GameEx and WinVICE

[stigzler]

SOLVED - 2nd post

Hi,

No matter how much I search, fiddle or trawl, I still can't get the hang of setting up some emulators with gameex. The info about correct cmd line entries, and other scripts seems to be quite diffuse and scattered. So forgive my asking what may seem obvious to some of you more experienced folks. But been tearing my hair out! Surely there is a more newbie friendly way to present info in these forums? For e.g. Sticky: How to setup Game Ex with xxx Emulator for each em supported by GameEx - regularly updated so not going off 4 year old posts.

Anyways. My situation:

ROMS: Zipped in the format "[Gamename] (Europe)" [i believe these are no-intro roms?] -

inside zip are .tap files (have 3 separate sets elsewhere - one with "pp" files, one with ".crt" files and the ".tap" archives - just put tap files in roms directory due to not finding out how to run pp files)

WinVice - with an "unzip.exe" file in the main folder and the "C64" sub-folder (did this from researching somewhere)

I'm sure I had it running via GameEx a while ago. Now launch via Gameex - just launches Vice64, but nothing loads. Also, not in fullscreen despite cmd line command.

I can launch these games directly from WinVICE using the "autostart disk/tap image" + navigating to the correct zip.

Checked log file - seems to be sending correct cmd:

"21:22:16.0 14/05/2013: Extracting: C:\Roms\Commodore 64\1942 (Europe).zip
21:22:16.3 14/05/2013: Running: cmd.exe /c C: x64.exe -autostart -fullscreen "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Temp\Unzipped7-Zip\1942 (Europe).tap"
21:22:16.4 14/05/2013: Shutting down display"

Have checked to folder above and file is being successfully extracted to this folder. But game just not starting!

I have the "ZIP/7-Zip/Goodmerge/RAR" and "Merge Sets" set to yes (I always find the interplay between these settings, the different romsets and different methods of booting a nightmare - e.g. introduce disk mounting and it's just too much!)

As I say if select autostart from WinVICE directly + select a zip file - runs no probs! Howveer have tried running .zip files and also the unzipped file in the temp from the command line - same problems!

Now I'm starting to worry it's my settings in winvice! Have restored defaults - but same probs!

I GIVE UP!!!! Sheesh - 4 hours on this now and still getting no closer.

Please someone with a bit of knowledge, write a straightforward setup guide.

Thanks

Steve

[stigzler]

SOLVED:

Yet again, problem seemed to be around using the "7z/zip..." option on the advanced emu config. Had this as "yes." Unchecked (to presumably disable built in unzipping facility). Have an unzip exe in the WinVice directory. Also removed -autostart from command line. So... just sends -fullscreen and zip file to WinVice - emu does the rest

Oh, and one more thing - make sure you're using WinVice 2.3, not 2.2. The fullscreen functionality on the latter is dodgy

Another day, another gray hair...

[DazzleHP]

Yet again, problem seemed to be around using the "7z/zip..." option on the advanced emu config. Had this as "yes." Unchecked (to presumably disable built in unzipping facility). Have an unzip exe in the WinVice directory. Also removed -autostart from command line. So... just sends -fullscreen and zip file to WinVice - emu does the rest

Oh, and one more thing - make sure you're using WinVice 2.3, not 2.2. The fullscreen functionality on the latter is dodgy

Nice troubleshooting there and thanks for reporting back your findings! FYI the "zip" option in GE is intended for use with emulators that don't natively support it, for those of us that like to keep our roms neatly packed As you found out, GE will unpack the zip/archive and send the contents to the emulator - which will confuse it and cause errors if the emulator does this internally. So you should always make sure within the emulator first, before choosing the option in GameEx