tabascoman77

Inside MAME, I have the rom path set to the correct rom folder where the app resides. Same as it is in PBX.

Here are the two INI's I have. MAMEUI.ini MAME_g.ini

Thanks, Tom.

Here ya' go. log.txt

Here's the file you requested. MAME.xml

Nope. No dice. Still the same error with the same pile of NOT FOUND roms.

Well, this is confounding. 1942 just won't launch within PBX. Launches fine within MAMEUI64 (current version 0.268). When I launch within PBX, it kicks back errors telling me it can't find a bunch of files within the rom that it's hunting for and tells me the game can't be run, then kicks back to PBX. Gamelist manager has "1942" as the selected board and that's the version which runs in MAMEUI. If I choose other versions of 1942 (making sure to run those files in Gamelist Manager, I get the same exact error: it just hunts for roms within the file it claims aren't there and kicks back to PBX. Included all pertinent files. Logs don't show anything suspect that I can see. Maybe you guys can see something I'm not seeing. PinballX.ini log.txt

Disregard. Issue resolved. Two things were happening because I was so tired from last night's testing, I forgot to tweak things: 1) I had several crashed instances of the Batman rom sitting in my Task Manager. I quit all of those. This is not really what was causing the issue -- but it was causing PBX to act up and not work properly (like the issue of the music playing over various roms). 2) This was the issue: I had the launch BAT file sitting in the "Launch After" section set to "enabled" still. This was the reason the application wasn't quitting. It would launch a second instance of TP and launch the game. I disabled the After Launch BAT. Everything works. Teknoparrot now quits on the Escape Key. No multiple instances of launch. There is no extra BAT file needed. Just run that "profile" code from the command line and it works. To review... Here's the settings that worked for me: NAME: TeknoParrot ENABLED: Yes SYSTEM TYPE: Custom - EXE Files WORKING PATH: C:\Teknoparrot (or wherever you put the TP folder) TABLE PATH: C:\Teknoparrot\UserProfiles (or wherever you put the UserProfiles folder) EXECUTABLE: TeknoParrotUi.exe PARAMETERS: --profile="Batman.xml" (or the UserProfile XML for whatever game you're attempting to launch) In the PBX Game List Manager: GAME: C:\Teknoparrot\TeknoParrotUi.exe (or wherever that EXE is on your computer) DESCRIPTION: (Name of Game - in my case, "Batman") Issue resolved. We're all good, @Draco1962! I guess I'm the TP Pioneer you were requesting!

I am not versed in creating BAT files or AHK scripts. I just so happened to look up a regular command line BAT file example and got lucky. Any idea on how I might proceed?

@Draco1962 NOTE: The solution below has a caveat: once you exit the game in PBX, Teknoparrot remains open because escaping the game in PBX doesn't actually quit the app. Because it's still open, TP will attempt to launch the game again. The workaround is to cut out of PBX entirely, shut off TP, then launch back into PBX. I'm looking for a fix for this. I'm wondering if there's a script that would quit the program entirely. Anyhow...see below. Here's the settings that worked for me: NAME: TeknoParrot ENABLED: Yes SYSTEM TYPE: Custom - EXE Files WORKING PATH: C:\Teknoparrot (or wherever you put the TP folder) TABLE PATH: C:\Teknoparrot\UserProfiles (or wherever you put the UserProfiles folder) EXECUTABLE: You can leave this blank PARAMETERS: --profile="Batman.xml" (or the UserProfile XML for whatever game you're attempting to launch) In the PBX Game List Manager: GAME: C:\Teknoparrot\TeknoParrotUi.exe (or wherever that EXE is on your computer) DESCRIPTION: (Name of Game - in my case, "Batman") Not perfect, but it works. Another system (mostly) slayed.

The DJ setup was for GameEX, not PBX. I tried that command line to no avail. TeknoParrot is an emulator like any other. It's designed to play the newer, PC-based arcade games. The issue is that the newer PC-based games don't actually use roms, they use exe files. And, as I said, PBX can't properly run the EXE file without crashing TP.

Ok... So, I'm ALMOST there. I actually got the sucker to load last night with a self-created .bat file for "Batman" (fitting). The issue is...well, there are a few things. I have to run the BAT file either before or after the launch of TeknoParrot. The Game List Manager won't allow the loading of the BAT file, obviously, and will kick back to PBX like "Hahaha, you dumb****, you thought THAT would work?" If I tell the GLM to use the rom's EXE file (without the BAT), it won't load the game and will crash PBX. If I use the rom's EXE and attempt to use the BAT BEFORE launching that, the game will work -- but with a couple caveats: PBX won't shut off in the background and I will hear my ambient music playlist file that I've set PBX to play on startup. This clashes with the game's audio, obviously. When I shut off the game...it will load the rom's EXE and CRASH BOOM FLAMES. If I tell GLM to use the app EXE (TeknoparrotUi.exe), BUT launch the BAT first, it works -- but same story with clashing audio, PLUS I have to deal with a launch of the EXE afterward, which I have to quit. I just wish there was a way to launch the game from the BAT with no other apps attempting to launch afterward AND have PBX go silent in the background while I play. I KNOW I'm missing something here. I'm this close... Anyone got any kung-fu they'd like to share?

