How to start an emulator

[zubaran]

Hi everyone,

Your HyperSpin front end is incredible ! :banghead: Thanks a lot !!!

But i have a problem to launch an emulator, maybe you can help me.

I have configure an emulator with wheel editor, this name is CPS3, i have put the executable and rom path.

The problem is, when i want to launch a CPS3 game, a black windows appear but nothing load. I have check my log.txt file and it's say this :

02:05:58 PM | Command Line is: "C:\advmame\CPS3\emulator.exe" "C:\advmame\ROMS\CPS3\sfiii2.zip"

So, this log file is clear ? Why nothing appear ?

Ho, and, one more question, what is the "parameters" option in the wheel editor ?

Thanks a lot .

[zubaran]

Ok, i have succed to launch the CPS3 Emulator but the game don't load. If the command "
exe = psxfin.exe -f" is good for PSX emulator why not for any others emulators ?

[brian_hoffman]

other emulators use diffrent command line settings..

For CPS3 why not use MAME?!?

Also to get it to work you need to disable the use rompath setting so it looks like
cps3.exe sfIII

Like MAME the emu expeects its roms to be in a folder called "ROMS" in the same directory where the emu is located.

[zubaran]

But mame can't run CPS 3 games, no ?

Like "Advance Menu" is not possible to determine the command line settings ? For example in advmenu, to run cps3 emulator it need to use "%s" command, is a command in HS to do this ?

Thanks for your help.

[brian_hoffman]

mame CAN run cps3 games :)
also please refer to the speific emulator documentation to find out command line settings..
Visit thier forums or "google" things like cps3.exe command line options.

:)

[zubaran]

Thanks for your help.

But i don't find how to run a cps3 game in mame and no command line for my emulator :bawling::bawling:

Well, i abandon :deal:

Thanks again for your messages.

[brian_hoffman]

Well give up if you must.

You need to be using mame 117 or higher to run cps3 games.

The command is mame.exe sfiii

The command for cps3 is
Cps3.exe sfiii

There is no.need to simply act like its impossable. But like any fe get your thing working first then integrate in hs.

This will save us a lot of time while we will assist in integration we don't have the time to teach command line and general emulator support.

Bottom line. It works. Don't give up. No one likes a quitter

[zubaran]

You right, i cant give up :banghead:

You say me the command for cps3 is : cps3.exe sfiii

You right but HS search for roms with extentions, and the logs results is :

06:54:23 PM | Command Line is: "C:\advmame\CPS3\emulator.exe" sfiii2 sfiii2.zip

How don't say to HS to load sfiii2 and not sfiii2.zip. I have try to delete the rom extension but the logs says :

06:54:23 PM | Command Line is: "C:\advmame\CPS3\emulator.exe" sfiii2 sfiii2.

I really sorry to busy you with that :(

[brian_hoffman]

Its cool brother. In the settings folder go to your emulators ini file. In there is a setting to specify whether hs will inject the rompath in the command line.

It may be userompath=false

[zubaran]

He is already on false :/

This is my ini configuration :

[exe info]
path = C:\advmame\CPS3\
rompath = C:\advmame\ROMS\CPS3\
userompath = false
exe = emulator.exe
romextension =
parameters =
pcgame = false
pcgameextension =
winstate = NORMAL

The solution is so near :stoned: I'll try all possibility but nothing change.

[brian_hoffman]

Iam on my way to vegas. When I can get to my pc I will give you a working config.

[brian_hoffman]

Can you post your log.

This way we can see the command hs is using

[zubaran]

Sûre, this is it :

08:45:25 PM | Command Line is: "C:\advmame\CPS3\emulator.exe" sfiii2 sfiii2.zip

If i remove the rompath :

08:45:25 PM | Command Line is: "C:\advmame\CPS3\emulator.exe" sfiii2.

If i place the sfiii2 in the parameters option, the game run but i can only load this game, if i want to start an another CPS3 game i need to create an another CPS3 emulator an place for example : jojoba in the "parameters" option.

[paulstevens]

is "emulator.exe" really the actual name of your emulator? I think it should be

mame.exe

or

cps3.exe

not emulator.exe

[zubaran]

Hello paul,

"emulator.exe" is the really name of my emulator, he is the CPS3 emulator created by Nebula. http://nebula.emulatronia.com

This is really important ?

Also, this emulator run cps3 games correctly, as i say, if i place the command line with only the rom name at the end, the game start. ( "C:\advmame\CPS3\emulator.exe" sfiii2 ) But if i change the game "sfiii2" must change to the correct name of the game ( the rom name without the .zip extend )