kega fusion halting before loading game

[mattpist]

hi, im really enjoying this front end by the way, and definitely plan on donating soon. but the only thing i haven't gotten to work 100% yet is kega fusion 3.5... when selecting a game in GameEx, it switches over to fusion, but halts at a command prompt saying "echo on" and "paused" and "hit any key to continue" (screens attached).

after hitting a key, the game loads up and plays fine. i asked on the fusion forums and they said it's probably a GameEx issue. is there a way to prevent this, and just go straight into the game? i really like GameEx's seamlessness, so fixing this would be great...

[headkaze]

I can't exactly see what's happening here because the DOS window is hidden, but it looks to me like you are running a batch file to launch this emulator. But inside the batch file is a "pause" which prompts the user to press any key. I guess removing this line in the batch file will fix that.

[mattpist]

I can't exactly see what's happening here because the DOS window is hidden, but it looks to me like you are running a batch file to launch this emulator. But inside the batch file is a "pause" which prompts the user to press any key. I guess removing this line in the batch file will fix that.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

sorry about that, i just fixed the image. it's loading up straight from the exe, so unless GameEx is creating a batch file to run this, i don't think that's the case

[headkaze]

GameEx does use batch files to launch games AFAIK (I don't know why Tom uses them TBH), but I don't think he would add "pause" there which is clearly what is happening in this batch file. It seems like you may not have put the full path to the emulator's executable (working directory in your settings), so it's not finding the emulator. In other words it's trying to find "fusion.exe" in the GameEx directory. Check your emulator settings. Perhaps then it raises an error code and it pauses the batch file. Unfortunately I'm not on my arcade machine right now so I can't verify that. Post your config for this emulator, that might help answer this.

[jedah]

I think you have debug switched on. Turn it off that will stop it.

J.

[gonchal2004]

this is the same problem i have with vpinball.

[WTB]

Yup, Jedah is right, debug is on. In the Config under that emulator, turn Debug off. All gone! Welcome to the forum Mattpist.

-Matt

[mattpist]

thanks everyone, turning the debug off totally solved my problem! just out of curiousity, why doesn't this happen with other emulators (like zsnes)?

[WTB]

I haven't looked, but I'm guessing it is off in the default config. Just as a guide sort of. Glad it worked for you.

-Matt