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Hi all. Is it possible to launch multiple programs before an emulator using the "launch before" field? If so, how would the commands need to be strung together? I want to launch Marquee Magician and Joy2Key before all the systems that use Kega Fusion. I need to use Joy2Key to map my controller to keyboard keys due to issues with programming the control within Fusion itself. Plz lmk if this is possible. Thanks! Corey

Thx for the help guys. And plz keep me in the loop regarding the [VIRTUALDRIVE]:\ command line that wasn't working for me...

Frequency, I'm back online now. We were out running errands so I wasn't at my computer to chat. Sorry about that. Anyway, I'm in the chat room if u happen to come online in the next hour or so.

Actually, I don't. I plug in a USB drive whenever I need one. The PC is dedicated to the arcade machine and is not easily accessible. And currently, I only have the one virtual drive installed.

When I run a game, GameEx doesn't pop any kind of msg. It just acts like it's trying 2 load the game. When I've got GamEx running in a window, I can see that SSF is being invoked right away and it gives an error msg. Looking at the virtual drive, no image is mounted. Since SSF is launched so quickly, I don't think GameEx is trying 2 mount the disk.

Here are the GameEx.ini and SSF.ini files. Unfortunately, my wife and I have plans this evening. But would there be a time this wknd we could meet up to try to troubleshoot this? LMK. Thx Frequency! GameEx.txt SSF.txt

Interesting. Thx for pointing that out Frequency. I wonder if my .ini file has the "launch before" and "launch after" info even tho I cleared it in the setup wizard. I'll post the current .ini as well as the SSF config file tonight when I get home...

Yes, it's the default drive in SSF. Don't know if this is helpful or not, but most of the time I get an error msg in SSF that says "CFile::CFile() error." But I can play games just fine when I mount the disk in DT Lite and then fire up SSF.

Ok. I think getting this emulator to work with the embeded CD mounting feature will be the death of me. LOL. So I setup a virtual "DT" drive that has a manufacturer name of DTSoft. It is drive D:\ on my computer. Looking at the log file, it seems that GameEx now recognizes this drive: 17:23:34.2 1/19/2012: Restoring Emulator from Cache 17:23:37.9 1/19/2012: Creating instance of global keyboard hook 17:23:37.9 1/19/2012: Running: cmd.exe /c C: SSF.exe d:\ 17:23:38.1 1/19/2012: Shutting down display However, it does not appear that a disk is mounting when I attempt to launch a game. I don't see a file loaded on the drive when I have GameEx running in a window and the DT Lite window up as well. I also get an error msg right away from Windows saying that SSF.exe has stopped working. Does GameEx mount a disk image using the command line parameters that were necessary when using the "launch before" and "launch after" fxns? If so, I think the newer version of DT Lite uses a slightly different command line than what others have reported previously. Most people say they use "C:\Program Files (x86)\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" -mount dt 0, "[RomPath]\[RomFile]". But I've only been able to get a disk to mount with this command line: "C:\Program Files (x86)\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" -mount dt, 0, "[RomPath]\[RomFile]". The only difference is an extra comma before the zero. That's the only thing I can think of that might potentially be an issue. Although I might be (and probably am) totally wrong on this. Any thoughts?

I'll give that a shot. Thx Tom!

I hv my DT Lite drive setup as a SCSI drive. Would that matter?

DT Lite was installed about a month ago. So it's def current. I'll have to check and see if VCD was re-installed last night when I installed GameEx w/ the ISO Mounting Support checked. It may have been. If it was, I'll remove it. But prior to installing ISO Mounting Support last night, I did not have VCD and was still getting the "Unable to mount ISO. Did you install ISO Support when installing GameEx?" error msg. So I'm not sure my issue has anything to do w/ VCD. I seem to recall reading a forum post regarding how the DT Lite drive had to be named for GameEx to recognize it. Does that ring a bell with anyone? If so, what would be the appropriate name for the drive?

I actually removed VCD awhile back when I installed DT Lite....

