z-man

Nullpointer, yes that is exactly the problem. When I place the quotes in the directory structure, it FINALLY works! What has me boggled still, is that JCGamer has his working on Oatake and he currently has spaces in his directory structure AND no quotes? Thank you for noticing that "subtle" difference. We had been up all night to the point where our brains are fried. Hard to believe we needed the quote, but at the end it is what it is! On the native DT support, I thought that MagicEngine does not support DT & requires SCSI? I have tried the following commands as well, to much avail. I could NOT even get the image mounted manually via DT, unless there is something that I am missing. Now that we have invested this much time, it would be awesome to fully understand this. pce.exe "syscard3.pce"[-VIRTUALDRIVE-] pce.exe "syscard3.pce" [VIRTUALDRIVE]:\ Much thanks for a great piece of software & treasure to the gaming community....here take our money now!!!!!!!

I am buddies with JCGamer & he has inspired me to also load GameEX and he has introduced me to GameEX. What a great piece of software. I am looking forward to test driving it & buying it ultimately. Anyway, we had tried to work on this together last night. I thought it was something silly that he was doing & decided to try it on my PC. Low & behold, I am experiencing the same results. It does not work! I tried to do everything manually to see if it works & to rule out GameEX & it appeared to work manually! Let me explain what I did. I mounted the .cue image file via DOS commands, as follows: Migrate to the c:\Program Files\Daemon Tools Lite\ directory & I type the following command: dtlite.exe -mount scsi, 0, "C:\zFiles\Games\ROMS\TurboGrafx\Buster Bros. [CD][TGXCD1031][Capcom][1993][PCE][terryn].cue" I see that the image is mounted in Daemon tools & I am able to browse the image folder. 　 Then in DOS c:\Emulation\MagicEngine I type the following command "pce.exe -cd:i". This then opens up MagicEngine & I am greeted with a setup window, which I prompt OK & then the main program runs. It prompt to press start & so when start is pressed on the controller, the Buster Bros game begins. Plain and simple & nothing out of the ordinary, until we try to launch from GameEX. On GameEX settings we have the following: Working Path= C:\zFiles\Games\Emulation\MagicEngine ROM Path= C:\zFiles\Games\ROMS\TurboGrafx ROM Filter= *.cue Command Line: pce.exe -cd:I ***** Launch Before: C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" -mount scsi, 0, "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]" ***** Launch After: C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe -unmount SCSI, 0 　 So what happens? We are able to see the game in the Turbo Grafx selection of GameEX & we can launch it. The MagicEngine PCE.exe starts & prompts us to start the game. When we hit start, we go directly into the disc player. Why? Because the image did not mount, as verified by Daemontools. SOOOOOOO, the only possible line/parameter within GameEX that can result in an unsuccessful mount is: Launch Before: C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" -mount scsi, 0, "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]" There is something coming back from GameEX in the parameters "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]" that Daemon Tools does not respond to. Since we are ABLE to read the image name into GameEX & given the option to run it, means we are reading the image file correctly. The fact that PCE.exe opens up when the game is selected, means that the pathname is also correct. We have spent hours in doing this & have changed things like "pce.exe -cd:I" to "pce.exe "syscard3.pce"[-VIRTUALDRIVE-]" and "pce.exe "syscard3.pce" [VIRTUALDRIVE]:\" BUT nothing seems to work. We have tried to rename the .cue files as well to make them short & terse, still nothing. Keep in mind we ARE ABLE to do all this via the exact commands that we are asking of GameEX from the DOS commands. The only missing variable is the " "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]", which comes from GameEX. The ROM path we know we set to "ROM Path= C:\zFiles\Games\ROMS\TurboGrafx," but there is no way to verify how GameEX is seing the "ROMFILE"? I could understand if we are not able to do all this manually & via dos prompts, but we are. There has to be another explanation? To top it all off, as I walk away from my pc for 15min, when I came back, JCGamer installs an alternate Turbo Grafx emulator & gets it to work within a 15min span, using the same settings, less the emulator name. Thank you for your time. 　 ______________________________________________________________ 　 BTW, here are JCGamer's working settings for the Ootake emulator: Working Path= E:\Emulators\Ootake ROM Path= E:\Emulators\Ootake\roms ROM Filter= *.cue Command Line= Ootake.exe "syscard3.pce"[-VIRTUALDRIVE-] ***** Launch Before= C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe -mount dt, 0, "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]" ***** Launch After= C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe -unmount_all 　 　 ______________________________________________________________ When we compare setting between his working Oatake (in green) & the nonworking MagicEngine settings (in red), we see that the major difference is in the Command Line & that one is a DT mount vs SCSI mount. Working Path= E:\Emulators\Ootake Working Path= C:\zFiles\Games\Emulation\MagicEngine 　 ROM Path= E:\Emulators\Ootake\roms ROM Path= C:\zFiles\Games\ROMS\TurboGrafx 　 ROM Filter= *.cue ROM Filter= *.cue 　 Command Line= Ootake.exe "syscard3.pce"[-VIRTUALDRIVE-] Command Line: pce.exe -cd:I 　 ***** Launch Before= C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe -mount dt, 0, "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]" ***** ***** Launch Before: C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" -mount scsi, 0, "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]" ***** 　 Launch After= C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe -unmount_all Launch After: C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe -unmount SCSI, 0