[RESOLVED] Running Mednafen

[sms2169]

hi guys im running the newest version of mednafen with windows 7 64 while using medgui and the emulators all work through med gui. I set it up in gameex in the command line as medgui.exe -fs 1 [rompath][romfile] and when I open any game in any emulator it goes to the medgui launch window and wont launch the game. do I have to use the standard mednafen.exe or am I missing another step in the command line with the gui. I know medgui is the frontend for mednafen and gameex is a frontend is the issue trying to use the 2 frontends together. I ask because without using med gui I cant even get the mednafen.exe application to even try to open. is there something in the config file I have to setup for the executable to work. thanks

[DazzleHP]

I'mma get all formal on you and ask that you provide your GameEx.ini and log.txt after you have attempted to run a game. I don't have Mednafen setup right now so can't check out your command but the obvious that sticks out to me already is you have no quotes. It's good practice to always include quotes no matter the system, because it will bypass spaces, dodgy characters etc.

Try:

medgui.exe -fs 1 "[rompath]\[romfile]"

Base Mednafen:

mednafen.exe -fs 1 "[rompath]\[romfile]"

If that doesn't help i know we have some Mednafen whizzes here and i'm sure they'll sort you out

EDIT: Also i'm sure a forward slash should there too. Altered

Edit 2: Doh! i'm on Windows! Backslash, i meant backslash

EDIT 3: Added alternate command based on nullPointer's response

Edited January 14, 2015 by DazzleHP

[stigzler]

You can try mounting with deamon tools then using cmd line:

mednafen -fs 1 -physcd \\.\L:

more info here - but don't download emvoy - still the buggy version there until I get round to uploading the newer version...

whoops... here:

https://emvoy.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Emulator%20Setups&referringTitle=Documentationhttps://emvoy.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Emulator%20Setups&referringTitle=Documentation

[nullPointer]

I'm going to state the obvious here, but it looks like you've taken the 'normal' Mednafen command line and simply replaced "mednafen.exe" with "medgui.exe". I'm relatively certain that won't work. In fact I'm pretty sure that MedGUI doesn't actually support being run from the command line (it would kinda defeat the purpose of having a frontend which allows you to forego using the command line ... only to turn around and try to run it from the command line, no? )

What I think should work is if you point your working directory to where ever your mednafen.exe resides, and use your same command as above but with the proper executable. You should be able to configure Mednafen outside of GameEx using MedGui, but you'll want to run it as 'standard' Mednafen from within GamEx.

Good luck dude!

[sms2169]

Null pointer that is what I did and just got home and changed all command lines to the normal executable and all is well thanks. I should have known that but thought since I couldn't open the executable itself that gameex wouldn't either