launching mame games under certain parameters in gameex?

[bulliedn2silence]

Hi guys. This might be my first post here, not sure, but I've been coming here to get info during the process of building my MAME cabinet running gameex and I've found alot of helpful info here. However, I've sort of hit a road block.

As some of you may know, certain MAME games require you to change their parameters from the command line when you launch them in order for them to run correctly. The game I am speaking of in this case is Die Hard Arcade. In order for it to run, you have to change the BIOS setting from Japan to US when you launch the game from a command line by typing:

mame diehard -bios us

Is there anyway to make it default to this parameter in the game configuration or anything so that every time I load it it will automatically launch with the US BIOS? I figure this should enable me to run it through gameex. I'd also like to know if anyone knows of any easy ways to turn on mouse support in MAME. I know it's easy in MAME32, but I have yet to figure it out in regular MAME.

[Brian Hoffman]

Hi guys. This might be my first post here, not sure, but I've been coming here to get info during the process of building my MAME cabinet running gameex and I've found alot of helpful info here. However, I've sort of hit a road block.

As some of you may know, certain MAME games require you to change their parameters from the command line when you launch them in order for them to run correctly. The game I am speaking of in this case is Die Hard Arcade. In order for it to run, you have to change the BIOS setting from Japan to US when you launch the game from a command line by typing:

mame diehard -bios us

Is there anyway to make it default to this parameter in the game configuration or anything so that every time I load it it will automatically launch with the US BIOS? I figure this should enable me to run it through gameex. I'd also like to know if anyone knows of any easy ways to turn on mouse support in MAME. I know it's easy in MAME32, but I have yet to figure it out in regular MAME.

Goto Gameex advanced config->Advanced Mame Settings->Mame Command Options.

Maybe you can set it up in mame32 and just read the .cfg... Or Try F2 (service mode) and see if you can change it there..

Then maybe it will use the saved NVRAM???..

Never hurts to try

COMMAND LINE OPTIONS.

-[no]readconfig / -[no]rc

Enables or disables the reading of the config files. When enabled

(which is the default), MAME reads the following config files in order:

- mame.ini

- <mymame>.ini (i.e. if MAME was renamed mame060.exe, MAME

parses mame060.ini here)

- mamed.ini (if this is a debug build, i.e. mamed.exe)

- vector.ini (for vector games only)

- <driver>.ini (based on the source filename of the driver)

- <parent>.ini (for clones only, may be called recursively)

- <gamename>.ini

The settings in the later ini's override those in the earlier ini's.

So, for example, if you wanted to disable overlay effects in the

vector games, you can create a vector.ini with the "effect none" line

in it, and it will override whatever effect value you have in your

mame.ini. The default is ON (-readconfig).

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-[no]mouse

Controls whether or not MAME looks for a mouse controller to use. Note

that in many cases, lightguns are treated as mice by the operating

system, so you may need to enable this to enable lightgun support. When

this is enabled, you will not be able to use your mouse in Windows

while playing a game. If you want to get control of your computer back,

you will need to either pause the game or quit. The default is OFF

(-nomouse).

[bulliedn2silence]

thanks alot for the help.