Command Line Problems

[Jaded Aces]

I am using Zsnes and cannot for the life of me get any games to load. I have zsnes.exe [romfile]/[rompath] in the command line. The emulator will fire up but the game will not load in it. The emulator is configured to play without gameex quite well. Any suggestions?????

[Tom Speirs]

Shold be:

zsnes.exe "[rompath]\[romfile]"

Working path should be set to where zsnes.exe is located.

[Jaded Aces]

Shold be:

zsnes.exe "[rompath]\[romfile]"

Working path should be set to where zsnes.exe is located.

[Jaded Aces]

Well that didn't work. I tried it in quotations and without quotations.

The working path is correct, otherwise the emulator wouldn't come up. I tried it with the quotations and the emulator would not come up. When I try it without the quotations the emulator comes up but that is it - I have to manually pick the game from the list and it will play that way.

[Tom Speirs]

Well that didn't work. I tried it in quotations and without quotations.

The working path is correct, otherwise the emulator wouldn't come up. I tried it with the quotations and the emulator would not come up. When I try it without the quotations the emulator comes up but that is it - I have to manually pick the game from the list and it will play that way.

Please cut and paste here exactly what you have for your command line now.

Your using windows version and latest version of ZSNES?

Also, what do you have as the rom filter?

[Jaded Aces]

zsnes.exe [rompath]\[romfile]

that is my command line right now. This will take me to the emulator but I have to manually go through and pick the game. I have to filter on.

[Tom Speirs]

zsnes.exe [rompath]\[romfile]

that is my command line right now. This will take me to the emulator but I have to manually go through and pick the game. I have to filter on.

Like I said, this *should* be

zsnes.exe "[rompath]\[romfile]"

Not:

zsnes.exe [rompath]\[romfile]

I think you misunderstood what I meant by rom filter. This is in the config as "Rom Filter" this is normally something like *.*, *.7z, or blank.

[Brian Hoffman]

Too add on to what Tom said. You can EXPORT your config so we can see whats going on. Please export the emulator settings and post here.

RUN

C:\Program Files\GameEx\GameExConfig.exe

Click next. Goto the emulator.

Choose export and save the INI to your desktop.

Open and copy the contents and post here via a CUT & PASTE.

See screenshot.

[Jaded Aces]

or_2]

Enabled=True

STARTPAGENAME=Super Nintendo

TITLETEXT=Super Nintendo

StartPageLogo=SNES

ROMFilter=

RomPath=C:\Game Emulators\Super Nintendo Stuff\ROMS

SnapPath=C:\Game Emulators\Super Nintendo Stuff\titles

TitlePath=C:\Game Emulators\Super Nintendo Stuff\titles

BoxPath=C:\Game Emulators\Super Nintendo Stuff\Boxes

CartPath=C:\Game Emulators\Super Nintendo Stuff\Carts

ManualPath=

WorkingPath=C:\Game Emulators\Super Nintendo Stuff

MapKeys=True

WaitBeforeKeys=

SendKeys=

ReplaceDash=True

ReplaceUnder=True

Capitals=False

RemoveBrackets=False

ShowDesktop=True

Debug=False

MAPFile=

AlsoLaunch=

Command=zsnes.exe [rompath]\[romfile]

OLDatZip=

LaunchBefore=

LaunchAfter=

configFile=

ExcludedFiles=

CustomBackground=

PlayMusic=

DontShowInfo=

PlaySelectionMusic=

SelectionMusicFolder=

PCGame=False

DATABASE=SNES

GamesIn7Zips=False

PlayInScreenSaver=

ShowMostPlayed=

RandomMostPlayed=

CDCheck=

CDCheckFile=

[GENERAL]

DumbyValue=

here is the whole shabang. I'm beginning to feel rather stupid but if you guys can make this fly - you guys would be tops on my christmas list or something like that.

[Tom Speirs]

Did you try:

zsnes.exe "[rompath]\[romfile]"

Instead of:

zsnes.exe [rompath]\[romfile]

?

[Adultery]

Those quotes HAVE to be there buddy... Unless you're using PJ64 1.6 anyways.

[Jaded Aces]

Like I said previously - I have tried the quotations and when I do them, Game Ex will not allow me to even go to the emulator. It just goes to a black screen and then comes right back to Game Ex. It says that the game was played but wasn't able to go to the emulator.

[Brian Hoffman]

You have no rom filter buddy.

Use *.(whatever the file extension is) or *.*

[Tom Speirs]

Like I said previously - I have tried the quotations and when I do them, Game Ex will not allow me to even go to the emulator. It just goes to a black screen and then comes right back to Game Ex. It says that the game was played but wasn't able to go to the emulator.

