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Run Before starting emulator

DannyH

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DannyH Super Member!

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I am running zsnes as my emu but my current video card (until I upgrade) only lets me go to 24 or 16 bit color. I dont want to run in 16bit colour and would prefer 24 whilst I can use it.

However zsnes does not run with 24bit colour. I want to run a batch file i have written which I have also tested. This batch file changes my resolution to 16bit depth.

This works when i run it, but when i put it in game ex as the "run before" it doesnt actually get run.

Any ideas?

Tom Speirs GameEx God (Top Rank)

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I am running zsnes as my emu but my current video card (until I upgrade) only lets me go to 24 or 16 bit color. I dont want to run in 16bit colour and would prefer 24 whilst I can use it.

However zsnes does not run with 24bit colour. I want to run a batch file i have written which I have also tested. This batch file changes my resolution to 16bit depth.

This works when i run it, but when i put it in game ex as the "run before" it doesnt actually get run.

Any ideas?

Can you not just configure ZSNES to run full screen with 16 Bit Colour? Surely theres a setting for that?

Tom Speirs GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Tom,

I don't know if it's just me and Danny but I have also had some problems with the run before and run after settings. On some emulators they work and on some they don't.

I mentioned it here with the run after:

http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=360&hl=

and here with the run before (I used the run also instead):

http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=272&hl=

From your posts it sounds like it its working as it should. I also just tested and they are working as they should

Launch Before and LAunch After, wait for the program in question to exit before continuing.

I dont know what Danny's problem is. It may well be the resolution cannot be changed at that time.

Try Run Last Game (runitgame.bat). Does that work? If not post it here.

DannyH Super Member!

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I am now at work and dont have access to the machine. What I have done instead is to write a new batch file.

what I do is the following

@echo off
C:\program files\multires\multires.exe /800,600,16
CALL WAIT 20
Call "C:\zsnes\zsnes.exe" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5

What that does is it uses a program called multires from http://www.entechtaiwan.net/util/multires.shtm

It calls the change and changes my resolution to 800 x 600 with 16bit colour depth then waits 20 seconds before running zsnes with the commands that were sent from gameex.

I then enter this as the executable for the emulator and hey presto I am done.

This is so far untested but i imagine it should work

oh yeah the %1 etc are the paramaters sent. I send 3 to mine but you can always send more by adding htem to the bat file

DannyH Super Member!

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I had to modify the above batch. Now I just need to run it again before returning focus back to gamex. seems to have issues when running

start /w "zsnes.exe" %1 %2

DannyH Super Member!

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The problem is that the run before, runs before the game is launched but the emulator is run before this. I need the run before to run before it even opens the emu

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I am having toruble with this runitgame.bat where do i find it and how do I use it....very curious.

I made a bat file that changes res to 16bit and a bat that changes back to 24bit i cant get it to run the second

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this is the contents of my runitgame.bat

C:

c:\documents and settings\admin\desktop\emulators\zsnes\startres.bat

CD "C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\emulators\ZSNES"

zsnesw.exe "E:\snes_roms\ROMFILES\BUBSY.SMC"

c:\documents and settings\admin\desktop\emulators\zsnes\endres.bat

(last played bubsy)

I have tested each of the bat files and they work fine

Tom Speirs GameEx God (Top Rank)

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this is the contents of my runitgame.bat

C:

c:\documents and settings\admin\desktop\emulators\zsnes\startres.bat

CD "C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\emulators\ZSNES"

zsnesw.exe "E:\snes_roms\ROMFILES\BUBSY.SMC"

c:\documents and settings\admin\desktop\emulators\zsnes\endres.bat

(last played bubsy)

I have tested each of the bat files and they work fine

There you go, you can see it is running the launch before and launch after.

Tom Speirs GameEx God (Top Rank)

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It runs them in the right order but its not running the last.

hmm may need to run filemon...

Maybe change the emulator command line in GameEx To (or similar)

Start "title" /WAIT zsnes.exe "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]"

DannyH Super Member!

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no luck.

For now I assigned some shortcut keys to it and will use that. ZWill just need to pull the keyboard out of the cab

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no luck.

For now I assigned some shortcut keys to it and will use that. ZWill just need to pull the keyboard out of the cab

You may need to call your batch files with start or cmd.

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tried with start and will try with CMD

just wondering what the process order is.

After focus is returned to gamex is ther a way to run the BAT at that stage?

P.s thanks for all the help

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