workingdir to the folder your mame exe can be found.
 example emupath|c:\emu\emuarc\mame\|
if you are doing this by hand and not from within the fe be sure to always end a path with a backslash.

-point the mame option to your mame exe.
example mame|mamepp.exe/mamepp.exe|
 the second exe can be used as an alternative exe for certain games...if you don't use that option just keep the same exe in both fields

those three small changes should be all you need to launch a game with mame

if you don't want to mess with your mame.ini you can alternatively point the gamepath path in femame.cfg to your romsfolder. that will also work but i prefer using mame.ini

peter

[mtalkington]

Perfect, thanks! Now I have another question

Now that the front end is launching games, I'm able to see an issue I need to fix:

I'm using a Playstation (psx) controller that's connected to the PC via the USB port. When I launch MAME by itself, I can use the Playstation controller fine. But when I launch a game from within the Emulaxian front end, the Playstation controller isn't recognized, and I have to use the keyboard.

Any suggestions? Thank you!
Regards,
Mario

[)p(]

don't use mame32 it saves it settings in the registry they are used when launched from the commandline. use the normal commanline version.

the prefered way to set basic stuff of is in mame's ini file.
from the commandline :mame.exe -cc
it will create mame.ini for you in it there is an option to enable a joystick. see for options windows.txt in your mame folder

alternatively you can use the cfg utility in the fe to add a commandline options to mame in the emulator section of the list mnanger (or add it to cfg\emulators\femamecloptions.txt by hand)
10|mame|-joy| or something like that will enable the joystick for all games that use the mame emulator. see how to setup commandline options in the fe docs, docs\fereadme.htm
Read the manual!  Reading manuals empowers

peter

[mtalkington]

Sorry to be such a pest...I read the manual, I just couldn't understand it.

One more question? I didn't understand your response. I'm supposed to "use the normal commandline version." What/where is that? How do I access "mame's ini file"?

You say "from the commanline :mame.exe-cc" create mame.ini. Is that a DOS commandline I enter? If so, I'm actually using Windows ME, not DOS.

Thanks for your patience. I know I'm a little dense on this. You should see me trying to program my PDA!

 

[)p(]

all windows have a command prompt under start-prgrams-accessories

but just open  c:\yourfefolder\cfg\emulators\femamecloptions.txt in notepad and add

10|mame|-joy|

that will do it  ;-)