Would not be the first time I was lost! Let me see if I can get it running...I don't know how long you wanna keep this open until I do...

Nope. And now I feel like an idiot for not knowing. There's gotta be a way to run it in PBX, right? I would think...this program can pretty much do anything.

Hi all, First, I tried to follow @DJ Infinity and his guide for TeknoParrot on a separate thread (https://forums.gameex.com/forums/topic/28451-resolved-tekno-parrot/) but that doesn't seem to work. Here's my config and perhaps DJ could assist me further if nobody else knows. My Setup Wizard config is attached as is my INI for PBX and the log. Strangely, the log only seems to record the first time I tried to run TP and failed. It doesn't record any changes from five minutes ago. So, basically, what's happening is the following: 1) I launch the game I want to play ("Batman" in this case) from PBX. 2) Immediately, all the sound on my PC goes silent...more on that later. 3) The game loading screen comes up and stops at the "Loading I/O board" portion. 4) The loading screen kicks out and error telling me that the I/O board can't be found and the game can't be started. I know the emulator and game work because launching it direct from Teknoparrot loads the game in seconds and I can play it just fine (full speed, too...insane). 5) I try to hit escape to get out of TP and exit back to PBX. This doesn't work. PBX sits in a crash loop and I have to force it to stop so I can get back to the Windows desktop. 6) I have to force quit Teknoparrot and anything associated with it. 7) I have to turn my sound up because, for some reason, the entire process completely mutes my audio down to "0". 8)) I have to run my "Mouse" settings and make the mouse cursor viewable again because the crash makes my cursor shrink down to microscopic. That's the gist of it. log.txt PinballX.ini

@Mike_da_Spike - This HAS, unfortunately, brought back an old problem I had: tables taking upwards of 20 to 30 seconds to load. Doesn't happen on all tables. Mainly stuff like Ghostbusters or heavy PUP tables. EDIT: Disregard. I raised an issue about that here already and followed my own steps. Heh. Fixed.

In the words of an old friend of mine: "Ain't NOBODY got time for that!"

Also, refresh the page and you will see I edited my original solution post so that you can see I reverted to an older B2S.

w00t! Dude, thanks for the help yet again...I am sure we'll meet again in six months to a year when I have another random issue.

Upgraded to the newest B2S (1.4.x) - SAME ISSUE "Full Screen Hack" set to YES - SAME ISSUE VPX set to "Force Exclusive Full Screen" - SAME ISSUE <hideblackglass> was set to "True" for each table. Finally... Remove "Run as Admin" for VPX 10.7.2 - This appears to have fixed the issue. I can now exit out of VPX to PBX. I DID have a temporary issue with my DMD vanishing behind the backglass after upgrading to B2S 1.4, so I simply reverted back to last version of B2S (1.3.1) and now my DMD's appear on top of the backglass AND I can exit VPX to PBX. Wonder what changed...that's the most vague issue I've ever seen.

Weirdly enough, I just clicked over to the backglass screen until the backglass vanished -- then pressed Escape and it allows you to escape out to PBX...but that's still not what I'd like. It's like the table screen overrules everything else until you click away from it.

It's because I disabled it after it didn't work. Turning it back on doesn't make it work either. Nothing does. 10.7.2 just does not like PBX on my end. I have tried everything. I have no idea what else I can do to get this to go.

Yes to all of those. I just reverted back to 10.7 and Escape works fine -- I just can't play the new Iron Man table that came out without 10.7.2, so... PBX and VPX 10.7.2 just don't like one another on my system. I cannot figure this out. Quick Edit (still not fixed): Changing Escape to a random letter on the keyboard (say "A") does not work either. It's almost as if VPX is blocking any PBX keystrokes.

The only reason I need the Escape key is because I use the X-Arcade joystick set and the red button on the set is my escape. I mean, I could just try to use another button and map it to another button (I don't think you can alter the red button on the system). I'd just rather not. Even pressing Escape on the keyboard doesn't work anymore. My temp workaround (which is ugly) is pressing Q twice and then using the mouse to manually exit the emulator, which is why you don't see an exit in any logs.