tabascoman77

Oh sweet baby jesus, I'm not even messing with RetroArch. This is like a half dozen emulators I've tried and I'm not going to go down a list and try each one just to watch them error out one by one. Does anyone else have any ideas about how to run any NES emulator on PinballX?

VirtuaNES can't open rom files within PinballX.

NEStopia UE is doing the exact same thing NEStopia is doing.

Just tried FCEUX with the parameters set to "[TABLEPATH]/[TABLEFILE]". Error message telling me it can't run the rom and nothing doing. The emulator will play the game on its own, outside of PinballX. This is the third NES emulator. Mesen works but won't load games properly. It keeps loading a Save State menu, regardless of what game I'm asking to load and makes me choose a game I'm not asking for.

Same error, same black screen. Same error, same black screen.

Here you go. How do I go about getting it to run from the Command Line? log.txt

@Draco1962 - Upgraded to 4.30. Same issue.

@Tom Speirs - That didn't work. Same error, same black screen. @Draco1962 - Config file is attached for your perusal. PinballX.ini

Hello, I can run MAME, VPX, Future Pinball, Daphne, Dolphin, and SNES9X successfully on PinballX but, for some reason, I cannot get NEStopia to run with PinballX at all. It will play just fine by itself, but launching within PinballX creates a black screen and an error from NEStopia which says "File not Found" followed by a black screen. No audio, no video. It's already set up to run fullsceen on start-up. My config looks like this: [System_4] Name=NEStopia WorkingPath=C:\Games\NEStopia TablePath=C:\Games\NEStopia\roms Executable=nestopia.exe Parameters=nestopia.exe "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]" Enabled=True SystemType=0 Logs for PinballX and NEStopia are attached. Any thoughts? nestopia.log log.txt

Solved and working: [System_X] Name=Dolphin (Mario Kart GP) WorkingPath=C:\Program Files\Dolphin 4.0-315 TablePath=C:\Program Files\Dolphin 4.0-315\ISOs Executable=DolphinWX.exe Parameters=-b -e "C:\Program Files\Dolphin 4.0-315\ISOs/MarioKartGP.iso" (THIS PATH POINTS TO WHERE EVER YOUR ISO IS. DON'T JUST COPY-PASTE THIS CODE. ALTER THIS CODE TO REFLECT WHERE THE GAME ACTUALLY IS ON YOUR PERSONAL PC. The same goes for the Working Path and Table Path as well as the Executable.) Enabled=True SystemType=0 Some notes here: The posted solution above is SPECIFICALLY for anyone attempting to JUST add Mario Kart Arcade GP to Pinball X. Before you do ANYTHING, you're going to have to screw around with Dolphin 4.0 (builds 309 AND 315) a bit. Yes, I KNOW we're at Dolphin 5 but, to my knowledge, the game ONLY runs on Dolphin 4.0, Build 315. You also need the specific Mario Kart Arcade GP rom file. The only version that will work is the ISO version of the rom ONLY. I am not going to tell you where or how to obtain it. If you have everything (both versions of Dolphin and the ISO), you're ready to rock. There's a pretty good tutorial here. I am assuming that, like Daphne, you can't just add Dolphin and play all the games. You actually have to do a Dolphin entry for each game you want to play. Pain in the ass, but that's the way to go, I suppose. I could be completely wrong about this but I haven't found a code that would allow you to play everything, willy-nilly. Anyhow...SUCCESS!

Newest challenge: Attempting to get Dolphin Triforce to work with PBX. I will post config files a little later but this is what I have set up in the PBX Init right now: [System_X}Name=DolphinEnabled=TrueSystemType=0WorkingPath=C:\Program Files (x86)\DolphinTablePath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Dolphin\ISOs\ Executable=Dolphin.exeParameters= ??? "Parameters" is where I remain confused. There seems to be conflicting information regarding what belongs in that box. I've been told -b -e or /b /e followed by the path or rom name but I'm getting all sorts of errors ranging from "invalid path" to "rom file not found". Has anyone tried Dolphin with PBX?

