help with configuring emu

[jim]

I am sure this has been asked, but I could not find it in the slew of topics. Sorry if it has been asked. I am trying to add the Nestcl95 also known as nesticle emulator. The error I get is for the working path command. Is there any place to find an idiots guide walkthrough on adding emulators to Gameex. Again, sorry for the inconvience. Thanks

[hansolo77]

Working path is the root folder of the emulator. So if your emulator is in "C:\Program Files\Nestcl95", then that's where your working path should be. Now, if your directory looks kinda like this:

C:\

|-\Program Files

|--\games

|---\Nestcl95

|---->artbox

|---->artcart

|---->artsnap

|---->arttitle

|---->roms

Then "C:\Program Files\games\Nestcle95" is your working path. Note the quotation marks. Windows requires these if you have spaces in your folder names, or if they are longer than 8 characters in length. GameEx should cover this for you automatically if you select [bROWSE] and go to the folder.. but if not, make sure you put them in there, and check your capitaliztion too. I belive the purpose of the working path is to tell the emulator where to store it's configuration and history information. I've noticed that if I change my working path to something different but keep the roms in the same place, ie, "C:\Program Files\games\Nestcl95\roms" and main program in "C:\Program Files\Nesticle" (new location) then the new location will store the newly created configs, and this is where GameEx will go to look for them.

In the above example, you would then continue and use "C:\Program Files\games\Nestcle95\artbox" for your box images, "C:\Program Files\games\Nestcle95\artcart" for your cartridge images, "C:\Program Files\games\Nestcle95\artsnap" for your screenshots, "C:\Program Files\games\Nestcle95\arttitle" for your title screenshots, and "C:\Program Files\games\Nestcle95\roms" for your rom files. Lastly, make sure your command line is setup correctly. I don't have nesticle, so don't take this example literally... It should look something like:

nesticle "[RomPath]\[ROMfile]"

Now, depending on the emulator and it's command line options, you may need to include a -rom flag so nesticle knows you're loading a rom. Also, some emu's need stuff like -joy (enable joystick), -fullscreen (run in full screen), etc. So your command line may look something like this:

emulator -options "[RomPath]\[ROMfile]" -moreoptions

or even

emulator.exe -option1 -option2 "[RomPath]\[ROMfile]" -moreoptions -evenmoreoptions

It's all dependent on their settings. Basically though, it's pretty simple to setup once you know your command line options. Hope this helps!