Mamewah, launching emulators twice

[Exarch]

afternoon all,

i'm running into a little bug with Mamewah,

i'll do my best to describe it,

i have set up an ini for zsnes, set up and built the rom list without any trouble,

when i run a game Mamewah will launch ZSNES but no rom will be loaded.

then i exit ZSNES and find ZSNES has launched with the ROM running.

has anybody hit this problem before?

i'm also running into it with Daphnie, but i figure this is a related issue to the ini file for both emulators.

any help would be appreciated,

cheers
e

[gonzo90017]

Post your ini file.
You are using the latest version 1.62b13a right?

[Exarch]

it's probably an older version i will have to check when i get home,

but i did not change it as i had heaps of stuff working on it, including Zinc

that thing was a royal PAIN!

i'll post it all up tonight

[Exarch]

Evening all,

below is the ini file for Zsnes, i recon the problem is here

### External Application Settings ###
ipc_file_or_path                         
app_1_executable                         
app_1_commandline_format     

as it may be reading the app executable, then the command line???

perhaps this means it's triggering the emulator, then launching the emulator again with the command line for the ROM just a guess though

e





### zsnes.ini (mamewah v1.61) ###

emulator_title                            ZSNES

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  f:\SNES\roms
rom_extension                             smc
dat_file                                 
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           
list_generation_method                    rom_folder

### Execution Settings ###
emulator_executable                       c:\games\zsnes\zsnesw.exe
commandline_format                        "f:\snes\roms\[name].smc"{autodosbox}{nosafelaunch}
alt_commandline_format_1                  "f:\snes\roms\[name].smc"{autodosbox}{nosafelaunch}
alt_commandline_format_2                  "f:\snes\roms\[name].smc"{autodosbox}{nosafelaunch}
game_specific_config_path                 

### Artwork Locations ###
artwork_1_image_path                      c:\games\zsnes\artwork
artwork_2_image_path                     
artwork_3_image_path                     
artwork_4_image_path                     
artwork_5_image_path                     
artwork_6_image_path                     
artwork_7_image_path                     
artwork_8_image_path                     
artwork_9_image_path                     
artwork_10_image_path                     
movie_preview_path                       
movie_artwork_no                          1

### Screen-Saver Settings ###
enable_music_in_screensaver               1
saver_type                                slideshow
movie_path                               
movie_fullscreen                          1
quit_delay                                30
wrapper_executable                       
wrapper_commandline_format                [name]{nodosbox}{nosafelaunch}
scr_file                                 

### External Application Settings ###
ipc_file_or_path                         
app_1_executable                         
app_1_commandline_format                 
app_2_executable                         
app_2_commandline_format                 
app_3_executable                         
app_3_commandline_format                 
auto_launch_apps                         

### Additional Settings ###
music_path                               
lcd_display_file_path                     
lcd_fe_text                               

### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_list                              0

[gonzo90017]

Why are you're roms not zipped?

Anyways your problem is under ### Execution Settings ### it should look like this:

### Execution Settings ###
emulator_executable                       C:\VideoGames\ZsnesD\Zsnesw.exe
commandline_format                        "[rompath]\[name].[romext]"{dosbox}{safelaunch}
alt_commandline_format_1                  [name]{autodosbox}{nosafelaunch}
alt_commandline_format_2                  [name]{autodosbox}{nosafelaunch}
game_specific_config_path                 


Try it and let me know if it worked.

[Exarch]

hmm, okay so i'll go with DosBox and SafeLaunch, cool

Roms are not zipped because i legally obtained them that way 

i could zip them but that may take some time unless anybody has a quick way to do 10,000 roms

thanks for the help, i'll give it a try tonight

[gonzo90017]

I don't think you understood. It has to look exactly like this:
"[rompath]\[name].[romext]"{dosbox}{safelaunch}

Not like this:
"f:\snes\roms\[name].smc"{dosbox}{safelaunch}

Since you already told the ini file where your roms are
### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  f:\SNES\roms

Use romzipper to zip up all your roms http://www.emuware.com/romzipper/

[Exarch]

Perfect that worked a treat thankyou 

i was even able to organise Daphne last night, so there has been a big amount of progress

i also got onto Rom Zipper and ran that over SNES and Atari which is great, thanks for the tip on that one.

now i do have one final question regarding Mamewah and Zinc, but that's for a new thread

cheers Gonzo
e