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Title: Mamewah and Winkawaks 1.56
Post by: dpeeples on August 21, 2006, 02:42:30 pm

I have tried everything I can think of to get Winkawaks to take a command line launch and all it does it lauch the gui and does not load the game.  I have tried from Mamewah, from a bat file, from a command prompt etc and nothing.  In the Whats new there is an entery around 1.3x that command line options were added and I do not see any note of them being removed but trying winkawaks.exe -help does not work it launches the gui.

Anyone got any help on getting this to work from a command line lauch right into the a game?

Title: Re: Mamewah and Winkawaks 1.56
Post by: gonzo90017 on August 21, 2006, 09:49:12 pm

You need a wrapper for winkawaks. I've attached  the wrapper. This is what your ini file should look like in mamewah.

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

emulator_title                            Kawaks

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  H:\Winkawaks\NeoGeo
rom_extension                             zip
dat_file                                 
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           
list_generation_method                    rom_folder

### Execution Settings ###
emulator_executable                       H:\Winkawaks\cmd-launch7.exe
commandline_format                        [name]{nodosbox}{safelaunch}
alt_commandline_format_1                  [name]{autodosbox}{nosafelaunch}
alt_commandline_format_2                  [name]{autodosbox}{nosafelaunch}
game_specific_config_path                 

### Artwork Locations ###
artwork_1_image_path                     
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

You have to the wrapper in the same folder as winkawaks.
Right click on Kawaks.bat and click on edit. Change it to reflect your path. The only problem is you still need to press enter before you exit. It works for me since i'm using a usb pad along with joytokey where you can assing multiple key presses to one button.

Title: Re: Mamewah and Winkawaks 1.56
Post by: gonzo90017 on August 21, 2006, 09:49:12 pm

You might need to go to My document>Tools>Folder Options>View and uncheck Hide extensions for known file types to change the extension from jpg to zip

Title: Re: Mamewah and Winkawaks 1.56
Post by: dpeeples on August 22, 2006, 01:34:33 am

Awesome thank you very much.  I will get on this tomorrow for sure cant wait.   OK back to Madden 07 on 360 then gotta get to bed.   :)