GameZone and Remote Control

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I messed around with irremote.ini for a couple of hours last night but didn't get anything working yet. Once that allows be to kill the mame window and get me back to the game list , this baby is will be working 100%.

[idkpmiller]

This sounds like it has potential, gotta dash out to work so heres the link.

http://www.autohotkey.com/

Cheers

[D.R.]

I was setting up vpinball last night and came across the same problems mentioned here by others.

I cant get gamezone to exit emulators using the generic stop either.

However, I use http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/ to automate my boot into GBPVR and http://www.eventghost.org/ to emulate keystrokes from button presses on my RF remote.

Last night I set up a keystroke in eventghost triggered by the power button on my remote and added a couple of lines of code in my autoit3 GBPVR launcher which looks for the keypress and terminates the process.

So far it works just fine. Now all I need to do is use eventghost to map my gamepad presses for Vpinball and I can ditch the keyboard all together. If it works I will post the results...

[idkpmiller]

@D.R

I am very interested in your script that you are using for the remote control.

I have been wrestling with a simply way that provides a good reliable way for people to use their remote with GameZone.

Please post what you have as soon as you have it

Cheers

[D.R.]

Eventghost is mentioned in the GBPVR Wiki http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tips/EventGhost and I just checked the homepage which lists Happauge IR a bundled plugin with Eventghost http://www.eventghost.org/wiki/Plugin_List.

Personally I have a Marmitek PC remote (RF) but it looks like Eventghost will work with most remotes out there.

If you need to simply send an "Escape" keypress to terminate an emulator its a peice of cake as you dont need anything but Eventghost.

If you want to kill a probematic process like vpinball you need to map an unused key e.g. "Q" using Eventghost and have something look for the keypress to do the job for you. Thats where Autoit3 comes in for me, all I use is something like:

HotKeySet("Q", "kill")

WinWaitClose("PVRX2")

Func kill()
ProcessClose("vpinball.exe")
Endfunc

Obviously this needs to be started once PVRX2 is up and running, my bit of script sits in my launching script for GBPVR. I use Q as Ive set Q as the zsnes emulator kill key in the Misc Key settings in the config. Obviously you can just keep adding processes you want to kill using your mapped key and if they are running the script will kill them.

I f you run vpinball in fullscreen you may also need to send an ALT+ENTER keeystroke after killing the process (I have to) in order to return PVRX2 to fullscreen.

Also nobody has mentioned stopping Project64 with an escape key press so just in case anyone is unaware there is a hacked version of Project 64 which terminates when you press escape. I got mine from here http://www.cpviewer.emuchrist.org/nintendo64.htm a geat site if you want to set up a MAME cab running MAMEWah http://mamewah.mameworld.net/ (the worlds best frontend).

Personally I wouldnt use anything but Autoit3 for automating processes, windows etc. its a peice of cake to use and very powerfull if you want it to be. I've used it sucessfully for launching GBPVR and other HTPC software and for automated launching of very probematic emulators like Cassini from arcade cab frontends.