Sorry, if Im repeating myself, but do you have the quotes in the correct places as shown above. If you put quotes around the whole command what you said above would definitly happen, but the quotes should be around [rompath]\[romfile]

Either way, its never going to work without the quotes. It might be more than one problem here, but you do need those quotes.

[Jaded Aces]

Hey BUDDY just did the rom filter thing - no good. Just went back and used the quotations-no good. Nothing yet.

[Nologic]

Another question...are the roms in 7zip format...and if so are you registered?

[Jaded Aces]

[Emulator_2]

Enabled=True

STARTPAGENAME=Super Nintendo

TITLETEXT=Super Nintendo

StartPageLogo=SNES

ROMFilter=*.*

RomPath=C:\Game Emulators\Super Nintendo Stuff\ROMS

SnapPath=C:\Game Emulators\Super Nintendo Stuff\titles

TitlePath=C:\Game Emulators\Super Nintendo Stuff\titles

BoxPath=C:\Game Emulators\Super Nintendo Stuff\Boxes

CartPath=C:\Game Emulators\Super Nintendo Stuff\Carts

ManualPath=

WorkingPath=C:\Game Emulators\Super Nintendo Stuff

MapKeys=True

WaitBeforeKeys=

SendKeys=

ReplaceDash=True

ReplaceUnder=True

Capitals=False

RemoveBrackets=False

ShowDesktop=True

Debug=False

MAPFile=

AlsoLaunch=

Command=zsnes.exe "[rompath]\[romfile]"

OLDatZip=

LaunchBefore=

LaunchAfter=

configFile=

ExcludedFiles=

CustomBackground=

PlayMusic=

DontShowInfo=

PlaySelectionMusic=

SelectionMusicFolder=

PCGame=False

DATABASE=SNES

GamesIn7Zips=False

PlayInScreenSaver=

ShowMostPlayed=

RandomMostPlayed=

CDCheck=

CDCheckFile=

[GENERAL]

DumbyValue=

this is the last config.

[Brian Hoffman]

On the start menu goto the gameex programs group

Right click and edit the RUNLASTGAME.bat

copy the contents.

Open your command prompt and right click and PASTE in the command.

What is the error?

[Jaded Aces]

C:

CD "C:\Game Emulators\Super Nintendo Stuff"

zsnes.exe "C:\Game Emulators\Super Nintendo Stuff\ROMS\ABC Monday Night Football.smc"

It says it goes to the emulator and plays the game but it goes right back to the GAME EX , SNES screen without playing the game. It is if it goes into a giant loop. When I remove the quotations in the command line for playing the game - it will go to the emulator but will not pick the game up - I have to do that manually.

[Brian Hoffman]

C:

CD "C:\Game Emulators\Super Nintendo Stuff"

zsnes.exe "C:\Game Emulators\Super Nintendo Stuff\ROMS\ABC Monday Night Football.smc"

It says it goes to the emulator and plays the game but it goes right back to the GAME EX , SNES screen without playing the game. It is if it goes into a giant loop. When I remove the quotations in the command line for playing the game - it will go to the emulator but will not pick the game up - I have to do that manually.

If you run this from the command prompt

C:

CD "C:\Game Emulators\Super Nintendo Stuff"

zsnes.exe "C:\Game Emulators\Super Nintendo Stuff\ROMS\ABC Monday Night Football.smc"

It shouldnt goback to gameex. As it wasnt lauched from gameex. Nor is the command calling gameex.

It should give you some kind of error.

[Jaded Aces]

Well then, I think I might have found some type of bug in the system. That is what it does. I copied everything you wanted. No errors are listed - it just throws me back into Game Ex.

[Brian Hoffman]

Well then, I think I might have found some type of bug in the system. That is what it does. I copied everything you wanted. No errors are listed - it just throws me back into Game Ex.

Can you make sure the gameex process inst running? You can end processes from the task manager.

I really cant see gamex launching by only running zsnes.exe along with your rompath and file.

I'll post my working config in a few. I hope it will help

[Brian Hoffman]

Download zsnes 151 from here.

http://www.zsnes.com/index.php?page=files

I attached my gameex ini.. This is a tested working config.

snes.zip

[Jaded Aces]

Thanks Brian - I have to work tomorrow but will work on it as soon as I can. I downloaded what you asked and have your ini file. Yours and Tom's help is greatly appreciated. Thanks again and hopefully in the next few days I can give you guys a good report. Thanks again guys. Jaded

[LB11]

If you cant get it working try this.

It will just run the same command to run snes with the football game. It has a pause to show you if there is any errors. If this doesnt work then post the error here.

SuperNintendo.zip