The Update

What a fool i was getting stressed over MESS not working. who'd have thought you need bios files to get the games working. not me lol. Also managed to to get mame64 to output the full games xml out so i can start looking at that with djvj to get a getter minted version instead of having all the bios and clones in there.

mame64 -listxml

that brings the list to the window but we dont want to do that

mame64 -listxml > games.xml

There we go an output of 44mb of all the infor we dont need lol but easy strip down in xmlspy and excel.

Cracked on with setting up the rest of the systems in alphabetical order and set them up with mess to then its easy just to update the 1 emulator instead of multipule. heres the errors thats came across so far

Atari 2600 feels to be over screened on breakout need to try it on a main box see if i get the same issue

Atari Jaguar tried running the games zipped wouldnt work till i read on UG thanks to djvj that the games need to be unziped. worked straight away with Project Tempest

Atari Lynx tried to setup in mess altho it said on site it was ok checked my roms for the bios and get this

lynx    : lynx.bin (512 bytes) - NEEDS REDUMP
lynx    : lynxa.bin (512 bytes) - NEEDS REDUMP

so either my bios roms are broke or its still not 100% working. gonna try Handy see if that works better

in handy again tried failed kept saying not a valid lnx file :S till UG to the rescue with this comment

Author: djvj

    *  Handy cannot load roms in zips that have a . (period) in them. Keep these games unzipped (I only found 2)
   
Time to unzip and waste some space :P

Well that didnt work it could be 1 of 2 things either its the stupid header isnt in the file as i remember this was an issue we had with the NES roms and LYNX is the same or its because handy needs the LynxBoot.img googleing now on phone since no net at the parents house :S

And i've sorted it needed the Lynxboot.img and my roms were screwed. need to create a dat and match it against the HL dat and xml and if it needs changes gonna have to sort it :S  ^_^ gonna revisit this one as dont think handy was working right.

need to check gauntlet as it has its screen rotated. will look into how you rotate the screen on certain games on load

Atomiswave now the fun one. using demul    V55 64bit version coming back to this one tho as the system wont full run on laptop and seemed very buggy

ColecoVision Easy as it was mess setup straight away altho the default theme doesnt play the video altho i can here it

Commodore 64 got the ahk inserted but no emulator need to find what CCS is as that is what it uses. No default theme either in the wheel

Commodore Amiga theme is a bit screwy as Zool is infront of the wheel but with art that might change will need to check the setup of it. need to look into this part

    * Run WinAUELoader.exe, select Paths tab, set WinUAE exe path, set WHDLoad path to point to your zipped games. Select Settings tab, I used 720x576 to get games as close to full screen w/o losing any part of the picture, select Center Horizontal and Vertical, also select Full Screen if you like that better. I had to make this change in my HyperLaunch.ahk to get games to work:

Run, %Executable% -mode whdload -game "%romPath%%romName%%romExtension%" , %EmuPath%, Hide UseErrorLevel

Once you are done right-click the ahk file and select Compile Script. Note: some games make the screen black and ESC doesn’t work, have to alt-tab out and possible end HyperLaunch process to continue.

    * Be sure WinUAELoader is set up properly, specifically, the paths section.  Also, you will need the kick roms as well.  I grabbed them from the Amiga Gamebase torrent also found on UG.  Then, some games went to black but some worked.  Try Lemmings specifically as it seemed to work without issue.

Here's my script:

else if (executable = "winuaeloader.exe")
{
;hideDesktop()
Hotkey, %exitEmulatorKey%, CloseProcess
Run, %Executable% -mode whdload- -game"%romPath%%romName%%romExtension%" , %EmuPath%
Process, WaitClose, winuaeloader.exe
}


What i dont seem to have is winuaeloader.exe i have winuea.exe need to check if its two diffrent things as if so need to change the AHK

Daphne all done without a breeeze only did the txt run for them

well thats took up a good 5 hours tonight along with the connor coughing alot but he seems alright. might let him have a play with all this tomorrow if he's good lol