Ending a program

[retroguy]

Hi Tom,

It's great what you are doing with GameEx. It really looks cool and it is very easy to configure and to use. Chapeau! I am a great retrogaming fan and I built my own arcade cabinet (in which I use Emulaxian as a frontend), see attachment.

I recently bough a PC with windows MCE and I am planning to use GameEx with it, so I can play all my favourite games on my big tv screen in the living room. until now I configured Mame, Daphne, Zinc, Atari 2600 and 7800, Colecovision, C64, MSX, N64, NES, SNES, SMS, Megadrive, Sega 32X and Sega SG1000. And it all works great.

Although, I have one tiny problem. Of course I don't want to use my keyboard, only a joystick. Therefore for some emulators I use joy2key, with different configurations per emulator (I installed joy2key per emulator which needs it). however, when for instance I used bluemsx (joy2key starts automatically with it) where button 7 of my joystick is configured as <Space>, and after that I want to play mame (where I don't need joy2key) , and press button 7 <coin insert> this doesn't work because joy2key is still active.

In short: is there a possibility to quit a program which started automayicaly with a specific emulator, when this emulator quits?

another question: i have some great quicktime movies and flash movies I would like to use as an intro for gameEx. Is this possible?

Greetings,

Retroguy

[Tom Speirs]

Hi Tom,

  It's great what you are doing with GameEx. It really looks cool and it is very easy to configure and to use. Chapeau! I am a great retrogaming fan and I built my own arcade cabinet (in which I use Emulaxian as a frontend), see attachment.

I recently bough a PC with windows MCE and I am planning to use GameEx with it, so I can play all my favourite games on my big tv screen in the living room. until now I configured Mame, Daphne, Zinc, Atari 2600 and 7800, Colecovision, C64, MSX, N64, NES, SNES, SMS, Megadrive, Sega 32X and Sega SG1000. And it all works great.

Although, I have one tiny problem. Of course I don't want to use my keyboard, only a joystick. Therefore for some emulators I use joy2key, with different configurations per emulator (I installed joy2key per emulator which needs it). however, when for instance I used bluemsx (joy2key starts automatically with it) where button 7 of my joystick is configured as , and after that I want to play mame (where I don't need joy2key) , and press  button 7 this doesn't work because joy2key is still active.

In short: is there a possibility to quit a program which started automayicaly with a specific emulator, when this emulator quits?

another question: i have some great quicktime movies and flash movies I would like to use as an intro for gameEx. Is this possible?

Greetings,

Retroguy

Hi,

This will be possible soon, as there will be options to run a an app on starting an emulator game and exiting, similar to MAME has already. Then you can just call a batch that ends the process of JoyToKey (not difficult).

Youd have to capture or reencode your movies as AVI files, it can be done. Yourll have to do some research on that though, although anyone else feel free to offer help.

Thanks

[Oberth]

Hi there have a read of this Stop Using Batch Files You could use this prog to solve your problem by running BlueMSX through it ( it will pass on a command line like rom name etc . . . ) then when it quits tell batchrun to kill joy2key that should sort you out.

[retroguy]

Hello Tom,

thanks for version 3.70 The new feature to start and end a program (or in my case a batch file) when a game starts works great. I now can use Joy2key, in combination with batchrun, in multiple configurations for a number of keyboard driven emulators.

Thanks again and keep up the good work.

Retroguy