The Deuce

Btw, to boil down the steps I did to get bsnes working like a nice, normal emulator that plays nice, normal roms in GameEx: 1) Under your SNES roms folder, create a folder called "purified" 2) Open purify.exe in the bsnes folder. Set the emulator to bsnes, and set the output path to the "purified" folder that you just created, then close it. 3) In Emulator Setup in the Setup Wizard, set the Command Line to C:\[Path to bsnes folder]\purify.exe "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]" 4) Follow nullPointer's directions above to create a new advanced emulator config for bsnes. In my case, I copied the "[Mapping Off] Exit (Process Close}.ini" file (which appears to be the default config), and named my copy "bsnes.ini" 5) In Advanced Emulator Setup in the Setup Wizard, go to Advanced Config and select the new config you created from the dropdown box. Then press the "..." button to the right of the dropdown box and hte Avanced Config Editor will come up. Go the the "Process Wait" tab. Press the empty box in the Process column next to where it says "Process1" and a file chooser dialog should come up. Navigate to your bsnes folder, and choose the bsnes.exe file. Then close the Advanced Config Editor. And there you have it. At this point bsnes should play nice with GameEx, and with your standard SNES ROMs. You can just drop the ROMs you download directly into your ROM folder, and when GameEx launches them, all the messy business of creating those weird folders that bsnes needs should be taken care of automatically!

Just for the benefit of everyone on this thread, I thought I'd mention that we figured out how to get this working here: http://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/12264-roms-in-folders/

And it works! Thanks! You are gentlemen and scholars all!

Oh great, out of the frying pan, into the fire. It turns out that purify closes after launching bsnes, resulting in the GameEx gui coming back up fullscreen as bsnes is launched in the background. Anybody know a way to make GameEx wait on the second process when one process launches another and then closes?

Hmm, it looks like I may not need it, since bsnes seems to have an option to automatically generate a folder from a game file in purify and then run it in bsnes. So I can just launch the game with purify from GameEx, and it takes care of the details. Thanks!

Unfortunately, that doesn't give me what I'm looking for. I want Gamex to see the folders *themselves* as the names of the games, which is what the "Roms in Folders" option in the tutorial describes. Instead, the "Scan Sub Folders" feature just causes it to use the first file it finds inside the directory as the game's name, which in my case results in a huge list of games named "manifest" (since all the folders contain a manifest.xml file). Please tell me they didn't remove that feature and replace it with Scan Sub Folders!

I want to use the SNES emulator bsnes with GameEx. The current version of bsnes keeps its ROMs in a seperate folder for each ROM. Hence, the ROMs directory is a list of folders, where each folder is named after the game it contains. Unfortunately, folders are hidden in GameEx, so it can't see any of them. The Setup Wizard guide (http://www.gameex.com/Support/SetupWizardFirstUse.aspx) mentions a "Roms in Folders" option which sounds like it's exactly what I need. Problem is, I can't find this option in the setup for the current version of GameEx. What gives? Is this feature only supported in the registered version or something? Thanks, Ian