A couple of updated wrappers for your enjoyment.

[Howard_Casto]

I made a slew of new wrappers this week but forgot to post the news.  Just go get em!

[Dariusz]

Hi,

Just want to check if anyone has made a wrapper for the new model 2 emulator, Nebula.

Question:

Have you managed to launch a model 2 game from the Lasarus game list straight into the selected game in full screen mode?

Your feedback would be kindly appreciated.

Dariusz

[atog]

Let me ask a dumb question.  Can you define wrapper?  From everything I can see, it is the same thing as a skin - but there has to be some difference, or you would just call it a skin, right?

[)p(]

Let me ask a dumb question.  Can you define wrapper?  From everything I can see, it is the same thing as a skin - but there has to be some difference, or you would just call it a skin, right?

no it is a completely different beast. The wrapper is used to launch games. Hey you might ask that is a job for fe itself. Yes but there are some "nasty" emulators that can not be run from the commandline. In those cases the wrappers can help out.

For example by using a sequence of similted keypresses to go through a menu system.
Also the wrappers can wait for a certain key is pressed and then exit the emulator that is running. Great for programs like visual pinball that can not be quited with one keypress or if the emulator does not allow for remapping of the quit key. etc...

you could add this functionality to an fe but
a) wrappers have a smaller footprint which is great for not waisting any cycles while waiting for a keypress
b) all fe's can use them so fe authors have not to worry about those "nasty" emulators...

peter



peter

[atog]

Wow, that is nothing like what I thought it was.  Thank you for the clear explanation.  It kind of sounds like a macro you would program into your home theater remote, so instead of pressing a button to turn on everything, and a button to dim the lights, and a button to play the movie, you press one button to activate a macro to do all of that.

[Howard_Casto]

Hi,

Just want to check if anyone has made a wrapper for the new model 2 emulator, Nebula.

Question:

Have you managed to launch a model 2 game from the Lasarus game list straight into the selected game in full screen mode?

Your feedback would be kindly appreciated.

Dariusz

I don't make game specific emulators anymore.  I just updated the u64 one as the emu is on it's last legs and the visual pinball one as it's a speical case and will always need a wrapper.

For any other games you use a generic wrapper and setup the config file.  It's not hard yet I'm not going to hold anyone's hand on it.  I've offered to host config files on my site but nobody ever sends them in.  As I don't have time to write a  config for every emu out there... it's up to the community to contribute these. So complain to all the countless others who use my wrappers but refuse to post their work.

Anyway......

Model 2 does not require one of my wrappers.... in classic gui mode it can recieve command line arguments just like mame. It also has an option to "play full screen after rom loads".  I suggest you read the general nebula documentation (not model 2) as it's gui works just like the model 2 nebula does.

Btw atog... you crack my up man.  Why would a skin have to be updated so it could be compatable with a new version of a emu?  

[atog]

"Btw atog... you crack my up man.  Why would a skin have to be updated so it could be compatable with a new version of a emu?  "


It wouldn't, but if you read your post, that isn't what you said.  You said :

"I made a slew of new wrappers this week but forgot to post the news.  Just go get em!
"

no mention about a new version of an emu, unless you have edited your original post for some reason.

[Howard_Casto]

Go to the site and actually read the news blurb about them.  Also my wrappers have been around for about a year now.  

I'm sorry to poke fun man, I just found it extremely hilarious.  

[Dariusz]

Hi,

Just want to check if anyone has made a wrapper for the new model 2 emulator, Nebula.

Question:

Have you managed to launch a model 2 game from the Lasarus game list straight into the selected game in full screen mode?

Your feedback would be kindly appreciated.

Dariusz

I don't make game specific emulators anymore.  I just updated the u64 one as the emu is on it's last legs and the visual pinball one as it's a speical case and will always need a wrapper.

For any other games you use a generic wrapper and setup the config file.  It's not hard yet I'm not going to hold anyone's hand on it.  I've offered to host config files on my site but nobody ever sends them in.  As I don't have time to write a  config for every emu out there... it's up to the community to contribute these. So complain to all the countless others who use my wrappers but refuse to post their work.

Anyway......

Model 2 does not require one of my wrappers.... in classic gui mode it can recieve command line arguments just like mame. It also has an option to "play full screen after rom loads".  I suggest you read the general nebula documentation (not model 2) as it's gui works just like the model 2 nebula does.

Btw atog... you crack my up man.  Why would a skin have to be updated so it could be compatable with a new version of a emu?  

Thanks Howard,

I've never downloaded the original Nebula. I'll have a look into it.

Kind Regards,

Dariusz