Super confused, need help.

[lastcallhall]

Hi all, I've searched as many threads as I could possibly think of that had to do with my specific issue, but I couldn't find anything that would offer any help. What I'm wanting to do is to have the ability to launch KEGA Fusion through GameEx but have it boot directly to the SegaCD portion, so that I can play whatever disc I have in my drive (I only have an 80GB HDD for my system, so ISO+MP3s are not really feasable at the moment). In addition, I want to be able to keep Genesis/SMS/GG compatibility at the same time, so that I can play carts as I see fit. Is this at all possible, and if so, how do I do it? Thanks.

[lastcallhall]

Nevermind, I think I have an idea...

I take it back. My idea was to have the front end launch the emulator, while at the same time inserting a hotkey into GameEx to immediately launch the Sega CD. The problem with this, is that the FE doesn't allow me to launch the emulator w/o a game selected. I suppose I could create a dummy file, since all I'm doing is granting access to the emulator, but I'm not at home to test all of this. Any ideas are appreciated.

[fRequEnCy]

  On 2/5/2010 at 12:33 AM, lastcallhall said:

Nevermind, I think I have an idea...

I take it back. My idea was to have the front end launch the emulator, while at the same time inserting a hotkey into GameEx to immediately launch the Sega CD. The problem with this, is that the FE doesn't allow me to launch the emulator w/o a game selected. I suppose I could create a dummy file, since all I'm doing is granting access to the emulator, but I'm not at home to test all of this. Any ideas are appreciated.

You can do this 2 ways. Run the emulator as an External Application or you can have it in the emulator section by adding as normal and setting Treat as 1 PC game to Yes. This would require you having one rom since like you said, it won't allow you to launch the emulator. So a dummy file would work fine. Can call it whatever you want. So your command should be:

Fusion.exe

In the Wait Before Keys section include:

1000

Which is telling it to wait 1 second before sending the keys. You might have to toy with this setting depending on your system.

Then in the Keys To Send section include the following:

^b%{ENTER}

What this is doing is telling GameEx to send Ctrl+B which boots the Sega CD and then Alt+Enter to send fullscreen.

[lastcallhall]

  On 2/5/2010 at 3:17 AM, fRequEnCy said:

You can do this 2 ways. Run the emulator as an External Application or you can have it in the emulator section by adding as normal and setting Treat as 1 PC game to Yes. This would require you having one rom since like you said, it won't allow you to launch the emulator. So a dummy file would work fine. Can call it whatever you want. So your command should be:

Fusion.exe

In the Wait Before Keys section include:

1000

Which is telling it to wait 1 second before sending the keys. You might have to toy with this setting depending on your system.

Then in the Keys To Send section include the following:

^b%{ENTER}

What this is doing is telling GameEx to send Ctrl+B which boots the Sega CD and then Alt+Enter to send fullscreen.

This is exactly what I did. Works great. I didn't even have to list a wait time for it to launch correctly. Now I can use the actual CDs, too.

[fRequEnCy]

  On 2/5/2010 at 4:14 AM, lastcallhall said:

This is exactly what I did. Works great. I didn't even have to list a wait time for it to launch correctly. Now I can use the actual CDs, too.

Had a thought and tested and came up with an even easier solution. Just load the bios from command-line and won't have to deal with all that. It's much cleaner to do this way.

So your command-line would be:

Fusion.exe -scd -fullscreen "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]"

[lastcallhall]

  On 2/5/2010 at 8:02 AM, fRequEnCy said:

Had a thought and tested and came up with an even easier solution. Just load the bios from command-line and won't have to deal with all that. It's much cleaner to do this way.

So your command-line would be:

Fusion.exe -scd -fullscreen "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]"

Man, that almost seems too simple to pass over. Thanks again!

[fRequEnCy]

  On 2/5/2010 at 7:10 PM, lastcallhall said:

Man, that almost seems too simple to pass over. Thanks again!

No problem! Have fun!