need help on gameex with emulators..

[puppetj]

does anyone yet know how to access the load , save state options and adding the genie or pro action replay codes in with using the nes,snes,sega gen...emulator while using game ex? i still havent found a soultion..it really keeping from using gameex which is making me SAD!

[katuuuz]

does anyone yet know how to access the load , save state options and adding the genie or pro action replay codes in with using the nes,snes,sega gen...emulator while using game ex? i still havent found a soultion..it really keeping from using gameex which is making me SAD!

ummm, say it's NES you are emulating, and want to access a save. If emulator 1 is NES, you could set emulator 2 for example as NES also, but name it "NES saves" and set the rom filter to *.nst. This way the only listed games would be saved states. It would work, but i'm not sure if you want to have it set up like this... cuz you'd have to double your emulators but it would accomplish what you are trying to do.... only other thing is to press F7 when you load your game.

[puppetj]

f7, why is that??? and adding the genie or pro action replay codes?

[Adultery]

You can assign keys to most emulators to do this - like ZSNES uses the F keys (F1 F@ etc) for some of these features. Not sure I understand the benefeit of showing save states and cheat codes in GameEx if that's what you're asking for...

Anyways, play with your F keys on your emulators and see what they do. Alot of the details are in your readme files.

Hope that helps.

[puppetj]

ok, but how can i get access and add game genie and pro action codes to the game while in gameex, because to do that i need to access the menu/toolbar of the emulator so how can i do that ... i mean the whole reason for me to use gameex it to have a great experince using it on the tv away from the monitor and desk and on the sofa....but i still need to access the game genie / and pro action to type in the codes!

[Nologic]

Well this is likely a good place to use AutoIt as the middle man...check out my 3DO AutoIt script for some base idea's.

[puppetj]

no, soory i dont want, do it that way..so any ideas on how to do this..odd that many people havent asked this for the #1 request...

[Atari800]

I am not sure I understand completely

First - take GAMEEX out of the picture for now....

Choose one emulator that takes Game Genie/Action Replay Codes and explain in as much detail as possible, how YOU enter in these codes

From there we may be better able to .....

....tell you how to do it

....tell you why it cant be done

....give you a couple of ideas on how to do it

If something (like Game Genie/Action replay) options cannot be passed along by command line normally with whatever emulator then Nologic is pretty much right on target with using Autoit

Its not that GAMEEX cant do it - its the emulator you want to use isnt giving you the options you want

You didnt specify a particular emulator - just the machines that can be emulated

"nes,snes,sega gen...emulator "

So let us know what emulator you use and how you (outside of Gameex) enter in your codes

[headkaze]

I'm not sure what you can do with AutoIt like does it have the ability to click menus and enter text in text boxes (ie. SendMessage API)?

You can use Spy++ to get all the necessary messages required to imitate practically any input from form controls. So say you have to select the "Edit" menu then click the "Enter Code" sub menu and type a code into a textbox and click the okay button - all those messages can be mapped to a single key using either AutoIt or a custom written program.

So this is why Atari is asking for more details on the steps required to achieve what you want. With all the useful AutoIt scripts written by Nologic lately, he should be able to help with creating a script to make it easy to do what you want.

[Nologic]

puppetj -

Some times its not a matter of wanting to...but more in the manner of having to.

headkaze -

Yeah it has a full featured SendMessage API...and more or less any thing you can do with WSH you can now do in AutoIt...TreeView controls can be a bitch some times...because if they are not the default Windows control...but costume jobbies (like most programmers use) then it breaks down to SendKeys...which is ugly and slow far as I care...but its there to do the job if need be.

Right now I'm dinking around with WinKawaks and looking to have it hidden up until the window title changes to reflect that the game is fully loaded...at which point stop hidding it, and send it full screen...make it a little less ugly that way...tho will likely leave the end user feeling that the Emu is slower than it actually is for launch time.

Any ways yeah I should be able to come up with some rough code for him to work with...since its about as basic and basic programming langs can get.

[headkaze]

Yeah it has a full featured SendMessage API...and more or less any thing you can do with WSH you can now do in AutoIt...TreeView controls can be a bitch some times...because if they are not the default Windows control...but costume jobbies (like most programmers use) then it breaks down to SendKeys...which is ugly and slow far as I care...but its there to do the job if need be.

I know what you mean, I was writing an ActiveX plugin for MCE so you could control CloneDVD in the MCE interface, unfortunately my code worked fine for a standard ListView control but CloneDVD used a custom one. So the standard messages like LVM_GETITEMTEXT didn't work. I gave up on it in the end.

[puppetj]

i found away to use the sendkeys to get gg and gar , now my probelm is...i cant get the fusion ( sega) and nestron (nes) emulators to work with gameex....i just get a blan scrren when they load up..what commands do i need to add? odd fusion worked before that i remember...btw i know there are other emuslators...i want to use these...any help?

[katuuuz]

i found away to use the sendkeys to get gg and gar , now my probelm is...i cant get the fusion ( sega) and nestron (nes) emulators to work with gameex....i just get a blan scrren when they load up..what commands do i need to add? odd fusion worked before that i remember...btw i know there are other emuslators...i want to use these...any help?

make sure the emulators are set to run roms in fullscreen if not already. i know my fusion acts up, and sometimes i have to get back into it's config file and change fullscreen ="0" to "1". also i think i saw that show desktop = yes in gameex config may work along with that.

[puppetj]

how about getting the nestron to work?

[puppetj]

also with fusion ( sega emu) certain when i run them will exit out of fullscreen, and turn the 1 back to a 0 in the .ini file...this will happen also when i run the game, then exit (the game) then run it again..any reason for this and fix? and the nestron loads up but i have no way to get it to load the games

[amos_82]

also with fusion ( sega emu) certain when i run them will exit out of fullscreen, and turn the 1 back to a 0 in the .ini file...

Try this, right click on the .ini file, select properties & tick 'read-only' this should prevent the emulator from altering the option.

[TX_TRINITY]

For any 8bit emus (gen & Zsnes) I assign a button on the controller as save state and another as load state. Mame 107 (in my mame.ini at least) had the auto-save state flag working well but in v108 it seems to have went awol.

[puppetj]

ok thanks, i dont need help on that any more now my issue is my post previous

[katuuuz]

ok thanks, i dont need help on that any more now my issue is my post previous

if your talking about fullscreen, it's supposed to be a 1, if it changed it's probably because you exited not in fullscreen. make sure you exit in fullscreen and it should stay. (that's what happened to me). right click/file/exit in fullscreen. if it's not what your talking about i'm sorry.

[Brian Hoffman]

Try changing the config where fullscreen=1 then make the config file readonly

just a sugggestion