Atomiswave anyone?

**Brian Hoffman** · September 21, 2009

Included in the Zip is the Demul emulator, a settings.ini and the Demul_loader.exe

Copy your ROMs and Bioses into the supplied setup, I cannot include those.

Usage is

Demul_loader.exe [rom]

get it going outside GX first

**emphatic** · September 21, 2009

Awesome. :blink: Is it possible to overclock the emulator to get less slowdowns compared to the real hardware? I remember from when I had an Atomiswave mobo with Dolphin Blue that the slowdowns was on par with Metal Slug 2.

**Brian Hoffman** · September 22, 2009

Awesome. Is it possible to overclock the emulator to get less slowdowns compared to the real hardware? I remember from when I had an Atomiswave mobo with Dolphin Blue that the slowdowns was on par with Metal Slug 2.

Hmm, Im not sure if you can, it may produce less than desirable results to try and increase the clock speed on the sh4 and stuff. The games played fine for me, consequently Dolphin Blue is made from the same guy that produced 4 of the metal slug games.

**jester82** · September 24, 2009

Very nice thanks!

**Jollywest** · October 11, 2009

Works great, thanks.

Don't suppose you could knock up a wrapper for the Naomi side of Demul to work in GameEx could you?

or maybe send me the script for the Atomiswave wrapper so I could edit it to play Naomi.

No worries if not, thanks again.

**Brian Hoffman** · October 11, 2009

Works great, thanks.
Don't suppose you could knock up a wrapper for the Naomi side of Demul to work in GameEx could you?
or maybe send me the script for the Atomiswave wrapper so I could edit it to play Naomi.
No worries if not, thanks again.

Sweet! I am glad you found it useful.

I really do not mind posting the code, I made it on my other pc, so when I fire it up I will post it if you are still interested.

In my opnion. MAKARON T12 is much better for Naomi, for stablity and compatibility. It will also load via Gameex without a loader.

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

**Hunk_4TH** · October 12, 2009

A little late on replying but the loader works perfectly! Is there any sort of database to use? I'll give the MAME database a whirl and see what happens. Btw weird thing happen while selecting fotns (Fists of the north star) it loads some deer hunting game

**Brian Hoffman** · October 12, 2009

A little late on replying but the loader works perfectly! Is there any sort of database to use? I'll give the MAME database a whirl and see what happens. Btw weird thing happen while selecting fotns (Fists of the north star) it loads some deer hunting game

There is an INI that you can edit, for each rom it sends the DOWN ARROW "x" amount of times, perhaps I typed the wrong number, go ahead and just edit the INI. Glad you find it usefull.

**jester82** · October 12, 2009

Hey brian can you make a loader for demul for Dreamcast in GameEx? Need it to use the gdrom image loader plugin.

Thanks!

**Brian Hoffman** · October 12, 2009

Hey brian can you make a loader for demul for Dreamcast in GameEx? Need it to use the gdrom image loader plugin.
Thanks!

Perhaps, does Nulldc not work for you? I thought NullDC was more compatible for Dreamcast Games.

**Hunk_4TH** · October 12, 2009

There is an INI that you can edit, for each rom it sends the DOWN ARROW "x" amount of times, perhaps I typed the wrong number, go ahead and just edit the INI. Glad you find it usefull.

Thanks for replying! Though I'm not rally sure what to change here. Also is there a datebase for Atomiswave? The MAME one doesn't seem to work

**Jollywest** · October 12, 2009

Sweet! I am glad you found it useful.
I really do not mind posting the code, I made it on my other pc, so when I fire it up I will post it if you are still interested.
In my opnion. MAKARON T12 is much better for Naomi, for stablity and compatibility. It will also load via Gameex without a loader.
Naomi.exe "[rompath]\[romfile]"

Yea I'm using Makaron T12 for the Naomi 1 games and it is great but its just for the Naomi 2 games that makaron doesn't support yet.

If its no bother then if you could post the script that would be fantastic, no rush tho I'm off to work now anyway.

Thanks.

**Brian Hoffman** · October 12, 2009

Thanks for replying! Though I'm not rally sure what to change here. Also is there a datebase for Atomiswave? The MAME one doesn't seem to work

The settings.ini is what you update to fix the ROM launching the wrong one. Launch Demul outside gameex, choose load atomiswave, Press Down till you get the game you want to load, that will be your down count. Edit the settings ini accordingly.

As far as I know there is no databasse for atomiswave yet, but with only a handfull of games it should be pretty easy to make, or at least a map file to give the roms friendly names.

**Brian Hoffman** · October 12, 2009

Yea I'm using Makaron T12 for the Naomi 1 games and it is great but its just for the Naomi 2 games that makaron doesn't support yet.
If its no bother then if you could post the script that would be fantastic, no rush tho I'm off to work now anyway.
Thanks.

I'am at work now too, I will post it tonight.

**Hunk_4TH** · October 12, 2009

The settings.ini is what you update to fix the ROM launching the wrong one. Launch Demul outside gameex, choose load atomiswave, Press Down till you get the game you want to load, that will be your down count. Edit the settings ini accordingly.
As far as I know there is no databasse for atomiswave yet, but with only a handfull of games it should be pretty easy to make, or at least a map file to give the roms friendly names.

Thanks Brian! I'll give it a try. Yeah it shouldn't be too hard you're right. I can't wait till Metal Slug 6 is dumped

**jester82** · October 12, 2009

Perhaps, does Nulldc not work for you? I thought NullDC was more compatible for Dreamcast Games.

