GameZone 0.4 Support Thread

[idkpmiller]

the patch worked for me! thanks a whole bunch, this really really rocks. Nes works great, along with everything else. top notch.

Thats really good to hear, I just need a positive result from the other user and I'm bug free for a while anyway :-)

[pastro]

Ok the patch I just uploaded 0.46a is worth a shot as your problem is in the same area and may just be a slightly different symtom of the same bug. let me know how that goes.

For the hauppauge look at this thread as someone (Pastro) I think has got the Hauppauge setup really well to use gamezone he goes direct to the emulators. I have an MCe remote so I have different requirements and I am unable to test with a hauppauge.

The important part was using sendkey which I downloaded off a different site that gets around the issue with the Hauppauge key press/release being too fast for direct input in Zsnes and Mame. I never did set mine up to send the decimal key to gbpvr but that might be possible since the Hauppauge can sortof send commands to a window without focus, except it appears that sometimes this stops working until you restart the remote software so I decided to give that part up.

[il1019]

@pastro - whered you get the new sendkey? on the gameex forum? i can't download it from there, and i can't find it anywhere else. help?

[pastro]

@pastro - whered you get the new sendkey? on the gameex forum? i can't download it from there, and i can't find it anywhere else. help?

You can download if you register, but I've uploaded it here. Sorry for the sendkey name, it's simkey.

[il1019]

ok, so ive got simkey, now what? i know i have to edit irremote.ini but i dont understand it. is the string in the square brackets the name of the exe file? this is how i think it should work but it doesn't. I'm just trying to kill it. right now im trying to just work on it outside of gbpvr, which i should be able to use inside of gbpvr if it works how i think it will

[Project64]
STOP=[alt][F4]

that didn't work, so i tried

[Project64]
STOP={run (c:\downlo~1\simkey\simkey.exe "%[F4]")}
shouldn't that work? all i really want to be able to do is kill it and return to gbpvr. if you could give me a hand that would be great.

[pastro]

ok, so ive got simkey, now what? i know i have to edit irremote.ini but i dont understand it. is the string in the square brackets the name of the exe file? this is how i think it should work but it doesn't. I'm just trying to kill it. right now im trying to just work on it outside of gbpvr, which i should be able to use inside of gbpvr if it works how i think it will

[Project64]
STOP=[alt][F4]

that didn't work, so i tried

[Project64]
STOP={run (c:\downlo~1\simkey\simkey.exe "%[F4]")}
shouldn't that work? all i really want to be able to do is kill it and return to gbpvr. if you could give me a hand that would be great.

I put all of my commands in the default area and didn't create a new app section for project64. It's a lot easier. You would have to add the app in applications area also and of course stop and restart the irremote software.

Anyway, it only uses the default section if a specific app isn't found.
Also I took off the quotes on the commands. I tried it on the command line and the quotes were showing up so I pulled them and it worked fine.
I'm not sure how to send the alt commands. I looked at the code briefly and it appears that % would just send the percent key. Anyway I'll look in a little more detail.

For now move your stuff to the default area if you don't mind just to get around whether we have the right app name so we can debug this easier.

EDIT: according to the main dialog the % does modify with the alt so that should work. I'll give it a try in mine and see what happens.
EDIT AGAIN The % does put the alt in front. I tried simkey %[enter] in a dos window and it went to full screen like it should.

[il1019]

Thanks for all your help! by going to the default section and replacing the stop setting with STOP={run(c:\simkey.exe "%[F4]")}
now if anything else is running it will just automatically kill the program. Woot!

[pastro]

Thanks for all your help! by going to the default section and replacing the stop setting with STOP={run(c:\simkey.exe "%[F4]")}
now if anything else is running it will just automatically kill the program. Woot!

Great. Glad it worked.
Here is a link to a thread that has a good doc on how to extend the irremote.ini.
http://forums.snapstream.com/vb/showthread.php?t=14377
Find the post with the include irremote-ini_Documentation.zip.

[idkpmiller]

According to the Poll results so far, Winvice is the next emulator that should be added.

BUT, I have had a look at winvice and I cannot get a single ROM to work I am sure I am doing something wrong or I have dodgy ROMS can someone either provide a ROM that is known to work and instructions of how to run it so I can see it working, or instructions and a link to a known ROM on the many emulation sites.

In the meantime I will continue to look at WinUAE, both Amiga and PinMame have a single vote, I looked at Pin Mame heck that seems complex and to be honest I am a HUGE Amiga fan so I am looking at the Amiga for the next emulator.

We are running out of wanted emulators so if there are no more that people are interested in then it will be some features and then finally I can just let GameZone tick over while I get on with what I actually wanted to do before I relised I needed to learn .net, xml, and plugin writing which is what GameZone was all about... Me learning

Look forward to suggestions, or help with Winvice

Cheers

[pastro]

Well if you ever feel like taking on pinmame, here's a little info.

Pinmame is a little tough to install since it requires the table renderer, vpinball and vpinmame for newer CPU based games.

One site that has most things is

http://www.vpforums.com/vptables/tables.php
Note the requirement to install Visual Pinball 7alpha (full install) first
and then upgrade to Visual Pinball 7 (exe only)

Their version of vpinmame isn't the latest so get that from
http://www.vpinmame.com/
You have to run setup and you have to press install in the setup dialog box to get it to work. - Even on an upgrade

I use this launcher, although from within gamezone you might want to go the windows command line version of pinmame and this wouldn't be needed. Anyway..
http://www.scholzroland.de/VPLauncher/

I haven't tried to get any of the better known mame front ends to load the pinball tables, but some people have.

There are some little weird quirks here and there, but it does make lots of pinball tables completely playable. I even find myself shaking the keyboard here and there!