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I don't recall anything about using subfolders other than a post about running a rom with the same name as the directory and a user got creative using the commandline. Ex. emulator.exe "c:\roms\iso's\Soul Calibur\Soul Calibur.zip". So in GameEx terms that would be "[ROMPATH]\[ROM]\[ROMFILE]". That's given that the rom folder is the same name as the rom. What you're wanting to do is doable. Trust me! Well you could output a txt file using 7za and have it generate the rom name. Then you string that and declare a variable. And then use that variable in your commandline. So you'll have 2 parts. Unzipping the rom and then running. It's easy to do but again just time consuming unless you really know what you're doin. No you won't have to rename if you use a map file. As far as doing this much in GameEx I found it easier to do it all in one wrapper than in a bunch of places for launch before, commandline, etc.

Actually I just gave Tom the heads up. I wanted to let him know before I posted anything yet. No I'm not using the GameEx wiki as I didn't know I could have done anything with it. I just created my own as I wanted a place to host my wrappers, and went further in including my map files, links, and soon configs for emulators. Just been scripting a lot as of late to make my wrappers more user-friendly for the community. Have everything just based off my system so I thought I'd give settings so users could use them with their setup.

I toyed around with it. Actually it's not that bad. I used control clicks (don't like using mouse clicks because of different resolutions) and you can hide the window so it will work seamless. Couldn't get much further than that since don't have the roms for it but it's doable.

Greetz all! Just wanted to announce that I'm working on a wiki for you all. It's a W.I.P. so don't expect too much yet. EmuWrappers Wiki will be a place to find map files, wrappers, links, suggested command-line settings, and soon configs all in an easy to find and organized table. No more searching in the forums for these files. I have just a few things up but there will be a major overhaul by the end of the week. I will post a link when I feel I have enough info for you to enjoy it.

http://demul.emulation64.com/

Map files make your listing of games more user-friendly. So in your case you have your short names and by using the following syntax then you'll have a long name as your selection. For example: kal-sc.001 | Soul Calibur On the left you have the name of your file and on the right of the delimiter you have what you want it to be named. What your wanting is possible but with your naming convention then a map file and wrapper is the way to go. Here's how I would go about it. 1. Create a map file with the listing of all your games. So say you ran kal-sc.001 then GameEx would send emulator.exe kal-sc.001 to the commandline. 2. Based off that info you would create a wrapper that would find that file since you're using subfolders and once it's found it unzips to a directory of your choice. Then pulls that name based off your extensions like cdi and then runs the game. This is possible! Just gonna be time consuming unless you know a scripting language like AHK or AutoIt.

Well the best way would be to uncompress but to each his own. Well there's a few ways to tackle this but this all depends on how your images are named and the name of the folder as well. Post your folder name and all the files in it so I can give more of an opinion. But from the way it seems is the only way to get this to all work is to get creative with a map file and wrapper to load the rom based off that map file. I've accomplished this and I'm able to have subfolder support for GameEx. But only use it on emulators where I need it.

Yes! A bios rom is required.

As this is a good idea, there are already sites dedicated to this. Like Tempest's post! Some of these sites have ratings and of course the links. You already have lots on here but no where near what's available. This could get ugly as the board does not allow html so no way of organizing in a clean way! Just my opinion.

Not an answer to your questions, but I use MESS for these 2 systems as MESS runs them very smoothly.

I don't have a widescreen to verify but maybe the switch -nohwstretch is what you're talking about. So yes, vertical games will maintain ratio but on a horizontal game, they will stretch and fill the screen.

Pressing TAB in MAME will bring it up so you can change how you want.

By default it will maintain aspect ratio, unless you use the switch -nokeepaspect or -noka. Here you can read to understand (taken from windows.txt in the docs directory of your MAME directory:

These topics should get your started: Here and Here!

Well from what it looks like, you're calling your settings from MAME Options in the Advanced MAME Settings. Doing that will make your settings be called every time. The best thing to do is create a mame.ini. So simply: 1. Create mame.ini by typing MAME -cc from commandline. 2. Change your settings as needed. 3. Erase all the content from MAME Options in the Advanced MAME Settings since they will still be called from the ini itself. 4. Make a copy of that file and copy it over to the ini directory of your MAME directory. Create it if it doesn't exist. 5. Rename file to cubeqst.ini and change your video settings. 6. Your new file will override your standard settings so you can have different video options (as well as others if needed) to run your rom without it affecting anything.

Just create a cubeqst.ini. Just copy your mame.ini and change the settings your wanting and your cubeqst.ini will over ride those settings. That way you can run Cube Quest with the settings your after while still leaving your other games with the current settings. You can create that file in your MAME directory or copy it into the ini directory. When mame first creates your mame.ini it sets the directory to ini. So just create the file into that directory and you're good to go.

You can. In the Advanced Config. Can use one of the configs or create your own and change this setting to the following: KeysToSendOnExit=%{F4}

It is down on my side as well! So it's just not you Onji!

Sound should work regardless. Would have to be something in the way it's being called from GameEx. Post your commandline settings so we can have a look see.

Well if that's the only difference you see then why not try without JoyToKey to see what your results are? Seems rather silly to walk away from a diff that you noticed yourself.

Hmmmm I'm more of an AutoIt user. Not sure if this makes a difference but looks like you remap to uppercase letters. Try changing all those to lowercase. Also it looks like you wait for that window to be active before your keys will work. Is that wintitle always active or does it change? Cuz if it changes then I wouldn't expect the keys to work. Also I always wait for the process to close before exiting a script. Again I don't use AHK so hard to say unless I learn the code. If that doesn't work then I can whip one up in AutoIt for ya real quick.

I didn't even have the chd yet and it was in my list of games in GameEx when I updated to MAME 0.127. Might have to do with your filters perhaps.

The game shows up just fine in GameEx. Given that you're using the current version of MAME for it to be built off of.

ESC actually makes that emulator hide the menubar. Alt + Enter makes it fullscreen. ZSNES has better compatibility so we recommend you use that emulator. Don't see anything wrong with the way you're running from commandline.

No problem. Sorry we couldn't get it sooner. It just didn't make sense that it wouldn't run. I guess your system is picky about it. Oh well. It's done.