Thats just it I dont like nulldc that much plus Demul i honestly think other than the sound is surpassing nulldc in dc games.. Take Ikaruga for example. Try running it of null then demul and you will see the difference... Besides the fact that Nulldc seems to be abandoned by the author. He works on porting it to the psp now but never updates it...

**jester82** · October 12, 2009

Thanks Brian! I'll give it a try. Yeah it shouldn't be too hard you're right. I can't wait till Metal Slug 6 is dumped

Yea MS6 woot!

**Brian Hoffman** · October 12, 2009

Yea MS6 woot!

I have never played ms6 on arcades, dolphin blue is very fun and feels just like the mslug series.

**Hunk_4TH** · October 12, 2009

I have never played ms6 on arcades, dolphin blue is very fun and feels just like the mslug series.

I've only ever played the Ps2 version of MS6. I'll have to give Dolphin Blue a try. Oh Brian I tried your suggestion of changing the down count but it still seems to launch a different game :lol:

**Brian Hoffman** · October 12, 2009

I've only ever played the Ps2 version of MS6. I'll have to give Dolphin Blue a try. Oh Brian I tried your suggestion of changing the down count but it still seems to launch a different game

The same game or a diffrent one? See if the game it is selecting is above or below the one your trying to run. then change accordingly.

**Hunk_4TH** · October 12, 2009

The same game or a diffrent one? See if the game it is selecting is above or below the one your trying to run. then change accordingly.

It was a different one this time. So it seems changing the count is working. I'll give it a shot thanks!

**jester82** · October 12, 2009

I wouldnt mind a loader for the Naomi and DC side of this emu. I think its the best out there.... I tryed Makaron T12 i wasent too impressed with it i still prefer demul... BTW there is a version 5.5 of Demul out now. Its not of the offical site yet but if you look around you can find it easy.

**Brian Hoffman** · October 12, 2009

I wouldnt mind a loader for the Naomi and DC side of this emu. I think its the best out there.... I tryed Makaron T12 i wasent too impressed with it i still prefer demul... BTW there is a version 5.5 of Demul out now. Its not of the offical site yet but if you look around you can find it easy.

Yea I grabbed that the first day it was out, last week some time. I will post the loaders source code. If you or Hunk 4th wants to edit it to do Naomi and DC thats fine. I'd offer but with dreamcast having over 300 games I do not feel like making entry's in an INI for all games.

It was a different one this time. So it seems changing the count is working. I'll give it a shot thanks!

Are you using the version of Demul that I packaged with the loader? Diffrent versions could lead to the diffrent games launching. The version I posted was a unofficial one.

**Hunk_4TH** · October 13, 2009

Yea I grabbed that the first day it was out, last week some time. I will post the loaders source code. If you or Hunk 4th wants to edit it to do Naomi and DC thats fine. I'd offer but with dreamcast having over 300 games I do not feel like making entry's in an INI for all games. I think it would difficult to do Dreamcast like Brian said, there are well over 300 titles for this console
Are you using the version of Demul that I packaged with the loader? Diffrent versions could lead to the diffrent games launching. The version I posted was a unofficial one.

I bet that's it. I was using the latest one. damn I didn't think of that. I'll give that a shot.

*EDIT* Yeah, that's what it was. Thanks for mentioning this!

**Brian Hoffman** · October 13, 2009

As promised, here is the source. Use it well.


#NoEnv
#SingleInstance force 
#Persistent
#NoTrayIcon

;CHECKING FOR 1 PARAMS, IF NOT THEN EXIT
if 0 < 1
{
    MsgBox Usage: DEMUL_Loader.exe "romfile"
    ExitApp
}
DetectHiddenWindows, On
Blockinput on ; Keeps users from messing up loader my pressing buttons and moving mouse
RomName = %1% ; error level (rompath romfile) gives friendly name as ROM


SetBatchLines -1


   MouseMove %A_ScreenWidth%,%A_ScreenHeight%
   Gui +AlwaysOnTop -Caption +ToolWindow  ; No title, No taskbar icon
   Gui Color, 0                           ; Color Black
   Gui Show, x0 y0 h%A_ScreenHeight% w%A_ScreenWidth%, HSHIDE
   WinHide ahk_class Shell_TrayWnd
   WinHide Start ahk_class Button
   ;WinSet Transparent, 200, A             ; Can be semi-transparent
   MouseGetPos X, Y                       ; Remember pos to return
   MouseMove %A_ScreenWidth%,%A_ScreenHeight% ; Move pointer off
IniRead, num_down, %A_WorkingDir%\settings.ini, %RomName%, Down_Count, 0
Run, awdemul.exe
WinWait, DEMUL,
;WinHide, DEMUL,
IfWinNotActive, DEMUL, , WinActivate, DEMUL, 
WinWaitActive, DEMUL, 
Send, {ALTDOWN}f{ALTUP}{DOWN}{DOWN}{ENTER}
WinWait, Select ROM, Cancel
IfWinNotActive, Select ROM, Cancel, WinActivate, Select ROM, Cancel
WinWaitActive, Select ROM, Cancel
Send, {DOWN %num_down%} 
Send, {ALTDOWN}{ENTER}{ALTUP}
Send, {ENTER}
Sleep, 7000 ; Gives time for loading to finish before unhiding desktop
Send, {f8}
Sleep, 2000
Gui Destroy
Blockinput off ; Allows user to send inputs so games can be played
Process, WaitClose, awdemul.exe
Winshow ahk_class Shell_TrayWnd
Winshow Start ahk_class Button
ExitAPP

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