Launch game on startup

[muzzakus]

Hi there,

My 3yo son loves playing about with my mame cab, but the gameex menu system is too complex for him. Can I have gameex start his favourite game at launch ?

Thanks!

[bkenobi]

You can use the run at startup line to launch whatever game you want. One way to do that would be to launch the game that you want things to start out on as you would normally. Then, find the "Run Last Game.bat" file from the GameEx start menu (can be MAME or any other system you want). Copy that file (called "runitgame.bat" in the directory structure) to another location or just rename it. Then, point GameEx to that file to run at startup.

[muzzakus]

You can use the run at startup line to launch whatever game you want. One way to do that would be to launch the game that you want things to start out on as you would normally. Then, find the "Run Last Game.bat" file from the GameEx start menu (can be MAME or any other system you want). Copy that file (called "runitgame.bat" in the directory structure) to another location or just rename it. Then, point GameEx to that file to run at startup.

Fantastic, will try it. Thanks for the tip.

[helpman]

hi there.... I was just looking for this i fixed my arcade cab's coin slots, and was wondering how could I make it run the last game played on startup... I just didn't realised it would be as easy as launching the last game bat file on startup

thanks for the hint

[helpman]

Here I am again... seems like I'm doing something wrong...

Here's what I tried:

1. my gameex loads (run on startup don't wait) the Xpadder settings for my gamepad and controls.

so, I added that .bat file to my windows start menu to run before gameex, and added the runitgame.bat that was inside DATA folder on gameex instead.

result: mame loads with the last game run (GREAT!) but the global exit combo doesn't work, (added on xpadder so pressing 2 buttons for 3 seconds would trigger the emulator exit). so... it doesn't work.

second try.

load the xpadder settings on run on startup don't wait and load the runitgame.bat on the other startup option in gamex. screen goes black. if I close whatever is being loaded, I can see gameex loading and leaves me on the gameex menu.

third try: copy my xpadder setting loader bat file with the runitgame.bat as startup.bat.

load startup.bat as the run at startup don't wait.

I place a small bat that will copy again my xpadder loading bat with the most recent runitgame.bat and save it as startup.bat when I exit gameex.

result: screen goes black. I can see the game but not hear it. I can't see gameex either. global exit doesn't work either. I can see the taskbar and gameex selected, but nothing else.

any idea?