Winarcadia launchbox settings

[mcfilmmakers]

Hi,

I was wondering how to get Winarcadia to launch into the correct game?

For example, I want Winarcadia to launch into the AY-3-8550 machine directly into the Pong type game. As is, I have to press '{' to cycle through the different games to get to the correct one but I would like Launchbox to handle this.

Normally, I would assume setting Launchbox to run a macro of some sort but here's the complication:

Winarcadia remembers the last game type you left it at. What that means is that if I start winarcadia, press '{' 3 times to get to Pong and exit, the next time I launch Winarcadia I'm already at Pong. But If I want to play Hockey, I need to press '{' 1 more time. Next time I want to play Pong, I need to press '{' 6 more times.

So a simple macro won't do. I'm sure someone out there found a solution...

[midd]

were you able to figure it out>

[tallpr24]

a am also looking for this answer

[mcfilmmakers]

My solution was the worst solution: multiple copies of winarcadia each set to open a different game.

 

[tallpr24]

ouch

[tallpr24]

according to this, we can use mess with the following string arcadia -cart "Drive Letter:\full path\ROM_name.zip" -skip_gameinfo -nowindow

 

 

 

[mcfilmmakers]

3 minutes ago, tallpr24 said:

according to this, we can use mess with the following string arcadia -cart "Drive Letter:\full path\ROM_name.zip" -skip_gameinfo -nowindow

 

 

 

Nope. Mess is nowhere near up to date with winarcadia anyway.

[tallpr24]

im having a hard time emulating 1 st and second gen systems.  have you got these to work?

 

 

 

Edited December 17, 2019 by tallpr24

[tallpr24]

have you tried using mame?

[mcfilmmakers]

13 minutes ago, tallpr24 said:

im having a hard time emulating 1 st and second gen systems.  have you got these to work?

 

 

 

Wrong thread.

 

this thread is about Winarcadia.

[tallpr24]

got it

[tallpr24]

how did you make a seperate boot per game option?

[mcfilmmakers]

1 hour ago, tallpr24 said:

how did you make a seperate boot per game option?

 

1 hour ago, mcfilmmakers said:

My solution was the worst solution: multiple copies of winarcadia each set to open a different game.

 

....

[tallpr24]

got this to work using MAME with the following default command line parameters:

big thanks to nearvanaman  for finding this for me. 

 

[mcfilmmakers]

40 minutes ago, tallpr24 said:

got this to work using MAME with the following default command line parameters:

big thanks to nearvanaman  for finding this for me. 

 

Again, wrong thread.

[tallpr24]

6 minutes ago, mcfilmmakers said:

Again, wrong thread.

this is in response to the "using arcadia in launchbox", this is another solution that works. My screenshot shows the setting to get arcadia to work with launchbox, no?

Edited December 18, 2019 by tallpr24

[mcfilmmakers]

My bad, I thought you were referring to gamepark32

Edited December 18, 2019 by mcfilmmakers

[tallpr24]

1 minute ago, mcfilmmakers said:

My bad, I thought you were referring to gamepark32

its cool, i highlighted the wrong one in the photo  lol

[midd]

On 12/18/2019 at 6:07 PM, tallpr24 said:

got this to work using MAME with the following default command line parameters:

big thanks to nearvanaman  for finding this for me. 

 

can you go into a little more detail about this?

[tallpr24]

2 hours ago, midd said:

can you go into a little more detail about this?

sure,  download mame, point your launchbox for this system to the mame.exe --> add the arcadia -cart comment to the section in my photo. Also don't forget to edit your mame.ini to include the path where your arcadia roms are located.  here is a photo of my mame.ini