Thanks! And thank you for your help and bearing with me.

Success! Thank you, Thomas! Ok...so here's what I used in case somebody else looks for the solution (DON'T COPY-PASTE THE BOLD LETTERING). These settings used Thomas's guidelines: PinballX.ini file (found in "Config" in PinballX's root folder): [System_4] (OR WHICH EVER SYSTEM NUMBER YOU WOULD LIKE TO CHOOSE) Name=Daphne - Lair Enabled=True SystemType=0 WorkingPath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Daphne (THIS POINTS TO THE DAPHNE FOLDER ON WHICHEVER DRIVE YOU HAVE IT ON.) TablePath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Daphne\roms\ (THIS POINTS TO THE ROMS FOLDER IN THE DAPHNE ROOT.) Executable=daphne.exe (THIS POINTS TO THE DAPHNE EXE FILE IN THE DAPHNE ROOT FOLDER) Parameters=lair vldp -fullscreen -x 1920 -y 1080 -framefile "C:\Program Files (x86)\Daphne\vldp_dl/lair/lair.txt" (I PUT THE "VLDP_DL" DOWNLOAD FOLDER IN THE DAPHNE ROOT, THEN MADE A PATH TO THE "LAIR.TXT" BASED ON THAT. I MIGHT TEST IT TO SEE IF I CAN PUT THE VLDP_FL FOLDER ELSEWHERE BECAUSE I'M FANATICAL ABOUT ORGANIZING MY FILES, BUT THIS WORKS.) Daphne - Lair.xml file (found in root Daphne folder...make one in Notepad if you don't have one and be sure to tack ".xml" on it at the end when saving it.) <menu> <game name="lair"> <description>Dragon's Lair</description> <rom>lair</rom> <manufacturer>Cinematronics</manufacturer> <year>1983</year> <type></type> <hidedmd>True</hidedmd> <hidetopper>True</hidetopper> <hidebackglass>True</hidebackglass> <enabled>True</enabled> <rating>-1</rating> </game> </menu> You also can't forget to create a game file under "Daphne - Lair" in PinballX's Game Manager. You need to select "lair" when selecting the game to match this. Or rather, I had to. It's which ever rom matches your path. For some strange reason, the data that you're supposed to enter in the "parameters" path isn't the same as what the DaphneLoader spits out, so you have to trim it down as shown above. This isn't made obvious by the makers of Daphne so I'm glad someone here was able to direct me down the right path. Thank you, one and all, for your help.

Just checking in to see if you have any ideas. Thanks.

Yes, I have. I have about 100+ games set up. Here's the Daphne PBX XML file for you. Hopefully this helps. Daphne.xml

Not sure what you mean here. I uploaded the .xml file from Daphne. Also, the log from PBX is attached. log.txt

Apologies. And thank you. PinballX is one of the most awesome things I've ever used. PinballX.ini

I don't know where the INI file would be. Here's the rest of it. Thanks. daphne_log.txt config.xml lair.txt

Nope. Four hours later, I'm still getting the ol' "Bad command line or initialization" thing. I've messed with the command line multiple times and Dragon's Lair just won't launch no matter what I do. I put the command line in the parameters, I put the Daphne executable where it's supposed to go, pointed toward the ROM folder and the Daphne folder...it just plain doesn't want to work at all. It works with the Loader...so it MUST be PBX. I'm not a novice. I've been using PBX for over two years now with no issue up until I began to put Daphne in. Any help would be appreciated.

I've read that post. Several times, in fact. I've also read the other posts regarding PinballX and Daphne and they're vague in their solutions or the solutions the "successful" users used don't work for me. That's the reason I'm here. But, I will continue to guess and let you know if I ever get this working. Thanks for the help.

Is this possible? Nothing I have tried works (including using the command line option in Daphne) and the emulator keeps telling me to specify which version of Dragon's Lair to use. The game starts fine from the Loader so I'm assuming there's some sort of disconnect between PBX and Daphne.