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General / Re: Portable mode or relative paths

« on: October 17, 2015, 04:01:33 PM »

Relative paths work fine with attract mode in Windows (as De_Cadanz says), though some layouts (such as roboskin) seem to require an extra ..\ in the resource paths.

My mame "emulator" cfg file works fine on Windows for a structure of:
path:\emulators
path:\frontends
path:\Roms
path:\Artwork

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# Generated by Attract-Mode 1.6.0
#
executable           ..\..\emulators\MAME\v0.163b\mame.exe
args                 [name] -skip_gameinfo -nowindow
rompath              ..\..\roms\mame_v0.163\
romext               .zip;.7z;<DIR>
system               Arcade
info_source          mame
import_extras        ..\..\emulators\MAME\Common_Files\catver.ini;..\..\emulators\MAME\Common_Files\nplayers.ini
artwork    flyer           ..\..\..\..\artwork\MAME\flyers\
artwork    marquee         ..\..\..\..\artwork\MAME\marquees\;..\..\..\..\artwork\MAME\marquees_alt\;..\..\..\..\artwork\MAME\banner\;..\..\..\..\artwork\MAME\wheel\
artwork    snap            ..\..\..\..\artwork\MAME\video_mp4\;..\..\..\..\artwork\mame\snap\
artwork    wheel           ..\..\..\..\artwork\MAME\wheel\;..\..\..\..\artwork\MAME\banner\;..\..\..\..\artwork\MAME\marquees\;..\..\..\..\artwork\MAME\marquees_alt\


However you will have to make sure that the external drive is the same drive letter every time.

This isn't actually needed at all as long as you run attract mode from the same external drive.

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General / Re: Windows games

« on: June 30, 2015, 07:04:51 AM »

Hey,

I have an emulator for windows games configured as follows:

Emulator Name: Windows_Games
Executable: cmd
Command Arguments: /c "[romfilename]"
rompath: ..\..\roms
rom Extension: .lnk;.bat;.cmd
System Identifier: PC

Obviously, change the "rompath" as you need to!
Put your games in subfolders of your rompath and create shortcuts to the exe files (or batch files if you are feeling fancy)