Ok. Just tried that. But still have the same issue. Log file says "Unable to mount ISO. Did you install ISO Support when installing GameEx?" Do I need to do a clean install of GameEx? If so, what do I need to save in order to bring it back to the state it is now?

Mine looks the same. When I try to run SSF now, it tries to launch the emulator and then returns me to GameEx. In the log file, I find this comment: 16:55:38.2 1/16/2012: Unable to mount ISO. Did you install ISO Support when installing GameEx? I'm guessing this is my issue? How do install ISO support? The game I was trying to load had.bin and .cue files. They weren't .iso. And I'm trying to run the game thru DT Lite, not Virtual CD. Thoughts? I've attached GameEx.ini and SSF.ini in case that might be helpful. Thx! GameEx.txt SSF.txt

Adultery, I've tried the [VIRTUALDRIVE]:\ command w/o any success. But maybe I'm doing something wrong. Am I supposed to put that exact statement right after SSF.exe? Or am I supposed to put the letter of my DT Lite drive? Would u mind sharing ur full emulator .ini so I can see if there's anything else I'm missing? And Frequency, I will post those files u mentioned tonight if I still can't get this to work w/ Adultery's help. Thx guys!

Hi all. For some reason, SSF crashes shortly after I start playing a game. But this only seems to happen when I'm starting the emulator thru GameEx. When I run the emulator from the executable, there are no issues. Any thoughts on what might be going wrong? I think Adultery had a similar issue in this thread. But I don't see the root cause ever discussed...

Thx for the update Tom!

Duh! Can't believe I missed that. TY sir!

Hi guys. For my CD based systems (TG-16 CD, Sega CD, etc.) GameEx won't find the games in .zip files nor will it find them if I just put all the files in individual folders for each game. Basically, I have to dump all the files for all games into a single folder which becomes quite a mess. Is there a setting in GameEx where I can at least have it look into subfolders in the main folder where games are stored? LMK. Thx in advance! Corey

No problem at all. Glad to finally be able to contribute something that might help others considering how much others have helped me.

Finally got this to work tonight. Here's my config in case anyone needs it: Enabled=True STARTPAGENAME=NEC Turbografx-16 CD TITLETEXT=NEC Turbografx-16 CD StartPageLogo=NEC TurboGrafx-16 WorkingPath=C:\Users\Arcade\ME RomPath=F:\Games\NEC\TurboGrafx-16 CD\GAMES SnapPath= VideoSnapPath= TitlePath= BoxPath= CartPath= DATABASE= Command=pce.exe -cd:D LaunchBefore="C:\Program Files (x86)\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" -mount scsi, 0, "[RomPath]\[RomFile]" LaunchAfter="C:\Program Files (x86)\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" -unmount scsi, 0 ROMFilter=*.cue configFile=[Mapping Off] Exit (ESC) Note that I have a SCSI DT Lite virtual CD drive installed that is drive "D" on my computer and that I'm using .cue and .bin files, not .iso. I've highlighted the most important parts of the config in red.

I have syscard V 3.0 specified within Magic Engine (it's a menu option). So I'm wondering if it would even be necessary for GameEx to provide that info to the emulator. I'm not exactly sure what the diff is between the diff syscards. I guess I always assumed that the most recent version would cover all games where the older versions might not be compatible for some newer titles.

Draco1962, I did try what Frequency suggested in that other topic and it didn't work unfortunately. NullPointer, I've tried the config from the post u mentioned. But maybe I didn't have everything just right. I'll try it again tonight and see what happens. I'm totally confused at this point b/c some users suggest a cmd=pce.exe "syscard3.pce" and other users suggest cmd=pce.exe -cd:N. Is it possible both commands are valid depending on the situation?

Hi all. Does anyone have a good working config for these systems? I have DT Lite installed w/ a virtual SCSI drive. I can mount and play games in Magic Engine. But no luck doing that thru GameEx. Any help would b greatly appreciated. Thx!