Starting cpu up into emulator

[chuggy]

any tips on making my computer boot into nesticle. I dont konw how, and it seems if the computer doesnt there would be a a need for a mouse, and a keyboard. Any help would be awsome. Thanks.

[anthony691]

Put it in your startup. If you don't know how to do this, give it a Google search on "Startup folder" or something to that effect.

[rampy]

You could also, if you were using the DOS version of Nesticle, put it in your autoexecbat (assuming you didn't load windows at all)...

*shrug* it's one approach...  Are you making a dedicated NES emu station of sorts?

You may wish to put a Front End on there that lets you select multiple EMU's/games/etc... (although it's  good idea to walk before you run =P)

Good luck and let me know if the DOS suggestion applies or if you need clarification...

rampy

[Brad Lee]

this is for win 95/98 only.. in Dos I'd just put it at the end of my autoexec.bat like said above</edit>

( 1 ) Click START, then Run...
( 2 ) Type "system.ini" (No Quotes)
( 3 ) Find the line under [Boot] that says "shell=explorer.exe"
Don't mess with anything else or you'll screw up your computer. Thats your WARNING!
( 4 ) Change it to read "shell=(PATH)" (No Quotes) where (PATH) is the path to the file you wish to use as a shell. (ie. C:\nesticle\nesticle.exe) then save the file.
( 5 ) Click START, then Shutdown... and select Restart


Use at your own risk

[chuggy]

If dos is faster to boot i'd like to use that. The computer does have windows 98 on it. The problem is that i am very unfamiliar with dos. If possible i'd like to have my roms list start when the comp turns on, and go from there. I am pretty new at this, and have looked but there is not a lot of documentation on how to make this work. thanks again in advance.

[NAH]

I haven't done this, changing the system.ini file, but i was wondering if it was as easy to change it back to shell=explorer.exe

Just want to make sure I can get back to where I came from.

[Brad Lee]

Yes, its that easy to change it back, however you may have to boot with a dos disk, change the file andthen reboot- without explorer running you may not be able to get to the file thru windows

[Cue-Ball]

You do NOT have to boot with a DOS disk to change the shell= line back.  Just Press F8 during boot and choose command prompt only.  You can then edit the system.ini directly.

 I'm running with my shell= line set to use Emulaxian as my shell.  It works great.  Startup is much quicker, you never see a taskbar or icons, and i don't have to worry about anyone accidentally exiting the frontend.

Hope this helps.

[chuggy]

So does starting up this way allow you to scroll through your list of games and chose? Also are you doing this in a cab without a keyboard or is the keyboard completely necessary? Is it possible to do without the use of a keyboard? thanks.

[Rocky]

Chuggy,

Maybe you should do some reading around this sight and others related to arcade emulation.

Most people who build a cabinet to house their computers use some sort keyboard encoder  (e.g.  hacked keyboard, IPAC, Keywiz) or they use a hacked gamepad of some kind.

They hook these up to the inputs on the arcade controls (buttons, joysticks, trackball buttons) so that the front end and the emulator responds to the  appropriate keystrokes.

In reality, when you push an arcade button or move a joystick, your computer sees it as a keystroke from your keyboard.

Hope this helps,

Rocky